“It doesn’t need eyes to track you down.”
RD/AP01-JP035 焔魔の劾狗 Enma no Gaiku (Police Hound of the Blaze Fiends)
Level 4 FIRE Fiend Effect Monster
ATK 900
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 Send 1 FIRE Fiend monster from the hand to the GY.
【EFFECT】 Send the top 4 cards of your Deck to the GY, then, you can choose 1 FIRE Fiend monster that does not have 900 ATK among them and add it to the hand.
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Amazing card
BUT
The deck still have no cards to recovery the ritual spell
Or a searcher for that matter (unless you want to use the new Curse of Dragon). Hopefully a future card will fix that.
Okay, I wouldn’t have expected a police dog for the series based on Satan and pals, but this is a very useful support. Being Level 4 means another target for the Lv 10 recovery spell to boot!
Police Hound is designed with Corruption of the Blaze Fiends in mind, as it is a Level 4 or lower for the requirement and together each card can recover a Level 10 Maximum piece. Corruption also frees your field for Heavenly Invitation, Rage Serpent, or Guide. You can also Tribute Hound for Rocker, who can recover one of the Level 10s except Lunael. Police Hound also sets up your GY for Elite Amp and Luciless, who need 3 or more Fiends for their requirements.
Unfortunately they still don’t have a way to recover their back-row, especially the Ritual Spell, and a handful of their better recovery options attack lock you into Maximums for the turn which goes against introducing non-Maximums as optional bosses (especially since the Ritual Spell rewards you for sending a Maximum Mode monster as Ritual Material).
I imagine this card was likely created to make up for those locks so you can abandon them entirely and play the modern cards.
A start, but they need a smidge more
Good pupper.
Finally, a new Low-Level Monster for the Deck (I honestly would have liked a new Backrow), and it’s a special miller that sends out 4 cards instead of the typical 3.
Still, I feel like Blaze Fiend needs more Low-Level Monsters and better Backrow: Grace Princess has the Monsters, but not the Backrow. Zera has the Backrow, but it doesn’t have any good Monsters.
And so, Celeb Rose is Celeb Rose, and Music Princess needs to rebuild its arsenal of cards (which the Deck has been doing for the past two years)