[Card of the Day] More Oracle

You WON’T believe THIS!

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[AUTO] Generation Break 1:[Soul Blast (1)] When this unit is retired from (GC), if a card was not put into your damage zone during this turn, you may pay the cost. If you do, draw a card.

Astrologer Miss Haze

Y’know, this card isn’t so bad. It’s a cantrip guardian, but is effectively useless literally everywhere else.

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whoops, that actually made it worse. Guess it is bad after all! Who else but Oracle Think Tank? ahahahahaha

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[AUTO](RC) Oracle (This ability is active when you have five or more cards in your hand):[Counter Blast (1)] When an attack hits a vanguard during the battle that this unit boosted, you may pay the cost. If you do, look at five cards from the top of your deck, search for up to one card with the oracle ability from among them, reveal it, put it into your hand, and put the rest on the bottom of your deck in any order. If you put a card into your hand, put this unit into your soul.

Divine Spirit Hero, Kuma-no-Kusubi

This guy isn’t so bad. Frankly, he’s the best card Oracle Think Tank has ever gotten in ages.
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Which is kinda sad, now that I think about it.

If they ever make the Oracle deck worth building around (lol), maybe this card will definitely see some substantial amount of play. It feeds the soul, as well as fishing up a card of your desire. Its timing is also pleasant since its activation timing (hitting the opponent’s Vanguard) comes right after the drive check(s) have been accounted for.

I want to say it’s good, but then that means I’d have to admit a passable card is above the quality we’ve seen in this set so far. And that, my friends, really hurts.

Let’s look at the cons before I make myself more conflicted:

Oracle.

Yes. That’s a con. It means that the lack of Generation Break 1 is meaningless. You can’t play more than one unit on the same turn you planned on activating this. Let’s look at it this way:

You’re first. You open 5 cards, mulligan, whatever. Ride, move forerunner to the side lane or something. You end with 5 cards, alrighty then. They ride, they do their things, attack. Blah blah, it’s your turn. Ride to Grade 2, you’ve now got 5 cards again. Call this behind the Vanguard, now you’re at 4.

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and now you’ve locked yourself. You cannot play anything else if you wanted to trigger this guy’s ability.

Technically, being able to choose between wanting to let this go off or not is your choice (as in: choose to rush instead of maintaining Oracle), but other cards in the game do nearly the same thing. But without the ridiculous 5 cards in hand restriction.

I mean, 5 cards in hand shouldn’t be so gosh darn hard, but it is. The game requires cards in hand to play rear guards. The game requires cards in hand to stop the opponent from killing you. Lord forbid you need to cast a Perfect Guard, losing you 2 more cards.

So really, this guy “works” in the early game. As the game gets later, he’s just sitting there contemplating life. His life expectancy should be upon riding to Grade 2 or 3 (or first turn striding). After that, it’s just a lot of “LET JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL”, since either he gets removed from the field; or he just never goes off for two different reasons.

I hate to admit it, but alright. The card’s alright. Nothing special. But oh boy, paying Counter Blast 1 for a +0 wash sure leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Especially when behind the Oracle restriction. Yuck.

See you.

Oh wait. I almost forgot.

SOMEONE SAVE THIS CLAN

Phew. This wouldn’t be an Oracle Think Tank card of the day without that being said once.

Keep it real, homies.