Talk:Mercenaries/@comment-33027141-20180624220253/@comment-34715618-20180630221822

Closed centre decks especialy if they are size 3 based and have a huge deal of defense have a better time using Dragon scale, because it also protects against link attacks and protects you against an effect destruction once. If you plan on only defending the center, Dargon Scale is better in every way. It is almost a power creep example.

Hence why it is potentially stronger. It stops many cards ( Turbulent Warlord Dragon, Barlbatzz Dragoroyale and the strongest battzs, Knight's Sword of Glory, Bal Blaster Grandbolt,  Death Tallica Zegalia, the new Gold Ritter, most Demios, etc) and it is a good card against unreastable or cards whose attacks are unullifiable. It is costy, but it saves you of a lot f situations and as long as you are using agains a double attack or penetrate cards with 2 crits, you get value out of it.