Airknight Parshath
Effect Monster - LIGHT/Fairy
ATK: 1900, DEF: 1400
5 Star
"When this card attacks with an ATK that is higher than the DEF of a Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, draw 1 card from your Deck."
Rulings - click and see for yourself
This week we're going to take a look at cards that allow you to draw - something that seems to be all the rave now because of the absence of Pot and Graceful. Airknight is the granddady of them all.
This card has always been good. In chaos decks, your tributes were BLS, Jinzo, and this. It was a good card before the Oct 1st ban list; it's possibly even more vaulable now. But with the predominance of Cyber Dragons, Airknight seems to be slowly going the way of the buffalo.
What makes it so good?
- LIGHT is well supported
- Fairy is sort of too
- 1900 ATK is respectable
- 1400 DEF is Tsuku-proof
- It Tramples
- It lets you draw when you inflict damage... and thanks to the Trample, that's every time it successfully attacks.
What makes it not so good?
- It's a tribute
- You typically want better stats out of a Tribute than this
However, the good far exceeds the bad. It's 5 star makes it quite morphable into such things as Dark Balter the Terrible, Reaper on the Nightmare, Fiend Skull Dragon, and Cyber Saurus.
It may not be as dominant as it once was, but it still holds it's own. It's splashable into any deck really and both of his effects are very helpful.
Advanced: 4/5 - only hurt by his stats as a 5-star
Traditional: 4/5 - good here too
Limited: 4.5/5 - Hope for either this or Dark Ruler Ha Des in an LOD pull/draft as they are the best Tributes in the set.
Effect Monster - LIGHT/Fairy
ATK: 1900, DEF: 1400
5 Star
"When this card attacks with an ATK that is higher than the DEF of a Defense Position monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points. When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, draw 1 card from your Deck."
Rulings - click and see for yourself
This week we're going to take a look at cards that allow you to draw - something that seems to be all the rave now because of the absence of Pot and Graceful. Airknight is the granddady of them all.
This card has always been good. In chaos decks, your tributes were BLS, Jinzo, and this. It was a good card before the Oct 1st ban list; it's possibly even more vaulable now. But with the predominance of Cyber Dragons, Airknight seems to be slowly going the way of the buffalo.
What makes it so good?
- LIGHT is well supported
- Fairy is sort of too
- 1900 ATK is respectable
- 1400 DEF is Tsuku-proof
- It Tramples
- It lets you draw when you inflict damage... and thanks to the Trample, that's every time it successfully attacks.
What makes it not so good?
- It's a tribute
- You typically want better stats out of a Tribute than this
However, the good far exceeds the bad. It's 5 star makes it quite morphable into such things as Dark Balter the Terrible, Reaper on the Nightmare, Fiend Skull Dragon, and Cyber Saurus.
It may not be as dominant as it once was, but it still holds it's own. It's splashable into any deck really and both of his effects are very helpful.
Advanced: 4/5 - only hurt by his stats as a 5-star
Traditional: 4/5 - good here too
Limited: 4.5/5 - Hope for either this or Dark Ruler Ha Des in an LOD pull/draft as they are the best Tributes in the set.