Card #34 - Cannon-Firing Cannon

Aarikku · Card #34 - Cannon-Firing Cannon

(Level Two) Cannon-Firing Cannon (Spell)
Category: Continuous
Effect: Once per turn, play 1 [Cannon-Firing Cannon] from your deck (its effect is negated). Send any [Cannon-Firing Cannon]s you control to the Graveyard: destroy 1 monster whose Level is equal to the number of cards sent in this way.

Naardaas

Ah, the Cannon-Firing Cannon. I emember when Eric showed me this oh so redundant card.

But that's not important. This card has its ups and its downs. Deck-thinning, destruction and low Mana Cost are the ups. Easy destruction, slow speed and limited target variety are downs. I personally wouldn't run this card, but it's still good. 3.5/5 for me.

Aarikku

Redundancy is fun!

Cannon-Firing Cannon is epic win on a stick in the oh-so-young game of Shmod. It's themeless Monster Destruction. On the turn you first play it, you'll be able to play another from your deck. That means you can kill a Level Two monster for Two Mana.

Some may consider this inferior to the also humourously-named Sar-Chasm, and in some ways it is. Sar-chasm can destroy any Level monster, but only if you have a monster that's probably strong enough to do the job without Sar-chasm. And that's where Cannon-Firing Cannon comes in useful; a deck with low-level, or just low-stat monsters.

'Course, if you use Cannon-Firing Cannon on a high-level monster, you'll be short Monster Destruction from your deck. This is bad.

Basically, both Sar-chasm and Cannon-Firing Cannon are good cards. It'd take testing to figure out which is best for your kind of deck. I'll give it a 4/5 for being one of about two themeless Monster Destroyers.