Magical Arm Shield (anime)

Magical Arm Shield

Card type	Trap
Property	Normal
Effect types	Activation requirement Effect
Activate only when your opponent declares an attack while you control a monster. Take control of 1 face-up monster your opponent controls, except the attacking monster, until the end of the Battle Phase. It is attacked instead.^{[Note 1]}
Appearances	Yu-Gi-Oh!: 064, 069, 076, 077, 104, 161, 173
Links	yugioh.com ("Magic-Arm Shield")

Anime cards (Galleries: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Battle City · Virtual World · Waking the Dragons))

Other languages

	Name	Lore
Japanese	マジックアーム・シールド	相手が攻撃を宣言した時に発動。攻撃モンスター以外の表側表示モンスター１体のコントロールを得て、自分のモンスターのかわりに攻撃を受けさせる。バトルフェイズ終了後そのモンスターは相手のコントロールに戻る。
Japanese	Majikkuāmu Shīrudo

Actions: Activates upon attack declaration; Takes control of an opponent's monster

↑ In its early appearances in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, this card simply redirected the attack to another of the opponent's monsters, causing the opponent to take any battle damage from that battle.