All right Pojoers, we end the week with the Normal Trap Power Frame.  It can only be activated when a face-up monster you control is selected as an attack target by an opponent’s monster with a higher ATK.  Neither is hugely restrictive: attacking is a fundamental part of winning the game for 95% of decks; higher if we are talking good decks.  Sometimes a player will attack with something smaller due to an effect or desire to “suicide it” (again, usually to trigger an effect) but by and large, you’ll have your opponent’s larger monster attacking your smaller.   The effect negates that attack (okay, but destroying is usually preferred) and then you equip Power Frame to the monster that was attacked.  The equipped monster gains ATK equal to the difference between the two Monsters.  So Stardust Dragon decides to run over your beatstick, you can pump up your beatstick. 

Problem is what to do after that.  You aren’t bigger than what attacked you, and it seems like a waste to use the saved monster as Tribute fodder or the like.  The best you seem to be able to do is suicide right back into them… only they might activate a Sakurestu Armor and now you’re worse off than when you started.

 There is a small bright side to this card.  First there are a few monsters with built in protection from dying in battle.  This… just becomes a fancy way to increase ATK.  That’s not really all that good, is it?  Okay, I’ll try one more: Armed Samurai – Ben Kei and friends can use this to seriously beef up, then next turn slap another ATK boosting card down (or something to enable direct attacks) and then go to town.

 This wasn’t a bad idea, but I think they could have allowed it to straight-up add the attackers ATK to the equipped monster.  It’s just easier to run something to blow up the opposing monster.

 Ratings

 Traditional: 1/5
 Advanced: 2/5

 I’d also like to add I’ll be selling quite a bit of my soon-to-be-former possessions on eBay.  You can take a look here at my second auction if you’re interested in a Nintendo GameCube with some accessories and 17 games!  Just a reminder, Pojo is in no way responsible for this and was merely kind enough to let me mention the auction here. ;)