Step into the forest of “Raika”

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Raika can be read as “Budding Calamity”. The theme is aggressively Japanese, so to preserve the feel, we kept the names in Japanese. Similar to how Spirit monsters have been done in the past.

LEDE-JP013 Raika no Marikoube
EARTH Plant / Effect
LV1 0/0
You can only Special Summon with the 1st effect of this card’s name once per turn. You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by sending 1 Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster from your hand to the GY.
(2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add up to 2 or your “Raika” cards with different names that are banished and/or in your Deck to your hand, except “Raika no Marikoube”, then banish 1 “Raika” card from your hand, also you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.

Marikoube = Ball Head

LEDE-JP014 Raika no Yahazu Kamikiri
LIGHT Insect / Effect
LV3 1500/0
You can only Special Summon with the 1st effect of this card’s name once per turn. You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by placing 1 of your banished Insect, Plant, or Reptile monsters on the bottom of the Deck.
(2) If this card is sent to the GY as material for the Link Summon of “Raika” monster: You can target 1 Level 4 or lower Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster in your GY, except “Raika no Yahazu Kamikiri”; Special Summon it in Defense Position.

Yahazu Kamiri = arrow-neck long-horned beettle, but it’s actually a wordplay on “Yahazukiri”, a phrase meaning cutting something so fast the enemy don’t even notice it, in particular, Brook of One Piece has a special move called “Hanauta Sanchou Yahazukiri”

LEDE-JP015 Raika no Yoroi Tokage
DARK Reptile / Effect
LV4 0/2300
You can only Special Summon with the 1st effect of this card’s name once per turn. You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by banishing 1 Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster from your GY.
(2) You can discard 1 Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls, except an Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster; return it to the hand.

Yoroi Tokage = armored lizard, written as “armored stone dragon”

LEDE-JP047 Raika no Musha Dokuro
FIRE Plant / Link / Effect
Link-2 1600 / BL BR
2 monsters, including an Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn, also you cannot Special Summon monsters the turn you activate them, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.
(1) You can target 1 “Raika” monster in your GY; Special Summon it in Defense Position.
(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.

Musha Dokuro = Warrior Skeleton

LEDE-JP048 Raika no Ookaminushi
WIND Insect / Link / Effect
Link-3 2300 / L B BR
2+ monsters, including an Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) You can banish 2 Insect, Plant, and/or Reptile monsters from your GY; add 1 “Raika” Trap from your Deck to your hand.
(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 monsters for the rest of this turn, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.

Ookaminushi = a wordplay on “Ookamikiri”, a type of longhorned beetle, + Ookuninushi no Kami, one of the most important shinto kami of Japanese mythology

LEDE-JP049 Raika no Kusarigami
FIRE Reptile / Link / Effect
ATK 2900 LINK-4 (Bottom-Left, Bottom, Bottom-Right, Right)
2+ monsters, incluing an Insect, Plant, or Reptile monster.
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If your opponent activates a monster effect: You can make both players unable to activate monster effects in the hand for the rest of this turn.
(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 monsters for the rest of this turn, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.

Kusarigami = written as “Chained Snake Serpent”

LEDE-JP050 Raika no Daiouga
EARTH Insect / Link / Effect
Link-5 3300 (L R BL B BR)
2+ Insect, Plant, and/or Reptile monsters
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If a monster(s) is Special Summoned from your opponent’s Deck and/or Extra Deck: You can destroy 2 monsters on the field.
(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 monsters for the rest of this turn, except Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters.

Daiouga = wordplay on “ogre”, kanji is read as “Great Oni Fang”

LEDE-JP058 Raika Ryouran Kuruisaki
Continuous Spell
You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn.
(1) All Insect, Plant, and Reptile monsters on the field gain 300 ATK/DEF, also all other face-up monsters on the field lose 300 ATK/DEF.
(2) You can activate 1 of these effects;
● Add 1 “Raika” monster from your Deck to your hand, then discard 1 card.
● Special Summon 1 of your “Raika” monsters that is banished or in your hand or GY in Defense Position.

Ryouran Kuruisaki = Blossoming profusely, like what flowers do, but instead it’s skulls doing that

LEDE-JP076 Raika Dairin Kubikarimai
Normal Trap
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) Target cards your opponent controls up to the number of Insect, Plant, and Reptile Link Monsters you control with different Types; destroy them.
(2) If a face-up Insect, Plant, and/or Reptile monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect while this card is in your GY, except the turn it was sent there: You can banish this card, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it.

Dairin Kubi Kairmai = Great Ring Head Hunting Dance

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