Tuesday

Number 7: Lucky Straight, is a Rank 7 XYZ Monster, who is a Fairy (and should totally be a Spellcaster, look at the guy) of the Light attribute, with 700 attack and defense, and of the Light attribute. Lucky Straight is XYZ Summoned with THREE Level 7 Monsters (which is almost enough for me, and I assume several others to just discard this to the binder.) Now, we talked about this last week, there are several easy enough ways to manipulate Monster Levels to make an XYZ Summon of this nature much less difficult. So let's say you did, Lucky Straight lets you roll a six-sided die twice (by discarding an XYZ Material) and multiply its attack by 700x the result of the higher roll. NOTE: I have a Bachelor's Degree in Math, so anyone who doesn't understand, or care about Math, skip this next paragraph...

Obviously that raises the question of why not just play something stronger, but let's look at this for a moment...you have an equal chance of 16 and 2/3% chance for any outcome per roll. On the attack spectrum, a 1 doubles the attack to 1400 while a 6 gives you 4900 total. (All your possible results from 1-6 respectively are 1400, 2100, 2800, 3500, 4200, and 4900) for those of you who are unintelligent and/or can't/won't do math. So I'm thinking you're shooting for 3-6 which gives you a 2/3 shot of a great (or ridiculous) attack score. Plus the second roll, so the odds are statistically in your favor.

Now, if the TOTAL results of your rolls combined are exactly 7 (possible result pairs 1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 3 and 4) which is 3 combinations out of 36 total combinations. Yes, for anyone who took the time to figure that out, you have the same combinations in each side of the die BUT you have to count each number per die, which gives you the total. So you can get either of the three outcomes via either die, so that's 6 of 36 or 1/36 which is statistically insignificant, which makes the latter effect equally mundane. That equates to a .0276 (approximately of course) percent chance. BUT assuming you were that fortunate, you can activate one of the following effects.

Send ALL other cards on the Field to the Graveyard. Special Summon a Monster from your Hand OR either Graveyard. Just to take a moment, being able to Special Summon an opponent's Monster is almost always a great thing, but I think Monster Reborn is legal in this Format, is it not? Finally, you get a Graceful Charity, ala Drawing three cards, and discarding two. Number 7 Lucky Straight would be hella fun to use, but needs his own Deck I think, and I fear wouldn't be competitive, he's just too unreliable, he's chaotic, and depends on a die...and the summoning just is too costly with not a big enough payoff. He's like a crazy Neos or E-Hero Fusion or Nomi or something.

Ratings:

Traditional: 1/5

Advanced: 2/5 like wh0a...generous I'm sure, but I admire the effort

Art: 5/5

We are going to review another secret rare from Galactic Overlord today called Number 7: Lucky Straight. All you have to do is have 3 level 7 monsters on the field to Xyz summon this monster. Then all you have to do is roll a six sided die twice and hope you role a high number or have the total equal to 7. If you roll two low numbers or if your opponent negates Number 7’s effects, then you are left with a weenie monster at the cost of 3 powerful level 7 monsters. Now that is what I call gambling and needing to be lucky to play this card.

Now all you have to do is find a deck that can get 3 level 7 monsters to the field. The best combo that I can think of that likes to Xyz summon large ranked monsters is Gagaga Girl and Gagaga Magician. You can do it in a number of ways. One way to do it is to special summon Gagaga Girl with a card like Limit Reverse and then activate Inferno Reckless Summon to get some more. Then summon Gagaga Magician and make 3 level 7 monsters.

Unfortunately, Number 7: Lucky Straight is too hard and requires too many resources and requires too much luck even with Dice Re-Roll, to make it a good enough card for a spot in an extra deck.

Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 1/5

Today we're reviewing Number 7: Lucky Straight, our second card of Dark Paladin week. A Rank 7 Xyz monster, needing 3 level 7 monsters to get out, that is a bit of a tall order. One of the best ways is the Gagaga trio, which is a Gagaga Magician and 2 Gagaga girls to get your level 7s. A few others are Red Eyes Black Dragon, Gorz and Fusilier Dragon, the Duel Mode Beast that can be brought out kinda easy. Lucky has an effect that some duelist may look down upon, which is the dice roll. After detaching a Xyz material from Lucky, his attack is based of the highest of two dice rolls, also if you manage to get a 7 out of those two rolls, you get to do 1 of 3 different things. You can either: Send all other cards from the field to the grave. Special summon 1 monster, from your hand or either duelist's graveyard. Draw 3 cards and then discard 2. All 3 effects are really good and could win more than a a few duels, especially is you roll a six and a one, then clear the field. Lucky's strict and kinda hard to meet summoning requirements may be hard to get to, but if you do, there's a good chance it may pay off.

Traditional: 1
Advanced: 3
Tomorrow: What are you staring at?

Tuesday:

Number 7: Lucky Straight
Rk 7/LIGHT/Fairy-XYZ/700A/700D
"3 Level 7 monsters
You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; roll a six-sided die twice and this card's ATK becomes the larger number rolled x 700, then if the total roll was exactly 7, you can apply 1 of these effects.
● Send all other cards on the field to the Graveyard.
● Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or either Graveyard.
● Draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards."

Alright, it looks like we finally got a Joey Wheeler-themed card. I've always referred to cards with luck of the coinflip/dice roll effects as 'chance' cards, and Lucky 7 is the true embodiment of that name.

First off, his stats are lousy. 700A for a Rank 7? I know they're sticking to the theme and the effect can make him have up to 4200 ATK, but still, that's really low. His effects are actually rather nice, assuming you can roll any combination of 7 on your two rolls, but again, I've never relied on the luck of a die roll (mainly why I hate using an Archfiend deck), as they can lose the roll very easily.

Then there's his summoning requirements. Who is ever going to have three Level 7 monsters in play at the same time anyways? Getting all of them into play will take monumental effort as it is, and all that for a chance card? No thanks. There's way better cards out there than this.

Traditional: 1.75
Advanced: 1.25