Minerva, the Exalted Lightsworn

[ihop]

 

So a friend of mine from locals bought a Minerva from the person who came second at Rimini, and since every other Minerva went to a vendor/collector he is currently the only person in Europe who owns a Minerva and intends to use it. Since he's got it he's played Lightsworn at 2 relatively major events, an independent event where the prize was an Ascension Sky Dragon and an LLDS, and has won them both, so it's quite clear that Lightsworn with Minerva are a meta-worthy threat.

 

I want to avoid talking about the price of Minerva/the choice to have it as a prize card as much as possible, but discuss the card itself and Lightsworn with it - it's quite possible that in a few YCSes time there'll be a few Lightsworn in the top played by the people who have Minervas (although if Instant Fusion is limited or worse by then the deck is more or less dead, it's the only really fast way to actually make Minerva)

[Blake]

With or withotu clowns?

 

Because it tends to be a popular engine to make LS really work around her.

[ihop]

With, iirc

[Toffee.]

Considering it's a potential 'Draw 3', and mills another 3/can potentially destroy up to 3, assuming you run a lot of Sworns in the first place...
Go figure, that this card would leave that much of an impact on the Deck, because both effects have a lot of potental for pluses going for them, and they actually get your Deck moving.
All that's missing is an effect that Summons JD

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

Minverva into Beatrice...haha, Minerva be a common round here

[ihop]

here? you mean california?

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

here? you mean california?

Osaka

[BlackBeartic]

Is it wrong I think she's cute?

 

On a more serious note the card is very good. Not much else to say though