Winged Puella

[Azure Wolf]

If you Ritual Summon a Spellcaster-type Ritual Monster this card can be used as the entire tribute. You can banish this card from your Graveyard, except the turn this card was sent to the Graveyard; add 1 LIGHT or DARK Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only activate this effect of "Winged Puella" once per turn.

 

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If you Ritual Summon a Spellcaster-type Ritual Monster this card can be used as the entire tribute. You can banish this card from your Graveyard; add 1 LIGHT or DARK Ritual Monster from your Deck to your hand.

 

 

Once again was looking though my recommended section on Pixiv and saw this. Decided on Spellcaster Ritual support because why not. First part is to help get out the 3 level 7 and high Spellcaster Rituals, more easily by acting as the entire tribute, with the effect being copied from Ritual Raven and changed to Spellcaster rather than Dark. The second effect is to act as a searcher for Light and Dark rituals. The second effect currently has 36 targets, 21 Light and 15 Dark, which include 2 valid targets for the first effect Magician of Black Chaos and Divine Grace - Northwemko.

[Darj]

I really suggest a hard OPT clause on the searching effect. Searchers from the grave can easily go bad, in the "too strong" sense, when there is the possibility of sending multiples into the grave, returning it back to the grave repeatedly, etc.

 

Actually, even with the hard OPT, this card looks pretty strong considering it has a similar formula as Shurit: first it substitutes as the entire Tribute for a Ritual, then it gets you a search for another Ritual; in fact, its searching effect is more flexible, since it doesn't have to be specifically Tributed for the effect, but just reach the grave. Then add to this that Shurit is currently banned in TCG and limited in OCG; although, in this card's defense, it doesn't supports Nekroz as smoothly as Shurit can, but funnily enough it can still be an option as a tech for Summoning Gugnir, Valkyrus and Unicore, then searching for LIGHT/DARK Ritual techs like Sauravis for the protection effect, or even Nekroz Sophia if you are being silly with a Nekroz variant that plays it.

Also it isn't as searchable as Shurit, but as a DARK/Spellcaster it is searchable by Dark Renewal, Startime Magician and Magician Navigation, the latter having the potential of being noteworthy if you try to build a Deck with Level7 Spellcaster Rituals (e.g. Northwemko, Legendary Flame Lord), Dark Magician and Advanced Ritual Art; plus it gets some other DARK/Spellcaster support here and there.

In addition, DARK is a nice Attribute to have as it makes it "millable" for Armageddon Knight so you get that search right away, while Level4 makes it compatible for Rank4 plays along the aforementioned Armageddon, as well as Manju/Senju.

Of course, this card wouldn't be a problem right now because LIGHT/DARK Spellcaster Rituals aren't relevant in the metagame, but I can really see this card putting up a lot of work should they ever become a big thing. IMO, "future-proofing" this card is advisable, although at the moment I'm not sure how to do that. You can start with changing its Level, Attribute and/or Type so it gets less support.

[The Nyx Avatar]

Only targets for this search effect right now are Divine Grace - Northwemko, Elemental Mistress Doriado, Nekroz of Sophia, Relinquished, and Magician of Black Chaos. Right now, it's fine. Granted, a strict "once per turn" clause would be preferred for the search effect, but balance-wise, it doesn't look like it'd abuse much right now. It even has nice ATK and DEF to boot in case you ever want to revive it or not leave your field empty. Sure, this may not be enough to help cards like Northwemko, but it's nice to see support for them.

[Azure Wolf]

Done some changes to the card, such as adding in a hard OPT, making it so the second needs to wait a turn and changing it to Winged-Beast. Debating whether or not to keep the level at 3 though.

 

To be honest I didn't put much thought into the card, so some things did pass over me such as Armageddon Knight. The main thing that matters to me for the card is that it supports Spellcaster Rituals in some form, so changes are acceptable.

[The Nyx Avatar]

The strict "once per turn" clause does help balance this card, as does the change in Type so it doesn't profit off Reinforcement of the Army. The change is Level seems a little needless to me, but it's fine. Though for the Type, you could make it Fairy or even Spellcaster-Type to fit with the flavor of the effect and even the name.

[Azure Wolf]

The strict "once per turn" clause does help balance this card, as does the change in Type so it doesn't profit off Reinforcement of the Army. The change is Level seems a little needless to me, but it's fine. Though for the Type, you could make it Fairy or even Spellcaster-Type to fit with the flavor of the effect and even the name.

The type was originally Spellcaster, but switched it around to prevent it from having more ways to search it. For flavour Winged-Beast fits better as puella is Latin for girl, so the name is basically "Winged Girl". Mainly choose Spellcaster as my first thoughts regarding the name was Madoka Magica.

 

The level might change back to 4 depending on feedback or I think it could do well enough, though not paying much attention to decks outside of Cybers does impact my decisions on it.

[Darj]

Now you went a bit hard with the nerfs, IMO. Personally, I liked that the search effect could be activated right away, so after changing its Level and Type, IMO you can afford to take back that "except the turn it was sent to the grave" restriction.

 

On the other hand, its searchability and support as a DARK/Spellcaster was nice too, and not too problematic IMO, plus it contributed to building Spellcaster-themed decks, so I'm thinking another option is keeping the above restriction, while turning it back into a Spellcaster.

 

Funnily enough, if you make it Level4 as a DARK/Winged Beast, it then becomes searchable by Raidraptor - Force Strix, but that would be a cool thing and promote creativity in deck building, considering Force Strix is a generic Rank4, all without being overpowering, but maybe a bit too good. It would be fun to see DARK/LIGHT Ritual decks tech Instant Fusion (Norden), self-Summon Level4s, or Rank4 engines to Summon Force Strix, and then grab this card. Plus as a Level4 itself, it can contribute to summoning said Force Strix and get itself detached for the effect while searching for another copy of it. Another target you could splash for Force Strix is Zephyros.