Clockwork Shikigami

So the new Machine support card looks nice. He's a extremely small beatstick but he can kill anything in battle even a spirit reaper believe it or not. I think this card is quite nice as a tech in any Pure Machine deck due to the ease of summoning. It's literally free Level 8 monster. Read More for the actual review.

Clockwork Shikigami

DARK

Level 8

Machine/Effect

Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) if the only monsters in your Graveyard are Machine-Type. Once per turn: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; that target's ATK becomes 0 until the End Phase.

100  /  100

So you are probably wondering why I chose to review this card today. Well the reason is that I'm waiting with bated breath for the freaking Galatic Overload full set to be revealed so I can spend the rest of the month reviewing that set half in Bulk for cards I'm not interested in and half in detail for what I am interested in.

But in the meantime this card is quite fun especially for Machina decks due to it's level being a perfect discard for Machina Fortress and it unlike Machina Cannon serves a legitimate purpose though it is not searchable. This card allows Fortress to save itself from wasting time ramming into a Stardust when this card can make that Stardust worthless. 

This card though on it's own is quite weak without back-up hence why you'd have to run it with something to protect it. At 100 ATK it will perpetually be the weakest monster on the field aside from extreme conditions meaning you can support it a myriad of ways. Heart of Clear Water allows it to live for essentially forever until they kill the Clear Water.

It also works quite well with cards that need to destroy an opponents monster by battle or cards that need to inflict damage. Just make sure those monsters are Machines. By all means if you ran Gale in a Machine based deck you are probably better off running this just due to the ease of summoning. 

This card is also Level 8 so if you desperately need to make Number 15: Gimmick Puppet - Giant Killer which can immediately kill any Xyz but that's for another day. In the meantime this card can be used to make Neo-Galaxy Eyes in a Machine deck but that's sorta hard to do.

The main draw for me to this card is that it isn't a Full-Nomi but rather Semi-Nomi meaning like BLS you can revive it however you want. Limit Reverse on your turn for funsies... It's also a Level 8 DARK Machine isn't there a card in the game that lets you get a weaker monster from your deck when a machine you control is destroyed by battle... Well you can use that to special out any of the level 1 Machine Tuners after this card is destroyed by battle next turn Fortress sync for 8.

Well I'm fresh out of ideas again just remember that this card makes stuff like Truckroid or Victory Viper really scary.