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Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh Card of the Day
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Magician of
Faith
Common
Spellcaster / Effect Monster
FLIP: Select 1 Spell Card from your Graveyard and
return it to your hand.
Type
- Light / 1 / 300 / 400
Card Number
- SDJ-017
Ratings
are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being
the worst. 3 ... average. 5 is the highest rating
Date Reviewed - 8.5.04
Previously Reviewed:
07.31.02 |
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ExMinion OfDarkness |
Thursday:
Magician of Faith
Wow. Just...wow. I used this card in my first Deck,
and haven't used it since Labyrinth of Nightmare. And
once again, this card rises from the ashes, begging
for use.
Two of the biggest things this card has to fear are
now gone; Raigeki and Change of Heart. Yes, there are
the Creature Swaps, but at that point you'll have a
way to try to make sure they don't get your MoF's
effect (Torrential on a summon they do that turn, or
your own Dark Hole, etc...)
Nobleman pwnz this. Just about everyone was running
one Nobleman of Crossout and a second side-decked. But
half the people were also running MoF.
With so much less hand negation being played with the
loss of Delinquent and Yata (hardly anyone ran Dons;
only Confiscation and The Forceful Sentry were
played), this card suddenly became safer to play. And
to top it all off, it's Chaos food.
Seriously...try running MoFs in your Chaos and see how
it works.
3.75/5 |
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Tranorix |
Thursday: Magician of Faith
Magician of Faith is one of the best Flip Effect
monsters in the game. Due to all of the drawbacks they
have: being slow, being too susceptible to monster
removal, being weak, Flips usually aren't played very
often, unless they have incredible effects. Magician
of Faith is played quite often.
Her stats are crap, but that isn't important. She's
Witchable and Sanganable, not to mention LIGHT, which
means good Chaos food. She also metamorphoses into
Thousand Eyes Restrict. Her effect needs no
explaining. Get back Raigeki; get back Duster; get
back Pot; get back Graceful; get back ANYTHING you
need. There are many great Magic Cards available, and
MoF can fetch every single one of them back for a
second use.
The biggest drawback is really that your opponent can
use MoF against you. There's nothing more annoying
than having your own Magician Change of Hearted and
flipped, only for your opponent to get Change of Heart
right back. That aside, she's still an excellent
choice for most decks.
Typical tournament deck: 4/5
LIGHT deck, using Apprentice Magician: 4.5/5
OVERALL RATING: 4.3/5 |
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Otaku |
Stats:
Magician of Faith was once the girl everyone wanted…
and for a while, that everyone had three copies of
main-decked. However, times change, and people found
that two copies were almost as useful but slowed down
the deck less. Then came the Nobleman of
Crossout-but I digress, as
this section is meant to cover her stats. So, what
are they? Well, Magician of Faith is a Level 1
Spellcaster of Light.
This means she can slip under Level Limit-Area B and
Gravity Bind. She can be used for some
Spellcaster tricks. Light
means she can be Chaos food, which is one of the
reasons she’s seeing action again. It’s definitely
not for her ATK or DEF: an abysmal 300/400. She won’t
be attacking unless you are desperate.
Effect(s):
Magician of Faith always did have a near game-breaking
effect: nabbing a spent Spell Card. Roughly half of
ever restricted, semi-restricted (and banned if that
is being used) card that sees play in general decks
are Spell cards. Getting a second one is often
amazing. So what happened? This is a Flip Effect.
Before Book of Taiyou,
that meant a turn of waiting, and hoping it’d go off
at the right moment. Sometimes it’d get nuked
facedown. Sometimes it’d get flipped before anything
it could recycle ended up in the Graveyard. Most
annoying is when it would get nailed by an opposing
Change of Heart and then flipped, always at least able
to reclaim that Change of Heart. The primary reason,
though, was the advent of the Nobleman of
Crossout (a.k.a.
NoXout). That card has a
somewhat cyclical nature-first,
there are a lot of flip effects, so people start to
run NoXout. These people
enjoy a great advantage, and people copy this. Since
you don’t want to run a lot of Flip-Effect Monsters
yourself if you run NoXout
(its effects also apply to copies of the targeted
Monster in your own deck), Flip-Effect use begins to
decline, eventually leading
NoXout to migrate to the Side Deck or even be
completely dropped. This allows Flip Effect Monsters
to see more play again, which then re-attracts
NoXout use and the whole
thing keeps going round and round.
Uses/Combinations:
Book of Taiyu for an
expensive second shot-patience and good Spells for
just about any Chaos Deck, and some Light and/or
Spellcaster ones. Most
other decks can just make do without it. It’s not too
complicated a card, really. Some might use Book of
the Moon with Book of Taiyu
for some crazy master-set up schemes (not a bad idea
if you already run a Spell recycling Monster like Dark
Magician of Chaos) to risk saving them up to recycle
like the perfect 3 Spell combination.
Ratings
Casual:
3-3.5/5- When I say cyclical, I mean it. When
NoXout is everywhere, it’s
a 3/5. It’s never really a bad card, but as you may
recall, a “3/5” card from me is pretty common, and
means you should consider it if you have room. When
NoXout is in decline, it’s
a little better, but still something you can take or
leave for most decks.
Tournament:
2.5-3/5- In a more ruthless environment, when
NoXout starts showing up,
Magician of Faith becomes a huge liability. When it
goes down, it’s one of those “if I have room” cards.
There might be a reason to consider it again though-if
you see most Chaos decks running it, tossing a few in
might be good-nail it yourself to get rid of theirs
while thinning your deck.
Limited:
1/5-5/5-Sorry for the seeming double-talk. This card
is entirely dependant upon what else you got. No
Spells? It is just a body for blocking. Pull
something amazing (or using Starter Decks)? Nothing
like getting to use a broken card again-especially as
your are almost guaranteed
the effect here.
Summary
Given what it’s new life is dependant upon, the
chaotic nature of my review makes sense. ;P |
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MerrilHess |
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JAELOVE |
Thursday: Magician of Faith
Rated
For: Any Deck, especially Chaos.
Magician of Faith, a stalwart since the
Metal Raiders days, will see more and more play after
Change of Heart is banned. We saw this card at the
World Championships because it's a light monster with
an awesome effect that does not need fear Change of
Heart any longer. How good is it? Let's see.
Advantage F/H:
This
card has the potential to provide enormous advantages
if the effect goes off. In fact, a successful Magician
of Faith effect deserves a perfect score. Of course,
flip effects aren't reliable, activating about half
the time. A 7.5 seems acceptable when weighing the
gains versus the costs. However, this is a card can
block in a pinch too, raising it half a point to a
solid 8/10.
Best
Draw for the Situation:
In
today's pre-ban environment, you'd be a very foolhardy
adventurer to simply set this card blindly. Believe
me, getting your own MoF change of hearted is one of
the most momentum swinging occurrences that can happen
in the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! period. It also depends on
good spells in the graveyard to retrieve. However, it
is nevertheless a solid draw in the mid-end phases of
play, and serves in a pinch to get a light monster
into the graveyard. 7.5/10.
Attributes/Effect:
This
card is searchable by Witch/Sangan, is a light
monster, can be retrieved with Night Assailant, and
has one of the most broken effects in the game. Its
slow flip-effect status, coupled with pathetic stats,
brings it down two points to
8/10.
Dependability:
The
aforementioned Change of Heart killer makes most decks
run two, at most, of this card. Besides that, however,
this card also depends on you having a good spell in
the graveyard. It can also be taken down by Raigeki/Dark
Hole, Magical Scientist, and Nobleman of Crossout.
Along with those shortcomings, the Change of Heart
threat in particular brings MoF's dependability down
five points to a 5/10.
The
Bottom Line:
Run
plenty of pre-negators to prevent the Change of Heart
threat. Also, keep in mind that Change of Heart's
banning alone brings this card's score up to an 80/100
or higher. Finally, realize that a 71/100 makes this
one of the better light monsters, so run it in Chaos,
period.
A BAD
Score: 28.5/40= 71/100.
Cards it combos well with:
Book
of Taiyou, Ceasefire, Book of Moon, Imperial Order,
Magic Jammer, Magic Drain, Good Spell Cards, Chaos
Monsters, Apprentice Magician. |
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