Gearfried the Red-Eyes Iron Knight

Turning Joey’s cards into Red-Eyes support cards was brilliant and fun. Gearfried the Red-Eyes Iron Knight is part of that union, and he’s especially important to the deck. Being the only warrior-type you’ll see in most Red-Eyes decks, he becomes crucial for summoning Red-Eyes Slash Dragon, and his effect works great with a vast number of the other support cards. 

It shows how far the game has come when you start equipping Kunai with Chain to Gearfried, but this updated combo is fantastic. Stealing an opponent monster and then using it to pop a spell or trap card is a great defense, especially in a deck that normally didn’t have a lot of that. It was burn and attack for big damage or lose for many years. But now, Red-Eyes Black Dragon finally has balance, which is something that was always missing. This monster is a must-run in all Red-Eyes decks, and like Baby Dragon yesterday, has superb future potential in an archetype that will never be forgotten. 

Advanced: 4/5
Future Potential: 4/5

Hello Pojo Fans,
 
Continuing the Red-Eyes support, we've got Gearfried The Red-Eyes Iron Knight.
 
Highly searchable and support behind it, GTREIK gives you a 1-for-1 off equip cards equipped to it. This is an optional effect, unlike the original Gearfried, a great upgrade to it. Then you can get a summon effect off equipping, then sending that equip to the grave. If equipped with Red-Eyes Baby Dragon, you'll get a Special Summon from the grave, then a search from the deck (not to mention a potential previous search off REBD going to the grave via battle). You can use both these effects on the same turn, just play your equip cards one at a time to activate the effects. Red-Eyes Fang with Chain is a great card to combo with Gearfried. Equip REFwC to Gearfried, detach to kill a spell/trap, then gain an effect monster your opponent controls from REFwC as an equp card, which you can detach for Gearfried's second effect. You'll get off that one card a spell/trap kill, a snatch steal, get rid of a monster (not destroying it), and a Special Summon from the grave, awesome.
 
A great card for the archetype, and a decent monster outside of it. DARK, Warrior have tons of support, and with the destruction effect via equips, it could be in a deck that runs some.
 
Advanced- 3.5/5
Art- 4/5
 
Until Next Time
KingofLullaby

Gearfried the Red-Eyes Iron Knight is a Level 4 Dark Warrior-type monster with 1800 Atk and 1600 Def. This is the engine of the deck and with Red-Eyes in the name, is very easily searched. Also, Rota still works. Gearfried responds to equipment by destroying them and 1 Spell or Trap card your opponent controls. If instead of destroying the Equip Card, you can decide to send it to the grave to Special Summon 1 Level 7 or lower Red-Eyes monster from the grave. Both effects are once per turn and can trigger other effects. Basically, you run three of these if this is the version of Red-Eyes you want to run. 
 
Score: 4/5
Art: 4/5
 
-WarlockBlitz