Hello everyone and welcome back to the Card of the Day review! I hope everyone had an enjoyable day yesterday; I personally did since I won my local Cardfight! Vanguard tournament and then got to play a bunch of different card games including Kaijudo! My local shop is having a tournament on Friday and I am fairly confident with my deck as it has yet to lose a match! I will keep you all updated on the results of the tournament but feel free to check out my Twitter account for future updates; Now onto the Card of the Day, Hydra Medusa! 

Hydra Medusa is a Level 5 Chimera Evolution creature which requires you to play her on another one of your Chimeras. She has 5,000 Power and an ability called Eradicate, which states: “When this creature enters the battle zone, banish target enemy creature.” 

This card is insanely good! Playing an evolution card that’s 5,000 Power for five mana is an even trade I suppose… but throw in a free Terror Pit that can attack when it hits the field, heck yeah, sign me up! Generally speaking, this is the better choice of evolutions when working with Chimeras. Any card that can generate advantage when it enters the battle zone is always worth looking at or considering when building your deck. 

What makes this card even better is that there are so many combos and targets you can use to make it work! One of the most popular choices is Scaradorable in all of its forms, more specifically, Gloom Hollow or Screeching. Playing Screeching Scaradorable to banish one of your opponents creatures can be devastating enough but when you play a Hydra Medusa over top of her, it just gets that much more brutal! Oh, but let’s not forget other Chimera targets you can use including Gigabolver (a Level 1 Chimera for easy evolving) and Gigastand (a Level 3 that discards from your opponent’s hand when it attacks). 

This card can be fended off with Frogzooka, Gilaflame, Emperor Neuron, and can fall to some of the big removal spells that cost 5 mana or more, but that’s not a good reason to overlook this card! If you have enough targets to run this card you should be running it, it’s just too good not to. 

Ratings: 

Constructed: 4.50/5.00 (The only reason this isn’t a perfect five is because you have to run Chimeras and it’s an Evolution creature. This card is one of the closest cards we have to being “Broken” and can change games in an instant.) 

Limited: 5.00/5.00 (In a limited format, specifically Evo-Fury, this card wrecks everything! There’s not a ton of removal for the larger creatures and Hydra Medusa is the answer for it.) 

Check back tomorrow when we continue to review some terms in our Neuroscience handbook. Can you tell me what nerve fiber conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron’s cell body?