Nobleman of Extermination

[Ultimagamer]

Just found out about this nifty card. It's like crossout, but for set spells and traps instead. 

 

Nobleman of Extermination

Spell - Normal

 

"Select, destroy, and remove from play 1 face-down Spell or Trap card. If it was a trap card, both players must remove from play all copies of that card from their decks."

 

not once per turn targeting and banishing of facedown spell and trap cards. It's not bad, give that most backrows in yugioh today tend to not be bluffs, unless your playing mekk knights. If your opponent sets strike vs you, and you hit it with this, banish it along with all 2 other copies sounds pretty nice. In the worse scenario, it seems like a worse mst or cyclone, given that it's not a quickplay

 

the only quick way I could see it being bad would be if chaining the card prevents it from getting banishing, much like marksman does

 

"If the set card the opponent controls is chained, the effect of Atlantean Marksman" is not applied"

 

Could it be a useful tech card against backrow heavy decks?

How does it compare vs regular backrow destruction like mst and cyclone?

 

( side note, these initials are funny to read ) 

crossout: NOC

extermination: NOE

[vla1ne]

as far as removal cards go, there's far worse things you could run besides this, but this card itself isn't worth a maindeck spot ever, and there's better cards you could place in your sidedeck as well. the nobleman series, both of them, are the kinds of cards that only really work when you either know what your opponent is running (NOE), or have pushed them into a corner(NOC). are they incredibly effective upon resolution? hell yes. but the requirement to activate is what holds them back. today, the game moves very quickly, and the nobleman series are both unsearchable. this means you'd have to run 3 to guarantee having them at a time when you most need them, and i don't think i need to explain why having 3 of such a situational card is not a good idea. the banish effect on traps would be nice. aside from strike, there are far too many trap cards that can be chained to extermination (Which would null it just like marksman), for it to be a viable card. especially in backrow heavy decks. you might hit one or two here or there, but cosmic cyclone, or even galaxy cyclone, can do the same job, and then some. it's simply a card that hasn't aged well. then again, with the return of 3x botomless and 3x torrential, it might have a use, but i'd rather make sure the card in my hand can hit as much backrow as possible (MST, TT, CC, GC, ect) than try to get off the effect of an extremely situational card.