Mirror Force and Dimensional Prison...
I remember times when Mirror Force was a really rare card, hard to find and expensive (I don't and didn't play IRL, but I know something about prices), then when it got reprinted in structure deck a lot of person said "That's not possible" "It's going to be totally unexpensive" "I prefer mine over one coming out from a structure deck.", but it become a normal thing with time. Then Synchro Era begun, Stardust abused everywhere made this card unuseful, expecially with starlight road. Then another card become over-used, it was Dimensional Prison. Not negable via Stardust and banishes a monster. Banishing was really good those times, you had 2 choices when a monster got removed, Use Return from Different Dimension or Burial from the Different Dimension, OR cry.
Now there's something I can't really understand. Why even in XYZ Era is Dimensiona Prison being over-used? With this meta, doing leviair is not hard, and there are a lot of cards that summon back from the banished zone, surely less than the graveyard reborner, so why? Let's compare Pros and Cons
PROs for Mirror Vs. Prison
-Mirror Force destroys multiple monsters at a time, Dimensional Prison banish 1 only. It happens a lot of time that your opponent has a big monster and little monsters, attack starting from the lower to the higher ATK monster, but doesn't attack with the "Boss" monster because fearing of Prison. Now you can just activate Mirror on first attack and fuck all of your opponent's monster.
-Mirror Force destroys, Prison banish. With Tour Guide everywhere, Inzektors based on LV3 and WInd-up based on LV3, too, banishing is not sure anymore.
-Mirror Force destroys even monster that don't attack, needed thing is the must be in attack position, but that's not hard.
PROs for Prison Vs. Mirror
-Prison banishing is useful when facing stardust, zenmaines or gachi gachi, but no one attacks with the latter.
Sorry, I've no other ideas for Pros for Prison, because I'm a Mirror fan. If you have something to say, write it here on the comments.
D Prison can banish monsters that attack, period. They do not need to be in attack position meaning they are able to stop Super Heavy Samurai's who attack while in defence position.
ReplyDeleteHowever Mirror force doesnt target, meaning cards like the Egyptian Gods that can't be targeted are hit anyway.
DeleteAlthough with the abundance of ''floater'' monsters, cards being destroyed doesn't really cause a great negative effect on the player unless they over extend as the destroyed monsters can just search out cards from their decks. Making Mirror force less effective for maintaining advantage.
DeleteWhile mirror force may not ge as good as it once was at maintaining advantage their is still one thing it does better than Dimensional Prison, clear fields. This protects players from potential otk's and suffering massive overall damage in comaprison to a dimensional prison in the face of a full field.
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