Role Model
It's just a reusable Sekka's Light.
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
I like the idea behind the retrain. But making it a hard once per turn for both effects is dumb. The summon effect I can get behind, at least. Should've been a two part effect, imo. That or have a very large pool of summonable monsters(other LIGHT/DARK effect or vanilla Spellcasters, or something like that).
Especially after we got a good retrain of Man-Eater Bug. Then we get... this. Even Hade-Hane and Nobleman-Eater Bug at least were decent improvements, though still pretty much crap. Especially with Penguin Soldier existing. I don't think we had anything close to what Nobleman-Eater Bug was, though?
Like reflections in the glass!
So, do you think a Transcendrake Link is possible or not.
I ask because there seems to be two level 6 vanilla dinos the themed missed (Sword Arm of Dragon and Fire Opal Head IIRC), and while a level 12 Ritual can easily slot into the themed. Link Ratings not being scalable to levels/ranks presents an issue with the whole Level 6 theme.
The Unknown
I wasn't anticipating a Magician of Faith retrain to be good, but Konami proves that even the lowest of expectations can be outdone. Like, wow.
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If they give Transcendrake a Link, it'll either require at least one specific material of a Level 6 Dino or need a vanilla Dino in the GY to activate an effect. Link Rating probably won't matter other than it being at least 2.
Like reflections in the glass!
Traptrix TCG deck got leaked. We have
- Ash Blossom instead of the cockroach
- Gozen Match over Evenly I think.
Those serm to be the only replacements.
I wouldn't expect a Transcendrake Link at least in the immediate future, because we can see from the set codes that the card we're missing is a spell/trap
Transcendrake is a strange archetype, though- there's no attempt to make them function as a stand-alone archetype; instead they're mostly just a set of boss monsters you splash into the existing dinosaur deck
Only leaks I keep seeing is Roach is replaced by Ash, and that Evenly Matched is still in.
One of those Youtube ones. Has the full list by holding up the box. Take it as you will.
Ah, I misread. Gozen Match is replaced by Evenly Matched, not the other way around. My bad.
Edited by Irene on Feb 8th 2023 at 7:31:10 AM
Baby dango
An archetype meme'd into existence, Nouvellez, support for Hungry Burger.
- Bouillabase de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 1 / Beast-Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 400 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can excavate the 5 cards from the top of your Deck, you can add 1 "Nouvellez" card from among them, also, after that, shuffle the remaining into the Deck.
(2) When this card on the field is targeted by an attack or a card effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute both this card and 1 Attack Position monster from either field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 2 or 3 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand or Deck.
- Confitras de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 2 / Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 800 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can target 1 Spell/Trap card on the field; destroy it.
(2) When this card on the field is targeted by an attack or a card effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute both this card and 1 Attack Position monster from either field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 3 or 4 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand or Deck.
- Polterwaitress de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 3 / Beast-Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 1200 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can draw 1 card.
(2) When this card on the field is targeted by an attack or a card effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute both this card and 1 Attack Position monster from either field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 4 or 5 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand or Deck.
- Foiegrasha de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 4 / Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 1600 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can target up to 3 cards from either GY; shuffle them into the Deck.
(2) When this card on the field is targeted by an attack or a card effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute both this card and 1 Attack Position monster from either field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 5 or 6 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand or Deck.
- Baramnier de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 5 / Beast-Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 2000 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Nouvellez" card or 1 "Recipe" card from your Deck to your hand.
(2) When this card on the field is targeted by an attack or a card effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute both this card and 1 Attack Position monster from either field, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 6 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand or Deck.
- Bagrier de Nouvellez
DARK / Level 6 / Warrior / Ritual / Effect Monster
ATK: 2400 / DEF: 1850
_You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Recipe" card._
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent currently controls, until the end of this turn, then, if this card was Special Summoned by a "Nouvellez" monster effect, Tribute all monsters your opponent controls.
(2) (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Attack Position monster your opponent controls; Tribute it, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Hungry Burger" from your hand or Deck.
- Nouvellez Auberge "A Table"
Field Spell Card
_You can only activate 1 card with this name once per turn._
(1) When this card resolves, you can add 1 "Recipe" card from your Deck or GY to your hand.
(2) Once per turn: You can place 1 Ritual Monster from your hand to the bottom of the Deck; draw 1 card.
(3) Once per turn, during your End Phase: You can place 2 cards from your GY to the bottom of your Deck in any order, including 1 "Recipe" card, then draw 1 card.
- Recette de Poisson - Fish Dish Recipe
Ritual Spell Card
_You can Ritual Summon any "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster with this card._
(1) Ritual Summon 1 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand, Tributing monsters from your hand or field whose Levels equal or exceed that of the Ritual Monster, then, if your Ritual Summon "Bouillabase de Nouvellez", you can apply the following effect.
- Add 1 "Recipe" Ritual Spell from your Deck to your hand, except "Recette de Poisson - Fish Dish Recipe".
- Recette de Viande - Meat Dish Recipe
Ritual Spell Card
_You can Ritual Summon any "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster with this card._
(1) Ritual Summon 1 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand, Tributing monsters from your hand or field whose Levels equal or exceed that of the Ritual Monster, then, if your Ritual Summon "Confitras de Nouvellez", you can apply the following effect.
- Change all Defense Position monsters your opponent controls into Attack Position.
- Recette de Personnel - Gathering Recipe
Continuous Trap Card
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) You can target 1 Ritual Monster you control; Special Summon 1 "Nouvellez Token" to your field (DARK / Level 1 / Fiend / ATK & DEF: 50), and if you do, its Level becomes the same as that target.
(2) If this face-up card in your Spell & Trap Zone is sent to the GY: You can Ritual Summon 1 "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster from your hand, Tributing monsters from your hand or field whose Levels equal that of the Ritual Monster.
- Recette de Spécialité - Chef's Pride Recipe
Counter Trap Card
_You can only use each the following effects (1)(2) of cards with this name once per turn._
(1) When your opponent activates a card or effect, while you control a "Nouvellez" Ritual Monster: You can negate the activation, then, if you control a monster Special Summoned by a "Nouvellez" monster effect, you can also destroy that card.
(2) If "Hungry Burger" is Special Summoned: You can banish this card from the GY; Tribute all monsters your opponent controls.
Edited by Ikedatakeshi on Feb 9th 2023 at 12:12:13 AM
Role Model
So we're out here just turning opponents' monsters into food? Better leave room for The Bistro Butcher!
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Feb 8th 2023 at 11:03:18 AM
The sad, REAL American dichotomy
Series 13 is here! We're leading off with 5D's this time! Stardust's alternate forms continue to get somehow even pointier, and a certain somebody shows his big red mug as an actual card for the first time!
Like reflections in the glass!
You say that like Ultimaya Tzolkin doens't exist
(There's also Duel Link Dragon FWIW)
The Unknown
Tzolkin is technically a manga card I think?
Fwiw there's an RDA Synchro that locks your opponent out of playing the game during the turn it's Synchro Sunmoned. Crimson over here lets you cheat out Synchro Summons on your opponent's turn. I can already tell this will be a problem.
Edited by Karxrida on Feb 9th 2023 at 7:32:03 AM
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Jesus fuck Yusei, what are you feeding Stardust? Razor blades?
My thoughts on Crimson Dragon: It's not an instakill like Numeron dragon can be if summoned, but the Crimson Dragon, barring the occasional bout of time travel, was never really portrayed as individually as powerful as a lot of the big hitters of the franchise. Like it didn't create the universe or anything, for example, or split the universe into four.
It's absolutely going to be used in some ridiculously degenerate play, of course. I'm just not sure how.
Like reflections in the glass!
I wanna see the meme combos where people summon the Crimson Dragon and a Level 12 Tuner and then just pitch them for Tzolkin
How come whenever it's Yusei's turn for legacy support, everything just goes crazy?
the Prodigal
Hot RDA King Calamity is a legal target for the Crimson Dragon.
All you need is double generic Level 12 Synchro access to set up a turn skip. Not necessarily easy, but not necessarily hard, either.
I suspect the combo will not be too long for this world.
Other than that, Synchron gets some more consistency tools and some funny moment cards.
Edited by MetaSkipper on Feb 9th 2023 at 12:45:07 PM
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
So in case wasn't clear, the targets for Cosmic Quasar Dragon's second are Stardust's other three Lv12 forms.
Whereas the best targets for Crimson Dragon are Hot RDA King Calamity and Red Supernova Dragon, I think. Or, y'know, Cosmic Quasar Dragon. In any case the main source for good Dragons that we didn't previously have an easy to way to summon is the Lv12 pool.
And geez Jack and Yusei both just get tons of over-the-top and complicated to summon boss monsters, don't they. I'm forever going 'I hope these cards aren't good so I don't have to read and understand those effects' with those two. And for God's sake don't make me name any of them without giving me a chance to look it up.
Edited by Gilphon on Feb 9th 2023 at 1:04:12 PM
The Unknown
I think my favorite card in this reveal is the one that lets you revive and level modulate a bunch of Synchros so you can summon Quasar with all the Signer Dragons like in the anime.
Edited by Karxrida on Feb 9th 2023 at 10:11:32 AM
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
This honestly feels less like a "Yusei" Archetype and more just a general "Signer" Archetype. Yeah, it's got a lot of Yusei references, but with the focus on the Crimson Dragon, the fact we Power Tool version of a Synchron that works just as well in a Morphtronic deck, and the fact that the duel this is referencing, the final duel with Z-ONE, had a big emphasis on all the Signers lending their power to fight alongside Yusei in spirit, you may as well call this the "Team 5D's" deck.
You could probably even throw in some Aporia in there too, since he did use the last of his life to grant the Ryusei-Go the power to fly, and Wheel Synchron being a bike centaur is reminiscent of how Aporia and the Three Tenors merged with their D-Wheels at the waist.
The Unknown
So Blue-Eyes can cheat out Crimson Dragon with Spirit Dragon. Not sure what they'd do with it, but it's an option.
dpYGO video discussing the new cards. Likes them for the most part and gives some example combos.
Edited by Karxrida on Feb 10th 2023 at 1:23:03 AM
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?New Promos for Flame Wingman and Decode Talker.
WIND
LV:8
[Warrior/Fusion/Effect]
2 "Elemental HERO" monsters with different Attributes
Must be Fusion Summoned.
You can only use this card name's (1) and (2) effects once per turn each.
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 "Favorite" card from your Deck or GY to your hand.
(2) You can Tribute this card if it was Fusion Summoned using a Normal Monster(s) as material; Special Summon 1 Level 7 or lower "Elemental HERO" monster that cannot be Normal Summoned/Set from your Deck or Extra Deck, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
ATK/2100 DEF/1200
DARK
↖ ┍↑┑ ↗
←┇.┇→
↙┕[↓]┙↘
[Cyberse/Link/Effect]
1 Level 4 or lower Cyberse monster
You can only use this card name's effect once per turn.
(1) If this card is sent to the GY as a Link Material for a Cyberse Link Monster with 2300 or more original ATK: You can Special Summon this card, but banish it if it leaves the field.
ATK/300 LINK-1
Edited by RebelFalcon on Feb 11th 2023 at 4:07:38 AM
Vegeta: I'm back bitches!
Konami: Okay but what if a single cyberse normal summon was a link-2 of literally anything you want?
Please give this to me in the main game, I want to put it in my Labrynth deck. It will be very very funny.