[ROTD-JP079] A Draconian Prison of Snow and Sky

[Dokutah]

Idioms teach us the difference between “translate” and “localize”

ROTD-JP079
天龍雪獄
Tenrou Setsugoku / A Draconian Prison of Snow and Sky
Normal Trap
You can activate only 1 card with this card’s name per turn.
(1) Target 1 monster in your opponent’s GY; Special Summon it to your field (but negate its effects, if any), then you can banish 2 monsters on the field that have the same type (1 from each player’s field).

Name TL note: It seems to have a play on 天牢雪獄, also pronounced Tenrou Setsugoku. It seems to convey the idea of being so snowed in that you might as well be in a prison constructed by the heavens themselves. The “rou” used in the idiom is replaced in the card’s case with a “rou” that utilizes a specific kanji often used for dragons, and is ALSO a prison idiom. Further, the “rou” and “goku” sound like terms in the name of “Trishula, the Dragon of Icy Imprisonment”. Furthermore, the dragons seem to be taking each other out, perhaps sealing each other away. This is 4D chess levels of puns and namesakes, we are doing our best to localize with them in mind!

Source:

https://ygorganization.com/ascalontrishprison/

[Tinkerer]

So uh, anyone else think this card is absurdly good?  I mean, it has all the weaknesses of a trap, but it seems like it could cripple potentially more effectively than Crackdown. Plus it's searchable.

Looks like a particularly bad time for Shaddolls, Dinos, and Dragon decks since you can easily cripple 'em mid-combo.

 

[Darj]

The effect looks like a "banish 1 monster your opponent controls and 1 monster from your opponent's GY, both with the same Type" but with extra steps :v

But seriously now, it looks good to me, yeah. A rather convoluted way of removal but it allows funny plays by reviving something of interest and banishing another monster you don't mind losing. Otherwise it's almost live against mono-Type decks. Not targeting the monsters on the field is a big plus, IMO. I wonder if this procedure of targeting in the GY and then reviving it before doing the removal is intended to make the card more vulnerable, to cards like D.D. Crow, Called by the Grave, Special Summon locks, etc.

[Sleepy]

The fact you revive it to your field and proceed to negate its effects, does that mean it is lowkey a Called by the Grave negation there?
That's interesting if it does, you choose if you trigger it against a GY pitch or against an important Summon/attack. It does get stopped by Special Summon floodgates though, which is something to take in mind.... 

Is this portraying a random part of the DT fight as Trishula was going around freezing the world, or did the god of Dragunities end up being the one to stop Trishula? The effect seems to imply the latter, but now I wonder why nobody ever digs up the Dragunity for their purposes. Evilswarms and Nekroz didn't seem to at least.

[~British Soul~]

1 hour ago, Sleepy said:

Is this portraying a random part of the DT fight as Trishula was going around freezing the world, or did the god of Dragunities end up being the one to stop Trishula? The effect seems to imply the latter, but now I wonder why nobody ever digs up the Dragunity for their purposes. Evilswarms and Nekroz didn't seem to at least.

Evilswarms did (Zahak was a 3-headed Aklys). As for the Nekroz, they used the spiritual powers of the Yang Zing as a medium to channel the 8 Dragunity into the Lance that killed Anoyatyllis, who had the power of the Ice Barrier dragons.