FLIP: Offer on your side of the field as a Tribute
(excluding this monster). Special Summon 1 Fusion
Monster Card from your fusion Deck. The Fusion
Monster is destroyed at the end of the turn this
card is activated.
Type - Spellcaster/Effect
Card Number - LON-063
Card Ratings
Traditional:
Advanced:
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being the worst.
3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 06.29.06
ExMinion OfDarkness
Summoner of Illusions
...when people tell me they don't have Cyber-Stein
and that they're going to substitute this in its
place, I cry. I weep for the future of Yu-Gi-Oh.
First, you have to manually flip the Summoner
yourself -- if it gets attacked, it ain't working
out in your favor. Second, you have to tribute
ANOTHER monster -- NOT the Summoner, to bring out
the Fusion in question. And finally, that Fusion is
getting destroyed at the end of the turn, so unless
you Book/Tsuku/otherwise protect it, you better do
what you need to do with that Fusion monster in one
turn.
Having said that, I hope every newbie reading this
that was playing this card gets enough sense to stop
playing it and get a Cyber-Stein (unless UDE manages
to get it banned.)
Today we look at Summoner of Illusions, and I'll say
right now, I don't like this card. Instead of paying
a dreaded 5000 lifepoints with Cyber Stein, here,
you just tribute a monster (excluding Summoner of
Illusions)
However, if you don't win this turn, the monster is
destroyed at the End Phase of the turn. You could
use Dimensionhole to save the Fusion monster for
further use, but then you're dedicated more
resources than you should just for a Fusion monster.
Summoner of Illusions really isn't a tech card, it
really needs its own deck to function properly.
Summoner of Illusions:
Alright, Stein doesn't carry the deck on his own.
Summoner does the same job as Stein; he just charges
more. It might not seem a greater cost, but Summoner
is much more difficult to use. You have to:
a) have Summoner face-down during your own turn;
b) have Summoner able to be Flip-Summoned;
c) have another monster;
d) be able to win in one attack that won't be
stopped.
Hence, the card draw is less likely. This is why
this particular OTK wasn't seen earlier (and
partially due to a lack of really really good
fusions).
Summoner of Illusions
FLIP: Tribute 1 monster on your side of the field
(excluding this monster). Special Summon 1 Fusion
Monster Card from your Fusion Deck. The Fusion
Monster is destroyed at the end of the turn this
effect is activated.
What a neat card.
When I was in Tennessee for Hurricane Katrina, I
went up to a local Card Shop one day, because I got
sick of sitting at home with no friends locally and
just my PC/TV/Phone. While I was up there, I met a
few people who would become good friends, and one of
them was Remington, who was probably the best player
at the card shop. Just before I left, he started
using this card and it was working pretty nicely. I
picked this for my buddy Remington :P.
The effect is pretty interesting. The monster
summoned has Magical Scientist type treatment, in
the way the monster returns to the fusion deck at
the end of the turn, but two things are different
here.
1.) The monster can be more than Level 6! This means
Cyber End Dragon, Cyber Twin Dragon, and even Blue
Eyes Ultimate Dragon are ALL legal targets!
2.) The monster can attack directly 0_o.
The card is balanced because the payment isn't life
points, its the thing that actually matters: Cards.
Tributing Goats is legal, and this card combos with
Snatch Steal and Brain Control pretty well, too. I
may test this card, I really like the idea of it.
Tech Cyber Stein is obviously good, so why can't
this card be? If you can support it in (small) ways,
such as running Swords of Revealing Light, you can
EASILY get the effect off, and it may be GG when you
do.
Of course, you can also Metamorphosis to KEEP the
monster for good, but its not as good as when you
did it with Magical Scientist, as you lose resources
here ;/. It IS a flip effect monsters though, so it
combos with Night Assailant for discard fodder, and
its LIGHT to support Chaos Sorcerer, the best card
out right now ;D.
Traditional: No idea, cant be too good though ;).
Advanced: 2/5. Good, but needs you to support it
otherwise it will NOT work.
Essentially, this card is a less costed, more
difficult to pull off, Cyber Stein, for a turn. Not
sounding too great at the moment, but lets see if it
can redeem itself.
The effect is pretty simple, sacrifice an other
monster when this flip effect activates and you can
special summon a fusion monster this turn. Not that
bad, trading in a Scapegoat token for a Cyber Twin
dragon, lets face it, it could be worse.
The way it could be worst is being forced to
sacrifice a Spirit Reaper during their battle phase
because they attacked your face down Summoner, but
how often does that come up? Its not like you will
intentionally lets that happen.
Summoner of Illusions is light, which works to its
favour. If you can pull it off, it could act as a
reserve Stein, which isn’t bad I guess.
Traditional ; 2/5
Advanced ; 3.5/5
Art : 3/5 The Buddha of the game.
MPS ; 3/5 Not the best, not the worst.
