Magic Drain | Decks and Ruling

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update 19/12/2016

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Magic Drain

Type	Trap Card
Property	Counter
Card Effect Type	Activation requirement / Card effect
Passcode	59344077

text

When your opponent activates a Spell Card: They can discard 1 Spell Card to negate this card's effect, otherwise negate the activation of their Spell Card, and if you do, destroy it.

How to get / Rarity

Pack	Chaotic Compliance [UR]
Level-up reward	--
Victory against	--
Card trader	--
Other	--

Evaluation

Rating

7.0/10

Pros

It's either negate the spell card or decrease your opponent's card by 1.

Cons

Enemy can still activate their spell card if they discard a spell card.

Tips

If you want to simply negate a spell card, it's better to use Magic Jammer.
This card is more effective if you use more than once. The first time you use it, they can maybe discard a spell, but they have less cards to counter a second or third use.
While you can't use it in a chain, you can also bring Terrible Deal in a deck destruction deck.
Since spell cards are often used, this has a high chance of being used, making it really good to get Dark Voltanis out. Regardless if they negate it or not, voltanis can be special summoned (if you have a dark monster on the field) and you can then choose any card on the field to destroy.

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Classifications

Actions	Your opponent discards / Discards for effect
Monster/Spell/Trap categories	Negates itself / Negates the activation of your opponent's Spell Cards / Destroys your opponent's Spell Cards

Comments

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Anonymous

7/10 ? good one

Anonymous

I need help to decide which one is better: 2 mirror wall or 2 magic drain?

<< Anonymous

Imma Richboi Reply

Why not both? :)

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

i'd say choose both and 1 each. Usually when you use Mirror Wall, you destroy 1 of your opponents strongest monster and prevent a 2nd attack. This USUALLY turns the tides of a duel to your favor.

IMO, not a lot of spell cards are game changers. Compared to availability of trap cards, some game changers are: Soul Exchange, Riryoku, maybe OTC, Wonder Ballons and that's it.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

You forgot ECon, which is still one of the best and most versatile cards in the game. Some people farm the crap out of Kaiba just to get 3 of those, so being able to shut it down is huge (especially if they used the 2nd effect and had to tribute a monster).

Anonymous

OK need help. Was using in facedown, i attacked opponent, they used e-con, but wouldn't allow me to play magic drain! This I checked out multiple times against friends. Can someone explain why it's not working?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

That's because you probably set the Magic Drain and then attacked him. You gotta wait a turn before you can activate traps after you set them. Pretty basic rules...

Anonymous

This card is better then magic jammer because you have to discard one of your own cards in your hand. This card makes your oppenent use one of theirs

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

yea, say ur opponent has 2 OTC/ritual spell or wtever game changing spell card in their hand and gets countered by magic drain, whether or not he chooses to discard, the outcome is the same: he will have to use both copies to activate OTC/ritual. mean while, using magic drain is a -1 card for the player while magic jammer means -2. so i would say that in most situations magic drain> jammer.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

if ur opponent only has 1 spell card in their hand, you will be able to stop them using either magic jammer or drain. if ur opponent has 2+ spell cards, they will be able to activate at least one spell card even if you have magic jammer. therefore in both situations, drain is still better in terms of card advantage.

Anonymous

this card is versatile...discarding another spell in order to cancel magic drain can be painful. eg. the top tier relinquished deck listed here runs 5/20 spell cards and will be destroyed if relinquished cannot be summoned. a venus deck that runs 6-7/20 spell cards will have a difficult time gaining card advantage using OTC+white elephant gift+ mystic shineball.

Anonymous

Magic drain sucks then and still sucks. The fact that you hold your spells in your hands will cancel this card out easily. Best card in the set is 7 tools. Magic drain is a rare in real
Yugioh for a reason. It's sucks no matter what you say.

<< Anonymous

kairyu Reply

Definitely still a solid card because even if your opponent does have an extra spell card in his hand it might not be smart for him to discard it. sometimes ur opponent wont even have any spell cards to discard. sure it wasnt as OP as cards like raigeki and heavy storm but no matter what you say, this card and many other 1 for 1 cards were staples in the OCG metagame back in 2002.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

still a better card compared to 7 tools

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I can agree with what I've seen a lot of people saying, which is that a majority of the meta traps are activated during the battle phase. Therefore it's better to just run trap jammer instead of paying 1000 for 7 tools.

Anonymous

hopefully this card will make relinquished and orders to charge less OP

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Order to Charge will be completely hammered by this. Your opponent will tribute a monster and needs to negate the effect or discard a precious spell, without you paying any cost, unlike Magic Jammer.

kairyu

anyone who has played the OCG yugioh 10+ years ago would realize how good this card is. you either negate the spell activation one for one or you force your opponent to discard an extra card. i remember all the competitive players back then used to play 2-3 copies of this.

<< Anonymous(kairyu)

Anonymous Reply

and given that this is a 20 card format, there is a much greater opportunity cost in having to discard an extra spell card.

<< Anonymous(kairyu)

Anonymous Reply

I agree with you. 20 cards format makes it almost impossible to build a good competitive deck with excessive Spell Card to be discarded. Each and every Spell Card in the deck will be of great value.

Anonymous

It would be a lot more useful if it forced your opponent to discard the Kuriboh.

Anonymous

This is hands down the best trap card in the set. It's a top 10 trap in the entire game. People underestimate this at their peril.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

yeah, just like how noobs underestimated order to charge back then

Anonymous

op card..

See all 11 comments..

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

sorry Chapapanga but you're a noob. i can guarantee that you'll be friggin frustrated when you actually face someone who plays multiple copies of this.

<< Anonymous

kairyu Reply

and more often than not your opponent might not even have another spell card in their hand for discard. noobs who dont know 🔥 about card advantage will be surprised at how consistent this card actually is.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Magic drain is a rare in yugioh for a
Reason! Because it sucks. Magic jammer will always be better than it hands down. Plus 7 tools is easily the best card out the box. Dueled somebody earlier...I played Econ, the used magic drain, I threw out black pendant, magic drain blew it and I end the duel.

<< Anonymous

Chapapanga Reply

Its easy to call someone noob when u still anonymous, make u smart no?

Yeah with gold and platinum focused on thinning and running many copy of same card u cant expect them to not throw 1 spell card to deactivate.

Its basically make ur enemy choose the fate.
Like u said in clutch play, u let ur enemy choose the fate

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