Side Draw [Single]

[Medivh]

Side Draw
Spell / Contiuous
Shuffle your Side Deck. Once per turn, instead of conducting your normal Draw Phase, you may draw a card from your Side Deck instead. When you have no cards in your Side Deck, you lose the Duel.

[Demon Loki]

Too OPed. It will be to easy to reach the strongest Cards of your deck.

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That is no drawback. Just use MST, Heavy Storm, etc and you'll be free from its effect.

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There is no drawback, because the effect is optional.

That, and when was drawing from your side deck even possible? If a Synchro/Xyz can't be returned to your hand from the field, you certainly can't draw one.

What's more, I don't even see the point in this card. You can use whichever Synchro/Fusion/Xyz you want when you can Summon it, why would you want to draw one?

[Kazooie]

[quote name='Emotion & Commotion' timestamp='1331409489' post='5864876']
There is no drawback, because the effect is optional.

That, and when was drawing from your side deck even possible? If a Synchro/Xyz can't be returned to your hand from the field, you certainly can't draw one.

What's more, I don't even see the point in this card. You can use whichever Synchro/Fusion/Xyz you want when you can Summon it, why would you want to draw one?
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The side deck is not the Extra Deck. The Side Deck can contain up to 15 cards, and between duels in a match you can add cards from it to your decks, as long as both your Main and Extra Deck have the same number of cards as when they started.

As for this card, it's insane. Instant outs to whatever your opponent may be running, since that's what the Side Deck is meant for. And because of the way the idea works, you can't do much to balance it. Most people run 3 MST, two in main one in Side, so as long as you draw that third MST and it isn't the last card in your Side, then the "Lose Duel" clause doesn't matter.

It's just an odd thing that's hard to balance without it being broken or useless.

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Ah ship, I confused side deck and extra deck (I hate mornings and empty stomachs).

But my comment on drawing an Xyz/Synchro still stands, simply because they're not allowed in your hand. And I'm certain there'll be a couple of Synchro/Xyz cards in a player's side deck. :I

[Kazooie]

[quote name='Emotion & Commotion' timestamp='1331412748' post='5864962']
Ah ship, I confused side deck and extra deck (I hate mornings and empty stomachs).

But my comment on drawing an Xyz/Synchro still stands, simply because they're not allowed in your hand. And I'm certain there'll be a couple of Synchro/Xyz cards in a player's side deck. :I
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Some, but mostly not. Very few Side Decks actually have space for them.

There would probably be some ruling where if draw one of those, it's Autosent to the Graveyard of just added back, and if it's the second one the card is autobroke because then it would never run out if you run two Synchros/Xyz.

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[quote name='Kanade Otonashi' timestamp='1331412846' post='5864963']


Some, but mostly not. Very few Side Decks actually have space for them.

There would probably be some ruling where if draw one of those, it's Autosent to the Graveyard of just added back, and if it's the second one the card is autobroke because then it would never run out if you run two Synchros/Xyz.
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Well, you can't send it to the Graveyard, because then you'd technically have 16 cards that can be in the Extra Deck, which is already breaking the rules. And because returning it to your Side Deck = Never running out of cards, yeah, it be broke.

[Kazooie]

[quote name='Emotion & Commotion' timestamp='1331413722' post='5864973']
Well, you can't send it to the Graveyard, because then you'd technically have 16 cards that can be in the Extra Deck, which is already breaking the rules. And because returning it to your Side Deck = Never running out of cards, yeah, it be broke.
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I imagine that cards that came from the Side Deck would be sent back to it if returned to the Deck by a card effect like Pot of Avarice. But, because of the fact we will never know what would be ruled, the card is pretty much... Just bleh. Entirely.