[New Versatile Monster] Masked Disciple

[drcrisis]

[spoiler='Lore']Once, while this card is face-up on the field, during either player's turn, you can activate one of the following effects:
● Cards sent from the field to the Graveyard are banished instead.
● Neither player can Tribute monsters.
● Neither player can Special Summon monsters with 2000 ATK or more.
● Cards cannot be returned from the field or Graveyard to the hand.[/spoiler]

Useful card! It is situational in many different ways, filling the roles of many other cards. (Banisher of the Radiance, Mask of Restrict, Vanity's Fiend, and a unique final effect)

Good against many decks!

First effect can easily stop B.A, Synchro based decks, Plants, and generally any deck that revolves around sending monsters on the field to the graveyard. (However, doesn't stop deck or hand!)

Second effect stops Qliphorts, Frog-Monarchs, and general tribute decks.

Third effect can easily stop Hieratics, JD, essentially any deck that utilizes a huge special summoned monster as a boss monster, and has no other way of winning.

Final effect stops Yosenju, Compulsory, Etc.

Tell me opinions!

[Sir Yamiegg]

Make it block the Special Summon monsters with 2500 ATK or more. 2000 is a bit too restrictive. Honestly, I feel like this does too much and outclasses far too many other cards.. It's not at all situational since it stops most Decks in their tracks, and is a bit like Vanity - a floodgate that is easy to activate and can be turned off when you need it to be, which is not good design.

 

It's also unclear how long each effect lasts for. 

[drcrisis]

Hey, thanks for the review.
I agree 2000 atk is too little amd should be changed to 2500.
im not sure how the floodgates are too op if they are generally weak and easily outclassed by other cards.
finally the effect lasts while it Is on the field, that was intention.

[Cirrus]

First of all, this card is straight up better than Banisher of the Radiance. Second of all, the versatility is what makes it strong regardless of the possibility it might be outclassed by other cards (and it's really not significantly so).

[Peridank]

This is really good and really restrictive... in what deck would you use it in? Anyways... this would become a staple for any deck that could use it tbh...

[drcrisis]

First of all, this card is straight up better than Banisher of the Radiance. Second of all, the versatility is what makes it strong regardless of the possibility it might be outclassed by other cards (and it's really not significantly so).

Literally is the definition of being worse than banisher at what banisher is supposed to do because it's only monsters on the field and not all cards from anywhere.

The significance of the outclass is

#1 : Most decks don't use field-to-graveyard , the decks you would use banisher against typically use deck or hand to graveyard.

#2 : No tributing is a weak effect only very situational.

#3 : 2500 ATK no special summoning is strong but easily outclassed by many other things. Vanity's fiend has more ATK and is better... and 2500 ATK suits typically only the highest of extra deck monsters. Against current meta, would only stop construct.

#4 : The last effect is ultra situational and really is underpowered.

not OP by any regards as you can only use 1 effect at a time, and all of the effects are fairly mutually exclusive (That is, none are truly alike), and are much weaker than their counterparts, so this card could be used as a staple but would not only be sided out for sure, but would only work in few decks and only work in anti-meta or fairy decks imo.

 

This is really good and really restrictive... in what deck would you use it in? Anyways... this would become a staple for any deck that could use it tbh...

Anti-meta, fairy, chaos, any control deck. 

[Cirrus]

Okay, I misread. This card is significantly more mediocre than I first thought.

 

I still don't like flexibility on a hatebear since it's a bit much of a silver bullet in a sidedeck for my tastes, but it's pretty easy to kill.