Matt

One of my roles in Hobby Lords is providing knowledge and insight on games I am familiar with, particularly Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pathfinder 2.0. I am also involved with working at the store and engaging with the Yu-Gi-Oh! Community. Behind the scenes I am working on learning SEO for our website and preparing the occasional social media post relating to Yu-Gi-OH! set releases and ban lists.

Attribute: Earth
Level 4
Type: Wyrm / Gemini/ Tuner

This Card is treated as a Normal Monster while face-up on the field or in the graveyard. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Normal summon it to have all “Matt the Genome engineer” become Effect Monsters with the following effects for the rest of the game.

• This card is treated as a normal monster while face up on the field.
• Once per turn, (Quick effect): Declare a Monster Type all face up monsters on the field, in the grave, and in the banished zone become that Type until the end of the turn. You can only summon and activate monster of that Type until the end of the turn.  
• Once per match if “Matt the Genome engineer” is in your gy and your opponent controls at least one monster, target one of those monsters: Banish all copies of this card face down from your hand, deck, field and graveyard and summon Gene Drive tokens to your opponent’s field equal to the number of copies of “Matt the Genome engineer” banished face down this turn. Gene Drive tokens have the same type as the target monster. Tokens cannot be used as material or tributes for normal or special summon of monsters. Each time your opponent special summons a monster with the same type as this token, create another Gene Drive token or banish 5 monsters of the tokens attribute from your deck face down. You may only use the following effect of “Gene drive” once per turn. (Quick effect) Banish 5 cards from the top of your deck face down: Destroy this token.

Attack: 400 / Defense: 100

I have a soft spot for Monopoly because I grew up playing the Star Wars addition constantly with my older brothers as well as the rest of my family, so it reminds me of them. 

I remember one time a visitor at our house joined in a game and by the end of the game they said “I think I just played Monopoly with the Mafia.” This was in reference to the fact that our family tends to go a bit overboard, and form companies, then buy shares in each other’s companies and cutting all manner of deals to try and get the advantage over whoever is in the lead.

When I am not working with Hobby Lords or my PhD, I play football for Roslyn Wakari AFC and do various activities with my church community. I also enjoy PC gaming and when the opportunities arise, I love to go hunting and fishing.