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An honorable mention. There were a lot of
great cards this year, so unfortunately, we couldn't
fit them all in. But Performage Trick Clown is
certainly a notable card. Since it specifies
the word "card", it's effect still activates when
detached as an XYZ material. Also, since it
allows you to summon any Performage monster AFTER it
has been sent to the graveyard, it could revive
itself (so there are no worries about needing
graveyard advantage to make use of this card.
It gives you an extra level 4 for the making of a
rank 4 XYZ, which both increases your firepower,
makes the summon easier and helps you plus from its
effect. In that context, the fact that the ATK
of the Performage reduces to 0 matters very little,
and the 1000 damage you take doesn't matter compared
to how much damage you can inflict to the opponent
with a swarm.
4/5
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T-REX |
So, before we start off the Top Ten Pojo Card of the
Day Reviewer Top 10 List for 2015, we start with the
Honorable Mention.
Although for me, Honorable Mention is a gigantic
understatement, this card has alone changed the way
you Rank 4 since it reduces the amount of cards that
you ultimately require to do so, and this is because
Once Per Turn, it is able to come back (or another
Performage Monster) and then inflicts 1000 damage to
your Lifepoints… Most certainly a small price to pay
when Lifepoints currently matter not terribly much…
As long as it is more than zero of course!
From the moment that this card was released it along
with Heroic Challenger – Thousand Blades created the
Deck called Clown Blade, but those of you whom
follow the OCG would have already been aware that
this Deck was coming, sadly it took an early hit
when Lavalval Chain was unexpectedly Banned. More
importantly this card crept into Shaddolls and
Nekroz, Decks that until the latest Banlist, were
highly relevant, however Performage Trick Clown also
found its way into otherwise less competitive Decks
like Lightsworn and some Chaos variants. Most
recently it has become included in EmEm (PePe),
although its inclusion in this Deck really is simply
a continuation of its use from EmEm’s original
founding Deck, Clown Blade.
And for all of those Decks that have used/ use
Performage Trick Clown, while only one Deck, Clown
Blade, continues to play 3 of them in many
instances, 1-2 Trick Clown’s in a Deck is the amount
that has become most ideal, and thus used.
Being able to use Performage Trick Clown tends to be
an extremely easy thing to do, Normal Summon it, Xyz
using it as one of the materials, detach it in order
to activate that Xyz’s effect, Special Summon it or
another Performage monster from your Graveyard and
then use it along with another monster to Xyz Summon
again on the same turn. Of course, having Performage
Trick Clown in your hand isn’t always a possibility,
however, for this type of inconvenience you have
several ways with which to rectify it, firstly, you
can Banish a Performage Damage Juggler from your
Graveyard and then add it to your hand, you can use
Foolish Burial, Mathematician or Brilliant Fusion.
Plus, as an added benefit all of those mentioned
cards benefit EmEm the Deck to beat currently,
seamlessly… Those exact same cards are also able to
be used in EmEm’s non Pendulum counterpart, Clown
Blade. And finally, if you do happen to have a
“Dead” Performage Trick Clown in your Graveyard you
can use Instant Fusion to Summon Elder Entity Norden,
revive it, Xyz Summon and then when that Performage
Trick Clown goes to the Graveyard, you’ll be able to
Summon it back to the field and then as long as you
either have another monster, or can Summon another
monster to the field, Xyz again.
And while I’ve mentioned Xyz Summoning exclusively
thus far, Synchro Summoning with Performage Trick
Clown is a perfectly valid option to do!
Because of how Performage Trick Clown has impacted
the game, and with how many Decks it has been
included in, I am extremely disappointed that this
did not make the Top 10 list, it has changed the
amount of resources that you require for Xyz (and
Synchro (Tribute also potentially)) Summoning and
because of this it has become far easier to Summon
more monsters onto the field at one time and with
less actual use of resources.
Rating: 4.5. This card doesn’t see play in every
Deck, but when a card sees consistent play in most
of the Meta relevant Decks that have mattered over
the last year… Nekroz, Shaddoll, EmEm, and all of
them Tier Decks, it speaks volumes about how
important a card this has been, and how much of an
impact that it has actually made to it. And cards
like this remain a force until something better
comes along.
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