The Artwork for the New Pack
TW02-JP042 ジェムナイトマスター・ダイヤ－ディスパージョン Gem-Knight Master Dia Dispersion (Gem-Knight Master Diamond Dispersion)
Level 9 EARTH Rock Fusion Effect Monster
ATK 3000
DEF 2600
Materials: 3 “Gem-” monsters
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can send this card to the GY; Special Summon up to 3 non-Rock “Gem-” monsters with different names from your Extra Deck and/or GY, ignoring their Summoning conditions, also you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except Fusion Monsters.
(2) When your “Gem-Knight” Fusion Monster is destroyed by battle while this card is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card.
TW02-JP043 ジェムナイト・ネピリム Gem-Knight Nepyrim
Level 4 LIGHT Fairy Effect Monster
ATK 1550
DEF 1600
You can only use the (1)st, (2)nd, and (3)rd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Gem-Knight” card from your Deck to your hand, except “Gem-Knight Nepyrim”, also any effect damage your opponent takes during the Main Phase for the rest of this turn is halved.
(2) During your Main Phase, you can: Immediately after this effect resolves, Normal Summon 1 “Gem-” monster.
(3) If this card is sent from the hand or Deck to the GY: You can send 1 card from your hand to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon this card.
TW02-JP044 ジェムナイト・ヴォイドルーツ Gem-Knight Voidroots (Gem-Knight Hollowcore)
Level 7 DARK Fiend Effect Monster
ATK 1950
DEF 2450
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) You can send 1 “Gem-Knight” Normal Monster or “Gem-Knight Fusion” from your Deck to the GY; Special Summon this card from your hand in Defense Position.
(2) When your opponent activates a card or effect and you control a “Gem-Knight” Fusion Monster (Quick Effect): You can banish 3 “Gem-Knight” cards from your GY, including this card; negate that effect, then all “Gem-Knight” monsters you currently control gain 1000 ATK.
TW02-JP045 Gem-Knight Dispersion
Normal Spell Card
(1) Activate 1 of these effects (but you can only use each effect of this card’s name once per turn);
● Fusion Summon 1 “Gem-Knight” Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as material. If you have “Gem-Knight Fusion” in your GY, you can also use up to 2 non-Rock “Gem-Knight” monsters from your Deck or Extra Deck.
● Add 1 “Gem-” monster from your Deck or banishment to your hand, also any effect damage your opponent takes during the Main Phase for the rest of this turn is halved.
Reprints:
Gem-Knight Tourmaline
Gem-Knight Crystal
Gem-Knight Lapis
Gem-Armadillo
Gem-Knight Obsidian
Gem-Knight Lazuli
Gem-Knight Quartz
Crystal Rose
Brilliant Rose
Gem-Knight Ruby
Gem-Knight Aquamarine
Gem-Knight Topaz
Gem-Knight Citrine
Gem-Knight Prismaura
Gem-Knight Amethyst
Gem-Knight Zirconia
Gem-Knight Seraphinite
Gem-Knight Master Diamond
Gem-Knight Lady Lapis Lazuli
Gem-Knight Lady Brilliant Diamond
Gem-Knight Lady Rose Diamond
Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight
Gem-Knight Phantom Quartz
Gem-Knight Fusion
Absorb Fusion
Brilliant Fusion
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Very nice support, meant to help push the theme while dissuading the FTK effect-damage variant.
Pack cover was also shown, which heavily implies Necroz.
The FTK is still viable and it is actually a bit easier to use than before.
The Necroz Trap is Real!
Nekroz, I’m excited to see them. Yesssss
I know my pet deck is back
Yo based on the art work on top right is that going to be Nekroz sapport I’m so hyped and looking forward too new hope I can play the deck one of all time favorites ritual decks along side drytron
Just had to wait a week or so and we finally have the TW02 reveal this month.
If this isn’t the final reveal, the first two cards of the holiday box may be revealed within then next few days.
*Punches a hole through the wall*
SMOLSTRUCT IS STAR SERAPH PROPERTY!!!!
Whoa! Chill!
they’re really trying to prevent any FTKs whatsoever lol. good
Now can we get new X Saber support next year. That deck was so fun during Edison format.
New Ally of Justice 🤖 and Worm 👾 support would be neat too.
mist valley, flamvell, laval, etc…
EL SHADDOLL CONSTRUCT AND HELSHADDOLL HOLLOW!??!?
Wait the new Fusion can bring out Pink Diamo- I mean Rose Quar- I mean Rose Diamond, as well as Seraphinite. That alone seems pretty good.
YOOOOOOOO NEKROOOZ SUPPORT LESSS GOOOOOOO FINNYALLYYYYY
Booooo show us the last 4 slots of SUDA
We already known when they will be revealed.
We only have 23 cards left of which anywhere from 3-12 will be revealed during set openings.
We know the remaining anime slots and the last legacy cards will be revealed during the stream and scheduled social media posts on Wednesday and during the weekends. Just be patient.
So the last archetype is Nekroz. Think they’ll finally get a trap so Clausolas can finally stop changing the subject when people ask “what traps do you search?”? Even Smiger beat the allegations.
It is sooo funny how they kept the FTK variant from accessing the best effects in the new wave, very clever way to balance it
The new gem card is kind Crack. Gem plus primite. Might be crazy deck. Give nekro a trap card
Fix necroz of dance princess effect. Still spelled wrong in its text
So what’s the lore implication? This makes me think the Shadoll control was gradual or did they not actually die?
I think this implies that Dia was able to save the corrupted members. Not fully, but enough to restore their sanity.
I think the lore implications are:
This is the version of Diamond shortly before he dies. Notice how he lacks his sword, because he gave it to Sombre.
GK Hollowcore and Construct are good guys here, with Lapis being revived for the final fight vs Tierra after losing her Batlamyus form. If they were anything but GKs, it would be debatable if they were good guys or not.
I think these cards take place before the Zefra are formed by the Sacred Tree.
Nepyrim confuses me though, because I assumed the Link Shaddoll Construct was brought to Tierra. Is this Lapis Lazuli or did they split up? Her gemstone looks like Sophia’s symbol.
@Flackenstein I forget how Gem-Knights fuse, but I think that Lazuli just helped Lapis become Lapis Lazuli, since Lazuli lacks a pyrozene, and Lapis probably didn’t survive the battle. Then Lazuli went on fuse with Virgo into Seraphinite, and later with 12 Constellars into Sombre. The thing is, Shaddolls didn’t exist before dead Zirconia/Cairngorgon/Shaddoll Core, so Nephillim (good job mistranslating ygorg), can’t exist before Zefras, because she has aspects of Construct in her design and the name alone is proof enough, imo.
Zefra appeared way after Shaddoll though. Shaddoll put the whole 3rd act in motion, while Zefra were the final theme to appear and swiftly win the battle, with many sacrifices.
Voidroots is clearly Zecracore before it got blessed by the Sacred Tree and then became part of Zefraath.
I worded my comment poorly. What I meant was that GK Construct and GK Hollowcore can’t exist before Zefras because up until Tierra was released, El Shaddoll Construct was still active as Anoyatillis, and considering Crystal became Cairngorgon after dying, and then later became Shaddoll Core. Plus, Hollow and Core existed as separate entities for a while. Also, I believe at the end of DT3 it’s stated that after the battle, 2 GK stood at the destroyed world tree. If GK Hollowcore and Construct existed before Zefras, they wouldn’t be GKs. They would be Shaddolls.
I find it kind of funny that Konami prevented these new Gem-Knights from being used for FTK and nerfed them outright to prevent them from being used in that strategy (being the strategy that Gem-Knights used to be viable in the first place)
I want more Pyramid 🔺of Light support.
What “more support” if it never had any to begin with? What kind of strategy….
what does that have to do with anything from the Duel Terminal world?
@morphine jar I think Joshua Seed is Justin Jones because he had a habit of commenting irrelevant “I want ____ support” and other similar complaints on articles unrelated to what he was saying.
utena jumpscare, neoark cultured as always
the effect damage clause on two of these is incredibly funny, text that would Not appear on any other archetype, they’re soooo afraid of the ftk lmao
at least these r better than the last wave of gem knight support; appropriately this is “gem knight in Terminal World” guys as opposed to “gem knight as used by that one girl in arc-v (who deserved better)” guys
anyways smoldoll construct so important, proud of lapis for keeping her dollgirl digs even after returning to normal
She’s technically not back to normal. The card is most likely Lapis being revived for the final fight vs Tierra, and in turn, she retained some aspects of Construct. In Zefra Providence, she’s fully back to normal, but is going with Crystal to the afterlife.
Summoning 3 extra deck monsters is crazy
Too bad the majority of them are crap and don’t do anything on the opponent’s turn.
Konami: We’re making a set for those old forgotten Duel Terminal themes finally getting some fresh support.
Konami: Chooses several of the most supported themes of Duel Terminal while a dozen or more other themes continue to languish.
Yeah this has been pretty frustrating. Still so many Terminal World archetypes that desperately need help just left to rot.
Most DT archetypes are crap and need a significant upgrade to even function, plus a set like this one is only guaranteed to sell if the themes in here are or were viable. So don’t expect things like Flamvell or Mist Valley if we can instead have Fabled and Nekroz. Gem-Knight also benefited from the FTK and anime support it got.
The problem is that they can’t really support some of those bad ones with only 4 new cards.
Jurrac only worked because Dinosaur as a type has some of the best support in the entire game.
People keep wanting Ally of Justice support, for example, but they don’t even have 2 cards that do ANYTHING together. The best AoJ support as of now is literally Flamvell Magician.
I’d rather, in a set like this, that they gave well designed cards to decks that can work with the right support. The Genex stuff is a great example. They always had a million non-OPT searchers but had no way to use them. Now they can function as a deck.
I hope the next DT set is like Laval, Vylon, X-Saber, and Worm. 4 cards for each of those could go far, and I could see a wave of XX-Sabers and an MX-Saber Link releasing not to long after then.
All decks with a good foundation to expand from, rather than having to make a whole new strategy for Flamvell, AoJ, or Mist Valley.
I still want a Gusto Structure deck though.. but they honestly don’t need support as much as some other DT archetypes.
The Neo Flamvell (second generation of Flamvell) all are pure Pyro and have a collective focus on dumping Flamvells in the GY and banishing cards in your opponent’s GY to benefit from your opponent having low amount of cards in the GY. The two Flamvell synchros are just sad though. I’d give them maybe 1 new Neo Flamvell main deck monster to solidify the play style and two completely new Neo Flamvell synchros that also focus more on banishing opponents grave for benefits. Then maybe a proper Field Spell.
A Field Spell that involves preventing your opponent from responding to GY Banishment and then if it’s in the GY it can negate a card effect activated in either GY, banish the negated card to place itself back in the Field Zone.
@Flackenstien tbf Jurracs completely changed their gameplan, cause it was (to be charitable) outdated.
@HFIL Yes, but like I said, they already have every Dino support to be merged with and for Konami to consider when designing the new Jurracs, which they clearly did.
No lswarms 🙁 Maybe next time.
The last archetype looks more like gishki. The red hair girl looks like gishki Emilia and the guy looks like the grow up version of gishki avance.
Maybe Konami will finally oblige with the missing WATER attribute Ritual spell after this. FIRE and WATER still waiting for their spells. Eh, then again, FIRE WATER and WIND still waiting for their Hex-Sealed Fusion monsters.
Thing is-gishkis and nekrozs are the same dudes
Thing is-gishkis and nekrozs are the same dudes, just at different times of the story. I think they are nekrozs due to the style and age appearance of the dudes, + gishki got support not long ago
See what Id like to see is a few bridges between nekroz and gishki.
Arya, Gem-Knight got support not long ago either but here we are.
*too , no ‘either’
ScionStorm but the guy on the image is holding the nekroz mirror not any gishki ones and these 2 characters are adults just like they are in the nekroz ritual monster cards on the gishki cards they look like teens
If we ever get new Worm support I think a Miracle Fusion for Reptiles would really help the deck alot. Just combo it with Snake Rain and you can just Turbo out Worm Zero.
If we get new Worm support I want a new fusion called Worm One and a new main deck Worm that starts with Z. Let the fusions of the deck be numerical while the main deck be alphabetical.
They could make a Worm with some Vylon powers and give a a Greek letter. e.g. Worm Alpha
They really have something against the gen 1 themes don’t they? Kek anti-ftk clauses, not sure how much that will help. Anyway I feel nothing, I was already fine with gem- as they were thanks to the non-rock support. Even in the ancient days they had this vexing loop-ish feeling and recurring resources. I swear they already had like 5 monsters that sorch on summon. Thought that was gishki art for a sec but even if that was the case I doubt there would be new payoffs for the scry aspect of the deck.
I was looking at my Gem-Knights with a somber sense of longing earlier today, and then they drop this.
This is such good support. The burn halving is hilarious. Do they stack or does it only get halved once?
More excited that Nekroz support is practically confirmed. Gem-Knights are alright but the only interesting part about them is being I think the only lore archetype used by an anime character
Constellar/ X – Saber: Are we a joke to you?
Personal bias, but more Gem-Knights is always a good thing, they’re one of my favorite Archetypes! Shaddoll Core’s part of them now but I wonder if this means we’re getting a DARK or Fiend fusion like the Light/Fairy ones we already have.
OH HELL YEAH CAIRN’S GETTING A REPRINT!!!
OooOoh! Mini-Construct! Cute! And they even made sure her last effect lets you play it with Shaddolls as a replacement for that subpar Keios card! Can’t wait to include it in my own Shaddoll decks! 😀
I’m glad we had Jurrac and Fabled.
What’s next ? Constellar support ? lol.
If we get a third TW Constellar isn’t necessarily off the table. Some meta viability, just recently got new support in a core set like Gem-Knight, huge lore implications connecting them to several other archetypes which Konami has emphasized the themes that have the strongest connections
TLDR: I think the Nekroz monsters on the promo are based on El Shaddoll Apkallone.
So, I’ve been trying to figure out which monsters the armor of the Nekroz guys on the pack art are based on. I am over 90% sure that we have Emilia (Gishki Emilia) on the left, wearing the armor of El Shaddoll Apkallone (you can see the same design on her dress and wings on the girl in the art of Apkallone). As far as the person on the right, it’s most likely Avance (Gishki Avance), but I am not sure what armor is being worn. It could also be Apkallone (but his armor is based on the fish), but that same blue armor adorned with golden details can be seen in a lot of other monsters (such as Evigishki Neremanas, or even fricking Black Luster Soldier), so I’m not completely certain. The theory that they are both based on Shaddoll Apkallone would explain why they are both appearing together on the promo art, and we can imagine the on field effect would have to do with targeting negation (maybe an effect akin to Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss). Does anyone have another theory?
There’s not enough of Apkallone to claim the new Avance is a ritual monster based around it. He’s most likely a new main deck guy. Plus, except for Sophia, all Nekroz rituals are based around synchros.
Still waiting on Prophecy support that isn’t Magistus related.
These things on Nepyrim… Are these shaddoll threads? So is this art Lazuli’s first stage of corruption before she became Nephilim/Construct?