3 New Legends & Abyss+Genesis Support!

Our 1st influencer reveal for December 6th comes from a video from Ponpoko Miyamoto, and reveals both Yomajin Front Unit "Dragon-type Battle Weapon, Aramisaki" and Wonderverse Unit "Solar System Backpacker"!



First is the 2nd of a currently known 9 Dragon-type Battle Weapons! While its stats are a bit on the lower end for a Level 3, it comes packed with 2 potent effects! First up, it reduces all damage dealt to you to 1. The obvious application of this is similar to Mr. Dead Language, forcing your opponent to attack into your Aramisaki in the attack zone, which allows you to take full advantage of Yomajin Front's combat tricks!

However, the really interesting use of this effect is with Haunting, where it is able to lower the self-damage it will deal. With this you could much more safely take advantage of Haunting to get up to 70 Level Limit under Apprentice or Highlander. In addition, Aramisaki's combination of Military and Dragon gives it multiple options for consistency boosters to get into play, being able to use both Volnar's Genesis Summoning or Wonderverse's Emergency Combination.

Lastly, we have Aramisaki's 2nd effect "Magical Core Cannon", which plays into the combat trick synergy of Aramisaki's 1st effect. Magical Core Cannon allows you to convert your events into more immediate value with a powerful removal effect. Remember that Busterkong gets the same amount of effect damage with a [TD], so it really should not be understated how much 4 effect damage is. Allowing you to convert excess events or events that may be too expensive for you to play any time soon.

Overall, Aramisaki has the makings of a very potent boss unit, that synergizes with all of Yomajin Front's goals very well.



The 2nd reveal, Backpacker, is also a fascinating unit with plenty of applications. The most obvious is how it allows you to increase the value on your board. After having played a unit like Christel or Ed and getting its on play effect, you can convert it into Backpacker's better stats, and since its coming from your damage zone, its actually neutral in card advantage. However, remember that it is a normal summon, which costs energy and summon cap, so its definitely a card that fits better in Apprentice.

Since it needs to be in the damage zone to be used, Backpacker existing gives more value to the CNT ability of Schrodinger's Cat, though its overall still pretty neat. However, that interaction does make me wonder if the Futuremen attribute is a damage focused theme? While this is the first to directly play with it, Schrodinger's Cat could be a card meant for Futuremen, and Magic Innovator indirectly interacts by setting up more CNTs in your deck.

And of course, what is probably the most powerful aspect of the card, the extra damage you take. Of course, not taking a new damage would be better, but it would definitely need to be weakened in other areas for that. As it currently is, its still very valuable, as it still increases your opportunities to get CNTs and get a real heal. With the 16 CNT limit of all current Rulers, this will happen about a third of the time by default, and this can be increased further if you combined it with ATLAS scry effects!

Overall, a very unique card with a lot of potential.

Our 2nd and last influencer reveal of the day comes to us in a video from Suzuki which brings us our 1st Legend Card since Magvarius! Its the Yomajin Front Legend Unit "Captain Omyger"!



While pretty basic, Omyger is undeniably powerful. Hard removal is valued very highly, with Events like Destiny Sword costing 3 to get the same with no on board body, and otherwise you find it on cards that require set-up like Vastorus Rex. The closest direct comparison to this card is Liar Moon who can destroy an enemy unit if Destiny Sword is in your cemetery. But by comparison, Omyger is getting much a whole 5 extra stat points due to his 2 higher STK, and Omyger also gets the effect on CNT.

Comparing it to Magvarius, while he does have lower stats, and can't be activated via TD or special summon, and his removal has a lower ceiling, but his floor is much higher. Depending on the type of player you are, that floor may be more important, especially within the hand-less Apprentice. At least with Knight, as long as Magvarius is drawn and not damaged, you can save its use until the perfect moment. Under Apprentice, however, that isn't an option. You will lose access to your only copy if you don't activate it then and there. On the other hand, Omyger will always at least take out an opposing unit. When it comes to particularly large units like Vastorus Rex or Grand Galac, it can take until you're half dead for Magvarius to be able to remove them, where as Omyger will be able to even on the first turn.

In this way, you can see how each of these Legends have their own strengths that make each a powerful choice.

Next, the first December 7th influencer reveal comes to us through a video by Bisyamon Soiya, its the 2nd Volnar Legend Card, the Event Card, "Blaster Vortex"!



Since we had already been told this would be akin to Mirror Force, the effect doesn't come as any surprise, only activating when an enemy unit attacks, and destroy all attack zone units! A very powerful tool for any defensive deck that needs time to set up, like Magvarius, as unless your opponent took out your defensive zone via effect, with their units gone, the opposing Ruler will be able to get through your defensive zone to attack you directly! In essence, Blaster Vortex will often earn you a free turn.

However, there's a very interesting implication in the mention of "rows". Currently, all Rulers only have 1 row of units, but this syntax heavily implies that later Rules that gain new unit zones will get them in a separate row from their default. Would these multiple row Rulers also get a 2nd defensive zone? Food for thought. It is actually just saying front row, though this still implies that back row, where the Set Zones currently are, can be Unit zones under some Rulers.

The other reveal for December 7th is yet another Legend! This one comes from a Hitsoru Yotsuba livestream. Its ATLAS's GB01 Legend Unit "Captain Liberty"!



Of all the Legends, this is the one that has impressed me the most personally! The others have been high value removal cards, which are of course very good, but its nothing unique. They're more efficient for sure, but you're not getting any kind of effect you can't get elsewhere. Captain Liberty is completely different! Captain Liberty provides free value to your board starting the moment it hits your hand or cemetery, and is able to do so regardless of what type of Ruler you are. Unlike other Legends, its not one-and-done either, and will come back again once you're 3 CNTs deeper.

The one major pitfall is getting stuck in damage, but there are ways around this. Schrodinger's Cat can pull it out with either its Main or CNT effect. In addition, there's a card we'll be discussing later which allows you to pull Level 2 or lower Military cards out of your damage, so that will also allow you to get Liberty into play.

However, it still is not some end-all be-all. Certain strategies have some bad anti-synergy with Captain Liberty. The most prominent of these is Darkness. Most of your CNTs will be Darkness cards, so you'll want to keep them in your cemetery to pay for [Abyssal Concerto], and removing them with Liberty will screw up your core strategy. Outside of rare decks like this, however, Captain Liberty seems like one of the most reliably valuable Legend Cards.

And our last influencer reveal to cover is the first of the December 8th cards! Revealed by this video by K, we have two new cards for the Genesis Summoning archetype!



Paula is the secondary Genesis Summoner. Its significantly worse than Shiori, as it doesn't get itself a Familiar from cemetery, its lower level means you have to work harder for your Summons, and only 1 HP makes it much easier to disrupt. However, a second summoner is needed for the strategy to function, so Paula at least provides that.

Of course, Paula also has a filter effect with her TD. In addition to helping you get to good materials, this is very useful for Abyssal Summoning, which currently lacks any in-archetype way to get cards out of hand. Since they'll be carrying Paula for that, it'll be nice to be able to use Paula and one of the Black Knights to call out another Black Knight, not for any sort of value, but to shuffle your deck after you've returned CNTs to it. You could potentially carry better materials and better targets to get more value out of it, but being able to do this shuffle without bogging the deck down without any out of archetype cards is the most notable part.



A very similar card to Albafort, giving you a heal on Genesis Summon, but having a more defensive function with Defender. Being a Level 2 its also easier to access, particularly for Paula. A decent defensive addition to the deck's lower end.

Next up are 4 new cards Ikeda posted to the Card Kingdom, including the reveal of Starter Deck 2's Midas G Goldberg and a powerful new Crimenauts Event!



The key character Midas is finally revealed, and he boasts an incredibly powerful effect! Abyssal Summoning will hardly be something you can perform every turn, let alone multiple times in a turn, so you won't be able to spam recoveries out of Midas, but even 1 extra recovery is incredibly powerful, and combined with Vastorus you can net two. Midas then sits as massive pressure on the board, threatening to recover more life for you if not dealt with, while they already have to deal with the powerful Abyssal Concerto unit you just played!



A very similar consistency booster to what Robos got, this in tandem with Schrodinger's Cat and Capture Beam makes it continually more plausible to set-up the powerful Malevolus Prime + Badmans combo. For similar reasons, its CNT is also incredibly useful for being able to revive your Badmans, and if your opponent dared to go for your face before clearing, can allow you to further protect your units on that turn, not to mention cause even more uses of Devos Beam. Also of note is that anything that allows you to more reliably get Recruiter at times where he'd be powerful is a massive boost to the card, and this definitely accomplishes that.



Another Crimenauts reveal, another defensively slanted card! It combines very well with Badmans, and we're getting more and more ways to see that card and reuse it so that feels pretty reliable. I'm starting to feel like Sudden Wormhole will make for a powerful tool in Crimenauts, able to redirect an attack on Badmans over to your high HP unit, and all the better if its something with natural Retaliate like this!



And still on defensively slanted units, we have one in Volnar! This is the first we've seen of anything so defensively slanted at Level 0, and 5 HP makes for a very difficult wall to get over, even more so if you're able to support it, perhaps with Yomajin Front events, all too fitting of the card's name.

Interestingly, this unit only has 8 stat points, despite Level 0s getting 9. I originally thought being so extremely defensively slanted might cost a stat point, but after another reveal later today, it seems more likely that Warrior is one of the taxed attributes that costs 1 stat point.

Our last batch of reveals are a ton of ones Ikeda put up on twitter last night, to early this morning. We have a ton new Abyssal Summoning, ATLAS, and Wonderverse cards, so let's get into it!



Mentioned this card earlier with Captain Liberty, but this is a very powerful support card for Military! Not quite as powerful as Schrodinger's Cat, but it still nets you a heal and a new card out of a toolbox in hand, so its very powerful. Doesn't even contribute to your CNT limit to boot! The one big downside is it adds to hand, so its not useful in Apprentice. A shame too, since it could've been handy for the Masurao deck. Maybe some Ruler in the future with higher Energy will be able to use the Masurao archetype in the future, and will be able to use this card in that way.



Another powerful support card for Military! One of the valid targets for this is Daring Trooper, with the powerful Energy Boost effect, which can get you back even the energy you used on this card itself.



Turret Turtle is the 4/4/2 vanilla stat line-up we've seen before with Volnar's Bulltaurus, and 4/4 seems like a valuable statline in general. Its also a target for both Normandy and ARK.

Banshee is a nice defensively slanted Darkness unit, but Dokkalfar seems better in almost every respect. However, it may allow you to more consistently activate Shadow of Hades's effect, so it may be valuable for that reason.

Lastly, Champ Tiger looks like it has very nicely allocated stats. There aren't many Level 1s who even have 5 ATK, and Tiger carries 2 STK on top of that. Feels very similar to Kamaitachi Joe, and is both a Wild Force for Big Owl's draw effect, and a Military for Normandy and ARK. Even has the Warrior attribute, for potential use in Genesis Summoning strategies!



Suppression Fire will probably be a very important card. Free, no CNT, and while it only deals 2 damage. ATLAS has tons of cards that can increase that. Even 1 extra point will increase its range a lot, and this default mode can take out any of the Abyssal Summoners. (We'll get to that later) Of course, its also a Military and thus a target for Normandy.

Ironstorm is initially strictly worse in the vast majority of scenarios, and even costs 1 more and contributes to the CNT limit. However, it benefits much more off of damage buffing, as its able to spread out its damage when it reaches any excess so nothing is wasted.

Also, on Ironstorm, this card was previously shown to be in Starter Deck 2, but the High Rarity Pack seemed to imply all Starter Deck cards are exclusive? However, this print has a different flavor text, so perhaps the High Rarity Pack has both the GS02 and GB01 versions of Ironstorm, with their differing flavor text.



An extremely powerful combat trick! Arguably the strongest we've seen so far. Has really powerful combinations in Yomajin Front, particularly with the "Obstacle" units. Using it to make the beefy Orochi stick around is strong too. And of course, in Wonderverse, it can be combined with their Retaliate units to turn the battle around on the opponent. All around a powerful card!



A brand new keyword! Completely exclusive to Energy Rulers, but its a powerful one, being infinitely reusable. Any time it would do just as well as the options in your hand, it expands your options quite a bit. In general, a card like this adds a ton to decision making, and a controlling deck like Darkness is sure to appreciate it a lot.



The 2nd Abyssal Summoning card revealed! First thing to note is that the Abyssal Summoning effect has changed since we were shown Priest quite a while back. It now has an "If you do" clause separateing putting it to cemetery and activating the rest of the effect, so if your opponent destroys the summoner in response, you won't be able to Abyssal Summon. Cards like Flying Shield and "I didn't even feel that!" will be very important to making sure your summons are successful. This change also applies to Priest, so it doesn't get any edge in that respect.

Aligieri is better than Priest in every respect. It loses in ATK and STK but these stats are frankly irrelevant for a Summoner, and in exchange it gets to mill 1 on play to help set up your summons. A Darkness Summoner like Aligieri already is able to use itself as material, and considering the highest condition is 5, adding even 1 mill like this is a really big deal.



Two new cheap Abyssal Concerto units! With these it really comes down to if you want a CNT that sets itself up, in exchange for its Abyssal Concerto not doing anything except activating effects like Midas. On the other hand, Deathsallier from the Starter Deck lacks CNT but has better stats and the useful effect Defender. Fitting both would be tough, so players will probably need to decide between them.



Yet another Abyssal Summoner! Very much appreciated that the Starter Deck has 2 itself, makes the Starter Deck much more functional in itself. Johan in itself is fantastic, being a Level 1 Summoner, which opens up your Energy for a lot more potential plays. Plus, as an ATLAS card, it opens up the potential ability to use Abyssal Summons in non-Volnar builds. The big drawback is its not a Darkness itself, so it requires 1 more Darkness in cemetery to activate then other Summoners.





A clone of Raguo the Ushi-oni for Wonderverse! This vanilla type seems very potent, with high STK, decent ATK, and a difficult to deal with HP.





Some new vanillas revealed in a decklist Ikeda posted. Tank Type-100 is a direct clone of Turret Turtle in every respect. It seems to be a good kind of vanilla, so not surprising to see it in more attributes, and has a good attribute.

Peony also seems very good. 2 STK Level 0s are rare, and this new one being in Apparition is very nice for that deck's effects.



The final card for today, a Wonderverse event from Starter Deck 1. Essentially an alternate Photon Torpedo, that trades backrow removal for 2 damage to an enemy unit. This is more generically useful, but Photon Torpedo is very unique in its ability to remove a backrow at Immediate speed, so both will likely have their uses.

Finally, before we sign off for today, here are translations of Ikeda's recent tweets regarding how he plans to address problem cards when they occur.