Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel - DAY 9!

Wow, we're almost ten days in. Everything is just flying by. Anywho, salutations and welcome to another installment of Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel, where we're making our way through 2019's Yu-Gi-Oh Advent Calendar and spouting all the gibberish we can find on each card.

The day is 9. Will it be fine?

We've jumped from 5D's to Zexal with our sparky little bud, Kurivolt.

General Observation:

Kurivolt is interesting simply because it kinda has a built-in "Multiply" effect. When it's in play, you can detach material from any Xyz Monster in play (yours OR your opponent's) to special summon up to two more copies of Kurivolt from your deck. You can't use Kurivolt as Synchro material, but you're free game to use any of your little spark plugs as fodder for tributes, tribute summons, OR Xyz summons, so go nuts depending on your strategy. Kurivolt's perfect both for building up a Monster supply on your field and for disarming your opponent's Xyz Monsters' potentially dangerous effects. (Do keep in mind that you need three copies of Kurivolt to use it to its utmost potential.)

Trivia Observation:

Kurivolt was originally printed in the TCG set Order of Chaos. It appeared in the Zexal anime as part of Yuma Tsukumo's deck starting with Episode 18. (You may know Yuma as being the partner of the namesake of this stupid little blog series, Astral.) Like Junkuriboh sharing Yusei's stamp, Kurivolt shares Yuma's little hair spike. The anime version's effect also differed from the OCG/TCG in that there was no limitation on Syncho summoning and its main effect summoned Kurivolt Tokens rather than full-on Kurivolt.

Personal Observation:

Figured this one would be coming along eventually, though the order of these keeps throwing me off. They've definitely kept it interesting.

Kurivolt's out of juice, but come back tomorrow for another fresh dose of Astral's Advent Observations: The Kuriquel!