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Dark Magician of Destiny

DARK

Link-1 (D)

Spellcaster/Link/Effect

1 Lv. 7 or higher Normal Monster

This card's name is treated as "Dark Magician" while face-up on the field or in the GY. You can only Link Summon 1 "Dark Magician of Destiny" per turn. If this card is Link Summoned: activate 1 of these effects.

●Discard 1 card; add 1 card from your Deck or GY to your hand, that specifically lists the card "Dark Magician" in its text. 

●can discard 1 card; Add 1 "Legendary Dragon" Spell Card from your Deck or GY to your hand.

●Add 1 "Legend of Heart" from your Deck or GY to your hand.

2500

 

Xtra HERO Miracle Neos

LIGHT

Link-1 (D)

Warrior/Link/Effect

1 Lv. 7 or higher Warrior monster

This card's name is treated as "Elemental HERO Neos" while face-up on the field or in the GY. If this card is Link Summoned: Reveal 1 "Neos" Fusion Monster in your Extra Deck: Take 1 of the Fusion Materials whose name is specifically listed on that card from your Deck, and either add it to your hand or Special Summon 1 it to your zone this card points to, but you cannot Link Summon other monsters with a Link Rating of 1 this turn. A "Neos" monster summoned using this card as material does not have to activate its effect during the End Phase to shuffle itself into the Extra Deck.

2500

 

Crimson Majestic Dragon

LIGHT

Link-3 (DL/D/DR)

Dragon/Link/Effect

2+ monsters, including at least 1 Dragon or "Power Tool" Synchro monster.

If this card is Link Summoned: You can target any number of Dragon Synchro Monsters or Tuner Synchro Monsters in your Graveyard; Special Summon them in Defense Position, ignoring their Summoning conditions. Cannot be targeed for battle or by your opponent's card effects while you control a Synchro Monster. When a Dragon Synchro Monster is Special Summoned to your zone this card points to: Special Summon 1 Level 1 Tuner from your Deck or GY, but its effects are negated. You can only use each effect of "Crimson Majestic Dragon" once per turn.

0

 

Numeral Champion: Utopic Dreamer

LIGHT

Link-2 (DL/DR)

Warrior/Link/Effect

2 Monsters with the same Level or Rank, including at least 1 Xyz monster

This card's name is always treated as "Number 39: Utopia". You can only Link Summon 1 "Numeral Champion: Utopic Dreamer" once per turn. If this card is Link Summoned using 2 Xyz Monsters: Target 1 of those monsters in the GY: Draw cards equal to half of its Rank (rounded down). When any player's monster declares an attack: You can banish 1 Xyz Monster from your Graveyard; negate that attack, and if you do, this monster and 1 other monster on the field gain ATK equal to the ATK of that attacking monster.

2500

 

Odd-Eyes Connector Dragon

DARK

Link-3 (DL/D/DR)

Dragon/Link/Effect

3 Monsters, including at least 1 Pendulum monster and at least 1 Link monster.

You can only Special Summon 1 "Odd-Eyes Connector Dragon" per turn. When this card is Link Summoned: Add up to 2 Pendulum Monsters from your GY or face-up in your Extra Deck to your hand. Once per turn: You can Special Summon 1 Pendulum Monster from your hand, GY, or face-up in your Extra Deck to your zone this card points to in Defense Position. If this linked monster or a monster linked to this card battles an opponent's monster, double all battle damage inflicted to your opponent by that battle.

2500

 

[spoiler=zzz]I mean, they're meant to be fairly powerful upgrades to the MC Aces, barring the Synchro Era one, which is still related.

 

DM is meant to tie together cards that should have already been tied together, while centralizing it around DM and not making it so that it only supports the Legendary Dragons.

 

Neos means that you don't have to run Neos to make his contact Fusions, but it only really rewards you if you summon it to the EMZ, which means the contact Fusion you make will likely go into the EMZ. Sure, it can field 2500 extra damage, but that requires running Neos. I considered making it a little strong by accessing Honest Neos, but decided against it, because I worried it would be a little too silly that way. Guess it's no more silly than UTL, though. I am well aware of Lord Gaia.

 

Crimson Majestic Dragon is supposed to be a counterpart to Ultimaya, this time based on the anime appearance instead of the Manga, and giving it a summoning condition that can be made with similar materials to a Double Tuning, Accel Synchro, or Majestic monster, though not exclusively. The reward requires you to go fairly hard (most of the time) to make it work, and i feel like the only cards that accelerate it are Dragunity Knight - Gae Dearg and Lavalval Dragun, and I'm not quite sure how you manage to get the other monster onto the board for those scenarios, without having outside resources to achieve it. Of course, it's also designed to work with Ultimaya, but that's a lot of investment in order to pull this off, requiring a bare minimum of 4 cards, and that's assuming one of those cards is Gofu/Grinder Golem/etc.

 

Utopic Dreamer is meant to be silly. Like, yeah, it works with Zoodiac Chakanine, but that requires they NSd Rat/has a discard for Thoroughblade, which means it isn't exactly generic. I chose to have it steal Utopia's name so that it works even as an Xyz Material, so it's a higher input, higher reward version of OG. It originally didn't require any Xyz, but the attack stat coupled with the negation effect made me a bit wary of allowing it to be made with 2 Level 1s. Maybe I could restrict it to Level/Rank 4, but... eh? It's still fairly easy to summon, though it requires a minimum of 3 monsters.

 

Finally, Connector Dragon... It's just a power card for Pendulums. It requires the EMZ, requires prior devotion of some sort, and it can't be made via Electrumite alone. I wanted to make it 2+ Materials, but Electrum makes that a pain in the ass, because it cheats it out for basically no devotion and then rewards you for it. I'm all for silly power cards, but that's a biiiiit much.

 

 

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If the Premium Pack is going to make game-original Links supporting animes, this is definitely the route they need to take rather than...

 

...well, whatever they call PP20.

 

 

Between these, my favorites would have to be DMoD, Utopic Dreamer, and Crimson Majestic. DMoD supports aspects of the Yugi theme that they more or less brush under the rug with the later salvos of Dark Magician support, though it really doesn't take much to make them better (read: one good Link Monster). I was a bit hesitant at first for "Link 1 with 2500 ATK??!1!>?!", but with a material that demands a monster already with equal or greater attack, that's really not an issue. It's maybe a problem if it goes much bigger to a significant degree, but it doooooesn't. Utopic Dreamer just being a silly Zexal support more or less captures a lot of Yuma and what was going on in that show. And yes, I agree that restricting it maybe to level 4/Rank 4's would be a bit better. A bit of a danger is that, while not terribly practical at the moment, cards like Number 77 and 84 lack once-per-turns on their summon, and while (especially) if you're trading in Rank 10's for this one Link monster, I feel like doing it closer at the end of a turn for just a straight draw 6 is going to be more than worth it. Like I said, combos like that presently aren't the most practical, but that's not to say they wouldn't ever be.

 

Crimson Majestic is just good for feeling like every aspect of a purified Tzolkin, which hits all the right notes for what kind of card that would be. At once I feel like the summoning of the Synchro monsters should be limited to zones it points to, but also at the same time you have to have already summoned those monsters in that duel, which is already an accomplishment. So if you're getting the maximum reward for that monster, you more or less earned it.

Overall, good stuff good stuff!

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