Raiza The Storm Monarch and Caius The Shadow Monarch (sometimes even Mobius The Frost Monarch)
It's Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch!
Let's look at all of their effects:
Thestalos - When this card is Tribute Summoned, randomly discard 1 card from your opponent's hand. If the discarded card was a Monster Card, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the Level of the monster x 100.
Raiza - When this card is Tribute Summoned, return 1 card on the field to the top of its owner's Deck.
Caius - When this card is Tribute Summoned, remove from play 1 card on the field. If it was a DARK Monster Card, inflict 1000 damage to your opponent.
Mobius : When this card is Tribute Summoned, you can destroy up to 2 Spell or Trap Cards on the field.
As you can see, Raiza spins a card back to the top of their deck causing them not to draw a new card...... Caius removes something off the field....... Mobius may destroy their backrow ....... All of these Monarchs focus on killing their field advantage while Thestalos weakens only their hand advantage.......
Field Advantage is usually important than Hand advantage....
But in the current meta, besides Infernities, hand advantage is also important..... people like to have a few cards in their hand in case of cards such as heavy storm and lightning vortex.......
A good situation for Thestalos is if they have a prepared honest waiting on their hand, and you manage to summon thestalos and choose honest then they'd lose life points and you can attack with less hesitation......
Thestalos may also get rid of their DAD or JD or Triumph Card in their hand......... As people need requirements for cards that turn the game around......
At my locals, I'm starting to see Thestalos get some more play and I hope that it will be widely played one day.....
Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch is a card you should consider if you ever decide to run a Monarch besides Caius, Raiza or Mobius......
Team Hurricane Jimmy Signing out!
The only time I have ever seen Thestalos in a deck is in a few Frognarch decks. This is because people like clearing the field, and then attacking with little qualms. Mobius is a nice card, and Caius is just beautiful. Raiza is useful only against synchros and fusions(I'll take a Caius over Raiza anyday).
ReplyDeleteNot all monarchs are useful in a deck. Thestalos is a hit or miss effect. There is much less assurance of success with Thestalos, which is why he is usually considered last.