For the surprisingly less high energy sequel.
RD/MRP2-JP074 真・獣機界覇者ライガオン Shin Juukikai Hasha Liogon (True Beast Gear World Conqueror Liogon/True Beast Gear Liogon)
Level 7 EARTH Beast-Warrior Effect Monster
ATK 2500
DEF 1800
[REQUIREMENT] Send 1 other face-up Beast-Warrior monster you control and send it to the GY.
[EFFECT] This card gains ATK equal to [The original ATK of the monster sent to the GY for this effect’s requirement] until the end of the turn. If there is a card in your Field Zone, then, you can choose 1 monster your opponent controls and change its battle position.
RD/MRP2-JP075 真・獣機界王デビルコング Shin Juukikai-Oh Devil Kong (True Beast Gear World King Devil Kong/True Beast Gear Emperor Kong)
Level 7 EARTH Beast-Warrior Effect Monster
ATK 2400
DEF 1500
[REQUIREMENT] Send 1 other face-up Beast-Warrior monster you control and send it to the GY.
[EFFECT] Choose 1 face-down card your opponent controls and destroy it, but during this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Beast-Warrior monsters.
RD/MRP2-JP076 Beast Gear Emperor Catapult Kong
RD/MRP2-JP077 Beast Gear King Convoy Liogon
RD/MRP2-JP078 世紀末獣覇界ビーストオーバー・ワールド Seikimatsu Juukikai Beastover World (Post-Apocalyptic Beast Gear World – Beastover World/Apocalypse – Beast Over World)
Field Spell Card
[REQUIREMENT] None
[EFFECT] While this card is face-up in a Field Zone, all face-up EARTH and DARK Beast-Warrior monsters with an original ATK of 1600 or more on the field gain 400 ATK and DEF and cannot be destroyed by effects.
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I’ve always noticed the quippy URLs for each page on this site, but I never realized until now that every image also has a unique filename. I will now be clicking on each of them from now on, thanks.
Depends on who does the article.
Neo Arkadia usually takes the time to come up with those, including the image URLs. But some of the other article makers don’t, so do keep that in mind.
There’s always one wild card in these side sets, and this time it’s Good Max.
The new Beast Gear Emperor retrains are far more useful, especially Catapult Kong as it will just be a staple in almost every Beast-Warrior strat henceforth while Liogon can beat over most monsters in the game on his own now especially when protected by the new Field Spell. The originals were so awful that any alternative would be welcome at this point.
Beast Over World is more of a mixed bag. The destruction immunity and ATK buff for your boss monsters, and the card being less exploitable by your opponent, make it more valuable than Beast Gear World on paper. However, Roller Stag and The Unstoppable Beast-Warrior only support the original Field Spell, so you have to consider the opportunity costs of both cards when deck building.
While these cards alone do not address everything flawed with this theme, this is still a step in the right direction. Beast Gears randomly getting new support every few months or so despite having no anime push shows that someone at Konami loves these guys enough to give them the time of day.
“Beast Gear” is a favorite of the Rush Duels team because it always get a support card from time to time. Another one that I can think of is “Constructor” since it have also received support in the middle of the GO RUSH Era.
“Shadow Flower” also feels like a Rush Duels team’s favorite. Ironically, “Bubble Era/Actress” seems to be more of a Konami favorite than the Rush Duels team since, although there are still Manya cards to be printed, they have not yet printed anything related to Aqua.
Beast Gears are easy enough because they already come in with a solid game plan and only need a few cards to get that going.
The Bubble Era/Actress themes being too reliant on vanillas (sometimes needing to be a specific Attribute at that), gaining LP, and having Spellcasters on the opponent’s field in the former case hurts the Deck. Other themes don’t have these restrictions so it is easier to print their cards. Why print a bunch of multi Attribute Aqua vanillas and cumbersome support cards that only work with them? Manya’s second and third waves of support didn’t even get printed just because they don’t advance the deck in any way.
Constructors were cross promoted with Asaka’s Demolishers in the TBP, Asaka is a semi recurring character in GO RUSH, and being Wyrm (Dragons without being Dragon Type themselves) gives them an edge over other Types for being returned to at a later date.
Shadow Flower was mostly supported due to the anime focus at the time, so there was still a push to print them unlike Beast Gears which got nothing.
Justice for Yosh! He was a cool SEVENS character who was a pretty sweet boy and there from the near-beginning, but who was overshadowed and outshined by his own mother. (A first in Yu-Gi-Oh!, to be sure.) Truly, I wish he was able to do more with the other characters then he had been allowed to.
Regarding this, I also kind of wish we could have gotten at least 2 more cards, to make it a clean 5-card wave of support. Another, low-Level Beast-Warrior and maybe another Spell or Trap would have been nice.
F for Yosh for being an NPC in Duel Links despite having one of the Decks that receives support from time to time (that’s a lot when we’re talking about a secondary character in SEVENS)
Ironically, Mimi’s ancestor, Manya, was not as fond of Mimi as she was: so much so that her cards from two of her Decks remain unprinted.