[CROS] The Monarchs' Vassals

[Blake]

Entei Kashin Berlines ? / Berlines the Firestorm Vassal
Level 3 FIRE Pyro Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 1000
You can only use each effect of “Berlines the Firestorm Vassal” once per turn. (1) You can discard 1 card; Specia lSummon this card from your hand. During this turn, you cannot Special Summon monster from the Extra Deck. (2) If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: You can reveal your opponent’s hand, and banish 1 card there until the end of the turn.

Jatei Kashin Rukiusu/Lucius the Wicked Vassal (Rumored Effect)
You can Special Summon this card from your hand by banishing a Level 5 or higher monster from your Graveyard. This turn, you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck.
If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: (Target?) 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it. Your opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap cards in response to this effect.

Chitei Kashin Rando/Land(?) the Rock Vassal (rumored effect)
If your opponent controls a face-up monster(s): You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, change 1 of your opponent’s face-up monsters to face-down Defense Position.
When this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: (unreadable)

There's also, at least, Granmarg, Raize, and Caius' babies, and they're chibi. I'll add them when they come up, but no point in makign a seperate topic for each vassal.

[Toffee.]

Considering Mobius' needed the opponent to control stuff, I'm not surprised this one needs a discard to play it.
It's effect is rather amusing anyway

[mshends]

I really hate how those card taken 5 space of WP, but they sure look interesting

[Blake]

Jatei Kashin Rukiusu/Lucius the Wicked Vassal (Rumored Effect)
You can Special Summon this card from your hand by banishing a Level 5 or higher monster from your Graveyard. This turn, you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck.
If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: (Target?) 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it. Your opponent cannot activate Spell/Trap cards in response to this effect.

Chitei Kashin Rando/Land(?) the Rock Vassal (rumored effect)
If your opponent controls a face-up monster(s): You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, change 1 of your opponent’s face-up monsters to face-down Defense Position.
When this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: (unreadable)

For now

[Maeriberii Haan]

Lucius is godly.

 

I'd run it alongside the mini chaos dragons as the tribute engine tbh.

[Bringerofcake]

Landmarg actually looks pretty cool, if only because it's cyber dragon mixed with BoM

[Maeriberii Haan]

Jatei Kashin Lucius / Lucius the Shadow Vassal
Level 1 DARK Fiend-Type Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 1000
You can only use each effect of “Lucius the Shadow Vassal” once per turn.
(1) You can banish 1 Level 5 or higher monster from your Graveyard; Special Summon this card from your hand. You cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn.
(2) If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: You can look at all Set cards your opponent controls. Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects in response to this effect’s activation.

 

rip lucius your time being amazing is gone

 

EDIT: YAY SAVING GRACE

 

 

Fuuetei Kashin Garm / Garm the Storm Vassal

Level 3 WIND Winged Beast-Type Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 1000
You can only use each effect of “Garm the Storm vassal” once per turn.
(1) You can return 1 Tribute Summoned monster you control to the hand; Special Summon this card from your hand. You cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn.
(2) If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: You can add 1 monster with 800 ATK and 1000 DEF from your Deck to your hand, except “Garm the Storm Vassal”.

 

Raitei Kashin Mithra / Mithra the Thunder Vassal
Level 2 LIGHT Thunder-Type Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 1000
You can only use each effect of “Mithra the Thunder vassal” once per turn.
(1) During your Main Phase: You can Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 “Vassal Token” (Thunder-Type/LIGHT/Level 1 /ATK 800/DEF 1000) to your opponent’s side of the field in Defense Position. You cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn.
(2) If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: During your Main Phase this turn, you can Tribute Summon 1 monster in addition to your Normal Summon/Set. (You can only gain this effect once per turn.)

 

 

Chitei Kashin Landrobe / Landrobe the Rock Vassal

Level 4 EARTH Rock-Type Effect Monster
ATK 800
DEF 1000
You can only use each effect of “Landrobe the Rock Vassal” once per turn. (1) You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; Special Summon this card from your hand, and if you do, change that target to face-down Defense Position. You cannot Special Summon monsters from your Extra Deck for the rest of this turn. (2) If this card is Tributed for a Tribute Summon: You can target 1 monster with 800 ATK and 1000 DEF in your Graveyard, except “Landrobe the Rock Vassal”; add it to your hand.

[Toffee.]

All of these are just so highly amusing

[Maeriberii Haan]

frickin nuckfuggets these are OCG exclusives qq.

oh well, there's still online simulators

[Progenitor]

Mithra is absolutely hilarious it lets you actually use Mega Zaborg  If only that token was a higher level.

 

Lucius is not bad.  Checking what you need to banish is never bad, plus it's one of the easiest to get out.

 

Landrobe is....not horrible.  Nobody really runs earth monarch.dek but recycling from the grave is always good.

 

Garm lets you reuse a Monarch AND searches more vassals?  YES PLZ

 

I think Berlines is the best of the bunch.  Getting rid of problem cards your opponent has in their had without actually running the fire monarchs is amazing, and if you actually DO run the fire monarchs then you can just go to town on their hand.  NO ADVANTAGE FOR YOU.

 

Honestly the wort right now is the frost vassal ironically.  It does nothing except splash itself and only if your opponent is primed for Mobius.

 

 

Sucks that all this cool stuff is exclusive.  No Extra deck monarchs are looking pretty freakin good right now.

[Trebuchet MS]

IIRC when you Tribute Lucius for a Monarch you can arrange the Chain such that Lucius goes on last, making your opponent unable to respond to the Monarch effect, akin to how Q-Stealth does it.

[Althemia]

So the pecking order is almost definitely:

Lucius = Landrobe > Garm > Mithra > Essha > Berlines

Lucius is actually far too important for Monarchs to be neglecting. Not only does it stop your opponent from being able to kill the monarch that you summon, but it also gives you very valuable information that may have been too hard for Monarchs to retrieve otherwise. Combined with easily one of the best summoning conditions, Lucius is incredibly strong. He's also a great attribute, since Mega Caius is one of the powerhouses of the deck imho.

Landrobe is stupidly good too. The best summoning condition, only second to Lucius, is honestly an effect in itself. It toggles some of the bigger bosses off if you want to be able to play safer. And then it recycles some of your Vassals so that you can keep getting fodder in the off-chance something goes wrong. That's so good. Unfortunately not a good attribute, but it's not that big of a deal since his other effects easily put him on par with Lucius.

Garm is obviously good due to being a searcher, but his special summon condition is very specific and hinders the card from being on the same level as Lucius and Landrobe. The attribute is also insane due to how unfair a card Mega Raiza can be with the correct summoning, allowing for so much stalling when it comes to the end of the game that it's unreal. Because of that, the card gets major merits.

Mithra is nowhere near as bad as one might think they are when they first read her, due to her being a -1 Special Summon. Mega Zaborg makes up for her shortcomings, as do quite a few of the other regular monarchs by just being able to beat over it. Her double summon effect also makes a lot of the Megas stronger since it allows you to use 2 effects in a turn or tribute an original monarch so you can work your way up to the big boss.

I find it funny how Essha honestly seems better than one of the new ones, but hey it's Konami I suppose. It has an actually okay Special Summon condition by being able to be summoned when your opponent fulfils the requirements of Mobius. It didn't really need to do much more than that, since it was already pretty easy to summon 9/10 anyways. Also got a good attribute for Mega Mobius, so that's another plus that it has.

Berlines is horrendously bad in comparison to the others. It's a -1 on summon that actually does take immediate impact, since last time I checked Monarchs aren't incredibly good at being able to stockpile advantage anyway. A plus is that it's summoning condition is the only one that's guaranteed to be live all of the time, which means that you'll always be able to have something to summon proactively. (Why that would be the case a lot of the time is beyond me though, since this deck is being brought up to be a very reactive deck) Unfortunately, the tribute effect is also incredibly mediocre since it gets rid of an opponent's card during that turn ONLY, making it so that the tribute effect is only truly good if you have Escalation of the Monarchs. Attribute is also not the great, since playing a FIRE monster for an additional 1000 burn is 9/10 not worth it.

[The Warden]

Actually, I consider Mithra higher up on the list. She has the easiest summoning condition, at the cost of giving your opponent a sole token; and Monarchs do NEED an easy summon in their early game. One thing Risa mentioned to me is that that token does let you laugh a fair bit at BAs until they make a TGU play. I think her easy summoning conditions puts her @3 alongside Landrobe; and though Lucius is quite nice, I still consider him more of a 2 than a 3 really; same goes for Garm. I do agree on Berlines and Escher though.

[Toffee.]

Ok so- I took a better look at these.

MINI CAIUS, I SWEAR, IS WEARING CHAR'S HELMET. or at least something close.

Mini Raiza is a ghetto Birdman; I see what they did there.

Mini Zaborg is silly, but I like what they did.

Mini Granmarg is cool.

[Althemia]

Actually, I consider Mithra higher up on the list. She has the easiest summoning condition, at the cost of giving your opponent a sole token; and Monarchs do NEED an easy summon in their early game. One thing Risa mentioned to me is that that token does let you laugh a fair bit at BAs until they make a TGU play. I think her easy summoning conditions puts her @3 alongside Landrobe; and though Lucius is quite nice, I still consider him more of a 2 than a 3 really; same goes for Garm. I do agree on Berlines and Escher though.

Upon reflection, I was going to put Mithra on level with Garm since I realized how insignificant the token is. I'm of the personal opinion that Lucius and Landrobe are still better because their upside is far stronger despite how they're the slightest bit more situational, but Mithra should be on par with or better than Garm since yeah it does let you summon a Monarch when your opponent plays around 9/10 of the Vassals.

[The Warden]

Lucius is better in the middle game, as by then you have plenty of graved monarchs to banish for his SS effect. See, I'm judging the Vassals on their condition more so than what happens when tributed, if and just because that's what they're there for, easy tributes. What happens after is merely a bonus. Lucius can't be played in the start because you have no Monarchs to banish from your Graveyard, which is why Landrobe and Mithra will be the 3s, as they are super easy to summon with no real cost behind them. Garm is quite useful at re-using Monarchs, but obviously him being so conditional pulls him back despite how useful his tribute effect is. I feel the same way about Lucius, as you need set-up before you can really use him to his full potential, ability to peep at backrow and to make the Monarch's summon unchainable none withstanding..