User blog comment:Vermillionaid/Trading Card (?)/@comment-25936766-20170427144145

Okay, now that I'm awake and caring enough to read the cards, I got some issues with at least some of these.

1-Unoriginal effects. Some seem downright copy-pasted from actual Yugioh cards. For example, compare and this card. The only difference being the former lasts indefinitely, which is far more OP than the latter, which is balanced.

Which leads to:

'2-Unbalanced ripoff effects. 'Many of the effects of those cards are basically effects already present in Yugioh, but with smaller drawbacks, or no drawbacks at all. "Cremation of the Last Hope", for example, is just straight "Deal 1000 Damage to the oponent's LP".

Meanwhile, most, if not all spell cards that do 1000 effect damage straight-away have some sort of drawback or limitation, like the user receiving a bit of damage too, or not being able to be used if the oponent has less than 3000LP.

The "best one" must be Disarmed though. Not only is it's name 2 letters away from Disarm, it downright makes you discard all your cards and then draw 1. Since in Yugioh it's generally more beneficial to have cards in the Graveyard, and some cards have effects that either require or benefit from cards in the Graveyard, that is quite powerful.

3-Needless "original types". Why use "HUNTRESS"? "GRIMM"? Ruby, Weiss, and Yang definitely fall under Warrior, and Blake at worst under Beast-Warrior. They even went to an Academy designed to train Warriors.

The Beowolf and Boarbatusk, also would fall under Beast, the Geist under Fiend, and it's Petra-Gigas form under Rock. The Deathstalker under Insect.

4-Stats and/or Effects that don't follow canon, exagerate the characters's abilities, and/or are a total waste of potential. Such as the Petra Gigas requiring 3 Geists to be tributed, when in the show it was just 1 single Geist controlling some rocks and a tree.

Yang having 2400Atk and 2400Def, being level 5, and Normal. Not only is she not that strong by herself (most of her strength comes from the Semblance), due to her Semblance, she easily could've been an Effect monster, with more fitting stats, whose effect increases her Atk, like it does in the show.

There's the Ice and Stone Dust Clone cards, whose effects either ignore the fact that when she uses them, they last for just a few seconds. The "Sturdy Stone Clone" protecting her for a Battle, fine, but until the Oponent's End phase? Hell no. Being a Quick-Play Spell card, that does not specify it must be used in the oponent's turn, I could simply use it on my turn, and then Blake will endure for 2 turns: Mine and the Oponent's. Much longer than the 1-2 seconds it lasted in the show.

And the Freezing Ice Clone preventing a monster from attacking for 2 turns just like that, it's also bull, especially since it didn't Freeze when it was used, at least not that long.

Then there's Ruby who can downright eliminate all Grimm just by paying 1000LP, far more OP than she actually is. Or Yang, who, judging from "Golden Gauntlet Blast", could wipe out half the oponent's field just by banging her fists.

5-Wrong terminology for names. "Destruction Shield", when that barrier has nothing to do with destruction. "Armor Breaker", when the Nevermore is banging up on the stadium's barrier (a more absurd choice considering we have Weiss beating the Knight, which is more appropiate).

"Swift Metal Clone", when that clone was fucking GRAVITY, nothing to do with metal, or machines. (I would've understood using "Darkness", since it looks like such, but not even that, apparently). "Freezing Dust Clone", when it didn't freeze.

As for the text in the cards, believe it or not the cards show better grammar than you show in the OP and the comments, Vermillionaid.

But, you need to keep in mind Semantics for the effects. Yugioh demands one to be very Pedantic, to Lawyer levels, because a player can abuse technicism in the wording itself to do something that wasn't planned to be possible, which leads to OP strategies.

For example, in Yugioh: Premature Burial. "Pay 800LP, Special summon a monster from the Graveyard in Attack position and equip that card to the monster. If Premature Burial is destroyed, destroy the monster."

In other words, if it leaves the field but is not destroyed, the monster remains. So you can return it to the hand, and use it again, and since it was not destroyed, the monster remain. It was forbidden because of it, IIRC.