Phoenix Wing Wind Blast

"Discard 1 card from your hand.  Return 1 card on your opponent's side of the field to the top of the owner's Deck."

Finding a nice picture of this card was kinda tough TBH and since I've never used it IRL this is the first time I get a good look at the art.  An interesting thing is that I think I've played Phoenix in Volcanic's back when I was not so good at the game and now I play his wing blast!  In general though the art makes it fit Volcanics because of the fire and well ya.  

This card is kinda a blast from the past.  It used to be a lot more relevant back in like 2007 (our glory days, so to speek), but I think it could be a nice tech in modern Volcanics.  The key idea behind this is that the cost on this card is pretty meaningless.  As you will find in testing, cards like Volcanic Shell and Volcanic Rocket will generate a lot of advantage, BUT this advantage will be dead a large portion of the time.  This allows us to use cards that have discard costs without too much worry.

So the next question is why run this over Rageki Break?  Well the answer actually involves more than just nostalgia.  Rageki Break is a card of choice in the OCG, but I think TCG is better off with this.  This is partially because of Tour Guide.  Tour Guide searches out a Sangan which Rageki Break doesn't really deal with all too well.  Tour Guide creates Wind-Up Zenmaines easily as well which Rageki Break is once again bad against.  This on the other hand works great against both of those.

Another reason is against Rabbit which is huge in the TCG right now.  You can spin that Sabersaurus or the other Vanilla whose name evades me at the moment.  This causes a dead draw next turn that will put you in control.  One thing to be worried about when doing this is that if they shuffle their deck for whatever reason, they will be able to use Rabbit to grab that vanilla again and you made Rabbit more live.

Thanks for reading guys!  Be sure to check back tomorrow for some form of post.