Underrated cards of Yugioh - 1# Naturia Bamboo Shoot

Welcome to a next segment of my blog; where I talk about cards that I feel are unrated in YuGiOh and what they bring to the game.

The first card I want to talk about is Natruia Bamboo Shoot.

Naturia Bamboo Shoot
EARTH - Plant - ***** - ATK 2000 / DEF 2000
If this card is Tribute Summoned by Tributing a "Naturia" monster, while this card remains face-up on the field, your opponent cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards

First up is Bamboo Shoot's stats. It stands at 2000 on each stat which is a bit weak for a one tribute monster .

You only get its effect when you tribute summon it and you have to tribute a Naturia Monster. So playing card means you need to runs some sort of Naturia engine in the deck. I suggest Naturia Cliff and Naturia Cherries, which replace themselves and survive normally the one turn you need for the tribute summon.

Now lets talk about his effect: your opponent cannot activate spell or trap cards. That's right they cannot play anything of them, no Counters unless its to the summon of Bamboo.

If you can push them into a corner before dropping this then you make any lucky top decks of their pointless.

No Monster Reborn, Heavy Storm, Dark Hole, Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute.

Also Bamboos stops the common back row hate from being played. Mst, Heavy or Decree. So your backrow is rather protected.

Sadly effect monsters and higher ATK monster hurt this card, such as Effect veiler make this card dead. So a good suggestion to run with this card is Safe Zone. That way Bamboo is protected to the up most from nearly everything.

Earlier game this card causes problem for Six Sams, Chain Burn and Final Countdown. Chaos Dragons is a problem deck due to the high mini boss monster count it runs and Gearia are tough as well, but supported correctly this card can still be a problem to almost anyone.

I hope you enjoyed this segment of my blog, I hope to do more of them.

Till then, this is Spectral Joker signing off.