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Despian Luluwalilith

"1 Level 4 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters Once per turn if a card(s) leaves the Extra Deck (except during the Damage Step): You can make all monsters you currently control gain 500 ATK (permanently), then you can negate the effects of 1 face-up card on the field, until the end of this turn. During the End Phase, if this card is in the GY because it was sent there this turn: You can Special Summon 1 LIGHT Spellcaster monster from your hand or Deck whose ATK equals its own Defense. You can only use this effect of 'Despian Luluwalilith' once per turn."

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Yugioh Rants: Blazing Cartesia, The Virtuous

I've been playing a lot of yugioh lately on master duel and in particular the "Bystial Runick" deck. It's all quite fun but I'd like to highlight the gameplay and story integration going on with one card in particular, not even the best in the deck but possibly my favorite:

This is Blazing Cartesia, The Virtuous and she's one of the best designed Yugioh cards I've seen.

So, first off, story background. Cartesia is a corrupted/brainwashed/evilified version of "Ecclesia", a girl featured across many cards in the Albaz/Branded storyline. Important for our discussion here is that Ecclesia is good friends with Dogmatika Fluerdelis / The Iris Swordsoul, and very close adventuring partners/love interest of "The Fallen of Albaz". Along the way they're opposed at first by the more villainous Dogmatikas, then later the Bystials and Despians as well. More under the break, this post is quite long.

Like a lot of modern Yugioh cards Cartesia has a paragraph on her so we'll take it piece by piece. First, her basic stats and name (yes that has a gameplay effect):

Blazing Cartesia, The Virtuous Light Attribute | Lvl 4 1500 ATK / 1500 DEF Spellcaster / Tuner / Effect

Cards in Yugioh are grouped into archetypes by strings in their names. Notable here is that Cartesia doesn't belong to any of the Albaz storyline archetypes specifically; she assists lots of the villain ones, but she's not technically a member. Being specifically a "LIGHT Spellcaster monster whose ATK equals its own DEF", she can be special summoned by the graveyard effect of Despian Luluwalilith, the corrupted form of Iris. The two still have a bond despite what's happened to them.

Finally, being a lvl 4 Tuner means she can be used to Synchro summon. With a level 6 monster (like all of the Bystials) she can be used to summon "The Bystial Dis Pater", that archetype's extra deck boss monster. With a level 8 monster however, she can be used to summon Despian Luluwalilith. You know who's level 8? All of the Fusion monsters Albaz forms. So already she combos very nicely with the hero and villain cards from the storyline. On to her effects.

If you control "Fallen of Albaz" or it is in your GY: You can Special Summon this card from your hand.

This one's fun. Cartesia does her best work on the field and this gets here there, but it does so based on where Albaz is. It works to show that she still has feelings towards Albaz even in her current state. Instead of her interacting with Aluber, The Bystial Aluber has a name-replacement effect that makes his name count as "Fallen of Albaz" under most situations; she has feelings for Albaz, but Aluber's tricked her and redirected her to work with him.

During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can Fusion Summon 1 Level 8 or higher Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as material.

Albaz's deck/playstyle revolves around fusion summoning and Cartesia facilitates that. Fusions have some inherent weaknesses, and Cartesia working the way she does helps mitigate them. The "Level 8 or higher" restriction just allows her to make all of Albaz's dragon forms. Special mention here to one specific target she can make, Granguignol the Dusk Dragon:

This card has a lot going on but worth noting is the clasped hands on the dragon's neck; concept art calls them "hands of the holy maidens", and indeed Ecclesia was one of the holy maidens of Dogmatika before the story started. As for effects, Gran-Guginol can send one of your cards from the extra deck to the GY, an effect very in-theme for the Dogmatikas!

Going back to Cartesia, she has one more effect and a restriction:

During the End Phase, if a Fusion Monster(s) was sent to your GY this turn: You can add this card from the GY to your hand.

You can only use each effect of "Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous" once per turn.

The restriction is nothing too notable; it's a standard "Hard Once Per Turn" effect done to prevent silly infinites and the like (This isn't MtG!). The last effect is notable. Albaz's fusions often send themselves or other fusions into the GY, and doing so lets you recover Cartesia for follow-up plays.

As for her art, Cartesia's dress uses the diamond pattern seen on Aluber's various cards and a vareity of Despians. So you know she's evil now (her bust size has also increased mysteriously). All in all, she's an evil form of a well known and caring person. While she's working for the bad guys, she still has in her heart her love for her friends, and her effects reference that. Even without any flavor text she's one of the most flavorful cards I think I've seen. In passing, I'll note the parallels between these two cards (Branded Regained and Branded Bond), one of her evil form helping Bystial Druiswurm and one of her non-corrupted form helping Albion, one of Albaz's dragon forms.

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The last cards I order finally arrived, so I thought I'd take a moment to share my completed Yu-Gi-Oh! deck. This is my

Theseus Toolbox V11

Named as such because this deck is seventeen years old. It's my old Utopia ZeXal Weapon deck I built back in high school, and I've just slowly replaced cards, chunks, and engines over the years until we've gotten to this point here. The Ship of Theseus and all that.

The previous version of the deck (V10.1.2) ran 3 Rescue Rabbit, 3 Magicalibra, and 2 Aqua Madoor, which were mainstays of the deck for a long time, but I finally dropped them, and since I dropped all the cards that required dupes, it allowed me to make a deck where every Monster is single-copy, which is something I've wanted to do for a while. It's probably my favorite version of the deck I've had for a few years. And to list off what's in it, we have:

(Main Deck) 1X Albaz the Ashen 1X Bystial Magnamhut 1X Carnot the Eternal Machine 1X Centur-Ion Atrii 1X Centur-Ion Gargoyle II 1X Centur-Ion Primera 1X Centur-Ion Trudea 1X Dark Hole Dragon 1X Diabellstar the Black Witch 1X Dogmatika Ecclesia, the Virtuous 1X Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous 1X Blazing Cartesia, the Virtuous 1X Guiding Quem, the Virtuous 1X Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted 1X The Iris Swordsoul 1X Dogmatika Maximus 1X Dream Absorber 1X Summoner Monk 3X Dark Hole 1X Harpie's Feather Duster 3X Nadir Servant 1X Sinful Spoils Deception 1X That's 10! 1X Azamina Ofeiletis 1X Called by the Grave 1X Double or Nothing! 3X Emblema Oath 3X Spell Card "Monster Reborn" 1X WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils 1X Stand Up Centur-Ion! 1X You're Finished 1X Centur-Ion True Awakening

(Extra Deck) 1X Azamina Rhea Silvera 1X Garura, Wings of Resonant Life 1X Granguignol the Dusk Dragon 1X Titaniklad the Ash Dragon 1X Centur-Ion Legatia 1X Despian Luluwalilith 1X Draco Berserker of the Tenyi 1X Superheavy Samurai Brave Masurawo 1X Number 1: Infection Buzzking 1X Number 4: Stealth Kragen 1X Number 39: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy 1X Number 39: Utopia 1X Number 39: Utopia Double 1X Number 99: Utopia Dragonar 1X Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis

(Sideboard) 3X Mulcharmy Fuwaross 3X Mulcharmy Purulia 3X Triple Tactics Talent 1X Centur-Ion Primera Primus 1X Crimson Blader 1X Enigmaster Packbit 1X Abyss Dweller 1X Number S39: Utopia the Lightning 1X Tornado Dragon

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Round 1c, Match 3: Evil★Twin vs. Fossil vs. Despia!

Evil★Twin Present // Fossil Warrior Skull King // Despian Luluwalilith

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Posted Cards Master List - 51.0

September 2023, 1st thru 20th

Sparks

Spatial Collapse

Spear Cretin

Spell Vanishing

Spike Seadra

Spikebot

Spirit of the Harp

Spirit of the Pot of Greed

Star Boy

Staunch Defender

Stealth Bird

Steel Ogre Grotto #1

Steel Ogre Grotto #2

Steel Scorpion

Stim-Pack

Stone Ogre Grotto

Stray Lambs

Strike Ninja

Stumbling

Succubus Knight

Sword of Deep-Seated

Tailor of the Fickle

Tainted Wisdom

Terra the Terrible

Terrorking Salmon

The 13th Grave

The All-Seeing White Tiger

The Bistro Butcher

The Forceful Sentry

The Immortal of Thunder

The Little Swordsman of Aile

The Reliable Guardian

The Thing in the Crater

The Unhappy Maiden

Thousand Needles

Three-Headed Geedo

Thunder Crash

Token Thanksgiving

Toll

Tongyo

Torpedo Fish

Tremendous Fire

Trent

Trial of Nightmare

Tribute to The Doomed

Tri-Horned Dragon

Tripwire Beast

Tsukuyomi

Turtle Oath

Turtle Tiger

Twin Long Rods #2

Twin-Headed Fire Dragon

Two-Mouth Darkruler

Two-Pronged Attack

Tyhone

Tyhone #2

Type Zero Magic Crusher

UFO Turtle

Ultra Evolution Pill

Upstart Goblin

Uraby

Vile Germs

Vilepawn Archfiend

Violet Crystal

Wall Shadow

Water Omotics

Weather Report

Whiptail Crow

Wild Nature's Release

Wingweaver

Witch Doctor of Chaos

Witty Phantom

World Suppression

Yado Karu

Yellow Luster Shield

Zero Gravity

Zolga

A Shattered, Colorless Realm

Adularia of the June Moon

Albion the Sanctifire Dragon

Amazement Abomination Arlekino

Baromet the Sacred Sheep Shrub

Beetrooper Cruel Saturnas

Brightest, Blazing, Branded King

Bunny Ear Enthusiast

Bystial Dis Pater

Chaos Angel

Constellar Tellarknights

Cyberse Desavewurm

Cyberse Sage

Cynet Ritual

Cynet Circuit

Cynet Rollback

Despian Luluwalilith

Dinomorphia Intact

Double Hooking

Dream Tower of Princess Nemleria

Dreaming Nemleria

Dual Avatar - Manifested A-Un