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Priestess of Light


Atypical-Abbie

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Ok, so I know what you're thinking, but let me explain, the idea of this card is to make multiples of it, see, LIGHT and Tokens are both things that are easy to spam with things like Star Seraph and Tellarknights, so you can easily make this quite powerful, however to not make it super powerful, I made it a point to the left, as well as having it have no ATK normally, so you need to combo with this correctly to do anything, the idea is to make something that points down or to the corners, then Link Summon 3 of this card for a powerful monster with protection using LP payment.

 

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1 Token or 1 LIGHT monster
This card gains 800 ATK for each Link Monster pointing to it. If a Link Monster(s) in a Linked State you control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can pay 1000 LP instead. While your LP are lower than your opponent’s, your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to the activation of your Spell/Trap Cards.
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A rather generic name, but it works and I still like it. I like how you only need one monster to Summon it. I think Token may be a bit much, even seeing as there are LIGHT Token monsters, like the eventual release of One-Time Passcode, or even via Photon Sanctuary. But I can see where you're going with the power in greater numbers premise. It's very reminiscent of Goyo Defender, except this one doesn't wait for your opponent to attack. And I'm a bit split as to if it should have "once per turn" for the Life Points effect, as you can just keep paying Life Points, but then again, it depends on which one will be destroyed, given how it only has one Link Point. So overall, I'd say the card's good.

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The card is asking for trouble and abuse, IMO. For instance, Scapegoat easily lets you drop 3 of these consecutively once you get a link pointing towards any of your MM Zones.

Or you can just establish your Link board as, let's say, Star Grails do, and finish with this for the layer of protection; similar to how some decks finish with Proxy Dragon, but replace Proxy Dragon with this, or even better, follow Proxy up with this card for the extra protection.

 

By the way, isn't the max ATK this card can reach 2400 by placing in a Zone right below your EM Zone and then surround it with Link Points? or am I missing something?

 

Also, I agree with the name being kinda bland; it can be more creative.

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The card is asking for trouble and abuse, IMO. For instance, Scapegoat easily lets you drop 3 of these consecutively once you get a link pointing towards any of your MM Zones.

Or you can just establish your Link board as, let's say, Star Grails do, and finish with this for the layer of protection; similar to how some decks finish with Proxy Dragon, but replace Proxy Dragon with this, or even better, follow Proxy up with this card for the extra protection.

 

By the way, isn't the max ATK this card can reach 2400 by placing in a Zone right below your EM Zone and then surround it with Link Points? or am I missing something?

 

Also, I agree with the name being kinda bland; it can be more creative.

I said generic; not bland.

 

And Scapegoat's a touch too slow to use in order to bring this out.

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Right, I used the wrong word there. Although I would say both words can be taken as synonyms in this case; the name is as generic as it is bland.

Scapegoat is just 1 turn slow but still good. And it's like the tip of the iceberg on this card's abusability. You also have Galaxy Tomahawk (accessible by some decks like Harpies), and even Phantom Skyblaster. Oh, there is Venus and the Shine Balls, too.

The requirements of just 1 Token/LIGHT monster, as well as the Left Link that lets it chain into copies of each other, it's just asking for trouble. I think Konami has yet to release a Link1 monster with a Left or Right point for a reason.

 

And even then, more often that not you may be better off Summoning this after your Link spam, so all your Linked State monsters will be protected. IIRC decks like Stargrails make boards with Firewalls, Ningirsu, Decode Talker, etc. which inherently end up linking into each other, and manage to wrap them up nicely with Proxy Dragon; now replace Proxy with this, which is literally possible because Proxy as LIGHT can be directly used it as material for this, and you pretty much get an indestructible board.

 

EDIT:

Actually... that would be really amusing to see xD

So yeah, leave the card as it is. It sucks when your entire board is broken by a Raigeki so this card will surely come in handy to keep it safe :v

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Right, I used the wrong word there. Although I would say both words can be taken as synonyms in this case; the name is as generic as it is bland.

Scapegoat is just 1 turn slow but still good. And it's like the tip of the iceberg on this card's abusability. You also have Galaxy Tomahawk (accessible by some decks like Harpies), and even Phantom Skyblaster. The requirements of just 1 Token/LIGHT monster, as well as the Left Link that lets it chain into copies of each other, it's just asking for trouble. I think Konami has yet to release a Link1 monster with a Left or Right point for a reason.

 

And even then, more often that not you may be better off Summoning this after your Link spam, so all your Linked State monsters will be protected. IIRC decks like Stargrails make boards with Firewalls, Ningirsu, Decode Talker, etc. which inherently end up linking into each other, and manage to wrap them up nicely with Proxy Dragon; now replace Proxy with this, which is literally possible because Proxy as LIGHT can be directly used it as material for this, and you pretty much get an indestructible board.

Generic is non-specific and bland is uninteresting.

 

You're thinking too much about this and not about what the opponent will do or how they'll retaliate. If you Set Scapegoat and activate it during your opponent's End Phase (that is if they didn't destroy it before the turn ended), your opponent is still more than likely to have a Set card or monster to retaliate against your Priestess of Light play (Solemn Strike, Zoodiac Drident). So you'll almost never see this card at full value.

EDIT:

Actually... that would be really amusing to see xD

So yeah, leave the card as it is. It sucks when your entire board is broken by a Raigeki so this card will surely come in handy to keep it safe :v

Oops. I replied to this too late.
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Generic is non-specific and bland is uninteresting.

 

You're thinking too much about this and not about what the opponent will do or how they'll retaliate. If you Set Scapegoat and activate it during your opponent's End Phase (that is if they didn't destroy it before the turn ended), your opponent is still more than likely to have a Set card or monster to retaliate against your Priestess of Light play (Solemn Strike, Zoodiac Drident). So you'll almost never see this card at full value.

 

Remember that not because a counter(s) for a card exist means the card is fair. Or else every card would be acceptable because Strike, Warning, Drident, Master Peace, etc. exist.

Besides, I am more concerned about using this card as an extra layer of protection for your big board. Even if you can Summon multiples, having this 3 on board won't be as threatening, especially when the max ATK of only one of them is 2400, but when you play it to wrap up your board with Firewall(s), Decode, Stargrail, or maybe after setting up an Extra Link lock, then yeah, it gets scary.

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Remember that not because a counter(s) for a card exist means the card is fair. Or else every card would be acceptable because Strike, Warning, Drident, Master Peace, etc. exist.

Besides, I am more concerned about using this card as an extra layer of protection for your big board. Even if you can Summon multiples, having this 3 on board won't be as threatening, especially when the max ATK of only one of them is 2400, but when you play it to wrap up your board with Firewall(s), Decode, Stargrail, or maybe after setting up an Extra Link lock, then yeah, it gets scary.

By the time that happens, you might've already won. It'd be needless to play of you've already gotten all of that on the field, without interruption.

 

I do agree with your initial post that Tokens shouldn't be one of its materials though.

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By the time that happens, you might've already won. It'd be needless to play of you've already gotten all of that on the field, without interruption.

 

Well, that doesn't apply if it's the first turn when you can't win yet, or against sneaky Mirror Forces :v

Plus sometimes the boards are broken, so this card would help with keeping it there. I have seen some players resort to Proxy Dragon for the protection, but surely this card would be much more effective than Proxy.

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Well, that doesn't apply if it's the first turn when you can't win yet, or against sneaky Mirror Forces :v

Plus sometimes the boards are broken, so this card would help with keeping it there. I have seen some players resort to Proxy Dragon for the protection, but surely this card would be much more effective than Proxy.

Better yet, have this be one of the first monsters you Summon, and then Summon the other Link monsters (or other Extra Deck monsters if you've got the appropriate points). That way, you've either got your protection for one monster, or your opponent goes after this card since they can't destroy the protected monster.
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Better yet, have this be one of the first monsters you Summon, and then Summon the other Link monsters (or other Extra Deck monsters if you've got the appropriate points). That way, you've either got your protection for one monster, or your opponent goes after this card since they can't destroy the protected monster.

 

Exactly! You can also play this first to either bait the removal, or secure your follow-up Link combo plays, and as a Link1 you don't have to invest as you do for a Link2 like Proxy, Honeybot, Stargrail Shrine Maiden, etc. and thus you won't be hurt that much if your opponent answers to this card.

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