User blog:RaijinSenshi19/Regarding the "Fifth Omni" Archetype

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this little discussion blog, or opinion blog, whatever.

So, as most of us should know by now, Drum is getting the Omni power-up very soon, and with it, his own set of servants who all fall under the "Fifth Omni" archetype. Yes, thanks to the Ice Spear dragon, it is confirmed that this is an archetype.

I'm now gonna talk a little bit about what this archetype might bring to Dragon World, and what they seem to be focusing on doing.

Due to all the cards for the Fifth Omni deck being revealed so far are at least Size 2 or higher, and Ice Spear actually having an ability that triggers by having more Fifth Omni monsters with him on the field....we can denounce that Dragon World might get their own Dragon Throne. Such a card can potentially break the world, but we'll have to wait and see.

Then we have what seems to be their gimmick: When you, the player, is attacked, abilities can be used.

Ice Spear here can pay 1 Gauge to reduce an incoming damage by one, Drum destroys things when you are dealt damage and have 6 life or less, and the newly revealed Magical Blade Mizaru (Thanks for the info Edin) lets you pay 1 gauge to draw a card when you are attacked.

Oh my god, that is so broken if you manage to have enough gauge for all of that! I mean, it¨'s not like we can attack all of the monsters instead, right!?

That is the big problem with all of these Fifth Omni cards: You can just attack them. They don't serve that big a problem to you, and even if you decide to go face with these guys out, your opponent will have to pay gauge or have Drum to actually get merit, and gauge is limited. Oh, I just figured out why they are reprinting Blue Dragon Shield. It's not for us, the players, it's so this new deck actually can play well...

Yes, the deck rellies heavily on you getting a ton of gauge ramp, and actually having defensive cards at pretty much any given time. And monsters to replace the ones who will easily die in that case.

The deck seems like a really big cluster right now, and I frankly think that you can play Blue Sky Knights and do better. However, knowing Bushiroad, the Dragons will get a huge chunk of the support in the main set, because Dragons.

So, what do you guys think? Yay or Nay on the Fifth Omni dragons? I personally have to go with 'Nay' because it looks like way too much can be done to screw with them....

And don't mention Dragonic Forcefield...it costs too much gauge to actually work with these guys...