Glow-up Bulb, l33t level 1 Tuna.

To most people who look at Glow-up Bulb, it may just seem like a Plaguespreader Zombie clone, or better yet a Spore clone, but that card does something that neither card can offer.

Glow-Up Bulb
Earth/ Plant-Tuner/1/100/100
You can send the top card of your deck to the graveyard to special summon this card from the grave-yard. Each player may only use the effect of “Glow-Up Bulb” once per duel.

For starters Glow-up Bulb is a level one tuner, which lets you search it out with One-for-One. This makes it a fairly searchable tuner, and pretty easy to get on the field. The fact that Glow-up is a level one synchro may limit what you can do with it though when it is special summoned.

One of the important things to pay attention to is what your commitment is to the field and whether or not activating Glow-Up is right for the situation you are in. Since you can only use it once, it’s important not to waste it.

The other pro of Glow-Up being level 1 is that it makes it one of the go to tuners for the new synchron monster Formula Synchron. I’m certain we all know how good Formula Synchron is, since it provides two great advantages but is difficult to summon. Glow-up will probably be replacing Spore (or played alongside it) in Quickdraw decks because of this, since tuning into the Synchron becomes really easy with a Dandylion token.

That’s probably what interests me about Glow-up the most, is the fact that it can get a lot of use with Formula Synchron, which makes it well worth the price that it is right now. In terms of the price of the card I can see it dropping for a short amount of time after Starkstrike Blast, jumping if it’s played in a jump, and then hovering around there.

It is definitely one of the most worthwhile card out of the set.

In terms of how it is played there really isn’t much left to mention with the card, as the effect is fairly obvious. What I want to talk about now is the design of the card itself. The card is the first graveyard tuner that doesn’t require a cost to special summon it. PGZ takes a card out of hand, Spore takes another plant, Bulb just requires you to have cards left in your deck.

This makes it one of the best tuners to get multiple uses from, the only downsides to special summoning this card aren’t really downsides at all. I consider this a leap in terms of design because the card is powerful but is not broken, and is evolving on the previous aspects of cards that we have seen while not making them obsolete.

My personal feelings on little Bulby, besides restating what most of you already know, is that the card has a very high potential to be nuts. I've even heard of a Debris-Hime deck piloted by Jeff Jones using around Shooting Star, which will be interesting to see if those rumors were true (I've tried looking up tournaments/reports/decklists for this but haven't had much luck, but I'm usually oblivious to the obvious). It will be interesting to see how that deck does.

I;m pretty excited to get my copies. If anyone has any let me know.