Dark Sword Maiden

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 © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi 

Name: Dark Sword Maiden
Level: ✪✪✪✪✪✪
DARK | Warrior / Fusion / Effect

 

**Effect**
2 DARK and/or Warrior-Type monsters

If this card is Fusion Summoned, OR if a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 non-DARK Special Summoned monster on the field; banish it face-down until the end of the turn. You can only use the effect of “Dark Sword Maiden” once per turn. You can only control 1 face-up “Dark Sword Maiden”.

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Since this card has only 1 effect (albeit with 2 activation timings), the correct way to write it would be:

 

When this card is Fusion Summoned, OR when a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 non-DARK Special Summoned monster on the field; banish it face-down until the end of the turn. If you do, banish this card until your next Standby Phase. You can only use the effect of “Dark Sword Maiden” once per turn.

 

I assume you meant Dark Sword Maiden not Dark Maiden in the last sentence.

 

As for the card:

 

Being level 6 is a good start, we don't need another instant fusion target, Noden is way more then enough already.

 

The first deck that comes to mind that can use this is HEROs, since they fusion summon a lot and can easily meet the material requirements. However they probably have better options in most situations. Shadolls are DARK, but I don't know much about them so I won't comment beyond saying they already can use this card without main deck edits. The fact that this card can be made with 2 DARK and/or Warrior-Type monsters means its easy to add a copy of polymerization to your deck if it already has the right monsters. Tellerknights could use this in that fashion for example.

 

The stats look fine.

 

As for the effect: I'd say you can safely drop the "If you do, banish this card until your next Standby Phase." and the card will still be balanced. As is,  it seems a little under powered compared to the competition HEROs and Shadolls have for that fusion summon. It has some interesting combos if your opponent is also using DARK monsters since the card doesn't specify your graveyard only. This is a nice feature so I'd keep it. One thing you could possibly do is change "When this card is Fusion Summoned, OR when a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard" to "If this card is Fusion Summoned, OR if a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard" so it doesn't miss the timing. That enables more combos. However the most important change is the one I first mentioned.

 

If you have any questions let me know in a reply ( :

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Since this card has only 1 effect (albeit with 2 activation timings), the correct way to write it would be:

 

When this card is Fusion Summoned, OR when a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 non-DARK Special Summoned monster on the field; banish it face-down until the end of the turn. If you do, banish this card until your next Standby Phase. You can only use the effect of “Dark Sword Maiden” once per turn.

 

I assume you meant Dark Sword Maiden not Dark Maiden in the last sentence.

 

As for the card:

 

Being level 6 is a good start, we don't need another instant fusion target, Noden is way more then enough already.

 

The first deck that comes to mind that can use this is HEROs, since they fusion summon a lot and can easily meet the material requirements. However they probably have better options in most situations. Shadolls are DARK, but I don't know much about them so I won't comment beyond saying they already can use this card without main deck edits. The fact that this card can be made with 2 DARK and/or Warrior-Type monsters means its easy to add a copy of polymerization to your deck if it already has the right monsters. Tellerknights could use this in that fashion for example.

 

The stats look fine.

 

As for the effect: I'd say you can safely drop the "If you do, banish this card until your next Standby Phase." and the card will still be balanced. As is,  it seems a little under powered compared to the competition HEROs and Shadolls have for that fusion summon. It has some interesting combos if your opponent is also using DARK monsters since the card doesn't specify your graveyard only. This is a nice feature so I'd keep it. One thing you could possibly do is change "When this card is Fusion Summoned, OR when a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard" to "If this card is Fusion Summoned, OR if a DARK monster is sent to the Graveyard" so it doesn't miss the timing. That enables more combos. However the most important change is the one I first mentioned.

 

If you have any questions let me know in a reply ( :

 

Card updated as suggested ^^

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