Enlightened of Nephthys Level 2 WIND Spellcaster Effect Monster ATK 600 DEF 600 You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) You can target 1 Level 4 or lower “Nephthys” monster in your GY, except “Enlightened of Nephthys”; destroy 1 card in your hand, and if you do, Special Summon the targeted monster in Defense Position, but it has its effects negated. (2) Once per turn, during your next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed by a card effect and sent to your GY: You can Special Summon this card from your GY.

       ‘The Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys’ summoned itself back from the grave the turn after it was destroyed and all these new monsters have similar effects along with effects that can trigger that effect.

       Enlightened is a ‘Monster Reborn’ that requires you to destroy a card in hand. And if it is destroyed by a card effect it summons itself on your next turn.

Prayer of Nephthys Level 2 WIND Spellcaster Effect Monster ATK 0 DEF 2000 You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) During your Main Phase: You can destroy 1 card in your hand, and if you do, add 1 “Nephthys” monster from your Deck to your hand, except “Prayer of Nephthys”. (2) Once per turn, during your next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed by a card effect and sent to your GY: You can add 1 “Nephthys” Spell/Trap Card from your Deck to your hand.

        Prayer is a ‘Reinforcement of the Army’ if you destroy a card in your hand and searches any “Nephthys” spell/trap the turn after it’s destroyed.

Speaker of Nephthys Level 2 WIND Spellcaster Effect Monster ATK 300 DEF 1200 You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) You can target 1 “Nephthys” card in your GY, except “Speaker of Nephthys”; destroy 1 card in your hand, and if you do, add the targeted card to your hand. (2) Once per turn, during your next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed by a card effect and sent to your GY: You can add 1 “Nephthys” card from your GY to your hand, except “Speaker of Nephthys”.

       Speaker returns a card from grave to hand at the cost of destroying something else. And if it’s destroyed it adds any “Nephthys” card to hand on the next turn.

       The effect if it’s destroyed is far better than it’s on field effect so you’re never actually summoning this one.

Protector of Nephthys Level 2 WIND Spellcaster Effect Monster ATK 1400 DEF 200 You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) During your Main Phase: You can destroy 1 card in your hand, and if you do, Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower “Nephthys” monster from your hand, except “Protector of Nephthys”. (2) Once per turn, during your next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed by a card effect and sent to your GY: You can destroy 1 “Nephthys” monster in your Deck, except “Protector of Nephthys”.

       Protector summons a monster from the hand at the cost of destroying something else. And you can destroy something from the deck on your next turn if it’s destroyed.

      The problem with these cards is the same problem as the “Metaphys” archetype in that waiting another turn for half of your effects is way way too slow to compete anymore.

Avatar of Nephthys Level 2 WIND Spellcaster Ritual Effect Monster ATK 1200 DEF 1200 You can Ritual Summon this card with “Rebirth of Nephthys”. You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) If this card is Ritual Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 “Nephthys” monster from your Deck, also this card will be destroyed during this turn’s End Phase. (2) If this card is in your GY: You can destroy 1 “Nephthys” card in your hand, and if you do, Special Summon this card from the GY.

      Ritual summoning is inherently a -2 in card advantage so any ritual deck needs 2 things in order to be vaguely playable. 1. It needs to be compatible with ‘Pre-Preparation of Rites’ and the ritual monsters or the ritual spell need to gain you significant advantage.

      Summoning a monster from the deck makes summoning this card a +0 if you searched it with Pre-Prep which makes this deck at least playable.

      Summoning Prayer to destroy something and get a search is really good and makes this deck quite consistent by ritual deck standards.

      Destroying this card during the end phase isn’t bad because it’s attack value is incredibly low and it can summon itself back from the grave if was properly summoned.

Sacred Blue Phoenix of Nephthys Level 8 FIRE Winged Beast Ritual Effect Monster ATK 3000 DEF 1000 You can Ritual Summon this card with “Rebirth of Nephthys”. You can use each effect among the (1)st and (2)nd effects with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) During your Main Phase: You can activate this effect; destroy any number of “Nephthys” cards that are in your hand and/or face-up on your field, then destroy an equal number of monsters your opponent controls. (2) Once per turn, during your next Standby Phase after this card was destroyed (by battle or card effect) and sent to your GY: You can Special Summon this card from the GY.

       You’ll have to ritual summon this card with the original ‘Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys’ as using 4 level 2 monsters is next to impossible.

       An equal trade of destruction is nice especially as all your guys get effects off of destruction, but those effects take a turn to kick in and you use quite a lot of resources to wipe your opponent’s board this way.

      Summoning itself back for free every turn means that you can destroy itself every turn to destroy at least 1 card your opponent controls, but that’s not the best use of this card.

      This card is quite the nice recurring boss monster. It’s very useful for board control assuming you have the resources.

Nephthys the Palladium Deity Link 2 FIRE Winged Beast Effect Monster ATK 1200 Link Arrows: Bottom-Center, Bottom-Right Link Materials: 2 “Nephthys” monsters You can use the [(1)st] effect with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) During your Main Phase, if you control this Link Summoned card: You can activate 1 of these effects. • Add 1 Level 8 Winged Beast monster from your Deck to your hand, then you can add 1 Ritual Spell Card from your GY to your hand. • Destroy 1 “Nephthys” monster this card points to, and if you do, Special Summon from your GY 1 “Nephthys” monster whose original name is different from the destroyed monster’s, but the Summoned monster has its effects negated.

       Using Avatar and the monster it summoned to make this is not bad at all as Avatar was going to be destroyed and can summon itself back, so as long as you have access to summoning Avatar i.e. Pre-Prep then you have easy access to this card.

      Searching the original ‘Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys’ and adding back the ritual spell you used to summon Avatar makes summoning Sacred Blue Phoenix much more consistent.

      The second effect is fine, but not as good as the first effect. Cycling your monsters is good and triggering the on-destruction effects means that you’ll gain a lot of advantage later, but negating the effect of the monster you summoned was unnecessary and would have made it easier to gain a lot of advantage turn 1 instead of turn 3.

Rebirth of Nephthys Ritual Spell Card This card can be used to Ritual Summon any “Nephthys” Ritual Monster. (1) Ritual Summon 1 “Nephthys” Ritual Monster from your hand, by Tributing monsters from your hand and/or field whose total Levels equal or exceed the Level of the monster you Ritual Summon, then, if you Tributed “Avatar of Nephthys” and/or “Sacred Blue Phoenix of Nephthys” for this Ritual Summon, you can destroy 1 card on the field.

        Naming both of the ritual monsters in the card text makes this archetype Pre-Prep compatible which is all that was needed.

       Destroying a card on the field is nice as you can trigger your own effects or destroy cards your opponent controls if you’re going second. This effect won’t trigger too often as you don’t want or need to tribute a ritual monster to summon another, but it’s nice that you get a bonus if you do.

      This card does what it needed to do, nothing more.

Hope of Nephthys Normal Spell Card You can activate a card with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) Target 2 cards on the field (1 “Nephthys” card you control and 1 card your opponent controls); destroy them.

        This card only works going second. It targets and destroys an opponent’s card which isn’t great, but it can trigger your own effects and might disrupt your opponent.

        It’s not bad and triggering both effects of the “Nephthys” monsters is just extra value.

Awakening of Nephthys Continuous Trap Card You can use the (2)nd effect with this card’s name only once per turn. (1) “Nephthys” monsters you control gain 300 ATK. (2) If this face-up card in the Spell & Trap Zone is destroyed by a card effect and sent to the GY: You can Special Summon 1 “Nephthys” monster from your hand, Deck, or GY, but it is destroyed during the End Phase.

        The first effect can make Sacred Blue Phoenix 3300 crossing the important 3000 threshold, but other than that the attack gain is meaningless

       Your opponent is not going to destroy this card is they know what it does, so you’re going to have to destroy this yourself.

      But when you do summoning a “Nephthys” from anywhere and destroying it in the end phase is really good as it can gain you loads of advantage depending on what you summon and when.

       This card’s good just a bit slow.

       And that’s the problem with the archetype as a whole, it’s a bit slow. Gaining advantage during the next standby phase is not good enough anymore. “Metaphys” have the same problem where the gain all their advantage way too late to matter at all.

Prankids Pulse Level 1 WIND Thunder Effect Monster ATK 0 DEF 2000 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) If this card is sent to the GY as Fusion or Link Material for a “Prankids” monster: You can send 1 “Prankids” card from your Deck to the GY, except “Prankids Pulse”, then you can Special Summon 1 “Prankids” monster from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, except “Prankids Pulse”.

       The main deck monsters all do something and then summon another “Prankids” monster when used as fusion and link material.

       This would be excellent if they had a link-1, link-2, etc. and higher monsters so you could easily link climb, but so far all we know of is a link-4 monster and a load of fusion monsters.

       Pulse sends a “Prankids” monster to the grave, but no “Prankids” cards benefit from being in the graveyard so this effect is currently pointless.

Prankids Ramp Level 3 FIRE Pyro Effect Monster ATK 1500 DEF 500 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn: (1) If this card is sent to the GY as Fusion or Link Material for a “Prankids” monster: You can inflict 500 damage to your opponent, then Special Summon 1 “Prankids” monster from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, except “Prankids Ramp”.

       Ramp does some insignificant burn damage and summons another “Prankids” when used as fusion/link material.

Prankids Drop Level 2 WATER Aqua Effect Monster ATK 1000 DEF 1000 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per tur. (1) If this card is sent to the GY as Fusion or Link Material for a “Prankids” monster: You can gain 1000 LP, then Special Summon 1 “Prankids” monster from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, except “Prankids Drop”.

       Drop gains you life and summons another “Prankids” when used as fusion/link material.

      All 3 main deck monster’s effects are bad, but they can swarm fairly well.

Prankids House Battle Butler Level 10 WIND Thunder Fusion Effect Monster ATK 3000 DEF 3000 Materials: “Prankids Ramp” + “Prankids Drop” + “Prankids Pulse” This card cannot be Special Summoned, except by a Fusion Summon. You can only use the second effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. (2) If this card is sent to the GY by your opponent: You can target 1 monster in your GY, except a Fusion Monster; Special Summon that monster.

        Requiring all 3 “Prankids” is quite tough so you’re probably not making this guy on your first turn.

       Tributing a monster you put 4 resources into, the 3 mosnters plus the fusion spell, just for a ‘Raigeki’ is not good. Especially because you can’t summon this card back from the grave.

       If your opponent gets rid of it before using it’s effect you can summon back one of your “Prankids”, but they’re just going to get destroyed or run-over by your opponent so that doesn’t matter.

      This card’s just bad. Too many resources required for a ‘Raigeki’ that you can’t use more than once.

Prankids Roargon Link 4 WATER Aqua Link Effect Monster ATK 3000 Links: Top, Left, Right, Bottom Materials: 2 or more “Prankids” monsters This card cannot be Special Summoned, except by a Link Summon. You can only use the second effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) (Quick Effect): You can Tribute this card; destroy all Spell/Trap Cards your opponent controls. (2) If this card is sent to the GY by your opponent: You can target 1 card in your GY, except a Link Monster; add that card to your hand.

      At the moment there is no way to link-climb into this card so you’re never summoning it turn 1. Hopefully we’ll get link-1/link-2 monsters in the future.

     This card also tributes itself, but it’s a ‘Harpie’s Feather Duster’. You also can’t summon this card out of the grave to use it again or to summon something else.

      The second effect letting you add back literally any card has a lot of potential if you add back a card like ‘Monster Reborn’, but this card is still too difficult to summon for an effect that gets rid of itself and doesn’t allow itself to be revived.

Prankids on the Loose Quick-Play Spell Card (1) During either player’s Main Phase: Fusion Summon 1 “Prankids” Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as Fusion Material, but for the rest of this turn you cannot Normal or Special Summon monsters, except “Prankids” monsters.

        The archetypal fusion spell. 

        The summoning restriction wouldn’t matter if there were low link “Prankids” monsters or an easy way to leverage the “Prankids” into significant advantage, but as it stands there aren’t.

       Fusion summoning on the opponent’s turn is interesting if the easier to summon fusion monsters have good disruption effects.

Prankids Rocket FIRE Pyro/Fusion/Effect LV5 2000/0 2 “Prankids” monsters You can only use this card name’s (1) and (2) effects once per turn each. (1): If this card is Fusion Summoned: You can activate this effect; for the rest of this turn, have this card lose 1000 ATK, and if you do, it can also attack directly this turn. (2): You can Tribute this card, then target 2 non-Fusion “Prankids” monsters with different names in your GY; Special Summon them, also they cannot attack this turn.

        This card is significantly easier to summon requiring fewer and more generic materials than Battle Buster.

       The ability to attack directly for 1000 damage isn’t great, but it’s not awful as it allows you to pick away at the opponent regardless of their board.

       Tributing itself to summon back the “Prankids” you used to summon this and since both of those “Prankids” would have summoned another when used to summon this you’d now have 4 “Prankids” on board for Roargon or Battle Buster if you have another fusion spell.

      That’s a 3 card combo, 2 “Prankids” and the fusion spell, to make Roargon, or a 4 card combo to make Battle Buster. That’s terrible.

Prankids Weather Level 5 WATER Aqua Fusion Effect Monster ATK 2000 DEF 0 Materials: 2 “Prankids” monsters You can only use the (2) effect of this card once per turn. (1) If a “Prankids” monster you control attacks, your opponent cannot activate effects until the end of the Damage Step. (2) During your opponent’s turn (Quick Effect): You can tribute this card, then target 2 “Prankids” monsters with different names in your GY, except Fusion Monsters; Special Summon them, and if you do, they cannot be destroyed by battle this turn.

        At least we’re getting multiple easy to summon fusion monsters.

       Giving an ‘Ancient Gear Golem’ effect to all your “Prankids” is good, but only the fusions and link monster have any real attack value and you’re not likely to have multiple on the field in the early game.

       Summoning back the fusion materials used for this card is good, but only on the opponent’s turn is very bad. The battle protection is nice, but they can still be destroyed by card effects.

      These fusion monsters don’t really help you gain advantage or leverage your plays.

       This archetype needs lower link monsters in order to link-climb and they need a way to easily search and recycle the fusion spell.

Orphegel Canon Cannon Level 1 DARK Machine Tuner Effect Monster ATK 500 DEF 1900 You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) You can banish this card from the GY; Special Summon 1 “Orphegel” monster from your hand, except “Orphegel Canon Cannon”, but you cannot Special Summon monsters, except DARK monsters, for the rest of this turn.

       All the “Orphegel” monsters have effects that banish themselves from the grave to summon another “Orphegel” from somewhere.

      And they all have the restriction of only summoning DARK monsters for the rest of the turn, which isn’t really a restriction because there’s tons of good DARK monsters.

      Cannon summons from the hand

Orphegel Scherzo Skeleton Level 3 DARK Machine Effect Monster ATK 1200 DEF 1500 You can only activate the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 “Orphegel” monster in your GY, except “Orphegel Scherzo Skeleton”; Special Summon that monster, but you cannot Special Summon monsters, except DARK monsters for the rest of this turn.

      Skeleton summons from the graveyard.

Orphegel Divertimento Devil Level 4 DARK Machine Effect Monster ATK 1700 DEF 1400 You can only activate the effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) You can banish this card from your GY; Special Summon 1 “Orphegel” monster from your Deck, except “Orphegel Divertimento Devil”, also you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn, except DARK monsters.

      And Devil summons from the deck.

Orphegel Galatea Link 2 DARK Machine Link Effect Monster ATK 1800 Links: Top Right, Bottom Left Materials: 2 monsters, including at least 1 “Orphegel” monster You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) This linked card cannot be destroyed by battle. (2) You can target 1 of your banished Machine monsters; return that monster to the Deck, then Set 1 “Orphegel” Spell/Trap Card directly from your Deck to your side of the field.

      All the link monsters only require 1 “Orphgel” monster so the rest of the requirement can be fulfilled by anything.

      The link monsters also protect themselves and shuffle back banished machines to do things.

      Galetea gets battle protection and can set spells/traps from the deck for 1 monster.

Orphegel Longirsu Link 3 DARK Machine Link Effect Monster ATK 2500 Links: Top Left, Top, Bottom Right Materials: 2+ monsters, including at least 1 “Orphegel” monster You can only use the 2nd effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) This linked card cannot be destroyed by card effects. (2) You can target 2 of your banished Machine monsters; return those monsters to the Deck, then you can send 1 monster your opponent controls that this card points to to the GY, but this card cannot attack this turn.

      Longirsu gets card effect protection as long as it’s linked and can return 2 machines to get rid of an opponent’s monster.

Orphegel Orchestrion Link 4 DARK Machine Link Effect Monster ATK 3000 Links: Top, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Materials: 2+ Effect Monsters including an “Orphegel” monster You can only use the (2) effect of this card’s name once per turn. (1) While this card is linked, it cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects. (2) You can target 3 of your banished Machine monsters; Return them to the Deck, also, if your opponent controls any face-up monsters that are linked, the ATK and DEF of those monsters becomes 0 and their effects are negated.

       Orchestrion gets both battle and card effect protection when linked and can return 3 monsters to make all your opponent’s monsters 0/0 normal monsters.

      All the link monsters are fantastic just for how easy they are to summon and for how useful and easy to activate their effects are.

Orphegel Attack Normal Trap Card (1) When a monster declares an attack: You can Tribute 1 “Orphegel” or “World Legacy” monster you control, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; banish that monster.

      An archetypal ‘Dimensional Prison’ is okay, but at least it’s setable from the deck.

      Requiring a tribute is a bit much though.

Orphegel Core Continuous Trap Card (1) Once per turn: You can banish 1 monster you control or in your GY, then target 1 “Orphegel” or “World Legacy” card you control, except “Orphegel Core”; that card cannot be targeted by effects for the rest of this turn. (2) If a “Orphegel” or “World Legacy” card you control, except this card, would be destroyed by battle or effect, you can send this card you control to the GY instead.

       This card covers the targeting protection that none of the link monsters have for the cost of banishing a card in the grave which isn’t a problem at all.

       The second effect to take a destruction is also nice, but none of the “Orphegel” link monsters are destroyable so that effect is more for the “World Legacy” archetype who only exist to help the archetypes in this lore series and do not work as a deck in it of themselves.

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