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SomeGuy's week of
choosing continues as we look at another Equipment
card, Sword of Deep-Seated.
Card Text:
Equipment Magic
A Monster Card equipped
with this card increases it's ATK and DEF by 500
points. When this card is sent to your Graveyard,
place it on top of your deck.
Analysis:
When this card first
came out, I become an instant fan of it. Not
only does it give a 500 point increase to any
monster, it also regenerates itself when destroyed.
Then I realized that
this regeneration tells me what card I'm going to
draw next turn. What if I need a Raigeki, or
Monster Reborn, or a strong monster? Will I
have a chance to draw that? Nope, I get this
guy back instead.
The same thing that
makes Stim-Pack good makes this card more of a pain
than it's worth. Odds are, your Sword won't be
staying on the field very long, meaning it will
constantly regenerate, meaning you'll have less of a
chance to draw a critical card.
There is a way
around this, though. It's called Big
Eye. Its flip effect is a clone of
Pokemon's Pokedex card (look at the
top 5 cards of your deck, rearrange in any order).
This way, you can counteract that effect, but you
WILL draw it within the next 5 turns, unless you use
another BIg Eye.
I'll stay with Stim-Pack
until Magic Ruler, however.
Combos:
Sword of Deep-Seated +
Magic Jammer = Regenerate your discarded card.
Sword of Deep-Seated +
Big Eye = You can still find that critical card.
Counters:
Instability on the
field: If it keeps going to the Graveyard, you're
going to run into eventual problems with the
regenerative effect.
Should YOU play
it?
Not yet. In later
sets, however, there are semi-broken combos you can
pull with this and cards requiring discards for
upkeep (Spirit decks with Spirit Syphoning Equipment
love this card).
Score:
Well, it is a 500 point
increase, and you can keep reusing it, so I'll give
it a 2.3. The second effect
can really mess up your drawing, however.
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