Welcome to Tuesday’s Card of the Day at Pojo.com! I’ve been in the process of watching Kaijudo and I’m starting to get a feel for some of the characters in the series. Today we have a card that best expresses Gargle and his ability to build a useful tool out of random objects in order to deal with a given situation. Let’s see what Gargle’s got cooking in today’s card: Forklift Tank Glu-urrgle.

Name: Forklift Tank Glu-urrgle
Civilization: Water
Type: Creature
Race: Cyber Lord
Level: 6
Power: 4000
Flavor Text: “Big problem, big solution!” -Gargle
Rarity: Very Rare
Set Number:   16/55 l 4EVO

Abilities:
Pedal to the Metal- Whenever this creature attacks, you may have your opponent put the top card of his or her deck into his or her discard pile. If that card is a creature, return target enemy creature to your opponent’s hand. If that card isn’t a creature, draw a card.

When this card was first spoiled to the Kaijudo players of the world, it was extremely hyped. For some reason, it was a little too hyped and hasn’t really seen much play in my local community or online in general. It’s a Level 6 Cyber Lord with 4000 power with no immediate effect upon entering the battle zone and that might be why. We’ve been too spoiled with all of these ETB effects which take away from cards that have to sit there for a turn.

Forklift is one of the first couple cards that can theoretically mill your opponent to the point of decking out; however, it is extremely unlikely for this to occur with the lack of support for that type of deck for now. When he attacks you get to activate an effect depending on what card you send to the discard pile. If you get a creature, you can bounce back one of their creatures back to the owner’s hand; if it’s anything else, you can draw a card.

I suppose you could combo this with cards that allow you to look at the top of your opponent’s deck but that might seem a little impractical. Normally your opponent will have at least one creature in the battle zone anyway, so regardless of what you mill, you should get some effect to help you out one way or another. One neat trick that not everyone will realize at first is that his effect will activate before your opponent gets a chance to block. That means that you could potentially bounce their blocker back to their hand before they can do anything about it! You could also combo this card with Finbarr, Council of Logos to make Forklift a 6000 power creature only susceptible to Terror Pit/Root Trap or some big, bad, evolution creature.

At the very least this card can be a slightly larger version of Aqua Seneschal. It has twice as much power and twice the cost to cast. I suppose the best place for this card is in either a Cyber Lord deck or some control variant, outside of that I don’t really see this card seeing a ton of play and there are a lot of answers to deal with this invention (i.e. Neuron, Medusa, Tornado Flame, etc.).

Ratings:

Constructed: 2.25/5.00 (I’m planning on making a Cyber Lord deck to playtest with and this guy could put in some work with the assistance of Finbarr; otherwise, this card is just too slow for now. Maybe if they gave this card +2000 more power he could be more splashable.)

Limited: 1.75/5.00 (Sealed in Evo Fury means evolution creatures and that means that even if Forklift attacks and bounces their Bronze Arm Sabertooth to their hand, it’ll just come out the following turn to exact vengeance on Gargle.)

Check back tomorrow when we review Stephenie Meyer! Give it a few seconds and I’m sure you’ll get the reference! Until next time fellow Kaijudo Duel Masters, keep calm and game on!