Card Review: Monster Reborn

Today I decided to review a Mon-Monster Card, a Spell Card*. Monster Reborn is one of the best known cards around. It is used by every Yu-Gi-Oh! Protagonist around, save for Yusei Fudo. Monster Reborn is a card used often by the main characters of the first season and it was included in the first booster pack and in almost every Starter Deck. Because of it's potency, this card was actually forbidden from tournament use for a few years; but now, it has finally been added to the Limited List to be used in any deck for competition.

So let's examine this famous Spell Card. It is a simple card with a very potent effect: It revives 1 monster from ANY card Graveyard. Although the original text is a bit wordy that is really all that it boils down to. This card Special Summons, which means that it Summons a Monster through it's own effect and does not count for your Normal Summon or Set for the turn. Since you can also use Monsters from your Opponent's Graveyard, this card can really turn things around in tight situations especially if you have not been able to summon any remotely powerful creatures that happened to meet their doom early enough.

This card is great. There is no doubt about it. Now that it has returned, it is almost hard to imagine a deck without using one. A card like this is dubbed as a "staple", an unofficial term referring to a card that is nearly universal, compatible with almost any kind of deck and can hold all of those decks together and strengthen them even during tough duels. Since it is an old card, however, and it has not been reprinted often, Monster Reborn is quite a scarce card, and even "Common" prints like the one displayed here are still quite rare (Unofficially). 

*NOTE: Although the card is clearly labeled as a "Magic Card", Magic Cards and Spell Cards are actually the same type of card. Magic Card is what Spell Cards were originally referred to as.