Salamangreat Foxy
Level 3 FIRE Cyberse Effect Monster
ATK 1000
DEF 1200
You can only use either this card nameās (1) or (2) effect per turn, and only once that turn.
(1) When this card is Normal Summoned: You can excavate the top 3 cards of your Deck. You can add 1 excavated āSalamangreatā card to your hand, also shuffle the other cards into the Deck.
(2) If this card is in your GY, and you control a face-up Spell/Trap Card: You can discard 1 āSalamangreatā card; Special Summon this card, then, you can destroy 1 face-up Spell/Trap Card.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Adding a card on summon is good, but doing it theĀ āPot of Dualityā way is really annoying and luck based.
Ā Ā Ā I donāt know ifĀ āSlamangreatās have continuous spell/traps that plus off of destruction, but if they do then this cardās second effect is really good. If not itās really bad.
Ā Ā Ā This cardās quality will be better determined with a better view of whatĀ āSalamangreatās do and what cards they have.
Salamangreat Heatleo
Link 3 FIRE Cyberse Link Effect Monster
ATK 2300
Links: Top, Bottom Left, Bottom Right
Materials: 2+ FIRE Effect Monsters
(1) If this card is Link Summoned: You can target 1 card in your opponentās Spell & Trap Zone; shuffle it into the Deck.
(2) Once per turn, if this card was Link Summoned by using āSalamangreat Heatleoā as a Link Material: You can target 1 face-up monster and 1 monster in your GY; the ATK of the target on the field becomes the same as the ATK the target in the GY until the end of this turn.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Requiring FIRE effect monsters means that itās not archetype locked, but there arenāt that many FIRE decks so this cardāll see as much play asĀ āDuelittle Chimeraā outside of itās own archetype.
Ā Ā Ā Shuffling away backrow is really good as if it cannot be chained at that moment itās lost for basically the whole duel.
Ā Ā Ā If you use 1 of him and 2 other FIRE effect monsters just to summon another one you can change the attack of a monster. That condition is as bad as the effect is and theyāre both terrible.
Ā Ā Ā This card doesnāt really do anything productive, but heās only the first and I assume that weāll be seeing more.
Salamangreat Emerald Eagle
Level 8 FIRE Cyberse Ritual Effect Monster
ATK 2800
DEF 2000
You can Ritual Summon this card with āRise of the Salamangreatā.
(1) When this card is Ritual Summoned using a āSalamangreat Emerald Eagleā you control: You can destroy all Special Summoned monsters your opponent controls.
(2) Once per turn: You can Tribute 1 āSalamangreatā Link Monster; this card gains this effect until the end of this turn.
⢠At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles an opponentās monster: Destroy that opponentās monster, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monsterās original ATK.
Ā Ā Ā Ā This archetype has a habit of requiring copies of themselves to be used to get additional effects making the first time you summon monsters unnecessarily weak.
Ā Ā Ā Ā A selective āRaigekiā on summon is a substantial effect though that might have been too powerful to leave on without an annoying condition.
Ā Ā Ā Requiring a link monster be tributed is a bid investment especially since weāve only seen a link-3 and nothing else.
Ā Ā Ā And the benefit of tributing a monster that took 3 others to summon is destroying 1 monster and inflicting some burn damage.
Ā Ā Ā This card is bad. It requires too many resources to do any thing at all. Itās minus 2 to summon it and then requires you to go minus 2 again to summon another to get theĀ āRaigekiā effect then it requires you to tribute another monster to destroy one more monster.
Rise of the Salamangreat
Ritual Spell Card
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any āSalamangreatā Ritual Monster.
(1) Ritual Summon 1 āSalamangreatā Ritual Monster from your hand, by Tributing monsters you control or have in your hand whose total Levels equal or exceed the Level of the monster you Ritual Summon. If you control a FIRE Link Monster, you can shuffle āSalamangreatā monsters from your GY into the Deck instead.
(2) If this card is destroyed by an opponentās card effect: You can Special Summon 1 āSalamangreat Emerald Eagleā from your hand, ignoring its Summoning conditions.
Ā Ā Ā Shuffling monsters into the deck to Ritual summon is acutally really good as it recurs resources that you can search and summon again for link summoning.
Ā Ā Ā If you set this card and your opponentĀ āMystical Space Typhoonās this then you can summon the Ritual monster for free.Ā
Ā Ā This turns the Ritual summon from a minus 2 to a minus 1 in two separate ways, one of which relies entirely on your opponent.
Ā Ā I donāt have high hopes for this archetype.