[Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] Why this card is banned may make many card guys feel that the second monk is confused. After all, from the perspective of effect alone, although there is no one-round recycling effect, there are indeed many possibilities in theory, but the card guys who have practiced the [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] LOOP can soon find that this LOOP can be said to be quite flashy, and it is impossible to have an important impact on the competitive environment, so how does [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] enter the small black house?
In fact, the prohibition of the Excalibur-Phoenix Sword is indeed related to the effect of its ability to recover the hand. But it is not the DIRECTION OF LOOP, but simply a wave of all in. This wave of tactics was called "Gang Ghost Slashing Fist" at that time, because the limited equipment monster of [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] was a warrior clan, so it had an excellent phase with "Gang Ghost". At that time, the popular "Phantom Collapse Fist", all the "Fantasy Crash" series monsters had the characteristics of needing to discard 1 hand card before they could activate the effect. The tomb retrieval of the "Gang Ghost" subordinate and the recovery ability of the [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] perfectly make up for this COST demand.
And because [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] belongs to the equipment card, through [Paladin's Reconquest Isold] can accurately pile this card to the graveyard. After the successful unfolding of this set of "Gang Ghost Slashing Fist", in addition to using the "Phantom Collapse Fist" to make a "U-shaped lock" and forcibly occupy the opponent's extra LINK grid to achieve the effect of additional sealing, there is also an important big brother is the "Topology Tamper Infection Dragon". The 1 effect of "Topology Tamper Infection Dragon" can be used at the cost of discarding 2 cards from the player's hand, causing the opposing player to also lose 2 cards from the hand. Plus 2 effects can also continue to let the opponent lose 2 cards, easily can achieve the effect of "cutting 4 hands at the beginning".
[Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] The characteristics of the hand can be recovered by the Warrior Clan monsters in the exclusion of the graveyard, which are used as the cards that need to be paid for by the "Dream Crash" series monsters and the COST of the "Topology Tamper Infection Dragon". And this set of playing methods only pursues a wave of output, so the warrior clan monsters in the graveyard can be all excepted at any cost, as the price of the [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] recovery. "Gang Ghost Slash Fist" can be said to be a typical OCG guessing boxing card set.
In the case of the first attack is slashed 4 hands, and the extra LINK grid is occupied, and the opponent's field also has the various resistances obtained by the interconnection provided by the "Dream Crash" monster, and the player only has 2 hands, the outcome of the duel can be said to be completely without suspense. This tactic that greatly destroys the player's game experience is naturally quickly suppressed by the K Society. Excalibur-Phoenix Sword, which is a key card in the series, was therefore designated as a prohibited card in January 2019. Although the "Topology Tamper Infection Dragon" is obviously a fake card, considering the factor that the K Society's new card has just been sold, it is 4 card tables outside, and it was not designated as a restricted card until January 2021.
Although Excalibur-Phoenix Sword was only designated as a restricted card in 2019, this card appeared as early as the "SD05" pregroup "ストラクチャーデデッキ - Samurai Legend -" released on October 28, 2005. And it has not stopped in the past ten years. In the pre-tonal era, there was a tactic of sending a large number of Warrior Clan monsters from the deck into the graveyard through the [Magic Guide Grocery Merchant], and then using the exclusion effect of [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] to quickly summon a large number of powerful Warrior Clan monsters with [Return from Other Dimensions].
In the era of homophony and excess, [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] also has a good performance in the "Summoning Tool Dragon" deck. [Chain Coil Man] and any 3-star monster over summon [Lost X-Swordsman Summoner], then [Lost X-Swordsman Summoner] pull [Chain Coil Man] pull [Chain Repairman] from the deck, [Chain Repairman] launch effect pull Graveyard [Chain Coil Man], both can summon 1 [Power Tool Dragon] in unison.
At that time, [Iwase dragon - rust dragon] was released 1, so you can summon yourself through the [Chain Repairer] of the cemetery except for [Rock Sei dragon - rust dragon], and then [Power Tool Dragon] retrieves [Susheng of the Other Dimension], and uses [Susheng of the Other Dimension] to pull the [Chain Repairman] excepted [Chain Repairman], and then [Chain Repairman] pulls the [Chain Coil Man] in the cemetery, summons the second [Power Tool Dragon] person in the same tone, and then you can recycle the 3rd [Power Tool Dragon], and even the 4th [Moon Dragon Black Rose]. In this "Combo", the Excalibur-Phoenix Sword can be used as a substitute for the lower position of the "Rock Dragon-Rust Dragon".
However, it is interesting that [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] has always appeared only as a "follower of the wicked". Therefore, when the "dimensional return" playing method was raging in the ancient times, the K Society locked the "return from the other dimension" into the small black house, and the "Excalibur - Phoenix Sword" was safe and sound. When the "Summoning Tool Dragon" appeared in the Homophonic and Excess Era, the [Lost X-Swordsman Summoner] and the [Rock Sign Dragon-Rust Dragon] were imprisoned in the small black room, and the [Excalibur-Phoenix Sword] was safe and sound. In the LINK era, [Excalibur - Phoenix Sword] finally played himself into the small black room, and the former small heel became a big evil!