Spikes & Baron Duel Monster Comet - Card Review #200

Card Name: Future Fusion (POTD-JP044)

Effect: Choose Fusion materials from your deck for a Fusion monsters and send them to Graveyard, and choose a Fusion monster from your Fusion deck. At the 2nd of your Standby Phase after this card is activate special summon that Fusion monster onto your field (this special summon is treated as Fusion Summon). When this card is not on the field, destroy that monster. When that monster is destroy, destroy this card.

Comment: Sorry for writing this review late. I've spend the whole week, well, moving back home and doing other shits...

Anyway, as usual, we would start looking at cards from the latest set. As being the 200th card review, well, I choose to do one of the more "controversial"/"special" card in the set. And this, again, broke my streak of "starting a set reviewing an effect monster"...

Anyway...


Art:
The art is the same as the one in the anime. I don't know what's with the art, but it seems that it's design to "beat up the Heroes" (just look at the Skyscraper/Dark City background). At the top of the sky, the time spiral opens and a crazy Machine comes out (Cyber End Dragon, duh).

RATING: 5.5/10

Stats/Requirement:
This card is a Continuous Magic, meaning that...well, it stays on the field. Anyway, other than that, this card requires you to have the Fusion monster and Fusion materials in deck, otherwise, this card is useless.

RATING: NA/10

Effect:
Well, what's "Future" Fusion? Basically, as in the anime, you choose a Fusion monster, then send the materials from DECK to Graveyard, then later in the game, it would come out.

But why using this at all?
1. Since it sends monsters from deck, to fusion a monster, you only need this card and nothing else.
2. By the above reason, it's more realiable since you actually get to choose how to/which monsters to fused with instead of having to depend on luck of the draw

Of course, drawbacks...
1. Since it's Continuous Magic, and the Fusion monster would come out at 2nd Standby Phase, it means that opponent have two full turns to destroy this card before the monster ever even come out, or opponent can destroy it easily afterward since they now have two ways to do so
2. If you have everything in hand/Graveyard, this card is really really bad...

Of course, to minimize the drawbacks, one can always protect this card via Counter Traps and like. Also, one can choose the Fusion monsters that work with cards like [Miracle Fusion], [Dragon's Mirror] and [Overload Fusion] so that he/she can use the resources in Graveyard.

But what to bring out? Well, many people would choose [Chimeratech Over Dragon]. The problem is that...this card do not "work" with Chimera as Chimeratech would destroy this card and Chimera would then be destroy. But does it stops here?

Not really...with [Overload Fusion], one can easily get all of their Machines into the Graveyard via this card. It doesn't matter if they can summon [Chimeratech Over Dragon] with this card or not...just they can dump and Fused...it's pretty much over for opponent (of course, I would talk about CoD in future reviews).

So what other ideas people have? Well, some people think of the idea of using this card with Exodia (or [Reversed World] (e. Exchange of Spirit)...but it's banned). Well, the idea is not bad, but it just don't work out as easily as people think.

At the end, there's always other Fusion monsters that people just want to get out (i.e. [Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]), and it's not always just Chimera, Hero, and F.G.D.


RATING: 8.9/10

OVERALL - 8.2/10 - Even if this card solve the main problem with Fusion monster tremondously, the big question is: does it worth it to put this card into the deck? Well, the answer is of course, it depends...but while this card is not a bad card, it's WAY overrate. At the end, the slowness of this card can kill it (especially if it's easy for opponent to mess up your plan), and if not, most Fusion materials do not create enough advantage and synergy in a deck. This card cannot change the metagame, and it will not. However, it WILL bring back the used-to-be-popular Cyber OTK deck again, but in other generic decks, there's just not enough synergies involve without sacrificing the deck at whole.