Magistus Flame Lord [WRITTEN]

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Magistus Flame Lord
FIRE ****
Spellcaster/Ritual/Tuner/Effect
Can be Ritual Summoned using "Magistus Trial".  If this card is Ritual Summoned: You can equip 1 "Magistus" monster that is banished, or from your hand, Deck, or Extra Deck to this monster.  This card gains 400 ATK for each card equipped to it.  If this card is targeted by a card effect: You can send 1 Spell card you control to the GY; Negate that effect, and if you do, destroy all other monsters on the field.  You can only use each effect of "Magistus Flame Lord" once per turn.
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Magistus Trial
Ritual Spell
This card is used to Ritual Summon "Magistus Flame Lord" from your hand or GY. You must also Tribute Spellcaster monsters from your hand or field or banish 1 Spellcaster monster from your GY whose total Levels equals 4 or more. You can banish this card from your GY and target 1 "Magistus" monster you control; equip 1 "Magistus" monster from your Extra Deck to that target.

 

 

Hello, fine peoples!

I'll be honest, I have generally come to dislike the idea of making support cards for newly revealed archetypes - especially when doing so before anyone can test the deck out on simulators.  I won't really excuse that for my own cards.  That said, I'm posting these without a real idea of supporting the archetype per se and more because I'm actually expecting Konami to print something along these lines and I wanna call it in advance

Clearly, the archetype is missing at least 1 Main Deck monster.  There are 4 monsters depicted in Theologia, with the fourth one being seemingly summoned by the other three and associated with FIRE (which would make sense - the main deck has LIGHT/DARK, why not also FIRE/WATER?).  Each of the extra deck monsters seem to relate to each of the Magistus monsters themselves except for the Synchro which doesn't (heck, the archetype doesn't even have an in-archetype Tuner to summon the thing!).

My guess is that Konami is going to make a retrain of the old card "Legendary Flame Lord", one of the oldest Spell Counter monsters in the game which predates Endymion by ~3 years.  If they keep it a Ritual (which makes some sense considering the art of Theologia), it can be the first Ritual/Tuner, which is an interesting milestone especially considering the other Ritual archetype in the set also has some unique mechanics.

 

Design thoughts: If I were to guess on how it'd be made—if it becomes a Level 4 like the others—it'll likely have it's ATK equal to the original one's DEF (kinda like how Crowley swapped stats).  It not only is a bit more reasonable for a Level 4 Ritual, but it also becomes easy to summon using the Draitron cards.

The archetype (from what I see) is very battle-focused, with the Fusion being the only solid disruption card among them, however, there's still not really a big payoff among all the cards.  I tried to design this as a payoff to the battle-based play style, while also retaining the original card's nuke effect.  I wasn't feeling as inspired with the Ritual Spell though.  I just made it basic with additional means of extending the Magistus' play style.

 

Thanks for looking through and, as always, CnC much appreciated!

Cheers!