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Article # 29 – Plentiful Plants For today’s article, I’ve decided to review a few Monster Cards of one of the most neglected sub-types; Plants. We begin with a look at the King of Faeries – Oberon. King of Faeries – Oberon (Fairy King Trusdale in English)Water/Plant - Level 6 -
2200/1500 Oberon was a Japanese Promo from Shin DM2. (Same promo set as Newt) No telling when its English release will be. Oberon’s an interesting high-level Plant Monster that’s pretty much only good whatsoever in Plant-based Decks. Good things about Oberon are that it can easily power-up your Plant Monsters, making them more effective, which is certainly something a lot of Plants could use. 500+ to ATK and DEF stats for each of your Plant Monsters isn’t bad at all, and it’d make your Oberon a 2700/2000 Monster. But the bad thing about its Effect is that it’s only active while Oberon’s in face-up DEF mode. And with only 1500 DEF, and 2000 DEF while its Effect is active, it’s not likely it’ll be staying on the Field for too long. But the time it is on the Field, it could give you and your Plants somewhat of an advantage. Unfortunately, you won’t be getting to attack with Oberon while it’s at 2700 ATK strength because of it having to be in DEF mode to get the power-up. 2200 ATK isn’t too bad, but it’s not exactly good, and there are plenty of Monsters that could easily take care of Oberon. The other good thing about Oberon is that it can be searched by the Witch. Gives it a little more speed in any Plant Deck it might be included in. It’s too bad Oberon’s Effect works only when its in DEF mode. It’d be a much better Monster Card if its Effect could work while it’s in ATK mode. I’d give the King of Faeries - Oberon an overall rating of 5.7 / 10, and 7.5 / 10 for Plant Decks. For the second card of today’s article, we’ll be taking a look at the Rigorous Reaper. Rigorous ReaperFire/Plant – Level 3 – 1600/100 Effect: Flip: Each player discards one card from their hand. Lower the ATK and DEF stats of the Monster that destroys this one in Battle by 500 each. Rigorous Reaper was also a Promo from the Japanese Shin DM2 game. No telling when its English release will be. Rigorous Reaper is a pretty intriguing Monster, really. It’s a Fire main-type, and a Plant sub-type. Both are nice types that could use some more effective Monsters, and Rigorous Reaper would be a great card to include in either type of Deck, as well as things like Control/Hand Destruction Decks. At level 3, an ATK strength of 1600 is pretty good. Its DEF strength isn’t too good, but because of its second Effect, its 100-point DEF strength could come in handy. Your opponent would be able to easily destroy it, but because of doing so, their attacking Monster would have its stats lowered by 500 points each. Could be pretty useful, and it’s just like Newt’s second Effect. Of course Rigorous Reaper can also be searched by the Witch, making it easier to use. Its first Effect can really come in handy when you’ve got a Killer Snake (Sinister Serpent) handy. Just use its Flip Effect, and both you and your opponent have to discard a card. It isn’t randomly, so if you have a Killer Snake in Hand, its Effect will work to your benefit. That is, if your opponent doesn’t have a Killer Snake as well. But still, discard Effects are always nice, and Rigorous Reaper’s is easy to use, as long as you’d be willing to take the discard as well. Besides being very effective for the Deck types that I mentioned earlier, Rigorous Reaper is a very fun Monster card to play. Usually one that catches a lot of people’s attention, and people use it in their own way to their benefit for whatever Deck they include it in. It can work nicely with Book of the Moon and Book of the Sun to continuously flip it and re-use its Effect. And because its Effect states that each player must discard a card, if one player has no cards left to discard and the other player does, that one player still must discard a card. Rigorous Reaper’s a fun and usually effective Monster Card. I’d give the Rigorous Reaper an overall rating of 7 / 10, and 7.9 / 10 in Plant Decks. For the final card of today’s article, let’s have a look at Lord Poison. Lord Poison Water/Plant – Level 4 – 1500/1000 Effect: If this card is destroyed in Battle and goes to the Graveyard, Special Summon one Plant-type Monster in your Graveyard other than a Lord Poison to the Field. Lord Poison was a Common from the Japanese 306 set. It’ll be released in English in Invasion of Chaos. Lord Poison’s certainly a nice Monster Card to include in Plant Decks, as well as some Marik-themed Decks, as Marik uses Lord Poison in the Anime/Manga. It can be searched by both Witch and Critter (Sangan), so that’s always good. Its Effect is pretty nice, especially for Plant Decks. Its stats aren’t too good, but for its Effect they are. It will usually easily be able to get its Effect off. Once it’s destroyed in Battle, you’ll be able to get any Plant-type Monster you want from your Graveyard out onto the Field. So you’re not losing any Field advantage at all when Lord Poison’s destroyed in Battle. Nothing like dumping some Monster like an Oberon in the Graveyard then easily getting it back with Lord Poison. Could work very effectively for any Plant-Deck user. Though I know there aren’t too many of those out there =/. Lord Poison can do some damage on its own, and it can do damage after it’s destroyed. That’s always something nice to be able to do. It’s a pretty fun card to use, as well. I’d give Lord Poison an overall rating of 6.5 / 10, and 8 / 10 for Plant Decks.
Now, here’s a Plant-Deck example. This is actually my own Plant Deck that I recently built.
Monsters: 16
2x Rekunga (Article # 20) And that’ll do it for Article # 29 – Plentiful Plants. E-mail me with any questions and/or comments at dm7fgd32@hotmail.com Until next time… ~DM7~
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