#spygal

Our first SPY…GAL? …SPYRAL support Card is revealed! And I think she’s really good!

At first glance, her not being a SPYRAL card is a rather big detriment: she can’t be searched with Resort nor Master, she can’t be special summoned via Big Red nor Assault and she can’t gain any attack benefits from Drone. Here’s the thing though: those would make her pretty damn broken. Everyone who’s involved in competitive Yugioh knows how absurd Majespecter Unicorn Kirin is and this card would, with the SPYRAL name, essentially turn into a level 4 Kirin that can be searched six ways from Sunday that can also be immune to targeting, battle and have potential for crazy high attack and be much, much, much easier to special summon. In short, no SPYRAL name because otherwise she’d be a lil’ too insane.

That being said, let’s look at the good things! First thing she does is look at the top card of your opponent’s deck, setting up Agent for a special summon and also, if you call it right, netting yourself a free draw. This is extremely important for gathering intel on your opponent’s deck asap, and succeeds in somewhere that Drone didn’t which is on the first turn play. Drone gathers the intel but, on a first turn board, doesn’t do much to interrupt the opponent. Misty, however, lets you put herself and Super Agent on board to bounce something of your opponent’s on their turn, interrupting plays at your leisure. We’ve all seen how strong quick-effect bouncing is with Kirin, so there’s no doubt that Misty’s effect is powerful in that regard, but also significant is putting Agent back in your hand. While in your hand, he can be used again on the next turn, continuing to fight his way through backrow.

She’s a dark spellcaster, like Master Plan, meaning that there’s potential for support from cards like Dark Horizon, Dark Magic Veiler and Allure of Darkness, but we’ll have to see about that in the future. Her first effect is also triggered by a special summon, a slight indication that perhaps there’ll be an in-theme means of special summoning her in the future? Either way, she’s a great card and I’m looking forward to the next three~