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Mystic Wok by Xyverus

Hello, I'm a player who has been playing this game for three and a half years and I figured I'd start up an article for pojo about obscure cards and deck types. So let's get straight to the point. Today's card(I'll switch off from card to deck-type every week) is the oh so misunderstood Mystic Wok. The basics of this card are it is a quickplay spell card from Ancient Sanctuary that allows the player to tribute their monster and select either attack or defense and gain that much in lifepoints. Right there, that's very fast lp gain but for a pretty major costs. But this card is a card usually not used as a "summon monster and wok it" card so therefore I have listed out the many many MANY ways to use the Wok.
1.Basic necesity of lp tribute some monster so you have more lp for cost effects i.e. premature,brain control, duo, etc.
2. Lava Golem! You will be weeping for joy when you have been golemed and you topdeck the Wok and say " I don't think I will pay 1000 lp, I think I'm gonna tribute that slab of animated magma and gain 3000lp!"
3. Basic Destruction. Whenever your opponent just tries to nobleman, ring, vortex, cyber jar, man-eater or night assailant,removed by BLS, ect., you can just wok ur monster and gain the lp or save damage or a monster from being removed.
4. This is 3 continued but different so lets say you attack and your opponent activates that game-winning cylinder...Wok your monster! You just saved yourself by gaining back what you lost. Also if your monster walks in to a mirror force wok it so at least your geeting some lp.
5. Monster stealing. So basically if your opponent snatches or brain controls your monster you can wok your monster b4 it goes over to them. And it works in reverse too if you want to brain control or snatch their monster you can Wok it before it goes back to them. Oh yeah don't forget enemy controller!
6. M/T destruction. Lets say your opponent destroys your spell or trap card that is attached to one of your monsters that is keeping it on your field (such as premature,call, the impending embodiment of apophis,etc) wok it!
7. Attack avoidance. This is when player A's monster attacks player B's monster. Player B activates Mystic wok destroying their own monster and Player A's monster attack doesn't do anything.
8. Getting a tad abstract. a. Getting nice lp gain for that goblin attack force or Giant orc. b. Not losing to ceasefire(tribute away effect monster)c. destroying thousand eyes(so you can attack and gain lp from that equipped monster)d.soul exchange(tribute opponent's monster for lp gain) e.Brain jacker and jowls of dark demise( very fun combos here) f. Alot of lp gain( A BLS w/ mage power and united we stand w/ 4 other monsters(goats anyone?) and 5 m/t and then wok'd gains the player 9500 lp. Yay! g. I'm getting tired, see how many more you can think of.

All in all Mysic Wok is a great card so I rate it 9.5/10 and the minus .5 because magical scientist and elma are banned.
Next time I will show how interesting an ectoplasmer deck can be
Till then Wok it like it's hot,
Xyverus Katran