Welcome back everyone to Tuesday’s Card of the Day! We continue the week with one of my favorite tech choices and also one of the most potentially devastating cards in the game; Today’s card is Crimson Wyvern, let’s get started! 

Crimson Wyvern is a Level 8 Attack Raptor with 3,000 Power and an ability called, “Block Buster,” which states: “When this creature enters the battle zone, banish all enemy creatures that have ‘Blocker.’”. A very simple effect but immensely powerful! 

When I use this guy, my intention is to play him like I would a spell card. Late game when you’re trying to get through all those blockers your opponent has set up on the field, you drop this bad boy and all of your other creatures get to swing freely! What makes this card slightly better, however, is the fact that it’s a creature; albeit a ridiculously weak creature for 8 mana… but using an ability that wipes the entire field of all blockers from your opponent’s side is game breaking. 

Obviously this isn’t for everyone but if you use it with a couple of other Fire Civilization cards (Bolt-Tail Dragon is one of my personal other choices), you can tech him in when you need to swing in at those shields for game. If you draw him early game or you see that your opponent isn’t using any blockers, then obviously you can just charge him to your mana zone and use his red mana later for one of your other teched in finishers like Bolt-Tail Dragon or Tatsurion the Unchained. I’m still waiting for the opportunity to use this guy against the Evolution form of Ra-Vu so I can wipe my opponent’s entire field off the board with one card! 

Honestly, not much more to say about this card really. I feel it can be a staple card to use when playing against the Light Civilization and in some cases, Water and Darkness as well; On average you’ll be taking down 1-3 creatures when you play this card but I’ve gotten rid of five before! Here’s a tip: If you do use this to destroy their blockers… save the removal spells in your deck for creatures that can actually attack. 

I’m not going to say this card is going to see a lot of play or that people will think it’s all that good… it’s an underrated card; give it a try and let me know what you think on Twitter @Raijinku.  

Ratings: 

Constructed: 3.00/5.00(Sure I’ll take a card that can annihilate all blockers on my opponent’s side of the battle zone; this card is Comet Missile’ s big brother!) 

Limited: 2.50/5.00 (A great removal card to deal with those pesky blockers but often times in limited will be a little too slow with no other benefits to back it up.) 

Stop back tomorrow when we go over another one of my favorite tech cards from the Darkness Civilization; you may want to bring some mints!

Hello again, Kaijudo duelists! Gorby here with another Card of the Day! We’re continuing our week of Super Rare Spotlights with one of the Fire Super Rares from Rise of the Duel Masters: Crimson Wyvern. Let’s start, as usual, with a breakdown of the card’s stats.

Name: Crimson Wyvern
Civlization: Fire
Race: Attack Raptor
Cost: 8
Power: 3000
Ability: Block Buster

Like yesterday’s Card of the Day, Waterspout Gargoyle, the first noticeable thing about this card is its cost: 8 mana. Also like yesterday’s card, Crimson Wyvern suffers from a noticeable discrepancy in the power-to-cost ratio, so we’re going to have to focus on this card’s effect to determine how we’re going to get the most out of this card.

Crimson Wyvern’s “Block Buster” ability states that when he enters the battle zone, all of your opponent’s creatures that have “Blocker” are banished. On paper, this seems like a really cool ability: it has the potential to clear out a huge number of your opponent’s creatures. The problem arises when your opponent doesn’t have the target card necessary to make this effect worthwhile: it’s generally going to be a one-for-one (maybe a two-for-one), but most of the time, it’s probably going to end up in your mana zone. You might be saying “But Gorby, what about Terror Pit? It’s just one mana less, and is only a one for one, and Crimson Wyvern comes with a body and the potential to banish more than one creature.” Very good point, reader. But, Terror Pit has the capability to kill any of your opponent’s creatures, not just their blockers, which severely limits Crimson Wyvern’s viability. I have heard tell of players getting one-for-threes and higher with this card, but those instances are very few and very far between, which does not for a reliable card choice make.

IN REVIEW
Rating (constructed): 1.5/5 – It’s so hard to get any good, consistent use out of this card. Even compared to yesterday’s Card of the Day, Waterspout Gargoyle (a card that I myself admit is very niche at the moment), this card just pales in comparison: it’s a smaller body with a much less consistent effect. Perhaps if Rally the Reserves decks become popular, then this card might see more play, but as it stands, this card just isn’t that strong of a choice right now.