Summary

• Mirror Force has had various incarnations with different effects over the years.
• Some retrained versions lack the usefulness of the original due to added conditions.
• Cards like Mirror Force Dragon can offer versatile effects beyond just destroying monsters.

Mirror Force is one of the most iconic battle Traps in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. This card has had an impacting presence in the anime while also pulling its fair share of weight in the card game. The concept behind Mirror Force is simple: if your opponent attacks you, Mirro🐽r Force bounces that attack right back for the specified consequence.

There have been plenty of incarnations of Mirror Force over the years with each one do🦂ing something different. Some💟times this can be as simple as destroying your opponent’s monsters, while other times, it can lock them down in their zones. So which is the best incarnation of the card?

10 𓆉 Radiant Mirror Force

An Unlucky Retrain

Radiant Mirror Force is one of the worst 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:retrains of an original card. It doesn’t add any new effects to make it wort🅰h using, all it does is add conditions to the card in an attempt to balance it. This kind of retrain is useful while a certain card is banned,𝄹 but you still want to use the effect.

The condition of your opponent having three mons𓆏ters on the field before you can set it off isn’t as useful as the original card. Without any added effects, even the archetype-specific Mirror Force ca☂rds are more usable.

9 Mi👍rror Force Dragon

Mirror Force As A Monster

Mirror Force Dragon is essentially a Mirror Force Trap card on legs. Though unlike its Trꦐap counterpart, it needs to be Summoned first before it can do anything. This requires having the Fang of Critias S♋pell in your hand as well as a Mirror Force in your hand or field.

It’s a bit cumbersome to Summon, but it can destroy not only your opponent’s monsters, but their Spells and Traps as well. First though, your opponent needs to attack Mirror Force Dragon. This effect can also beও triggered when this monster is targeted.

8 👍 Dark Mirror Force 🙈

Good, But Only When The Conditions Come Up

Dark Mirror Force is literally the inverse of the original Mirror Force. Even the artwork is a negative vers✃ion. If your opponent attacks and you trigger this Trap, Dark Mirror Force can banish all their defense position monsters.

Unfortunately, this effect is a bit too specific aℱnd relies entirely on your opponent only attacking with one monster. There's also no guarantee that the turn they decide to attack, they won’t just try to hit you with all their monsters, thus leaving no defense position monsters to even banish.

7 Dark Magi𝄹c Mirror Force 🐎

A Conditional Trap

Dark Magic Mirror Force has some neat effects, but it is far from flexible. This incarnation of Mirror Force is tied down to cards that mention Shining Sarcophagus and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Dark Magician archetype💟. 🅘It also needs some of these names on the field before it can go live.

Luckily, it’s a Trap that can also be triggered by monster effects that could potentially destroy a monster on your side of the field. It gives all of these Shining Sarcophagus monsters lingering protection after decimating your opponent’s f𝔉ield.

6 𝓰 Mirage Mirror Force ꧅

The Rise Of Illusions

Illusion monsters contain some p💯retty interesting retrains for some of Yugi’s classic monsters. This type also includes a retrain of Mirror Force in the form of Mirage Mirror Force. This card is locked to the Illusion-type, but can help you recycle resources.

Instead of destroying monsters, it instead bounces one back while allowing you to Special Summon an Illusion from your ♈hand or graveyard. It also has a graveyard effect that lets you replace an Illusion monster removed from the field by y♚our opponent.

5 ༒ Blazing Mirror For🐭ce

Burn Baby, Burn!

Blazing Mirror Force can kill you if you don’t pay attention to your own life points🐷. This is because it not only destroys your opponent’s monsters, but calculates their a𝕴ttack into burn damage.

You only take half the sum of all your opponent’s destroyed monster’s attacks. However, when your opponent has a total sum of 8000 attack on the field, you’re dealing with 4000 in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:burn damage to yourself. If you survive it though, your opponent also takes the same damage, which 🍸can be quite useful.

4 🍃 Drowning Mirror Force ꦅ

Playing Chicken With Direct Attacks

Drowning Mirror Force loses a few points for requiring you to have an em🍷pty field in order to activate. After all, your opponent needs to attack directly for this to kick off. In return, you get to shuffle all their attack position monsters back into the deck.

Despite the requirements to trigger being a bit risky, shuffling cards back to the deck is great compared to destroying them. It avoids those on-destruction effects as well as letting thos🌃e monsters hit the graveyard as resources.

3 💯 𓃲 Storming Mirror Force

Bounce Back To The Hand

Storming Mirror Force has a similar effect as Drowning🎃 Mirror Force, but instead of shuffling to the deck, it shuffles monsters back to t💝he hand. In exchange for not being able to shuffle back to the deck, this card can instead be activated even when your opponent isn’t attacking directly.

This makes it more useful than its counterpart, but can result in some unwanted side effects. This includes your opponent being able to reus🅘e an effect the next turn. On the bright side, it can give you a chance to make a comeback on a mostly cleared field.

2 Qua🤪king Mirror Force

A Permanent Book Of Moon

Quaking Mirror Force can be an absolute menac♔e of a Trap if pulled off. This is because it can flip all your opponent’s monsters face-down permanently instead of destroying them. This can cause your opponent’s field to get clogged with unusable Monster Zones.

The lingering effect of Quaking Mirror🐠 Force prevents the monsters affected from flipping back up. While face-down, they can’t be used as Link, Synchro, or XYZ material either, which leaves them sitting there unless they get tributes or used for a Fusion Summon.

1 Mirror Force 🦩 🔴

A Staple In The Early Days

Mirror Force is one of the earliest staple Traps in Yu-Gi-Oh!. You need to attack to win,൩ and the earliest strategies revolved around swarming the field with monsters. However, if you weren’t careful, one wrong attack could see your entire monster army wiped out.

Mirror Force made players think before Summoning too many monsters to th🎀e field. Of course, as the era of battle Traps faded, so did Mirror Force’s reliability. As the card that kicked off the entire archetype, it’s a pretty legendary card.