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    A First Look At The “Fighting Flame”! [MZMI]

    NeoArkadiaBy 20 Comments

    Let’s fight fire with fire.

    MZMI-EN001 Fighting Flame Swordsman
    Level 4 FIRE Warrior Effect Monster
    ATK 1800
    DEF 1600
    If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions “Flame Swordsman” from your Deck to your hand. If this card is sent to the GY: You can send 1 “Flame Swordsman” or 1 monster that mentions it from your Deck or Extra Deck to the GY, except “Fighting Flame Swordsman”. You can only use each effect of “Fighting Flame Swordsman” once per turn.

    MZMI-EN005 Fighting Flame Dragon
    Level 5 FIRE Dragon Fusion Effect Monster
    ATK 1700
    DEF 1600
    Materials: 1 Dragon monster + 1 FIRE Warrior monster
    Except during the Damage Step (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Warrior Fusion Monster you control; equip this card from your field or GY to that monster you control as an Equip Spell. You can only use this effect of “Fighting Flame Dragon” once per turn. While this card is equipped to “Flame Swordsman” or your monster that mentions it, the equipped monster gains 700 ATK and can make a second attack during each Battle Phase.

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    20 Comments

      • J. D. Guy on

        Indeed, and alas that it does not.

        The irony of it all being that it was considered to be a buff at the time of Blue Flame Swordsman’s initial release to resurrect any FIRE Warrior (in addition to being a sort of “trade-off” for not being able to Summon the OG Flame Swordsman from the Extra Deck, treated as a Fusion Summon). But as is the case with many of the Fusion Monsters that got changed to Main Deck Effect Monsters upon release, it was a presumed buff that aged poorly compared to if they actually kept it more faithful to its initial depiction and use.

      • ScionStorm on

        Flame Swordsman was never a Fusion in the anime or manga. It had a vanilla border in the Japanese anime. Konami randomly decided to make it a fusion monster requiring materials that were never in Joey’s deck before the dub anime came out so the dub decided to paint the borders purple to match the OCG card. Blue Flame Swordsman has the Deck Master effect of Flame Swordsman.

      • J. D. Guy on

        I’m fully aware of all of what you’ve said, ScionStorm.

        However, the in-hindsight wish for Blue Flame Swordsman to have been better designed around the fact that Flame Swordsman is an Extra Deck Monster in real life still holds. Because Blue Flame Swordsman didn’t just have the Deck Master Ability that Flame Swordsman had in the Virtual World arc; it also had the ability to replace itself with Flame Swordsman from the hand or Deck. And since the real-life Flame Swordsman is, again, an Extra Deck Monster, the real-life Blue Flame Swordsman would have needed to accommodate for that fact, which potentially could have been done in the way I suggested in my previous reply.

    4. Jay on

      Is that first card an intentional reference to the anime Bakura duel where Joey’s soul was placed inside of Flame Swordsman, I wonder?

      • J. D. Guy on

        Too soon to cast that type of judgement on how “good” the effects are. We still don’t know all the cards and how they’re meant to operate together.

        For reference, they gave Gate Guardian 10 cards in the previous iteration of this product. Meaning that presuming Flame Swordsman gets the same amount, we only know a fifth of the themes’ cards. Like, we haven’t a clue what backrow Fighting Flame Swordsman searches or what other Monsters the card can send to the GY (beyond the OG Flame Swordsman and Fighting Flame Dragon).

      • Snow on

        I’d say the first is a very solid card. A search on summon and float on send into foolish burial is never ever bad on a card.

    8. Kalucan on

      > You can add 1 Spell/Trap that mentions “Flame Swordsman” from your Deck to your hand
      I have little doubt they’ll add some between now and when it comes out, but it’s funny to see a searcher with no targets.

      • The one on

        Nekroz of clausolas also suffers from this with the nekroz trap card 🙂

        But there are more cards to be revealed especially the flame swordsman monster in the box cover

    9. Logic Bomb on

      Obviously, this means more support for Flame Swordsman, because…I’m pretty sure there are no targets right now.