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Card 65: 10/29/04- Explosive Mass Gaia Soul

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Explosive Mass Gaia Soul
Fire/Fire/4/2000/0
You can sacrifice up to 2 Fire Sub-Type Monsters on your Field.  If you sacrifice for this effect, this Monster's attack strength is increased by 1000 times the number sacrificed.  When this card attacks a defense mode Monster, if this card's attack strength is greater than the defense mode Monster's defense strength, do Battle Damage to your opponent equal to the difference.  During the End Phase, destroy this card.
 
Pros
-Trample monster with 2000 attack points
-Very combo-effective
-Fire type that gains attack points very quickly
-Can potentially become a 4000 attack monster with trample! <--OMG
 
Cons
-Dies at the end of the turn of summoning no matter what.
 
I love this monster.  I really do.  The power of this monster comes fairly simple.  Trample is one of the game's most feared attack types.  It's on par with those attack-twice monsters...
 
Most trample monsters start off with a small 1400-1500 ATK.  This monster starts with a BASE attack of 2000, with all the potential of gaining up to 4000 attack points with the sacrifice of two fire monsters.
 
This card has the heaviest amount of attack points for a level 4 monster, let alone a trample monster.
 
This card does have a somewhat bad side-effect.  At the end of the turn that this card is summoned, it will die.  That means you either need a source of defense from magic/trap cards (since your going to want to sacrifice monsters for Gaia Soul's effect).
 
This card does, however, seem to have a nice way of causing your opponent to waste effects away.  Man-Eating Bug, Reactive Armor, Thunder Break... hell, even Lava Golem is a great asset once you summon this freak of nature.
 
8/10- Beatdown gold.  Fire deck's require this monster.  Trample decks LOVE this monster.  Suicidal decks would gain one hell of a nuclear bomb.  I love this card, and once it's released in english, alot of you will too.  I just hope they don't f-up it's rarity...
 
-Zero

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