Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Raging Battle Card Review: Chaos End Master and Sphere of Chaos




Today, I'll be reviewing two cards: Chaos End Master and Sphere of Chaos:

Chaos End Master
Light
Warrior/Tuner
If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can Special Summon 1 Level 5 or higher monster with 1600 ATK or less from your Deck.

Chaos End Master is a very interesting level 3 Tuner. With its ability allowing you to special summon many high level monsters, this card goes well with many deck types. Yubel gets a very nice searcher to help speed up the process of getting it onto the field. Destiny Hero Malicious gets yet another easy summon, and Satellite Cannon has just recieved a nice method getting it out on the field. Being a warrior also helps, as warrior have by far more support than any other type. Being a light is also a huge plus, as Honest will give it the attack power it needs to defeat another monster.
There are numerous applications for this card, but the card that is really meant to be summoned by Chaos End Master is Sphere of Chaos:

Sphere of Chaos
Dark
Machine/Effect
This card's Attribute is also treated as LIGHT. Once per turn, this card cannot be destroyed by battle. When this card is Tribute Summoned, you can add 1 Level 3 or lower monster from your Deck to your hand.

Looking at Sphere of Chaos' stats, you might be rather underwhelmed. A level 5 monster with 1600 attack won't be winning any popularity contests just by itself. However, what makes this card special is its first effect, which treats its attribute as Light. If you special summon this monster with Chaos End Master, you immediately have a level 3 tuner and a level 5 monster which acts as both a Light and a Dark monster. This lets you have the choice of either choosing to synchro summon Light End Dragon or Dark End Dragon, which is a plus. Apart from being used to synchro summon Light End Dragon and Dark End Dragon, this dual-attribute ability is also handy whilst it is in the graveyard. With Chaos Sorceror being put back at 1 in the current ban list, Sphere of Chaos becomes even more useful, being able to pose as either of the two attributes needed to special summon Chaos Sorceror.
The protect-from-battle ability is nice at times, and the searching ability which comes into play when it is tribute summoned is also very handy.

Chaos End Master is a great card to use for summoning Stardust Dragon or Red Dragon Archfiend. In terms of card advantage, you also get a huge bonus: your opponent loses a monster when Chaos End Master destroys it, and you get another card for it, which may potentially net you even more card advantage.

I'll be reviewing Dark End Dragon and Light End Dragon together for my final card review for Raging Battle. Both are powerful level 8 monsters which go hand in hand with Chaos End Master and Sphere of Chaos.

Duel with Honor!
~Geno

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