Card Game
Card of the Day
TCG Fan Tips
Top 10 Lists
Banned/Restricted List
Yu-Gi-Oh News
Tourney Reports
Duelist Interviews

Featured Writers
Baneful's Column
Anteaus on YGO
General Zorpa
Dark Paladin's Dimension
Retired Writers

Releases + Spoilers
Booster Sets (Original Series)
LOB | MRD | MRL | PSV
LON | LOD | PGD | MFC
DCR | IOC | AST | SOD
RDS | FET
Booster Sets (GX Series)
TLM | CRV | EEN | SOI
EOJ | POTD | CDIP | STON
FOTB | TAEV | GLAS | PTDN
LODT
Booster Sets (5D Series)
TDGS | CSOC | CRMS | RBGT
ANPR | SOVR | ABPF | TSHD
STBL | STOR | EXVC
Booster Sets (Zexal Series)
GENF | PHSW | ORCS | GAOV
REDU | ABYR | CBLZ | LTGY
NUMH | JOTL | SHSP | LVAL
PRIO

Starter Decks
Yugi | Kaiba
Joey | Pegasus
Yugi 2004 | Kaiba 2004
GX: 2006 | Jaden | Syrus
5D: 1 | 2 | Toolbox
Zexal: 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Yugi 2013 | Kaiba 2013

Structure Decks
Dragons Roar &
Zombie Madness
Blaze of Destruction &
Fury from the Deep
Warrior's Triumph
Spellcaster's Judgment
Lord of the Storm
Invincible Fortress
Dinosaurs Rage
Machine Revolt
Rise of Dragon Lords
Dark Emperor
Zombie World
Spellcaster Command
Warrior Strike
Machina Mayhem
Marik
Dragunity Legion
Lost Sanctuary
Underworld Gates
Samurai Warlord
Sea Emperor
Fire Kings
Saga of Blue-Eyes
Cyber Dragon

Promo Cards:
Promos Spoiler
Coll. Tins Spoiler
MP1 Spoiler
EP1 Spoiler

Tournament Packs:
TP1 / TP2 / TP3 / TP4
TP5 / TP6 / TP7 / TP8
Duelist Packs
Jaden | Chazz
Jaden #2 | Zane
Aster | Jaden #3
Jesse | Yusei
Yugi | Yusei #2
Kaiba | Yusei #3
Crow

Reprint Sets
Dark Beginnings
1 | 2
Dark Revelations
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Gold Series
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Dark Legends
DLG1
Retro Pack
1 | 2
Champion Pack
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Turbo Pack
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7

Hidden Arsenal:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7

Checklists
Brawlermatrix 08
Evan T 08
X-Ref List
X-Ref List w/ Passcodes

Anime
Episode Guide
Character Bios
GX Character Bios

Video Games
Millennium Duels (2014)
Nighmare Troubadour (2005)
Destiny Board Traveler (2004)
Power of Chaos (2004)
Worldwide Edition (2003)
Dungeon Dice Monsters (2003)
Falsebound Kingdom (2003)
Eternal Duelist Soul (2002)
Forbidden Memories (2002)
Dark Duel Stories (2002)

Other
About Yu-Gi-Oh
Yu-Gi-Oh! Timeline
Pojo's YuGiOh Books
Apprentice Stuff
Life Point Calculators
DDM Starter Spoiler
DDM Dragonflame Spoiler
The DungeonMaster
Millennium Board Game

- Magic
- DBZ
- Gundam
- Pokemon
- Digimon 
- Harry Potter
- Anime

- Advertise on Pojo
- Our Sponsors
- Pojo Polls

 


Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh Card of the Day

Draining Shield
Rare

Negate the attack of 1 of your opponent's monsters and increase your Life Points by an amount equal to the attacking monster's ATK.

Type - Normal Trap
Card Number
- AST-054

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being 
the worst.  3 ... average.  5 is the highest rating

Date Reviewed - 9.21.04

Tranorix Draining Shield

What do you get when you take Magic Cylinder and...make it increase your LP instead of damaging your opponent's? I’ll give you a hint: Draining Shield.

It negates an attack. Not bad, right? If you need to save yourself, it's always good to stop at least one of your opponent's monsters from attacking. Then you increase your LP. Wait until your opponent attacks with something strong and you'll possibly gain a pretty nice LP advantage. This card is especially useful in a Saturn Deck, which focuses on getting LP as high as possible to maximize Saturn’s effect damage.

In a regular deck, it could certainly serve as a nice surprise factor; but unfortunately, its playability is not quite so high right now with M/T removal dominating the competitive scene. Cylinder is usually the better card, since the goal of the game is to decrease your opponent's LP, not increase yours. But Draining Shield is arguably just as good, since you can play it in multiples. Post-ban, Draining Shield will see quite a bit more play. As for now, it's just a good card that you may want to consider running, if you feel like annoying your opponent.

Typical tournament deck: 3/5
Saturn deck: 4.5/5
OVERALL RATING: 3.8/5 
ExMinion OfDarkness Tuesday:
Draining Shield

The reverse of Cylinder. Instead of them taking the damage, you gain that much. This card is better than Cylinder in some situations and worse in others.

Pros over Cylinder:
It can potentially save you from two attacks -- if either one would have killed you normally, you gain enough life to survive the second shot
It's not restricted
Easier to get

Cons:
It can't win games. Cylinder can.
Opponents usually won't care about you gaining life unless you're playing one of those weird Saturn life-gain burn decks.

Pre-ban, it sucks because you can't chain it. Post-ban, it's a viable card to play in addition to Cylinder and Sakuretsu Armor.

Traditional Format: 1.75/5
Advanced Format: 3.25/5 
JAELOVE

Tuesday: Drain Shield

Rated For: Any Deck

Tuesday’s offering is Drain Shield, the direct opposite of Magic Cylinder. This too, will negate your opponent’s attack, but this time it increases your life points (a la Enchanted Javelin).

Of course, life point gain is something that is rightfully ridiculed by top Yu-Gi-Oh players; concepts such as field control and card advantage are far more important than having a high amount of life points.

Regardless, we’ll review Drain Shield’s merits. 

Note: I forgot to mention this on Monday, but with the ban/restricted list being a certainty, all my reviews are now tailored towards a post-ban environment.

Check the ban list for yourself at www.yugioh-card.com.

On to the review!

Advantage F/H: An advantage of 1500-2000 life points for a card isn’t very great. In fact, it’s rather insubstantial. I would give this card a 2.5/10 for such measly gains.

Best Draw for the Situation: I don’t think that Drain Shield will have any effect on the outcome of the duel. Life point gain simply isn’t a very good method of achieving aims. I can’t even really see any situations where this card would be remotely useful, let alone game-breaking.                         2.5/10.

Attributes/Effect: Life point gain is horrible! The negating attack portion of this card helps slightly, but everything else is garbage. It should have added life points equal to the doubled attack of the enemy…                 2.5/10.

Dependability: The new baseline score for traps under the system is a 7/10 (instead of 5/10). That’s because the 2 MST’s and Harpie’s Feather Duster will probably be replaced by Jinzo and 2 Dust Tornado’s, making traps last a bit longer. Having said that, this card is so horrible that depending on it will get you nowhere.                      5/10.

The Bottom Line:       Life point gain is horrible! Magic Cylinder is a far better card. I suppose it’s best use is in a Agent of Judgment- Saturn deck, but I feel that Mystic Wok is superior to that.

A BAD Score:            12.5/40=                                  31/100

Cards it functions well with: Magic Drain (to protect it), Mystic Wok (for lp gain).

 

 Copyright 1998-2004 - Pojo.com 

This site is not associated with KAZUKI TAKAHASHI.  Yu-Gi-Oh is a registered trademarks of KAZUKI TAKAHASHI.
This is NOT an official site.  This is a fan site.