Subject: Yugioh Top 10 - lufia22's Top 10 m/t Removals

Lufia22's Top 10 Magic/Trap Removal

10.) Remove Trap:
Of course this is a horrible card. It only works on Face-up Trap cards. 
There's to restrictions to it right there. Then you think, how often do I 
see a continuous trap card? Not much. And if you do, it's still not worth 
playing this card. This card was used way back when, in the LOB days, in 
dragon decks to get rid of that pesky Dragon Capture Jar. Whoah...times have 
changed a lot since then.

9.) De-Spell:
Another blast from the LOB past. This was THE m/t removal then. Along came 
Metal Raiders with Heavy Storm and Counter Traps to make this card useless. 
Just like Remove Trap, this card is heavily restricted but not as much. It 
ONLY destroys magics but you can use it on face down cards if you want. The 
problem is, it only destroys magics, not traps. While this is good against 
Equips, Field Magic, or any magic that stays on the field for more than a 
turn it's definately not good. Most of the time you'll be wanting to destroy 
face-down cards and most of the time they'll be trap cards. At least you get 
to see what it is.

8.) Trap Master/Reaper of the Cards:
Hah! Some more LOB goodies. Notice how they're all at the bottom? I decided 
to rate these two cards as one. They have the same exact effect they just 
aren't the same monster. Trap Master is sort of underrated but it's 
definately not good. It's like the De-Spell for traps that is disguised as a 
monster with a flip effect. This card wastes a summon but at least it can 
work on face-down traps. Reaper of the Cards is just a Lvl. 5 card with a 
solid defense of 1930. Unfortunately, it was a summon AND a tribute. Double 
the not worth it as 1930 defense his horrible for one tribute.

7.) Spiritualism:
Whoah! A big jump from LOB to LON! Anyways, this card is horrible. It 
doesn't destroy anything and it only targets one m/t. That target goes back 
in the players hand. Then how does it beat all the ones before it?! Well, 
the simple fact that it can work on ALL m/t's, face-up or mostly makes it 
better. It also can't be countered, which makes it unique in my opinion. Not 
much to say about this one but it is an interesting card. This card is 
actually a rare. I've pulled three of them out of the few LON packs I've 
actually gotten. Boy does that make me mad.

6.) Bait Doll:
Here is another LON card, except this one is a common. Why isn't this a 
rare?! It's better than Spiritualism! Ugh, sometimes I don't think they 
think when they put rarities on cards. Anyways, this card is even more 
interesting. It forces the activation of one face-down card. If it's a 
magic, it's flipped back face-down. If the timing is incorrect then destroy 
that card. There's two problems with that. The target has to be face-down 
AND you have to hope it doesn't force the activation. However, most of the 
good traps you should be worried about are triggered by something else and 
would be destroyed by this card. Luckily, there aren't a lot of cards to 
worry about that this card would activate. Once this is done, it's shuffled 
back into the deck, which makes this card semi-worthewhile.

5.) Giant Trunade:
Here we go, Spiritualism put into Dark Hole form and is able to be 
countered. This card puts every m/t card on the field back into the owners 
hands. Well, compared to the top cards of this list to come, this isn't a 
very good thing. HOWEVER! There are some combos you would use this with. You 
could use this with Toon World or Premature Burial. There's very little 
knit-picky combos you could do with this card, other than that, this card 
isn't the greatest. Pick this if you don't have good m/t removals but stay 
away from it most of the times if you do.

4.) Dust Tornado:
This card is a trap card that lets you destroy any m/t on the field. It also 
has an underused ability of after using it you can set an m/t. The first 
ability is quite good, considering what we have seen so far. There's one 
problem with this card, it's a trap. Traps have to be set one turn meaning 
they are slow. Otherwise it's a solid card, unfortunately it's a little rare 
for its usefulness.

3.) Heavy Storm:
The Dark Hole of m/t's. This card destroys every m/t on the field. This card 
was one of the best m/t removals around and still is. Just like the strategy 
with Dark Hole, the best time to use this is when you have no m/t's and your 
opponent has some. This is a great m/t removal, so much so that it was 
restricted to two and is now restricted to one. However, this card is 
probably not advised in a deck that runs m/t heavy combos. Use with caution.

2.) Mystical Space Typhoon:
Now why did I choose this card over Heavy Storm?! Why? It's not restricted, 
that's why. Heavy Storm has obvious power but it MST is just more controlled 
if you ask me. I like control. The only downside to this control is that you 
only get one target. Oh poo...but there is an up side! This card is 
Quickplay and that makes A LOT of difference. You can set it and use it on 
your opponent's turn or you can use it in the battle phase against those 
annoying Mirror Walls and stuff. Why is this card two ranks about Dust 
Tornado? Well, we already covered that DT was slow and that's the reason 
why. MST is not only a Magic card it's also a Quickplay, meaning it's doubly 
fast. That combined with the fact that you can get this card in the Pegasus 
starter deck ultimately makes this card a better card. One of the top m/t 
removals ever.

1.) Harpie's Feather Duster:
The grand daddy of them all. The Raigeki of m/t removal. This is what Heavy 
Storm only dreams it could be. This card destroys every m/t on your 
opponent's side of the field. This card can almost reach "staple-dom." This 
card has obvious power and no draw backs. It's restricted as such and should 
be first pick for m/t removal in any deck. It's a promo in the World Wide 
Edition game for the Gameboy Advance. And to only think, it's just a duster.

This is lufia22 signing off! I hope you enjoyed my list, e-mail me for any 
YGO help and I'll be glad to help you, thank you!

~lufia22
lufia20@hotmail.com

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