Soul Drain

[TheKaitoKid]

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So I was wondering, how does this card fare in the current meta? I side it in most of my decks to put a halt to shenanigans pulled off by Mermanteans, Dark Worlds and Fire Kings. But I meant outside of DN is it any good?

[Miror B]

PEOPLE NEED TO STOP SAYING IT NEGATES AFDSKLGJJFDFALJFDS *punches wall*

Beats DW, Mermails and my 60 card floater deck. Stops Lightpulsar as well but it's really only used when things like Macro hurt your deck too much.

[ihop]

The most annoying thing is people who believe this stops Rabbit. grr

Personally I'll always prefer Macro/Fissure and there are few Decks in which this is better.

[Agro]

In all fairness, it should have stopped Rabbit.

[.Leo]

I prefer running Macro most of the time (mainly because the decks I use would rather run Macro). Card is still good though, definitely not a bad option in the current meta game.

[Toffee.]

Rabbit is a field-effect.
Why the hell would someone think you Banish Rabbit, in order to activate the effect of said Banished rabbit?
Banishing it from the [u]Field[/u] is it's cost/activation, to activate it from that very same place.

[Miror B]

[quote name='Armadilloz' timestamp='1354651684' post='6085210']
Rabbit is a field-effect.
Why the hell would someone think you Banish Rabbit, in order to activate the effect of said Banished rabbit?
Banishing it from the [u]Field[/u] is it's cost/activation, to activate it from that very same place.
[/quote]
Because they think this works like Skill Drain for Banished monsters.

[newhat]

This card, like Dimensional Fissure, is a great Side in Decks that use the Graveyard but don't need to activate any monster effects in it. Gishki for instance.

[Ranma 1/2]

What the f*ck? Last time I read this, I could've SWORN I didn't see the 'banished' part. Where the hell did this come from?

Anyway, I wish it would stop Effect Veiler. -___-

[Synchronized]

Still see no reason to run this. Macro Cosmos stops Atlanteans/Mermails better and it doesn't completely hinder the Deck in the process. Plus, Macro works well against even a random Sangan, Mystic Tomato, Gravekeeper's, etc.

[Wildflame]

[quote name='- Neo -' timestamp='1354719591' post='6085927']
Still see no reason to run this. Macro Cosmos stops Atlanteans/Mermails better and it doesn't completely hinder the Deck in the process. Plus, Macro works well against even a random Sangan, Mystic Tomato, Gravekeeper's, etc.
[/quote]

Some decks just can't afford to run Macro.

[ihop]

But the Decks that can't afford to run Macro can rarely afford to run this.

[evilfusion]

Shuts down Dark Worlds and a few other cards. Well, except Grapha's revival, but it's hard to get more advantage when your Dark Worlds suddenly stop netting those plusses.

The most important thing to note is it says the effects cannot be ACTIVATED. It does not negate them. Chaining this to an effect that activates in the Graveyard will not stop it (because it's already activated, and is not being negated, same reason Safe Zone doesn't stop a targeting effect it chained to).

It doesn't stop on-Field effects because Skill Drain and Soul Drain work in completely different ways. Soul Drain says the effect cannot be activated from Grave/Banished, and Skill Drain says monsters that are faceup on the Field are negated. If Skill Drain also prevented activations, Stardust, Rabbit, etc would not work. Skill also requires the monsters to be faceup when they resolve, so them becoming facedown or leaving the Field before resolution will allow them to resolve normally.

Compared to Veiler/etc which negate effects that activate or apply on the Field, regardless of where they are when they resolve.