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じばくしん |
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地縛神 |
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Earthbound God
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The Earthbound Gods are evil incarnate entities, that were sealed in the Nazca Lines, by the Dragon Star. They serve as the antithesis to the Crimson Dragon and the Five Dragons. After a millennium of confinement, they were released when an Enerdy accident in the Satellite blew open a hole to the underworld. Each of them is based on a design in the Nazca Lines. They are being released in Raging Battle and Ancient Prophecy, as well as some unnamed later sets.
Each of the Dark Signers have striped robes bearing the color of their corresponding Earthbound God. Each of the Earthbound Gods represent a creature or figure in the Nazca Lines, the spider, the hummingbird, the giant, a monkey and the lizard. Rudger owns the spider, Kyosuke Kiryu has the giant, Demak posseses the monkey, Misty owns the lizard, and Carly Nagisa owns the hummingbird.
The only Earthbound Gods currently named are "Earthbound God - Ccapac Apu", which Kyosuke Kiryu used against Yusei Fudo, "Earthbound God - Ccarayhua", which Misty used against Akiza, Carly's "Earthbound God - Aslla Piscu" which she uses against Divine, Demak's Fourth God, and Rudger's Fifth God.
The Earthbound Gods are known to to be nearly unbeatable (next to the Egyptian God Cards) since their effects negate any chance of a counter attack by a duelist. These effects are tied up in the use of any Field Spell Card and will disappear once the field is taken out of play. This is a major weakness but no one has taken advantage of it. The field problem is a major issue in a Turbo Duel since it can never be destroyed until the duel ends. Kyosuke's card, Earthbound God - Ccapac Apu, for example, is unaffected by all Spell and Trap cards, but can be stopped by Monster Effects (Althrough the immunity to Spells and Traps was removed in the OCG). Gravity Behemoth is a monster designed to counter the Earthbound Gods by destroying Field Spell cards. Ancient Fairy Dragon is the only one of the Five Dragons that can also destroy Field Spell cards by its own effect, and it can gain Life Points for it as well.
All Earthbound Gods share a few similar effects. Only one of them can be on the field, the opponent can never attack them, and they can attack the opponent directly (the anime also gives them the aforementioned Spell and Trap immunity). They are instantly destroyed if there is no face-up Field Spell (the anime destroys them at the End Phase and just negates their effects until then). Aside from those, each one has a unique effect, most likely to counter or match the strategy the duelist each card's controller faced.
In the anime, whenever an Earthbound God is Summoned, the bodies and souls of anyone trapped within its respected geoglyph are sacrificed to power its summoning, such as the people in Satellite who disappeared. Only the Signers and those near them are spared from this fate, as the Mark of the Dragon expands and becomes a red sphere which encloses them.
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