Effect(s): D.D. Dynamite inflicts 300 points of damage to your opponent for each of their cards removed from play.  Even with Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning a common deck sight, it is usually the only remove-from-play-to-summon Monster people are running, and thus against most decks, you’ll be scoring 600 damage.  Of course, so long as you use some decent combinations to remove more of your opponent’s stuff from play, you can fatten this up quite a bit.  So the effect seems good: in general it is not very useful, but so long as you can afford at least a few cards to combo with it, you’re going to get some very nice damage out of it.

 

Stats: This is Trap, and because of the nature of it’s effect (variable burn), this is good.  It might be a tad better as a Quick-Play Spell, since it could then be used right away, but the important thing is that it is Spell Speed 2 and thus be activated in response or in chain, as it opens several combos, mainly oriented in jacking up the damage from it after it has activated but before it resolves.  Both categories of card are open to a lot of negation: Jinzo and Royal Decree are common to hurt Traps, but nuke your own as well.  Magic Jammer and Magic Drain may have manageable costs but are one time deals (though they are not restricted).

 

Uses and

Combinations: Soul Release and Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer immediately spring to mind, since they are not uncommon sights and will boost your damage done.  BLS itself can remove in-play Monsters, and is in so many decks, you’d think it would have occurred to me first.  Probably didn’t since the important thing is everything else about the card; it doesn’t matter where the Monster it removes goes, just as long as it is gone, eh?

 

Let us return to the matter at hand.  There is another card that can remove your opponent’s cards (in the Graveyard) from play, and the only limit to the amount is how many they have in the discard: Fiend Comedian.  Of course, this Trap has two powerful downsides: it is based on calling a coin toss, and thus half the time it fails.  In addition to not touching the opponent’s Graveyard, when called wrong you have to discard as many cards from your deck as your opponent has in their Graveyard.  Fortunately, there are ample combinations around this, and if their discard isn’t too full, thinning your own deck by a few cards can be a welcome sight: we do have a lot more recursion now.  The combo between the two cards and a substantially full opposing Graveyard can be quite, quite rewarding: activate a seemingly week D.D. Dynamite, then chain Fiend Comedian.  If you get heads, it may be game!  Just 10 cards would yield 3000 points of burn damage!  Yes, you may grossly deplete your own deck doing this, but if you are in a bad spot, a 50-50 chance of a win is worth it.

 

With all this support, you might even consider building a deck around it.  There is even another card to sweeten the deal: Graverobber’s Retribution.  This Continuous Trap inflicts 100 points of damage per Monster removed from your opponent’s Graveyard during each of your Standby phases.  I have been on the receiving end of it in the past, and it was very, very annoying when it only had Soul Release and Kycoo.  Other decks to consider main-decking it are Removal-Depletion,

 

Ratings

 

Traditional: 3/5-Why so high?  Removal Depletion (decking an opponent out and removing cards to prevent recovery) exists here with Fiber Jar to reset your own deck, and Removal Depletion Burn isn’t too much of a stretch.  Decent main/side deck option to since it frustrates Chaos.

 

Advanced: 3.5/5-Same as above, but Life Points tend to fluctuate less wildly here and Fiber Jar being absent also hurts Removal Depletion decks (they could burn through themselves then keep resetting).

 

Limited: 1/5-Anything remove from play in this set?  No?  Then it’s just for bluffing.