Des Queen Tisiphone [Original Art]

[Marco Polo]

From Greek Mythology:

Tisiphone, or Tilphousia, was one of the Erinyes or Furies, and sister of Alecto and Megaera. She was the one who punished crimes of murder: parricide, fratricide and homicide. In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, she is described as the guardian of the gates of Tartarus, 'clothed in a blood-wet dress'.^[1]

 

Des Queen Tisiphone  [DARK]

Level 8 (✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪)

[Fairy/Ritual/Effect]

Can only be Ritual Summoned. You can Ritual Summon this card with "Offering to the Furies. You can only use the (3) effect of "Des Queen Tisiphone" once per turn.

(1) : You can discard this card, then target 1 "Furies" Ritual Spell Card in your Graveyard; add it to your hand.

(2) : Once per turn: You can send 1 monster from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard; banish 1 monster of the same level from the field.

(3) : You can Tribute 1 monster you control; return this card from your Graveyard to your hand.

[ATK/1600  DEF/2800]    DNTE-EN067

 

The Ritual Spell is still written, since I've just finished the art for Tisiphone:

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Offering to the Furies 

 Ritual Spell Card

This card can be used to Ritual Summon "Des Queen Tisiphone" from your Graveyard. You must also Tribute monsters from your hand, field or Graveyard whose total Levels equal 8. You can only use this effect of "Offering to the Furies" once per turn, and only if you control no "Des Queen" monster. "Des Queen" monsters cannot be used as Fusion, Synchro or Xyz Material. 

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Discuss. 

[Marco Polo]

I'm bumping this

[VampireofDarkness]

Compared to Alecto, I am certainly more comfortable sitting with this card. It seems like the power was understood, and was kept in check. The stats are rather defensive, but with this sort of effect, it seems much safer to give a high DEF than a high ATK any. Speaking of effects, the removal is pretty solid. It's very strange cause although the cost is almost non-existent, it requires some dedication, and it can't hit Xyz. You might want to fix that and make it target ("Once per turn, you can send 1 monster from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard, then target 1 monster whose Level/Rank is equal to the Level/Rank of the sent monster; banish that target."). The other two effect are not that bad either. You probably will be using those fairly often to keep your Rituals continuously afloat. That being said, it is somewhat costly. It's almost unfortunate this doesn't have 1500, cause then it would have Dark Eruption going for it, which would be nice since it seems like without the consistency of Ritual Decks like Gishki and Nekroz, (Having created and tested one myself) you have to use other methods to keep yourself afloat ala their effects. Aside from that, however, I like this card. It has some unique application and I think the Deck between this and Alecto just got much more interesting. Looking forward to the other member of the trio, in addition to the rest of the members of the Deck, if any :)

[Marco Polo]

Compared to Alecto, I am certainly more comfortable sitting with this card. It seems like the power was understood, and was kept in check. The stats are rather defensive, but with this sort of effect, it seems much safer to give a high DEF than a high ATK any. Speaking of effects, the removal is pretty solid. It's very strange cause although the cost is almost non-existent, it requires some dedication, and it can't hit Xyz. You might want to fix that and make it target ("Once per turn, you can send 1 monster from your Extra Deck to the Graveyard, then target 1 monster whose Level/Rank is equal to the Level/Rank of the sent monster; banish that target."). The other two effect are not that bad either. You probably will be using those fairly often to keep your Rituals continuously afloat. That being said, it is somewhat costly. It's almost unfortunate this doesn't have 1500, cause then it would have Dark Eruption going for it, which would be nice since it seems like without the consistency of Ritual Decks like Gishki and Nekroz, (Having created and tested one myself) you have to use other methods to keep yourself afloat ala their effects. Aside from that, however, I like this card. It has some unique application and I think the Deck between this and Alecto just got much more interesting. Looking forward to the other member of the trio, in addition to the rest of the members of the Deck, if any :)

Yes, feedback on Alecto was taken into account! I've decided to scrap her previous effects and remake her. Obviously this one is aggressive in effect and passive in stats, others will take different roles. ^^

I think I prefer to keep it non-targeting, do you think I can keep her non-targeting and still include ranks in her removal effect? is it one or the other?

I'm not too sorry for eruption, since they have their own ways of recurring.

btw Tisiphone sets tributes in the Graveyard simply by sending monsters there as a cost, easing up the requirements. I less worried about the consistency they'll have since it is taken into account that Armageddon Knight and Mathematician are both 4, (probably the best way for the deck to tribute is by 4s), that dumping Synchro Herald will speed the deck greatly, Manju, Senju, Sonic Bird etc are level 4s. 

I believe it can run fine. 

 

Thank you for commenting and thank you for liking!! Really glad you do. ;)

[VampireofDarkness]

Yes, feedback on Alecto was taken into account! I've decided to scrap her previous effects and remake her. Obviously this one is aggressive in effect and passive in stats, others will take different roles. ^^
I think I prefer to keep it non-targeting, do you think I can keep her non-targeting and still include ranks in her removal effect? is it one or the other?
I'm not too sorry for eruption, since they have their own ways of recurring.
btw Tisiphone sets tributes in the Graveyard simply by sending monsters there as a cost, easing up the requirements. I am still worried about the consistency they'll have though. It is taken into account that Armageddon Knight and Mathematician are both 4, (probably the best way for the deck to tribute is by 4s), but I still don't think that's enough honestly.
Any ideas?

Mathman is a Level 3 actually! That being said, I'm not absolutely sure about Non Targeting, because while it is quite good, the card requires dedication to specific levels. Another thing I would be concerned about is Herald of Arc Light, which would become amazing if Ranks were included. I think you could get away with Non Targeting, but you would have to banish the ED card. Also keep in mind with all of this on DP, since I know you plan to take it there, you have the Dark Dimensionals, which not only search everything, but they let you recover some materials, so you have more than enough to work with to get your costs live, (I can PM these if you so wish) and Superbia and its cousin, Demise of the Archlord, which will cover board presence. Actually, even without Demise, Superbia wouldn't be bad at all, since you got Geddon and Grepher for big plays. The main problem I would see happening would be recovery, since the Deck doesn't have easy access to things like Xyz plays, and it seems like it could easily run out of Ritual monsters or Spells, since it requires some resources to grab one or the other. I might have to try to build it myself before I know for sure, but that would be my main concern

[Marco Polo]

Mathman is a Level 3 actually! That being said, I'm not absolutely sure about Non Targeting, because while it is quite good, the card requires dedication to specific levels. Another thing I would be concerned about is Herald of Arc Light, which would become amazing if Ranks were included. I think you could get away with Non Targeting, but you would have to banish the ED card. Also keep in mind with all of this on DP, since I know you plan to take it there, you have the Dark Dimensionals, which not only search everything, but they let you recover some materials, so you have more than enough to work with to get your costs live, (I can PM these if you so wish) and Superbia and its cousin, Demise of the Archlord, which will cover board presence. Actually, even without Demise, Superbia wouldn't be bad at all, since you got Geddon and Grepher for big plays. The main problem I would see happening would be recovery, since the Deck doesn't have easy access to things like Xyz plays, and it seems like it could easily run out of Ritual monsters or Spells, since it requires some resources to grab one or the other. I might have to try to build it myself before I know for sure, but that would be my main concern

Yes mathman is level 3. I keep forgetting >< never mind it has all other 4s. 

I think I'll let Xyz's slip this time, other furies will have counters for them.

I didn't understand how would it be easy to run out of Ritual monsters, since Tisiphone basically needs to be in the Graveyard for you to pull her out, and recycles the Ritual Spell.. 

 

In context to our PM discussion I decided to leave the interaction with Dark Ceremony be, to not screw the build you had in mind ^^ ;

I also tried to think what you were up to when mentioning that there are further problems with this card, so I first put an OPT on the 3rd effect in order to cancel scenarios when a player could tribute their whole field and keep returning her to the hand. 

In addition, I came to know that you can actually Special Summon Ritual Monsters from the graveyard via simple effects if they were Ritual Summoned beforehand < That was entirely unknown to me, and was taken care of as well.

[Marco Polo]

Updated. The card now looks better x_x

and the Ritual Spell is now nerfed to reduce interaction with Shaddolls and keep this sane. 

[SirReal]

This card and the Ritual Spells for this pseudo archetype are very interesting. It seems that all the rituals pitch themselves to retrieve spells in the grave of which the spells then can summon that monster from the grave. 

 

Trisphone seems decently balanced. Her specific spell can however make her summon pretty costless and allow you to plus off of tributing a monster to add her back to hand. sending a monster from the extra deck to the grave to banish a monster of the same level is interesting, sending Arc Light to the grave nets you a banish and a search, not to mention that banish effect does not target.

 

Offering to the Furies' last effect needs some clarification. Does the restriction apply to the monster summoned by the effect, or all Des Queen monsters? Does it apply during the turn it was used, for the rest of the duel, while it's in the graveyard, etc.? That just needs to be cleared up. 

 

EDIT: I'm also curious to how the other cards interact with each other. would you mind linking the other card's threads to each other?

[Marco Polo]

This card and the Ritual Spells for this pseudo archetype are very interesting. It seems that all the rituals pitch themselves to retrieve spells in the grave of which the spells then can summon that monster from the grave. 

 

Trisphone seems decently balanced. Her specific spell can however make her summon pretty costless and allow you to plus off of tributing a monster to add her back to hand. sending a monster from the extra deck to the grave to banish a monster of the same level is interesting, sending Arc Light to the grave nets you a banish and a search, not to mention that banish effect does not target.

 

Offering to the Furies' last effect needs some clarification. Does the restriction apply to the monster summoned by the effect, or all Des Queen monsters? Does it apply during the turn it was used, for the rest of the duel, while it's in the graveyard, etc.? That just needs to be cleared up. 

 

EDIT: I'm also curious to how the other cards interact with each other. would you mind linking the other card's threads to each other?

Offering to the Furies applies to generally all Fury monsters summoned by its effects. i.e all Des Queen monsters. I guess the right timing would be as long as it is on the field. 

Though the way I wrote it, I tried to be as broad as possible. I didn't even know if such a thing could even work, but the point was universally stating that "Des Queen" monsters cannot be used as Fusion, Synchro or Xyz Materials. < * without cluttering the main card with infinite restrictions. 

 

The other furies are not yet finalized, I have the vague concept though:

• Each Fury is Level 8.
• Each Fury uses her first effect to retrieve a Ritual Spell, and her last effect to somehow get herself back to your hand. 
• Each Fury is DARK, with different types. 
• Tisiphone is the passive defensive + removal tool, Megaera is the aggressive beater that would discard a card from the opponent's hand upon dealing battle damage, and Alecto will deal in negation and ATK reduction.
• Each fury also sets the Graveyard materials for her next summon, Tisiphone sending 1 monster from the Extra Deck to your Graveyard; Megaera sending 1 monster from your opponent's hand to theirs to use it as Tribute material for herself later on and so on. 

 

Thank you for your feedback! :) 

It'll take time to complete this set because I'm not yet sure about the effects (for which I need the feedback), and the painting process takes time. ;)

[SirReal]

Thank you for the reply. 

 

A good fix for the wording for the restriction on Offering would be: "A monster summoned by this card's effect cannot be used as Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz material." The only monsters you can summon off of Offering are Des Queen monsters so that doesn't have to be stated. 

 

Speaking of which, Offering specifies that it summons "Des Queen Trisephone" Have you designed the card in the sense that it should only summon Trisephone or do you want this to be a generic Ritual Spell for all "Des Queen" monsters? 

 

And a little fix on the wording of the Ritual Spell, since you cannot tribute monsters from your graveyard: "This card can be used to Ritual Summon "Des Queen Tisiphone" from your Graveyard. You must also Tribute monsters from your hand, field and/or Banish monsters from your Graveyard whose total Levels equal 8." 

 

If you want to make this a generic "Des Queen" Ritual Spell, you can change the wording to: "This card can be used to Ritual Summon any "Des Queen" Ritual monster from your Graveyard..."

 

I think it's especially interesting that all of the Ritual Spells so far summon only from the grave, but there is as of now no in theme way to send these cards to the grave except by their own effects to retrieve a Spell, yet there is also no in theme way to send the spells either. 

 

I apologize if this comes across as backseat designing, I'm just throwing out suggestions and fixing minor wording issues ^^; 

Keep it up!

[KazukiCardsYugioh]

It is a little weird but I like the design and everything  :444815_key: