if implement proto
Cyber Dragon...it might as well put Cyber barrier dragon summon by Attack Reflector Unit or Cyber laser dragon summon by Photon Generator Unit..
Cyber Laser Dragon
Light/Machine/7/2400/1800
This card cannot be Normal Summon. This card can only be special summon by the effect of[Photon Generator Unit]. Once during your Main Phase, you can choose and destroy a monster on opponent's field with attack or defense strength higher than this card's attack strength.
Photon Generator Unit
Magic - Quickplay
This card can only be activate by sacrificing two [
Cyber Dragon] on your field. Special Summon a [Cyber Laser Dragon] from your hand, deck, or Graveyard to the field.
Cyber Barrier Dragon
Light/Machine/6/800/2800
This card cannot be Normal Summon. This card can only be special summon by the effect of [Attack Reflector Unit]. When this card is in face-up attack mode, once per turn you can negate the attack of one of opponent's monster.
Attack Reflector Unit
Trap - Normal
This card can only be activate by sacrificing a [
Cyber Dragon] on your field. Special summon a [Cyber Barrier Dragon] from your hand or deck.
Well, IMO, Cyber Lazer Dragon and Cyber Barrier Dragon are crap.
But one CAN say they can use this card. I'll definately opt for Cyber Lazer Dragon.
Let's see the plus and Minus of Lazer/Barrier
Cyber Lazer Dragon suffers alot of what powerful non-tributable monsters suffer, a nomi. However, this card is like
Water Dragon that you can pull Cyber Lazer Dragon from the grave Photon Generator Unit, so it's at least not a 100% Nomi.
An about dmcomet, they did some mistranslations. Cyber Lazer Dragon, from what we all know. It's ability is that it can destroy 1 monster on the opponent's field that's EQUAL or higher ATK or DEF. (They left out Equal) And this is a GOOD THING. Cause if it's JUST HIGHER and not equal... my gosh let just call this card a plain old normal monster cause he's effect is useless. I mean, who uses any monster that's higher then 2400ATK? Nobody.
However, that's not true. It's equal or higher then 2400ATK or 1800DEF... (It's equal or higher then the ATK of this card ATK, or equal or higher then DEF of this card's DEF.) But this STILL is not a great effect. If it's equal or higher then 2400, it can only kill Mobius and other Monarchs. The only other ones are actually also in the SOI pack Chainsaw Insect and Saber Beetle that this card can kill.
(And I'm expecting both of these bugs being played alot after SOI release. Chainsaw Insect is a level 4 monster that's 2400ATK! YOU HEARD ME A LVL 4 2400ATK?! Take that
Cyber Dragon. The only downside is that whenver this monster attacks, your foe draws a card. Yep, that's one heck of a nasty side-effect cause you destroy 1 card on the field, but your foe draws 1 card so there's absolutely no card advantage. And I said whenever it ATTACK, not battle damage, not direct damage, after this monster does battle, your foe is garenteed to draw a card after damage step. However, since the card says after damage step, if there was no damage step and no battle actually taking place, like say Chainsaw insect hitting a Saku, your foe doesn't draw a card. But yeah, this have to be the most worst effect ever. I rather have position change with GAF then letting my foe draw a card. But Saber Beetle is Solid. It's another 2400ATK with the trample/pierce. And who doesn't want pierce effect with all those reapers running around eh? And don't worry, Saber Beetle is lvl 6 meaning 1 tribute monster. But for a lvl 6, it's a 2400ATK pierce. It'll run over any defense monsters all day. Your foe have no option BUT to use a Saku or Monarch suicide, etc. It's an awesome card that I'm DEFINATELY adding to my collection. Sure it might hit a set DDWL/DDA, but at least it'll STILL do some freaking LP damage before it goes away. And yep, run enough of these and Reaper days might be over.)
Anyway, so let get back to Cyber Lazer. This monster's DEF is 1800. And the only defense stat monster that's equal or higher then 1800 these days are practically just GK' Spys. Or some rare high class tribute or fusion monster. (But who uses fusion in meta?) And even among them, it's rare to see an DEF stat higher then 1800.
With this said, this card need support. And I'll say the best support with this card, silly enough, is
Rush Recklessly. That's right, you have to INCREASE your foe's ATK so your Lazer Dragon can target. (With
Rush Recklessly, this card can kill anything equal or higher then 1700ATK, so this way, at least it can kill DDA/DDS/
Cyber Dragon/etc.) However, his target ability have no cost at all just like
Chaos Sorcerer. And unlike his
Chaos Sorcerer brother, this can CAN attack even after it destroys a monster. (Seriously, absolutly no cost) So in that sense, it's good. Or you can opt for
The Reliable Guardian and increase the foe's DEF by 700 points to also match Cyber Lazer dragon's ability. (This way, this card can kill any DEF monster that's equal or higher then 1100DEF.)
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Okay, let's talk about Cyber Lazer summoning card Photon Generator Unit. For one thing, it's a Quick-Play. So if say I have 1x
Cyber Dragon and 1x Proto
Cyber Dragon, and I attack with
Cyber Dragon and my foe chains a Saku, I can chain that with Photon Generator Unit, tribute 2 "
Cyber Dragon" on my field (i.e. Proto
Cyber Dragon) and thus I get Cyber Lazer Dragon on the field, Saku loses target and destroys itself by game mechanic. In THAT sense, it's pretty decent. (Heck, you can chain this to your foe's
Brain Control as well to lose target and they just wasted a card and 800LP) But, you wasted your perfectly two staple monster on the field for an effect that's hard to trigger. I mean, if you had 2x
Cyber Dragon... I rather keep my 2x 2100ATK rather then juts 1x 2400. I mean, tributing my 1x
Cyber Dragon for Mobius to have 1x Mobius and 1x
Cyber Dragon is a WAY better bargain.
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And lets talk Cyber Lazer Dragon's crappy defense brother, Cyber Barrier Dragon
2800DEF is pretty sweet, but it still cost 1 cards. So it's kinda like a lvl 5-6 tribute monster. (Well, it is a lvl 6 monster) But if I want a tribute wall, I rather pull out
Millennium Shield for 3000DEF. And Cyber Barrier Dragon ability is just negating 1 stinking attack, and only activate when it ATK position. And this card have a weakass 800ATK... yeah, I rather pull out a Saku then this card effect. And unlike his better brother, this card's required spell card summon is a Normal Spell Card, not Quick--play. Totally worthless.
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In overall, if I have 2x
Cyber Dragons on my field, even if they're both 2x Proto
Cyber Dragon, I rather pull out
Power Bond and bring out the mac daddy 5600ATK twice attacking ultra beatstick for a potential 11800ATK in theory monster.
But it might be fun to run a Cyber Lazer Dragon Deck to see how that works out... but it's still a 3 card use. So it's like running a Fusion Deck that's a Quick-Play spell trigger.
