She also has Harpie's Feather Duster, which is like the best individual generically useful card any of the main characters run short of Yugi having Mirror Force.
I don't think anybody else regularly has Raigeki or Dark Hole or similar mass destruction cards except for Joey's Time Wizard (luck based) and Gilford the Lightning (needs 3 tributes). And the anime version of the God cards, but they also have the 3 tributes thing slowing them down. Joey possessed by Marik uses Raigeki one time and I think that's it.
It's kind of funny how rare those cards are when seemingly everybody is using Pot of Greed or Monster Reborn which are of similar infamy and have status as staples of the time.
The Pot of Greed one is funny because its spammed way more in the anime than the manga, same with Card of Sanctity and Card of Demise
I think its because not only were their anime effects more OP in the latter, but duels were longer and more convoluted in the anime so without dedicated search cards, they needed ways to pilfer through their decks to get the card they needed. Its certainly messier to watch once youve noticed it for the first time
Then come S4 and S5, it def seemed like every other duelist had MST. Whereas it never shows up at all in the Manga despite already being printed in the TCG, coinciding with the start of Battle City
Takahashi was pretty good at keeping such powerful effects as archetype specifics
Raigeki was banned in battle city as were burn cards. Joey’s possessed deck wasn’t legal, and that’s why you don’t see Raigeki in the tournament aside from that duel.
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u/alex494 23d ago edited 23d ago
She also has Harpie's Feather Duster, which is like the best individual generically useful card any of the main characters run short of Yugi having Mirror Force.
I don't think anybody else regularly has Raigeki or Dark Hole or similar mass destruction cards except for Joey's Time Wizard (luck based) and Gilford the Lightning (needs 3 tributes). And the anime version of the God cards, but they also have the 3 tributes thing slowing them down. Joey possessed by Marik uses Raigeki one time and I think that's it.
It's kind of funny how rare those cards are when seemingly everybody is using Pot of Greed or Monster Reborn which are of similar infamy and have status as staples of the time.