Volcanic Counter

"When you take Battle Damage while this card is in your Graveyard, remove it from play.  Then, if there is a FIRE monster other than "Volcanic Counter" in your Graveyard, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the amount of Battle Damage you took."

Welcome back to another card discussion!  This time we have one of my personal favorite cards in the archetype, Volcanic Counter.  Of course this isn't based on effect, only on the art.  Look how amazing he looks.  That power and the fire breath?  I couldn't imagine a better card.  On the other hand that isn't what I'm really here to talk about.

One thing to mention about this card is how key it was in the anime.  Axel used this in a match against the Supreme King to tie the game up, freeing Jaden from it's evil clutches or something along the lines of that.  While I don't think that is how it would work IRL (you lose before Counter can activate), it is still a really awesome fact.  While everyone else couldn't beat Jaden, Volcanics could!

So now we can finally move onto the card itself.  I need to say right away this card is not that good.  Why they made it a Super rare we can only imagine, but since the removing effect is mandatory it is really easy for your opponent to play around.  Were the effect optional I would love this thing so much.   It would really make your opponent slow themselves down and instead they would be beating you with weaker stuff to avoid the damage.

Since if that was all I said this would be boring, I'll tell you guys about a really silly deck I made once.  It was something like Volcasworn which combined Volcanics with Lightsworn.  The basic idea was to dump this and Volcanic Scattershot into the Graveyard to inflict damage to your opponent.  Volcanic Shell can be milled for more card advantage and stuff.  I'll probably get into more details about that later.

In short?  As is this card is really only a silly tech you can play but in general there are tons of better cards.  If you want a 7th Blaze target you can run this but otherwise there is no use.  Hopefully you learnt something from this or at least enjoyed the read!  See you later.