ZOMG! I can't believe it's this card that's the next preview. Cause this card ROCKS!
First, let's see it's ability.
Ancient Lamp
Wind Spellcaster lv 3
ATK 900 DEF 1400
When this face-down Defense Position card is attacked by your opponent's monster, you can make 1 opponent's monster (except the attacking monster) be attacked instead. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Special Summon 1 "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp" from your hand.
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First, it's stats is pretty much crap. And we know WIND doesn't have that much support. And it's 2nd effect of summining "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp is kinda" stupid too. (It's a normal monster. So let's ignore those stuff and focus on where this card shines, the first effect.
Basically, when this card is smacked while set face-down defense, it can redirect the attack to one of your foe's monster instead. This is a killer ability cause.
#1: It negates an attack.
#2: It can destroy 1 monster of your foe, or at least do LP damage.
#3: Screw up the whole battle phase of your foe.
Let's see some examples.
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Your foe have DDA, Donny.
Your foe attacks with DDA, Ancient Lamp makes it attack Donny instead. DDA destroys Donny and your foe lose LP. Not to mention DDA already attacked, and your foe's 2nd monster is destroyed so it also can't attack. It just screwed up the whole swarming process. If your foe had a Cyber Dragon and ATK position Spirit Reaper, you just negated Cyber Dragon's attack, your foe lost LP, and you also stopped Spirit Reaper from forcing you a discard.
If the foe had two of the same ATK points on the field. (Say 2x Hydrogeddon) both are destroyed. Your foe lose 2 monsters while I still have 1 on the field. If it was 2x DDA, both gets removed from play.
Basically, it's one of the best counters of swarming. And oh man, I love to swarm and blitz attack... this card can totally screw that up along with OTK strats as well. (Cyber-Stein to Cyber End Dragon? Ha, make Cyber End Dragon attack Cyber-Stein instead and your foe get's an OTK cause of 5000LP + 3300LP loss.)
Of course, this card also have it's weaknesses.
It's effect is only active when face-down, so once it's face-up and used it's effect, it's a normal monster with crappy stats. Meaning, it's one-time use and then it's destroyed. (So doesn't last long like Reapers) Not to mention since this card's effect is face-down defense, you can't use CotH, Premature to use it's effect again. However, this isn't too bad as Book of Moon and Tsukuyomi can be a good remedy to repeatedly use this card effect. If you want to pick this card from the graveyard and use it again. The Shallow Grave or Pot of Avarice is a good remedy.
This card's effect can only activate when your foe have at least 2 monsters or more. So if your foe's attacing with 1 card, this card just dies. This also means this card is a crappy top decking during the end games where it's just 1 vs 1 monster. However, this card is a great top decker during the mid-games when your losing cause you got no monsters and your foe is swarming and direct attacking like crazy. If your worried about your foe don't having 2 monsters on the field, you can opt for Ojama Trio.
And finally, this card just get's pwned by MSlv2. And well, against that... there's no remedy... (Except for Saku and stuff. but ya know, Saku's for everything.)
Is this card splashable... perhaps. I mean, there's alot of swarm decks these days. (Warrior Toolbox comes to mind. One of the popular top tier metagame decks.) But I won't say it's 100% splashable though. but I think this card can fit in side-decks pretty well.
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In the end, I give it a
9 out of 10.
A great card. And now people will think twice before just swarm attacking all day. (eek for me)
First, let's see it's ability.
Ancient Lamp
Wind Spellcaster lv 3
ATK 900 DEF 1400
When this face-down Defense Position card is attacked by your opponent's monster, you can make 1 opponent's monster (except the attacking monster) be attacked instead. While this card is face-up on the field, you can Special Summon 1 "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp" from your hand.
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First, it's stats is pretty much crap. And we know WIND doesn't have that much support. And it's 2nd effect of summining "La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp is kinda" stupid too. (It's a normal monster. So let's ignore those stuff and focus on where this card shines, the first effect.
Basically, when this card is smacked while set face-down defense, it can redirect the attack to one of your foe's monster instead. This is a killer ability cause.
#1: It negates an attack.
#2: It can destroy 1 monster of your foe, or at least do LP damage.
#3: Screw up the whole battle phase of your foe.
Let's see some examples.
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Your foe have DDA, Donny.
Your foe attacks with DDA, Ancient Lamp makes it attack Donny instead. DDA destroys Donny and your foe lose LP. Not to mention DDA already attacked, and your foe's 2nd monster is destroyed so it also can't attack. It just screwed up the whole swarming process. If your foe had a Cyber Dragon and ATK position Spirit Reaper, you just negated Cyber Dragon's attack, your foe lost LP, and you also stopped Spirit Reaper from forcing you a discard.
If the foe had two of the same ATK points on the field. (Say 2x Hydrogeddon) both are destroyed. Your foe lose 2 monsters while I still have 1 on the field. If it was 2x DDA, both gets removed from play.
Basically, it's one of the best counters of swarming. And oh man, I love to swarm and blitz attack... this card can totally screw that up along with OTK strats as well. (Cyber-Stein to Cyber End Dragon? Ha, make Cyber End Dragon attack Cyber-Stein instead and your foe get's an OTK cause of 5000LP + 3300LP loss.)
Of course, this card also have it's weaknesses.
It's effect is only active when face-down, so once it's face-up and used it's effect, it's a normal monster with crappy stats. Meaning, it's one-time use and then it's destroyed. (So doesn't last long like Reapers) Not to mention since this card's effect is face-down defense, you can't use CotH, Premature to use it's effect again. However, this isn't too bad as Book of Moon and Tsukuyomi can be a good remedy to repeatedly use this card effect. If you want to pick this card from the graveyard and use it again. The Shallow Grave or Pot of Avarice is a good remedy.
This card's effect can only activate when your foe have at least 2 monsters or more. So if your foe's attacing with 1 card, this card just dies. This also means this card is a crappy top decking during the end games where it's just 1 vs 1 monster. However, this card is a great top decker during the mid-games when your losing cause you got no monsters and your foe is swarming and direct attacking like crazy. If your worried about your foe don't having 2 monsters on the field, you can opt for Ojama Trio.
And finally, this card just get's pwned by MSlv2. And well, against that... there's no remedy... (Except for Saku and stuff. but ya know, Saku's for everything.)
Is this card splashable... perhaps. I mean, there's alot of swarm decks these days. (Warrior Toolbox comes to mind. One of the popular top tier metagame decks.) But I won't say it's 100% splashable though. but I think this card can fit in side-decks pretty well.
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In the end, I give it a
9 out of 10.
A great card. And now people will think twice before just swarm attacking all day. (eek for me)