Double-Edged Sword Technique is a new Trap to boost Six Samurai decks, and it looks like a good investment to me.  Out of touch though I am, I still can grasp how Six Samurai decks work.  Just to prove it… simply put once you have more than one Samurai in play, you can generate advantage through their effects.  That is reducing the actual strategy of the deck to a bare minimum, so I hope I don’t offend any Six Samurai players as I am not implying winning with them is that easy.

 

Double-Edged Sword Technique feels almost like Machine support: they are notorious for groovy, powerful effects that hurt some resource of the player (be it Monsters in play like Limiter Removal or Life Points like Power Bond).  Until the end of the turn, this card is a two for one: one Trap for two Monsters from the Graveyard.  Two is the magic number for Six Samurai, since as long as they aren’t the same guy you can get a variety of useful effects.  If your opponent is vulnerable to direct attacks, then a simple brute force application will result in the same amount of Life Points lost, leaving you down a Trap but at least closer to victory.  Well, unless you are stupid when you do it (much like when someone would be careless and use Ring of Destruction on something without noticing it’d wipe out their own Life Points).  Proper use would be things like using Double-Edged Sword Technique to revive two Samurai with useful effects, then using another effect for advantage that results in them being blown up before the actual effect of Double-Edged Sword Technique does, thus preventing any damage to yourself.  Cunning of the Six Samurai would be great here: revive two, use them, sac at least one with a Cunning, generate more advantage and avoid “the boom”.

 

The main drawback of this card is that it is a Trap in an environment with a lot of Trap hate.  Still, being Spell Speed 2 makes it more versatile and not every support card can be a Quick-Play Spell.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional: 1/5

Advanced: 3.75/5