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Card 19: 6/30/04- MukaMuka/Muka Muka
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MukaMuka/Muka Muka
Earth/Rock/2/600/300
Increase this monster's attack and defense strengths by 300 for each card in your hand.
 
Pros
-Gains attack points without the use of equip cards.
 
Cons
-When you top deck this card (and you will) you are going to kick yourself for putting this card in your deck.
-It takes 5 cards in your hand just for a low-grade 1800 monster... that's asking for way too much...
 
This Card Review is a summary of the information that a few seasoned Veterans of Yugioh has given me for this card's review.  Much of the following are the opinions of other players who are still outside of the Inner Circle.
 
"When a player has hand advantage, mostly in control decks and exodia decks, you have the ability to gain a upper hand against your opponent (which by the way anyone with a brain would know NOT to put this card into an Exodia deck and Control decks are based on forcing your opponent into top-decking situations, which this card does not do)."
When you have hand advantage, you have materials which you can easily use to gain the win.  Hand means nothing unless you get to use the cards.
 
"Ok, MukaMuka's bad. let me tell you a bit of what a long experience teaches you.  Ritual cards are crap because you need 1 specific ritual magic, 1 specific ritual monster, and enough monsters to be sacrifices.
Now, why the heck would you want to waste 3-5 cards for one MONSTER card?  ALL monsters are vulnerable to monster effects, magic effects, and trap effects... doesn't that mean you need an easier and efficient way of using your monsters?  Same concept goes with fusions. 
 
"A monster is weak to everything in the game.  This means that if it has a high level or sacrificial cost, it better be powerful, or else it will be ended very quickly.  How does a monster have power?  Self-staying power. "
 
"APS/Jinzo defends himself by preventing traps.
 
Tyrant Dragon can't be targeted by trap cards that destroy it."
 
"End of Anubis/The End of Anubis prevents about 40% of the main-liner cards of the game to prevent itself from being destroyed (dont worry, someday i will review this card for you people)"
 
"Chaos Soldier- Messenger of Creation/Black Luster Soldier- Envoy of Beginning has a reusable removal effect to eliminate any "threat" that comes before it."
 
Note why alot of sacrifice monsters are not included into the examples.
 
Now, let us get back to the true subject.
 
Muka Muka has a defensive effect.  It gets stronger with each card you have in your hand. And that is also where the flaw comes in.  Remember when we said that Hand Advantage could win you the game?  Remember when we said that in order to have Hand advantage, you need to be able to USE those cards?  Well meet the counter-logic.  In Muka Muka's case, you need to save and retain as many cards in your hand as possible just to make this card anywhere near the power of Goblin Strike Team/Goblin Attack Force, Gemini Elf, and even Exclusivity Virus/Tribe-Infecting Virus.  Hell, while we're at it, it takes a full 6 cards in your hand just to defeat a Vampire Lord... and that is just purely pathetic.
 
"Don't use a card that insults the reason why Jar of Greed (Pot of Greed) is THE staple.  This card stops your strategies cold in it's tracks.  Even if you base a deck around this card, anyone can still bring out a single anti-monster card and gain the advantage."
 
Do we even have to mention what happens to a pumped up Muka Muka when Hand Obliteration/Card Destruction is played?  "Lifepoints are nothing when your deck is nowhere to be found.  As you should know."
 
2.5/10- Counter-Productive, Counter-Hand Advantage, Counter-Deck Construction.  A all around bad card.  I, Zero, must give this card some points for just being a low level monster that is uneffected by Gravity Bind, and it can hold its own against... um... I dont know... a face-up attack position Man Eating Bug?
 
"God, just don't use it.  It's a waste of everything you learned from us... and why are you asking us so many questions about this crappy card?"
 
Oh... no reason...
 
 
-Zero, BigMouthBillyBass and [person who doesn't have a nickname.]