"Modest Greed"--Pot of Duality

[Cyber Necrovalley]

Reveal the top 3 cards of your Deck. Select 1 of them and add it to your hand, and shuffle the other cards into your Deck. You can only activate 1 "Pot of Duality" per turn. You cannot Special Summon this turn.[/i]

The new Duelist Revolution card, Pot of Duality, is the latest new deck-thinner in the vein of Pot of Greed, Jar of Greed, Reckless Greed, Pot of Generosity, and others. This card is very likely to be widely used for its usefulness.


From the top three cards of your deck, you get to take one and put it in your hand. There are advantages to this, but there are also drawbacks. First, considering the advantages:

• You get to choose which card out of the top three to add to your hand--it has a much smaller chance of being a "dead draw."
  
• You thin your deck by one.
  
• It acts as a neutral to your hand advantage--no gain, but certainly no loss.

Of course, there are some disadvantages:

• You can only activate one PoD per turn, so you can't continue the deck-thinning until later.
  
• You cannot Special Summon at all during the turn you activate PoD. It's not always a negative but the majority of the times it puts you behind.
  
• The 3 cards are "revealed." This means that the opponent can and must see them. He will know at least 3 of the cards in your deck and he will know which card you added to your hand.

What do you think of this? According to the official YGO website, PoD is one of the most talked-about Spell in years. Will you use it? What are your opinions? Do the positives outweigh the negatives? Discuss!

[momo90]

i think that this card is very dangerous, but can be useful in dangerous situation. if you are top deck, and you draw pot of duality, it's a very good thing to choose the card that will help you the most, like even a battle fader or a threatening roar. and in a deck that don't do many special summon ( yeah yeah the have deck that does not special summon ) it can be a very good card!

[Cyber Necrovalley]

Yes, picking out a Battle Fader from the top three cards of your deck is always helpful in any situation. And there are numerous decks that don't Special Summon, but the majority do. Still, it's a helpful advantage.

[momo90]

I think i'm going to try to got it because in a froggy monarch deck it's going to be very useful, for example. Îf I don'.t have any cards on the field and I draw a << pot of duality >> I can special summon my treeborn frog? and do the pot of duality after? This can be a really great combo^o)

[Cyber Necrovalley]

If you want to use your Pot of Duality you can't Special Summon Treeborn Frog. It's the same way that you can't Special Summon and then later the same turn activate Scapegoat. But for the most part it can be useful in a Froggie deck since they do mostly Normal Summoning anyways.

[momo90]

ok... but i'm not going to include finally... because in a frog deck, we always have monsters to protect ours ( treeborn frog ronintoadin,gorz,trao,battloe fader...) so it's not very useful

[Cyber Necrovalley]

True, but remember that you can only activate Pot of Duality on your own turn (its a regular Spell) and out of all of those, you only really summon Treeborn Frog and Ronintoadin on your own turn. Gorz, Battle Fader, and Tragoedia get summoned on the opponent's turn most of the time (Battle Fader is all of the time) and Pot of Duality won't stop them.

[biggjoe619]

pot of duelity is retardedly broken i wont be surprised if counter fairies are one of the best decks next format

[Cyber Necrovalley]

Why Counter Fairies? Pot of Duality helps any deck out there, even Infernities, who shudder at the idea of putting cards in their hand.

[Kalin Kessler]

They don't particularly Special Summon a lot, so one of its drawbacks is eliminated.

[Cyber Necrovalley]

Oh, that makes sense. But still, I don't think that reason alone would make it a top deck next format--although it is good with PoD.

[judgementcaius]

I would run it if it was cheaper. It's simply too expensive for my tastes. $100+ for ONE, almost 500 for 3? No thanks, I can build an entire deck for that kind of money.

[Kalin Kessler]

I like that thinking. But you do have to admit, it gives your deck a lot of speed, which is most likely why people continue to buy it at outrageous prices (right, CN? You know about buying cards at outrageous prices, don't you?)

[Cyber Necrovalley]

Yes I do but not THAT outrageous!! And that was only once! I'll never do it again I swear...

I honestly don't think PoD is worth as much as it is now, I mean it's amazing but it's not like Pot of Greed amazing..

[Kalin Kessler]

It's not as amazing as PoG, but it's close. The ability to chose your received card adds almost the same, if not the same amount of speed to your deck that PoG adds.