If a face-up "Fire King" monster you control is destroyed by a card effect (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. During the next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed by a card effect and sent to the Graveyard: Add 1 "Fire King" card from your Deck to your hand, except "Fire King Avatar Barong".
Card Ratings
Traditional: 2.00
Advanced:
3.00
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - Feb. 28, 2013
Fire King Avatar Barong kinda looks like Lava
Battleguard in armor who now carries swords instead
of his club. Anyway, Fire, Level 4, Beast-Warrior,
all good things. 1800 attack, also a good thing for
a Level 4 and a reprehensible 200 defense (although
that fits the Flamvell theme). If a face up Fire
King Monster you control is destroyed by a card
effect (again, could even be your own) except during
the Damage Step, you can Special Summon Barong from
your Hand. There's plenty of destruction effects
around, that shouldn't be difficult to accomplish.
During the next Standby Phase after this card was
destroyed by a card effect, you can add a Fire King
Monster, other than this card, from your Deck to
your Hand. We heard something reminiscent of that
earlier this week, didn't we? Again, like
referenced earlier this week, having to wait until
that next Standby Phase sucks. Especially here as
you're waiting to gain a resource. Like before, the
weakness involved here is that if destroyed in
Battle, or even removed from play, than you get
nothing. I mean, he's fine as an attacker, and the
first effect isn't bad I suppose, but this just
isn't good.
Ratings:
Traditional: 1.75/5
Advanced: 2.75/5
Art: 4/5
Bleak
dragon55
Welcome to the Pojo Card of the Day once again!
Today we will be looking at the second new monster
in the Fire King structure deck. Every structure
tends to have it's own searcher, so let's see this
deck's: Fire King Avatar Barong!
Fire King Avatar Barong
Level 4/ FIRE/ Beast-Warrior
If a face-up "Fire King" monster you control is
destroyed by a card effect (except during the Damage
Step): You can Special Summon this card from your
hand. During the next Standby Phase after this card
was destroyed by a card effect and sent to the
Graveyard: Add 1 "Fire King" card from your Deck to
your hand, except "Fire King Avatar Barong".
1800/200
Before we go into the effect of this monster, I
would like to discuss something else first. What
makes a monster good? For many monsters, this is
determined first by the effect, then by the type and
attribute. However, Fire monsters are a different
issue.
The first thing you do to determine a fire monster's
usefulness nowadays is to take a look at it's
defense points. If it has 200, then it instantly
becomes a better card. Got to thank Rekindling for
that one!
So, with that established, we can see Barong is
quite useful as a rekindling target. So, what else
can this card do?
So, if Garunix blows itself up by Onslaught, you can
basically summon this for free from your hand. This
also works from other methods such as Dark Hole or
your own Circle of the Fire Kings; however one of
the most obvious times it will happen will be from
Onslaught (Plus, it's the best time to do it as
well!).
In addition to summoning itself, it also has the fun
effect of adding a Fire-King card to your hand if he
is destroyed by a card effect. Onslaught and Circle
work really well for this effect; and allow you to
break even with Circle or even plus with Onslaught.
However, the main use is to combo this with our
Garunix+Onslaught play. Once Garunix destroys
himself during the end-phase, you special summon
this. Then, when Garunix comes back and destroys
everything, you get your search. Oh, this will also
search out your spell cards like another Onslaught
or Circle; allowing for some back-up plays!
Essentially, this card is consistency; and
consistency is Always good. Once we get Yaksha...
this will get really good.
Advanced: 3.75
Generic searcher and consistency for the Fire-King
deck, what's not to like?
Traditional: 2.5
I think we have said enough that the Fire Kings
could be useful in the traditional setting.
Art: 3.0
Pretty cool looking. It takes the deity look and
mixes it with Flames. I am highly interested in all
of these Fire-Based decks now-a-days haha.
Leo
Kearon
Fire King Avatar Barong
Fire/Beast-Warrior/Effect/Level4/1800/200
If a face-up "Fire King" monster you control is
destroyed by a card effect (except during the Damage
Step): You can Special Summon this card from your
hand. During the next Standby Phase after this card
was destroyed by a card effect and sent to the
Graveyard: Add 1 "Fire King" card from your Deck to
your hand, except "Fire King Avatar Barong".
Fire King Avatar Barong is the second (of currently
three) Fire King Monsters released as part of the
newest Structure Deck Onslaught of the Fire Kings.
Fire King Avatar Barong has two effects like the
rest of his archetype, but sadly both require Fire
Kings. The first allows you to special summon this
card is a Fire King is destroyed by a card effect.
His second effect is searcher ability for Fire
Kings. Sadly both effects suffer because there are
currently 3 Fire Kings available and his second
effect prevents yu from getting another Fire King
Avatar Barong so you have 2 choices. On the plus
side his low DEF means Rekindling is an option with
this card.
Overall his effects are solid but just not worth it
at the moment due to the lacklustre support for this
archetype.
