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Samurai Skull
- #COTD-EN081
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can send 1 Zombie monster from your Deck to the GY. If this face-up card in its owner's control leaves the field because of an opponent's card effect: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower Zombie monster from your Deck, except "Samurai Skull".
Card Rating
Advanced:
3.30
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 is Horrible.
3 is Average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed: September 4, 2017
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Alex Searcy |
Welcome to a miscellaneous week of sorts. I
picked the cards, and you get a little variety this
week. Samurai Skull is an interesting enough
option for a Zombie player. Dark and Level 4,
with 1700 attack is quite reasonable (although the 0
defense is troublesome.) When Normal Summoned,
you're allowed to send a Zombie from your Deck to
your Graveyard. That's obviously a good thing,
even if you have to use your Normal Summon to do it.
It's good this isn't Flip dependent as the 0 defense
won't survive anything. If this card leaves
the Field via opponent's card effect (not Battle
take note) you can a Level 4 or lower Zombie from
your Deck. Present company excluded,
naturally. There are better Zombie cards, but
certainly worse ones too. If it works for you,
use it.
Rating: 2.75/5
Art: 4/5
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Kingof
Lullaby |
Hello Pojo Fans,
Samurai Skull is a great new addition to
Zombie-archetype support.
Good stats for a Level 4, DARK, Zombie support, and
a built-in Foolish Burial on Normal Summon, what
more could you ask for? Special Summon ability upon
destruction? Yes. SS gets Mirror Force or Dark Hole,
you get a Level 4 or lower Zombie except Samurai
Skull. Bury the Mezuki in your deck upon Normal
Summon, then when Samurai Skull dies from a card
effect, drop Zombie Master on the field. Samurai
Skull could be run in 3's in a Zombie deck because
it does everything that Zombies need to be done. At
the very least you'll get another Foolish Burial to
thin your deck and set up your grave. While not
getting anything off a Special Summon of itself is a
negative, SS is a good card to at least have one of
in any Zombie-based deck.
Advanced-3/5
Art-4/5
Until Next Time
KingofLullaby
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Warlockblitz
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Some themes will always get support. In this
case, Samurai Skull gives support to Zombies. It's a
Level 4 Dark Zombie-type monster with 1700 Atk and 0
Def. When it's Normal Summoned you have the option
of sending 1 Zombie from the deck to the grave, thus
setting up future plays with Shiranui. Then if it
leaves the field because of an opponent's card
effect, you can Special Summon any Level 4 or lower
Zombie from the deck except itself. So both effects
are free and don't deplete any resources, and there
are no once per turn clauses. Certainly, Samurai
Skull is one of the best commons in Code of the
Duelist even if you only need to run 1 or 2 as a
backup option when using Zombie engines. Even the
stats are good.
Score: 4/5 Old and new Zombies will love this.
Art: 4/5 Oni
-WarlockBlitz
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Crunch$G |
We took two weeks off from Code of the Duelist
for special themed weeks, but we are back to
reviewing the cards from this set. As we all know,
Vendreads were one of the two TCG Exclusive
Archetypes that debuted in Code of the Duelist, and
they were nice enough to give us a TCG Exclusive to
help Zombies in general, Samurai Skull, but it is
just odd that they felt the need to print this.
Samurai Skull allows you to send a Zombie from the
deck to the GY on Normal Summon, so summoning him
off Mezuki (one of the best Zombie cards ever) will
not get you the Foolish Burial like effect. This is
weird because we already had Gozuki, and Gozuki
sends a Zombie from the deck to the GY each turn
making it far better. I don't see why they felt the
need to have this effect when most of us would
prefer to run Gozuki. At least Samurai Skull has a
unique effect, if it leaves the field because of an
opponent card effect, you can summon a Level 4 or
lower Zombie from the deck, except Samurai Skull.
This is neat and all, but again kinda not needed,
cause Gozuki can also summon Zombies (but from the
hand) when it is sent to the GY. Yeah, summoning
from the deck is better than from the hand, but I
really think this card wasn't necessary for
Zombies.
The card overall isn't bad for Zombies, far from it.
However, the existence of Gozuki hurts the score of
this card a tad bit, because Gozkui is that much
superior to this card.
Advanced Rating: 3/5
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T-REX |
Samurai Skull
This card is yet another card that helps to support
Zombies by sending Zombies to the Graveyard for
later consumption... Think Mezuki, Plaguespreader
Zombie, Shiranui Spectralsword, Wightprince (or
other Skull Servants) or basically any Zombie that
you'll like to have revived by Mezuki or any Zombie
card that can help you Summon or fuel cards like
Dark Armed Dragon, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of
the Beginning or Dragon's Mirror.
Yet how this differs from cards like Uni-Zombie or
Gozuki can be considered to be quite important.
Samurai Skull's effect activates upon its Normal
Summon, meaning that in order to prevent its effect
you have to have some sort of Negation lined up or a
Counter Trap like Solemn Warning... Since that
prevents Samurai Skull from ever hitting the field
to begin with. Actually Solemn Warning is 100%
effective against Samurai Skull since this also
prevents its second, when it leaves the field effect
from activating.
The biggest issue with Samurai Skull though is that
it requires a Normal Summon in order to send a
Zombie to the Graveyard unlike both of Uni-Zombie
and Gozuki which can use their effect to send any
time that they are on the field. That said, because
Zombies very early on do have a strong reliance on
their Normal Summon Samurai Skull provides a much
safer way to be able to proceed with this easily
disrupted time. And it should also be noted that
because of the Normal Summon requirement of Samurai
Skull's Zombie sending effect that there is no "Once
per turn" clause to this part of its effect (nor any
of its effects), so if you are able to Summon an
additional copy via Double Summon, Chain Summoning
or Gem-Knight Seraphinte then you'll be able to do
so again.
Additionally, if Samurai Skull has left the field
because of an opponent's card effect (except for
something that would shuffle it back into the Deck
(think Reborn Tengu)) you are able to replace it
with another Zombie of Level 4 or lower, which
provides you with an opportunity to take advantage
of the fact that in order to avoid the second
effect, most of the time an opponent will be needing
to destroy this by battle.
Rating: 3.75. The Normal Summon part really is
a bit of a hindrance to the versatility of this but
that it is harder to disrupt and is at times able to
also replace itself if removed from the field makes
this quite a valuable addition to Zombies... And
being Dark is also a useful.
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