Your last chance to survive! Trap Card! "Glimmer of Hope"

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I thought a card like this would be fun. How does it look?

[img]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/4493/114484.jpg[/img]


Edit: Card reworded.

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I think 10's a little over-doing it. Especially if one were to have no cards to begin with, it becomes essentially 10 free cards. I think something more like giving the player a limit, in the sense that they cannot activate it above so many LP, such as, say 3000. Then it should be harder to activate, so maybe something like:

"This card can only be activated during your opponent's Battle Phase, and when your life points are 3000 or less. At the end of the Battle Phase, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 4/5/6/Whatever card."

That's just my take on this, but overall it's a pretty good concept, just needs more balance to it.

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[quote name='Hounds of Anubis' timestamp='1301909899' post='5113498']
I think 10's a little over-doing it. Especially if one were to have no cards to begin with, it becomes essentially 10 free cards. I think something more like giving the player a limit, in the sense that they cannot activate it above so many LP, such as, say 3000. Then it should be harder to activate, so maybe something like:

"This card can only be activated during your opponent's Battle Phase, and when your life points are 3000 or less. At the end of the Battle Phase, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 4/5/6/Whatever card."

That's just my take on this, but overall it's a pretty good concept, just needs more balance to it.
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You're misinterpreting it. You draw the 10 cards when you activate the trap. Then, at the end of the battle phase, your entire hand gets shuffled into your deck, including the 10 your drew.

[ChaosScene]

oh, i misinterpreted it aswell. good concept! 8/10

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Ah, my apologies then. I suppose this could work pretty well in certain deck types then. I'd personally use it with Dark World or Fabled with Depth Amulet, but I'm kinda going off-topic.

Right, seeing it this way then I don't see any real flaws with it at all, since there aren't gonna be many game-killing "activate-from-hand" effects, unless I'm forgetting something, which knowing me I probably am.

[ChaosScene]

it should also be like this: Draw 10 cards. At the end of the battle phase put the cards in your deck and shuffle. Something along those lines, i dont think draw 10 cards should be at the end. just a suggestion.

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[quote name='Hounds of Anubis' timestamp='1301910178' post='5113502']
Ah, my apologies then. I suppose this could work pretty well in certain deck types then. I'd personally use it with Dark World or Fabled with Depth Amulet, but I'm kinda going off-topic.

Right, seeing it this way then I don't see any real flaws with it at all, since there aren't gonna be many game-killing "activate-from-hand" effects, unless I'm forgetting something, which knowing me I probably am.
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It allows for cards like Battle Fader, Kuriboh, Watapon, Honest, Ogre of the Red Shadow, Gorz, etc, to find their way into your hand when you most need them. It's sort of a last resort though, since you'll have no cards in your hand at the end of the turn.

It can also give a healthy boost to Muka Muka if you happen to be using it. Since you can't use it during your own battle phase, you can't offensively power up your Muka Muka.

[quote name='ChaosScene' timestamp='1301910345' post='5113504']
it should also be like this: Draw 10 cards. At the end of the battle phase put the cards in your deck and shuffle. Something along those lines, i dont think draw 10 cards should be at the end. just a suggestion.
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Yeah, that was poor judgement on my part. To be fair I haven't slept in over 24 hours. Card reworded.

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Yeh, so it is more of a gamble than anything else, 'though I'm still not entirely sure on 10 cards, I mean that gives a huge amount of opportunities, maybe something smaller, like 6?

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[quote name='Hounds of Anubis' timestamp='1301910695' post='5113509']
Yeh, so it is more of a gamble than anything else, 'though I'm still not entirely sure on 10 cards, I mean that gives a huge amount of opportunities, maybe something smaller, like 6?
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I don't think it gives very many, since you can't play the cards you draw. I can't really think of anything more useful than getting Honest. Even then, there are two costs. 1) The direct cost, losing your hand afterward. 2) The opportunity cost. If you left this card out of your deck, you probably would have something more useful in its place.

The cards you drew go back to the deck, so you can't use any discarded abilities, or put them in the graveyard. Even if you built a deck with all hand-trigger cards, and drew 10 cards you could use from your hand during the opponent's battle phase, they aren't nearly as helpful as a Mirror Force or other card would be.

Honest, Kuriboh, Kuriboh, Watapon, Watapon, etc.

It's more of a novelty trap than anything. You know the ones, that aren't worth using in serious duels, but if you did, it would be fun? Things like Double Snare.

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Thing is, they can combo too easily with 10 cards. Get the right draw and you've now got Gorz, Tragoedia and killed something with Honest's effect. I'm not saying this will happen every time, but 10 cards just seems too much, imo with cards like this.

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[quote name='Hounds of Anubis' timestamp='1301909899' post='5113498']
I think 10's a little over-doing it. Especially if one were to have no cards to begin with, it becomes essentially 10 free cards. I think something more like giving the player a limit, in the sense that they cannot activate it above so many LP, such as, say 3000. Then it should be harder to activate, so maybe something like:

"This card can only be activated during your opponent's Battle Phase, and when your life points are 3000 or less. At the end of the Battle Phase, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 4/5/6/Whatever card."

That's just my take on this, but overall it's a pretty good concept, just needs more balance to it.
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you know Hounds of Anubis when ever i read something of yours i read it while doing Tristan Taylor's A.K.A Hiroto Honda's yugioh abridged seires voice

but i agree instead of ten make it 5 to 7 with some kind of small cost (snice your hand is going to be shuffled into your deck at the end of the battle phase)

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Hounds is right. 10 Cards can change an intense duel into a cake walk. I run a Zombie deck, and 10 cards can allow me to swarm 5 monsters and a few traps in one turn. Then i send all the other cards to combo later. All i'm saying is that 10 cards is waaaay to big of aa draw for a little requirement like that. Decrease the drawing size or increase the requirements. The picture is a little bland too.

Score: 6/10

Lol! It is pretty funny and fitting, isn't it Jude?! No offense Hounds.

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OCG Correction: This card can only be activated during your opponent's Battle Phase. When activated, draw 10 cards. At the end of your opponent's Battle Phase the turn this card was activated, shuffle your entire hand into your Deck.

Overall, I seems balanced...but it is like only meant for a Defense made Deck. And in order to win a duel, you would need more than just Defense, so this card does not seem to have much use and I do not think many people use those cards (mentioned in earlier posts) anymore. So it is kind of a 'never use, everyone has' kind of thing.

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With that I agree, and disagree. It's very easy to swarm with this + Ultimate offering, especially if one had Gadgets, for example, they would be practically guaranteed for a whole field swarm, along with some tribute summons in there.

As for the picture comment, it's just a glimmer, it's kinda meant to be bland, isn't it?


(lol @ The comments on how my posts sound. Does this give my posts super strength?)

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"this card can only be activate during your opponent's battle phase then your entire hand is resuffled into your deck at the end of the battle phase"

so how can you swarm (besides Gorz or Tragoedia)

i guess what he was going for a card that can active while in your hand to help out during the battle phase ??? i guess ???

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Like I said, Ultimate Offering.

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[quote name='Hounds of Anubis' timestamp='1301913476' post='5113541']
does my posts gives me super strength ???
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yes yes it does