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

Upstart Goblin Type: Magic Effect: Draw 1 Card from your Deck.  Your opponent gains 1000 Life Points Card Number - MRL-033 Average Rating - 2.15 (based on 5 reviews) Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale 1 being the worst.  3 ... average.   5 is the highest rating Date Reviewed - September 23, 2002

Scott Gerhardt	Drawing cards is usually important - but not here.  Simple firing off a random cantrip at the cost of 1,000 LP gained to your opponent is terrible.  In any offensively minded deck, this card is horrible. If you're playing Exodia.dec, though, then I would highly recommend this card.  The ability to reduce your deck from 40 cards to 37 is a major advantage, and when your opponent's life does not matter, then it doesn't matter what you give them as long as you draw cards. In general, though, the card is bad and should not see play. Rating:  1.5 In Exodia.dec: 5
YoNeX	Upstart Goblin -- Monday Introduction: Yeah! I get to draw an extra card! Normal Magic Draw 1 card from your Deck. Your opponent gains 1000 Life Points. Why should you use it? *Thins out your deck *Card Advantage (future) Why shouldn't you use it? *Opponent gains 1000 Life Points. *Waste of space Reasons: Well not much to say about this card. It basically draws a card to thin out your deck. There are way better cards to thin our your deck than this, Card Destructions, Giant Germ, and Thunder Dragon. I also doubt that it will be near to impossible to run a 40 card deck, with all those evil cards currently out. Though this card is a bit bad, there is a card if my combo is right to draw a lot of cards with this, but I really doubt this card will get good. Bad points about this card is your opponent gains 1000 Life Points. If you draw this card at the very very end, it's going to cost you. This is a reason why it might possibly be a waste of space in your deck because your really just trading 1 for 1 and your opponent gains a Dian Keto The Cure Master. Rating: This card is not that great of a card, but in Japan, it is restricted (yes it's restricted). Currently in this set, there is no reason for this. For this reason I would give it a 2.5. In the near future, this card MIGHT get better. Conclusion: This might not really give you such a good upstart. -YoNeX
wartortle32	Today's card is Upstart Goblin.  I find it next to useless.  It's a magic card that lets you draw 1 card and lets the opponent gain 1000LP.  Why is this card useless?  I'll use an example to show why.  Let's say you have a la jinn and you draw upstart goblin.  Both you and the opponent have 8000LP.  The top 2 cards on your deck are neo and dark hole. Scenario1:  you play upstart goblin.  You now have la jinn and neo in your hand and dark hole is on the top of your deck.  The opponent has gained 1000LP. Scenario2 without the goblin in your deck:  you draw neo instead of the goblin.  dark hole is on the top of your deck and the opponent has not gained 1000LP. So what does this show you?  The scenarios are exactly the same except that the opponent has gained 1000LP in the first scenario.  The goblin has hurt you more than it is helped. Basically, this card provides no drawing power.  If it said 2 cards, it would be so much better. This card should only belong in defensive exodia decks that contain EXACTLY 40 cards with the goblins in. Why?  because you dont care if the opponent is gaining any ALP and the goblin is allowing you to speed through your deck.  I give this card a 1.3/5.  Do not simply throw this in your deck as it will do you no good.  Stick with the pot of greed. wartortle32
SomeGuy	Monday - Upstart Goblin Upstart Goblin allows you to draw a card at the cost of your opponent gaining 1000 Life Points. The only reason why it's restricted to one in Japan is because there is a card that states, whenever your opponent gains Life Points, he loses it instead. Even still I don't think it should of been restricted to one. With our current pool of cards here in the States, this card is pretty useless. The only use it gives you is that it thins your deck by one. Unlike Pot of Greed, you don't gain any card advantage from it. If you had 5 cards when you played this card from your hand, you would still have 5 cards in your hand after it resolved (And your opponent would be up 1000 Life Points). Right now, the only deck I would play this in would be an Exodia based deck. There's not much else that gains any benefit from it. 1.9/5
NickWhiz1	Today is Monday, and we start a new week with a very unusual card, Upstart Goblin.   Card Text: Normal Magic Draw 1 card from your Deck. Your opponent gains 1000 Life Points.   Analysis: Believe it or not, this card is restricted to 1 in Japan.  The Japanese found it necessary to restrict almost every drawing card (Masked Sorcerer and the upcoming Share the Wealth and Vase of Greed have escaped the restriction list, for now...).  This should tell you how powerful drawing is in this game.  Due to the small deck size, and the fact that almost any card is a game-altering card, any way that you can get a card drawing advantage will put you one step ahead of your opponent, and this card is no exception.   Exodia decks, play 3 of these while you still have them. Since Exodia decks focus on the automatic victory, your opponent's life point cost will not matter (unless Exodia falls through, in which case, you lose =P).   This card actually combos well with Megamorph.  If you have less than 1000 LP more than your opponent, use Upstart Goblin, then they'll have more LP than you.  You can guess what to do now.  Equip Megamorph on your hardest hitter, and pound your opponent into the ground.   There will also be future cards that will combo with this, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.   Honestly, I have not seen anyone play this card nor hear of anyone doing so.  Unless you are completely desperate for drawing advantage, I would avoid this.   However, if you manage to draw a really good card with Upstart Goblin (Raigeki, maybe?), that 1000 LP may not matter.  It's too much of a risk, however.  Give me Pot of Greed any day =P   Should YOU play it? Unless you are playing an Exodia deck in unofficial duels in this prerestriction era (3 of them, of course), or want to try the Megamorph combo, I would avoid it.   Score: Upstart Goblin gets a 2.5.  To be perfectly honest, this may be the lowest score I'll ever give a restricted (or soon to be restricted) card.  It can do stuff, but that's about it.
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