[BACH] Nordic support

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BACH-JP011 Kyokuseijuu Gullinbursti (Gullinbursti of the Nordic Beasts)
Level 3/LIGHT/Beast/Tuner/Effect
For a Synchro Summon, you can substitute this card for any 1 “Nordic” Tuner. You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 “Nordic” monster from your hand.
(2) You can target 1 “Nordic” monster in your GY, except “Gullinbursti of the Nordic Beasts”; add it to your hand.
300/100

BACH-JP012 Kyokuseikou Ivaldi (Ivaldi the Nordic Smith)
Level 4/EARTH/Warrior/Effect
You can only use the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name each once per turn.
(1) If you control a “Nordic” or “Aesir” monster: You can Special Summon this card from your hand.
(2) If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Nordic Relic” card from your Deck to your hand.
1500/700

BACH-JP055 Kyokuseihou Hliðskjálf (Nordic Relic Hlidskjalf)
Spell
You can use only 1 of the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name per turn, and only once that turn.
(1) Special Summon 1 “Nordic” monster from your Deck. You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck while the Summoned monster is face-up on the field, except “Aesir” monsters.
(2) You can banish this card from your GY; add 1 “Nordic” monster from your Deck to your hand, then shuffle 1 card from your hand into the Deck.

BACH-JP074 Kyokuseihou Svalinn (Nordic Relic Svalinn)
Trap/Continuous
You can only use 1 of the 1st and 2nd effect of this card’s name per turn, and only once that turn.
(1) If you control an “Aesir” monster: You can negate the effects of all face-up cards your opponent currently controls until the end of this turn.
(2) You can Tribute 1 “Nordic” monster, then target 1 “Aesir” monster in your GY; Special Summon it.

[Tinkerer]

Oof... That spell's restriction gets in the way of the main modern Nordic play... Maybe you can use it to bait hand traps?

Looks like the best line of play is: any Nordic >  Summon Link 1 (use eff, banish Alviss) > Summon Ivaldi > Search trap > use Alviss effect > go into Aesir monster > protect board with trap. The play is actually a +1, so you might still be able to protect your board with hand traps/regular traps.

Alviss is still the core, so the GY effect of the spell is really crucial in order to not burn an enormous amount of advantage by summoning the bosses.

Good stuff.

[The Highlander]

2 hours ago, Tinkerer said:

Oof... That spell's restriction gets in the way of the main modern Nordic play... Maybe you can use it to bait hand traps?

Looks like the best line of play is: any Nordic >  Summon Link 1 (use eff, banish Alviss) > Summon Ivaldi > Search trap > use Alviss effect > go into Aesir monster > protect board with trap. The play is actually a +1, so you might still be able to protect your board with hand traps/regular traps.

Alviss is still the core, so the GY effect of the spell is really crucial in order to not burn an enormous amount of advantage by summoning the bosses.

Good stuff.

To be fair you can still use Hippo Carnival to summon an Aesir properly with a 2-card combo of any Nordic + Hippo Carnival.

Furthermore it could be NS any Nordic -> summon the Link 1 (Gullveig) -> activate Gullveig and chain Hippo Carnival -> banish the 3 tokens to summon Ivaldi + Alviss + Vanadis -> Mill Valkyrie with Vanadis and search Svalinn with Ivaldi -> Synchro Odin.

With the above one ends on a board of Odin + Gullveig (the Link 1) + Nordic Relic Svalinn + Alviss prepared to replace Odin (and at least 2 Tuners for Odin to revive himself).

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[Tinkerer]

7 hours ago, The Highlander said:

To be fair you can still use Hippo Carnival to summon an Aesir properly with a 2-card combo of any Nordic + Hippo Carnival.

Furthermore it could be NS any Nordic -> summon the Link 1 (Gullveig) -> activate Gullveig and chain Hippo Carnival -> banish the 3 tokens to summon Ivaldi + Alviss + Vanadis -> Mill Valkyrie with Vanadis and search Svalinn with Ivaldi -> Synchro Odin.

With the above one ends on a board of Odin + Gullveig (the Link 1) + Nordic Relic Svalinn + Alviss prepared to replace Odin (and at least 2 Tuners for Odin to revive himself).

True, but any Nordic + Alviss is pretty much the same thing, right?  Foolish Burial Goods > dump throne allows you to essentially run 6 copies of Alviss, and Alviss' banish effect gives you a free Aesir.  You can even dump Alviss with Alviss, so the GY effect could be live during the opponent's turn.  An extra 3 copies via Hippo Carnival might not hurt though... I should try it.

Amusingly, I am finding Mimir to be more useful than Valkyrie as a level 2.  Nordics seem to have a lot of ways to get to the GY now (between Alviss and Vanadis).  Being able to discard the throne for hand fixing or turn 2 spells (Lightning Storm) in exchange for a free body to begin plays is pretty nice.