Card Name: Tryant Nightmare EARTH
Card No: PTC-002, NLE-001, DMT2-489
Level 3: Fiend / EffectThis monster is also treated as Beast-type. When this monster is flipped face-up, destroy 2 monsters on your opponent's side of the field (regardless of position).
ATK/ 1100 DEF/ 800
Card No: PTC-002, NLE-001, DMT2-489
Level 3: Fiend / EffectThis monster is also treated as Beast-type. When this monster is flipped face-up, destroy 2 monsters on your opponent's side of the field (regardless of position).
History
The original card was created by Joseph Justus in 2002 using Microsoft Paint and featured in the first season Ni-Ki-Oh! episode "By the Other's Paw." The name was misspelled as "Triyant Nightmare", a Beast-Type monster. Its effect was the version used in the episode. Because of the card's low production value, and its unique existence in the hands of its creator Joseph Justus rather than given out as a prize, it was forbidden from casual and tournament play.
Due to the naming of the card, and the timing of its creation just days after the completion of the first Duel Monsters tournament, which was hosted by the historical Free United Club of Kids, it is believed that inspiration for this card came from the grand prize of that tournament, a card named Tyrant Needle Dragon.
A modified version of Tryant Nightmare, tournament-legal within the Free United Club of Kids, was packaged with the Ni-Ki-Oh! DVD The Lost Episodes, released in 2004. One of these reprints was intentionally misprinted by Ted Phillips using the wrong foil background.
The NLE reprint effect made the card more situational and more balanced:
It was reprinted beginning August 6, 2007 in the DMT2 Tournament Pack, a promotional expansion pack legal during the Cracked Egg Studios-sanctioned Duel Monsters Tournament II. In this set, Tryant Nightmare was a common and was misprinted as a DARK attribute in packs (the set's database correctly lists the card with the EARTH attribute). While it uses the NLE monster design, the card has a different background.
The DMT2 reprint updated the effect to be more in line with the Joseph Justus version and to eliminate a potential ruling where Tryant Nightmare was forced to cannibalize itself or other monsters under its owner's control.
Due to the naming of the card, and the timing of its creation just days after the completion of the first Duel Monsters tournament, which was hosted by the historical Free United Club of Kids, it is believed that inspiration for this card came from the grand prize of that tournament, a card named Tyrant Needle Dragon.
A modified version of Tryant Nightmare, tournament-legal within the Free United Club of Kids, was packaged with the Ni-Ki-Oh! DVD The Lost Episodes, released in 2004. One of these reprints was intentionally misprinted by Ted Phillips using the wrong foil background.
The NLE reprint effect made the card more situational and more balanced:
It was reprinted beginning August 6, 2007 in the DMT2 Tournament Pack, a promotional expansion pack legal during the Cracked Egg Studios-sanctioned Duel Monsters Tournament II. In this set, Tryant Nightmare was a common and was misprinted as a DARK attribute in packs (the set's database correctly lists the card with the EARTH attribute). While it uses the NLE monster design, the card has a different background.
The DMT2 reprint updated the effect to be more in line with the Joseph Justus version and to eliminate a potential ruling where Tryant Nightmare was forced to cannibalize itself or other monsters under its owner's control.
However, because the DMT2 tournament was based on television-based errata, even though it was the same tournament that released the card with this effect, the tournament instead permitted the effect stated at the beginning of this page.
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