Talk:Melody Envoy, Sword Flute Dragon/@comment-4383600-20160821093639/@comment-24612605-20160821151709

A buddy should be something you will call every game,  yes you can call this guy but its a bit of a waste.

Look it at this way, the gate can search ANY MONSTER (including your buddy), so you can read the last ability as "search your buddy out".

This card is not needed for every game, just when you dont draw your gate. Besides its search ability, this is a vanilla card.

I know it's not mandatory, but without that search effect it's nothing more then a thousand rapier with worst stats, and there are better size 1s I can call once my gate is up. And if I get gate first, I would rather search out something that isn't vanilla.

Also using his search puts a card in the drop, granted they have ways to return them but even still, you dont want to put a card in the drop just to have dead weight in the hand.