Card of the Week: November 15th

Destruction Tyrant, Twin Tempest

[Stride]-Stride Step-[Choose one or more cards with the sum of their grades being 3 or greater from your hand, and discard them]Stride this card on your (VC) from face down.
[AUTO](VC) Generation Break 2:[Counter Blast (2) & Soul Blast (2) & Choose three of your rear-guards, and retire them] At the end of the battle that this unit attacked a vanguard, you may pay the cost. If you do, retire all of each player's rear-guards.

Since Tachikaze is my main squeeze, this week's Card of the Week is going to be focusing in on the first stride we've seen from the upcoming Tactical Booster: RECKLESS RAMPAGE. Supposedly this card is a Generation Rare (One of three in the set), and for a GR, I can't say I'm disappointed in it. So, without further ado, lets dive into its skill.

For a fairly hefty cost, this guy is a field nuke. 2 Counterblasts, 2 Soul Blasts, and 3 retires to kill anything left on the field. Under prime conditions, your opponent will have a full field and you will have 3 units on your side (since anything else would just be an unnecessary minus to yourself). Looking at the cost, the 3 retires of your own will account for 3 of the 5 units you're retiring on your opponent's field. The remaining 2 units should be covered by the SB2/CB2 cost, but honestly that's over-pricing it. In the current game, 1 CB = 1 card, and 1 CB ~ 1.5 Soul Blasts. So, this guy has what is essentially an unnecessary Soul Blast 2 cost on him, making him over-costed for what was already a fairly mediocre skill. On top of that, anything that counterblasts in a Tachikaze deck is immediately a giant red flag, since most/all of your CBs should be going to your Rear Guards in order to keep recycling them. Not to mention he has the GB2 restriction, which should in theory make up for some of the cost he would otherwise have.

That being said, we haven't seen any of the new G-support, which could very well make this guy work wonders. If we get ways to recycle Rear Guards without using counterblasts or soul blasts, this guy could easily become usable. But until then, this guy is nothing more than a 1-of in your G-zone just for the rare situations where he may be usable, and because I'm tired of looking at only Archraider and Pearly Titan.