If your opponent controls a monster and you control no monsters, you can Special Summon this card (from your hand). This card cannot attack during the turn it is Special Summoned this way. When this card is Tributed: Special Summon 1 Dragon-Type Normal Monster from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard, and make its ATK and DEF 0.
Card Ratings
Traditional: 2.75
Advanced:
3.75
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.
3 is average.
5 is the highest rating.
Date Reviewed - June 8, 2012
Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit closes the week. we're
still obviously on Light attributed Dragons, but the
Level and attack slightly improve from 5 to 6 and
2000 to 2100 (with a defense of 1400.) An effect
resembling slightly that of Cyber Dragon, if your
opponent controls a Monster and you control none,
you can Special Summon this card from your Hand. So
that makes this a great opening card, or late game
even (although the 2100 attack may not be enough
late game.) However, if Special Summoned in this
way, this card cannot attack in said turn. Now,
when tributed, you have your standard Hieratic text.
So let's review...I like the Special Summon,
conditional as it is. I don't like not being able
to attack, and I don't like that's all it has going
for it aside from the norm.
Ratings:
Traditional: 2/5
Advanced; 3/5
Art: 5/5
John Rocha
We finally get to talk about a key piece to the
Hieratic puzzle. Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit has the
Cyber Dragon ability of being special summoned with
the draw back being that it cannot attack. Attacking
is not something we are interested in doing with
this card. The objective is to special summon it and
then tribute it with another Hieratic monster like
yesterday’s card or Su. This will give us a normal
monster and a Hieratic monster on the field to Xyz
summon with, or we could just go crazy and use more
tribute effects to swarm the field. More on that in
another week.
Another way to tribute Tefnuit to get its effect
is to use cards that tribute like Enemy Controller.
Simply special summon Tefnuit, use Enemy Controller
to tribute it, (especially if they use Bottomless
Trap Hole) and then special summon a dragon with the
same level as the stolen monster and then Xyz
summon.
One thing we have not talked about because it is
not inherent to the Hieratic theme is Synchro
summoning. All you need to do is to add one Flamvell
Guard (level 1 Dragon) to your deck. Then when you
tribute Tefnuit, you can bring out Flamvell Guard
and Synchro summon with the other monster you have
on the field. Or, you can special summon Tefnuit and
normal summon Guard. As many of your Hieratic
monsters are level 6, this means summoning Black
Rose Dragon to clear the field then becomes an
option.
Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit is an important card
and needs to be run in three’s in a Hieratic deck.
Traditional: 3/5
Advanced: 4/5
Philosophical
Psycho
So I'm reading everyone's
articles for Hieratic Dragon of Gebeb back on
Tuesday... And I realized...Gebeb does NOT summon
ANY Normal Dragon you wish when Gebeb gets Tributed.
This pushes the usability for Gebeb even lower than
I first anticipated, and is another reason why to
use Eset over Nuit or Gebeb. This means Gebeb can
only summon (when Tributed) Hieratic Seal of the Sun
Dragon Overlord, which is only used in certain
uncommon Hieratic builds, or (from the Graveyard
only because it's a Gemini) Hieratic Seal of the
Dragon King, which I really do not recommend using
at all.
Anyways, back to Tefnuit. Identical to the infamous
Cyber Dragon in every way except for Type
(ironically) and Tefnuit's slightly lower DEF score.
Also, the name: you can use Cyber Dragon for various
Fusions and being a Hieratic, Tefnuit gets access
to all their various support. Tefnuit has a
restriction that makes it unable to attack, but that
shouldn't be the case at all because you're supposed
to Tribute Tefnuit right away, then get a free
Normal Dragon for doing so! If Tefnuit's services
are not necessary, use it to pay the cost of Su or
Nebthet and get the free Normal Dragon anyway! :D I
also suppose you can Normal Summon Tefnuit, but
doing so is a rare occurance; the most likely case
this would happen is Special Summoning a Tefnuit, Tribute
Summoning a second Tefnuit over it, then getting a
free Normal Dragon off the first Tefnuit and Xyz for
Rank 6.
I said in the Eset article on Wednesday that Su was
the only Level 6 Hieratic. Hehe, obviously I
overlooked Tefnuit, but Tefnuit requires you to have
no monsters to Special Summon, which makes abusing
it for Rank 6 Xyz slightly hard, but still managable.
Anyway, my point is, Tefnuit and Eset combined are
what helps you start intiate the deadly Hieratic
circle, and even if you don't Special Summon it,
Tefnuit isn't always a dead card in hand. Otherwise,
Tefnuit is the most splashable of all Hieratics if
three Cyber Dragons are already being used for the
sake of using it as an immediate Tribute; either
that, or using a Level 6 for a particular Xyz or
Synchro.
Traditional: 1.5/5 (Tefnuit
requires you to be at a monster disadvantage, and
unless you're very lucky at drawing Effect Veiler,
you're probably dead once that happens)
Advanced: 3.9/5 (not the star
for Hieratic plays, but it is a component to get
them going and plus it has splashability value!)
Aesthetics: 2/5 Tefnut is the
Egyptian goddess of water and was rumored to have
the ability to excrete pure water, so I guess it's
kinda appropriate for Tefnut to Special Summon
itself (as water vapor condensing into a physical
Dragon). She was rather aggressive, and was
represented by a lion. I don't like the design
behind the Hieratics in general, mainly because I
don't really like having it based off a religion,
even a fairly extinct one. Also, it is very
inaccurate to make all the Hieratic Dragons Light
Attribute, IMO.
Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit
Dragon/ Light/ LV 6/ 2100 ATK/ 1400 DEF
“If your opponent controls a monster and you control
no monsters, you can Special Summon this card (from
your hand). This card cannot attack during the turn
it is Special Summoned this way. When this card is
Tributed: Special Summon 1 Dragon-Type Normal
Monster from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard, and make
its ATK and DEF 0.”
This card, to put it simply, is basically a Cyber
Dragon with an extra effect when it is tributed.
This card can be very crucial in a turn one rank 6
xyz. Mid to late game is where this card’s secondary
effect will come into fruition. Again this card,
just like many other Hieratic dragon monsters, will
special summon a level 6 dragon or the level 8
dragon for an xyz play. Another great use is special
summoning this card, then tribute it for a lv 5-6
monster and special summon a normal dragon for an
xyz summon.
Pros: Easy special summon, decent effect, decent
attack, and honest-able.
Cons: The monster special summoned will be a 0/0 and
has to be a normal monster.
Advanced: 3/5
Traditional: 2/5
Argouru
Heratic Dragon of Tefnuit
Lv 6/LIGHT/Dragon/2100A/1400D
"If your opponent controls a monster and you control
no monsters, you can Special Summon this card (from
your hand). This card cannot attack during the turn
it is Special Summoned this way. When this card is
Tributed: Special Summon 1 Dragon-Type Normal
Monster from your hand, Deck, or Graveyard, and make
its ATK and DEF 0."
Another key card to an HD deck as he can be
Special Summoned if the opponent has monster(s) and
you don't, allowing for a second summon in the same
turn. What's more, he can replace himself with a
Normal Dragon when tributed. The only downside is
that he can't attack the turn he's Special Summoned
via his effect. Still, you can start off some of the
theme's best combos using him, so I recommend
running him in multiples in any HD deck.
