Card Review #1: Elemental HERO Escuridão

Welcome to the first Card Discussion for this Blog. Today’s card is one that is not by any means a good card but it is one that is supposed and will shape the Metagame in the months after it’s release. But let’s be more specific.

Elemental HERO Escuridão is an Elemental HERO Fusion which need an Elemental HERO and a Dark-Attribute Monster in order to be Fusion Summoned.  From there he is an 2500 ATK beater with a lousy effect that at best will make him a 2800 ATK beater in any competitive HERO build and by that I obviously mean the Miracle Gemini  Deck . 

But why  is Escuridão important ? Well Escuridão is the last of Six Heroes often referred  by Yu-Gi-Oh! Players as the Omni-Heroes. Each one of them is Summoned with an Elemental HERO and an different Attribute Monster as it’s Fusion Material.

We have in the order in which they arrived TCG ;

Elemental HERO Absolute Zero for Water

Elemental HERO Gaia for Earth

Elemental HERO The Shining for Light

Elemental HERO Nova Master for Fire

Elemental HERO Great Tornado for Wind

… and now Elemental HERO Escuridão for Dark. 

This means that cards like Miracle Fusion and Parallel World Fusion will need only an E-HERO and another Monster in Graveyard in case of the former and Banished Pile in case of the latter in order to summon a big beater. But this is not the main reason that Escuridão is going to get the Elemental HEROes to the Top. By having access to every single Attribute, the HERO player can main deck 3 Super Polymerization without worrying about them being dead draw.

And even though in terms of straight card economy the Super Polymerization deal may not seem good (as it is a minus 1), in terms of playability it is simply awesome.  From all the Monster Removal ways existing in Yu-Gi-Oh!  (Plain Destruction like Smashing Ground, Banishing like Caius, Possible Destruction like Snipe Hunter, Tributing of the Opponent’s Monsters like Lava Golem) using your opponent’s monsters as a Material to your Summon is by far the best and the most difficult to stop.  And even though these ways are popular like Mind Control (for a Synchro/Xyz Summon) or Cyber Dragon (to Chimeratech Fortress Dragon) they are also easy to stop, all your opponent  need is a Dark Bribe in case of the first and a Bottomless in case of the second. 

But in case of Super Polymerization, by far the most versatile type of Summon Stealing there is absolutely no way for the opponent to stop it. No Solemn Warning, no Solemn Judgment, no Dark Bribe, no anything. Your opponent is going to lose a monster and you are going to get a big beater in the field no matter what.

Also Future Fusion can now send a HERO and any monster in the Graveyard letting us use it as a second and reusable Foolish Burial. This gave birth to the first Yu-Gi-Oh! 1 Card FTK by Allen Pennigton. It is before the Semi-Limiting of Dewloren though.

To close I will say that Escuridão is the boost the New Era Heroes need in order to skyrocket to the Top Tiers of the Meta and it will possibly be one of the reason that Super Polymerization is going to be Limited/Semi-Limited in the Ban List that follows the Rise of Heroes.

Thanks for reading and till next time

-Eatos