Apotheosis of the Arcane Lords

[Zerovirus]

 

Apotheosis of the Arcane Lords

 

Effect Monster

 

Lv10 LIGHT Spellcaster

 

3000/3000

 

Effect: Cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. Must be Special Summoned by banishing 1 Normal Spell Card, Quick-Play Spell Card, Equip Spell Card, Continuous Spell Card, Field Spell Card, and Ritual Spell Card from either Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. If you Special Summon this card in this way, you can banish all Spell Cards from both players' Decks. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this effect's activation. Once per turn, you can target 1 Spell Card in either player's banished zone; add that card to your hand.

 

 

It's pretty much a fancy win-condition for a gimmick deck, requiring a higher diversity of cards than most decks tend to support, these days. You can also get this out with A Bolt From The Blue; while you won't get the neat 'banish all spells' effect, you'll still be able to scoop a spell from the banished zone, if that's something that'd be useful to you. Thematically, it's pretty much inspired by Testament of the Arcane Lords.

[Peridank]

Really cool! Except what deck would run this... Its summoning conditions are outrageous! How is some one to get a field, con., equip, normal, AND quick play in the graves? Perhaps say you need to banish a certain number of spells to begin with in general. Then banish the rest... Addingnthem to your hand is brilliant. Just think about how you can improve the motion of bringing it out as to usingthe effect fairly...

[Trebuchet MS]

Really cool! Except what deck would run this... Its summoning conditions are outrageous! How is some one to get a field, con., equip, normal, AND quick play in the graves?

A multitude of draw/discard effects and self-milling. Note that this card doesn't state that you have to activate those cards first, so simply dumping the Spells there quickly sets up for it, compared to Sophia where you actually need the different monsters on the field. There's the question of some of those cards turning into dead draws without Apothesis nearby, but I'm certain there are enough general-use Spells in every Spell type to help things along.

[Love of Ghibli]

Sooo a Spellbook/Northwemko Deck would have a lot of fun with this...Seeing as they could blow through all of the requirements pretty easily. Though it is a tad sad that once this thing hits the field like stated before its a game winner. Though since it is such a niche card I think it is pretty balanced as it is.