Friday, December 20, 2019

Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel - DAY 20!

Mele kalikimaka and welcome back to Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel, a thing I've been doing to combine my loves of Christmas and Yu-Gi-Oh! through the magic of card game mumbo jumbo technobabble.


The big 2-0! We only have FOUR days of this left!


Day 20 has brought us a song, courtesy of The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh!

General Observation:

The Flute of Summoning Kuriboh is a quick-play Spell Card that allows you to bring either a basic Kuriboh or a Winged Kuriboh to either your hand or field. This allows you to easily set up for activating either of their effects depending on which one you choose to bring out, and thanks to this, the flute is an ideal defensive card. (You could also combo this card with Detonate on your opponent's turn and make whatever card they were about to use blow up in their face.)

Trivia Observation:


The first English-printed version of the flute was actually a promo card from a 2006 McDonald's Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Happy Meal. It was then given a mass release years later in Legendary Collection 2.

The card made its anime debut in Episode 46 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX as a part of Jaden Yuki's deck and went on to make several more appearances. (Including in Bonds Beyond Time where it was used by Jaden to bring Yugi's Kuriboh to his hand so he could discard it to negate incoming damage.) Yu-Gi-Oh! diehards will know that this wasn't the first Spell to include "The Flute of Summoning" in its name, as Lord of D. had a bit of experience tooting his own horn.

Personal Observation:

Another I blanked on that I should've figured would be a part of this! (Depending on what card we get tomorrow, I might have a guess as to how the rest of this is gonna play out.)

The flute is going silent, but come back tomorrow for another Kuriboh's tune on Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel!

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