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Yu-Gi-Oh Anime Cards (Page 73)

*Card effects below are as accurate as possible.
Episode 75: Attack of the Barians (2)
Numbers Impact
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only when a "Number" monster you control battles an opponent's monster that has 1000 or more ATK than it. Select that monster you control. It gains ATK equal to the ATK of your opponent's monster.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: At least it's a Quick-Play Spell but even that isn't enough to make it anything less than situational, especially since it only affects Number monsters that are weaker.
Wild Charger
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when a face-up Xyz Monster you control that has no Xyz Material is selected as an attack target. That monster gains ATK equal to the ATK of your opponent's monster.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Perhaps better in a way than Rising Energy but only in the sense that there's no activation cost. This does however require more effort from you and in turn boosts the Xyz Monster by a likely higher amount.
Xyz Imprisonment
Anime Continuous Trap
Activate only when an Xyz Monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent's side of the field. That monster(s) cannot declare an attack. During the End Phase, inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: A minimal stall card for Xyz Monsters but Darkworld Shackles can do this better, even if it wouldn't work at the time the Xyz Monster is Special Summoned.
Numbers Evocation
Anime Normal Spell
Tribute 1 Spellcaster-Type monster, then select 1 "Number" monster in your Graveyard. Special Summon that monster to your side of the field.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: It only revives Number monsters and only when you first control a Spellcaster-Type monster but there are decent monsters for both categories.
Xyz Meteor
Anime Normal Trap
Select 1 face-up Xyz Monster you control. This turn, during battle between it and a Defense Position monster whose DEF is less than the selected monster's ATK, inflict the difference as Battle Damage to your opponent. If the selected monster inflicts Battle Damage by this effect, you can draw 1 card.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Strong Xyz Monsters exist and they'll need to be to make use of this, though Meteorrain is more versatile but lacks the bonus effect.
Overlay Zero Buster
Anime Normal Spell
Activate only when you control a face-up Xyz Monster that has no Xyz Material. Select 1 monster your opponent controls and destroy it.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: For the activation requirements, it doesn't offer a whole lot but all Xyz Monsters run out of materials eventually.
Episode 74: Attack of the Barians (1)
Plus Star 123
Anime Normal Spell
Select 1 Level 4 or lower monster you control and increase its Level by up to 3.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: There are uses for this, mostly to Xyz Summon and there are plenty of decent monsters to meet the requirements but unless you have an Xyz Monster to use it for, it's not really that useful.
Dark Engineering
Anime Normal Spell
Select 1 Level 3 Machine-Type monster you control. Special Summon 1 monster with the same name as that target from your hand.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Your options are quite limited but I'm sure they're not as bad as the previous card below.
Djinn Cycle
DARK / Machine / Level 3 / ATK 400 / DEF 400
When you Xyz Summon a monster using this card as an Xyz Material, inflict 400 damage to your opponent.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Not only is it weak but the effect for putting in the effort to make it Xyz Material is far too minimal.
Episode 73: Kite's Plight (2)
Xyz Revival
Anime Equip Spell
Special Summon 1 Xyz Monster from your Graveyard in face-up Attack Position and equip it with this card. When this card is removed from the field, destroy the equipped monster.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: Almost better than Xyz Reborn except that Xyz Reborn becomes Xyz Material to the revived Xyz Monster while this does not, making it practically useless.
Card of Spell Containment
Anime Normal Spell
Draw 2 cards. You cannot activate other Spell Cards or Set cards the turn you activate this card.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: I imagine something like this for Pot of Greed if it is to ever be unbanned for an erratum but as it is, the side-effects far outweigh the benefit.
Card of Adversity
Anime Normal Spell
Activate only if you control no monsters and your opponent controls a Special Summoned monster. Draw 2 cards.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: This'd have pretty high use today due to the amount of Special Summons that occur during a Duel but you still need to control no monsters.
Episode 72: Kite's Plight (1)
Double Bind
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Select 1 monster you control whose ATK was decreased this turn. That monster's ATK is doubled until the end of the Battle Phase and if it battles an opponent's monster, and that monster would not be destroyed by battle due to a card effect, that effect is not applied.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: This can help even with monsters like Steamroid that lose ATK when they're attacked or like Lionhearted Locomotive that lose ATK when they attack but that's about it and being a Quick-Play Spell doesn't do much for it.
Flash Effect
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only during the Battle Phase, when a monster effect is activated on the field. That monster gains 800 ATK and the effects of all Effect Monsters on the field are negated until the end of the Battle Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: This can work to your advantage if it's your monster's effect that allows you to activate this but then it'll lose its effect anyway so it's not much to speak of.
Battle Gravity
Anime Continuous Spell
At the end of the Battle Phase, if the turn player controls a monster(s) that did not attack this turn, they take 1000 damage.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: If you can lock your opponent's monsters out of attacking like with Swords of Revealing Light, this isn't too bad but it'll affect you too if your opponent does the same to your monsters.
Galaxy Burst
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Select up to 2 face-up cards your opponent controls and 1 "Photon" monster you control.  Until the End Phase, negate the opponent's cards' effects and halve the ATK of the "Photon" monster.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: It's hardly worth negating two cards' effects when your monster gets weaker and being a Quick-Play Spell isn't enough to make that worthwhile.
Episode 71: A Trio's Challenge (3)
Barian's Battle Buster
Anime Continuous Trap
Activate only by removing from play 1 "Barian's" card from your Graveyard. Up to twice per turn, you can negate an attack. During your opponent's Battle Phase, you can send this face-up card to the Graveyard, then select 1 face-up Attack Position monster on each side of the field and conduct battle between those monsters.
COMMON
Rating: 2
Comments: We've had a few Barian's cards since this debuted in the anime but it's still not much to work with considering you'll need one of them just to activate this and the other effects aren't that great.
Xyz Unity
Anime Equip Spell
Equip only to a face-up Xyz Monster. Once per turn, you can change the equipped monster from Defense Position to Attack Position and it gains ATK equal to the total ATK of all face-up Defense Position Xyz Monsters you currently control, until the End Phase. During your Battle Phase, you can send 1 other face-up Xyz Monster you control to the Graveyard to have the equipped monster attack once again for each monster sent to the Graveyard this way. If it attacks this way, it can attack your opponent directly.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: It only works on and with Xyz Monsters, and you won't get much out of this unless you control more than one Xyz Monster.
Photon Escape
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only hen a "Photon" monster is selected as an attack target. Remove from play the attack target, then end the Battle Phase.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: Even if your opponent's attacks are over, you've still lost a monster that you won't get back so easily.
Barian's Gateway
Anime Continuous Spell
After this card is activated, inflict 800 damage to your opponent for each card that is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard this turn. You cannot Normal or Special Summon, or Set, monsters during the turn you activate this card. During your turn, you can send this card from the field to the Graveyard to negate the effects of 1 opponent's monster.
COMMON
Rating: 1
Comments: While you could deal a lot of damage with this, that'd probably require a card like Dark Hole to make that happen. Regardless though, you're not playing any monsters afterwards so unless you already have monsters out, you're going to be practically defenseless. The last effect is just as bad.