From: Thomas Okinawa <moonwalktin@yahoo.com>
Date:  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:30:46 -0800 (PST)

FIEND COMEDIAN-OVERLOOKED CARD

Fiend Comedian-Common-Trap-LOD-098
Toss a coin and call it. If called right, ALL your opponent's graveyard 
are removed from play IMMEDIATELY. If called wrong, send a number of cards 
equal to the cards in your opponent's graveyard from your deck to your 
graveyard.

This has to be one of the most underplayed cards in our game, due to the 
steep cost. Think about it, removing your opponent's whole graveyard. 
That's tough, that's very tough. This card can chain to anything, and 
this card is deadly in the right hands.

PROS:
It will negate all recursion cards (book of life, premature burial, monster 
reborn, call of the haunted, magician of faith, mask of darkness, etc.....) 
It severely destroy your opponent's options, mainly if he plays a recursion 
deck It stands on its on (ONE TRAP CARD) Discard your deck if fails (fairly 
good for me most of the time, I run full-on zombies)

CONS:
Weak againts removal decks (Skull lair, D. Fusion, return from another 
dimension) Steep cost: discarding of your OWN deck (possible deck
out)

The graveyard is an incredible source of power in the game, that's why we 
have cards like Mirage of Nightmare, Painful choice, Graceful charity, etc... 
so destroying your opponent's graveyard will exponentially boost your morale 
while destroying his game and resources at the same time. I was testing out 
my "risk" deck in the school-club-sponsored tournament, and this is what 
happened against a necrofear player (keep in mind this is traditional, when 
LOD was just released). 

One time:
Opp: I play premature burial, and at the same time, chain call of the haunted 
to special summon jinzo and goblin atk force
Me: I chain fiend comedian to call, fool

Other time:
Opp: I play painful choice, then I play graceful, then pot. I play monster 
reborn my summoned skull
Me: Fiend Comedian, hahah

I haven't played fiend comedian in a tournament yet, unlike last will. I 
shall try to, as chaos decks are running rampant, and people are abusing 
their graveyards to the extreme. Soul release, the magic counter part, is 
more reliable and safe. Basically, again, I'll restate what fiend comedian 
can do:

Negate Magician of faith
Negate Pixie knight
Negate Mask of Darkness
Negate ANY RECURSION card
Disables Chaos monsters
Disables Necrofear Decks
Disables Zombie decks
Disables any deck focusing on the graveyard Severely Increase your graveyard 
Severely destroy opponent's option (esPEcially late
game)
No life point cost
No field presense cost
No hand cost
No graveyard cost
Able to chain to almost anything
Only negated by Jinzo and trap counters. Who'd want to waste trap counters on this thing?

Good in: ANY DECK WITH ROOM.

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