Anti-Hand Trap: Pretentious Python

[gmaster1991]

 

At the start of your Main Phase 1: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, neither player can activate monster effects from their hands until the end of the next turn, also, you can only Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck to the Extra Monster Zone this turn.

It's just something to stop all the hand traps from disrupting plays, since Called by the Grave is limited. The Extra Deck limitation on the user is meant to make sure the player going first can't go into some Crystron Halqifibrax combo and end up with like 5 monsters and a full hand after stopping the hand traps.

[Tinkerer]

I was on board with this card until the Extra Deck limitation.  I think you were definitely on the right track (there would need to be some limitation to this effect), but restricting to only 1 extra deck monster sounds like it would swing too far in the other direction.  Sure, you can't do super 10 card combos, but it does stop a even a lot of basic combos which would make this card much less usable.

Thinking about it a little, maybe you could change the restriction to something like: "you can only Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck to the Extra Monster Zone this turn?".  It limits you to committing to 1 extra deck type, but it's flexible enough for you to build around.  That's just a rando suggestion though; maybe you can think of another restriction that would work?

Cheers!

[gmaster1991]

Huh. Not bad. Players could still have a Link-4 or something, but not fill the whole board on Turn 1. Thanks! I already edited it to have your suggestion.