Hello again everyone and
welcome to Wednesday's Card of the Day here at
Pojo.com! Today we'll be taking a closer look at a
key card that could see a lot of combo plays in the
future involving Dragon Decks. Let's get started
with Dreadclaw, Dark Herald!
Name: Dreadclaw, Dark
Herald
Civilization: Darkness
Type: Creature
Race: Terror Dragon
Level: 7
Power: 7000
Flavor Text: "You can't keep a good dragon
down...or an evil one for that matter." -Master
Hawkins
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number: 26/55 I 6DSI
Abilities:
Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2
shields.)
Night of the Dragons- When this creature
enters the battle zone, return all Dragons from your
discard pile to your hand.
At first glance, Dreadclaw
either looks really good or really bad on paper.
It's a Level 7 Double Breaker with 7000 power which
is pretty standard overall. When you add in the
"Night of the Dragons" effect, things get serious!
Imagine that your game has been
going on a while and your opponent just seems to
have the answer to every one of your creatures or
has just been hitting all of the right shield blasts
at the right times. You top deck into a Dreadclaw
and play it; all of those Dragons that you lost
previously in battle just got a second chance to get
some revenge! There's no limit to the number of
Dragons that you can add back to your hand and since
there's no hand-limit size you can go nuts and not
have to worry about discarding down at the end of
your turn!
This card combos well with
cards that send your dragons to the discard pile. If
you're like me and like using the Darkness
Civilization, you'll know that there are plenty of
new cards that essentially "mill" yourself (Discard
the top "X" cards from your deck to the discard
pile). If you don't want to go that route, you can
always use a new draw spell, "Trial and Error". You
can pick and choose what Dragon to send to the
discard pile and set up for a later turn to gain
advantage against your opponent!
If you're running a Dragon
Deck, I highly suggest at least using one of this
card. If you happen to get hit with a bunch of
discard from a Darkness Civilization deck or just a
"Skull Shatter" in general, you can rebound from it
and come back stronger than before!
Obviously, if you're playing
against a nature player, cards like this won't
really benefit from their effects since most of your
cards will be going into your mana zone. At the very
least, they will give you the ramp you need to play
your bigger Dragons, so it's not a total loss.
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.50/5.00
(Average and expected stats and an amazing effect if
you run a lot of Dragons and mill yourself. This
would be the perfect side-deck card for people who
like to discard from your hand or have a lot of
shield blasts.)
Limited: 3.75/5.00
(There's plenty of ways to get this guy out earlier
in the game and this set has tons of Dragons in it.
It's likely that you will either add 0 cards back to
your hand or in some cases more than 2-3; It all
depends on what cards you play and when and how you
play them!)
Stop back tomorrow to check out
our next review. I'd hate for you to miss it and
have to rage! Until next time my fellow
Kaijudo Duel Masters, keep calm and game on!