Deck Type:
"Trample"
This is a term that started from the Magic: The Gathering players. It comes from dealing damage to the player by
going through a creature (hint: running over a small animal with a truck)
This term carried over to Yugioh first by the introduction of this text:
"When this monster attacks a Monster in defense mode with a defense strength lower than the attacking Monster's attack
strength, do Battle Damage to your opponent equal to the difference."
The LONGEST repeated text that no one want's to say out loud more then once...
Ok, what that blah-blah-blah meant was that when you attack a defense mode monster, pretend that it's defense points
is it's attack points and pretend that the monster is in attack mode... now do battle like normal.
This deck type is evil. It's basically breaking the rules of defense. Remember when it was safe to play La
Jinn in defense mode so you can save your lifepoints from that Jinzo? Well then "the trampling" ran over La Jinn with
a vengence...
The most famous trample related card is Fairy Meteor Crush. The first of it's kind, and earlier, one of the more
playable trample cards. This changed when cards like Gravekeepers Spearman and Big Bang Shoot was introduced to the
game.
Painful.
The decks that benifit most from the trample element are:
Gravekeepers: Spearman is a staple along with Assailant and Spy
Beast/Beast-Warrior/Winged-Beast (B/BW/WB): 3 words...
Enraged Battle Ox
Dragon: Spear Dragon iz zee bomb.
The gravekeepers utilize the GK Spearman by pumping his attack points up to 2000 with Necrovalley and running over Spirit
Reapers and Marshmellons (not in english... again).
The B/BW/WB deck type uses Enraged Battle Ox to allow ALL B/BW/WB to have trample. Sitting next to Berserk Gorilla
and Blood Vors (japanese only), this card is freaky strong.
Finally, Dragons are powered by only one card in the trample area, but it's a good
one. Spear Dragon, at a whooping 1900 attack points, is a dominating force in the trample department.
Airknight Parshath is a honorable mention in this department, but honestly, fairy decks now use the "Agents" as the theme,
which makes this card out of theme.
