Tuesday

Power Pickaxe is one of the more interesting Equip Magic Cards you are going to run across in the game. Once a turn, you can remove from play one monster in your opponent's Graveyard whose Level is less than or equal to the equipped monster.

Furthermore, the monster equipped gains 500 attack until the End Phase.
The fact that you don't get a permanent attack increase of sorts isn't very redeeming, but the ability to remove monsters from your opponent's Graveyard is interesting, if nothing else. It's not even that horrible a card, but I doubt you will see it in anyone's Deck...

Ratings:

Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 2.5/5
Art: 2/5

Power Pickaxe

This is one of the filler rares from ABPF. An equip Spell that gives the equipped monster 500 ATK until the end of the turn for removing a monster in your opponent's graveyard from play. This is an almost nonsense card, as we have far better removing cards in SOul Release, D.D. Crow and Gladiator Beast Retiari.

The measly 500 ATK until the end phase is even worse, as you don't get very much benefit at all. if it was 1000 and you could remove more than one card per turn, you would see OTK Mill decks packing this card in extreme ways. As it is it is just a filler rare and nothing more.

Traditional-1/5
Advanced-1/5

Power Pickaxe ...

A relativley simple spell card ... in that u know what it does and basicall how to make use of it. The question is only then - "should u?" and if so, then - "when?" The answer is - u probably shouldn't use it. Removing cards from your opponent's graveyard is always nice. Especially as they are gearing up for a big move. But this card falls in the category of situational. Your opponent doesn't always HAVE monsters in their graveyard. And there may be plenty of times that they don't HAVE monsters of less than equal to the level of the monster equipped. At which point - THEN what is Power Pickaxe doing for u? Not a whole lot. If u DID use it, it would be best to place it on a strong monster of high level. Chances are - it'll be able to stay on the field for a while, and since it will be stronger than most of the monsters played, it'll have the highest chance for multiple usage of Pickaxe's effect ...

Still - chances are - this will just wind up a dead draw. U don't want to waste your time with this. U wanna wipe things from your opponent's graveyard - try the seldom seen (but one of my favorites - Card Ejector. That little lady does what she loves, and loves what she does!

Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 1.5/5

- FREEZA

Power Pickaxe, one of the few good equip spell cards in the game. Once a turn it allows you to remove a monster in the opponents graveyard from play that has a level equal to or less than the equipped monster, and the equipped monster gets 500 attack until the end of the turn. This is somewhat decent, for the fact that its an equip spell card you can search it with Hidden Armory, and its a once a turn thing, so long as it stays on the field. However there are other various cards that do the same, even better. Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer is a solid 1800 attack monster that prevents your opponent from removing cards in the graveyard from play, while at the same time allows you to remove up to 2 monsters from the opponents graveyard from play everytime it inflicts battle damage. This is good for removing pesky Vayu's, Mezuki and Plaguespreader, as well as any dark monsters for that matter, to prevent Dark Armed Dragon from making an appearance, but also stopping Judgment Dragon as well when it comes to Lightsworns. Power Pickaxe would be decent in a Armed Samurai Ben Kei deck, but outside of that, I dont see this card being played much when there is Kycoo and D.D. Crow.

Traditional: 1.5/5
Advanced: 1/5

Power Pickaxe:

I don't get it. Why do we keep getting cards that are crappier versions of cards that are already do similar things... True this one is an equip card so it CAN be searched by Hidden Armory, but if you are running a deck that needs to use that combo, you've already lost anyway. I would rather run Soul Release than this card, or D.D. crow for that matter. OR Kycoo... as I said earlier, there are already cards that do something the same thing, just way better. Not to mention the artwork makes it look like a gas powered tooth-pick. OHHH scary! This is crap, use something better.

Traditional: 1.0
Advanced: 1.0

Today we review Power Pickaxe, a not so amazing equip spell. To get use out of this card, you'll need to equip it to a high-level monster, usually something like Power Tool Dragon. It has the great anti-meta ability to remove one monster a turn from the opponent's graveyard and give a lackluster 500 ATK boost during the turn as well. The Graveyard isn't as important this format as it was in past formats, and this card's deck doesn't quite need it. Power Tool Dragon can already stack his equip spells and become nigh-invincible, and there isn't much Power Pickaxe can do to help.

This is something most PTD users would want to put in the side deck in case they face Zombies or Blackwings, but often times the effect can be too slow to gain a notable advantage over other equip spells.

2.5/5
Art: Twice as lame as its effect. Probably a mechanical carrot, I don't know.
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