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Asymmetaphys
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Once per turn: You can banish 1 “Metaphys” card from your hand, and if you do, draw 1 card. Once per turn, if your “Metaphys” card in its owner’s possession is banished: Apply this effect depending on whose turn it is.
● Your turn: All monsters on the field lose 500 ATK/DEF, except “Metaphys” monsters.
● Opponent’s turn: Change the battle positions of all monsters on the field, except “Metaphys” monsters.
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Can Be Found In: Circuit Break (CIBR-EN060)

Metaphys is an archetype all about banishing its own monsters, gaining all sorts of benefits in the process. Since their mechanics involves banishing themselves to summon each other as well affect the opponent’s game, is a very tough Deck to counter by using common means. Combined with Anti-Meta options that disrupts the abuse of the Graveyard seen in many popular Decks, a Metaphys Deck can keep a very strong lead even though many of their members only stay on the field for a few turns.

“Asymmetaphys” is a card capable of covering several basic needs of the archetype on its own. Once per turn “Asymmetaphys” will let us banish an archetype from our hand to draw a new in return. If a Metaphys card of ours is banished, “Asymmetaphys” will apply one of two effects depending of which is the active player turn. If happens in our turn, “Asymmetaphys” will make all monsters except those from the archetype lose 500 ATK and DEF. If is the opponent’s turn, instead will make non-Metaphys monsters change their battle positions. Both of these effects along the right options can keep the opposite field in rough conditions, but “Asymmetaphys” true potential comes from its draw potential and sinergy with the rest of its archetype.

Assuring its arrival thanks to options such as “Metaphys Nephthys” and “Metaphys Ascension”, “Asymmetaphys” is more than replacing one card at a time with new ones and some chances to weaken the opposite field during any turn. First of all, although “Asymmetaphys” has a once per turn clause, doesn’t stop us from stacking several copies in our backrow for not only great drawing power but also severly cripple the opposite field. Its drawing effect might seem at first that only replaces cards with others from our Deck, but actually “Asymmetaphys” allows us to prepare the archetype’s main goal by banishing their key cards in the process. Many Metaphys monsters shares the ability to return to our Deck when banished and provide an ability afterwards, like the mentioned “Metaphys Nephthys” searching for archetype cards or the summoning effect of “Metaphys Tyrant Dragon”. But in most cases will be brought to our field after being banished by one of many methods, either other monsters’ effects so they can obtain some of their best abilities, or other options such as “Metaphys Dimension” as responds opponent’s summons each turn. Keep on mind that while the default performance of “Asymmetaphys” is to banish cards to draw and follow with its effects, the ability to manipulate non-Metaphys monsters will activate no matter what caused an archetype card to be banished.

“Asymmetaphys” is that kind of card that seems pretty tame at first until we check the options that offers to its archetype. Despite trading a card for another “Asymmetaphys” along other banishing effects (Including its copies) are preparing the best plays to follow with in our next moves, as its two other effects keeps the opponent under control as well assuring weak monsters to pass some damage through our attacks. Metaphys relies on each other to be efficient and this Spell Card is no exception, as while drawing new cards is always good we prefer to have something else to continue our setups afterwards. Metaphys might be a small archetype with scarce options, but with the help of “Asymmetaphys” and other cards won’t take long to obtain their winning conditions.

Personal Rating: A

+Let us banish a Metaphys card in our hand to draw a card
+Weakens or changes the battle position non-Metaphys monsters depending of the turn when a Metaphys card is banished
+Banishing cards for its effects will prepare the archetype’s goals in the process

-Average card if is not working along other Metaphys effects or its own copies