While the Stromkirk vampires inspiration utilizes twisting heavy knots of nautical rope, the hooked shapes on his tabard akin to crashing waves, and strips of cloth that when whipping in the wind are akin to tentacles of great sea monsters
The grade is then put through the following three final tests
The artwork is erroneously attributed to Ken Sugimori instead of Tomoaki Imakuni, which may imply it was using the RG artwork at some point before this
Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer X LIGHT Level 4 [ Dragon / PendulumTunerEffect ] ATK 1850 DEF 0 P Scale 5 Once per turn, if you have a card in your other Pendulum Zone: You can destroy that card, and if you do, add 1 card from your Deck to your hand, with the same name as that card
Players might not enjoy paying the extra mana, but its a lot easier to come by than a creature in a deck that doesnt revolve around creating a lot of creature tokens
This sort of unpredictability is what Magic: The Gathering players enjoy about Planechase