Generic Revival & Spell and Trap Recovery

[burnpsy]

This topic is about two simple things: generic revival and generic s/t recovery.

 

Both of them are useful things to have, but when they're as broken as most of our current options for generic revival, you get complaints. As for recovery of spells and traps, most decent options to get them back after use are either banned or should be.

 

If it is even possible to have balanced, usable, generic cards that do one of the above, what would they look like?

 

Discuss.

[CrabHelmet]

Plenty of real balanced generic revival cards exist; they just aren't worth using because "balanced" isn't strong enough. As for s/t retrieval, Magician of Faith is well-designed.

[burnpsy]

I just amended my post to say usable.

 

Either way, MoF was banned for unknown reasons, giving little in the way of actual options. That said, the trap version of it was left unbanned. Wierd... That said, I agree on the design comment.

[Captain Lawless]

• Trap recovery, Mask of Darkness, and Spell Recovery, MSE and maybe....MAYBE Spell reclamation.
  
• The only reason I suggest reclamation is because, maybe you can use it on, let's say Reborn with a
  CoSR out. Or CoSR itself. Not the best suggestion, I just like the fact it comes to your hand when it hits the grave.
  

[CrabHelmet]

I just amended my post to say usable.

 

Either way' date=' MoF was banned for unknown reasons, giving little in the way of actual options. That said, the trap version of it was left unbanned. Wierd... That said, I agree on the design comment.

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The reasons are hardly unknown. Mask of Darkness doesn't fetch most of the most troublesome cards that Magician of Faith does, and isn't supported by Apprentice Magician. Also, combining Flip Effects with Trap Cards produces just about the slowest effect in the game that doesn't have an explicit time lag like Zone Eater or D.D. Capsule.