Friday, March 5, 2010

Stygian Street Patrol

is Hellway Patrol in TCG, and is a very cheap and easy to find card here in the OCG considering that you can just buy the guide book to obtain it.



For those of you who have never heard of Hellway Patrol, (which I can assume that most haven't)

here's its effect:
When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, inflict damage to your opponent's life points equal to the destroyed monster's Level x100. You can remove from play this card from your Graveyard from play to Special Summon 1 Fiend-Type monster with 2000 or less ATK from your hand.

Now, you may think, what's so good about this card?

This card's usage is bolded above, and you can only ask, what deck can this card be fitted in?

The first thing to jump into my mind, was Infernity. Seeing most of the deck being less than 2000 attack, this card fits in perfectly. By removing him from the grave, special summon an Infernity from the hand.

I've never played Infernity before, neither played against it, and I'm not scared to say I've no interest in the deck and I cant even remember the effects of any of the cards, except Trishugay, Idaemon, and IGun, which makes the deck broken.

I'm not exactly sure how this card can help the deck, but I'm sure the Infernity players themselves will know how, and be glad to show/ tell you. I, too, however, know that this card will make the deck run at almost superspeed.

Anyway, so just a short list of possibilities that I could deduce:
1) Summon Idaemon
2) Put more field presence
3) Put more synchro/more syncrho material/ beatstick
4) Open more options in the game for more summoning of the Trishugay-sama.
5) There is no number 5 because there is none I can think of and if you think this is lame, blame Neux because he always put this! ALWAYS!

Now, how to get him into the grave?

1) Brionac Dragon of the Ice Boundary.
2) Knight of the End
3) Dark Grepher.
4) One for One
5) Foolish Burial
6) Hand Severing
7) Card Destruction
8) Dark Realm Dealings

Alot, no mer?
I think this card has potential this format. So does D-synchro. And also, Summon Priest becomes deadly again in Infernity deck. Search Archfiend= too pro.

2 comments:

Neuxcharge said...

It was an evil conspiracy between Ushio and Kiryu!

Next few episodes we see a guest Appearance with Kiryu using 3 Trishula loop with patrol dude and make Infernity become Streetfernity!!!

Or nothing will happen. This card is something the writers will regret bringing into the Anime, because there are More fiends who would love to speak with this card! =D

Plus , at this rate Cosr will stay banned =(

D-Slayer said...

*Grips Boomerang - Smashes into Neuxcharges Head - repeatedly - shoves Neux's remains down a meat grinder - *grind grind - crunch crunch - delicious*
on topic: Hellway Patrol - lol - YGO starting to look more and more like Blade Runner everday - lol

hmm this card does enable a Faster way to get cloggy monster hands onto the field and handless in Infernitys without losing cards. Armageddon Knight likes this card. I suppose Grepher does as well.

But whilst overall Its not overly special, Infernity could use it to an extent. I'm personally more excited to see the Synchro it was used to summon. IIRC, it had something like increasing its ATK by 800 as a cost for a double attack effect or something

but he really isn't that bad, he could have had either 200 more or 100 less and been better. His effect though gives fiends a chance to run a sycnhro engine based deck. since there are a few fiends with 2000 or less attack (162 according to netrep). Helpoemer, Yubel, Mefist, all come to mind as suitable dark targets.

so good card - could have been better made but then again only really Infernities will make use of this - not much else I can see making use of this though ...

D-Slayer