| *Card effects below are as accurate as
possible. |
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Episode 70: A Trio's Challenge (2) |
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Fake Life
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares a direct attack.
Negate the attack and gain Life Points equal to its ATK.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Activating cards in response to direct attacks
is more risky as you'll likely take the attacking monster's full ATK if
you fail. Plus, we already have a better version of this card called
Draining Shield. |
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Deep Sea Attack
Anime Normal Spell
Send 1 WATER monster with 2000 or more ATK from your hand to the
Graveyard, then select 1 monster you control. That monster can
attack your opponent directly this turn.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
I'd probably rather keep the WATER monster with
2000+ ATK unless the monster I'm choosing to attack directly is stronger
but even then, you're risking your monster's destruction, which'll leave
you out two monsters. |
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Gamusharush
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only when a monster you control battles an opponent's
monster. Reduce the ATK of the monster you control to 0, then
inflict 600 damage to your opponent.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Minimal burn damage is not worth making your
monster's ATK 0, even if you're up against an evil being like Yuma,
Shark and Kite were when this card debuted. |
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Escape Lure
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares an attack. Change
the attack target to another monster you control and any battle
damage either player takes from this battle is halved.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Barely giving this card 2/5 because the battle
damage is halved for both players and it can help somewhat if any of
your other monsters are stronger than the attacking monster. |
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Fake Form
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when the battle position of a monster(s) is changed by
a card effect. Inflict 400 damage to your opponent for each of those
monsters that changed its battle position.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
This could combo with Book of Eclipse or even
Curse of Anubis to deal up to 2000 damage but you probably won't be
dealing that much. |
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Episode 69: A Trio's Challenge (1) |
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Photon Prevent
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only when you would take damage from a card effect and you
control a "Photon" monster. Effect Damage you take from that card
effect becomes 0.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
More situational than other cards that mitigate
or neutralize effect damage but it gives you an additional defense in
Photon Decks. |
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Shield Fin
Anime Equip Spell
When a card or effect is activated during the Battle Phase, you can
make the original ATK of the equipped monster 0. It cannot be
destroyed by battle, until the End Phase.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
It doesn't even negate the effect that triggers
this card's effect and it's highly situational. Just use Darkworld
Shackles instead. |
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Battle Route
Anime Continuous Trap
During your opponent's Battle Phase, if you control a monster, all
face-up Attack Position monsters your opponent controls must attack,
if able.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Forcing your opponent's monsters to attack is
really only worthwhile if you control a monster that can punish your
opponent for attacking it like Yubel but unless you control a monster,
this won't help you at all. |
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Episode 67: Sphere of Fear (3) |
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ZEXAL Catapult
Anime Normal Spell
Special Summon 1 "ZW -" monster from your hand.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Bring out whatever one you want and you can do
what you will with that monster once it's on the field but it's still
pretty specific regarding what it Special Summons and won't do you much
good without a Utopia monster or a Special Summon monster. |
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Heraldry Burst
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only during the Battle Phase. Return all cards in your opponent's Spell &
Trap Card Zone to the hand, then end the Battle Phase. During the
End Phase of this turn, inflict 500 damage to your opponent for each
card returned.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Less versatile than Giant Trunade, which is
still banned, but it also does more than Giant Trunade as well so it's
not too bad. |
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Episode 66: Sphere of Fear (2) |
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Seven Store
Anime Normal Spell
Tribute 1 face-up Xyz Monster. Draw 1 card, then draw 1 card for
each of the Tributed monster's Xyz Materials.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
With some luck, you could Tribute an opponent's
Xyz Monster and just take the benefits of this card, though it's still
kind a situational. |
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Xyz Triangle Force
Anime Normal Spell
Activate only when you control 3 or more face-up Xyz Monsters.
Select 1 card on the field and destroy it.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
If I'm going to put the effort in to get 3 Xyz
Monsters on the field, I should be rewarded with a powerful effect not a
pitiful one like this. |
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Episode 65: Sphere of Fear (1) |
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Half Guard
Anime Normal Trap
If an Attack Position monster you control would be destroyed by
battle, it cannot be destroyed by that battle, and after damage
calculation, change it to Defense Position.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
It can be useful if your monster has low ATK
and/or DEF and will survive the first attack if nothing else interferes
but it's not much to work with. |
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Episode 64: Change of Hart |
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Heraldry Protection
Anime Continuous Trap
Select 1 face-up monster on the field. It loses 800 ATK, but it
cannot be destroyed by battle. When that monster is removed from the
field, destroy this card.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Regardless of what monster you choose, there are
better ways to hinder that monster without having any benefits being
offset. |
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Heraldry Curse
Anime Equip Spell
Equip only to a "Heraldic" monster. Once per turn, you can inflict
300 damage to both players for each face-up monster on the field.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
You'd need at least 4 monsters on the field to
deal a decent amount of damage and the equipped monster isn't benefited
at all. |
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Episode 63: The Hart of the Matter |
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Photon Wing
Anime Equip Spell
Equip only to a "Photon" monster. Once per turn, you can select 1
Xyz Monster you control and detach all of its Xyz Materials. Until
the End Phase, the equipped monster gains ATK equal to that target's
Rank x 200. The equipped monster can attack your opponent directly
during the turn you activate this effect.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Sacrificing your Xyz Monster's Xyz Materials
just for a direct attack and a mediocre ATK boost is not a wise decision
since your monster will now be more vulnerable than it probably would've
been had you not used this. |
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Heraldry Blast
Anime Equip Spell
When the equipped monster is destroyed, inflict damage to its
controller equal to half its ATK.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
With the right monster it can deal a good amount
of damage but the monster has to be destroyed and nowadays more monsters
avoid destruction. |
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Episode 62: Duel of Destiny (2)
(Continued) |
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Underwater Snow Prison
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Remove from play 1 monster on the field. If it was a WATER monster,
take 1000 damage.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
This could get around plenty of monsters that
are triggered upon being destroyed or just otherwise annoying but a
WATER monster will cost you LP if you use this to get rid of it. |
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Rivals Unite
Anime Continuous Trap
Activate only when the attack of a monster you control is negated.
Equip this card to that monster. Take control of the equipped
monster. It cannot attack. When that monster is removed from the
field, destroy this card. When this card is destroyed, return
control of the equipped monster to its owner.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Since you're bound to have the attack negated if
your opponent's monster is weaker, you'll gain control of it and you
won't want to attack with it anyway if it's weak. The major downside is
if this gets destroyed, your opponent regains control of their monster. |
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Power Change Barrier
Anime Continuous Trap
Select 1 face-up Attack Position monster you control. When it is
targeted by your opponent's Spell, Trap, or Monster Effect, negate
the activation of that effect and destroy it, then the selected
monster loses 600 ATK. Destroy this card
during the End Phase.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
I don't see the point in draining your monster's
ATK just to negate card effects, especially when Safe Zone will protect
it from harm for free. |