Tragoedia
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When you take battle damage: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. Gains 600 ATK/DEF for each card in your hand. Once per turn: You can send 1 monster from your hand to the GY, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls with the same Level the sent monster had in the hand; take control of that face-up monster. Once per turn: You can target 1 monster in your GY; this card's Level becomes the same as that target's, until the end of this turn.
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Can Be Found In: Turbo Pack: Booster Four (TU04-EN000), Gates of the Underworld Structure Deck (SDGU-EN016), Battle Pack: Epic Dawn (BP01-EN020), Emperor of Darkness Structure Deck (SR01-EN017), Structure Deck: Cyberse Link (SDCL-EN013), Shonen Jump Vol. 7 Issue 9 (JUMP-EN033)
In a card game with plenty of methods to clear the field and deal lethal damge, the simplest solution is to include effects activated from the hand to the Deck. This might have overshadowed Trap Cards over time and it can't be helped, as due the aggresiveness of the opponent to apply pressure makes hand effects the best answer due their immediate results and unpredactibility. Quickly becoming the staple cards for most Decks out there, there's a variety of effects activated from our hand to take a defensive approach in one way or another.
"Tragoedia" is a monster that gained a solid reputation since its debut many years ago thanks to its flexible roles during a Duel. Despite being a high Level creature, "Tragoedia" allows to summon itself from the hand as soon we take damage in a battle and provide one of its many effects. In most situations will be the ability to gain 600 ATK and DEF for each card in our hand, making "Tragoedia" either a small annoyance to a powerful monster to lead battles with. Our hand can also be used for its next effect, in which we can discard a monster from our hand to permanently take control of an opponent's monster sharing the same Level as the disposed card. Last but not least, "Tragoedia" can also manipulate its own Level by copying the stat from a monster in our Graveyard until the end turn. Overall, "Tragoedia" has a big assortment of abilities that goes from protecting us to preparing setups with its assitance, and depending of the build that is added will have either a main purpose arround or two of its effects to completely focusing on one of them.
With the ability to Special Summon itself once we take damage, "Tragoedia" doesn't require many options to prepare its own arrival. Is already quite lackluster when comes to adding it to our hand to time its summon for the best occasion, but that might be for the best so we hide its pressence in our Deck so the opponent cannot predict "Tragoedia" once in our hand. The summon of this monster will trigger once we take battle damage no matter the scenario, that can go from a monster battling a stronger enemy during any player's turn to taking a direct attack. While we could Tribute Summon it, is not recommended due the investment that might require wasting our hand and thus weakening "Tragoedia" stats. Additionaly we cannot summon several copies of "Tragoedia" together from our hand, bugt if we want to keep a defensive position that might be for the best.
The results "Tragoedia" provides to its user will highly vary depending of which abilities we focus on. Its Special Summon already makes it a solid tool to protect ourselves during the opponent's turn, no matter if brought with poor stats since can be played in Defense Position and block an attack with its defeat, or arrive with high stats to stop any further attacks. Depending of how many resources we spend from our hand the stats of "Tragoedia" will become more or less important, as conservative players can assure "Tragoedia" arrive with arround 2400 ATK and DEF in most circumstances. If we really want a strong "Tragoedia", cards like "Pot of Desires" and "Heart of the Underdog" can increase our hand to potentially turn this monster one of the strongest on the field. The ability to steal monsters on the other can become "Tragoedia" most situational ability as really depends of our hand and the opponent's field, but with Level 3 and 4 monsters being the most prominent in many Decks they'll become the easiest target to take away and use for one of our many goals. Finally, there's "Tragoedia" ability to change its own Level, becoming extremely helpful for Synchro and Xyz Summons to match its stats with the other materials.
"Tragoedia" is an extremely versatile monster with one or more tasks to provide its user, and that will depend of which Deck is added in. By default the Special Summon of "Tragoedia" makes it a helpful card to protect ourselves in the middle of the opponent's Battle Phase, and if survives or summoned in our turn its stat boosts and/or own Level manipulation will help us to strength our field. What is left behind is its stealing ability, as despite being powerful by making the target ours permanently there's a lot of variables to take account like the monsters on the opposite field and the fact that cannot target Xyz and Link Monsters. While "Tragoedia" might easily be taken down the same turn is summoned, still becomes a flexible creature if we manage one or two of its abilities wisely.
+ Special Summons itself when we take damage in battle
+ Gains ATK and DEF for each card in our hand
+ Able to permanently steal and opponent's monster if we discard a monster with the same Level
+ Changes its own Level by targetting a monster in our Graveyard
+ Flexible roles and purposes
- Might be easily defeated before further uses and/or if brought with poor stats
- Stealing effect will often become situational
