Pros
-Can open the field for direct attacks
-Negates the equipped monster's effect (Jinzo XD)
-Has a stall/burn effect

 

Cons
-Is a ritual. (explained in detail later)
-Weak against any effect.

 

That is the LONGEST text for a monster before the Union monster's time.  How did english players read the damn thing anyways!?

 

Appearing briefly on the anime show, Sacrifice (also known as Relinquished) was a sick, floating, eye-fish thing that Pegasus used.

 

Released in Magic Ruler for the Japanese OCG, this card fits into the class of "It's effect is nice... to bad the rest suck so much."

 

Rituals are the worst system ever invented.  For those who can't understand what I mean:

 

Rituals have a set "generic" list of requirements:
-Must have 1 specific ritual magic card.
-Must have 1 specific ritual monster card.
-Must have enough monsters in hand to sacrifice for ritual monster.

 

Those are quite possibly, the worse hand-management system ever created.  Horrible topdeckers (for the ritual monster and magic card), horrible cost, and for what?  ONE monster on the field.  3-5 cards gone all for that damn ritual monster.

 

Sacrifice is a very misunderstood card.  Thanks to the fact that it is one of the first low-level ritual monsters created (and only requireing a 1 level star sacrifice), many thought it could easily be brought out through the effects of Last Will, Cyber Jar, and Mystic Tomato.  This is wrong.

 

If you haven't noticed, the japanese version clearly states the truth in the first sentense.

 

This is a very unique monster.  It's first effect is very special.  Acting as a strange fusion of Snatch Steal and Change of Heart, this card can take an opponent's monster and equip itself with that monster.  Since face-down monsters have no attack or defense, when you "absorb" one, relinquish gains nothing.

 

Remember.  Since the monster becomes a magic equip, it's effect as a monster is gone, and it can be destroyed by any card that can destroy a magic card.  However, cards that NEGATE magic cards somehow (Black Flare Dragon of Horus, Magic Canceller...etc) cannot effect the equipped monster.

 

The second part of it's effect is like a weaker Reflect Bounder.  When it is attacked, while equipped, and is to be destroyed in battle, destroy the equipped monster instead and then deal damage to your opponent for all the lifepoints you lost from that attack.  Remember: its when your OPPONENT ATTACKS YOU.  Not vise-versa.  Please note that Sacrifice, equipped or not, will still be destroyed normally by any monster/magic/trap effect.

 

As a clarification, this monster is not allowed to use it's "absorbing" effect during your opponent's turn.  So for those of you who thought that this monster can "never die," your wrong.  Also, this monster cannot optionally un-equip the monster since you can't do that with normal equip magic cards in the first place.

 

Another thing is, because of it's special summoning requirement, you cannot special summon Sacrifice without ritual summoning it first.  How many people reading this have been cheated earlier?  How many people reading this have DONE it before?

 

4/10- Its a ritual monster, so I had to knock off 6 points just for that.  It's effect isnt bad however.  If you could actually use it, Sacrifice could become a very powerful monster.  But thanks to it's ritual status, it's just a crap card.  The fusion version however is much more useful...

 

-Zero