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Pojo's Duel Masters Card of the Day

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  Tanzanyte, the Awakener
Shockwaves

Card # DM-8


Date Reviewed: 05.26.06

Constructed Average Rating: 4.3
Limited Average Rating: 4.3


Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ... average.
5 is the highest rating.

 
Balthazar Balthazar (Bernhard) is back for another review!

Name: Tanzanyte, the Awakener
Cost: 7
Race: Spirit Quartz
Civilization: Water/Darkness
Type: Creature
Rules Text:
(This creature is put into your mana zone tapped.)
Double breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Instead of having this creature attack, you may tap it to use its ability.
Choose a creature in your graveyard. Return all creatures that have that
name from your graveyard to your hand.
Power: 9,000
Mana Number: 1

Cost: Fairly good mana/power ratio, 7 for 9000 and double breaker and good
effect. Looks good from here...

Race: Spirit Quartz is a new race first seen in the new Shockwaves set. All
of them is rainbow creature and today they haven't got any support. In DM-11
there will be a 2 mana search spell for rainbow creatures and in DM-13 there
will come a spirit Quartz evolution.

Effect: First of all, Tanzanyte gots double breaker effect. Good. And
further on, it got a brand new tap effect. If you tap Tanzanyte, you can
ressurect up to 4 creature in your graveyard at the same time. It's a pity
that you can only res one type of card, instead of a race... If it would be
a race ressurect, Tanzanyte would be really great.

Props:
* Can fit into 2 roles, either as a ressurection engine or he can serves as
fattie, breaking shields.
* Outside of all red limited spells. Ladies and Gentlemens, Tanzanyte is
Apocalyspe proof.

Cons:
* I can only see him working in control decks... He is quite slow. Thou' he
would be a great add to Phal, RUB:s and BUG:s
* No race/multi civ support at the moment.

Constructed: 3.5/5
Limited: ?
 
DRY 1337 Tanzanyte, the Awakener is a multi-civ card that sports the colors of two of the most popluar civilizations. Its power is the highest out of all of the multi-civ creatures to date but it is peculiar in that it doesn’t have any effects that relate to the Water Civilization. Let’s look at the stats:

Tanzanyte, the Awakener

Cost: 7

Race: Spirit Quartz

Civilization: Water/Darkness

Type: Creature

Rules Text:

· This creature is put into your Mana Zone tapped.

· Double breaker

· Instead of having this creature attack you may tap it to use its tap ability:

o Choose a creature in your graveyard. Return all creatures that have that name from your graveyard to your hand.

Power: 9000

For starters, Tanzanyte costs 7 mana, which is a highly coveted spot in most players’ decks. In other words, for 7 mana it needs to do something spectacular. Fortunately when we look at its mana to power ratio, it costs 7 mana for a 9000 power creature. That’s not bad. We can go old school and say that this card resembles a Deathliger because of its power and double breaker capability. This creature can at least stand up to a lot of the evolution creatures (Crystal Lancer, Fighter Dual Fang, etc) but it does come out a little late.

Again, we have a creature that’s very similar to Deathliger but it also includes an effect when you tap it. When you tap Tanzanyte instead of attacking, you get to choose a creature in your graveyard and put all copies of that creature from the graveyard into your hand. When considering that this effect will most likely be used on turn 8, it’s not very game breaking, is it? In my opinion I would personally prefer to attack with it instead and then go for the win. Again, this creature is huge and has double breaker, so why not just finish the game with it. Its tap ability is just there to be cute and will most likely score you one or two Bloody Squitos by the time you get to use it. Bah!

However, as a refined duelist, I refuse to discredit a card so easily. Now you haven’t lived until you’ve used a low creature control deck (I have 2 tournament proven builds – D/W/F and D/W). Tanzanyte would be brilliant in low creature control decks because by the time your opponent is debilitated you will be down to one or two shields. Therefore Tanzanyte would return all of your annoying Bloody Squitos at the most opportune time. You’ll also be able to return all Kelp Candles to help you efficiently plot your opponent’s demise. From what I’ve seen, people aren’t too familiar with low creature control or may not understand its play style so I’ll just keep it brief. I just wanted to prove that Tanzanyte does have some potential in the right decks.

The Good: It’s a Deathliger with an effect!

The Bad: The popular D/W and D/W/(whatever) control formats do not need this. There are better ways to spend 7 mana.

The Ugly: What a ripoff! Where’s the water civ effect (water isn’t to renowned for double breakers so I don’t want to hear it :P)? And why would I want to tap this guy if I can break some shields and win with him anyway?

Constructed Rating: 2.0 – There are better creatures for 7 mana and less but it might prove worthy in a low creature control deck.
Limited Rating: 3/5 – Beefy creatures are always good in limited as log as you can get them out.

I hope you enjoyed the review

- DRY 1337
 
Wil
Hendricks
Tanzanyte the awakener

Tanzanyte is one of the new creature type call Spirit Quartz. it is another cross but this time of Water and Darkness. It's a 7 for 9000 double breaker that you can tap to return all creatures of one name from your grave yard to your hand. Personally I think this card is pretty good. The only problem is that it costs two differnt civilizations to play.

Water and Darkness deck 5/5
 
Doc Name: Tanzanyte, the Awakener

Cost: 7

Race: Spirit Quartz

Civilization: Water/Darkness

Type: Creature

Rules Text:

(This creature is put in your mana zone tapped)

Double breaker(This creature breaks 2 shields)

Instead of attacking, you may use it's tap ability

Choose a creature in your graveyard. Return all creatures that have the same name from your graveyard to your hand.

Power: 9000

Mana Number: 1

Artist Yarunoca

Rarity:V

Collecter Number: 8

This guy is cool looking

Tanzanyte is a Spirit Quartz, which has no support, and a rainbow card from Shockwaves Of The Shattered Rainbow. Tanzanyte is also a 9000 double breaker with a tap ability that allows you to choose a creature and return all creatures with the same name from your graveyard to your hand. I could see this in a dark water deck ( I should know, its in my dark water deck ) or any other deck that involves monster returns from the grave. Now onto the good and bad portions of this card. Sorry for the short review, got some exams coming up on Monday and it goes on until Thursday.

Good: Good Mana to power ratio 7 for a 9000 double breaker

Returns monsters to your hand

Bad: No Support
Art: 4/5
Overall Rating: 4/5

See ya guys, or girls, next time.
 

Oversoul

 

Tanzanyte the Awakener

Hello I'm back again for my second day. Of course by the time this is put up on Pojo I'll be on my way to North Carolina. Anyways on with my second review.

Tanzanyte the Awakener
Mana Cost - 7 (1 water 1 darkness)
Attack - 9000
Type - Spirit Quartz
Mana Number - 1 (1 Water 1 Darkness)

Set - Shockwaves of the Shattered Rainbow

Effect - (This creature is put into your mana zone tapped.)
Double breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Instead of having this creature attack, you may tap it to use its ability.
Choose a creature in your graveyard. Return all creatures that have that name from your graveyard to your hand.

Yet another monster with 2 attributes (can't remember official terms). This one is water/darkness. I never really liked Darkness creatures but who cares? I must review. This monster is pretty much used to reduce your graveyard. You get back creatures with the same name as one you name to your hand for another go round with it. This is especially good if you use blockers such as Bloody Squito and Dark Clown.

4/5 Overall

5/5 Art (It's a big flipping Ice Dragon thingy. What's not to love?)
 
~Zephyr~ Heya all, ~Zephyr~ here again, with another COTD! This time we look at a rather new addition to the Race scene in the form of the Spirit Quartz and its biggest hitter, Tanzanyte, the Awakener!

Name: Tanzanyte, the Awakener
Cost: 7
Race: Spirit Quartz
Civilization: Water/Darkness
Type: Creature
Rules Text:
(This creature is put into your mana zone tapped.)
Double breaker (This creature breaks 2 shields.)
Instead of having this creature attack, you may tap it to use its Tap ability.
Tap Choose a creature in your graveyard. Return all creatures that have that name from your graveyard to your hand.
Power: 9,000
Mana Number: 1
Artist: Yarunoca
Rarity: V
Collector Number: 8


Let's break it down......

Cost & Power: 7 mana for 9000 power is always a good starting sign for a creature as you are getting more power over the mana needed to summon it, and 9000 power is nothing to laugh at. In most cases it can take out the majority of big hitters in deck and avoids all Fire Removal Spells so it can't be all that bad! 7 mana for tap effect creature though is a bit rough and might limit this creature's usefulness in the long run!

Race: Spirit Quartz is an entirely new Race that has been introduced in Set 10, Shockwaves of the Shattered Rainbow, and it has only 5 creatures to its name, with Tanzanyte, the Awakener being the most expensive to play, but being the most powerful creature by far. The most played creature from the race as of the moment is definitely Soderlight, the Cold Blade for its unblockable ability and its silent skill effect but that doesn't mean people have forgotten to use Tanzanyte! Its effect is rather useful......

Effect: Tanzanyte's effect is rather useful, especially when playing a deck full of cheap creatures, but more importantly, playing with several copies of creatures in your deck! Its tap ability allows you to choose a creature in your graveyard and return it to your hand. Far enough, its similar to Dark Reversal, but Tanzanyte's effect also allows you to return all copies of the same creature back to your hand from the graveyard as well! So you can ultimately return up to 4 creatures to your hand in just one tap move! Rather impressive if pulled off, but the majority of the time, you will be lucky to get 2 or 3 alone from the graveyard, it all depends on how the duel is going and whether your copies of the card that u want to return to your hand have come out and done their job! If you don't want to use Tanzanyte's effect, you can always utilise his 9000 power and double breaker ability, which against most decks will wipe the floor with just about everything!

Availability: Same as Techno Totem, as a Very Rare, its not that easy to get your hands but due to this creature's effect, it will most probably be found in folders rather than decks so 50/50 really!

Overall, I think its certainly an interesting card to use but I think people would rather use something more devastating in their 7 mana slot, like Apocalypse Vice, Lost Soul or Bolmeteus Steel Dragon. It can fit well into a Recursion deck quite nicely, and if comboed with creatures that are cheap & nasty, like Propeller Mutant or worse, Melnia, the Aqua Shadow, it can work quite well. But since it needs a turn to actually get going, it might not be so easy to use!

Limited Format: 3/5 - Most people will use it only for its double-breaker ability in this format as most likely your opponent won't be able to remove it unless with a stronger creature. As people won't get many copies of the same card in this format as well, no real point in using his tap ability!

Constructed: 3/5 - Again, it all depends on the build of the deck on utilising Tanzanyte's effect to the max, but I can't see this guy being used much over the more popular Corpse Charger & Zombie Carnival!

~Zephyr~'s Score: 3/5

If anyone wants to discuss anything that I have mentioned in this COTD, feel free to email me @ - mexflash@hotmail.com. Generally always up for a friendly chat & discussion. Also available on Msn & for duels on DMC v2.0!

Until the next COTD!

~Zephyr~

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