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Name
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Lightning Vortex
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Rarity
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Super Rare / Ultimate Rare
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Effect
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Discard 1 card from your hand. Destroy all face-up
monsters on your opponent's side of the field.
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Type
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Spell
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Card Number
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FET-EN040
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Card Rating
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Advanced: 2.33
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Date Reviewed
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07.03.06
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This week, TimegaurdRH is trying out for the team, since he is
trying out, his rating will NOT count towards the total averaged
Advanced rating of this card shown above...With that said, on to the
review of lightning vortex...
Removal. Simply put, removal is the key to this game. It always
has been, it always will be. Even in the brief equip heavy era
where everyone ran 3 axes, I kept to removal, figguring 3 fissures
was just as good if not better then 3 axes, both having their
pro's and con's. Now, equipment days are over and we are more
full blown removal then ever before. Specifically, this is the
age of 1-1 trade off's. Vortex's older brother, Raigeki, of the
now traditional format easily was a staple, and the only reason not
to play one is because you did not own one. Raigeki could destroy
up to 5 monsters on your opponents field, at no cost, no matter
their position. When it got banned, the masses looked on for a
replacement, and found it in Lightning Vortex....or so they had
thought....
Lightning vortex is indeed a powerful card, no one would ever try
to deny that. In 1 card, it has the power to wipe off all opposing
threats to you in 1 move... But, lets take a little more deeper
analysis of the advantage it creates. In order to use it, you
have to play it (obviously) and discard a card from your hand, giving
your hand a -2. In order for this to balance out, your opponent
has to have 2 face up monsters, creating a 2-2, which reduces back
to a 1-1. In order to gain a +1 advantage, your opponent must have
3 face up monsters. That circumstance is going to be rare, trust me...
More likely then not, your opponent is only going to have 1 face
up monster, with any number of face down monsters, or, simply a
face down monster. If you use this to destroy just 1 face up monster,
how ever menacing the threat may have been (jinzo maybe?) you just
caust yourself a -1 card advantage. There are much better choices
for removal in that case, smashing ground and fissure just to name a
few, which would have given you a 1-1, or 0 advantage, but gotten
rid of a threat.
In many cases, its more accurate to compare this card to an old
favorite of mine, Tribute to the Doomed, a card I pulled out of my
first MRD box. This card is a discard, to destroy any monster on
the field regaurdless of position. So, in exchange for killing only
1 monster, you can destroy any monster you want. Now I ask you, in
this day and meta, who would ever consider playing Tribute to the
Doomed, main deck? No one, and the same goes unfortunately for
Lightning Vortex. It is far to unstable and situational to give
you real advantage right now. Sorry guys, this is NOT Raigeki,
and no matter how much you want it to be, it never will be.
However, this card is an AMAZING side deck card, and should be in
EVERYONE's side deck. In the right situations, it can really come
in handy, Grave Keeper swarm anyone?
Traditional : 1/5 (Raigeki, Dark Hole)
Advanced : 2.5/5
Advanced side deck : 5/5
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This week we have the reincarnated version of everyone's past
favorite destroyer spell, Raigeki. Due to the overwhelming
power of the old card, it eventually met its downfall and joined
other favorites among the ban list. However, with death also comes
life. Of course nothing is ever as good as the original, but
this will do.
Lightning Vortex...destroy all face-up monsters on your opponent's
field for the cost of one card from ur hand to the grave. A
nice spell to have if you find yourself being swarmed by your
opponent's forces. However, it only destroys face-up monsters....
so those Magician of Faith, Spirit Reaper, and other creatures
normally used for def (most often face-down) won't be affected.
This is where the good ol' Nobleman of Crossout helps (but
that's not for this review).
The other downside to this card is that you must discard a card from
your hand in order to use it. Being able to maintain a stable hand
supply is a crucial part of the game (top-decking is never any fun).
To use this card you would need atleast two cards, which would
definitely make this a bad top-deck. Also, for any of you Dark
World users out there thinking this would be an easy way to rid
the opponent's field of monsters then strike them down with Goldd,
think again. Discarding for the effect of Vortex is a cost. The
discarded ability of the Dark World race is not activated with
costs.
Vortex is a nice card for monster control, however I believe Smashing
Ground, or possibly even Fissure, would be a better choice to go with.
Vortex seems like it would serve its purpose better if placed within
a side-deck. You find out that the opponent likes to swarm, and
your smashing aren't enough for protection.....whip this bad boy out
for a one shot destruction in the second game.
Advanced: 2.5/5
Traditional: 3/5
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This card is decent at best. It takes 2 cards to destroy any
number of face up monsters on opponents field. So really...to
gain any type of card advantage you need to destroy 3 monsters
with it. It's not very often your opponent has 3 face up monsters
on the field. only against swarm could this be useful.
this card is limited by the fact the monsters have to be face up.
adding to even the already lack of 3 monsters on the side of the
field...but they have to be face up? only when your opponent is
really pressing you with a jinzo...and other powerful monsters
could this really help.
Then the other downfall of this card....it costs a card. making it a
horrible topdeck, which is when it would be used most. whichc goes back to
the point you need 3 face up monsters, for CARD advantage.
vortex has another use...clearing the field to deal mondo damage, MONDO
damage. play it and WHAMMY attack directly...assuming your opponent's
monsters are face up...
2/5...side deck it, not main deck worthy
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Lightning Vortex is the Raigeki of today's tournament play since
Raigeki has been banned since the first ban list. the only thing
to this spell card is to discard a card to destroy the opponent's
face-up monsters. obviously cannot be used when the opponent has
no monsters face-up on the field, which means that you can
actually save a monster from certain destruction with Book of Moon.
like any spell card, this one is also prone to things like Magic
Jammer and traps of the sort which sadly don't negate the
maintainence cost.
after what little i could think of, it'd be better off in an advanced
deck than in a traditional deck where Raigeki belongs.
Adv: 5/5
Trad: 3.5/5 (Raigeki owns this in trad play)
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Last Updated: August 3, 2006
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