Deal of Phantom

[SANDAA BORUTO]

 

Target 1 face-up monster on the field; Until the End Phase, it gains 100 ATK for each monster in your Graveyard at the time you activated this card.

 

Random Page on Wikia led me to this. A rather interesting card. Grave-heavy Decks like Sylvans could Set this as an element of surprise, like, OUT OF THE BLUE YOU HAVE A 4000+ OREIA OR WHATEVER.

 

Discuss.

[Toffee.]

'Cept +100 per monster isn't exactly all that intimidating.

[Wildflame]

And it's just for the turn. If it were continuous, maybe. As it is, no thanks.

[Azuh]

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[goddamnit names are a pain]

I used to run this card all the time. Takes me back...

 

Won games for me.

You know Dark Magician VS Blue Eyes 6 years ago without any Tribute Summoning Rules is something to be proud of.

[Slinky]

'Cept +100 per monster isn't exactly all that intimidating.

 

Lightlords?

They run like a deck of 25-30 monsters.

[evilfusion]

Ah, such an old card is awesome to see again. Unfortunately, it's never really been very good. Equip cards were generally better for ATK boosts due to not disappearing afterwards, and this being reliant on your Graveyard makes it inconsistent how useful it is. I'd be more likely to run something like Rush Recklessly or even Mask of Weakness back in the old days.

[AGATHODAIMON BANGTAIL COW]

The minimal gain you get from this, no matter how useful I thought it was when I was like 9, forces this card to be dead until the late game. Nowadays, there are exceptions to this with Decks that fill up the Graveyard really fast, but it still takes a while to fill up. Axe of Despair, and later, United We Stand, were the equivalent of 10 and 8/16/24/32/40 monsters respectively, and were permanent. Back in those days, MST was Limited, so Spell/Trap destruction wasn't as prevalent as it is today (even though Dust Tornado became a thing around that time). And then there came Shrink, who was a Quick-Play version of this card that on average counted as at least 8 monsters in your Grave.

 

But when it can work, it often does work pretty nicely. +a lot of ATK from out of nowhere isn't anything to scoff at, whether it wins you a battle you were supposed to lose or simply tacks on enough damage to end the game.

[newhat]

Spooky Ghosts don't give you game-ending damage but they're way more reliable.

[Goose]

Run it in 60 card LSs for that surprise +4000 late game.

[Sleepy]

I really liked using this card back in 2004. Or at least maining it for the off chance it'd miraculously save me at some point.

Takes me back to when my decks were pretty much like that, trying to troll other players, activating Gryphon Wings on Feather Dusters and Barrel Behind the Doors on Ring of Destructions and Judgements of Anubis.

 

Those were the days.

 

This card never took me beyond 800 ATK, and paired with how popular Jinzo was, I just dropped it for Rush Recklessly or just Equip Spells.

[Just Crouton]

>100 per monster

 

Card is awful.