What happens if you benefit from the Azamina’s tributes?
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Welcome back for another Creative Deck Profile, and this time we’re combining the DARK Illusion Fusion Azamina monsters with the Cyber Angel Ritual theme! If you missed my last time covering the Azamina as just a supportive engine, be sure to check that out here: https://youtu.be/bRDPoYYU66k. Now that you’re back, let’s give the Azamina theme a bit more of a spotlight. You see, this build aims to leverage Sinful Spoils Deception (YGOrg Translation), tributing something in your hand that would want to be tributed… like Cyber Angel Benten. If this already sounds like a good idea, that’s because it is. From my perspective, the Cyber Angel theme has so many powerful tools in its toolkit, but it has always had to ride on something else’s coattails to have the biggest impact. It’s been heavily used in Drytron, but in this build, it is more than just tribute fodder – it also offers a boss of its own in Cyber Angel Vrash, a Level 10 Ritual that destroys as many monsters your opponent controls as possible that were Special Summoned from the Extra Deck.
Beyond the obvious synergy with Benten, what else does this hybrid offering bring? Well first, Diviner of the Herald is yet another Tribute option, because when you do, you get access to either Cyber Egg Angel or Cyber Petit Angel, two Level 2 LIGHT Fairies that tutor Cyber Angel support cards on summon. Once you get Ritual Sanctuary on the board, leveraging its second effect to bring back Diviner will give you access to Herald of the Arc Light. Pair that with Azamina Rhea Silvera (YGOrg Translation), and perhaps even a Dyna Mondo, and your board will be tough for most opponents to overcome. And should they fail to end you in one fell swoop, Cyber Angel Natasha is waiting in the wings to repeatedly steal away your opponents’ monsters, gaining oodles of LP along the way to give you even more of a fighting chance to stay in the duel.
Provided Decklist:
Monsters: 20
| Trias Hierarchia
||| Diabellstar the Black Witch
||| Sakitama
||| Diviner of the Herald
| Cyber Petit Angel
| Cyber Egg Angel
| Cyber Angel Vrash
| Cyber Angel Dakini
| Cyber Angel Izana
||| Cyber Angel Benten
| Cyber Angel Idaten
| Cyber Angel NatashaSpells: 18
| Sinful Spoils of Subversion – Snake-Eye
|| Sacred Azamina
||| Preparation of Rites
| Machine Angel Absolute Ritual
|| Machine Angel Ritual
||| WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils
||| Sinful Spoils Deception
| Incarnated Machine Angel
|| Ritual SanctuaryTraps: 2
| Azamina Hamartia
| Sinful Spoils of Slumber – MorrianExtra Deck:
| Azamina Moa Regina
| Azamina Sol Erysichthon
| Azamina Mu Rcielago
| Azamina Rhea Silvera
| Chaos Angel
||| Herald of the Arc Light
| Super Starslayer TY-PHON – Sky Crisis
| Underworld Goddess of the Closed World
| Dyna Mondo
| S:P Little Knight
| I:P Masquerena
| Cross-Sheep
| Herald of Mirage Lights
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1 Comment
This deck looks like it works better than other Cyber Angel decks at least, but I don’t really see Azamina working at its peak in anything other than an Illusion or Spellcaster deck, due to the lack of support for other archetypes. It might just be me, but most illusion support cards have at most maybe 1 card that ties it to other archetypes, and the only reason Spellcaster pairs well is a mix of the mages having 2 cards that tie them together outside of Diabellstar tying the Azamina and Spellcasters together directly