skochtape1 said:
I've been running the Magical Hats with Dark Coffins and Statues of the Wicked...works great.
Another BEAUTIFUL combo. Since the non-monster cards are considered monsters on the field, YOU CAN USE COMPULSORY EVAC DEVICE on them.......need that Pot of Greed or Painful Choice?? Magical hats it out of the deck, and pop it into your hand.
I would definitely love to see something official on this. If the Compulsory Evacuation Device combo with it works, I would think using it with Dark Coffin and Statue of the Wicked would work as well, but it may require looking into. I would assume they /could/ work, as it only says "on the field", not from your S/T zone. Plus, Magical Hats says "destroy" on them, no getting around that one anyway.
Worst case scenario, they attack one of the traps and flip it face up, the trap wouldn't be destroyed face down so no effect, but you just saved your monster and thinned your deck. Not a bad trade.
Best case scenario, can anyone say Mystic Swordsman LV2 or Sasuke Samurai? Oops, you just "destroyed" my face down card, and it never flipped. Tsk tsk, that'll teach you to use cheap tricks to get by my defense! Better yet, say you had a strong creature down, and they used Book of Moon on it just to use the "crusher-wimps" as I call them to get them out of there. Now they only have a 1 in 3 chance of destroying it outright, and even if they do hit it, well, you either make them discard/kill a creature of theirs twice, get two monster tokens out for defense, or one of each.
Oh yes, I see some very interesting possibilities here. Heck, even if you get stuck with Dark Coffin or Statue of the Wicked face down in your S/T zone, and they don't take the bait to blow it up, you've finally found a use for Griffin's Feather Duster! Yet another "useless" card suddenly becomes not so useless anymore. Great thing to shove a pair of in your side deck to a deck with this in it. If you'd never get the chance to play it even after sidedecking it, you can always use it as one of the "creatures" Magical Hats creates. You just thinned an otherwise useless card from your deck that you'd usually hate to topdeck, if you get to that point. Too bad Emergency Provisions "sends" and not "destroys", or holy crap, could you say ultimate protection?
Magical Hats, a fun card, that I just gained a /whole/ lot of new respect for, providing this does indeed work in all aspects mentioned. If there's nothing official posted here by later today, I'll post questions over in the rules forum, because if this is indeed all perfectly legal, which it sounds like it /should/ be, then my crazy brain has already got a deck in mind. Can you say "Exodia, Top Hat Trickster"?