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Steam Maiden, Melem   Throwback Thursday presents us with the card that won't seem to leave Gear Chronicle Decks, Melem. She's Upstream Dragon turned mini, gaining 4k when she attacks a vanguard, then turning herself into a Grade 0 at rest afterwards. What makes her so much better than Upsteam though are the combos with Ur-watar, which definitely won't require explaining for the pros reading this, I'm sure.   Unable to be solved via Denial Griffin or anything similar, Melem, like a bad case of thrush, won't go away from GC any time soon.   4/5

Dark License

Boy do i hate this card. Not because it's good card, oh boy is it good. But because the existence of this card has warped not only Gear Chronicle's, but other deck's playstyles to assume that this card is gonna show up   There is no drawback to this. Call it, attack with it for a magic number, it replaces itself. On it's own that's already good, but combined with the other nonsense that's clme out, namely Ur-watar, this thing is an inevitable engine of free. And when it was really being abused, and people were repeatedly time leaping it while also getting the "drawback" from the deck? Its just overkill. I know this is less a review and more a soapbox of how much i don't like this card, or how unwilling Bushi is to do anything about it, but MAN I'll take some satisfaction in the future when I'm Dominating these and getting my own free stuff; then i can give Gears a taste of their own medicine   4/5. Because frankly we don't have a choice