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Yu-Gi-Oh Anime Cards (Page 11)

*Card effects below are as accurate as possible.
Episode 187: Let the Games Begin! (1)
Ancient Giant
EARTH / Rock / Level 5 / ATK 2200 / DEF 1100
During each of your End Phases, if this card did not attack an opponent's monster this turn, you take 300 damage.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Why waste your Deck space with monsters this bad when Summoned Skull and Frostosaurus are stronger without the drawback?
Ancient City
Anime Field Spell
If you control 1 face-up "Ancient Gate", "Ancient Tome" and "Ancient Giant", you can send them to the Graveyard to Special Summon 1 "Ancient Dragon" from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard. If an "Ancient Dragon" you control is destroyed, Special Summon it during the End Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Getting the other 4 cards out at once is pretty tricky since they're all vulnerable to card removal and may not stay around long enough for you to bring out that Ancient Dragon.
Legendary Gambler
Anime Continuous Trap
When your opponent rolls a six-sided die to activate a card or effect, you can roll a six-sided die. If your die result is higher than your opponent's, negate your opponent's card effect.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Dice Try! works much better than this as it just negates the effect activation without the added risk.
Episode 181: A Duel with Dartz (5)
Impact Revive
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only during your Main Phase 2. Select and Special Summon 1 monster from either player's Graveyard to its owner's side of the field that was destroyed by battle this turn, ignoring the Summoning conditions. It gains 500 ATK. You can conduct another Battle Phase this turn. 
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: Essentially it's a more restrained Monster Reborn that bypasses any summoning restrictions and powers the monster up a bit but the only real plus is getting that 2nd Battle Phase as you'll only be able to  pick from monsters destroyed by battle that turn and it won't just go straight to your side of the field unless you revive your own monster.
Divine Serpent
FIRE / Reptile / Level 10 / ATK OO / DEF OO
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except with "Orichalcos Shunoros". When this card is Summoned, make your Life Points 0 and send all cards from your hand to the Graveyard. While you control this face-up card, you cannot lose the Duel. This card cannot declare an attack unless you send the top 10 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Having infinite ATK and DEF isn't going to do you much good when you lose all cards in your hand and deplete your Deck of 10 cards each time you want it to attack, not to mention it has no protection against your opponent's threats.
Soul Shield
Anime Normal Trap
Pay half your Life Points. Negate the destruction of a monster by battle, and end the Battle Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: A very steep cost just to prevent a single monster's destruction in battle when far better options exist.
Episode 180: A Duel with Dartz (4)
Wish of Final Effort
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when a monster you control is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard. Gain Life Points equal to the destroyed monster's ATK.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: We basically have this card in other forms like The Fountain in the Sky but this still isn't bad for a generic version.
Martyr Curse
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when a monster you control is destroyed. Select 1 face-up monster you control and 1 face-up monster your opponent controls. Those monsters must battle this turn. If your opponent's monster is an Effect Monster, negate its effect(s) until the end of the Damage Step.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: You have to first lose a monster and then you force to monsters on the field to battle but in most cases, you may just end up attacking as is during your turn.
Ambush Shield
Anime Normal Trap
Tribute 1 monster. Target monster gains ATK equal to the DEF of the Tributed monster, until the End Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Basically the Trap Card version of Gift of the Martyr and applies to DEF instead of ATK but it isn't bad with some monsters.
Episode 179: A Duel with Dartz (3)
Orichalcos Tritos
Anime Field Spell
Activate only by sending 1 face-up "Orichalcos Deuteros" you control to the Graveyard. You cannot activate this card during the same turn you activate "Orichalcos Deuteros". While face-up on the field, this card's name is treated as "The Seal of Orichalcos", and gains the effects of "The Seal of Orichalcos" and "Orichalcos Deuteros". Your monsters are unaffected by the effects of your opponent's Spell and Trap Cards. 
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: The hardest to activate of all since you'll have to wait at least 3 turns under normal conditions to be even able to activate it and for all that, it only protects your monsters from your opponent's Spells and Traps, which isn't bad but not enough to warrant a rating higher than 2 stars.
Attack Guidance Barrier
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares an attack. Change the attack target to a Defense Position monster you control. It gains 600 DEF until the End Phase. After that battle, end the Battle Phase. 
COMMON 
Rating: 1
Comments: Barely giving more DEF than Castle Walls but this also cannot be activated as often as CW but both cards are pretty bad.
Orichalcos Malevolence
FIRE / Fiend / Level 4 / ATK 1500 / DEF 0
Once per turn, you can select 1 Defense Position monster your opponent controls, and change it to face-up Attack Position. 
COMMON 
Rating: 2
Comments: Not always a good thing with effects like this because the monster could be stronger in Attack Mode than Defense Mode and this guy doesn't exactly have much to defend against with those monsters.
Twin-Bow Centaur
Anime Continuous Spell
You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn you activate this card's effect. Once per turn, during your Main Phase 1, you can select 1 monster you control and 1 monster your opponent controls, then toss a coin. ● If you call it right: Remove from play the monster your opponent controls, and inflict damage to your opponent equal to the original ATK of that monster. ● If you call it wrong: Remove from play the monster you control, and take damage equal to the original ATK of that monster.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: A quick way to remove an opponent's monster and drain their LP but you're at just as much of a risk as they are, unless your monster is weaker than their's but either way, you won't get to attack the turn the effect is used.
Episode 178: A Duel with Dartz (2)
Mirror Knight Calling
DARK / Spellcaster-Type Ritual / Level 6 / ATK 0 / DEF 0
This card can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card "Orichalcos Mirror". When this card is Ritual Summoned, Special Summon 4 "Mirror Knight Tokens" (Warrior-Type/DARK/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0), then place 1 Shield Counter on each (max. 1). Once per turn, place 1 Shield Counter on every "Mirror Knight Token" you control without a Shield Counter (max. 1). When a "Mirror Knight Token" with a Shield Counter battles an opponent's monster, its ATK becomes equal to that monster's ATK until the end of the Damage Step. If a "Mirror Knight Token" with a Shield Counter would be destroyed, remove its Shield Counter instead.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: As stated with Orichalcos Mirror, this card's tokens are rather feeble and without them, this card is quite vulnerable, especially with 0 ATK and DEF. Even Relinquished, which starts out with the same ATK and DEF, can not only gain more ATK and DEF but prevent its destruction in battle and hurt your opponent at the same time, not to mention is easier to Ritual Summon as it's Level 1.
Orichalcos Mirror
Anime Ritual Spell
This card is used to Ritual Summon "Mirror Knight Calling" from your Deck. You must also Tribute monsters whose total Levels equal 6 or more from the field or your hand.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: The Ritual Summoned monster is fairly weak, even with all its Mirror Knight Tokens and Dartz probably knew that or he wouldn't have made Yugi's friends be the Mirror Knight Tokens in the first place. At least you could also Tribute the Tokens and/or Mirror Knight Calling for something better, though you probably had to give up that better monster to bring out MKC.
Reflect Energy
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Tribute 1 monster. This turn, monsters you control can attack your opponent directly.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Though you could pull off an OTK with this, you'd be down one monster in doing so and there are better ways of attacking directly than this.
Orichalcos Deuteros
Anime Field Spell
Activate only by sending 1 face-up "The Seal of Orichalcos" you control to the Graveyard. You cannot activate this card the turn you activate "The Seal of Orichalcos". While this card is face-up on the field, its name becomes "The Seal of Orichalcos", and it gains the effects of "The Seal of Orichalcos". Once per turn, during your Main Phase 1, gain 500 Life Points for each monster you control. When an opponent's monster declares a direct attack, you can Tribute 1 monster to destroy the attacking monster.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Dartz really made this card seem more powerful than it actually was because in our version, you won't have his luck all that often so this'll end up being a dead draw but then we still don't know if this card would be nerfed upon release.
Episode 177: A Duel with Dartz (1)
Orichalcos Kyutora
LIGHT / Rock / Level 3 / ATK 500 / DEF 500
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. You can Special Summon this card from your hand by paying 500 Life Points. While this card is face-up on the field, all Battle Damage you take from battles involving monsters you control becomes 0. When this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon 1 "Orichalcos Shunoros" from your hand or Deck.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Dartz sure made this guy difficult to take down, though that's only because Yugi and Kaiba were focused on attacking Orichalcos Gigas because otherwise the duel would've been pretty short.
Episode 176: Grappling with a Guardian (3) (Continued)
Reduction Barrier
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when you would take Battle Damage. Divide the damage you would take by 10.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: There are some situations where this'd help but it'd be better to reduce the damage to 0 with Waboku.
Orichalcos Sword of Sealing
Anime Equip Spell
Activate only by discarding 1 card that you have drawn this turn. Negate the effects of the equipped monster.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: You're forced to not only discard a card for its activation but that card has to be drawn as well and most of the time that'll be the very card you drew for your Draw Phase and that could be better than using this and cards like Fiendish Chain do this card's job better.