N to R - L(R) to L

[cp49100]

N to R - L( R ) to L

Normal Spell

 

At the start of the duel, before drawing your starting hand: You can banish this card, apply its effects and decrease your starting hand by 1.

For the rest of the Duel;

• The Level, Rank, Link Rating, Pendulum Scale, ATK, and DEF of monsters and either player's LP can be a real number (e.g 0, -3, 3.532, etc...).

• Xyz Monsters also have an original Level equal to their original Rank.

• Link Monsters with a Link Rating of 1-4 also have an original Level equal to triple their Link Rating.

• Link Monsters with a Link Rating of 5-6 also have an original Level equal to double their Link Rating.

• Link Monsters with a Link Rating of 7-8 also have an original Level equal to their Link Rating.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

The first effect alone already warrants this card to be moved to Experimental (unless you're allowing stuff to become decimals instead of purely non-negative integers). But yeah, while any stat reduction stuff is usually just halved and not going into thirds or some other stuff that would be irrational, it's breaking a few things.

 

Also not much reason for anything barring ATK/DEF to be a non-integer, unless for some reason, you really want to make a Scale 0.01 higher or lower to summon something with Scales 1 number apart on a normal basis.

 

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Xyz one goes into anime Z-ARC, but besides that, concept is fine. We get what it should be doing (see Creation/Destruction Magician stuff)

 

First Link effect seems alright for most part, given that Links are usually the equivalent of a monster 2-3x their Link Rating. Second and third ones are iffy, considering no LEGAL Links have gone over 5 (and effort usually isn't worth it to make them Level 10 or 12). I mean, it's nice that they can be used for Synchro and Xyz (and maybe other Links that require monsters with Levels to summon), but moreso on former two.