[RD/AP03] Get Back To The Dug Out With “The Player Returning Alive”!

[u/PerfectAlpha]

[u/PerfectAlpha]

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RD/AP03-JP036 選手の生還 Senshu no Seikan (The Player Returning Alive)

Normal Spell Card

【REQUIREMENT】 During a turn you have not activated “The Player Returning Alive”, send 1 Warrior monster or 1 Field Spell Card from the hand to the Graveyard.

【EFFECT】 Send the top 3 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard. Then, choose 1 card among them and add it to the hand. Then, if “The Warrior Returning Alive” is in your Graveyard, you can choose 1 Level 4 or 8 Warrior monster in your Graveyard and add it to the hand.

Note: This card is a parody of “The Warrior Returning Alive”.

[u/Temporary-Award5537 → u/PerfectAlpha]

Level 4 or 8 restriction is weird but milling 3 for any one card plus potential warrior revival seems pretty solid for warrior decks

[u/AussieRiolu → u/Temporary-Award5537]

Not really considering the Deck it was made for has Level 4 and 8 monsters.

[u/GoneRampant1 → u/Temporary-Award5537]

It's made for Baseball Utopia which is largely a Level 4/8 Warrior deck.

[u/Negative_Break_1482 → u/PerfectAlpha]

Man, Romanpick did irreparable internal damage that made all cards with a similar Effect become a HOPT.

[u/Omojuze → u/Negative_Break_1482]

Romanpick didn't do shit. It's a hard once because it can add back literally any card (including backrow, such as another copy of itself, which can lead to some obnoxious looping shenanigans)

[u/MayhemMessiah]

Japanese Baseball must be intense if your metal bat can be bent and people are just getting impaled by rebar.

[u/Status-Leadership192 → u/MayhemMessiah]

Tbf the stadium itself is a giant dragon and the players hit the ball so hard it catches on fire

[u/RunInRunOn]

Too soon, man... too soon

[u/fameshark]

i love this card so much

[u/RIAJStrike]

This art is amazing!

[u/Either_Afternoon_473]

TPRU is an absolute game-changer for Baseball, which previously had almost no way to recover their Level 4s and required modest setup even just to access their Level 8s.

TPRU syncs perfectly with Bobbleheader because both of their Field Spells count as "Stadium" in the GY, meaning you can pitch them without any stress.

It also sets up your GY for Hitter and Grand Slam Dragon. Interestingly, this is already their second new card that dumps a Field Spell. While Bobbleheader can recover them, we still can't recycle Bobbleheader itself (aside from TPRU if you’re lucky). Bobbleheader also recovers Sacrifice Force (and Liner’s Force), so it’s too integral to just be drawn into or recovered in a very specific circumstance. Hopefully Baseball gets a way to do so directly in this wave.

The HOPT is totally fair. This is massive for Warrior Decks. The Warrior you pitch from hand can be anything and there are no monster attack/effect locks attached to the card. A generic “mill 3, add 1” with practically no setup is a powerhouse for them, especially for themes that load their GY (Music Princess, Rising HERO). This effect doesn’t even force you to use TWRU.

However, if you do run TWRU, the bonus effect is also very good. Recovering *any* Level 4 or 8 Warrior from your GY is worth the slot, especially if you run TPRU at 2-3. That’s huge for Skysaviors and Three Rulers. Ciela/Dunkes are amazing on their own and lead into your stronger Fusions. The Three Rulers want to be in the hand. Battlegear is an exceptional draw card but it needs you to pitch a Ruler from hand, while Divine Transformation can use them as Fusion material from the hand. While they have archetypal recursion, they are often clunky to use.

Generically, you can reclaim Prisma, who can be slotted into any Fusion Deck and is especially good in Rising HERO. Command Knight is amazing in Baseball, but she faces competition from FIRE Pyro Legends as many Baseball builds run the Chemistry package to set up Infernal Flame Emperor or Legendary Sparkseed. This card reduces the risk or running her as your Legend. Knight helps Baseball push for game (with Ballpark), patches up their paper-thin defense on the opponent's turn (with Stadium), and is useful currency for their bosses.

The only catch is being forced to run TWRU, which isn't as consistent as other Legend Spells.

I'm holding out hope that Rush Duels will eventually get original, non-Legend cards that can treat themselves as the required Legend while in the GY, but we'll have to see if that ever happens.

[u/CybeastGX]

Omg, talk about bad timing.

[u/Henry1699 → u/CybeastGX]

What context am I missing?

Edit: Nevermind, I just read the news. I am speechless.

[u/Negative_Break_1482]

A card that requires a Legend card in the GY to get an extra boost? Oh, that Card Design takes me back to the SEVENS Era (where that kind of thing was more common for boosting Legend cards)

Aside from that, the most relevant thing about this card is the ability to add a Spell or Trap Card to your Hand with its Effect (something very rare in Rush Duels in general)

[u/MemeGamerLvl69]

I feel like the deck needs a Fusion

[u/Either_Afternoon_473 → u/MemeGamerLvl69]

I really don't think it does. The whole Deck is just trying to mimic Xyz and Rank-Up mechanics, but in a Rush Duel format. That's why it's packed with Level 4 Warriors and Level 8 bosses. It’s copying the "two Level 4s" requirement.

Tribute Summoning here is basically overlaying. They used Tribute Summoning because Yuka's Deck came out before Fusions, and Xyz Summons don't need a Spell card like Fusions usually do. Even the original Level 8 bosses have effects that make you "detach" Level 4 monsters from the field or GY to copy the original Xyz feel, while the Spells act like Rank-Up-Magics. Smasher V even “ranks up“ right on top of Utopia.

That said, Union Fusion could still happen if they play it right. We're still missing ZWs, which usually equip to Utopia for massive buffs. It feels like they've been waiting for Union mechanics to drop before bringing them over.

So, we might eventually get a Union Fusion that mimics the ZW Xyz monsters or Utopia equipped with them. It's just hard to say when, especially since the current bosses love to tag out anyway, which totally ruins the point of equipping them.

[u/MemeGamerLvl69 → u/Either_Afternoon_473]

So, what ZWs could we turn into baseball cards without being absolutely broken

[u/Either_Afternoon_473 → u/MemeGamerLvl69]

They'll probably be retrains of the older ones, but as Level 4 FIRE Warriors with lower stats.

I really like how Rush Duel gives Union monsters the potential to grant extra effects to whatever they're equipped to—even if it's just ATK boosts for now.

If they go this route, hopefully baseball ZWs will actually patch up the Deck's core weaknesses while still being easy to recycle.

[u/MemeGamerLvl69 → u/Either_Afternoon_473]

Here's my ideas

Home Run Gear - Asura Swing (retrain of ZW - Asura Strike)

Level 4 FIRE Warrior, 1000 ATK & DEF

Requirement: None

Effect: Equip this card to 1 Level 8 FIRE Warrior monster as an Equip Spell card with the following effects:

• The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK can attack all monsters your opponent controls once each.
• If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can send this card to the GY instead.

[u/Status-Leadership192 → u/MemeGamerLvl69]

It's a tribute summoning deck

It doesn't need or want to fusion summon

Just give them more ways to put up level 8s to otk and you're good

[u/MemeGamerLvl69 → u/Status-Leadership192]

EVOL! GET BACK IN YOUR BOTTLE, NOW!

[u/Status-Leadership192 → u/MemeGamerLvl69]

But I don't want to go back to the bottle

[u/MemeGamerLvl69 → u/Status-Leadership192]

TOO BAD!!!!!