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The Dark Illusion (Page 1)

TDIL-EN019
Magician's Rod
DARK / Spellcaster / Level 3 / ATK 1600 / DEF 100
When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand, that specifically lists the card "Dark Magician" in its text. During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is in your Graveyard (except during the Damage Step): You can Tribute 1 Spellcaster-Type monster; add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Magician's Rod" once per turn.
SUPER RARE 
Rating: 2
Comments: That means you can get instant access to pretty much any of the support released to date, though getting this guy back by its effect is pretty mediocre.  
TDIL-EN018
Magician's Robe
DARK / Spellcaster / Level 2 / ATK 700 / DEF 2000
During your opponent's turn: You can discard 1 Spell/Trap Card; Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" from your Deck (this is a Quick Effect). During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is in your Graveyard (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card, but banish it when it leaves the field. You can only use each effect of "Magician's Robe" once per turn.
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: Unveiled with the Shining Victories Special Edition and it's not much to look at, nor is using the effect all that great since it only Special Summons Dark Magician.  
TDIL-EN017
Magician of Dark Illusion
DARK / Spellcaster / Level 7 / ATK 2100 / DEF 2500
This card's name becomes "Dark Magician" while it is on the field. You can only use each of these effects of "Magician of Dark Illusion" once per turn.
● During your opponent's turn, if you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand.
● If you activate a Spell/Trap Card or effect while this card is face-up on your field (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 "Dark Magician" in your Graveyard; Special Summon it. This effect can only be used once while this card is face-up on the field.
SUPER RARE 
Rating: 2
Comments: You'll be best off to use the first effect because the 2nd isn't likely going to do you much good, especially since it can only be use once while the monster is face-up. Its stats aren't great either.  
TDIL-EN016
Red Mirror
FIRE / Fiend / Level 1 / ATK 0 / DEF 0
When an opponent's monster declares an attack: You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard, then target 1 FIRE Fiend-Type monster in your Graveyard, except "Red Mirror"; add it to your hand. If you Synchro Summon while this card is in your Graveyard (except during the Damage Step, or the turn this card was sent to the Graveyard): You can add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Red Mirror" once per turn.
COMMON 
Rating: 1
Comments: You'll have bad luck from the moment you draw this because it's not remotely useful as there are very few FIRE Fiend-Type monsters in general, let alone any that are good and his stats each have a goose egg to their names.  
TDIL-EN015
Red Gardna
FIRE / Fiend / Level 4 / ATK 0 / DEF 2000
During either player's turn, when your opponent activates a card or effect while you control a "Red Dragon Archfiend" monster: You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard; this turn, monsters you control cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: Red Dragon Archfiend is a worthy monster to have out with its 3000 ATK and clearing out any Defense Position monsters your opponent may have and this guy has that monster's DEF but won't do a lot much of the time.  
TDIL-EN014
Red Warg
FIRE / Fiend / Level 6 / ATK 1400 / DEF 2200
When you Normal Summon a "Resonator" monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, but its ATK becomes halved.
COMMON 
Rating: 1
Comments: I don't know what a warg is, or even if it actually exists but this clearly the runt of those.  
TDIL-EN013
Blackwing - Gofu the Vague Shadow
DARK / Winged Beast-Type Tuner / Level 5 / ATK 0 / DEF 0
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) while you control no monsters. When this card is Special Summoned from the hand: You can Special Summon 2 "Vague Shadow Tokens" (Winged Beast-Type/
DARK/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0), but they cannot be Tributed or be used as Synchro Material. You can banish this card and 1 or more face-up non-Tuners you control, then target 1 "Blackwing" Synchro Monster in your Graveyard whose Level equals the total Levels the banished monsters had on the field; Special Summon it, and if you do, it is treated as a Tuner.
COMMON 
Rating: 1
Comments: The dreaded 5 word clause means that this guy has to really bring in the good stuff or he's doomed to get the equally dreaded rating. However, he doesn't succeed because though he's a Tuner, he prevents you from usng your new Tokens for really anything and has literally nothing to offer in its stats.  
TDIL-EN012
Blackwing - Tornado the Reverse Wind
DARK / Winged Beast / Level 4 / ATK 1000 / DEF 1200
When this card is Normal Summoned while your opponent controls a Special Summoned monster: You can target 1 "Blackwing" Tuner in your Graveyard; you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except "Blackwing" monsters, also Special Summon that monster, but its effects are negated.
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: Pretty weak but it'll grab a Tuner monster from your Graveyard if you meet this guy's conditions.  
TDIL-EN011
D/D Savant Nikola
DARK / Fiend-Type Pendulum / Level 6 / ATK 2000 / DEF 2000 / Scale 8
You cannot Pendulum Summon monsters, except "D/D" monsters. This effect cannot be negated. Once per turn: You can discard 1 "D/D/D" monster, then target 1 Level 6 or lower "D/D" monster you control; it gains 2000 ATK and DEF until the end of this turn (even if this card leaves the field).
If this card in the Pendulum Zone is destroyed: You can target 1 "D/D/D" monster you control; return it to the hand, and if you do, place up to 2 face-up "D/D" Pendulum Monsters from your Extra Deck in your Pendulum Zones, but they cannot activate their Pendulum Effects this turn. You can only use this effect of "D/D Savant Nikola" once per turn.
COMMON 
Rating: 1
Comments: He's come down with Archetype Bias and that's probably because his scale is so high. In fact, he's been plagued with unplayability too given his stats and other horrible effects.  
TDIL-EN010
D/D Savant Thomas
DARK / Fiend-Type Pendulum / Level 8 / ATK 1800 / DEF 2600 / Scale 6
During your Main Phase: You can add 1 face-up "D/D" Pendulum Monster from your Extra Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "D/D Savant Thomas" once per turn.
You can target 1 "D/D" card in your Pendulum Zone; destroy that card, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 8 "D/D/D" monster from your Deck in Defense Position, but for the rest of this turn, its effects (if any) are negated, and any battle damage your opponent takes becomes halved. You can only use this effect of "D/D Savant Thomas" once per turn.
RARE
Rating: 2
Comments: Not a very strong Level 8 monster but as a Pendulum Monster, it may be useful in a D/D Deck.  
TDIL-EN009
Acrobatic Magician
DARK / Spellcaster-Type Pendulum / Level 5 / ATK 800 / DEF 2300 / Scale 2
When a monster(s) you control is destroyed by a card effect (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your Pendulum Zone. You can only use this effect of "Acrobatic Magician" once per turn.
If the activation of a Spell/Trap Card is negated (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand. When this card is destroyed by battle: You can place this card in your Pendulum Zone.
RARE
Rating: 2
Comments: Regardless of where you Special Summon it, it's probably going to be in Defense Mode and not do much after that, though its Scale is decent enough.
TDIL-EN008
Performapal Life Swordsman
LIGHT / Warrior / Level 1 / ATK 0 / DEF 0
When your opponent gains LP (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, this card's ATK becomes equal to the LP your opponent gained. You can Tribute this card, then target 1 face-up monster you control; it gains 1000 ATK until the end of this turn.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Its ATK and DEF tell all. There's no life in this monster at all, and he's not going to give any other monster much life either.
TDIL-EN007
Performapal Radish Horse
EARTH / Plant-Type Pendulum / Level 4 / ATK 500 / DEF 2000 / Scale 3
Once per turn: You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls, and 1 "Performapal" monster you control; that opponent's monster loses ATK equal to the ATK of that "Performapal" monster you control (even if this card leaves the field).
If your opponent controls a Special Summoned monster, and controls at least as many monsters as you, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). Once per turn: You can target 1 face-up monster on each player's field; until the end of this turn, that opponent's monster loses ATK equal to this card's ATK, and if it does, that monster you control gains ATK equal to this card's ATK.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Its DEF is high enough to help it thrive a while but it's the Pendulum Effect and Scale that are any good.
TDIL-EN006
Performapal Bubblebowwow
EARTH / Beast-Type Pendulum / Level 6 / ATK 2300 / DEF 1000 / Scale 5
If a face-up non-Pendulum Monster(s) you control that was Special Summoned from the Extra Deck would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can destroy this card instead.
When this card is Special Summoned from the Extra Deck: You can activate this effect; for the rest of this turn, Pendulum Monsters you control that were Special Summoned from the Extra Deck cannot be destroyed by card effects.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: This guy's name was revealed in a scripted duel at this year's North American World Championship Qualifiers but a scripted duel isn't the best way to decide on whether a card is good or not because they generally follow anime rules. Here though, it's hardly the best of the Performapals.
TDIL-EN005
Performapal Gumgumouton
EARTH / Beast-Type Pendulum / Level 5 / ATK 900 / DEF 2400 / Scale 1
Once per turn, when an attack is declared involving a monster you control and an opponent's monster: You can activate this effect; that monster you control cannot be destroyed by that battle.
Once per turn, when an attack is declared involving a monster you control and an opponent's monster: You can activate this effect; that monster you control cannot be destroyed by that battle.
RARE
Rating: 2
Comments: Well it doesn't matter which zone this guy is in because he'll protect one monster from destruction either way. Unfortunately, that's all he does in either case, though its Scale is certainly low enough.
TDIL-EN004
Performapal Inflater Tapir
WIND / Beast / Level 6 / ATK 1000 / DEF 2000
During damage calculation (in either player's turn), if a monster you control battles an opponent's monster: You can discard this card; neither player takes any battle damage from that battle. When an opponent's monster declares a direct attack while this card is in your Graveyard: You can discard 1 "Performapal" monster; Special Summon this card in Defense Position. You can only use this effect of "Performapal Inflater Tapir" once per turn.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: This guy looks like he just came back from the eye doctors but it's clear it cannot see very well because its effect and stats are working against its rating to leave it with a measly 1 star.
TDIL-EN003
Performapal Extra Slinger
DARK / Spellcaster-Type Pendulum / Level 3 / ATK 800 / DEF 1100 / Scale 6
During your Main Phase: You can inflict 300 damage to your opponent for each face-up Pendulum Monster in your Extra Deck. You can only use this effect of "Performapal Extra Slinger" once per turn. You cannot Pendulum Summon the turn you activate this effect.
Once per turn: You can banish 1 card from your Extra Deck, then target 1 card in a Pendulum Zone; destroy it, and if you do, inflict 300 damage to your opponent.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Thank goodness for that Pendulum effect because otherwise, this'd be among the ranks of bad Pendulum Monsters, though it still isn't good enough to parade through town about.
TDIL-EN002
Performapal Gongato
EARTH / Beast-Type Pendulum / Level 1 / ATK 100 / DEF 100 / Scale 2
Once per turn, when an opponent's monster declares a direct attack: You can activate this effect; you take no battle damage from that battle (even if this card leaves the field).
Once per turn, when an attack is declared involving a monster you control and an opponent's monster: You can activate this effect; you take no battle damage from that battle.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: It'll protect you from damage either way, though you'll probably end up in a situation where you need the effect you don't have, though with 100 ATK and DEF, it won't be around to help you that often anyway, even as a Pendulum Monster.
TDIL-EN001
Performapal Bot-Eyes Lizard
EARTH / Reptile / Level 4 / ATK 1600 / DEF 1200
Once per turn, during your Main Phase, if this card was Normal or Special Summoned this turn: You can send 1 "Odd-Eyes" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard; this card's name becomes the sent monster's original name, until the End Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: It's pretty weak but will get any Odd-Eyes monster from your Deck to the Graveyard for easy revival.
TDIL-EN000
Magical Something
DARK / Spellcaster / Level 4 / ATK 1800 / DEF 1300
Each time a Spell Card is activated, place 1 Spell Counter on this card when that Spell Card resolves. This card's Level is increased by the number of Spell Counters on this card. You can remove 3 Spell Counters from this card, then target 1 Quick-Play Spell Card in your Graveyard; Set that card to your Spell & Trap Zone. You can only use this effect of "Magical Something" once per turn.
RARE
Rating: 3
Comments: Ah, something not Pendulum-related I see, and more specifically related to Spellcasters and Spell Counters. Regardless of what this supports, you have a good option for each of them.