Due to what even I consider to be the simple nature of this card, I shall just give a brief review without my normal breakdown, since they’d be as short as or shorter than the last few, and be awkward since they’d keep referring to something out of order, even if I re-arranged the order.

 

This is a Normal Spell that pretends to be a Continuous Spell: as long as Nightmare’s Steel Cage is in play, neither player can attack.  The card automatically destroys itself after two of your opponent’s End Phases have occurred.  Naturally, if it is removed from the field, its effect disappears.

 

There is a word for this card: bait.  While most decks won’t have much use for it, seeing as they could be running Swords of Revealing Light or Messenger of Peace for more friendly, controllable attack blocking, “stall” decks or decks that just need a certain combination of Monsters in play before they can go for the win can make use of this card.  Use this early game so your opponent has to sit through it or else burn Spell/Trap removal on it… instead of on the more useful cards like Swords of Revealing Light.  Additionally, you could add a turn by using Giant Trunade on after your opponent’s first turn of being blocked.

 

I can’t say I’d recommend using a stall deck in Traditional, so this card’s not going to score too well there.  In Advanced, Stall/Burn decks aren’t half bad, and this can help them.  It can also be added to other decks, but I think we have better choices, as above.  This card currently isn’t legal for any official Limited Tournaments, but if it were, it’d be fairly nice since you could save it to buy yourself some breathing room, and possible protect enough Monsters to get a nice big Tribute Summon done.

 

Ratings

Traditional      : 1/5

Advanced        : 3/5

Limited           : N/A