AUTO [Rearguard Circle]: When placed, [Cost: Soulblast 1] this unit gets Power +6000 until end of turn.Like all of the Protect grade 2s seen thus far Hercules is a base 9k, with its first skill being copied directly from Silent Tom's template over in Oracle Think Tank. With Phantom Black, Hercules jumps up to a 29k lane that blocks the opponent from guarding with Normal Units, an attack that can only be guarded with one guardian via a Heal Trigger; otherwise it requires a minimum two cards to stop.
AUTO [Vanguard/Rearguard Circles]: When its attack hits, Countercharge 1, and 1 of your units gets Power +6000 until end of turn.
Hercules' on-hit skill is among the few repeatable countercharges in the Standard game, along with Transraizer's on-boost and Perfect Raizer's on-hit. The difference being, Transraizer is restricted by soul and Perfect Raizer has to hit a vanguard. Hercules can countercharge off of hitting anything, and so can dive on a key rearguard and still benefit from unflipping a damage and powering up a unit. Speaking of, that 6k is anything but arbitrary--like with Phantom Black, it's designed to turn columns made up of a 9k attacker and 8k booster into 23ks, grazing them into the threshold where the opponent needs to drop a Critical Trigger to block. While no counterblasts for Megacolony have been revealed just yet, having regular access to countercharge from turn 2 as well as a pressure attack that can lure the opponent into guarding unnecessarily is a powerful asset.
Of note is that Hercules' set number is #030, so there's one more card between it and Phantom Black.
The previous Japanese Card of the Day was Assist Pteryx.
V-Extra Booster 01: The Destructive Roar will launch in Japan June 29th, 2018, and August 2nd for the English-speaking world. The accompanying new anime series, codenamed "Origin," began airing May 5th, with an English-subtitled simulcast on both YouTube and Crunchyroll.
