The Shining Darkness Preview #2

And here's the second preview for The Shining Darkness! Although Bomb Guard came in the Shining Darkness also...Hmmmm

Anyways! We'll start discussing some of the new Plant support cards that Plants will be receiving!

First off is this one!

Oh my god! It's the new Watapon / Kuriboh / Hanewata!

It's coming soon to you in Gold Series 4! For OCG...

But really, this card is a good Plant support card.

Spore スポーア

WIND / Plant / Tuner / Level 1 / 400 Atk / 800 Def

You can remove 1 other Plant-Type monster in your Graveyard from play to Special Summon this card from your Graveyard. Increase this card's Level by that of the removed monster. You can only use this effect once per Duel.

And thus, the analysis of this card begins!

But really I only want to talk about the obvious points of this card.

Clearly, it's Plant, which means there are a ton of support in the form of Lonefire Blossom, Mark of the Rose, Gigaplant, and other variants of Plants.

Next is the fact that it is a Level 1 tuner! And it isn't Copy Plant! Although both card has it's merits, Spore is the superior Level 1 tuner based on the fact that its effect is actually more useful than Copy Plant's effect, although I am sure Copy Plant's effect has been used at least once.

Being Level 1 means that in Gigavise, Powertool Dragon is instantly accessible.

Spore can also make other levels when the time comes as well. Thanks to its crazy effect!

If you've read it, Spore is a free plus 1 in terms of card advantage. By removing a plant in your graveyard, it special summons itself to the field, while also gaining the Levels of the monster that was removed. That means Spore can become a Level 2, 3, or 4 tuner by removing the correct Plant type monster in your graveyard.

It's unfortunate that it can only be used once a duel however. Although really, this makes Spore into a good balanced card for the Plant archetype, something that they've needed for a while now.

Lastly, there's one unexpected thing that people might not realized when you actually play this card.

Dark Simorgh.

That's all for today's post! I'll be looking at the other Plant cards soon!