Ready for Intercepting LOD-EN031

Ready for Intercepting
Trap
Flip 1 face-up Warrior or Spellcaster-Type monster on the field into face-down Defense Position.

Rulings:

-If "Drillago" attacks directly, and your opponent activates "Ready for Intercepting" from his hand, because his/her "Makyura the Destructor" was sent to the Graveyard earlier this turn, to flip one of his face-up monsters face-down, there is no longer a condition allowing "Drillago" to attack directly, and a replay occurs.

-If you activate "Ready for Intercepting" after your opponent's attack declaration to flip face-down the monster which is being attacked, a replay does not occur. Complete the attack as normal. (This must happen during the Battle Step, not the Damage Step.)

-If you activate "Ready for Intercepting" and target the attacking monster, it is flipped into face-down Defense Position and the attack ends. (This must happen during the Battle Step, not the Damage Step.)

-While the effect of "Light of Intervention" is active, you cannot activate "Ready for Intercepting".

-If you chain "Ready for Intercepting" to "Hammer Shot" to flip a monster face-down, that monster will not be included in determining which monster is destroyed by the effect of "Hammer Shot".

<Insert witty opening here>

So yeah, today we come to one of the few cards in the game that can flip a monster to face-down defense position. Yes, it has some stipulations, but it still does the same thing. First off, it can only target Warriors and Spellcasters, SEVERLY limiting its uses outside of those to deck. Secondly, the targeted monster must be face-up (oh dear...), and it is flipped face-down (what a surprise...). Sound familiar? Sound like a card that is already out, only worse?

Well, for those of you that said "no," please stop reading now and go directly to the deck forums. In about three seconds, you will see where I am going with this. Don't worry, I'll wait...

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Back? No? Well...

...kinda wishing I'd brought something along to eat now...

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...what's taking them so long?

...OH! Welcome back. Did you bring me a sub? NO?!? That's completly not cool man...that's totally uncouth...I sit and wait patiently for you while you wander off to some OTHER part of the forum to do something...have you been seeing another CotD reviewer? Have you?! How dare y-...oh yeah, the review.

The secret card that Ready for Intercepting tries to imitate is Book of Moon (or is Book trying to one-up Ready?). RfI, which has a horrible acronym, is worse in every way than Book of Moon. Book can be played from the hand, can hit anything, and isn't negated by the omni-present Royal Decree and Jinzo. Ready does none of that. The only reason it is even remotly viable in the current format is that (A) most monsters that see play are warriors anyway, so Ready for Intercepting can act to intercept an incoming Don, D.D. Assailant, Command Knight, or Celtic Guardian and (B) Book of Moon recently saw a restriction to one.

Essentially, Ready for Intercepting is a "safer" Book of Moon that is a whole turn slower when it really counts and can't stop the biggest threats in the meta (Cyber Dragon, Monarchs, Jinzo, etc.). It can, however, be used in a Warrior or Spellcaster deck (Gravekeepers...<insert creepy wind here>) to do the same thing that Book of Moon was intended to do: protect high DEF/mediocre ATK monsters from destruction (GK Spy/Command Knight), protect from Sakuretsu/Snatch Steal/Smashing Groung, re-use flip effects (GK Spy/Mysterious Guar), and coushin the blow from incoming attacks from an unstoppable juggernaut (Horus). So, with Book to 1, I guess RfI isn't as bad as it once was. You could even say it is "good".

Advanced: 3/5 Battling it out for Sakuretsu, Bottomless, and Dust Tornado...and it STILL holds it's ground. Not great, not bad. A solid defensive trap.
Traditional: 0/5 If it ain't broken, the Dragon blows it the F*** up. And sometimes, even if it is broken. So this thing stands NO chance.
Sealed: 4.5/5 An absolute beast here. All of the best monsters in LOD are Spellcasters, Warrior, or Fiend. RfI handles two of the three of them, and even provides protectoin from the occasional removal spell that may have snuck into one of the opponent's packs.
 
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Personally, if you want defense, I just can't see this card over Waboku, if you want to reuse flippers, BoM and Tsuki (who is quite easily searched) just own it. I don't care how open minded you are, this card just isn't very good.
-pssvr
 
::sigh::

Waboku. That card is so last gen. its not even funny. You rarely see it in decks, and Threatening Roar does a much better job that it.

now. lets say you have flippers, you wasted your 1 bom and what does your opponent summon to kill your flipper? a Silent swordsman Lv 2.

what will you use against that? Waboku???
 
Tsuki isn't gonna' protect your D.D. Assailant from Sakuretsu, Snatch Steal, Lightning Vortex, Bottomless Trap Hole, Smashing Ground, and an incoming D. D. Survivor. That's all 1-4-1, but Monsters are a much more valuable commodity than removal in this, or any, format. Tsuki is good. Book is better. Ready for Intercepting is inferior to both, but provides the flexibilty of Book of Moon. Tsuki does NOTHING on the opponent's turn. And if all you use your Book of Moon for is flipping the opponent's monster face-down, you were missing the point of Book in the first place. So yes, RfI isn't as good as the Book. RfI isn't as good as Tsuki. But is is SO much better than Waboku, and provides flexibility. But ONLY in Warriors and Spellcasters, which is why Tsuki and Book are better IN GENERAL.

[edit]You beat me to it krazykid...CURSES!![/edit]
 
now unless you have hardcore hand management Darkness Approaches wouldnt be so bad, but in this case i dont think anybody can afford to use a spell speed 1 that costs 2 cards to do only 1 thing.

heck, anybody that runs that flawlessly should just win matches.

its like runing a blue eyes shining dragon. If anybody, and you guys are witnesses ever pulls that card out on me, Ill conceed the match imediatly no questions asked.
 
Well it's not like BESD is impossible to kill... It's just really extremely hard. Actually... now that I think about it, it's really hard. But how many people running BESD decks do you see running around? I'm sure even after BEUD is released, it won't be used en masse.

Back on topic -

Threatening Roar definately blows Waboku out of the water in the current format for defensive purposes. However, on the offense, Waboku is better by far. Ready for Intercepting's main flaw can also be thwarted by using DNA Surgery. I'm sure a Kinetic Soldier deck like John's (chaosruler) could utilize Ready for Intercepting very well.
 
oo, i dont mean its hard to kill, thats easy to destroy. just that im saying.

you should be ashamed of your self for letting it be played.

how many possible ways are there to summon it?

cyber stein > BEUD > Shining dragon
Blue eyes > Blue eyes > Blue eyes + Dragon Mirror or polymer > Ultimate > Shining dragon

If somebody were to pull the 3 blue eyes, then polymer them, then summon a shining, would be the time i give up.

cause come on, how many cards does it take to even bust that.

now if they do the cyber stein thing, then ill stay in the game. but if they waste their whole hand for 1 card, ill be like, dude your bold, you win the match.
 
I agree that Ready for Intercepting has "superior" versions. But the reason(s) I selected this card for a review is:
1. We are in Warrior week, after all
2. Book of Moon restriced to 1
3. It's something different, and chances are most of you overlooked this many, many times. In fact, you probably still will
4. Everyone will main deck this when you see someone effectively using it at your next regional

Kagadesires reviewed this perfectly. Keep up the good work.
 
any card that ends up on a TOP 8 deck will mostlikely see play.

remember when that one water guardian was seeing play? nobody knew exactly what was so good about it, people just ran it because somebody won a tourney with it.

you know what i call that? a filler. thats all
 
If by "that water guardian" you mean Guardian Kay'est... I wouldn't call that a filler. I personally think that Kay'est and Rod of Silence - Kay'est are both extremely useful cards. Actually, I think that any card that is unaffected by Spell Cards (Mars, Silent Swordsman LV5, Guardian Kay'est, etc.) is the optimal card. Rod of Silence - Kay'est is awesome in that respect because it makes the equipped monster resistant to a lot of Spells. In terms of Mars and Guardian Kay'est, though, think of Dark Hole, Lightning Vortex, Book of Moon, etc. How can Spell Immuninty be a bad thing?

And Desertapir... It's cute, I'll give it that but... It's kinda... slow. I guess you could look at it like this:

Ready for Intercepting is to Book of Moon as Desertapir is to Tsukuyomi. And then Darkness Approaches falls in there somewhere. Maybe.
 
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