Hello again my fellow Kaijudo Duel Masters! Welcome back to Pojo.com’s Card of the Day! I’ve been busy working at developing a deck for the Pennsylvania KMC in just 12 short days and today’s card keeps tugging at me to give him a try. Not so sure that I will since it would change my deck completely but time will tell. Onto today’s card, Shadeblaze the Corruptor.

Name: Shadeblaze the Corruptor
Civilization: Darkness/Fire
Type: Creature
Race: Terror Dragon/Armored Dragon
Level: 8
Power: 11000
Flavor Text: N/A
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number: S9/S10 l 7CLA

Abilities:
(This card enters your mana zone tapped.)
Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Wither- When this creature enters the battle zone, target enemy creature gets -2000 power until the end of the turn. (A creature that has power 0 or less is banished.)
Provoke- Whenever another creature is banished, all your creatures get “Fast Attack” until the end of the turn.

Shadeblaze was one of my favorite cards when the set was first spoiled just because of his amazing artwork. After taking a look at his stats and effects I wasn’t sure on how much play this card would be seeing, but in the right deck this card can prove to be really good if not insane!

Shadeblaze is a level 8 with 11000 power. He ties up with Issyl in this department but has some extra potential with his “Wither” ability. When he enters the battle zone, you target an enemy creature and it loses 2000 power. If for some reason it would reach 0 power, it would be banished.  So this allows you to potentially get rid of some smaller creatures in the battle zone or to weaken an opponent’s creature enough so that you can have another creature take it down.

Let’s say that you used Shadeblaze’s “Wither” ability and banished a bird. Congratulations! You just activated his second ability “Provoke”! Now every single creature you control has “Fast Attack”! This can change the pace of the game in an instant! Let’s say Shadeblaze was just played and you weakened their Andromeda. If necessary you could ram one of your smaller creatures into it so that the blaze can finish him off! It doesn’t matter what side of the battle zone the creature falls, either way it activates his “Provoke” ability. One combo you can use with this card involves Gigabolver or Marrow Ooze. You play one of those and the following turn you can play Shadeblaze. Once you attack with Giga or Ooze it becomes banished giving all of your creature (yet again) “Fast Attack,” all for just one mana!

Generally speaking, if you play this card right, your creatures will be attacking every turn… unless your opponent doesn’t play any creatures! It’s a fairly solid card that may see some play off and on.

Ratings:

Constructed: 3.50/5.00 (Not horrible when he hits the battle zone but being able to have your creatures attack the turn they enter the battle zone can be devastating!)

Limited: 3.75/5.00 (As long as you can get this card out by turn eight, this is a very solid card that only makes your other cards better.)

See you all tomorrow when we take a look at an alternative to Tatsurion the Unchained… “Generally” speaking.  Until next time my fellow Kaijudo Duel Masters, keep calm and game on!