Power Filter closer our week, a Continuous Magic
card that I have some mixed feelings about. The
effect is incredibly simple, neither player can
Special Summon monsters with 1000 attack or less.
Now, while the effect is simple, it has some
interesting ramifications for both players. This is
a Continuous Magic card, so it has all the cons
there of, however, this could be a good thing. There
are plenty of monsters that both players use that
use, yet not necessarily rely on, that have 1000
attack or less, in various Decktypes.
The Continuous aspect hurts, but in a Lockdown Deck,
it could certainly have some potential. Try it for
yourself and see what happens.
Ratings:
Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 2.5/5
Art: 4/5
Creator
OfThePoint
System
Friday:
Power Filter
This is definitely an interesting card; blocking
weak Special Summons cuts off some strategies. For
example, it stops your opponent from Special
Summoning Malicious, which cuts them off from easy
Synchro Summons with E-Teleport and Krebons.
Gladiator Beasts lose Murmillo (but not a whole lot
else). I tend to prefer some other cards to this --
if I'm going to stop specials, I'd rather do it in a
more dedicated way like Royal Oppression.
This card is one that can end up being good against
a great deck later, but right now the big Special
Summons are far over 1,000 ATK.
3/5 for future potential
General Zorpa
Power Filter
Well, this card was never good. Even when countering
Disc Commander, D.D. Crow was better. Sure,
Gladiators can't use Murmillo or Hoplomus, but that
is hardly a reason to play this card. In fact I
would easily play Prohibition in threes over this
card.
There just aren't enough 1000 ATK or less monsters
that see a lot of Special Summon play for this card
to be worth anything at all. Maybe in the future,
but that of course means a bad grade now.
Traditional-1/5
Advanced-1/5
Jeff Lang
TDGS-EN058
Power Filter
[Continuous Spell Card]
Neither player can Special Summon monsters with 1000
or less ATK.
19844995
Super Rare
Todayʼs card up for review is Power Filter. At
first glance, you may be thinking that this card is
terrible, I beg to differ. Sure I cannot see it in
top tier decks, but it can see play in Anti Meta
Decks. This card stops: Test Tiger, Destiny Hero
Malicious thinking off the top of my head. Now there
are better answers out there. Royal Oppression, and
Vanityʼs Fiend will do a better job than Power
Filter for hitting any special summoning and negate
it.
Trad: 1/5
Adv: 1/5
Ben
TDGS-EN058
Power Filter
[Continuous Spell Card]
Neither player can Special Summon monsters with 1000
or less ATK.
19844995
Super Rare
If this card read "more" in place of "less" it would
be a playable anti-meta card. Unfortunately, it
doesn't. There isn't much this is going to stop. The
only thing it will realistically stop is Destiny
Hero Malicious but there are much better answers
available like D.D. Crow.
Sorry to say, but there really isn't anything else
to talk about with this card other than the best
thing you can do with it is attempt to trade it if
you have the misfortune of getting one out of a
pack.
Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 1/5
Mr. Random
TDGS-EN058
Power Filter
[Continuous Spell Card]
Neither player can Special Summon monsters with 1000
or less ATK.
19844995
Super Rare
The effect can not be any more simple. Stop any
special summon of a monster that has 1000 or less
ATK, but in this game there is already a better
card. Royal Oppression can negate every special
summon that isn't in the damage step. Plus Royal
Oppression is chainable, any of the big monsters in
the game will not be able to use their effects and
you've just saved your self from a large hit. This
card is a continuous spell so it would work in the
damage step, but when search with Mystic Tomato or
Giant Rat, chances are it will be over 1000 ATK
anyways. The only thing this card will stop is
Treeborn Frog, but we have D.D. Crow for that
anyways.
Traditional: 1/5
Advanced: 1/5
Pwii
Ah...This card is the
answer to monarchs. Or at least, AN answer. They
have other cards that revive, but this helps a lot.
Outside of a side deck though, it's not that great,
and a dead draw in many cases.
