Introduction:Remember me making non-Warrior monsters? Me neither! Anyway, today I'm here to introduce 2 new Ichyaltas cards, a rename of an existing Ichyaltas card, changes to two Golden Skies cards and all three Skydian Links.
News from the Golden Kingdom:
Let us start with the 2 new cards, introducing
Gramnad, Holy Knight of Ichyaltas and her awakened form
Violé Gramnad, Queen of Ichyaltas. Finally, we get the matriarch of the Golden Kingdom! Woo! The lower version of her is a bit weird, to be honest. She enables you to easily trigger the on Tribute Effects of other Ichyaltas monsters during both turns and functions as a very much needed Pot of Avarice for the Archetype. Though her biggest application is as material for her awakened form;
Violé Gramnad, Queen of Ichyaltas is the big boss monster of Ichyaltas that requires any Warrior Tuner and non-Tuner(s). Within Ichyaltas, you can easily climb into her using
Garleth, Crown Prince of Ichyaltas and a
Lorithia, Squire of Ichyaltas or build her in the better way, using
Gramnad, Holy Knight of Ichyaltas and
Alyesa, Lazy Princess of Ichyaltas, which, since you'd be using her lesser version, grants the Queen protection against targeting effects, which combined with the newly renamed
Gramnad's Holy Decree for Ichyaltas makes her very hard to kill. On top of that, she can negate monster effects by tributing any card from your hand or field. A worthwhile monster to climb into, if I do say so myself.
On top of that,
Alegra, Skydian Scholar of Ichyaltas will follow suit with the other Skydian Extra Deck monsters and require at least one Skydianborn (Skydian, Ichyaltas, Golden Skies or Silent Star) monster. This same change will be made to
Golden Skies Skydian - Naviam the Temporal Guide and
Silent Star Dragomir, the Skydian's Radiance.
The Thieves' Griefs:
Quite honestly, I'm just a tad unhappy with how Golden Skies currently operates. When I made Golden Skies, I envisioned
Golden Skies - Eiza the Treasure Smith to be the main playmaker and starter of the Archetype, which also would have been pretty fair, too. The starters would have been her + any Golden Skies monster or
The Winged Castle in the Golden Skies searching a low-level Golden Skies monster (if you don't have another Golden Skies card in hand) to Normal Summon it and trigger a Treasure that way.
Unfortunately, Zerry of the past felt like that would be insufficient, therefore creating
Golden Skies - Sigurd the Heavy Blade as an additional starter, and that ended up being overkill. To remedy that, Sigurd would henceforth be only able to Summon himself if only the opponent controls a monster, making him still playable, but less absolute as the best possible play.
In the same vein is the following buff to a completely unplayed card:
Golden Skies Treasure of Welfare. There's no real reason to abstain from drawing via
Golden Skies Treasure of Abundance or popping cards with
Golden Skies Treasure of War, especially not if the Welfare Summon locks you out of Links, which is a major part in tying the Skydianborn Archetypes together. Therefore, to at least give a small reason to consider Welfare, the monster summoned by it will not be locked out of Link Summons any longer.
Spoiler: Mentioned Cards • show Honestly, this
should be my final Warrior Submission for now unless there's further changes to the Skydianborn cards, but with the currently still open Skydian Submission and this one, I feel it's enough and I can move on to possibly a completely new project again. Though hopefully the next one will be a tad more tame than Doomsday Artifice
which is literally only broken due to Omega's existence and easier to script than Typus Alfa, which isn't even good enough to warrant wasting my time in trying to script it. But yeah, das my Warrior for now.
