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    Enter A New Age of Calamities With New “Raika”! [INFO]

    NeoArkadiaBy NeoArkadiaApril 3, 202422 Comments

    Look into my evil eyes….

    INFO-JP 蕾禍ノ姫邪眼 Raika no Himejanome
    Level 4 EARTH Insect Effect Monster
    ATK 1800
    You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effects of this card’s name each once per turn.
    (1) You can discard this card; Special Summon 1 Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster from your hand.
    (2) If this card is banished from the hand or GY: You can activate this effect; during the End Phase of this turn, draw cards equal to the number of different Types among Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters you control.

    Note: The Kanji (姫邪眼) reads as Princess Evil Eye, while Janome (蛇の目) refers to a bull’s eye pattern (often on an umbrella), and a bull’s eye resembles an eye.

    Also it might be referencing the Antheraea Yamamai, known in Japan as the Himeyamamayu. i.e. The Japanese Oak Silk Moth.

    INFO-JP048 蕾禍ノ玄神憑月 Raika no Kurokamitsuki
    LINK-3 WATER Reptile Link Effect Monster
    ATK 2600
    Links: Left; Right; Bottom
    2+ Insect, Plant, and/or Reptile monsters
    You can only use the 1st and 2nd effects of this card’s name each once per turn.
    (1) You can banish up to 2 monsters from your GY, then target the same number of Spells/Traps your opponent controls; destroy them.
    (2) If this card is in your GY: You can target 1 Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster you control; place it on the bottom of the Deck, and if you do, Special Summon this card, also you cannot Special Summon for the rest of this turn, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.

    Note: The Kanji (玄神憑月) reads as Mysterious Divinely Possessed Moon. The mysterious (玄) is also used in the Kanji for Genbu the Saint Beast of the North, a combined turtle and snake.

    Kamitsukigame means “Snapping Turtle”. Also the first Kanji is used as a radical in 弦月 Gengetsu, i.e. Crescent Moon.

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    22 Comments

    1. Samurex on April 3, 2024 8:40 am

      The rot devours that in it’s path. Take up the armor of the fallen and leave sorrow in your wake! DREAD LINK!

    2. J. D. Guy on April 3, 2024 8:44 am

      It’s fascinating to see that we can get an effect for Insect, Plant, and Reptile Monsters today. Enough time has gone by since “The Big Cattle Drive” to where we can have such an effect without jumping through the hoops needed for the aforementioned Spell.

      • Rue on April 3, 2024 8:53 am

        Being in the end phase is already a pretty big limitation on it vs Big Cattle Drive

      • J. D. Guy on April 3, 2024 3:55 pm

        Their translation didn’t originally specify the action took place during the End Phase.

        Still, I’d take a Super Rejuvenation styled effect over The Big Cattle Drive’s restriction.

    3. Will on April 3, 2024 8:53 am

      Damn. Nothing so far for rikka, but as mentioned beetrooper and odgodaic will enjoy these cards

      • DisguiseDuck on April 3, 2024 9:12 am

        They won’t. Those 2 cards are terrible. The level 4 is kinda decent and that’s it.

    4. KamenRiderWasp on April 3, 2024 9:13 am

      If only that link 3 was a quick effect. Even without it being a quick effect with this new link that gives the archetype up to SEVEN ways to pop stuff on the field.

      Being able to draw up to three cards during your end phase is hella nice, and also being able to ss ANY RIP from hand opens up so much. It’s a easy way to summon out Metamorphosed Insect Queen, or any of the Ogdoadic bosses without having to tribute your own stuff is a great extender.

      And once again the artwork goes HARD this these, and is showing a little bit of lore that not all the monsters in the archetype are infested with the vines. This new insect and Kusarigama are the most ‘human like’ in terms of having full bodies and not ones twisted together like the others.

      • DisguiseDuck on April 3, 2024 9:27 am

        They’re both terrible. The level 4 doesn’t actually do anything. Ssing Metamorphosed was never a thing insects even wanted to do, and the draw is nice at best. This card is a brick and that’s it.

        The link 3 has no purpose at all

    5. TransactionRollbackInGY on April 3, 2024 9:27 am

      Huh. Free Link 3 every turn, makes going for Link 4’s in those decks easier or Grindy decks.

      End Phase huh? Still, Draw 2-3 at end phase is kinda nutty. And it has a generic(P,R,I) discard for free summon effect on hand.

    6. Petsinwinter on April 3, 2024 10:13 am

      All its materials have to be RIP-types and it’s graveyard summon is a full turn RIP-lick, all for a spell speed 1 backrow pop? That’s terrible.

    7. ChaosMAX1268 on April 3, 2024 10:35 am

      Konami please do something other than Asian things, stop supporting this archetype and give us something with fresh cultural inspiration.

      • LucaZERO on April 3, 2024 1:15 pm

        We did get hungry burger support which was french food, what about a german archtype related to war?

      • HalfDemonInuyasha on April 3, 2024 2:51 pm

        Give it a rest already.

      • CoCoA on April 3, 2024 6:58 pm

        no

      • morphine jar on April 3, 2024 9:33 pm

        yeah, where’s our Haitian cannibal archetype?

      • Logic Bomb on April 4, 2024 1:38 am

        @LucaZERO I…don’t think we should do that…

    8. Ciccio on April 3, 2024 10:47 am

      Yeah, now give decent battlewasp support

    9. Gnos230 on April 3, 2024 10:50 am

      for people who says that means nothing for rikka: they finally have an in engine out to backrow and floodgates

      • Brb on April 3, 2024 5:31 pm

        How is this an out? The floodgates would stop you from summoning this thing anyway.

    10. N on April 3, 2024 1:31 pm

      These cards are rather meh and don’t do anything for the Deck. Konami clearly doesn’t care about this archetype.

    11. ScionStorm on April 5, 2024 12:45 am

      I would guess the final count of monsters for this theme will be 18. 6 monsters for each Attribute. 3 for the main deck and 3 for the Links, so 2 Reptile, Insect and Plant monsters for each Attribute.

    12. ScionStorm on April 5, 2024 12:47 am

      * will be 18 each for the MD and ED

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