Block Dragon - Yu-Gi-Oh! Throwback Thursday (2016)

King of Lullaby

Hello Pojo Fans,

Our Throwback Thursday choice today is the newly banned Block Dragon.

This guy needed to be banned, his card pool and abilities have grown since first being released and at first he wasn’t much to look at, but now he is a menace to the meta.

Needing three EARTH monsters banished isn’t the hardest thing to come by, especially when they can be in the grave or in your hand. Many decks that run no EARTH monsters can still make EARTH monsters through their Extra Deck, but we’ll stick to the decks that can really abuse this card. You get a 3000DEF with 2500ATK on the surface that protects all Rock-Types from card destruction effects (self-protection and blanket Type protection is fantastic). His search ability with Rock-Type monsters will net you at least a 1-for-1 with Block Dragon searching another copy of himself. Sure, he can only use this effect once per turn, but he can Special Summon himself from the grave or hand any amount of times he wants per turn. Link climbing with this guy or abusing that +3 potential is what made it such a broken monsters. Gem-Knight, Gogogo, Koa’ki Meiru, Magnet Warrior, Megalith, Dino and Adamancipator benefit incredibly from this monster, with the last two being a main source for its banning. Adamancipator can already plus off their effects with ease, giving them a +3 search monster that also gave all their archetypes monsters card destruction protection was too much. This card was so good even a deck like Burning Abyss, that ran primarily DARK Fiend monsters included several EARTH monsters to use this seaching power and to give the deck some attack boost. It give rouge decks like Magnet Warrior and Megalith a powerful boss monster that boosted their deck like no card ever had. As long as you could make that Level 8 total with the searches this card was something to fear and as long as you had three EARTH monsters in the grave you could always summon this. Dino had enough power monsters and searchers and cards that gave them advantage, even with stuff limited to one and this only helped give them power. There isn’t even a restriction on the search for one copy of a certain monster, you can just grab two power monsters that are EARTH and be fine with a +2.

I feel bad for the decks that needed him, because he really made their strategies go. Decks that could’ve functioned without him are what made him hit the ban list, and that’s a shame.

Advanced-4.5/5     Art-4/5

Until Next Time KingofLullaby