Mistress of the Shadows

[BatMed]

 © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi 
 
Name: Mistress of the Shadows
Level: ✪✪✪✪✪✪
DARK | Fiend / Effect
 

 

**Effect:
When this card is sent from the Deck to the Graveyard by the effect of a DARK monster; you can Special Summon it. You can only Special Summon 1 "Mistress of the Shadows" per turn this way. When this card is Special Summoned; you can make its Level become 4.

- Card idea was by Darkness

[Sander]

So, pretty much turn Armageddon Knight into a "Xyz Summon 1 Rank 4 Xyz monster from your Extra Deck"? What made you think that this was a good idea in the first place?

[BatMed]

So, pretty much turn Armageddon Knight into a "Xyz Summon 1 Rank 4 Xyz monster from your Extra Deck"? What made you think that this was a good idea in the first place?

A bit of testing from a few people actually, myself included. It's a really good combo you brought up, bit it isn't going to bring you all the way home.

Admittingly, it would be way too good without the restriction and the risk/reward factor of it, (Drawing it and how many times something go wrong in triggering it) and maybe it will be better off when ROTA is no longer at 3, but I still stand my results in that it's relatively fine.

[BatMed]

bump

[Pibb247]

The amount of other DARK monsters that can mill this card besides Armageddon Knight is not large, I believe. Kuribandit, Spell Recycler, Blackfeather Darkrage Dragon, to name the ones off the top of my head. Pairing this with Armageddon Knight is Rank 4 spam no doubt, but its uses in other situations seem limited. I would simply consider that an indirect restriction, though, so I think the card is fair. It maybe worthy of being put somewhere on the Limited lists in competitive, foreseeing some combo I can't think of right now, but I think it's balanced enough to be real.

[Saiba Aisu]

I don't like how easy she is to abuse with Armageddon Knight or Dark Grepher. Dark Grepher will make sure she is never a dead draw in hand, either for SS effect or discard fodder.