GSun's Yu-gi-oh! Article #6 - XYZ Dragon Cannon ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Alex Augunas" Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:18:10 -0500 Duel Monsters Monster Look Ats GSun253926337@msn.com Article #6 - XYZ Dragon Cannon Well, it's been quite a month with the new structure decks and all. I've been really looking forward to building a Gearfried the Swordmaster deck. It looks fun! Speaking of fun, Stanmary213 asked me to look at a card he likes enough to build a deck about. If you didn't guess what it is yet, you must not be able to read the giant black letters at the top of the document! XYZ Dragon Cannon LIGHT/ Machine/ lvl 8 2800/2600 [X Head Cannon + Y Dragon Head + Z Metal Tank] This card can only be special summoned by removing the above monsters from the game. You do not use 'Polymerization' to summon the monster from your fusion deck. Discard 1 card from your hand to destroy one card on your opponent's side of the field. Wow. That's a spicy meatball! The power to destroy any card for a discard of one is pretty good. However, your opponet must have 1 card in play to use this effect. No ditching to reborn. Not like you'd want to. If your playing this bad boy, you've got all the power you'll need. To sweeten the deal, you can even fuse any 2 of the monsters to form another card. XY Dragon Cannon LIGHT/ Machine/ lvl 6 2200/1900 [X Head Cannon + Y Dragon Head] This card can only be special summoned by removing the above monsters from the game. You do not use 'Polymerization' to summon the monster from your fusion deck. Discard one card from your hand to destroy one face-up magic or trap card on your opponent's side of the field. XZ Tank Cannon LIGHT/ Machine/ lvl 6 2400/2100 [X Head Cannon + Z Metal Tank] This card can only be special summoned by removing the above monsters from the game. You do not use 'Polymerization' to summon the monster from your fusion deck. Discard 1 card from your hand to the graveyard to destroy one face-down magic or trap card on your opponent's side of the field. YZ Tank Dragon LIGHT/ Machine/ lvl 6 2100/2000 [Y Dragon Head + Z Metal Tank] This card can only be special summoned by removing the above monsters from the game. You do not use 'Polymerization' to summon the monster from your fusion deck. Discard one card from your hand to destroy one face-down monster on your opponent's side of the field. The XYZ family has a lot going for them, don't they? Personally, I think 'XY Dragon Cannon' is the worst of the 2 fusion-material group, with it's horribly situational effect. What can it destroy? Maybe your occasional 'Call of the Haunted' or 'Premature Burial' , but not too much more. To think they gave it the same title of Dragon Cannon as they gave the XYZ! The XYZ monsters have some downfalls, one being rarity. Each of the pieces and 2 of 4 fusions are super rare with the other 2 fusions being Ultra rare. I think that 'X Head Cannon', 'Y Dragon Head', and 'Z Metal Tank' could have gotten away with being a common, possibly boosting up 'Magical Scientist' 's rarity. Which reminds me, the 2FM monsters can't be summoned via 'Magical Scientist', seeing as their text says they need the pieces to be removed from play to summon them. So they REALLY need to be in their own deck or a machine deck. They'd really perform better in they're own deck, but you'll have much more options with a machine deck. DRAWBACKS HURT THESE POOR SOULS!!!!! XYZ Dragon Cannon and it's siblings CANNOT BE REVIVED FROM THE GRAVEYARD!!!!!!! The only way to properly summon a fusion monster is with 'Polymerization' (which is why you can't revive a dead Scientist fusion), so sine they don't use it, they can never be properly summoned. Also, since you're removing them from play, they have to be on the field to summon 'XYZ Dragon Cannon', ect. Wow, pure, Konami hatred! Almost as infuriating as the ruling that kills an all -harpie deck! Combos Ok, I'm gonna try something new and list some combos that Stan (the person who asked me to write about this card) likes and combos that have been used against me (my friend ran an XYZ Dragon Cannon Deck). Enjoy! STAN's Combo's a.. The Classic 'Night Assailant' Combo. (Keep exchanging 2 Night Assailants to destroy every card your opponent has!) b.. Heavy Mech Support Platform + Limiter Removal (This is were being a machine is handy. He'll keep his power boost if you do it right!) My friend and my combos c.. Union (The XYZ Dragon Cannon pieces are also union monsters. In their own deck, the card 'Frontline Base' can be used to summon 2 a turn if you have the X Head Cannon in play) d.. Defusion (Summon 2 pieces, fuse them together so they can surive a turn, then defuse them and add the final piece!) e.. Interdimensional Matter Transport (This is one of those cards the Pojo CotD reviewers were talking about that would be good to save with its effect, since you can't revive them and all!) Kaiba's combos f.. Removing the pieces from play to summon all of them in one turn. (Kaiba does this in the Movie, le pauvre Pegasus. STAN did mention this combo and my friend used it too.) Here ends a long and tiring review. The XYZ cards are very good. They can be easily placed in a machine deck, a union deck (yeah right), a chaos machine deck (They are light cards. If the fusions die, you might as well do something useful with them!), or their very own deck. Keep those questions rolling! I like my mail box ACTUALLY having mail! Just don't come crying to me if your girl/boyfriend breaks up with you ;-). Also, I think I'm ready to review one of my favorite (but sadly I'm not using it:-( ) trap cards, Magical Hats! But please, if you don't want to be tortured by the hats, please send me something even cooler, funnier, and lower rated! -GSun And here's a goodbye quote: "Goldfish, the snack that smiles back . . . 'TILL YOU BITE THEIR HEAD'S OFF!!!"