Stats/Effect(s)   : Flint is an Equip Spell card.  A monster equipped with it can’t change Battle Position, can’t attack, and has its ATK reduced by 300 points!  Now, on is own, this would be pretty gimmicky-might as well boost your own guy than weaken another, and you might as well destroy a face up opposing Monster rather than just stop it from attacking while its on the field.  Sure, it’s nice that they can’t shift its position, but the card needs more.  Fortunately, Flint does one more thing: when the Monster it is equipped to is destroyed, it re-quips itself to the Monster in play of your choice.  All together, this becomes a solid effect.  Is there anyway to make good use of it though?

 

Uses and

Combinations  : Defensively, Flint can be used to hamper an opponent.  You not only might make them weak enough to safely kill in battle, but if timed right, you can keep shifting it to the opponent’s next Monster.  Is your opponent using a relatively straight forward Beatdown deck?  This drops Berserk Gorilla down to a manageable 1700 ATK where your Kycoo can kill it, then shift the Flint to another Berserk Gorilla to nail next turn.  The obvious downside is that if the only Monster remaining in play is one of your own, it gets equipped instead.  This can range from being annoying (the Monster wasn’t going to live much longer anyway), to barely noticeable (it tries to equip itself to Gearfried and is destroyed) to really nasty (you are forced to destroy your own three Spirit Reapers).  Given this, and the fact that most of us would prefer to simply destroy an opponent’s face-up Monster, I am inclined to believe I had to miss some useful combination.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1.05/5-On the obscure chance you top deck and freeze your opponent’s Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning or the like and it saves you, I awarded a twentieth of a point.

 

Advanced        : 2/5-Here it could pull that lifesaver trick a bit more realistically… and it could help turn around a game where you finally summon one monster and, with Flint, you can overturn a field of beatsticks… or at least kills something you normally couldn’t.

 

Limited            : 3.5/5-Here ATK scores are less stable, so it becomes much more useful since 300 can and often will spell the difference between a win and a loss.

 

Summary

Unless I am missing something, this is one of those cards that seem to have potential, but ultimately don’t.  It’s only really useful if your opponent is running certain deck types or Monsters (Raging Flame Sprite or Swarm decks with relatively lower powered Monsters) that can be handled just as well by several other, less specific cards.