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Welcome to my birthday week of card picks. My home
internet connection is gone so you won’t be hearing
from me for a while: I just can’t make time to
research the game and get to a library to type CotDs
with my work schedule.
So, why do I like Just Desserts?
It was my first “signature” Trap card, back in the
day. When the game was new, I was on of the many
people who read the CotDs and other articles on this
site and apparently, most others at our local
players didn’t. So I quickly gained a reputation as
a good player (which I didn’t deserve) by simply
listening to the advice of others. Eventually other
players listened to me when I told them “I read it
on Pojo” and finally the playing field started to
level… so I had to innovate a little on my own. One
trick was main decking a few copies of Just
Desserts, for a little easy burn damage. Most
players in our area didn’t expect it and it on me a
few key games.
You can read the only other time the review crew has
looked at this card
here.
Just Desserts
is still a solid burn card: 500 per Monster your
opponent controls should give you 1000 points of
damage most games. As it is a Normal Trap, it is
easy to activate in response to removal and so it
should be very rare that you can’t get at least 500
points of damage from it, and you should only settle
for that if you sense a Jinzo coming or are
activating it in response to Mystical Space
Typhoon or its ilk. Since it is one of those
non-key cards even in a burn deck, it does make
quite good bait: either they filled their field and
groan as they waste removal and still get hit for
1000+ points of damage… or they groan as they waste
removal on a burn card that did zero or 500 points
of damage and they have one less card to deal with
protective stall cards or other serious burn cards
like Wave Motion Cannon.
What hurts Just Desserts is what I understand
to be the lack of a place for stall burn in the
current metagame, the restricting of its prime
partner Ojama Trio. While you can easily
work this into your deck for some easy burn damage
(after all, who doesn’t run a deck that uses
multiple Special Summons), you’ll only have space
for two or three cards. So you’d probably want to
focus on something reliable (Poison of the Old
Man), something variable but probable to score
big (Reflect Bounder, Magic Cylinder),
or that which is just a superior version of Just
Desserts, Ceasefire. Also, now burn is
both hurt and helped by Gorz, Emissary of
Darkness floating around.
Ratings
Traditional:
1.5/5
Advanced:
2.5/5
Art:
3.5/5 – The art isn’t super stylish or attractive,
but is appropriately disturbing without being
obscene and makes perfect sense with the card’s
English name. It also gives fat guys like me a
decent Yu-Gi-Oh costume choice.
-Otaku
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