Swords of Concealing Light

When you activate this card, change all monsters on your opponent's side of the field to face-down Defense Position. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, monsters on your opponent's side of the field cannot change their Battle Positions. Destroy this card during your 2nd Standby Phase after activation.

i haddent seen this card on the boards yet, so i thought i would post it.

I have alrdy put one in my deck. and i find it to be a huge game "reverser" now people look at it and say they would prefer the original swords, well SORL and SOCL, are both extreamly powerful,

SORL-Exposes your opponits monster and prevents your opponit from attacking.

SOCL-Flips all your opponits monsters face down, which would cribble effects, (jinzo and others like him) setting the field for Nobelmans and Mystic swordsmen. and keep the monsters they have down, down for 2 turns, and the fact it is unlimited, is just sick,

(oh and its a goat killer!!!)

anyway post your oppinions.

 

[kingpinopie]

This card is Disgustingly SICK.... It is going to be on the next ban IMO.. (not the APR. 1st ban).. I can already see this getting to be as broken as raigeki was.... we are talking about Swords of Concealing + Asura Priest + any equip.... Axe, big bang shot, etc... its like this... Asura Priest destroys them all, Kycoo or Soul Release gets rid of them.... hmmm... I see a new deck idea.. Asura/Swordsman mixed with Swords of Concealing.....


SICK.... but cool... is it going to be restricted???

Just looked... its not restricted.. sick sick stuff man....

 

[skey23]

(oh and its a goat killer!!!)

How is it a goat killer? It doesn't destroy tokens. From the UDE FAQ:
"Since there's no such thing as a face-down Monster Token, Monster Tokens are simply changed to Defense Position when the effect of "Swords of Concealing Light" is applied."

Anyway, I've played with this card in couple of decks against friends and it hasn't really helped out. Mainly because I haven't had the supporting monsters in hand or available to use against the face-down cards, or "Skill Drain" was active on the field negating my "Swordsman's" abilities..

I'm not to fond of it just yet, but we'll see. Things definitely change.

 

[Savyer]

How is it a goat killer? It doesn't destroy tokens. From the UDE FAQ:
"Since there's no such thing as a face-down Monster Token, Monster Tokens are simply changed to Defense Position when the effect of "Swords of Concealing Light" is applied."

okay i was misinformed, so its not a goat killer, but its still awesome.

 

[vickersja]

i love the epic battle between good and evil. this is the opposite card of the Swords of Revealing Light.

it would be cool to have both cards in a chaos deck.

 

[kingpinopie]

ya really... FLip em up... no wait.. flip them down.....

 

[Azatoth]

ya really... FLip em up... no wait.. flip them down.....

*rotflmao*

this is the opposite card of the Swords of Revealing Light.

Ok...both cards have in common that they flip your opponent's monsters, and that they are destroyed after some turns.

Their main difference is the "direction" of flipping, and thus the way you would want to use them:

Swords of Revealing Light
Pro: - It prevents being attacked by your opponent (good to save those weak but important LV 1 - 4 monsters) even from monsters summoned after the activation of Swords of Revealing Light.
- You know the DEF of the monsters you want to attack.
Con: Swords of Revealing Light activates Flip Effects, you have to be aware of this

Swords of Concealing Light (I have seen the name "Swords of Revealing Darkness" in a spoiler some months ago, btw.)
Pro: does not only work on some certain monsters, as Swords of Revealing Light does, but on all of your opponent's monsters: a poly-Tsukuyomisation, so to say (oh, I love this card, did I mention that? ).
- you don't activate flip effects, you stop continuous effects etc., Jinzo is the most obvious example.
Con: - you don't know the DEF of the monsters that were f/d before
- your opponent can attack with monsters summoned in f/u attack position after the activation of this card

As you (especially vickersja) should be able to see from this short (!) comparison, they fit into different situations (Revealing: protection monsters or Lifepoints on your side vs. Concealing: deactivating effects and bringing beatsticks into defense position)

Using both and recycling your opponents Flip Effects is somewhat stupid. "Flip up. Oh, a Man-Eater Bug. You wanna use it again? I'd love to help you. Flip down!?"

Can anyone think of a situation where both would be useful, I can't atm, but I'm too tired now.

 

[Manta]

As Swords of Revealing Light is to anti-beatdown, Swords of Concealing Light is to anti-stall/burn.

The latter stops burn by shutting down the likes of Stealth Bird, Solar Flare Dragon and all of those burning monster nasties, which will give you time to draw what you need to deal with thier Magic and trap cards.

 

[Savyer]

Also just read something about a certin combo involving this and Solomon's Lawbook, where is you activate Solomon's Lawbook and skip your 2 standby phase, SOCL will stay forever, (just to make your opponit unable to change positions), i think this would work with Magic Reflector also, but not sure.

 

[StRiKe_NiNjA]

Great top deck if your being obliterated.

Remember this, monsters summoned after the activation of Swords of Concealing Light are not affected, so they remain face-up and able to attack.

I'd play 1 at most.

 

[CraniumX]

Perfect card for a "Meteor Crush" deck, in my opinion. I could actually see this as being a help for a Harpie deck that runs 3 Enraged Battle Oxes as well. I plan on throwing one together to test sometime, for fun. Probably still really couldn't candle tournaments, but it would be a fun deck, at the very least. Now if only they'd abolish that stupid 3 Harpy rule.

 

[TheOne]

I think this card is weak. It combos well with Spell Absorbing Life. That is about it. I would much rather play nightmare cage than this card. ; )

 

[Jathro]

Does this card flip down monster cards that are acting as equip spell cards, thereby destroying them?

I'm thinking of cards like Dark Necrofear, Archfiend of Gilfer, etc. that act as equips at times, even though they are monster cards.

 

[jpnuar1]

Does this card flip down monster cards that are acting as equip spell cards, thereby destroying them?

I'm thinking of cards like Dark Necrofear, Archfiend of Gilfer, etc. that act as equips at times, even though they are monster cards.

No, but the monsters they are equipped to would be flipped face down, and that would destroy the equip......

 

[chaos general]

Can anyone think of a situation where both would be useful, I can't atm, but I'm too tired now.

yes - wait... no. wait, yes - activate SoRL, then activate SoCL... so that way... yeah... no.. right? no... yeah, wait... oh, ill just shut up... ^x^

anyway, this card is OK... just OK. it does not prevent attacks as well as SoRL does, but it still prevents some attacks. Now, if your opponent's monsters summoned after it HAD to be FD as well, we would be talkin well.

i really dont understand why you would want this card for more than 2 turns anyway. after all your opponent's monsters are destroyed, there is no point for them to remain FD. ok, yeah, they cant change positions, but there are other cards that do that. (Gravity Axe - Grarl, for example) it is basically a HUGE Book of Moon, but Book of Moon is still a LOT better. this card is incomparable to Book of Moon.

Rating:
3/5 all formats. its ok, its not ok, theres pros, theres cons, etc.

ART--- 4/5!! I heart the art on this card. (heart... art.. heh...)

 

[DaGuyWitBluGlasses]

Stumbling + Solomon's Lawbook + Swords of Concealing Light = Permanent Defense Position Lock


Gravekeeper's Decks might make good use of it to.

 

[chaos general]

Stumbling + Solomon's Lawbook + Swords of Concealing Light = Permanent Defense Position Lock


Gravekeeper's Decks might make good use of it to.

i must say... that was quite a nice one on your part... im loving it!

but --- it kind of needs a solid strategy based about it. you need Solomon's Lawbook, SoCL, and Stumbling all on the field to use it. 3 card combos using a mix of spells and traps are combos i usually dont like...

however, its a very nice combo.

 

[DaGuyWitBluGlasses]

The key to making good combos is to have back-up plans when you don't have the cards at the same time:

On their own:
-Stumbling slows down the duel, you'll be able to have a whole turn to deal with your opponents monster before they have a chance to attack, this card makes Fissure, Smashing Ground, and Lightning Vortex more powerful (destroying your opponents mosnter before it attacks)
-Swords of Concealing Light, see previous posts
-Solomon's Lawbook, this would be the weak point in the strategy, although there are many other cards that might benefit from Skipping a standby phase, this would be the difficult point in deck construction

draw 2 out of 3,
-Stumbling + Swords of Concealing Light = A 2 turn no attack lock, with most monsters being in their more vulnerable position
-Stumbling + Solomon's Lawbook = Useless
-Solomon's Lawbook + Swords of Concealing Light = A permanent Difficulty for your opponent, Giant Orc only gets one attack (a mosnter that will se play apr 1st), Book of Moon is now Permanent, Windstorm of Etaqua/Zero Gravity are now Permanent Enemy Controller is Now Permanent.

There is some back-up strategy: and Stumbling doesn't need to be played (in time) with the other 2, it can easily be played later or earlier.

 

[chaosruler]

also, you could lock the field with Stumblin' and SoCL, skip your 2nd with Solomon's Lawbook, then Light of Interfention, so they can only have face-up defense monsters, lol

EDIT: I forgot to look at DaGuyWitBluGlasses post, sorry XD

-chaosruler

 

[Savyer]

i just got back from a tournameant, and took first, running 3 Swords of Concealing Light, and no mytic swordsmen or anything of that nature, and the deck worked very well,