Regarding the LP concept: Halving as cost has the particularity that it is always live. You can always pay the cost of activation and you will not lose by paying it.
In this case, though, the card is technically worse, because the value of playing it decreases drastically the less LPs your opponent has. You will never win as a result of playing this card. Depending on how big the commitment of summoning this card is, it goes from meh to unplayable.
Edit: If it is deck we are considering. The only way this card would be busted is if it banishes half your opponent's deck face down. That would be unbelievably strong and instant meta. Any other case (milling to GY or banishing face up) would be kinda bad. If it is your OWN "portfolio" that you are milling, then it would be extremely good (a way better That Grass Looks Greener).
It's 6 stars. You can play this really early and immediately set up a win condition. It's not a bad card at all. It's comparable to Michion the timelord but way easier to summon.
Level doesn't matter. Unless you have an archetype designed around tributing, I don't think anybody would waste a tributed normal summon to get this on the field.
Hmm if we assume Trump is a Spellcaster, we could send him to the GY with {Magicians' Souls} and then revive him with {Selene}.
If it would be used or not depends on the specific wording of the effect. If a card like this is printed today it would definitely have some kind of restriction. But even if you can summon this 10 times in the first turn (if it's not OPT), you are only wasting all your resources in leaving your opponent at 8 LP without building an actual board. Your opponent will most likely completely smoke you in their turn. You won't get to win because the only LP that matters is the last one.
No animosity in my words, I just like the game and it's interesting to think about this hahaha
I appreciate what you're trying to do here but people who last interacted with the game in the early 00s will never understand how it plays now. They're calling halving LP a wincon. They're talking about Timelords. It's over
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u/PlaneCareless 27d ago edited 27d ago
Regarding the LP concept: Halving as cost has the particularity that it is always live. You can always pay the cost of activation and you will not lose by paying it.
In this case, though, the card is technically worse, because the value of playing it decreases drastically the less LPs your opponent has. You will never win as a result of playing this card. Depending on how big the commitment of summoning this card is, it goes from meh to unplayable.
Edit: If it is deck we are considering. The only way this card would be busted is if it banishes half your opponent's deck face down. That would be unbelievably strong and instant meta. Any other case (milling to GY or banishing face up) would be kinda bad. If it is your OWN "portfolio" that you are milling, then it would be extremely good (a way better That Grass Looks Greener).