Number 4! Top 10 Cards of 2011

In the 4th place for the Countdown of the Best Cards printed in TCG during 2011 we have actually 3 different cards that despite each one of them can be used in other ways it was together that they made the impact in the Meta. Basically today's card is Rescue Rabbit but this card would have been pretty bad if Evolzars Laggia and Dolkka haven't been released. But that goes the other way too: if Rescue Rabbit was never released Laggia and Dolkka would have been in a couple of mediocre Decks like Jurracs and Evols, never seeing the competitive scene. So at least for now, those cards fates are inextricably connected with each other, ergo they share the 4th place.

As about everybody should know by now, Rescue Rabbit can be banished to bring two Normal Dinosaur Level 4 Monsters from Deck (usually Kabazauls or Sabersauri) in order to Xyz Summon in any of the two Evolzars. Since this combo can be easily pulled off in the first turn, the Dino Rabbit Deck has an extremely strong opening. 

Number 4: Rescue Rabbit and Evolzars Laggia & Dolkka

By the time you read their effects, I believe that as everyone you would have been appealed more to Laggia, bigger attack, more things to negate, all in all a Solemn Judgment in legs. But since he is the powerhouse of the Dino Rabbit Deck, most people side Deck cards are sided in to either beat Laggia or stop the Summons that lead to the Evolzars (Rabbit/Normal Dinos). Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo and Snowman Eater are examples of the first. They obviously are good to side against this since they counter the early first turn beginning of the Rabbit Decks even after Laggia's succesful Summon. But they have a big disadvantage: they are all stopped from Dolkka. 

Evolzar Laggia

Evolzar Dolkka

When you read Dolkka's effect it does not have the sparkle as the one of Laggia's. I mean what are two negations of only a monster's effect compared to the negate of almost everything else. I mean a Smashing Ground and Dolkka has gone to hell but it proves that in truth Dolkka is more often than not more powerful. Everybody fears a first turn Doomcaliber Knight with a couple of back rows: preventing your Deck to take off while you have to do something to deal with him or he will beat you down. Dolkka is just like that, only about a hunderd times better since not only it does two negations instead of one, survives even after and it has 2300 ATK. Plus he arrives from a Normal Summon essentially. However the reason Dolkka is so powerful is the construction of the Top Decks right now:

Dino Rabbit Deck: Approximately 20 Monsters
Synchro Plant Deck: Approximately 23 Monsters
Agents Deck: Approxiamtely 28 Monsters
Dark World Deck : Approximately 20 Monsters
Karakuri Deck: Approximately 22 Monsters

Each one of them has 20 or more Monsters, meaning that half or more of their Deck is essentially shutted down (and in cases like Karakuris and Plants so are their answers in the Extra Deck). My point is that Dolkka with the right setup is more powerful than Laggia and if I had the money to make a Dino Rabbit Deck I would center it more around Dolkka. However the power of this Deck ability to switch between these two bringing the most optimal for the situation. So as Dino Rabbit is currently in a clash with Plants for the title of the Top Deck of the format, it's core engine definately deserves a high spot in this countdown.