single card design Support an Archetype

[Darj]

Wouldn't work with Sanctuary as a LIGHT either since it's not a Fairy anyway. Still, sucks that you deliberately put stepping stones on your cards.

 

Koa'ki Meiru Powerload
FIRE/Machine/Link/Effect
Rating: 2
Link Markers: down-left, down-middle
ATK: 1900
2 monsters with different Attributes, except DARK or LIGHT, including at least 1 "Koa'ki Meiru" monster
During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the GY or reveal 1 EARTH, FIRE, WATER or WIND monster in your hand. While this card is linked to only EARTH, FIRE, WATER or WIND monsters, the effects of DARK and LIGHT monsters are negated. (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 "Koa'ki Meiru" monster you control; Special Summon from your Deck 1 monster with the same Attribute or Type as that monster, except a DARK or LIGHT monster, and whose ATK is equal or lower than the original ATK of that monster. That monster cannot attack. You can only use this effect of "Koa'ki Meiru powerload" once per turn.

 

 

Really wanted to go for summoning a monster from the ED instead, but Superheavy Samurai Steam Train King had to be a thing >.>

Still, I guess it's for the best, for futureproofing and whatnot.

 

 

Next:

Fortune Lady

[Tinkerer]

Fortune's Favor

Spell

Send 1 monster from your hand to the GY; Special Summon 1 "Fortune Lady" monster from your Deck whose Level is Less than or equal to the Level of the sent monster.

 

Superheavy Samurai

[Draconus297]

Superheavy Samurai Kanabo

DARK - Level 4 - Machine/Effect - 1200/1900

If you control a face-up "Superheavy Samurai" monster, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. If a "Superheavy Samurai" monster destroys your opponent's monster by battle: You can add 1 "Superheavy Samurai" monster from your Deck to your hand. If there are no Spell/Trap Cards in your Graveyard, "Superheavy Samurai" monsters you control are unaffected by your opponent's card effects during the turn they are Summoned.

 

Gishki

[AstralStarZero]

Gishki Looking Glass

This card can Ritual Summon any "Gishki" Monster. You must also excavate the top 10 cards of your deck and Tribute monsters among those excavated cards whose total levels equal or exceed the Level of the Ritual Monster you Ritual Summon. You can shuffle this card into the Deck; return all banished cards to your GY.

 

Magical Musketeer

Make sure to make it a decent boss monster

[Black D'Sceptyr]

Magical Musket Forger Wolfsglen

LIGHT/Fiend-Type Ritual Pendulum Effect Monster/Level 6/2000 ATK/3000 DEF

 

Scales 2/2

 

Pendulum Lore: If a "Magical Musket" monster is in this card's column: You can Special Summon 1 "Magical Musket" monster from your hand, and if you do, you can Set 1 "Magical Musket" Spell/Trap from your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Magical Musket Forger Wolfsglen" once per turn. You can Tribute monsters you control or in your hand whose total Levels equal 6 or more, then Ritual Summon this card from the Pendulum Zone. 

 

Lore: Must be Ritual Summoned with its Pendulum Effect. During either player's turn, you can activate "Magical Musket" Spell/Trap Cards from your hand. Your opponent cannot target "Magical Musket" cards you control with their card effects. If the effect of a monster is activated, except a "Magical Musket" monster (Quick Effect): You can banish 1 card from either player's hand until the 2nd End Phase after activation, and if you do, your opponent cannot activate cards with the same card type (Monster, Spell or Trap) as that banished card for the rest of the turn, except in this card's column, then you can return this card to the hand. You can only use this effect of "Magical Musket Forger Wolfsglen" once per turn. 

 

Might be decent enough, eh?

 

And now, next up: 

 

Machina (another boss might work well, wouldn't it? Something with the potency in this format that Fortress had in GOAT, too!)

[Draconus297]

Machina Reactor

EARTH - Level 7 - Machine/Effect - 2700/0

If this card is sent from your hand or field to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard (you can only activate this effect of this card's name once per turn). Monsters that have not battled successfully (including damage calculation) cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon, or used as Material for the Summon of a monster from the Extra Deck. If this card destroys your opponent's monster by battle, you can target 1 "Machina" monster in your Graveyard: Either add that target to your hand, or Special Summon it. While you control another "Machina" monster, this card can make up to 2 attacks during each Battle Phase.

 

Combine this with Rampart from the other page, and this becomes a first-turn option for Machina that starts putting in work setting up your plays on later turns. Against certain Decks, you practically get an instant win, what with most ED spam Decks not typically running something that can get over this. This is the evolution of the Machina Gadget playstyle- outpacing your opponent's resource game with big boys and the grind game- adding in some stun to make said style more effective.

 

In Machina, you're typically bringing this out with Cannon or Fortress's discard effects, and in a combo with Fortress you can make Flare Metal and maybe a Link (if you had things to revive that were either big enough or had enough of the way cleared for them to battle) in MP2. So there's that.

 

Also, requiring successfully reaching damage prevents cheese like Bull Blader from becoming free Material that also removes things. You are still allowed to negate the damage with things like Kuriboh and Waboku, but literally no one is going to do that in a competitive setting. This is also potentially giving relevance to things that cannot be destroyed by battle, but most of those are kinda slow.

 

Here's a fun one:

 

Golden Castle of Stromberg (technically a series, but we've done those before).

[AstralStarZero]

Little Red Riding Hood

Level 3 EARTH Fairy/Effect

If this card is Normal Summoned, and "Golden Castle of Stromberg" is face-up on the field, you can declare a Card Type (Monster, Spell, Trap); draw 1 card from your deck and reveal it, and if it is the declared type, you can add 1 card from your deck that lists "Golden Castle of Stromberg" in its card text to your hand. Otherwise, send it to the GY. If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the Graveyard, you can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster that lists "Golden Castle of Stromberg" in its card text from your Deck.

ATK /800 DEF/1200

 

I'm not sure what they need, so I gave them a minor draw and search power.

 

Next up

Artifact

[Fruiota_Hiroshi]

Artifact’s Return

Quickplay Spell

Send 1 monster from your hand to your GY, then target 1 “Artifact” monster in your GY, except the sent monster: Special Summon it. You can banish this card from your GY: Target up to 2 “Artifact” monsters in your GY; Set them face-down in your Spell/Trap Card Zone. You can only activate this effect once per turn.

 

Magician Girl

[Tinkerer]

Autograph Time!

Quick-Play Spell

You can only activate this card during the Main Phase 1 or Battle Phase.  Activate the appropriate effect depending on whose turn it is.

- Your Turn: All monsters your opponent controls lose 500 ATK for each "Magician Girl" monster you control.  If you control "Dark Magician Girl": your opponent cannot activate cards or effects during the Battle Phase.

- Your Opponent's Turn: Target up to 3 monsters your opponent controls: change them to attack position, also they must attack this turn if able.  If you control "Dark Magician Girl": you can Special Summon 1 "Magician Girl" monster from your hand or GY.

 

Scrap

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

Normal Trap Card

 

Lore: Activate 1 of these effects, or if you controlled no monsters at activation, activate both of these effects and resolve in sequence. 

• Special Summon 1 "Scrap" monster from your Deck. 

• Activate 1 "Scrap" Spell from your Deck, but destroy 1 "Scrap" card you control and 1 card your opponent controls during the End Phase.

If you control no cards, you can activate this card from your hand. You can only activate 1 "Scrap Detector" per turn.

 

Prolly too much, but hey its Scrap, they're the "destroy into Gravescoop that somehow doesn't put together a proper board considering what Summon Chimera comes in on'.dek, they're fine.

 

NEXT (since their support has been namedropped in Shadows in Valhalla as of late...):  

 

Entities

[AstralStarZero]

I hope they get Entities a Link Monster, like so

 

Eldritch Entity Black Pharaoh

Link 1 DARK Link Fiend/Effect

Top

1 Monster

You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck, except "Entity" monsters. This effect cannot be negated.

This card cannot attack. Your opponent cannot target this card for attacks, also this card cannot be Tributed.

While you control this monster, you can Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck to Main Monster Zones you own.

During every other End Phase: give control of this card to your opponent.

ATK/500 LINK-1

 

Makes everything MR3 except for the opponent, but only for Entity monsters.

 

Magnet Warriors

[Fruiota_Hiroshi]

Call for Polarity

Normal Spell

Add 1 “Magnet Warrior” monster from your Deck or GY to your hand. During your Main Phase, while you control no Rock-type monsters: You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 “Magna Warrior” monster or “Imperion Magnum the Superconductive Battlebot” from your GY, ignoring its Summoning conditions. You can only activate this effect once per turn.

 

Ojama

[Ultimagamer]

Ojama Prince 

Link / EARTH / Beast / Effect 

Link Materials: 2 Beast-type monsters 

Link Markers: Bottom Left, Bottom Right 

1500 

 

When this card is Link Summoned: You can add 1 "Ojama" card from your Deck to your hand. During your Main Phase: You can target 3 "Ojama" monsters in your GY; shuffle those targets into your Deck, then Draw 1 card. Once per turn, when a Fusion monster is Special Summoned to a zone this card points to: You can Special Summon 1 monster from your hand or GY with the same type and attribute as that Fusion Monster. You can only use each effect of "Ojama Prince" once per turn. 

 

Assault Mode 

[Krashkube]

Assault Support

Continuous Trap

Once per turn: You can shuffle all "/Assault Mode" monsters in your hand into your Deck, then draw the same amount of cards. When a Synchro Monster that is listed on an "/Assault Mode" monster is Special Summoned: You can Set 1 "Assault Mode Activate" from your Deck. You can only use this effect of "Assault Support" once per turn.

 

next: Vendread

[AstralStarZero]

Revendread Nemesis

Level 8 DARK/Zombie/Ritual/Effect

You can Ritual Summon this card with any "Vendread" Ritual Spell. You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; Send it to the GY, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's original ATK or DEF (whichever is higher). If this card is sent to the GY, you can add 1 "Vendread" Ritual Spell OR 1 "Vendread" Ritual Monster from your Deck or GY to your hand, and if you do, you can Special Summon 1 banished Level 4 or lower "Vendread" monster. You can only use each effect of "Revendread Nemesis" once per turn.

 

ATK/3000 DEF/0

 

Destiny HERO

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

DARK/Warrior-Type Effect Monster/Level 1/800/0 DEF

 

Lore: (Quick Effect): You can discard this card, then target 1 DARK Warrior monster you control; any opponent's monster that battles it this turn loses ATK equal to that targeted monster's original DEF during damage calculation only. If a "HERO" monster(s) in your hand is discarded to activate a Spell effect, or Special Summoned by a Spell effect, while this card is in the GY; You can add this card to the hand. You can only use each effect of "Destiny HERO - Soul Seer" once per turn.

 

NEXT (and goodness, you thought I was done with this well? THINK AGAIN): 

 

Dark counterparts

[Krashkube]

Dark Long Rods #2

DARK | Aqua | Level 3 | Effect

When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Level 5 or higher DARK monster from your Deck to your hand. If this card is sent to the GY: This turn, you can Normal Summon Level 5 or higher monsters without Tributing (your next turn, if sent during your opponent's turn.)

850/700

 

next: Guardian

[AstralStarZero]

Guardian Durgal

Level 7 DARK Fairy/Effect

If you have a Equip-Spell Card in your GY, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. You can target up to 3 Equip Spell Cards in your GY; equip them to this card. You can send as many Equip Spell Cards equipped to this card to the GY; send as many cards your opponent controls to the GY equal to the number Equip Spell cards sent to the GY by this card's effect. You can only use each effect of "Guardian Durgal" once per turn.

ATK/2400 DEF/1200

 

War Hammer - Durgal

Equip Spell Card

Each time a Monster equipped to this card destroys a monster by battle Draw 1 card. If this card is sent to the GY by the effects of a monster you control and you have no cards in your hand; Draw 2 cards. You can only use this effect of "War Hammer - Durgal" once per turn.

 

N/C: F.A. (In honor of Ancient Fairy Dragon)

[Black D'Sceptyr]

 

Counter Trap Card

 

Lore: If a Spell/Trap or monster effect is activated, while there is a Field Spell on the field and you control an "F.A." monster: Negate the effects of all cards in that Chain, except for "F.A." cards, then if you control an "F.A." Field Spell and a Level 7 or higher "F.A." monster, shuffle those negated cards into the Deck. During the Main Phase, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY; add 1 of your banished "F.A." cards to the hand, except "F.A. Grand Prix Patrol". You can only activate 1 "F.A. Grand Prix Patrol" per turn.

 

 

N/C: "C" (considering the new cards coming out)

[Darj]

Dropped a like to that one because it's insane, and the art is so on-spot that it impresses me.

 

Overwhelming "C"

EARTH/Insect/Effect

Level 7

1600/2300

If your opponent Special Summons a monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand to the opponent's field in Defense Position. Monsters cannot be Special Summoned in Zones adjacent to this card. Cannot be used as material for the Summon of a monster from the Extra Deck. If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 "C" monster from your Deck to either player's field, except "Overwhelming "C"".

 

 

Next:

Piece Golem

[Draconus297]

Giant Piece Golem

EARTH - Level 5 - Rock/Effect - 2100/0

This card is treated as "Big Piece Golem" on the field and in the Graveyard. If your opponent Special Summons a monster(s) from their Extra Deck, you can Special Summon this card from your hand: That Summoned monster's effects are negated, also it cannot be used as Material for a Summon this turn. If a "Piece Golem" monster is Summoned while this card is face-up on the field: You can add 1 "Piece Golem" monster, or "Polymerization" Spell Card, from your Deck to your hand.

 

Piece Golems as an engine?

 

Gogogo

[AstralStarZero]

Gogogo Grinder

Level 4 EARTH Rock/Effect

If you control a "Gogogo" monster on the field, you can Special Summon this card from your hand in Face-Up Defense Position. This card gains DEF equal to the combined original DEF of all other face-up Rock monsters you control. This card can attack while in face-up Defense Position.

If it does, apply its DEF for damage calculation.

 

ATK/1000 DEF/2300

 

 

Chemicritter

[Krashkube]

Displacement

Quick-Play Spell

Destroy 1 Gemini Monster you control; Special Summon 1 Gemini Monster from your Deck, then, if either the destroyed monster or the Summoned monster was a "Chemicritter" monster, the monster that was Summoned is treated as an Effect Monster and gains its effects. During either player's turn, except the turn this card was sent to the GY: You can banish this card from your GY; immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 Gemini Monster.

 

next: Aliens

[insert pic of ancient aliens guy here]

[Black D'Sceptyr]

Finding you that pic of the Ancient Aliens guy?

 

 

 

WATER/Reptile-Type Effect Monster/Level 5/2200 ATK/1500 DEF

 

Lore: If the only card you control is 1 Level 4 or lower "Alien" monster (Quick Effect): You can reveal this card from your hand, then target that monster: Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, this card loses Levels equal to that target's Level, then you can place "A" Counters on monsters on the field, up to the Levels this card lost. Neither player can Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck with less ATK than the number of monsters on the field with an "A" Counter x 500, except Reptile monsters.

 

DID SOMEBODY SAY "DOMAIN OF THE MONARCHS WITH SCALES"

 

no

 

nobody

 

well it's whats for dinner, so....yeah

 

N/C: Malicevorous

[AstralStarZero]

Malicevorous Spork

Rank 2 DARK Xyz Fiend/Effect

3 Level 2 Monsters

Cannot be destroyed by Battle or Card Effects while it has Xyz Material.

(Quick-Effect): You can detach 1 Xyz Material; this turn if this card battles an opponent's monster, you take no Battle Damage involving those Battles, also after damage calculation: Banish that opponent's monster and inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's ATK or DEF (your choice). During the End Phase: you can attach 1 Level 2 DARK Fiend monster from your GY as Xyz Material to this card

ATK/1000 DEF/200

 

Rank 10 Trains