Ben's top ten list of underrated cards
Yo, here is my list of the ten most
underrated cards:
10) Dark Ruler Ha Des: I know he
does not seem inderrated in casual decks, but in tourney decks people often
overlook him for an Airknight, Vampire lord etc. 2450 is the second best
one tribute attack, and with a built in wicked breaking flamberge, who could not
like this guy? destroys Jinzo, negates the witch, Sangan, both jars, Nimbles
etc., I think he should be usd more often- I mean, those jars are
definitely groundbreaking.
9) Solemn judgement: Pay half of
your life points to negate, summonings and the activations of magic or trap
cards. Sure, the life point payment may be hefty but it really does
come in handy. I mean, at 4000 life points, the cost of 2000 life points
to stop something that would kill you does not seem so bad, ie. the
summing of a chaos emperor or a raigeki when they have a full
feild. I have even lopped off 4000 of my own life points to negate a cyber
jar, and because my opponent relied on that cybe jar, I summoned the next turn
and took off 3800 life points, evening the score again. This card is
really good.
8) Spell sheild type-8: I believe
this card should be in any deck. Most spell cards are staples and
restricted to one, and are really gamebreaking material. free negation of
stuff like nobleman, change of heart etc. and get a magic jammer for other stuff
like raigeki, Harpies etc. This card has pulled me out of so many jams,
because as I said before, the activation of a raigeki really does mean the game
right there.
7) Kycoo the ghost destroyer: I
think he is a bit underrated. He should gain huge recognition because he
OWNS all chaos monsters and anything with out of play, and has a solid attack of
1800. I mean, even if you do get a few attacks in, just remove the
monsters that are required to summon the chaos monsters
right?
6) Dark Master Zorc: This guy
is the best ritual monster out there. 2700 attack is solid, searchable via
the witch, and a 1/3 chance of getting a raigeki is amazing, plus another 1/3 of
destroying an opponents monster. sure, you may get your monsters
destroyed, but lets face it- how often do you roll a one? Plus easily
special summoned, especially with the contract of the abbyss, where if you get
bored trying to pull out the dark master, just ritual summon another dark
monster, say a Jinzo?
5) Dark magician of chaos: I can
remember pulling this guy our of a booster and thinking 'oh, I would have
prefered a chaos emperor of Black Luster soldier.....' but after using this guy,
I found he is worthy of every tournament deck, even though he is two
tribute. with an attack of 2800, nothing will defeat him, plus the mad
effect of gaining a spell card from your graveyard. So many combos:
discard, monster reborn him, gain back monster reborn, painful choice with a few
staple spells and him, reborn him take a choice from the spells, waste a raigeki
and/or a harpies to clear the feild for beatdown, summon him, gain it back
etc. Many, many different reasons why that effect is one of the
best. Now the remove from play part is good to get rid of witches, nimbles
etc. also remove flip effects, like a fiber jar, giving you control over what
goes back into the deck and not. The third effect really helps you as
well: it is removed from play instead of going to the graveyard. Now your
opponent cannot touch it, and can't use monster reborn and do that combo.
A brilliant card.
4) Creature swap: This card is
excellent. 1-Put your sinister is attack mode, Creature swap, deal
damage.
2- Put your yata down, Creature
swap, yata goes back to your hand.
3- Put down a searcher card,
Creature swap, kill, YOU get the effect.
4- Change of heart their weaker
monster (works best when you have no monsters), Creature swap, permanent control
over their monster (give them their original monster you took control
of).
Plus hundreds more. Usually
people who want a Jinzo out usually sacrifice the only monster on the feild to
bring him out, just incase your opponent destroys it the next turn. Should
see alot more play......
3) Ceasefire: Get rid of flip
effects, and deal damage at the same time. Who couldn't like that?
Usually you are looking at around 1000-1500 damage, which is still a damn
lot. this card is gamebreaking, especially when they place down their jars
to try and gain a little bit of momentum. Then your Airknight can trample
all over them without the hideous backlash. Oooohhhhhh
yeah.........
2) Luster dragon: Don't ask me why,
but every time someone says 'which is the strongest four star monster?'
names like Bereserk gorilla, archfeind soldier are said, but no luster
dragon. Luster dragon is THE strongest 4 star normal effect monster with
stats of 1900/1600, giving 100 extra defense against the archfeind. Why
has this card been forgotten?
1) Reflect bounder: Now, I must
admit, in my control deck, I did not run this guy because he was so easily
bypassed (summon a weaker monster, attack and the bounder is destroyed
anyway. Plus all the stuff used to destroy monsters in the spell/trap side
of the game) and that 1700 attack simply did not cut it, as beatdown was still
around. However, this guy has seen alot more play since the chaos monsters
arrived, he is about as useful in the graveyard as the field. No matter
what, your opponent will cop 1700 min.damage if they choos to attack through it,
and it will go to the graveyard anyway for chaos food.
Nice.
Well, that is my list for the ten
most underrated cards in yugioh.
Cheers.
Ben
Crawford
farooqq12@hotmail.com