Welcome to Wednesday’s Card of the Day! Things appear to be heating up here with the approaching release of the Dragon Master Collection Kit next week and with good reason too! Wizards delivers yet another great deal with the inclusion of four booster packs, a box to carry your cards in, a 20 card portfolio, and 6 Super Rare Dragon cards, one of which we are reviewing today! Say hello to, Hammer Dragon Foulbyrn:

Name: Hammer Dragon Foulbyrn
Civilization: Fire
Type: Creature
Race: Armored Dragon
Level: 7
Power: 6000
Flavor Text: “Blast him out of the sky!” -Alakshmi
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number:   2/2 l 5DRA

Abilities:
Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Draconic Roar- Whenever this creature attacks, reveal the top card of your deck. If it’s a non-evolution Dragon, put it into the battle zone. Otherwise, put it on the bottom of your deck.

Seeing this card, I already have a deck idea in mind and I’m going to call it, “Dragon Spell”! The basic concept is to abuse this card and all of your dragons that have ETB abilities. How do you do that? EVERY CARD IN YOUR DECK IS A DRAGON!!! You’re sure to get off those amazing abilities of your dragons this way although it may be a little slow, so it could include a few other support creatures that reduce the cost of your Dragons. You heard it here first my fellow Kaijudo Masters and Pojoites, once I make the deck I will be sure to post it to my channel as well as matches so stay tuned!

So I already have a little hype going for this card and for good reason; first of all, let’s break this guy down a little bit first shall we? 6000 Power for a Level 7 is a little underpowered, especially for the Fire Civilization; however, he is an Armored Dragon which opens up support for Evo Fury Tatsurion or Hyperspeed Dragon. He has your standard “Double Breaker” ability; overall pretty basic.

His effect is what makes him good as it does for most cards. Foulbyrn really shines in a Dragon focused deck and can get you free cards for just attacking. Odds are your opponent will want to block this guy since he will be breaking two shields, so he’s already providing you with advantage. On top of that this guy can potentially summon another Dragon immediately after his attack is declared; it almost reminds me of a Fire Civilization version of Emperor Neuron, sort of. Imagine revealing a Bolt-Tail Dragon and being able to attack right away! You could bring out a Hyperspeed Dragon and it could attack as well since you now meet his abilities’ requirements! You could even bring out yesterday’s Card of the Day, Necrodragon of Vile Ichor! The options are endless!

So obviously this guy can be a little slow to get out and is susceptible to destruction, but in a devoted Dragon deck, this card very well could become a staple card in the deck. 

Ratings:

Constructed: 2.75/5.00 (In my Dragon Spell deck this would probably be a 4.50/5.00 but there’s still so much to be revealed about the set. He is definitely worth considering and can easily get you big dragons in the battle zone for free or he can reveal a spell with his ability… We’ll see soon enough!)

Limited: 1.75/5.00 (It really depends on what Limited Format you run him in… if you do a sealed event with the Dragon Master Collection Kit, it becomes a little better, but there aren’t a ton of dragons out as of right now in Limited that you could easily gain access to. If this was included in Dragonstrike Infernus, the rating would be much higher due to the whole set focusing on dragons!)

Stop back tomorrow when we delve back into our preview section of Dragonstrike Infernus with a Dragon that boasts one of the strongest effects in the game to date! See you then!