1 Dragon-Type Tuner + 1 or more
Dragon-Type non-Tuner monsters
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by
Synchro Summon. When this card is Synchro Summoned,
you can destroy up to 2 cards you control. During
this turn, in addition to its normal attack, this
card can attack a number of times equal to the
number of cards destroyed by this effect.
Card Ratings
Traditional: 1.40
Advanced:
1.75
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - 05.11.09
Holy hell, new cards, and not from Crimson Crisis!
It's a fairly good week, so I hope you enjoy it!
Trident Dragion, a beastly Synchro Monster, who is
Level 10, and of the Fire attribute, making him
fairly difficult to summon, but with 3000 attack and
2800 defense.
Trident Dragion is Synchro Summoned specifically
with a Dragon-type Tuner monster and one or more
non-Tuner Dragon-type monsters...again, pretty
specific, so this is obviously only built for
hardcore and dedicated Dragon Decks.
Furthermore, this card cannot be Special Summoned
excpet by Synchro Summon, and when done so
successfully, you can destrou up to two cards you
control. During this turn, Trident Dragion can
attack one additional time for each card destroyed.
This makes me wonder...first, you need to have some
garbage cards on the Field, or you really could be
putting yourself into a hole. If the effect were
each turn you could sacrifice cards for additional
attacks, then we would have some gold.
Why would you play this over Red Dragon
Archfiend...you probably wouldn't, even if you are
playing the Dragon Deck previously mentioned.
As it stands, I don't see why you would go through
all this for just 3000 attack...IF it won you the
game in the turn you Synchro Summoned him, maybe...
Ratings:
Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 2.5/5
Art: 5/5
General Zorpa
Trident Dragion
Welcome to RGBT Dragon Week! This week we are
looking at all of the biggest, baddest and amazing
Dragon cards from the new RBGT expansion. Today's
card is Trident Dragon, a Synchro monster. Right
away there are a few strikes against this card. A
level 10 Synchro is nice as is 3000 ATK and 2800
DEF. This guy could easily kill most monsters in the
game. It is a FIRE Dragon, but since it is a Synchro
it doesn't matter. The problem is that it has VERY
specific Tuning requirements.
Trident Dragon needs a Dragon Tuner as well as a
Dragon non-Tuner, so it is extremely hard to summon.
The only Dragon Tuner that I know of is Magna Drago,
which means that you need a level 8 Dragon to Tuner
with it. That is an awful waste of resources at
least for stats, as Red Dragon Archfiend can do the
same thing for a level 8 investment in a Synchro.
Now for the effects. It starts of bad, you cannot
Special Summon him except for Synchro Summon, which
keeps shenanigans like what happens with Colossal
Fighter and Stardust Dragon from happening. Then,
when it comes into play, you can destroy up to two
cards you own. Wow, not so good either. But then he
gets to attack for every card you destroyed as well
as his normal attack. That means that this guy is
packing 9000 points of damage!
All in all he is far too hard to even Summon that he
can't really be used at any point competitively and
his effect, though good, is too costly to ever
really use outside of an awkward OTK. Great Art
though.
Traditional-1/5
Advanced-1.5/5
Jeff Lang
Trident Dragion
Attrib: Fire
Type: Dragon/Synchro/Effect/Fusion
Level:10
Attack:3000
Defense: 2800
1 Dragon-Type Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner
Dragon-Type monsters This monster cannot be Special
Summoned except by Synchro Summon. When this card is
Synchro Summoned, you can destroy up to 2 cards you
control. If you do, for each card destroyed by this
effect, this card gains 1 additional attack this
turn.
Today’s card up for review is Trident Dragion.
So we have our first 10 star synchro eh? Well, he is
exclusive to a Dragon themed deck, so this card may
be for you if you use that type of deck. I
personally don’t see much of a point in using him to
be honest. If you have the extra resources available
for use, then this guy could be powerful. I
personally will never see this effect go off though,
if you can do it, kudos to you! Unless you can
create some tokens or some other way to use the
effect, I do not see much of a point.
Trad: 1.5/5
Adv: 1.5/5
N o V a
We start the week off
with a card from the recent set, "Raging Battle".
Trident Dragion is todays Card of the Day. The
highest level Synchro monster out there being level
ten. You can only Synchro Summon this card, unlike
previous Synchro monsters. You also must use a
Dragon-Type Tuner monster and one or more non-Tuner
Dragon-Type monsters. Limiting this card to just
dragon themed decks.
This monster has solid stats and not being a
Light-Attributed or Dark-Attributed monster means it
can get around "Light-Imprisoning Mirror" and
"Shadow-Imprisoning Mirror". When its Synchro
Summoned, you can destroy up to two cards you
control, and for each card destroyed by this effect,
it gets an additional attack. If your opponent
doesn't have any cards to stop Trident Dragion, it
can end the duel with three attacks.
You may also think that being such a high level
Synchro monster, that it would be hard to summon,
but lets relook at the possibilities. The more
popular and playable dragon based deck, Hopeless
Dragon, is built around "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal
Dragon" and its ability to basically swarm out as
many heavy hitting dragon monsters as possible.
"Dark Horus" is the more popular dragon to summon
out due to it being a 3000 attack level eight dragon
monster. Well add a level two Dragon-Type Tuner
monster to that and you have Trident Dragion, and
fortunately we have a level two Dragon-Type Tuner,
"Magna Drago".
Well, as you can see this card cant really be used
in mainstream decks like Gladiator Beasts or
Lightsworns(unless Lightsworns for some reason
teched "Magna Drago"). Even being able to be easily
summoned in Hopeless Dragon decks, doesn't really
mean it is a good card to use. There are better
options out there, so I dont see this card seeing
much play.
Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 1.5/5
Freeza
Trident Dragon ...
Flat out - this is my favorite card of the new set.
Its the one i've been pining for ever since i heard
it was coming out ...
It's stats - 3000 ATK, 2800 DEF ... almost
unkillable by any monster outside its effect ... the
Fire attribute? I'm neither here nor there on it ...
it's not as good Light or Dark ... or even Earth ...
but its respectable and probably the best one after
that ... yeah, even better than Water. I'm just
sayin, is all ...
Now his effect? ... well this is what i like about
him - it virtually reads "Finish this match NOW".
It's not a complicated set up either for this OTK.
It just does what it does. If u can swing at a clear
field while popping 2 of your own cards, that's
game. even if they had their full 8000 LP. C'mon! u
know EVERYBODY wants to do this at least ONCE in
their dueling life! U dont even require that Heavy
Storm or Giant Trunade opener ... just 1 of the 3
Cold Waves u should be playing in this deck should
start u off nicely, and then go from there! Pop 2 of
your own now frozen spells and traps, and blow your
opponent to bits!
A card this awesome should come at a specific price,
and it does. Sadly, Trident Dragon doesnt play well
with others. He's a 10 f'n starred Synchro, for one.
And for next - he can only be created with a Dragon
type Tuner, which are limited enough as is, and then
only with Dragon type non tuner monsters ...
needless to say, it's not gonna be EASY to get him
out ... but it is doable, and he really only sees
fit to be played with a Dragon type deck, (yes, with
the great amount of Synchro monsters to choose from
now, and only a limited amount of space in the Extra
deck, u do have to be selective)
Although, if, for whatever reason, u play with a
bunch of DNA Surgeries (or Transplants ... i forget
which), u can thens still make a case for including
a Trident Dragon as well.
I see him one day being banned down the road once
people start abusing him and everyone else starts to
copy.
Oh, and his picture is SICKNESS!
Traditional: 4/5
Advanced: 4.5/5
- FREEZA
Cataclismic
Trident Dragion
Fire/Dragon/3000/2800/10*
1 Dragon-Type Tuner + 1 or more Dragon-Type
non-Tuner monsters
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by
Synchro Summon. When this card is Synchro Summoned,
you can destroy up to 2 cards you control. During
this turn, in addition to its normal attack, this
card can attack a number of times equal to the
number of cards destroyed by this effect.
It's such a pity. I had this whole review typed up
on how it gave players another out to Stardust
Dragon, along with Brain/Mind Control, how it would
be the auto-in to any extra deck because of this,
and a nice big 4 at the end of the review. But then
I took a second look, and saw that it has to be a
Dragon-type tuner, and I cried a little inside.
A few tissues later, and I decided just to look at
the card itself, to figure out whether you could
actually use this to it's full potential. And it
does have rather a lot of potential, just look at
it. 3000 attack, triple attacker. Get the attacks in
and it's game. Having a built in game over button is
nice, and will certainly make a lot of players stand
up and take notice. It certainly made me take
notice.
So, how would you go about getting this guy out?
Debris Dragon is the first thing that springs to
mind. But problems arise there. Either you have to
have a Horus Lv6 or similar already on the field, or
a level 4 Dragon and a Totem Dragon/Decoy Dragon in
the grave. Magno Drago is an option, but that
requires Stardust/RDA/Tyrant Dragon/Horus Lv8/Blue
Eyes/etc. Either way, you're putting a lot of
resources into getting it out.
And there in lies the problem. You use all these
cards to get it out, and you still need to find a
way, with your now depleted pool of cards, to get 3
direct attacks through. The chances of you being
able to wipe their field, and get this guy out, and
have 2 other cards to destroy, is so low, it's
simply not worth it.
You want OTK, go for Explosion. You want Dragons, go
for Hopeless Dragon. You want both, take a time
machine back to Cyber-Stien.
