Friday, June 1st

Well, it's the first day of June, and to start it off we look at a watered down version of an old favorite.

Radiant Mirror Force

Normal Trap

Activate only when your opponent declares an attack and controls 3 or more Attack position monsters. Destroy all Attack position monsters your opponent controls.

It's a Mirror Force with a much steeper activation requirement.  THREE ATTACK POSITION MONSTERS.  Most players won't attack with more than 2 monsters at a time, especially not without something waiting in the wings.  And a good deck won't let the opponent get 3 monsters out in the first place.  And plus, right now we have regular Mirror Force, plus Sakuretsu and Widespread.  Why play Radiant Mirror Force right now?

Sorry for the short review. But with a better version playable, and how hard this one is to use, there isn't much point to this card right now....

Traditional: 1.5/5 (Mirror Force anyone?)

Advanced: 1.5/5 (Mirror Force anyone?)

Art: 4/5

Radiant Mirror Force

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First off, I forgot to put this in my first review, but I’d like to thank Pojo for allowing me to do COTD reviews for you guys, I hope you enjoy the reviews and learn as much as you can about the cards that we cover. Now, on to the review.

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Well for having the words “Mirror Force” in it’s name, you’d think it’d be better than this, but then again, we did get “Dark Mirror Force”…

RMF requires the opponent to have 3 attack position monsters, and for one of them to declare an attack, then you can kill all of the attack position monsters they have on their field. Lets count how many times you’ll see this and realistically be able to use this card:

1. Against Perfect Circle: with their field swarming capabilities you might be able to pull it off (if they haven’t killed you with Thestalos or Zaborg by then, or bounced RMF back with Raiser).
2. Against Lazaro Monarchs: If they haven’t killed this off with Mobius or bouncing it with Raiser, you’ll still be killing a trooper or something you don’t want to kill.
3. Against a desperate Demise player who can’t pay for Demise and has to use his field of 3 monsters to run you over, but chances of this are slim.
4. The highest chance of using this would be against Six Samurai. They can swarm the field very fast, bringing out 3-5 monsters in a single turn if they have the perfect set-up, but even then, half the time it’ll be with Yaichi, which kills this ANYWAY, so YOU really have to have the perfect set-up to use this.

So basically, the only times you’ll want to use this card is for fun at a local tournament or with friends. When you play against players at your local tournament that aren’t very good, they’ll overextend into this fairly often, so it might be fun, but running 3 would be very excessive. Overall, Konami tried to make this as one of those “replacements for a restricted/banned card”, but they really failed. Then again, it’s hard to make a good replacement for Mirror Force when we already have Sakuretsu Armor. Sakuretsu Armor is the only card that can really replace mirror force with it’s reliability, even if it only kills one monster.

Bottom Line: The requirement for this card is just too unrealistic, even in the current Hyper Aggressive meta. Even if you CAN somehow pull this off, they still probably have you beat, having more advantage than you anyway (otherwise why would they overextend in the first place).

RATING: 4/10