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Card 50: 10/11/04- Heavenly Punishment
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HEAVENLY PUNISHMENT
Counter Trap
Discard 1 card from your hand.  Negate the activation and effect of an Effect Monster, and destroy that Monster.
 
Pros:
-Negates any monster effect but continuous ones, which means...
-It can negate the priority effect of certain monsters
 
Cons:
-Can become a bad top-deck
-ummm...the art is kinda plain???
 
This new card released in RDS is rapidly gaining popularity. It's one the the cards in RDS that are actually extremely useful in competitive play.
 
The wonderful power of this card lies in being able to counter the almost impossible to counter priority effects of cards such as Initiate Troops and Exclusivity Virus. This card kills ANY monster effect except continuous ones. You can negate the effects of monsters you destroy during battle as well with this card, so you don't have to think twice about attacking that face-down monster. XDDD For you Horus users out there...think twice about ACTIVATING its negation effect or your Horus just might be struck by lightning from the sky. Not only that, this card can also negate Lava Golem's burn effect during your standby and kill it as well...Rarely do we see a card with such a wide range of usage...
 
I really don't see anything wrong with this card other than that it needs a cost of a card from your hand...which can lead to top-decking. The art is basic...so yeah, I guess that's another downside of this card...The only other card that can replace this card is Declaration of God, which has a wider range of usage, but at the sharp cost of half of your life, which isn't cheap in the early game...
 
9/10- This card is capable of dominating most of the monsters in this game...It makes the following staple monsters wasted: Initiate Troops, Exclusivity Virus, and Magic Warrior Breaker. Wait, aren't those all of the LV4 staple monsters. The only staple it can't touch is Android Psycho Shocker...This card would be 12/10 if it could negate continuous effects. XD
 
-BlackBirdZX

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