“After X-Thousand Years, I’m Free!”
X－セイバー ペリナ（エックス－セイバー ペリナ）X-Saber Pellina
Level 4 EARTH Beast-Warrior Tuner Effect Monster
ATK 1700
DEF 300
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can send it to the GY; Special Summon 2 “X-Saber” monsters from your Deck, except “X-Saber Perina”, but destroy them during the End Phase.
(2) If this card is sent to the GY as material for the Synchro Summon of an “X-Saber” monster: You can apply 1 of these effects.
● It can make a second attack during each Battle Phase.
● It can attack directly.
Note: In keeping with the King Arthur theming of the X-Sabers, this card is named after Sir Pellinore.
X－セイバー ブルノ（エックス－セイバー ブルノ） X-Saber Bruno
Level 3 EARTH Psychic Tuner Effect Monster
ATK 1200
DEF 1100
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is in your hand: You can banish 1 other EARTH monster from your hand, face-up field, or GY; Special Summon this card.
(2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Saber” Spell/Trap from your Deck or GY to your hand.
(3) Once per turn, during your opponent’s Main or Battle Phase, you can (Quick Effect): Immediately after this effect resolves, Synchro Summon using only EARTH monsters you control, including this card.
Note: In keeping with the King Arthur theming of the X-Sabers, this card is named after Brunor le Noir, Branor le Brun or Brunor of Castle Pluere.
総剣司令 ソウザ（そうけんしれい ソウザ）Souken Shirei Souza (Commander Souza, Swordmaster)
Level 10 EARTH Warrior Synchro Effect Monster
ATK 2500
DEF 1600
Materials: 1 Tuner + 1+ EARTH monsters
This card is always treated as an “X-Saber” card.
(1) Gains 200 ATK for each banished monster.
(2) When this card destroys a monster by battle: You can draw 1 card.
(3) Once per turn, when your opponent activates a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can Tribute 1 “X-Saber” monster; destroy 1 card they control.
(4) If this card would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can banish 1 “Saber” card from your GY instead.
X－セイバー ガトムズ（エックス－セイバー ガトムズ）X-Saber Gottoms
Level 7 EARTH Warrior Synchro Effect Monster
ATK 2600
DEF 2100
Materials: 1 Tuner + 1+ EARTH monsters
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 Synchro Summoned: You can add 1 “Saber” or “Gottoms” Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand.
(2) When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can discard 1 random card from their hand.
(3) When your “X-Saber” monster is targeted for an attack while this card is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card, then change the attack target to it.
Reprints:
X-Saber Anu Piranha
XX-Saber Faultroll
XX-Saber Ragigura
XX-Saber Boggart Knight
XX-Saber Darksoul
XX-Saber Gottoms
XX-Saber Hyunlei
M-X-Saber Invoker
Saber Slash
Gottoms’ Second Call
Gottoms’ Emergency Call
Saber Hole
42 Comments
Oh that cat lady is getting drawn as we SPEAK
Finally after 3000 years!
They are ok. Decent upgrades to the archetype but the cards are so out of place and that its hard to pin down the entirety of what fixes the archetype. These don’t fix the deck at all, but I can’t complain with it. It makes it for a fun experiment and decent overall.
These are nice i suppose but x-saber still needs more help
Still waiting for konami giving umi Support. – but seems Like it will still drown in the forgotten deeps.
would love to see the lore continuity. is souza that supposed to be missing finally come back..?
this may be souza before he became a jerk/
seeing how gottoms is still an X-saber and not an xx-saber these cards are most likely predates the events of duel terminal. also it’s not confirmed but heavily hinted that m-x saber invoker is the missing Souza
Souza is lacking his scars (the most prominent one would be the X scar on his forehead in X-Saber Gottoms art) so I’d say before
*X-Saber Souza art
I’m not gonna lie, these are pretty dang mid. But then again I’m not an X-Saber expert. Just comparing it to the new Constellarknight support we’re getting in the same set.
Killer Tunes raised new Standards. Just following Visas Amritara… instead of non-tuners it’s just archetypal Attribute based
XX-saber Gottoms (the original one) was already the first synchro to not require non-tuners in 2009. This is just keeping up with that tradition.
Mannadium started that “tuners only” trend.
X-Sabers are held back by their design philosophy and the lore. They have more consistency now but it’s not enough to be meta.
This should be the last major article this month barring the OCG ban list and any new product announcements near the end of the month.
Why does everything have to be meta…
Gottoms Is fkg epic
Bruno is really good for psychic piles bc they are all earth anyway, and he allows them to quick synchro and banishes which can be helpful, rn there doesnt seem to be any good s/t to search tho
Wrong! There is EXACTY one good Saber S/T: Saber Hole which is just an archetypal Solemn for built-in summons. And since it adds from Deck or GY, you play 1 and that’s it.
As it turns out, the cards are pretty good, but X-Sabers needs more than just good cards to compete with the major leagues.
Why does everything need to compete with the major leagues…
Why don’t any of these mosnters search a Xsaber monster? X-Saber Perina is basically our own rescue cat which is amazing. But faultrol can’t be summoned off this and he’s essential for the loop. We have 3 spell/Trap searchers now, but no monster searchers. I get that garsem is a monster searcher, but from this support and our current support. There is no way to pop Garsem to search into a smooth combo line. How are we supposed to stremline properly without monster searches? Hopefully we get a field spell or continous spell that searches a monster as our last card. Because it still feels like the Gottom loop is our go to going first. Which is hard without our monster searches. While beatdown is our going second play.
I dont think they want these to be super meta relevant. Legacy Xsabers have a lot of hand ripping that is not once per turn. Even the new synchro has hand ripping, albeit during the battle phase. Unfortunately the hand rip from new gottoms wont be too relevant since the opp prob used all their important cards on their first turn.
Anyways, all the old xsabers are old enough to not have OPT written on them. If the new cards made hand loop FTKs super consistent that would be bad and unfun gameplay.
The hand rip is all they have going first tho. Were not asking for this to be meta. Just a coherent gameplan. Even with a monster searcher, this support is not meta relavent. The current meta still would stomp this deck. Every hand trap cooks this deck easily. I’m just asking for consistency.
Tenki/E-Tele are basically mandatory until the possible 5th card is revealed which is hopefully a searcher.
the issue is there are no locks on the new cards and no locks on old cards. So they can still be splashed into other decks
in terms of pure, theres not much going on but if someone finds a complimentary archtype, then it will become an issue.
Yeah, they’re fine, but X-Saber is a super outdated archetype. They need a Jurrac-style rework. Or maybe not cause it would then revolve around Gottems’ handloop
Tenki/Perina makes Beast or Barkion.
If Invoker gets unbanned when this comes out, Turn 0 hand ripping will become more prevalent.
The hand rip is all they have going first tho. Were not asking for this to be meta. Just a coherent gameplan. Even with a monster searcher, this support is not meta relavent. The current meta still would stomp this deck. Every hand trap cooks this deck easily. I’m just asking for consistency.
Not Again 🥲
Symphogear reference omg
Remember that these are X-Saber and not XX-Saber.
I fully expect a wave of XX-Saber just as Dragunity got a wave for normal Dragunity and Dragunity Arma, or Gem-Knights got a wave of ARC-V and then DT.
X-Saber Perina is beautiful, I have nothing else to say
There are furries working at konami I swear to god
Furries dominate art and programming. Konami has divisions for both.
There are furries working at Konami but somehow all the Maliss monsters still lamely ended up just girls in cosplay.
Nice. X-Saber get their own Rescue Cat.
Any idea what the rest of TW03 themes?
Both synchros require earth monsters not specifically non tuners so you can use more tuners to synchro summon them
X sabers need a rota on legs, something that adds a faultroll to hand
At the risk of sounding like the only person who doesn’t know, this is my first time hearing that the X-Saber monsters supposedly have an Arthurian naming scheme. Now that it’s mentioned, I can see it for a couple of them like Galahad and Wayne (Ywain) (and I guess you could stretch Pashuul to be Percival), but for some like Airbellum and Axel, there’s nothing obvious.
Absolute Garbage
The level 7 Gottoms Synchro is alright. You can search Second call and get 2 more bodies on the field for free that also search for more cards.
Perina is fine but you could just play rescue cat before anyway.
Bruno is also fine as an e tele target but Souza is very meh.
The deck really needs at least an easy way to search a Faultroll and other saber monsters on the same turn at a bare minimum.
Searching for a saber spell/trap as an effect is bad as right now their spell/trap pool is garbage(most of it), too slow(e call), or too restrictive(second call).
Maybe they’ll include some good spell/traps in the set?