Grave Protector AST-077

Woot!!! Total fiendness!!!

Alright my turn...

Here's a card most people haven't even heard of...:

Grave Protector/Dark/Fiend/ 4 Star/ATK0/DEF2000
Effect: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, monsters that are destroyed as a result of battle are returned to the owner's Deck instead of being sent to the Graveyard. The deck is then shuffled.


This card isn't really deck but more like side deck material. It basically sends anything sent to the graveyard via battle to the deck. Its great for an opponent that uses zombies,Chaos(Chaos fuel is sent to the deck),or any other deck that lives on its graveyard. It also goes against what most duelists try to do.....Deck thinning (Searchers,Sangan elemental,Sinister etc.)

But beware, this effect can also very well work against you....
Example: Opponent BEWD , You Sinister Serpent,insert Tribute monster here,and maybe necrofear food.
To truly utilize this effect you MUST!!! have the bigger stronger monster or see your field be returned to your deck.


Pros:
+ Counter to: Chaos,Zombie Chaos,Fiend,Anything that needs grave for recursion or special summoning
+ 2000 DEF
+ Fiend,dark
+ Great monster to swap...0 ATK

Cons
- Effect could work against you

Overall: 3.0/5
Put it in your side deck.

 

[Mazera DeVille]

This card has a nice effect, but currently the effect does not last too long in the current metagame basically because there is huge amounts of monster removal out there. Minus that, this card does have true potential, it can make Deck searchers useless in that they have to go to the graveyard for the effect to work, shame it does not work for effects as well.

 

[squid]

Most inventive use Ive heard for it was getting it face up on the field and suiciding your Immortal of Thunder into your opponent. That way you gain the LP from IoT's effect but not take the damage, since the monster never made it to the Graveyard.

 

[Digital Jedi]

The 2000 defence is sometimes not enough, but it can be useful at the right time. I've alwasy felt that its best use is in a deck built around it in someway.

 

[kagadesires]

Seems to me that this is nothing more than a worse version of Banisher of the Light. Quite honestly, I would rather have the threats (both monster AND non-monster) removed from the game, rahter than just put back in the deck to be used again. Granted, yes it stops searchers, V-Lord, etc. But only if you kill them through battle. Banisher stops them forever, sans something dumb like Dimension Fusion. I will concede that Grave Protector is MUCH better in a Fiend deck, though, than Banisher, simply because you would rather have your Ha Des and the such back in the deck rather than removed form the game where Necrofear can never reach it...but come on. Isn't Kuriboh a better choice for Fiend decks than him? If you want a fiend, go with Kuriboh, Jeroid, or Newdoria. If you want a wall, go with
Gear Golem. If you want a side deck card to stop searchers, Banisher is the better choice. Not a bad card, it is just that there ARE better options out there.