You know, Kazuma's Shadow Paladin deck really shows the same kind of playing style as Tachikaze. Even though Shadow Paladin's main characteristic is to retire their own units to activate skills, some of the units have useful skills if they are retired in such manners. So, retiring rearguards also gives something back in return.
Saori/Dumjid's obsession by retiring rearguards let him to his lose by retiring Kazuma's grade 1 units allowing him get Ritual Seventh sealing the perfect guards.
I mean, Ziegenburg's restand cost is dependent on how many open or unoccupied rear guard circles the opponent has (meaning if the opponent has 5 occupied rear guard circles, Saori would need to discard a grand total of FIVE CARDS IN HAND just to restand Ziegen that only has ONE DRIVE CHECK, which is his deck's ONLY main win-condition, not even discounting other strides like Taiten or Mustafa which also heavily focus on aggresive retiring). Not much other beatstick ways to win from his deck. Tbh Saori, auto-losses to any fighter with a Glory Maelstrom-like effect card, and when he doesn't draw into heals in his hand for the cost of G-guards. And Kagero in general is a retire heavy clan in general, which in this case he is fighting a specific Shadow Paladin deck focused on having g1's in the drop zone, so nothing much could be done.
I still don't have it clear, what is Ziegenburg's effect supposed to do? I know Dumjid/Saori used it in every fight he had but I still don't get it, the same happens with Pot of Greed on ygo
It is pretty good. Like what was said, it can be blocked with G-Guardians. Now with premium, it’s less powerful since PGs are Grade 0s now. It’s more of a situational card. It would be OP against premium DP with Geomaglass, or if your opponent simply uses grade 1 pgs. I would use it though if your opponent has a really small hand and if their deck is pretty thin with many triggers gone.
He meant dragstrider. Saori couldnt guard his attack,yet kazuma gave critical and power to it,even tho he could of just gave critical,attack was already hitting