Greetings everyone. Today is "Unusual Magic Card Week" here on the CotD, and the first one is Ekibyo Drakmord, a card that is quickly gaining in popularity...

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EKIBYO DRAKMORD

Type: Equipment Magic

Effect: A monster equipped with this card cannot attack. Destroys the equipped monster at the end of the 2nd turn of the player controlling the monster. At that time, this card is returned to the owner's hand.

Now my pathetic attempt at a poem:

This infectious black dust
Will turn your Jinzo into rust
And by the way, what kind of word
Is Ekibyo, and likewise Drakmord?

*don't hurt me*

I look at this card, and I go O_O. This can be one of the most annoying cards in the entire game. I mean, look at it, it has THREE effects! It prevents the equipped monster from attacking (it can still change its mode), it destroys it after two turns, and if the effect completely goes through, you even get it back! Yes, I realize that two turns is a short lifespan in this game, but it can shut down your opponent's Jinzo or Blue-Eyes or such if you can't destroy it normally. I don't know, a triple effect like this is hard to pass up, and with all the powerful Magic and (especially) Traps floating around, your opponent may not be willing to destroy this card.

They'll just let its effect go through again and again.

One of the flaws with this card is that the equipped monster can just simply be used as a Tribute, thus sending the monster and ED to the graveyard. How to get around it? Mask of Restrict, or pray your opponent doesn't use any Tributing cards (that includes Torrential Tribute indirectly =/). Often, though, the only tribute monster people use is Jinzo, because face it, it's the only truly useful Tribute monster these days =/

I would play this card in a quantity of 1, and perhaps run 1-2 in your side deck if you feel your opponent plays enough powerful monsters to warrant two or three of these. Have fun!