A card known as Karma Cut..

The effect states you must discard one card to remove from play one monster your opponent controls (face-up) and all cards with the same name as the removed monster in your opponent's Graveyard. This card may at first sound like a watered-down version of PWWB or Raigeki Break, but think again. Imagine if you're playing Lightsworns, and they summon a lumina, using lumina's effect to bring out say.. lyla? And, let's just say that they'd already milled their other 2 Luminas. If you chain Karma Cut to Lyla's summon, you can select Lumina and completely remove their main engine for swarming the field, inevitably crippling the deck. That's why I think that Karma Cut should be used more often as a solid side in to Lightsworns.

This card is also moderately good against Blackwings, as it can solve repeated Gale and Blizzard abuse with Dark Eruption.

In the KCVDS meta, it can hinder ratboxes and Monarch decks by removing their avarice targets and hindering their draw power. In Rescue Kitty, you can Karma Cut their Airbellum and watch all their ability to Synchro be gone for the rest of the game (in addition to the ability to win.. ).

This isn't a solid main-deck choice - not at all. However, it is a great card to side against Sworns, in some cases better than Light Imprisoning Mirror, since they'll just side Trap Eater and Decree-- the chainable nature of Karma Cut for quickly removing your opponents options is stellar and shouldn't be ignored.

So anyway, now that we know what Karma Cut can side in to INCREDIBLY WELL, what are we going to do in our side decks?

Run Karma Cut!

cool article. this is another card that's more popular in japan (like raigeki break) than here. i've talked a bit with Jason Grabher-Meyer on this card and he was a big advocate of it, especially in the Black Garden deck I was using at the time. However, I never really had good experiences with it and much prefer PWWB for its versatility. Against Lightsworn, I found BTH did just about everything BTH did for less cost

If they had multiple luminas in the graveyard, they would probably be winning already. I dunno, I ugess I just haven't seen how effectively it can be used. I'd like to see how Jason would use it.

I'll post up Jason's old article on it when I can. It's definitely interesting.

Yeah, I personally have used it a few times.. One thing is that if you Karma Cut JD you basically remove their dark armed or big synchro monster, crippling their offense, for the rest of the game.

you can bottomless the JD or DAD too

St. Anna, Oppressions are only viable in anti-meta and they shut off many of your own big plays. So you won't always have an oppession to flip in response to their JD / DAD. And, yes, ieatsuka, BTH removes as well, but if you Karma Cut JD then they can't get ANY of their copies back, and lose a major part of their offense.

Well, they either drew the JD so they don't have any copies in the GY, or they used beckoning to get it back before drawing it. The only time it would hit a JD in the GY is if they milled one and drew the other.

And getting nuked by the JD puts you in a very bad position already. I'm fond of using Oppressions myself so that won't even happen. Oppression is viable in meta decks, I've seen some pro players side it in LS even! you just have to be careful with how you play it and strategize more, and you can use it to your advantage.

Yes, cuz when you think of it, in this meta, players must mount their offense to keep yours under control, so if you mount your offense early and set an opression, it's like.. ownsauce!