Deck Devastation Virus

Name	Deck Devastation Virus
Rarity	Ultra Rare
Effect	Tribute 1 DARK mosnter with an ATK of 2000 points of more on your side of the field. Check all monsters on your opponent's side of the field, you opponent's hand, and all cards he/she draws during your opponent's next 3 turns, and destroy all monsters with an ATK of 1500 or less.
Type	Trap
Card Number	FET-EN058
Card Rating	Advanced: 2.8
Date Reviewed	10.7.06

Thats right, were back! Now... I guess you guys came to see a review eh?

This weeks card is a very interesting trap card known as Deck Devestation Virus. It's kind of like the Crush Card's (which we all wish would come out already) annoying little brother.

This is actually a very useful card, provided it's put into the right deck. I don't think this should be commonly splashed, as their really are no standard dark types with 2000 atk or more. However, when played in a deck based around it, lots of posibilities open up. For example, old favorites like Dark Elf and Zombrya the Dark become quite vaiable.

To clear up any confusion, when this card activates succesfully, your opponent views your entire hand, then you discard the cards with an attack of 1500 or less. Then, he looks at all monsters on your field (yes including face down) and those with less then 1500 are sent to the graveyard, while those that have above 1500 are replaced (face down if they were face down). Finally, for your next 3 turns, you show your opponent what you draw, he/she is entitled to see, and if it is a monster that has less then 1500, to the graveyard it goes.

In this meta, many many weak monsters with very useful effects are played, just to name a few; D.D Warrior Lady, treeborn frog, magician of faith, spirit reaper, exiled force, night assailant, apprentice magician, don zaloog, mystic tomator, twin headed behemoth, kuribo. I know first hand from playing against this, that it can be quite dangerous. I lost 2 cards from hand, and my next 3 draws were spirit reaper, magician of faith, and exiled force...

However, you could just as eailly have no cards in hand that meet the conditions, have 2 cyber dragons on the field, and draw spell/trap/high atk monsters for the next 3 turns....So it's kind of hit or miss...The odd's of not losing any monsters is pretty slim unless you are running a full powered beatdown though...

Also, just as a side note, this card rips gravekeeper decks to shreds and if you are running Exodia against this, you are in trouble

Advanced : 2/5
Traditional : 3/5
Deck Devestation Deck : 5/5

Finally back on track I guess. This week (after how many??? =P) we take a look at a fairly old, fairly new trap from Flaming Eternity…best known as Deck Devastation Virus. This card works best with one attribute…the darkness.

Play against a deck based on dark monsters and this card may make an appearance. If you tribute one dark monster with an attack of 2000 or more from your field, during your opponent’s next 3 turns (and the turn this trap is activated), they can say ‘bye-bye’ to Magician of Faith, Spirit Reaper, or any monster with 1500 or less attack points. Many dark attribute monsters (such as Vampire Lord, Don Zaloog, Kycoo, etc) have amazing effects if they can hit your opponent’s life points, and with this trap, you won’t have trouble with those annoying reapers and other little annoyances.

This card may possibly see more play once the sought-out Crush Card reveals itself. Activate both of these and your opponent is pretty much helpless. Monsters with 1500 or less OR more all hit the tombstone.

Pure Dark deck: 3/5
Advanced: 2.5/5

Deck Devastation Virus: Tribute 1 DARK monster with an ATK of 2000 points or more on your side of the field. Check all monsters on your opponent's side of the field, your opponent's hand, and all cards he/she draws during your opponent's next 3 turns, and destroy all monsters with an ATK of 1500 or less.

Hmm.... it looks like this is a pretty decent card. By tributing a single strong DARK monster, you can weed out a good number of annoying weak monsters for a few turns.

I'll list a few pros and cons.

wow, look at that list! anyway, while this card may seem like it's good, it really isn't that great.

Ratings

Adv: 2.5/5
Trad: 2/5

Deck Devastation Virus...the sister of Crush Card. And a very powerful one indeed...offer one Dark monster with 2000 ATK or more to destroy every monster with 1500 ATK or less. Some people seem to think it's not worth it, that the cost is too great, or that the effect is just not good enough, and has too many loopholes. Well, watch me prove them wrong.

Let's look at the pros, starting with the cost. Zombyra the Dark is the perfect choice for this, it's Dark, 2100 ATK, no summoning cost, and searchable by RoTA. Dark world monsters, like Goldd and Sillva, are also great picks. Blowback Dragon is good if you're running machines. Giant Orc, the 2200 ATK Goblin Attack Force, is also usable. Thousand Eyes Restrict (when equipped with a strong monster), Ryu Senshi, Fiend Skull Dragon, Dark Balter the Terrible, even Dark Magician fit this category too. Is the cost worth it? You tell me. If you could eliminate one monster on your field to see your opponent's hand, discard all monsters with 1500 ATK or less when 75% of all playable monsters are less than 1500 ATK, destroy all monsters with 1500 ATK or less on your opponent's field, see your opponent's face down monsters, see what your opponent draws for the next three turns and immediately destroy them if they're weak enough monsters...would you do it?

Now for the loophole. The hand / field destruction only happens upon activation, so your opponent can always revive the monsters that were destroyed. However I don't see how using Premature Burial on a Magician of Faith or Spirit Reaper is a good idea.

Overall Deck Devastation is a card that hasn't been given a real fighting chance. Build a new kind of deck around it and experiment. Make a Warrior/Deck Devastation, or throw a few copies into your Dark World deck. I know I'm going to - right now!

Advanced - 4/5, Many weak mosnters are played in Advanced.
Traditional - 3.5/5, Less weak monsters are played, but Chaos Sorcerer is now available as fodder.

Back from the review team is HellFighter! Sorry I couldn’t do tyrant dragon but hope this makes up for it. Deck Destruction Virus is a trap card that can destroy every 1500 mon or lower in your opponents hand or field for 3 turns. How awesome is that? The down side is that you will need to sac a dark type mon with 2000 attack or over.

The good thing is that this card can save in a duel. It can take out your opponents DD warrior lady, exiled Force, Any df mon because they have weak attack, man eaters, old vintages, sangan, black forest witch, yata, Spirit reaper and any searcher. Plus this card can lead to a deck out and had disadvantage towards your opponent. This is alo perfect to destroy any exodia strategy your opponent has.

The downsides are that it needs a 2000 attack mon or over. You could just sac an giant orc after it attacks since it will be in df anyway. Or you could power up a Sangan or forest so you can destroy your opponents monsters while you just get out your own. Also many more people are using more 1500’s now due to their effects like Don Zooloog, wild heart, mystic tomato, reaper, cyber stein, relinquished, TER, Magician of faith, needle worm, Amphibious burgoth, great maju garzeet, and many others.

This card can ruin so many strategies its not funny. Also don’t be afriaid to use this card. Only a few people are running beat downs and most likely only a cyber dragon can get past DDV in their decks. For ex most people deck like donzollangs and summon Cyber Dragon but DDV can eliminate all the dons. Use this with Needle Worm and Delinquent Duo, Confiscation, Spirit reaper and Don to deplete your opponents hand. Then play Timeeater so your opponent has to skip his mainphase and cant play cards!

Advanced: 3/5

Useful against Exodia, Burn, bad in decks that want to get cards in grave (For EX: Exchange of spirit decks, CC decks, DW Decks,) But this card can destroy many strageties against spirit mons like tsyonomi and others. Trad: 2.5/5

Many people in trad deck strong mons and have more trap protection and want mons to go into graves to get out their Choas Empoeor dragon or BLS-Envoy.

Last Updated: October 9, 2006