The only drawback he has is he burns the Normal Summon for the turn, but there are worse trade-offs
That makes Recoil one of those cards that has a hard time being bad until the point when your opponent has extra lands they can hold in their hand in order to discard them, at which point most decks that run Recoil are either using that as an excuse to crank up the discard engine or more likely happy enough to have survived this long that they don't care
Worm Drake Worm Drake Reptile Normal C Common C Common C Common Related Cards View as Gallery View as List Humanoid Worm Drake X WATER Level 7 [ AquaFusion ] ATK 2200 DEF 2000 "Worm Drake" + "Humanoid Slime" Worm Call X SPELL Continuous Once per turn, if your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters, you can Special Summon 1 Reptile-Type "Worm" monster from your hand in face-down Defense Position
13 Likes smpratte July 16, 2024, 5:13pm 14 Id recommend checking bulbapedia before buying more cards
If a card is only going to be fringe playable (or even completely unplayable) in constructed, Wizards might as well just forget about the Spikes altogether and go after the Vorthos crowd