[Written] BLS, DM & DMG Support Cards

[Peter Rose]

[spoiler=New DM, DMG & BLS Support Cards]

Name: Noble Knight Alice, Protector of Chaos

Monster: Spellcaster/Effect/Link

Attribute:Dark

ATK: 1500

Link 2: Top Arrow and Right Arrow

Requirements: 1 Light Monster and 1 Dark Monster

 

This card is not treated as a Noble Knight Monster. If this card was Link Summoned while you controlled a "Dark Magician", "Black Luster Soldier" or "Gaia The Fierce Knight" Monster, target 1 Monster your opponent controls, Banish it. You can only activate this effect of "Noble Knight Alice, Protector of Chaos" once per turn: you can Banish one Spell/Trap Card (in your GY or Field) that specifically list "Dark Magician", "Black Luster Soldier" or "Gaia The Fierce Knight" in its text, Special Summon 1 "Dark Magician" "Black Luster Soldier" or "Gaia The Fierce Knight" Monster from your Deck.

 

Name: Swords of Wrathful Moonlight

Spell: Normal

All Monsters your opponent controls in their Main Monster Zones cannot activate effects that would Special Summon a Monster from the GY. Also, they cannot be used as Link or Fusion Material. This cards remains on the field for 2 of your opponents turn.

 

 

Name: Amber, The Alternative Magician Girl

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

ATK/DEF: 2450/2150

Level: 6

This card cannot be destroyed by battle. If your opponent takes Possession of this card, Banish this card. You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by revealing 1 "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" Monster from your hand. You can Target 1 Monster your opponent controls, it loses 800 ATK and DEF, then if either the ATK or DEF reduces to 0 as a result, destroy it; you can only activate this effect of "Amber, The Alternative Magician Girl" once per turn.

 

Name: Allyson, The Crimson Magician Women

Attribute: Fire

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

ATK/DEF: 2000/200

Level: 4

This card is also treated as a DARK Attribute Monster. This card is also treated as a "Magician Girl" Monster. If this card is Normal Summoned inflict 500 points of effect Damage to your opponent for every DARK and FIRE attribute Spellcaster Monster in your GY. If a "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" monster is in your GY except "Allyson, The Crimson Magician Women", you can Special Summon this card (from your hand); if Special Summoned this way, it becomes a Level 6 Monster and can activate 1 of the following effects:

 

1) You can destroy 1 monster your opponent controls with higher DEF than this card.

2) You can target 1 "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" monster in your GY, Special Summon it; it is unaffected by your opponents card effects until the End Phase.

 

You can only use each effect of "Allyson, The Crimson Magician Women" once per turn.

 

Arya, The Ebon Magician Women

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect/XYZ

ATK/DEF: 2500/1400

Rank: 6

Requirements: 2 Level 6 Dark Spellcaster Effect Monsters

 

This card is also treated as a "Magician Girl" Monster. You can also XYZ Summon this card by using 2 Level 7 Dark Spellcaster Type Monsters you control as the XYZ Material. All other monsters you control with "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" in its name gain 500 ATK and DEF. Once per turn, when a card effect activates that would effect a "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" monster you control; you can detach 1 XYZ Material from this card, negate the activation and if you do, destroy it. You can detach 1 XYZ material from this card, target 1 "Dark Magician" or "Magician Girl" Monster you control, it can attack your opponent directly this turn.

 

Name: Evil Magician Farruco

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect/XYZ

ATK/DEF: 2800/2500

Rank: 7

Requirements: 2 Level 7 Dark Spellcaster Monsters

 

You can also XYZ Summon this card by using 2 Level 6 Dark Spellcaster Effect monsters you control as the XYZ Material. When your opponent activates a Spell/Trap card effect, you can negate its effects, then attach that Spell/Trap card to this card as an XYZ Material; you can only activate this effect of "Evil Magician Farruco" once per turn. You can detach 2 XYZ Materials from this card to Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster that Specifically list "Dark Magician" or "Dark Magician Girl" as one of its Fusion Materials, ignoring its summoning conditions; you can only activate this effect of "Evil Magician Farruco" once per turn. When a Dark Level 6 or 7 Spellcaster Type Monster you control declares an attack, you can detach 1 XYZ Material from this card, your opponent cannot activate card effects until the end of the damage step.

 

Name: Wicked Annaliese Magician Girl

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

ATK/DEF: 2400/1300

Level: 6

If "Dark Magician" and "Dark Magician Girl" are Special Summoned to your side of the field, you can Special Summon this card (from your deck). You can activate 1 of the following effects:

 

1) You can target 1 Spell/Trap Card your opponent controls, Banish it.

2) Reveal all Monsters in your hand (min 1) add 1 "Dark Magic Veil", "Dark Magical Circle" "Eternal Soul" "Dark Burning Attack" or "Bond Between Teacher and Student" from your deck to your hand.

You can only activate each effect of "Wicked Annaliese Magician Girl" once per turn.

 

Name: Broken Witch Near The Dark Castle

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

ATK/DEF: 100/2000

Level: 4

You can Banish this card from your Hand, Field or GY, Draw 2 cards; if none of the cards you drew included a Level 4 or Higher Spellcaster Type Monster (except "Broken Witch Near The Dark Castle"), send your entire hand to the GY (Min 1) and you cannot Special Summon monsters during this turn. Also, Banish all other copies of "Broken Witch Near The Dark Castle" from your Deck, Field, and GY.

 

Name: Sylla, The Dark Magician Women

Attribute: Dark

Type: Spellcaster/Effect

ATK/DEF: 2500/1700

Level: 6

Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. This card is also treated as a "Magician Girl" Monster. You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by sending 1 Dark Spellcaster Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck to the GY, and if you do, you can add one of the Named Fusion Materials needed to Summon that card from your deck to your hand. If this card is Summoned by its own effect, you can equip 1 "Sylla's Black Robe" from your deck to this card. This card is treated as "Dark Magician" while in the GY.

 

Name: Sylla's Black Robe

Spellcard: Equip

 

Equip only to a Level 6 or 7 Dark Spellcaster Type Monster with "Magician" in its name: it gains 100 ATK for each Monster in both players GY.

 

 

 

A couple notes: When I was designing Amber, I needed to introduce a Glaring weakness for how strong she is. She could easily be destroyed by cards like Brain Control, Mind Control, Change of Heart and even Number 11 Big Eye. Heck even something such as your opponent using monster reborn on her would get rid of her. I also decided not to put Magician Girl in Arya or Allyson's name because I felt it wouldn't fit with how they would look/are lore wise and card wise. Honestly, Magician Women could one day be its own Archetype. Sylla takes inspiration from "Guardian Dreadscythe" as its ability of searching Sylla's black Robe an Equip Spell from the deck and placing it on the field is identical to his ability of searching Reaper Scythe.

[Tinkerer]

Oof.. Ten more cards is quite a bit in addition to your other set, wouldn't ya say? XD

 

So I might have to break a review up into two parts.  On the whole though, I will be looking at the cards individually in relation to the current card pool.  I cannot exactly remember the individual cards in your other set, so I will not be discussing these cards in relation to those ones (unless they actually express the other cards by name).

 

Before I go further, there are a couple things that I saw as common themes in some of these cards, so I want to address this up-front:

Firstly, mass monster effect negation/suppression is a pretty big no-no in the game.  It is a type of effect that is usually coupled with restrictions just because of how powerful it is.  A couple notable cards in the irl game with this effect are Amano-Iwato and Majesty's Fiend.  Both monsters have restrictions so they cannot be special summoned, and even the most generic version of the effect (Skill Drain) is limited.

Secondly, advantage.  While most of the cards are archetype locked, it is still crucial that the cards in a vacuum aren't doing a ridiculous amount.  From what I saw, there were a few cards that just did too much.  If you're familiar with the idea of "card advantage", it is a good idea to use it to help balance out your cards.

 

With that out of the way, onto the cards!

 

[spoiler=First five]
Alice - Ok, first thing I noticed was its ATK vs. its Link value.  It's ATK is quite a bit higher than any Link 2 that's been released.  Even the highest ATK ones tend to have thematic relevance and/or a tougher summoning condition than this card.  I'd strongly suggest lowering its ATK.  The first effect is fine (since having a specific monster on the field and -then- Link Summoning is not the easiest thing), however the second effect (the banish to Special Summon) is really powerful.  It falls under what I'd mentioned before about bringing too much in card advantage.  It's hard to balance that second effect out specifically because Envoy BLS can just summon itself if the effect is "weakened" to searching.  Maybe it'd be more balanced if you had to tribute a monster it points to?  I'm not too sure...

 

 

Swords - I get that this is a retrain of Swords of Revealing Light, but this card falls under the first issue I'd mentioned.  On top of that, it has a bonus effect and ONLY works on the opponent's monsters, so it's just way too powerful.  Honestly, there's no way to change it while keeping its flavor and making it balanced unless you add a ridiculous cost and remove its bonus effects.

 

 

Amber - Oof... this card hits both issues.  It has that GY quick effect that is one-sided monster negation, and it gets you free card advantage without any downside.  I see you noted that this card was too strong, but the weaknesses you gave it aren't comparable to the strengths it gives the user.  In the TCG/OCG Card discussion section, there used to be a common phrase: "just because a card has counters does not mean that it is any less powerful".  Unless a counter is expected to happen in almost every deck (for example: summoning a monster), adding a specific flaw to balance out a card isn't the best.  To be blunt: this card needs to be reworked and heavily weakened.

 

 

Allyson - Hmm... Well this one looks like the most balanced so far.  There are only two relatively minor issues with this one.  Firstly, 2000 ATK on a Level 4.  Like the Link monster, that ATK value is too high, especially on a monster that doesn't have any drawback for use.  Secondly, the effect on Special Summon.  I'd highly suggest being able to choose 1 effect or the other.  Being able to use both effects is tough to counter, and even if it was negated, you hardly lose out on anything because it was a special summon.  Overall though, the card's individual abilities seem perfectly fine.

 

 

Arya - I like the extra summon conditions on this one.  Definitely adds a unique flare to Dark Magician using Xyzs.  That said, breaking this card down to its core, what I'm reading is: "2700 ATK monster that is unaffected by opponent's effects that can attack directly".  I don't know if it was intentional because while the ATK boost is restricted to other Magicians you control, the other effects can work on itself.  Honestly, though, because of its summoning restrictions, that feels fine.  The issues with this are that neither of its detach effects have OPTs and its powerful Graveyard effect.  The card has a lot going for it already but leaving it unrestricted and giving it such a powerful Graveyard effect just feels like a bit too much.

 

 

 

 

I've still got a few more to look through, but my first impression is that a lot of these just do way too much.  Each of the cards have three or so different effects that all help in really powerful ways.  While I admit, a lot of cards of modern Yugioh tend to have long text boxes and whatnot, some of the best cards are the ones that are relatively simple and specific in what they do.  For example, Dark Magical Circle only has 2 effects and only 1 effect that is usually live, yet it is one of the core cards of a Dark Magician deck!  In making support, think carefully on what the deck can do and build on that.  A deck doesn't need to be able to do everything!

 

Sorry if I came across negative; I hope I was helpful to ya.

[Peter Rose]

No big deal dude, it's fine. Most of it is bad on my part for making them a little too strong besides, it'll help long term. But yeah expect a little nerf to some of them later :)

[Tinkerer]

My computer had a scheduled restart and I lost what I'd said for the last five cards... 

 

I'll keep things bare-bones, since I really don't wanna have to do this a third time.

 

[spoiler=Last five]

Farruco - While the free Fusion monster Special Summon effect could potentially make this more powerful than the Rank 6, this is actually not as strong as the Rank 6 in general because of how much effort is involved to make that effect live (you need 4 monsters total, 2 to make a Link 2 and 2 to make this before you can summon a Fusion).  The only thing I really didn't like was the fact that because this works with Level 6s, it mostly steals Norito the Moral Leader's niche.

 

Annaliese - While it is unlikely to get its Special Summon effect off, this thing is ridiculously powerful once it hits the field.  It searches, removes AND draws you a card just by existing on the field.  For context, one of the most powerful cards of the current format is Sky Striker Engage.  It searches a card and it (conditionally) draws you a card.  This card does more than that.

 

Broken Witch - I actually couldn't think of an active, consistent way of abusing this outside its intended purpose, so, on the whole, I think this card is fine as-is.

 

Sylla - The card has pretty high stats considering its summoning condition.  Based on how its worded though, this could end up being broken as well.  If you intended for it to search named materials, then it is fine, but if it can search anything based on materials period, then it can search literally ANY effect monster by dumping Millennium-Eyes Restrict.  The other half of its effect is entirely dependent on...

 

Black Robe - Like I said in the beginning, this blanket monster negation effect is way too strong.  However, because of its restriction in what it can equip to and its variable ATK gain, I think you could get away with taking away the "during either player's turn" and this would balance itself out.  Blanket negation only on your turn to prevent pesky monster effects from stopping your plays (rather than during either player's turn to shut down opponent's plays).  All that said, had Sylla not been able to tutor the card from the deck, this card's inherent restrictions might have make that negation effect fine even as a quick effect, so... there are a few options for balancing this out.