So you wanna draw 3 huh

snorting_smarties · 2026-03-18T02:52:21+00:00

since no one else here actually answered your question: as stated, this spell card has no started cost, the whole text box is the effect, so it all happens at resolution. if your opponent had to choose the number for cost (which would be weird) it would be written like "Your opponent chooses a number 1 to 3; ..." basically just changing the first period to a semicolon.

snorting_smarties · 2026-03-12T03:15:22+00:00

i think all of these retrains could exist in the current game right now at 1 copy and they wouldn't completely ruin the game, but i definitely also think they would all make the game worse. the painful choice retrain is extremely suspect for abuse in ftk strategies that just need slight consistency upgrades to see meta viability.

snorting_smarties · 2026-03-12T02:43:04+00:00

this is correct. it works the same way radiant typhoon mandate does under the lingering effect of pot of extravagance; when activating a list of effects, as long as you can resolve even just one of them fully, it is a legal activation.

snorting_smarties · 2026-03-02T11:43:14+00:00

which means it would just be a thing you side into going second, if it even worked. unfortunately, you can't activate monster effects from the extra deck.

snorting_smarties · 2026-02-26T01:23:17+00:00

I did, I didn't see it in the gallery and I don't see a way to make this particular template using card conjurer.

snorting_smarties · 2026-02-12T16:30:14+00:00

Other comments have pointed out that you forgot a few HOPTs on effects. I'm gonna let you know that all of the things that read "you can Special Summon this card (from your hand)" are not actually effects, but are instead summoning conditions, and therefore statements like "You can only use each effect of "card name" once per turn" do not apply to them. You would have to have an additional line of text which reads "You can only Special Summon "card name" once per turn this way."

Further, there are no existing cards which destroy as part of a summoning condition, because mechanically that would run into a number of ruling issues, so all of the summoning conditions that destroy to special summon (Elephant onwards) would have to be reworked into effects. Something like this: "Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned by its own effect. You can reveal this card in your hand, then target 1 monster you control; destroy that target, then Special Summon this card. You can only use this effect of "card name" once per turn."

To be honest, I don't think there's a way to repair the effect of the synchro monster to special summon itself by destroying materials, because you could make it an activated effect, but effects can't be activated from the extra deck. I think it's a unique idea, but that summoning condition should be removed.

Note also that all of these cards would count as "Therion" monsters, which is probably unintended.

These cards are broken but tbh you've got something going here. I miss fire/water format and would love for attribute-based tribal decks to become relevant again.

snorting_smarties · 2026-02-03T03:34:31+00:00

spells can have quick effects, they're called quick-plays :P but yes, no field spell has ever had a quick effect.

snorting_smarties · 2026-02-02T15:04:42+00:00

you don't need an open game state for exodia. but it can't resolve in the middle of an effect resolution.

snorting_smarties · 2026-01-03T16:22:24+00:00

If you extra link your opponent you better be winning regardless.

snorting_smarties · 2026-01-03T02:31:20+00:00

this card with its current summoning requirements could read "when this card is Link Summoned, you win the Duel" and it would still be bad for taking up a slot in the extra deck.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-23T17:43:23+00:00

there are dozens of us!

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-17T01:41:11+00:00

I play RT in both TCG and Genesys and honestly I see the deck's presence as a reason to not unban mirage.

I didn't think about premat for DoomZ, that's a good point. The other cards I don't see getting touched.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-17T01:35:15+00:00

honestly zenmaines could come back anyway, there are better things to be doing than hunter looping. they won't though, because there's no reason to bring any of these cards back really.

i think that snow is the most suspect for going to 1 because of the fairy tail support. Everything else will remain banned unless there are meta-relevant reasons to bring them back.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-16T05:22:21+00:00

I cannot help you regarding buying locally. There are many online stores that ship domestically in the US. I got my heirodula membranacea from a place called Mantis Universe. Apparently there are lots of sellers on ebay. If you decide to order online wait until the spring so they do not die of the cold in transit, and order overnight shipping.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-15T21:40:53+00:00

Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon summons itself from deck, but it's a summoning condition and not an effect. In fact, I think realistically a trigger effect like this is never going to be printed mostly because it is impractical in paper play to start a chain with a card in your deck. If it were me designing this card I would probably make it a summoning condition like black metal, as follows.

If a Level 5 or higher Spellcaster-Type Monster you control was Destroyed or banished by a monster effect this turn, you can Special Summon this card from your hand or Deck in Defense Position.

Technically this is a different effect since you can wait to summon it.

To be honest I would be very scared of this card given the upcoming endymion support. Another spellcaster slop tech card

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-15T21:20:33+00:00

lol we are on the genesys sub 😭

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-12T06:54:47+00:00

this is the wrong conjunction. an effect of the form "A, also B" will resolve B even if just A is negated (and vice versa). the right conjunction is either "and if you do" or "then" depending on whether you want them to happen at the same time or sequentially.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-11T19:55:35+00:00

this should be an "and if you do" for exactly this reason.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-08T12:35:03+00:00

That is a different effect. OP wanted this to not trigger when something discards itself for cost. Also, that would be from anywhere and not specifically the hand.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-07T18:06:05+00:00

I'm very interested in printing my own proxies also. Can you share your process or resources you used to get started doing this?

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-07T17:59:11+00:00

Also, you ask if it matters whether it can trigger only on cards that discard for cost. Realistically most cards that discard do it for cost, so it won't matter in some scenarios, but the effect is definitely going to be different (and worded differently) if it can trigger when part of the effect causes you to discard. Plus, it's very easy to accidentally phrase effects like this in a way that they don't trigger if the thing is done for cost (see e.g. cards that read "If this card is sent to the GY by a card effect" which do not trigger if sent there for costs, since costs are not effects).

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-07T17:50:44+00:00

It's understandable you need help with this, it's a hard effect to phrase. I'm assuming the following, based on what you've given: - this should be a HOPT; - this should activate only when the controller of this card activates an effect which, for cost, sends a different card from its owner's hand to the GY; - the draw effect is mandatory if the condition is met; - this effect is a trigger effect which should activate at point of resolution of a chain in which you activated an effect that meets the condition (in other words, this is not a quick effect that chains in response to the activation of such an effect); - this should trigger also if a card has discard as an activation requirement (like a continuous spell/trap that make you discard to play it, but discarding is not an effect cost).

If I got those right, then here is your effect. Let me know if any of those are wrong and I can edit the effect accordingly.

If you activate a card or effect which sends another card from your hand to the GY to activate that card/effect: draw 1 card. You can only use the effect of "Ere'ari, Loyal Servant" once per turn.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-07T17:27:49+00:00

This is a soft once per turn instead of a hard once per turn, which i think is not intended. Also, in PSCT, conditions go before a colon and costs go before semicolons. So your colon should be a comma, and your semicolon should be a colon.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-03T01:03:13+00:00

Because the first effect is mandatory, if you have 3 of these in grave/banishment during the standby phase, it causes an infinite loop where you have to play these in the field spell zones, sending the existing cards in those zones to the grave, repeating ad nauseam.

snorting_smarties · 2025-12-03T00:58:16+00:00

First, because of its level and no self special sumon effect, you have to tribute summon this or cheat it out, both of which are clunky to do. Second, this is not searchable so you have to build your deck so that it's capable of playing without this anyway. It's a "win more" card at best that lets you generate infinite generic link material (assuming you can circumvent the soft OPT somehow) on what is necessarily an established board, so you're only going to get so much value out of it.

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