#morphtronic

Morphtronic Boomboxen ———————————————— ● While in Attack Position, this card can attack twice during each Battle Phase. ● Once per turn, while in Defense Position, when a face-up "Morphtronic" monster you control is targeted for an attack: You can negate the attack. ———————————————— Can Be Found In: Crossroads of Chaos (CSOC-EN009), Duel Terminal 2 (DT02-EN052)

Morphtronic is an archetype with a variety of strategies to work with. Depending of their battle position Morphtronics will gain one of two effects to work with, usually aiming for a direct or conservative approach arround them. Then we have to apply one of the main goals they can work with as the archetype can go from setting up OTKs, managing Synchro Summons or their battle positions, or even work along "Power Tool Dragon" to prepare Equip Spells with. While the basic premise is to rearrange their positions to fit the proper scenarios, Morphtronics offer all kinds of strategies and playstyles to the user.

"Morphtronic Boomboxen" literally aims for an offensive or defensive purpose depending of its position on the board. If in Attack Position "Boomboxen" will be able to attack twice on each Battle Phase, while in Defense Position will be able to negate an attack aiming to a Morphtronic each turn. While the latter ability can become quite helpful in dangerous situations, it is its Attack Position effect that will make "Boomboxen" one of the biggest dangers in the archetype. With the assistance of other archetype tools and setups, "Boomboxen" easily becomes the lead card for a whole OTK strategy.

As a potential card able to win games with, "Boomboxen" carries plenty of assisting cards an effects to become available as soon as possible. The main method will come from the excavating effects of "Morphtronic Celfon" and "Morphtronic Smartfon", completely relying on luck as they also depend on rolling a die but a good start nonetheless. Later on we can depend on "Morphtronic Remoten" to obtain a searching or retrieval effect depending of its battle position as well location of our "Boomboxen". Obviously we can expand our options with further assistance outside the main theme, with cards like "Geargiauger" and "Gear Gigant X" providing their searching abilities to further increase of chances to start with "Boomboxen" as soon as possible. A "Boomboxen" in the Graveyard is far from useless thanks to the many revival effects arround the build, going from "Morphtronic Repair Unit" which becomes easily available with assistance of cards such as "Hidden Armory" and "Power Tool Dragon", "Junk Box" giving os a one turn revival, or cards like "Iron Call" giving it other purposes arround bigger summons.

Like many other monsters capable of multiple attacks, "Boomboxen" has a good chance to either deal severe damage against other monsters and/or achieve an OTK with the right support. In an archetype with sinergy arround Equip Spells, "Boomboxen" can simply equip cards such as "Mage Power" and "Moon Mirror Shield" to either have the upper hand against all sorts of threats or simply finish off the opponent before they have a chance to counter "Boomboxen". The possibilities of an OTK will increase with assistance of other archetype cards, with "Morphtronic Radion" increasing our Morphtronics' ATK and "Morphtronic Boarden" allowing them to direct attack. And even if we don't have the proper cards for its maximum potential, we can always rely on "Limiter Removal" to obtain a 2400 ATK creature able to deal 4800 damage on its own. But while the main goal of "Boomboxen" is to deal as much damage as possible don't ignore its alternative options, as can easily work as material for other monsters working along cards like "Morphtronic Scopen" or "Iron Call", or take advantage of its ability to negate attacks as works along cards like "Morphtronic Bind" and "No Entry!!" to stall the opponent as long as possible.

"Morphtronic Boomboxen" was one of the debutant monsters of its archetype, and still remains a menacing member thanks to the many options arround it. Although dependant of other cards to obtain its best results, "Boomboxen" has more than enough opportunities to increase its ATK and/or work arround effects such as "Morphtronic Boarden" to finish off the opponent right from early game. But aiming for OTKs is not all that is good for, as with the ability to negate attacks as well some other options to prepare our Extra Deck monsters makes "Boomboxen" a bit more flexible when we don't have the proper setup to deal massive damage with its multiple attacks. It is true that "Boomboxen" has lost a bit of prevalence in the archetype on recent years as options arround Synchro Summons improved for the build, but with the diverse number of strategies and support arround Morphtronics "Boomboxen" is far from losing efficiency in all sorts of roles against more current playstyles.

Personal Rating: A-

+ Able to attack twice each Battle Phase + Negates an attack against a Morphtronic if in Defense Position + Greatly supported for all kinds of roles including OTK results