Psychokinesis is a Normal Spell card.  It has a “cost” in the form of requiring you control a Psychic-Type Monster.  It then has two effects: you get to destroy one card on the field, and then you take 1000 damage.  This strikes me as very good for Psychic focused decks, as they would of course easily meet the requirement to activate.  I am not overly familiar with the Psychic Monsters still, but my understanding is that a lot of them have LP costs but also LP gaining effects.  This means you should already know how to manage your Life Points and makes swallowing such a cost much easier.  Destroying any one card is nice since you can nail something of yours that, for some reason, benefits you in addition to the normal use of blowing up your opponent’s stuff.  Since it works on cards, not just Monsters or Spells or Traps, you can either use it to augment other removal, or to replace it and create more room in your deck.

 

Given the wording, I would think that it should work when activated using the effect of Destiny Hero – Diamond Dude, but other than that it seems like an auto-run for Psychic decks but not something for most others.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional: 1/5 – Do Psychic decks work here?  I mean, they almost, almost look like they could do something but are just one or two pieces away from doing it well.

 

Advanced: 4/5 – This is great for a Psychic or at least Psychic heavy deck only, but in there it is a good source of universal removal.

 

Art: 3/5 – Isn’t that the blue girl from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward?  Fairly average picture, wish it fit the English name a bit better, but not a surprise it doesn’t.

 

Wow, fairly short review, at least by my standards.  That means… filler!

 

I use to enjoy role-playing games quite a lot in High School.  Not just video game RPGs, but actual RPG: the kind where you sit around a table portraying your characters action and dialogue to the best of your ability while using the appropriate rules system.  I was always fond of the Generic Universal Role-Playing System.  It was still on the 3^rd Edition, Revised back then.  I enjoyed how they handled psychic powers in that iteration.  They broke them down in certain broad power categories with the more specific uses as sub-categories.  So Psychokinesis was the broad category that covered moving matter with one’s mind.  It included things like Telekinesis (classified as moving objects with your mind), Pyrokinesis (increasing the temperature of an object), Cryokinesis (lowering the temperature of an object), Levitation (movement of yourself), etc. It also had a similar approach to magic and even super powers in general. It was a fairly logical system and I wish fiction used it more: a fleshed out RPG can help you realize the obvious uses of a power, especially outside of combat.  Also, one of Yu-Gi-Oh’s minor but still annoying flaws is how the Attributes and Types break down and often don’t make enough sense.  Okay, end of filler.  Enjoy your weekend!