Volcanic Blaster

"When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard by battle, you can place 1 "Volcanic" monster in your Deck on top of your Deck."

I don't really think I should go straight to the big guns for this blog so let's start the card discussions off with Volcanic Blaster, our searcher!  In case you are a complete novice with Volcanics, they will all be FIRE monsters with Pyro-type.  More importantly, they will all have sick artwork.  He has a revolver built into his back.  It's amazing.  Enough of that though.

What we really need to do is look at this cards effect.  That is after all the entire point of this post.  The effect is pretty straight forward like most Volcanic monsters.  If it gets destroyed by battle you can stack your deck for a Volcanic.  In a slower format I would love this card.  It has the ability to grab a Volcanic of any level. This could be great in a Doomfire build (which I'm not recommending), grabbing a Queen to get out of a tight situation if you run it, a Rocket to get Blaze or just a Shell/Scattershot to blow things up.  So what is wrong with it now?

Firstly this is not a battle destruction heavy format.  There are a lot of other cards that do it (like Inzektors) which won't set this thing off.  Maybe ages ago when card destruction was harder to find this would get set off a lot but now basically all cards that activate when destroyed by battle have fallen out of use.  The other problem with this format is that we have gotten to a point where the format is so fast that stacking your deck isn't too helpful.  Duels don't last too long anymore.  Having to wait the turn might be a big problem though this is likely only going to be destroyed on your opponents turn.

So I think it would make sense to just say what this card would need for me to play it.  I think that if it had 500 ATK and the effect activated when discarded by Blaze it would be brilliant but that's calling for a huge change.  As is I do not run this in anything outside my hilarious Axel Brodie character deck which I expect you will see at some point.

Anyway thanks for reading.  One last thing I wanted to mention is that if my post quality ever dies off just spam me with comments.  I want to keep this as high quality as I can.  That is all for now!  Good day.