| *Card effects below are as accurate as
possible. |
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Episode 88: Dual Duel (2) |
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Damaging Hand
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when a player draws a card(s) while they control no
monsters. Inflict 300 damage to your opponent for each card in their
hand.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
It's pretty situational but given the activation
requirements, it'll make your opponent's situation a bit more desperate. |
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Desperate Guard
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when a player would take damage from a card effect and
you control no monsters. Pay half your Life Points and make the
damage 0.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
The name says it all because it literally is a
desperate attempt to
guard your, or in the case of the
Duel that used this card, Ray Shadows' LPs. |
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Hand Vice
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares an attack and you
control a "Hand" monster. Negate the attack and inflict damage to
your opponent equal to its ATK.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Unlike Magic Cylinder, this card requires you to
control a Hand monster to achive the same effect but Magic Cylinder is
still the better card, even if the Hand monsters we have aren't all that
bad. |
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Shining Bridge
Anime Normal Spell
Select 1 "Shining" monster you control with 1000 or less ATK. This
turn, it can attack your opponent directly.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
I'd rather use Shooting Star Bow - Ceal as that
works on any monster and will likely still have the equipped monster
deal more damage than this. |
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Shining Rabbit
LIGHT / Beast / Level 2 / ATK 800 / DEF 400
When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent, destroy 1
Spell or Trap Card your opponent controls.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
A monster this weak has little-to-no chance of
inflicting battle damage to the opponent and even then, it's no reason
to celebrate. You could deal more without this weakling. |
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Erosion Hand Forest
Anime Field Spell
During each of your Standby Phases, both players take 1000 damage.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
A Field Spell that costs its owner and their
opponent damaage each turn is not worth using. |
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Shining Stunt
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares an attack. Negate
the attack and end the Battle Phase. Then, you damage equal to half
the ATK of that monster.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
No good in negating the attack if you're going
to take half that monster's ATK anyway. |
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Shining Sly
LIGHT / Spellcaster / Level 3 / ATK 1200 / DEF 800
While an Xyz Monster is face-up on the field, this card cannot
be selected as an attack target. During either player's turn, when a
player would take damage by a card effect, you can Tribute 1 monster
that is controlled by the player who would take that damage to reduce
the damage to 0.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Neither effect is useful and its stats are poor.
Of course, we know Ray Shadows was Vector in disguise and he was a poor
duelist, likely on purpose. |
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Episode 87: Dual Duel |
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Hand Block
Anime Normal Trap
Activate only when you would take damage from a card effect while
you control a "Hand" monster. That damage becomes 0.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
The Hand monsters we have aren't all that bad
but we don't really have enough of them to make this that worthwhile. |
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Shining Destroyer
LIGHT / Fiend / Level 3 / ATK 0 / DEF 1800
When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard,
inflict 600 damage to both players.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
While the effect is pretty bad, it's not bad
enough to give it a lower rating, especially since it won't be activated
all tjhe time. Plus it does have 1800 DEF, which lowers its chances of
destruction in battle just a bit. |
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Episode 86: Counter Offensive (2) |
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Last Chance
Anime Counter Trap
Activate only when your opponent activates a Counter Trap Card.
Select 1 Counter Trap Card in your opponent's Graveyard and activate
it as your Trap Card.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
It only works against a certain type of Trap
Card but you get to use it as though you activated it yourself. |
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Corkscrew Counter
Anime Counter Trap
Activate only when your opponent activates a card or effect
during the Battle Phase. Negate the activation of that card's effect
and destroy it, then inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
3 |
| Comments: |
This works against any card effect used during the
Battle Phase and while the damage is minimal, it may be enough to win
you the Duel. |
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Overtraining
Anime Normal Trap
Select 1 monster you control. It cannot be destroyed by battle or by
card effects this turn. During your next End Phase, destroy it and
send it to the Graveyard.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Not only does it protect your onster from
destruction for a turn but the side-effect is slow enough that you can
have it gone before you lose it. Still, it's a pretty mediocre card. |
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Xyz Stand
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only when an Xyz Monster under your control is destroyed by
battle and sent to the Graveyard this turn. Special Summon that
monster from your Graveyard. Its effects are negated and it cannot
declare an attack this turn.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
You probably won't be able to use that monster's
effects anyway and since ours aren't pre-packaged with the anime effect
that prevents their destruction in battle from non-Number Xyz Monsters,
this won't be much of a setback. |
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Episode 85: Counter Offensive |
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Counter Clash
Anime Counter Trap
Activate only when your opponent activates a Counter Trap Card
during the Battle Phase. Negate the activation of that Trap Card and
destroy it. The battle damage to both players from the battle that
this card was activated in is doubled.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
The risky part comes with the doubled battle
damage because even if you stop the Counter Trap this responds to, you
may still lose. |
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Overlay Flash
Quick-Play Spell
Select 1 face-up Xyz Monster you control that has Xyz Material, then
detach 1 Xyz Material from it. Negate the effects of 1 monster your
opponent controls. When that Xyz Monster is removed from the field,
this effect is no longer applied.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Most Xyz Monsters require detaching of Xyz
Materials and you could be taking the last one they have left but it's
not all that bad since it also negates the effects of the affected Xyz
Monster. |
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Brain Reboot
Anime Normal Spell
Activate only when you have 1000 or less Life Points. Return all
monsters your opponent controls to the hand, then inflict damage to
your opponent equal to the combined Levels of the monsters returned
to their hand by this effect x 500.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
Risky to play given the activation requirements
but it can help turn the tide if you can manage to return a good number
of monsters to the hand. |
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Lightning Clinch
Anime Quick-Play Spell
Activate only when an opponent's monster declares an attack. Pay
3000 Life Points. This turn, negate all attacks from monsters your
opponent controls.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
You're just making it easier for your opponent
to clinch their victory from you because 3000 LP is nearly half
your starting LP and that means your opponent's monsters just need to
have 5000 ATK in total to take you out. Plus, cards like Negate Attack
have this card's effect for free. |
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Episode 84: Playing Defense
(Continued) |
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Sharkify
Anime Equip Spell
The equipped monster is also treated as a "Shark" monster and gains
400 ATK.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
1 |
| Comments: |
Regardless of whether you go with the Japanese
anime's card lore or the duelist's explanation of the card lore, you
still get a poor choice for your Deck. |
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Tri-Slice
Anime Normal Spell
Tribute 1 Level 6, Level 9, or Level 12 Fish-Type monster. Special
Summon 3 WATER monsters from your Deck, depending on the Level of
the Tributed monster.
● Level 12: Level 4 monsters.
● Level 9: Level 3 monsters.
● Level 6: Level 2 monsters.
COMMON |
| Rating: |
2 |
| Comments: |
It's a lot to risk when you get rid of a
high-level monster for the chance at bringing out three low-level
monsters. I don't think there's that many monsters that meet either this
card's activation requirements or even some of its bulleted effects. |