#cerberus has embodied this more times than i can count

[thedevillionaire]

Where has this word been all my life? 😅

[cosmicvenusnebula]

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Characters: Lucifer, Mammon, Leviathan, Satan, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Belphegor x Gn!Reader

Au: Canon Universe

Description: Random scenarios with the demon bro's, most of them revolve around gaming.

Contents: Fluff, Cussing, Silly Anger and Angst, Silly Writings,

Word Count: 940 words

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♥ Lucifer ♥

"No. Absolutely not."

"Come on Lucifer pleaseeeee! Just this once!" You beg, trying to convince the eldest brother to indulge in your interests for once.

"I have better things to do than play video games" Lucifer says with venom, what would Diavolo think if he slacked off to play games with some human?? Lucifer couldn't risk it, so he continued to go through the stacks of paperwork on his large desk.

"Afraid you would lose old man? Too pussy to play against a human?" You knew you were playing with fire by insulting him, even playfully, because if Mammon had said that he would be tied upside down, hanging from a chandelier somewhere in the house of lamentation.

"What the fuck did you just say to me?!" ... Uh-oh. "You've got some nerve, I just hope that nerve is brave enough to groom Cerberus after you lose." Lucifer stands up from his desk, grabbing your arm and dragging you into the common room where the shared gaming console is.

♥ Mammon ♥

"Huh?! You think you can beat the Great and Powerful Mammon at gambling?? HAHAHA ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??" The demon of greed almost keels over from laughter, slapping his knee at the joke he thinks your making.

"Yes, I am completely and utterly serious. How about this, winner not only gets all the money, but also the title of Devildoms best gambler, and loser has to slap Lucifer in the face." You smirk, knowing Mammon will do anything to win as the embodiment of greed, he wins at everything when money is involved. However, you have a trick up your sleeve.

You talk the rest of the brothers into playing poker with you and Mammon, except for the eldest. They are all willing to cheat and help you with your little trick just to see the chaos unfold when he has to slap Lucifer.

The whole game, everyone gets amazing cards, everyone except for Mammon. Unfortunately for him, you use your pact to force him into placing down his cards every time, losing more and more money until he eventually loses the game, and all the brothers immediatly forfeit after that, leaving you as the technical winner.

~ ~ ~ Not long later ~ ~ ~

"MAMMONNNNN COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT, I'M GONNA TEAR YOU APART AND FEED YOU TO BEEL"

♥ Leviathan ♥

You just got a brand new video game, one that is only available in the human world, but due to Diavolo favoring you, he found a way to get it in Devildom stores for limited time.

"How....how did such a normie get this game down here!"

"I asked Diavolo...."

"And he agreed? He went through that much trouble to give a normie some random video game? OMG Lollllolollol! *random video game ramble*"

"Just put the damn game in and turn on two controllers."

♥ Satan ♥

"She's mine Lucifer!" Satan yells, dragging you out of Lucifers office. "W-We were just playing Chess, what the hell are mad about?"

"I'm mad that you are alone with a man like Lucifer. I don't want him rubbing off on you."

Satan drags me away from Lucifers room, dragging you like he is holding you hostage. He takes you back to your room, securing you on his lap as you watch documentaries.

"You didn't have to drag me away from your brother. I get you hate him, but my god- "

"It's just...we are so similar I don't want to see you fall for him instead."

♥ Asmodeus ♥

"Really~? You wanna play with me~? I guess it was only a matter of time before you fell for my charm~"

"A-Asmo....I meant the succubus rpg game-"

"Oh...well thats a lot less fun. Oh well! Lets go play."

Once you go to your room, you get the game up and suddenly Asmo pulls you into his lap. "Uhh? What're you doing?"

"Just getting comfortable. I can't stand being without your touchhh~" You just ignore him as both of you begin to set up your characters.

♥ Beelzebub ♥

"Nonononono!!! Beel that isn't food!" You freak, trying to get the candle out of his hands.

"Huh? But it smells good." Beelzebub pouts at you, and you feel like you've just kicked a puppy.

"Just, put that down darling." I put my hand over his and lower it back down onto the table, making him drop my scented candle. "Lets go get you some cheeseburgers." Beel nods ferociously, mouth already drooling at the thought.

You take him to the 24 hour magic food place in-between the campus housing. Their menu is anything you want, they use magic to conjure up the tastiest version of what you request.

"Feel better?" You ask, smiling softly at his silly nature. "Very much. Thank you Mc." He talks with his mouth full, shoving as many cheeseburgers as he can straight into his stomach.

♥ Belphegor ♥

"Belphiiieee, wake up!" You try to shake the sleepy demon awake, wanting to show him a new game you bought for your Devilswitch.

Suddenly his tail wraps around you and he pulls you into his bed with him, his chest against your back. He rests his head on your shoulder, slightly opening his eyes enough to see your switch. "Mhm, nice. How did you get the money for that?"

"I sweet-talked Leviathan to buy it for me, he wanted it to and it has a co-op option so."

"You could have asked me. I never spend any of the money I get, too tired to ever go out."

"I tried, you wouldn't wake up."

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I hope you guys enjoyed! It's 1am and I just wanted to get a quick debut fic out! This is my first fic on this account :)))

[rawliverandcigarettes]

A Sleep-Deprived Journey of Batarians in Halfway Home

(or: the adventures of me in “Everything is problematic and I want to cry”) (also I have lost count and I am not consistent in anything regarding these updates please bear with me)

I haven’t slept and I am exhausted, as in, globally. So of course I decided it would be the perfect time to write something about the daunting, complex and delicate process of weaving the batarian narrative in Halfway Home.

Because, of course, I have to be like that.

I’d say the “batarian subplot”, as I call it, is the biggest subplot of Halfway Home, and one of the more intricately connected. It is present in some capacity from the first chapter to the last, and it’s the story of three things:

the long, muted fall of an entire civilization (as in the games, so I’m not really counting it as spoiler?)

the narrative on said long, muted fall from the perspective of an outsider (namely Shlee, hi Shlee) shifting gradually as the picture gets more precise and nuanced

Khocress Kam’gestar and his fight against the entropy; to secure a new cultural identity and a new home for his gang, and the batarian people at large (and the ideological turmoil it causes him, hi Khocress)

This subplot is also extremely linked to the political subplots (mostly the growing human influence and its clashes with turian powers), the Omega subplot and who gets to rule that damn upside down edgy space rock. And the main plot as well, of course.

So. Batarians.

Honestly sometimes I wonder what the hell I was thinking trying to go deep in the intricacies of that culture and its horrifying course throughout the games. Because… So beware! the Spice, but batarians, as a “planet of hat” culture (which they very much are in the games)… is kind of not great to begin with? And I don’t mean “not great” diegetically to the Mass Effect world, because yes they are very much not great in-world: they are slavers, with a caste system, pirates, racists and dismissive of other species, involved in “human” trade, sort of sexists, the species by far the most associated with sexual assault canonically, thrive in gangs, terrorists, want to aggressively impose their culture on the civilized other species and ain’t that preposterous… Yeah, so what I mean is that batarians, as a concept, are not exactly… Woke(TM), if I may. While kind of hard to pinpoint as a shortcut to one singular culture, they evoke a narrative that isn’t new but remains vague enough to be used as a “conversation starter” without being too outrageous. Basically batarians, when compared to the expected demographic of the game (which I assume is “western” whatever that means), embody All Of The Bad Tropes coming hot out of the “non-white” hat of cultural shortcuts, except up-played to 11. Wow, I know, what a take right.

I don’t think it has been done out of malice at all. I think the goal, with batarians, was to create a species you could freely hate and shoot (and do a tiny genocide on) without feeling too bad about it. And creating guilt-free antagonists is kind of normal when you’re making a shooter game, especially one like Mass Effect that does everything it can for the player to feel empowered and right (and it evokes this feeling masterfully, which is crazy hard to do). The antagonism between batarians and humans create tension every time Shepard crosses path with one of them, especially if the player went the Colonist route. That’s actually pretty cool to maintain, and the contained aggressiveness with every Omega interaction in Mass Effect 2 makes for interesting momentum (and makes me sort of wish we had some greater batarian antagonist, because there was potential, videogame-wise). And Mass Effect 3 finally paints a little more nuance on this species as a group of people who lost everything (though it kind of paints it with its “congratulation you played yourself” light that we also have with asaris after the Reaper attack –really not a fan, but hey, self-righteousness feels deserved after 150+ hours poured in an RPG series, so good for Shepard I guess).

But yes, culture bias is unfortunate, so invoking racist stereotypes can be a shorthand to achieve diplomatic antagonism pretty fast with our human protagonist, even if unknowingly and with the best intentions in mind.

But now I’m stuck with this too, am I not.

So I got stuck with a lot of decisions from the trilogy since several years ago, the worst offender still and always the Cerberus plot on Omega, which I will never not whine about. But for some reason, I never fought the batarian characterization, and I tried to roll with it and go underneath what that characterization means. What such a culture would be about. Also: after thousands of years of cohabitation (they made contact 40 years after the Council was formed by salarians and asaris, which dates them as crazy old), how they have been reflected back and shaped by other cultures too. Why this crazy long time period had been shoved under the carpet in their characterization, their presence not even mentioned for several major wars, why krogans, while still quite vengeful as a whole, are apparently more deserving of progressive empathy (at least in the way it’s shown) than batarians enslaved by their own kind and unable to leave their propaganda-fueled homeworld on the verge of economic collapse. There is a lot to unpack, a lot under the surface, and I get a sense of disconnect between the simplicity of their portrayal and the complexity of their reality in this world. I guess this is what drove me to them, in part.

So the task was to lay down the story of their fall. Cool.

But with a material so deeply flawed to begin with, it’s very hard to do right. Calling it up right now: I am bound to mess up somehow, because this very narrative is so connoted. I don’t know if there is a name for the trope of the Fatally Flawed Culture, the Unsavable Morally Doomed Civilization, but as much as I dance around the idea that the problem is not with what their culture had become but with the system that put them in that position in the first place, the slip is so very easy to make, especially given their proto-fascist ways. Also how easy it is to shove in some taste of White Savior, even without meaning to, even actively fighting against it, especially when the POV isn’t part of said culture (though Shlee doesn’t save anyone, barely his own ass, and mess up quite incredibly every time he attempts to meddle with a culture he believes really hard he understands and belongs to, honestly). Also, well. Batarian culture is flawed, it is part of their characterization, and washing them off as pure and unproblematic wouldn’t be very helpful either, nor would it be interesting. Victimization is as dehumanizing as blind antagonism. And then, and that comes with how the games sets them up in the narrative: their story is a downward spiral by essence. And this display of tragedy is kind of used, in the games, as a way to get the player to feel that maybe they deserve a little empathy after all. In a story that flips the switch to put the spotlight on their perspective and still maintains the systemic horror of their narrative arc, how do you avoid trauma porn, miserabilism?

I don’t have a perfect solution, obviously. One of my attempts is to multi-facet this whole situation as much as possible, with as much batarian faces as I can fit them in, but then you don’t want to bloat the story either, and then you contrast the pain with anger, and the anger can be horrifying, and another problematic problem in itself (I’m going to dubious places involving some batarian characters, and it’s kind of overwhelming, and also necessary but also kind of a never ending swarm of questions and double guesses, but welp ain’t no way I’m not getting canceled over something in this puddle of hot mess). Hope too, of course, but again, keep the message clear, don’t bloat the story. But hope, still. Somewhere.

All of that convoluted, sleep-deprived post served only to deliver this message: batarians are a mess to get right. They come packaged as a mess, are a mess to work through, and I have very little hope for them not to still be a mess at the end of the road. I will try. They deserve as much.

Who said writing fanfiction was easy again.

[stellisae]

Prompt Request (Hades x MC)

Prompt: “You meant too much to me.” & “I won’t let you.”

Requested by: @voltage-my2dlove

Book: Astoria Fate’s Kiss

Pairing: Hades x MC

Word Count: 1233

Because the discord chat I’m in gave me some inspiration to write I finally finished this request for Hades x MC. We were discussing the fact that MC is pregnant just a few months after she and Hades get married but their only son is only two years old in season 4 which is supposed to take place ten years later. So, I had the idea that MC’s first child was stillborn/miscarried. Trigger warnings for miscarriages/stillbirth/child death ahead!

I thought being the goddess of childbirth herself, having a baby would be as easy as breathing. I thought everything would be perfect, that Hades and I would have a little God baby of our own running around soon. I thought...well… of all the things I thought, the idea that I could lose a baby was never one of them.

Eight months. We made it eight months without a single problem. Everything was perfect, H.E.R.A’s doctors said I was completely healthy, and Hades...oh Hades. He had finally felt the baby kick. After months of trying and failing, he finally felt those light little kicks through my skin.

Then after 8 months, just as Hades was finally reassured that everything would be okay, all the usual movement in my belly suddenly stopped. You can imagine the panic that ensued nearly immediately. I narrowly had time to alert Cyprin that we would be coming down before Hades scared H.E.R.A.’s entire medical staff to death by apparating in the middle of their floor, complete with his monstrous aura filling up the space around us.

Perhaps appearing with the very spectre of death hovering over a pregnant goddess wasn’t the most appropriate method of announcing our arrival.

We were bombarded nearly immediately, and rushed to emergency surgery. I was far along enough that if they got to him fast enough the baby might survive. I knew Hades would be able to feel it as soon as he was gone, and as long as he had hope I did too.

Labor was induced and every effort was made to save our child but, after an hour of struggling to give birth, I watched the exact moment when we were too late.  It was like looking at the physical embodiment of a broken heart.

The hope bled from Hades eyes as quickly as the tears began to fall from both of us. His usually beautiful features twisted into an anguish I had never seen from him and he teeth nearly could have cracked from how tightly he clenched his jaw. If he didn’t have to hold my hand through the rest of the process I’m sure he would have sunk through the floor at that very moment.

My body would recover. I knew that, even as I felt utterly broken in spirit I could still feel the strength of my own body as it erased the traces of my pregnancy like magic. The doctors, cowering under the weight of my husband’s stare, assured us I would be able to move past this, and even conceive again.

We didn’t see the doctor that mentioned that little tidbit again for the rest of the time I was in H.E.R.A.’s infirmary. It’s a good thing too. If Alex hadn’t been there to usher that poor doctor out of the room as quickly as they did I’m afraid his week off would have been a lot longer and spent in the darkest part of Tartarus.

A week later we returned home to our estate on Olympus, where all of our other “kids” stayed despite my assurances that I was back to full health.

At least physically I was.

They stayed a for almost a month, and after they left I realized how grateful I was that they had ignored my protests. The silence of the empty estate weighed on us heavily without the loud voices of the guardians, and as I picked through our closet I knew I had Persephone to thank to switching out my maternity clothes for my normal ones. How she always seemed to know exactly what I needed before I needed it I’ll never know.

Months later we were still struggling. Eating was only done out of necessity, and I still slept much more than was healthy. Too many times I found myself wandering into the nursery and settling into the overstuffed rocker to cry. A lesser man might have made me ashamed of how many times Hades found me in there. But Hades, my ever sweet husband, only held me while I cried until I finally exhausted myself to the point of needing to be carried to bed.

It was one such night, after Hades had finally gotten me off to sleep in our bed, when I woke up to the sounds of something crashing and banging in another room. Jumping from the bed I barely register that Hades is missing from his usual spot before my feet already carrying me towards the offending noises. The mystery of Hades location is solved quickly as I hear his angry voice carry down the hall from the nursery.

“I knew better than this. I should have treasured every minute that you survived. Assuming we were assured a healthy a birth was always foolish,” another sharp banging sound punctuated his sentence. His next words are much quieter, almost a whisper, “You meant too much to me, that I could have this…we’re broken, and I...I fear we may never recover.”

His words are quickly overtaken by choked sobs and I finally peek around the doorframe. My eyes go wide when I see the room torn apart, all our previously carefully arranged decorations strewn about the floor.

Hades, who had been so strong for me throughout all of this had finally let himself break down. His body back is turned to me, shaking with his sobs, and I can just see the giant stuffed three-headed dog Cerberus had gotten us clutched against his chest.

I step into the room, carefully ensuring I make some noise behind him as I do. I know Hades doesn’t need me to, even if I could blend into the shadows as easily as he does he would always be aware of my presence. Even so, now is the last time I’d ever want to scare him.

I gently placed a hand on his shoulder before falling to my knees beside him and pulling him to me. I let him cry into my shoulder for a long time, though it’s probably still as long as he’s let me cry for, before carefully pulling back.  Hades has always been my rock, keeping my steady through all the pain, this time it’s my turn to be strong for him.

“Hades listen to me. We are not broken, we might feel that way now but this is not the end for us,” I pause to lift his chin up with one hand, so that his eyes meet mine. “We’re not done, we have eternity ahead of us to figure this out and I won’t let you be done.”

Hades tears have subsided for now, and for a moment I think he might break down again before I see some resolve settle on his face. He cups my cheek with one hand and the love he shares in that one gesture brings true warmth back into my heart for the first time in the months since our child’s death.

I was suddenly hit by the knowledge that I was right. I might not have fully believed it while I was speaking, but it was the truth. We weren’t done. We could try again and, even though neither of us was ready for that yet, I knew in my soul that eventually we would have a child of our own.

[zlinked-gaming]

The Tindangles arrive

Tindangle Acute Cerberus Link 3 DARK Fiend Link Effect Monster ATK 0 LINK-3 3 “Tindangle” monsters (1) While there’s 3 or more different “Tindangle” monsters in your GY, including “Tindangle Base Gardna”, this card gains 3000 ATK. (2) This card gains 600 ATK for each “Tindangle” monster it points to. (3) When a Battle Phase in which this card declared an attack ends: Special Summon 1 “Tindangle Token” (Fiend/DARK/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0).

     The link monster, If “Tindangle”s are capable of swarming the field to make          this then it is not a bad card, but requiring a specific level 5 monster to be in        the grave in order to have any decent attack is pretty bad. 

     Gaining 600 per each monster it points to means that unless it’s a mirror              match this card will have 1200atk plus whether or not it gains the 3000 or            not. But the monsters are going to be face-down most of the time so the 1200      boost will barely happen.

     This card requires a lot of resources and has 0 protection and does not                 replace itself. It’s pretty bad. It’s just a beatstick.

I don’t know how useful a token is come back to this section

Tindangle Angel Level 4 DARK Fiend Flip Effect Monster ATK 500 DEF 1800 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) FLIP: Special Summon 1 Flip Monster, except “Tindangle Angel” from your hand or GY in face-down Defense Position. If this effect was activated during a Battle Phase on your opponent’s turn, also end that Battle Phase.

      This should have also been from the deck b/c on your first turn you will have       nothing in your graveyard and you might not have any good flip monsters in         your hand. 

      The ending the battle phase is useful, like a ‘Battle Fader’ so that your                 opponent cannot run over the monster you just summoned. 

Tindangle Base Gardna Level 5 DARK Fiend Effect Monster ATK 0 DEF 2300 This card’s name can only be Special Summoned by its (1)st effect once per turn (1) If you control a face-down Defense Position monster, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). (2) If a monster is Normal or Special Summoned to a Monster Zone your opponent’s Link Monster points to: You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 “Tindangle” monster from your hand or Deck in face-up Attack Position.

     This card can at least be summon easily, but the effect is complete trash.

      You rely on your opponent having a link monster on the field and then                   special summoning to a zone that their monster points to in order to summon       a “Tindangle” from your deck in Attack position. You are relying on your               opponent to summon a Flip monster in Attack position.

      This card should not rely on the opponent and you should get the choice             between face-up Attack position or face-down Defense position.

Tindangle Hound Level 7 DARK Fiend Flip Effect Monster ATK 2500 DEF 0 (1) FLIP: Target 1 face-up monster on the field, except this card; this card gains ATK equal to the original ATK of the target. Afterwards, change the target monster to face-down Defense Position. (2) Monsters on your opponent’s side of the field lose 1000 ATK for every monster that monster is Linked to. (3) If this card is destroyed (by battle or by card effect): You can target 1 face-down monster on the field; that monster is changed to face-up Defense Position.

      This card’s flip effect is not that bad, this card could become huge depending       on what you target or you could use this to reset your own monsters to use         their flip effects again.

     The attack loss effect only hurts link deck which is not very good as most            decks do not need to link summon.

      Flipping one of your own monsters on destruction is not bad as it allows you       to recur an effect as a replacement for this card. 

Tindangle Apostle Level 3 DARK Fiend Flip Effect Monster ATK 800 DEF 1600 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) FLIP: Change up to 3 face-down monsters on your field to face-up Defense Position. If all the monsters changed to face-up Defense Position by this effect are “Tindangle” monsters, you can add a “Tindangle” cards from your Deck to your hand up to the number of those monsters.

      This card would be really good if this deck could swarm out face-down                 monsters, but it just can’t only Apostle and Angel can be normal set and               Gardna while special summoning itself does nothing as a flip effect. 

       If this deck had any ability to swarm then this card would be good as it could        trigger 2-3 monster effects then search 2-3 cards, but this deck is way too            slow for that to work.

Tindangle Intruder Level 6 DARK Fiend Flip Effect Monster ATK 2200 DEF 0 You can only use each effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) FLIP: Add 1 “Tindangle” card from your Deck to your hand. (2) If this card is Normal Summoned: Send 1 “Tindangle” card from your Deck to the Graveyard. (3) While this card is in the GY, if a monster is Special Summoned to your side of the field in face-down Defense Position: You can Special Summon this card in face-down Defense Position from the GY.

     A level 6 searcher and a tribute summon ‘Foolish Burial’. This is the                     embodiment of why this deck is bad. Too slow and requires too many                   resources.

     But this is probably one of the best cards in the deck b/c it is has a good flip        effect and can special summon itself, but you have to put it in the graveyard        first and then special summon something else in face-down defense position.      This whole archetype is a train wreck or bad design.

Protected Sky of Nagel Continuous Spell Card You can only use this card’s name’s (3)rd effect once per turn: (1) “Tindangle” monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle or by your opponent’s card effects. (2) The first time a “Tindangle” monster you control inflicts battle damage to your opponent this turn, double that battle damage. (3) You can banish this card from the GY, then discard 1 “Tindangle” card. Add 1 “Protected Sky of Nagel” from your Deck to your hand.

     Destruction protection is very nice. And very necessary for the deck since it’s      defense values are so low and your opponent will be attacking into them in          face-down defense position. 

     The double damage is not too relevant. It’s not bad, but not really necessary. 

      If your opponent destroys this card then you can banish it along with                     discarding a “Tindangle” to search itself which is really good. As it puts high         level “Tindangle”s in the grave while searching more protection.

     Overall this card is really good a nice contrast to the monsters.

Euler Circuit Field Spell Card You can only use the (3)rd effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) If you control 3 or more “Tindangle” monsters, monsters your opponent controls cannot attack. (2) During your Standby Phase: You can target 1 “Tindangle” monster you control; Give control of that monster to your opponent. (3) You can banish this card from your GY, then discard 1 “Tindangle” card; add 1 “Euler Circuit” from your Deck to your hand.

     Good luck having 3 “Tindangle” monsters on the field. Not only due to this            deck’s inability to swarm, but also face-down “Tindangle”s do not count.

     I don’t get why it gives a monster to your opponent, especially since it’s quite      hard to get very many monsters on the field in the first place. That seems            really bad.

     This card also searches it self while putting more “Tindangle”s in the grave          and that’s still nice. 

Tindangle Delaunay Normal Trap Card (1) When you take battle damage due to the attack of your opponent’s monster, while there’s 3 or more “Tindangle” monsters in your Graveyard: Destroy the monster that attacked, then Special Summon 1 “Tindangle Acute Cerberus” from your Extra Deck. (2) If you control no monsters in an Extra Monster Zone: You can banish this card from the GY, then target 3 “Tindangle” monsters in your GY that have different names; Special Summon those monsters in face-down Defense Position.

     This is an easy way to summon their link monster rather than relying on using      3 on field monsters. The deck needed this, but you still need Gardna in the          grave for Cerberus to have any attack.

     This grave effect is actually really good. Summoning 3 flip monsters in face-        down defense position is really good and the condition of not having a                  monster in the extra monster zone is pretty easy to fulfill. But it requires                3 “Tindangle”s in the grave which is near impossible turn 1 and really difficult      in general.

This deck is complete garbage, it is way too slow, it wants its high level monsters in the grave, but the only consistent way to get them there is discarding them when the spells are in the grave, it only has 2 normal setable monsters only onw of whom has a decent effect. ‘Tindangle Base Gardna’ has no synergy with the deck, but is also required for the boss monster to have any decent attack. The whole deck is a mess