It’s Wednesday and that means that it’s time for another Card of the Day! I know, I know… we do card reviews Monday through Friday, but today’s special because it’s Wednesday! Today we’re reviewing the ruler of all leviathans, King Tsunami; let’s get started!

Name: King Tsunami
Civilization: Water
Type: Creature
Race: Leviathan
Level: 9
Power: 8000
Flavor Text: The unfathomable ruler of all leviathans.
Rarity: Super Rare
Set Number:   S5/S15 l 3RIS

Abilities:
Blocker (You may tap this creature to change an enemy creature’s attack to this creature.)
Double Breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)

King Tsunami is meant to be a ruler but what exactly screams ruler when you look at this card? I suppose it has Double Breaker and 8000 power, but Blocker? When designing this card I think they wanted a card that was huge and would make it nearly impossible for your opponent to get by this blocker with his overall level of power. They forgot about one card, Comet Missile.

Comet Missile puts all of your hard work to summon this creature to waste. Sure I’ll spend two mana to deal with your huge nine cost creature! This is probably one of the largest flaws with this card. If Comet Missile cost four mana to play, this card would be a little more playable but even so, it’s nine mana and he doesn’t even have 9000 power!

I’m really hoping for more support for Leviathans in the future like Poseidon! Perhaps if they create a Leviathan that gives all of your other Leviathans an ability like King Neptas, unable to be targeted by your opponents spells or abilities. I really enjoy the art on this card and a huge blocker that can also attack but it just tends to feel a little underwhelming, especially if it’s easily banished.

I really want to like this card but it’s really difficult when the Kaiju realm is telling me that this is the ruler of Leviathans and he doesn’t have some kind of commanding or boosting ability or just an effective ability in general. So sorry Tsunami, you may be shiny, but you’re best suited for the trade binder.

Ratings:

Constructed: 1.75/5.00 (The art is pretty cool but it’s just too unreasonable to try to play this card outside of a deck using Bottle of Wishes and even then, you had better hope your opponent isn’t using the Fire Civilization.)

Limited: 2.75/5.00 (Very slow to get out but a force to be dealt with as long as your opponent wasn’t luck enough to pull a Comet Missile or Crimson Wyvern!)

Make sure you stop back tomorrow for our review or we’ll have your hide! ;) Until then, remember to keep calm and game on!