That's a very New Blood answer. If you knew your cards, there's a card called Cold Wave that this one emulates but is even better in the process, while Cold Wave is (maybe still) BANNED. All those you complaining about are stoppable and can plan ahead. This card...it's a page turner & game sealer.
The drawback to this, nothing is stopping your opponent from using his face downs before the battle phase. And this leaves you completely helpless against sphere kuribo.
So... cards like Mirror Wall, Etaqua, Inspiration, and Michizure all become useless now, right?
Also cards like Magic Jammer/Magic Drain/7 Tools all become obsolete now because this card doesn't require any discard and NO card can be activated to counter its activation.
With this card, all you need to do is activate this card at the start of your battle phase and your opponent would be forced to pop their traps/spells early or they immediately lose unless they have kuriboh. Am I right about this?
Just want to know in advance what the meta is going to look like after this card comes out.
This should be an easy call on the ruling. It should absolutely shut down TK. The card reads 'Spell/Trap cards, AND THEIR EFFECTS, cannot be activated'.
The protection effect TK has is never activated, but instead continuously applied, meaning this card doesn't do anything to TK. Yugioh rulings are wack sometimes lol
I suppose the best way to get around this card is to try and make sure your opponent isn't in a situation where this card can turn the tables for,obviously that's easier said than but there's not much else you can do once this card goes off