Rancorous Ransom

[Guest BGMCANN0N]

Rancorous Ransom

[Normal Trap]

 

Look at your opponent's hand, then banish 1 card in your their hand, face-down. During either player's turn: Your opponent can return that banished card to their hand by activating 1 of these effects.

 

• Banish 1 card from their hand, face-down.
• Pay 2000 of their LP

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Well, it's good hand disruption; that much is certain, especially if the opponent is going to make big plays and you know what's coming. Though, at the same time, it does come off as a "weaker" copy of stuff such as Confiscation (and you know that got banned long ago, even though this is technically slower due to Trap status) except without the LP cost + chance of retrieval. Granted, they do get it back if they're willing to ditch another card or pay a quarter of their LP; seeing more of the latter, but yeah.

 

(Actually, it seems like a stronger version due to it banishing face-down and still requiring the opponent to sacrifice resources to get it back.)

 

I'm guessing the retrieval can be chained at any time, but either way, you still benefit from seeing your opponent's hand and cutting them down afterwards. I don't know. 

[Eshai]

Appointer of the Red Lotus, much?

 

Anyway, it's a decent card. I don't see anything that necessarily needs to be changed, but it's probably not going to be doing you expect the card is going to do. Comparing it to Red Lotus it can be returned to their hand by paying 2000 LP and you get to look at their hand, rather than actively getting rid of the card. It's probably better if you use several of them at the same time similar to how Reckless Greed functions. 

 

Weird they can activate the effect of one of your cards. That's a pretty interesting mechanic in its own right.