Red Dragon Archfiendish Chain?
LOCR-JP002 Ao no Shin’en Deep-Eyes White Dragon / Deep-Eyes White Dragon, the Blue Abyss
LIGHT Dragon / Effect
LV10 0/0
This card is always treated as a “Blue-Eyes” card. You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) You can discard this card; add 1 Level 1 LIGHT Tuner from your Deck to your hand.
(2) If a “Blue-Eyes” Ritual Monster(s) and/or “Blue-Eyes White Dragon” is sent to your GY: You can target 1 of them; Special Summon this card from your GY (if it was there when the monster was sent) or hand (even if not), and if you do, its ATK becomes that monster’s, but banish it when it leaves the field.
LOCR-JP009 Red Daemon’s Chain / Red Dragon Archfiend’s Chain
LIGHT Machine / Effect
LV8 2000/2000
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) You can Tribute this card from your hand or field; take 1 “Photon” monster and 1 “Galaxy” monster from your Deck, add 1 of them to your hand, send the other to the GY, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except LIGHT monsters.
(2) If a “Galaxy-Eyes” monster(s) is Special Summoned to your field: You can Special Summon this card from your GY, but banish it when it leaves the field.
WIND Dragon / Synchro / Effect
LV7 2500/2000
1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters
This card is always treated as a “Speedroid” card. You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Special Summoned: You can destroy 1 Effect Monster your opponent controls, and if you do, this card gains ATK equal to that monster’s original ATK.
(2) When your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower WIND Tuner from your hand or GY (but its effects are negated), then, immediately after this effect resolves, you can Synchro Summon 1 WIND monster.
DARK Dragon / Effect
LV5 1500/1600
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) You can send 1 DARK Dragon monster from your Deck to the GY, except a Level 5 monster; Special Summon this card from your hand, also you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except DARK monsters.
(2) When a Link Monster’s effect is activated that targets this card on the field (Quick Effect): You can destroy this card, then Special Summon up to 1 “Rokket” monster each from your hand, Deck, GY, and/or banishment, except “Rokket Barrage”.
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76 Comments
The Blue-Eyes card looks really almost like a Stardust Dragon evolution lol
bro blackwing needs support ;-;
3 extra copies of Buster Welp to normal summon and get the full Buster lock. Makes the engine waaaaay better since now you can actually run a 2 to 1 garnet ratio.
Mechaba in cyber dragon? Busted galaxy and rokket support. Now zombies please
You are not thinking far enough. This is foolish burial for 2 machines with decisive strike cyber end dragon or cybee eternity dragon. You can send 2 whatever machines you want from deck to gy with cyber dragon. Be it newly revealer blue traveler, any infinittacks, machinas. It is a 1 card starter for machine piles that gets you huge monster at the cost of running cyber dragon
hat two trick
not mentioning Orcust is insane…
That Galaxy Eyes card is insane. Finally a starter
People so far failed to notice the dragon link circular that is rokket barrage
Better than Photon Delta Wing I suppose.
We’ve had a starter though, that Schwarzchild retrain
Anybody who tries to downplay it is straight up incorrect. It’s one of the craziest pieces of support an archetype has seen; searching ANY monster of your archetype while foolish burial’ing another? Without using the normal summon? AND it can help extend after that? Like Schwarzchild is nice and all (and Photon Delta Wing sucks ass compared to this) but this card is nuts.
If they even Look at you funny, summon the WHOLE crew.
This year is Zexal’s 15th Anniversary. Still hoping for that Galaxy/Photon Structure Deck.
But knowing our luck it’ll be Cyber Dragons since there was a Cyber Dragon structure deck back in 2013.
Is it just me or is the second wave much better than the first wave from last month?
But we also did get an Odd-Eyes structure deck after the Synchron deck in 2015 which I would much pefer because Pendulum needs as much as it can get at this point. Plus the TCG Banlist severely crippled my Pendulum Magician deck.
Wonder what Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon of the Four Heavenly Dragons will do besides always be treated as a “The Phantom Knights” card, lol.
“If this card is destroyed: egao.”
Maybe on summon take attack?
Will rank up by itself
Most likely something relating to reaving opponent monster’s attack points as per it’s original effect.
Given the lack of Phantom Knight support in the last 5+years though, I’m really hoping the retrain will also interact with the PK archetype in a meaningful way (e.g. recovering banished PK traps/monsters etc).
Finally, Rokket circular.
Galaxy eyes got their starter! Also the RDA chain wording is weird last of the monster leaves destroy this card lol, one day they will print Red Vanish for RDA to protect Red Rising lol. Also wish other rivals got support like Kaito and Galaxys got Neo last wave maybe Shark can get some support too cause Yuma got a Overframe himself since Shark is technically a “rival” too.
We need new Armed Dragon and Ojama support.
Sucks that none of the waifus are getting any new overprint cards:(
@Bwebzz
There isn’t a single set in this game’s history that doesn’t have token waifu cards for the predominately male playerbase.
It’s no coincidence that like 40 LOCH cards have been revealed, and not a single one is female.
They are saving them all for the final wave of reveals, and it’s so lame and predictable.
Until then, all we’re getting is dragon, mecha and twink magician slop
I hope to see a neos retrain in this set
Everyone saying this is a Rocket circular, but it’s way more broken than circular.
It mills REDMD for free (or anything you need), and then, for free, summons up to 4 more bodies.
Clear wing is a free nuke in the opp turn, orbital is a good starter, but this…
This is a problem.
Yeah this is a circular that singlehandedly goes +3. Dump abso, grab a rokket, target this card with any random link, summon 4 rokkets.
Okay, where’s the Infernity Doom Dragon retrain?
Also, please an Abyss Actor. We don’t have many Pendulum Overframes.
Hundred Eyes Dragon retrain would be nice too.
Was still holding out that MAYBE there would be different rivals but of course not. Only section with variety is the arc v rivals one and even then it’s STILL massive bloat outside the unrevealed dark rebellion.
Also Clear Wing isn’t not a Yuri card.
RIP cun(ty) Abyss B.E. Dragon
Cuz of the starving venom supports in Blazing Dominion, I thought the rival they’re going for is Yuri for arc v, turns out it was for Zarc 😂
Yuri does use Clear Wing after absorbing Yugo.
“Special Summon up to 1 “Rokket” monster each from your hand, Deck, GY, and/or banishment”, bro what? And it’s circular.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The good thing about this is that it opens itself up to get stopped by almost every common handtrap. Ash and Belle are a given, but even Ghost Ogre or Fidraulis stop it since it needs to destroy itself before it can summon anything, and if something else destroys it first, the summoning effect won’t go through.
I like these types of interaction, where powerful effects can be stopped by removal rather than absolutely HAVING to negate them (I genuinely liked that part in older cards that say “this card needs to be face-up on the field at resolution to resolve this effect”; it’s a bummer that they aren’t doing that any more since it opens up ways of interrupting the opponent that don’t just say “negate” but I guess what they’re doing with cards like the Rokket Cirular is the next best thing).
The send is a cost. It can’t be ashed
That new blue-eyes card I’d phenomenal… it is a free maiden of white, Sage, kaibaman…
Also summons itself if bewd or a blue-eyes chaos ritual is dumped? Gives you a free body
Only bad thing is it’s level not being 8, meaning it can’t combo with the Tuner to summon spirit but this is basically a illusion of chaos for blue-eyes tuners
That cyber Dragon fusión spell Is amazing.
First Djinns, now Super Defense Robo got referenced (sadly it’s not a direct support xd)
ZeXal gets all the obscure and underutilized archetypes. What next – Rio’s Water/Winged Beasts? Kotori’s Fairy XYZ from a single duel she had? Tetsuo’s/Bronk’s Machines?
OH! Tis lovely to see more Blue-Eyes Big-Hips Dragon in my life! ~<3
But her effects does seem a bit on the mid side of things to me… Was Blue-Eyes decks REALLY hungry for yet another tuner searcher? And it losing the burn + destruction bonus effects of the original Deep-Eyes feels like a pointless desire to keep that one not fully replaced. Ohwell! it is still good enough to see some inclusion in upcoming modern Blue-Eyes decks. Now then… I hope this is a sign that we will get a new Chaos MAX card to go along with this! That would be totally hype!
Edit: I reread it, and the self summoning effect is better then what I first saw, I thought it only summoned itself when the written Blue-Eyes cards were “destroyed, and sent to the grave” but no, it is just whenever they are “sent to the grave.” Pretty sweat!
At this rate Z-arc is going to get a overframe retrain, and I’m genuinely horrified at the idea of that.
Synchro universe: lore resons, arc Ray: mediocre, base: its a nuke that has uses, but a overframe retrain might be genuinely scary especially if they make it more like it’s anime incarnet where it skill drained all fusion, synchro, and xyz monsters, and imagine if it had the effect that you choose the attack targets and forces monsters to attack regardless of whether or not you want to or not.
But who knows right, after all this is just me rambling about something that has like a 1 in 1000 chance of happening, so who knows what will come out.
Anime ZARC didn’t Skill Drain Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, and Pendulum monsters, though. It couldn’t leave the field by the effects of or battle with those monsters, as long as the appropriate Heavenly Dragon was banished.
Wow, they seriously chose to make a broken starter for Orcust/potentially any Machine deck over finding a compromise for Cyberdark. They should have simply locked it to Machine or Dragon “Cyber”s. At least this gives me hope for more dedicated Cyberdark support, someday.
everything’s here is kinda amazing
I wish it was Chazz getting Rival support. I’d even settle for Phoenix or even Jesse.
C’mon Konami. Give us a new Dark Rebellion and my life is yours. If we get a new Zarc I’ll cry.
“Target me bro we won’t jump you”
“We won’t barrage you”
So the implication is that Ryo was Judai’s rival even though they weren’t antagonistic towards each other and barely interacted after season one…?
GX was affected by “the second iteration in a long-running franchise” effect. There was no established trends or patterns and Yudai had like 5 or so rivals.
Being a galaxy eyes/tachyon player rlly be paying off. Now pls gimme raidraptor over frames Konami 😭
the hate jack atlas got from this set not a single iconic card got an over frame when there is card dont need restriction and you cant respond to them he got his trap need to reveal a extra break card and can be respond to and if negate isnt there he can tribute banish destroy synchro fusion xyz link return equipe and that trap gone and doesnt even help you combo
reaviling hand and its even must to be tuner what a bad card
If I had to rank those cards from Best to Worst it would be:
1. Rokket Barrage
2. Deep-Eyes White Dragon the Blue Abyss and Galaxy Defense Robot Orbital 7
4. Future Fusion Nova
5. Clear Wing Synchro Dragon of the Four Heavenly Dragons
6. Red Dragon Archfiend Chains.
And none of them are bad cards, though. Rokket Barrage is ending on the banlist for absolute certain. Too generic for its own good.
This card is always treated as a “Speedroid” card. So I can revive it with Speed Recovery, neat.
card is good, deck is trash because you still need to play Clear Wing Synchro Dragon in the deck
Im not a fan of this pop out art. Just bring ulti’s and ghost rare back
That Rokket card is filthy. Konami have lost the plot.
Every Rival: Cards of their decks that represent their monsters or something personal to them
Jack for some uknown reason: yeah let’s not focus on him instead le’ts give him generic Signer dragon support and a catd that has shooting star on the artwork
That blue-eyes card is insane.. searching all your tuner starters and becoming an otk machine, nice
Rokket barrage now makes extra linking actually easy
Also that card is insane in general. If you use one of the monster summoned off of it, or any of the other million ways to summon another rokket monster, you can basically spam 3 to 4 monsters out each turn, with no actual limmitation on summoning restrictions
custom cards
Union support!!! (the cyber dragon fusion)
My top three decks are all getting support here, and of course by number one deck is the one getting the shortest end of the stick
I think the RDA trap is really cool design, but everything else is obscenely pushed
They legit retrained Future Fusion into something that literally cannot be used for the thing it summoned in the anime. What is even the point of that?
Huh? Zane summons Cyber End or Cyber Twin all 4 times he uses it.
New orbital 7 is disappointing, especially bc of the light restrictions that come with its effect. Figured it’d at least be able to special Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon or Afterglow Dragon, but nope. Ffs give us a GEPD retrain that’s easy to summon, with a non-restrictive effect, that is considered GEPD when it’s on field, in grave, or attached as XYZ material. Or just give us a way to special summon the damn dragon from anywhere. Currently the deck just makes a big beefy boy that has since been outclassed and power crept
They are ALLERGIC to putting RDA on an Over Frame card, even in it’s own supports!!
genuinely without pointing fingers and demanding the card-effects-designer to be replaced by someone who actually plays the game/or ai, konami downgraded clear wing synchro dragon, not gonna be surprised if this version aint be played -at all, these effects are more clear wing then anything zarc related the extra deck slot unworthy. its no secret konamy hates anything arc v related.
Yo we are forgetting Blackwings. they are DYING for support
Plz some Raidraptor custom card now