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RD/KP15-JP010 ダークネス・ファントマイト Darkness Phantomite
Level 1 DARK Wyrm Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 0
[REQUIREMENT] Can be used by shuffling 2 Wyrm monsters from your GY back into the Deck.
[EFFECT] Choose 1 face-up Level 9 or lower monster your opponent controls and change it to face-down Defense Position, then, your opponent excavates the top 3 cards of their Deck and reveals them. Then your opponent places the excavated cards on the top of their Deck in any order.
RD/KP15-JP040 幻壊溶竜ダークネス・バクハムート Genkai Youryuu Darkness Bakuhamut (Demolition Meltdown Dragon Darkness Blasthamut)
Level 9 FIRE Wyrm Fusion Effect Monster
ATK 3000
DEF 2500
Materials: “Demolition Dragon Blasthamut” + “Darkness Phantomite”
[REQUIREMENT] None
[EFFECT] Send the top 3 cards of your opponent’s Deck to the GY, also, if there are any monsters among them, then, you can choose face-down cards your opponent controls up to [The number of monsters sent to the GY by this effect] and destroy those cards, then, inflict 500 damage to your opponent x [The number of cards destroyed by this effect].
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Why phantomite see the top of the deck? Will still the same 3 cards and your opponent choose the order so…why?
So you can see if there are any monsters, it won’t matter what order they are retuned in, once you Fusion Summon Blasthamut that is.
Darkness Phantomite received a slight buff, but it makes a difference since it can now affect several of the Fusion Monsters in Rush Duels.
There are no significant changes to Darkness Blasthamut, except for new artwork for its printed version.
Likewise, JP011 seems to be intended for another Darkness Monster (most likely Darkness Samsara, which means the pack will have more Fusion Monsters than it appears)
I overlooked the changes to Darkness Paparazzi and Phantomite in Episode 75. When these cards were shown in Yudias’ imagination, they had their printed artwork and text. I didn’t notice this during Yuna’s reveal, but upon hindsight it makes more sense now. Unfortunately we didn’t see Samsara in that episode, so we have no way of knowing if it will get printed in this set. Though given the Secret Investigators being in Phoenix of the Roaring Flame, I would be shocked if Mitsuko’s cards aren’t printed here with the others.
Phantomite can now affect face up Defense Position monsters and Level 9 (most Fusions) and will be a decent form of field control in Wyrm builds.
Darkness Blasthamut has not been changed, and your opponent knowing what’s coming can easily play around it (though most meta Rush decks are monster card heavy, so you should at least destroy 1 card with this effect). And since this monster has 3000 ATK, it should trample over most Defense Position monsters in the game through battle, so you should destroy one of their backrow as this monster has no protection on his own.
(Print Mutsuba Tower already Konami.)