Oppression Mutant Deity, Machining Despot (RR)

[ACT] [VG] [1/turn]: CB 1 and Flip up a G unit. If you have a “Machining” heart card, stand as many units as the number of face up “Machining” in you G zone. For each unit stood by this effect, the opponent choose two units to stun.

I”m already happy with the Zoo booster and they decided to spoil me some more. Although this guy is a better version of Machining Destroyer, you should still run Destroyer. Despot is one of those cards that get better as the game progresses. This bug makes it better to use cards such as Cricket, Dive Beetle, and Stag Beetle (even though you should already be using two out of those three). Please do not use Dive Beetle just because Machining Despot exists. Despot is here because of Stag Beetle’s call skill and Cricket’s stunning skill.

The reason this guy is better than Destroyer is because it can flip cards up from the G zone (Preferably Destroyer), which accelerates you toward Zeroth Dragon or GB8. The only reason you’ll go into Destroyer is because your opponent have a full field and you can’t stun everything or enough field that he/she won’t choose his/her VG to stun. On that note, please know that Vanguard can be stun with Despot’s skill due to it saying “unit(s)”. This also work well against Aqua Force, which have a lot of resist unit so the opponent will have to choose their Vanguard. Mirage decks also get hurt by Despot. Lastly, Despot doesn’t need as much field presence as Destroyer does. Arguably, near the late game it will but early game, not so much. Losing Rear-guard won’t be as detrimental.

Other confirmed cards for Machining/Megacolony are Machining triggers:

(Machining Killer Ant) (Machining Visaliness) (Machining Tree Hooper)

At the moment, these triggers are assumed vanilla but since the Tree Hooper is a 4k, I will guess that it’s the “into soul, +3k” crit.

Well, that’s all for today Swarm Infestations. This is the first of many I will post. Hope you all have a nice day. Peace out!

By the way, I hope everyone enjoy play Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. I’m loving that game.