Compressed Heated Diamond Dragon

[Sleepy 211]

Compressed Heated Diamond Dragon
LIGHT Level 3 [Dragon/Effect] 800/2200
(This card is always treated as a Normal Monster).
All monsters your opponent controls are treated as FIRE Pyro monsters, in addition to their original Type and Attribute.
If this card is Summoned by the effect of "Carboneddon": You can add up to 1 "Hydrogeddon", 1 "Oxigeddon", and 1 "Duoterion" from your Deck to your hand.
If this card is sent to the GY: You can send any number of "Water Dragon" or "Water Dragon Cluster" from your hand or Deck to the GY. Then, draw 1 card for each monster sent from your hand this way.

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Even Fossil Dig and Souleating Oviraptor aren't quite proving to be enough to support the consistency of Bastion's chemical archetype. "Bonding DHO" not pulling the Water Dragons form anywhere, as if having Dragons and Sea Serpents in an otherwise Dinosaur deck wasn't complicated enough. Said Trap also restocks the materials into the Deck so it's a bit hard to recur after enough Clusters have dropped.

This makes regular Water Dragons permanent weakeners for the opponent's field, and does both Type and Attribute as a double lock. If they run Zombie World, their Zombies are still FIRE. If they run the DARK field Spell, their DARKs are still Pyro. Soooo yeah xD

Carboneddon having a reason to be ran with the other chemicals should open up the possibilities to finally mix with them as the missing element needed for that Fire Dragon from the GX opening that we never got to see in action.

 

[Summer Darj 292]

Name sounds a bit too exaggerated and could be simplified to "Compressed Diamond Dragon", although to be fair there do are cards with complex names around so it's fine.
I feel it does a bit too many things. Even if we consider the Normal monster treatment as more of a card trait than an effect, and I do get it's to make it Summonable by Carboneddon, it still has 3 active effects. Feels like a bit too much for a Level 3 maindeck monster to me. IMO you could make an additional monster or card for the series and give 1 effect from this cards to it. But if I had to choose an effect to remove, I would go for the last one since it feels a bit more off-theme as diamond/carbon is less associated with water.
By the way, you could give it 2100 DEF as a nod to Hyozanryu's 2100 ATK. Would be neat to make it search Hyozanryu too for flavor, as well as Carboneddon to make an a engine of sorts.

[Sleepy 211]

11 hours ago, Darj said:

Name sounds a bit too exaggerated and could be simplified to "Compressed Diamond Dragon", although to be fair there do are cards with complex names around so it's fine.
I feel it does a bit too many things. Even if we consider the Normal monster treatment as more of a card trait than an effect, and I do get it's to make it Summonable by Carboneddon, it still has 3 active effects. Feels like a bit too much for a Level 3 maindeck monster to me. IMO you could make an additional monster or card for the series and give 1 effect from this cards to it. But if I had to choose an effect to remove, I would go for the last one since it feels a bit more off-theme as diamond/carbon is less associated with water.
By the way, you could give it 2100 DEF as a nod to Hyozanryu's 2100 ATK. Would be neat to make it search Hyozanryu too for flavor, as well as Carboneddon to make an a engine of sorts.

That sounds like a good plan. The searching effect for Water Dragons is off theme but I really wanted to compensate the shortcomings of the IRL Bonding S/Ts that are more restrictive than they should be. If it was up to me to make the archetype, the Bonding S/Ts would be forms of Polymerization-like effects, but yeah xD