Spirit with Eyes of Blue – #SDWD-EN033
1 Level 4 or lower Dragon or Spellcaster monster
You cannot Special Summon, except Dragon monsters. You can only use each of the following effects of “Spirit with Eyes of Blue” once per turn. If this card is Link Summoned: You can take 1 “Mausoleum of White” from your Deck and either add it to your hand or send it to the GY. You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 “Blue-Eyes” monster from your hand or GY, but if you Special Summoned an Effect Monster from your GY by this effect, it cannot attack and its effects are negated.
Date Reviewed: April 22nd, 2025
Rating: 3.92
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Spirit with Eyes of Blue has a little bit of hype to it considering it bridges between Spellcasters and Dragons.
Dedicated Link 1 for the Blue-Eyes archetype, SwEoB requires a Level 4 or lower Spellcaster or Dragon monster to be Link Summoned, something readily available in many archetypes. Locking you into Dragon-Type monsters is something expected since you should be playing this in a Blue-Eyes deck, but there are Spellcaster monsters run in the deck and you would figure it would say something that would include “Eyes of Blue” monsters.
When Link Summoned, SwEoB is a Mausoleum of White search for your Deck if you run the card. Because the Field Spell in question is a Double Summon for LIGHT Tuner monsters and a Foolish Burial for Normal Monsters once per turn it would be in your best interests to play it. Sure, can’t use that Double Summon ability until SwEoB is off the field, but that won’t take long. So far, Spirit with Eyes of Blue has cost you one monster and has gotten you a Field Spell that will get you another summon and a Foolish Burial: a deck thin and an extra summon to set up Synchro Summons and we’re not done with this card, not too shabby. You can also send the Field Spell to the grave when searching it, but that would be if you wanted to search Burst Stream of Destruction and that may be a card you aren’t playing.
Back to that being locked into Dragon-Type monsters thing. Tribute Spirit to Special Summon a Blue-Eyes monster from the hand or Graveyard eliminates that problem, and that gets set up with Mausoleum of White, which is searched of this card’s Link Summon: Spirit with Eyes of Blue turns any Level 4 or lower Spellcaster or Dragon into a Field Spell, Foolish Burial, and Blue-Eyes monster in a single turn. This, this is the power card the archetype has been waiting for (wish Dark Magician had something like this). This, alongside Maiden of White are your top cards to get the strategy going.
Blue-Eyes get a Link Monster that encompasses one of their Spell/Trap that help get to their Blue-Eyes and works with their LIGHT Tuner monsters. There isn’t anything wrong with this card aside from not including “Eyes of Blue” somewhere in their card text and that’s not really even a problem. Tremendous card for the archetype.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We were bound for one of the three classic DM-era strategies to get their own Link, so of course it’s Blue-Eyes to be the first in the trio with Spirit with Eyes of Blue.
Spirit with Eyes of Blue is a Link-1 LIGHT Dragon with 300 ATK and an arrow pointing Bottom Left. Not high ATK, but that’s normal for a Link-1, and being LIGHT is great along with Dragon, plus fine arrow. The material is any Level 4 or lower Dragon or Spellcaster, so Striker Dragon 2.0 now with Spellcasters. You cannot Special Summon any non-Dragons while you contol this, so there’s some downside. The remaining effects are each a HOPT, first triggering on Link Summon to take a Mausoleum of White from your Deck and either add it to your hand or send it to the graveyard. We never really ran Mausoleum of White before, but now with a Link-1 that searches for it (how original, Link-1 searches the Field Spell), we might as well run a copy of it since it can extend your combos with another Normal Summon, get a Blue-Eyes into the grave, and trigger Maiden of White. You could send it to the grave and banish it to search for Burst Stream of Destruction as well, but we aren’t reaching that far. The other effect lets you tribute this card to summon a Blue-Eyes monster from your hand or graveyard, but if you summoned an Effect Monster from the hand, its effects are negated and it cannot attack. This will mostly be summoning the classic Blue-Eyes White Dragon, though reviving a Spirit Dragon is an option, same goes for Jet. If you do summon from the hand, it’ll most likely be Blue-Eyes White Dragon unless you do plan to use it as immediate Synchro, Xyz, or Link Material. It’s a good Link-1 for Blue-Eyes, plus extra copies of Striker Dragon in any pure Dragon strategies I guess? It gives Mausoleum of White some more viablity and it summons your big Dragon onto the field. It’s been standard to see Blue-Eyes use multiples of these, and it’s good enough to be warranted as well.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4/5 Look at the cute little baby Blue-Eyes.
Mighty
Vee
Today’s card was met with a collective mix of shock, hope, fear, and just all-around bewilderment when it was revealed– it’s Spirit with Eyes of Blue, a Link 1 LIGHT Dragon Link monster for the Blue-Eyes theme. It has a single bottom left arrow, which is good enough but ultimately not too important in Blue-Eyes proper. Notably, it will take any level 4 or lower Dragon or Spellcaster monster, which caused no shortage of doomposting its splashability in Spellcaster and Dragon decks, though we’ll get to why it’s not actually that good outside of Blue-Eyes. As a nod to White Stone of Legend, it shares the abysmally low 300 attack. Which somehow is still better than the Spellcaster Blue-Eyes Tuners…
Spirit will lock you into Special Summoning Dragon monsters while it’s on the field. This is very important to keep in mind because your key combo pieces, like Maiden in White, Sage with Eyes of Blue, and the upcoming Kaibaman retrain are all non-Dragons, so you’ll have to plan your combo routes accordingly. This also makes it almost useless in Spellcaster decks, so give up on that dream too. Spirit comes with 2 hard once per turn effects; the first will trigger on Link Summon to, what else, search Mausoleum of White, or alternatively send it straight to the Graveyard. We mentioned yesterday why this is pretty important, since you’ll be able to use Mausoleum’s effect to target the Maidens and trigger their effects. The Graveyard option is meant to help activate Mausoleum’s Graveyard effect to search Burst Stream of Destruction, which is frankly a very bad card so I don’t think you’ll be doing this often outside of casual builds. If you find yourself in a position where you don’t have Maiden in rotation, you can always just target Spirit itself to send a Blue-Eyes White Dragon to the Graveyard, which leads us to Spirit’s other effect. By tributing itself, you can Special Summon any Blue-Eyes monster from your hand or Graveyard, but if you choose an Effect monster from your Graveyard, it’ll have its effects negated, plus it can’t attack either! This effect is obviously trying to goad you into summoning the good ol’ vanilla Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but I guess in emergencies you can bring back something like Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon to have a slightly easier time summoning their new boss monster (nevermind that you’ll probably get more value out of just making a new Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon…). Most importantly, Spirit will conveniently get rid of itself this way, thus letting you revive Maiden in White without the pesky Dragon lock and setting up the summon of Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon. Outside of Blue-Eyes, it’s not much better than Striker Dragon or Guardragon Pisty; it’ll get the job of putting your low-level Dragons in the Graveyard just the same. You only need 1, but 2 is always nice for safety; you never know when Kashtira Unicorn will ruin your day. As a side note, people thought we’d never get a Link monster for Blue-Eyes or Dark Magician to avoid displeasing the DM fanboys, but evidently that did not stop Konami. Take that!
+Excellent combo piece that enables your Blue-Eyes combos
+Alternative to Striker Dragon and Guardragon Pisty as a Link 1 Dragon
-Very limited combo uses outside of Blue-Eyes
-Requires you to play around the lock
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 4/5 Why did it take so long to get a baby Blue-Eyes again? We got 2 eggs!
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