Discover Mysteries With The “Lauan Adventurers”! [RD/KP26]

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What do you mean there’s an undiscovered 90% of the world…!?

Note: Lauan refers to Shorea, a genus of rainforest plant.

RD/KP26-JP013 ラワンマッパー・アイヴィ Lauan Mapper Ivy
Level 1 WIND Plant Union Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top card of the Deck to the Graveyard.
【EFFECT】 Choose 1 face-up WIND Plant monster on your field and equip this card to it as an Equip Spell Card with the following effect.
● The equipped monster’s attacks pierce. If there’s 2 or more “Lauan Adventurers” in your Graveyard, your opponent cannot activate Trap Cards.

Note: Named after Ivy Wood.

RD/KP26-JP014 ラワンマッチョ・デックス Lauan Macho Dex
Level 1 WIND Plant Union Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top card of the Deck to the Graveyard.
【EFFECT】 Choose 1 face-up WIND Plant monster on your field and equip this card to it as an Equip Spell Card with the following effect.
● The equipped monster gains 800 ATK. If there is a “Lauan Adventurers” in your Graveyard, then the equipped monster gains 800 ATK.

Note: Named after Caudex, a sort of root system.

RD/KP26-JP015 ラワンシスター・ハート Lauan Sister Heart
Level 1 WIND Plant Effect Monster
ATK 1200
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 None
【CONTINUOUS EFFECT】 During the Battle Phase, face-up monsters on your opponent’s field lose 500 ATK/DEF for each face-up Equip Spell Card on your field.

Note: Named after Heartwood

RD/KP26-JP016 ラワンリーダー・バルサー Lauan Leader Balsa
Level 1 WIND Plant Effect Monster
ATK 1200
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 Send the top 2 cards of the Deck to the Graveyard.
【EFFECT】 This card gains 300 ATK x [the number of face-up cards on your field] until the end of the turn. If “Lauan Adventurers” is in your Graveyard, then you can draw 1 card. If you draw a card, for the rest of this turn, you cannot activate the effect of “Lauan Leader Balsa”.

Note: Named after Balsa Wood

RD/KP26-JP017 UMPスカイフォルビア UMP Sky Forbia
Level 6 WIND Plant Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 0
【REQUIREMENT】 During your Main Phase that this card was Normal or Special Summoned, send the top card of the Deck to the Graveyard.
【EFFECT】 For the rest of this turn, this card can attack directly. Then, you can choose 1 WIND Plant Union Monster in your Graveyard that you can equip it to this card as an Equip Spell Card as if by its own effect.

Note: UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animal, i.e. the Japanese term for Cryptid) + Sky Fish (a type of Cryptid) + Euphorbia (A genus of plant)

(So basically Unidentified Mysterious Plant…)

RD/KP26-JP018 分霊樹コアドラシル Bunreiju Coredrasil (Coredrasil the Spirit Tree Bunrei)
Level 7 WIND Plant Effect Monster
ATK 1200
DEF 2500
If there is a face-up Spell Card on your field, you can Special Summon this card from your hand face-up.
【REQUIREMENT】 Send 1 face-up Spell Card from your field to the Graveyard.
【EFFECT】 Choose 1 card on your opponent’s field and return it to the hand. For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Plant monsters.

Note: 分霊 refers to basically a divided fragment of a shinto Kami, that nevertheless counts as the kami. Due to the technical terminology, I’m leaving this in Japanese. The monster is of course named in part after the Norse world tree, Yggdrasil. Drasil means “Horse” or “Pillar”, the exact meaning of why the world tree was named the way it is is a subject of scholarly debate.

(Also Tree Core…)

RD/KP26-JP048 謎の飛行植物は実在した！！ Nazo no Hikoshokubutsu ha Jitsuzai shita!! (The Mysterious Flying Plants Are Real!!)
Normal Spell Card
【REQUIREMENT】 Return 1 card from the hand to the Deck.
【EFFECT】 Choose 1 Level 4 or lower WIND Plant monster in your Graveyard and add it to the hand. Then, you can choose 1 Level 6 or higher WIND Plant monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it to your field face-up. For the rest of this turn, you cannot attack with monsters, except Plant monsters.

RD/KP26-JP049 神樹との出会い Shinju tono Deai (Encounter with the Sacred Tree)
Normal Spell Card
【REQUIREMENT】 None
【EFFECT】 Excavate the top 4 cards of your Deck and show them. You can choose up to 1 “Lauan Adventurers” and up to 1 WIND Plant Effect Monster among them and add them to the hand. Place the remaining cards on the bottom of your Deck in any order.

RD/KP26-JP050 ラワン冒険隊が行く！！ Lauan Boukentai ga Iku!! (The Lauan Adventurers Are Go!!)
Normal Spell Card
【REQUIREMENT】 Place 1 other face-up card on your field on the bottom of the owner’s Deck.
【EFFECT】 Choose 1 face-up monster on your field and choose up to 2 WIND Plant Union Monsters in your Graveyard that you can equip to that card as Equip Spell Cards as if by their own effects.

Source: YU-GI-OH!.jp