Handtraps
Beware of your Spell/Trap cards when this set card resolves!
Infinite Impermanence
With it's name changed from "Hope", this Rank 4 can detach one XYZ material to negate an attack!
Number 39: Utopia
Acquisitiveness, Benevolence, Dichotomy, Forbidden, Riches
Forbidden (Pot Spell Card)
An iconic Yu-Gi-Oh! duo, these two monsters were featured on the 2021 Tin of Ancient Battles.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon & Dark Magician
Despite the unpopularity of Trap Monsters, this deck saw great competitive success.
Eldlich
Able to negate a monster on your opponent's turn, you won't be activating it under Macro Cosmos!
Effect Veiler
Able to teleport away, draw cards, and disrupt your opponent: This thieving Rank 4 is quite the gentleman.
Time Thief Redoer
Crusadia, Guardragon, Krawler, Orcust, Rokket
Rokket (World Legacy Archetypes)
You may change your most important monsters to defense position to play around this card, a powerhouse in the early days of Yu-Gi-Oh!
Mirror Force
With four iconic decks seeing the most play, this 2019 format was quite a toss-up!
Thunder Dragon, Orcust, Sky Striker, Salamangreat
A tech against LIGHT decks, this card can do double of what "D.D. Crow" can, but only for one attribute of monster.
Ally of Justice Cycle Reader
A popular pick in EARTH Machine decks, this Rank 4 monster can grab any level 4 or lower Machine monster from your deck!
Gear Gigant X
Caius, Grandsoil, Mobius, Thestalos, Zaborg
Grandsoil (Monarchs)
Released early into MR4, but not imported to the TCG for years, this monster enabled too many combos, for too little commitment.
Crystron Halqifibrax
It's most important card currently banned, this deck was able to hand loop, abusing "soft once per turn" effects.
Wind-Up
While you control no cards, this handtrap can prevent your opponent from tributing a targeted monster, or using it as Fusion/Synchro/XYZ/Link material for the turn.
Gnomaterial
Released in Duelist Alliance, this Rank 4 was a direct replacement for "Maestroke, the Symphony Djinn, being able to shuffle a monster back, but also flip it face-down.
Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer
Ascalon, Darkspear, Nebthet, Trident, Vajrayana
Nebthet (Dragunity)
Be careful when attacking into an empty field, as one wrong move can call forth this card, able to contest with your strongest monster!
Gorz the Emissary of Darkness
Symbolizing the end of the XYZ era, this deck's acronym has become the name for the format it's dominant in: Setting backrow for the grind game.
Hand Artifact Traptrix
This handtrap can interrupt "Sky Striker" decks by placing their monster into the Main Monster Zone.
Wattkinetic Puppeteer
Tied for the highest ATK on any Rank 4 XYZ monster, this card cannot attack. Take a chance and use it's effect!
Number 85: Crazy Box
Awakening of Nephthys, Evil Eye Retribution, Mind over Matter, Oh F!sh!, Recall
Awakening of Nephthys (Counter Traps)
Debuting in the very first Tournament Pack, this monster was the highest ATK monster you could summon at the time without tributing.
Mechanicalchaser
Dominating the 2005 scene, this iconic Soldier/Dragon duo wreaked havoc, being a part of this formidable strategy.
Chaos