"Red-Eyes Archfiend of Lightning" Rating Score by ねおんちゃん

Many of the powerful cards these days have low defensive power against his ATK, and it is very powerful that the opponent's board can be completely destroyed just by activating the effect appropriately.
Since it refers to his current ATK instead of his original ATK, if you buff his ATK with a black steel dragon or a baby dragon, the range of destruction will expand as much as you buff, which is quite powerful.
Of course, the excellent status inherited from the original 《Summoned Skull》is still alive.
Red-Eyes, Archfiend, Dual, and many other elements that make searching and reviving easier are packed, so it's also attractive that you can easily cast it from anywhere, and it's easy to handle without using summoning rights. Great. If it's a dual axis that uses 《Catalyst Field》or 《Supervise》, it can even become something like a "searchable Sambol" (more precisely, it's a magic raindrop).
...... No, "I got used to it". Yes, it's past tense.
With the advent and increase of Link Monsters without defensive power, the position has changed completely, and there are many scenes where the effect is completely meaningless.
The amazing destructive card that wipes out the opponent's board with a single blow turns into a card that only scrapes halfway.
Also, in Red-Eyes, he is the only Fiend of his, and the discrepancy that he is one of the few ☆ 6 is also an element that makes it difficult to use.
Above all, because the Gemini Monster is treated as an Effect Monster in the Deck, when I tried to summon the Evil Dragon Black Archfiend's Dragon, which is supposed to be a Fusion Monster of Red-Eyes and Archfiend, with 《Red-Eyes Fusion》, I put it on the field. If you don't have it, you can't use it as a material. No matter how you look at it, I think this is a mistake.
As a result, even though it has a strong effect, it was not even adopted for "Red-Eyes with Archfiend", which was a terrible sadness. 《Beast of Talwar》is still more convenient because it can be used for his deck fusion.
In addition to having a wealth of search methods, the effect itself is strong against decks other than his deck, which is mainly linked, so if you use it as a pinpoint, depending on the opponent, it can be a powerful turnaround move.
A card that should have had an excellent effect, name, and stats, but was no longer used because KONAMI created something like a link summon.
I'll say it again and again, but the effect and name are both very good, so the evaluation score itself will inevitably be high. But it doesn't fit in Deck. Although the effect is strong, the times and rules prevent it from being active. It is such a card.
How about pinning one into the Deck as a trump card behind Red Eyes? It's also a fact that I myself have been saved many times by the reversal power of this card, even though it was criticized for being difficult to use.