Black Feather - Aurora the Northern Lights

And we continue with the new Blackwing monsters!

Today's monster is:

Black Feather - Aurora the Northern Lights
LIGHT/ Winged Beast - Effect/Level 10/? ATK/ 0 DEF

This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by removing from play, 1 "Black Feather" Tuner and 1 non-Tuner monster. Once per turn, you can remove from play 1 "Black Feather" Synchro monster from your Extra Deck, and until the End Phase, this card's name is treated as being that monster's name, its ATK becomes equal to that monster's ATK, and it gains that monster's effect(s).

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Now that is a lot of text!

Let's first start off with its name.

The name Black Feather is good, as it fits with the archetype. Kalut can be dropped to increase its Attack points when needed. However! That's as good as it gets.

With ? Atk, you cannot search this card out with Black Whirlwind. That's very bad. This card is now going to be overlooked just because of that one fact.

Let's keep moving though.

It has a LIGHT attribute.

Say what? A Blackwing monster with a LIGHT attribute?

Yes, I know that it's very strange that they would print this card out, but think about it! You can use Honest and Kalut to boost this guy! As gimmicky as that would be though...You cannot even Allure away this card should it be dead in hand.

The Winged Beast typing means it still is a target for Icarus Attack at least.

The ? Atk is based upon its effect, but it only gets the Atk gain until the end phase of the turn, so this card wont survive your opponent's next turn for sure. 0 Def doesn't help this card much either.

This card, being a Nomi monster only adds to the bad qualities this card already has.

To special summon it, you have to remove from play a BF tuner and only 1 non-Tuner monster. This makes it easier to bring out than most synchros that require more than 1 non-Tuner monster.

Its effect is really good, as copying a Blackwing Synchro's effect and attack for that turn is kinda useful.

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Overall, this card is still bad stuff.

The only benefit this has versus normal Synchroing is that this card can be used to bring out Silverwind a lot easier than Synchroing for Silverwind.

However! Bringing this guy out in order to copy Armed Wing or Armor Master is just dumb! You have a Tuner and a non-Tuner on the field already! Why not just Synchro for those two monsters if you can!

As well, the only time when you can expect to see that you would need this guy is when you cannot Synchro, right? But for that to occur, more than likely you cannot special summon, so Aurora is pretty dead itself!

As stated before, this card is dead stuff.

Don't try to run it.

Use this card as an alternative to Synchroing? What I see is more minuses.

That's all for today.

Until the next post.