Now we are reviewing one of my favorite cards not to have become adopted by the majority at some point or another. Essentially this card increases the speed of any deck that’s it in, but at a steep cost. For those extra two draws which you have acquired you must be willing to give up your next two draw phases making this card when played by itself a negative one in terms of advantage. Hopefully you as card players will now understand that advantage isn’t everything, well I certainly have. Let’s review the good points of this card.

• It provides easily draw speed for people who need it
• It’s a common card so easily obtainable
• The effects do not stack, but overlap
• It can be chained to magic and trap destruction

Lets look at that last statement for a second. Playing reckless greed in response to used magic and trap destruction is a very good idea. It neutralizes this negative one effect.

Secondly as the effects do not stack you can play 2 in the same turn and only skip your next 2 draw phases. This essentially gives you 4 cards in your hand for limited resource expenditure. It’s even better if both are chained to Heavy Storm, Breaker, Mystical Space Typhoon, Mobius the Frost Monarch or any other numerous Magic/Trap removals. Again this applies when activating Offerings to the Doomed. If you play Offerings to the Doomed with Reckless Greed you only skip the next 2 draw phases.

George Bush: I set one magic card face down

Tony Blair: I active Mystical Space typhoon on your face down

George Bush: Chain Reckless Greed Draws Two

Tony Blair: Dam!

Are you starting to see why I like it? It allows the player to refill their hand and it’s so easy to neutralize the cost of this card. There’s a good reason why this card is limited. It’s also a good idea to run this card with Jar of Greed’s at 3. Running these makes most of their magic and trap removal less then useless. Another thing to note is try to run mask of darkness with both of these cards. Typically moves will be like this.

George Bush: Set 1 face down Magic/Trap and one face down monster

Tony Blair: Summon and attack face down monster

George Bush: I Chain Reckless Greed Draws Two

George Bush: Flip Mask of Darkness Gets back Reckless Greed

Then of course on the next turn reset reckless greed.

Recently I came second in a tournament with a deck that ran 2 of these so lets state which decks this would have impact in. Well essentially its any deck which needs to speed up their hand, needs to draw more cards then your opponent, needs to push for that extra win or combo reliant decks. These decks include:

• Dark World
• Exodia
• Diamond Dude Turbo
• OTK Variants.

To conclude, if your deck needs X card to win, this offers a way to get it faster. Reckless greed is very much a card that can overwhelm your opponent.

Advanced: 4

Traditional: 3