There are always two.
LEDE-JP029 幻惑の見習い魔術師 Nightmare Apprentice
Level 6 DARK Illusion Effect Monster
ATK 2000
DEF 1700
You can only Special Summon with the (1)st effect of this card’s name once per turn. You can only use the (2)nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discarding 1 card.
(2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 Illusion monster from your Deck to your hand, except “Nightmare Apprentice”.
(3) If this card battles a monster, neither can be destroyed by that battle.
Note: Kanji reads as Apprentice Magician of Bewitchment
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Nightmare Magician: My apprentice is really useful
Diabellze: My apprentice
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They just casually dropped Illusion Support and a strong one at that.
100% its just cynet mining on legs. More tools for Branded Chimera =)
Not casually. Konami has been very aggressive this set to actively support Illusion.
Well this is gonna be a secret rare for sure when it comes over here
The DMG harem grows ever larger. For those keeping score, we have:
DMG and her variants like Dragon Knight and Toon
Valkyria
Gagaga Girl
Magi Magi
The Magician Girl archetype
Apprentice Illusion Magician
Palladium Oracle Mana
And to an extent Card Ejector and Seven Roads Magician
You mean Sevens Road Witch
Except this is literally specifically an Apprentice Illusion Magician card, not BMG, so you would create a sub category under AIM or just an entire new chart focused on AIM since more cards are possible to release now. She has the same discard/special summon effect and normal/special summon then add to hand (unlike AIM being made to add Black Magician, she adds ALL Illusions) effect. Then the 3rd effect is battle related. In that order.
1st effect doesn’t activate, nice.
Nightmare Magician’ counterpart =)
So a searcher that is also a free body and sets gy? NICE
I’m looking forward to seeing more generic Illusion support. A deck of them not tied to any other archetype could be very interesting!
They just casually drop a a type searcher for a relatively new type with no level restriction that special summons itself.
Surprised we get to see her face since Nightmare Magician’s face is covered.
Why would you be surprised when Illusions come from the source manga. In the manga, Black Magician’s card artwork hides his face. In relation to modern Konami cards, Magician of Black Illusion, which released in April 2016, only shows his eyes while the face is covered in shadow. Apprentice Illusion Magician, released later that year, and shows her face. Apprentice Illusion Magician doesn’t specifically support Black Illusion because she adds Black Magician to her hand instead. Nightmare Apprentice doesn’t specifically support Nightmare Magician because she adds ALL Illusions to her hand.
Quite clear what Konami card makers did here.
And before someone tries to add, I know Nightmare Magician is created from Yami Yugi and Pegasus timer duel when Pegasus gains control of it with his Illusion card through battle and attacks Yami Yugi, which is where the 2500 atk stat comes from.
I like the idea of them making Illusion versions of monsters that Yugi used. I hope we get a generic Illusion Kuriboh, an Illusion Archfiend, and an Illusion Swordsman.
You know, it’s cool she has the same statline as DMG but it just makes it weirder that Nightmare Magician has the 2500/2000 statline instead of DM’s 2500/2100. That seems like a weird oversight unlike even a DM-expy isn’t allowed to match the original, I suppose.
Black Magician’s bandai OCG card is 2000 def. We saw from Neos having 2500/2000 and the other MC’s that they won’t match BM’s defense 2100 and would settle for 2000. Not a surprise. We have multiple explanations.
Also, Nightmare Apprentice is taken from Apprentice Illusion Magician (Released after Magician of Black Illusion), not specifically BMG.
Where are the Pegasus Illusion retrains Konami??
We need illusion theme that doesn’t help chimera . . .
We need a new illusion theme that does not help chimera consistency..!
Need a new illusion theme that doesnt interract with chimera
What is wrong with these comment threads
Need a new illusion theme that does not interract with chimera
Exactly this. The releases after Chimera were kinda decent but kinda underwhelming.
I’m sorry, but given the design of her “wand” and her status as an illusion monster, I’m guessing her attacks are akin to hardlight projections: a whip, a mallet/hammer, etc
BM ^^^ it’s really not that serious. Jesus stop commenting on everything about Dark Magician.
when does LEDE even drop?
Where are the Pegasus Illusion retrains, Konami??
I love that we’re getting such strong Illusion support right off the bat but I hope it doesn’t limit their card design choices in the future. They HAVE to release some Pegasus retrains down the line.
This is going to be another great addition to my draft cube.