Fire Princess

Rated For: Her Own Deck

Fire Princess is still highly playable. The key is in using her correctly. First, you want to make a list of all life point gain cards that can be effective. This includes Marie the Fallen One, Spell Absorbing Life, Mystik Wok, Drain Shield, Solemn Wishes, Nimble Momonga, Guardian Angel Joan, and others.

A lot of these examples stretch the limits of believability, mainly because they’re so situational and promote bad card advantage. So a Fire Princess deck can definitely be difficult to construct in either the pre-ban or post-ban formats, but you have several factors on your side.

Firstly, Sangan, UFO Turtle, Last Will can all search out the hot one. Also, a lot of the life point gain cards have secondary effects that are useful (Negate an attack, negate flip effects, etc.) I feel the Fire Princess burn archetype has gone ignored ever since the peak of LON, and should be revisited. It certainly couldn’t hurt to have some fun.

Advantage F/H: Compare this to other burn monsters; Stealth Bird will be used 1-2 times for 2000 total damage. Des Koala will be used once for about 800-1600 damage. Lava Golem is a special case because it also takes down two monsters, but you get the general idea. If you can extract about 1000-1500 damage out of one card, you should consider it viable. Now, if you have 3 Marie the Fallen One in the graveyard, Fire Princess will do 1500 damage in one turn. If you have 2 Solemn Wishes active, she’ll do 1000 damage per turn. Obviously, this is very powerful in a burn deck.

Traditional Format Score:                             8.5/10

Advanced Format Score:                               8.5/10

Best Draw for the Situation: Normal summoning Fire Princess often isn’t the best course of action, because it’ll have to stay on the field for a turn to benefit from Solemn Wishes/Marie the Fallen One. However, if you search it out or revive it from the graveyard, it can spring a nasty surprise on your opponent. Remember to support it with stall cards.

T:                                                                    5.5/10

A:                                                                    5.5/10

Attributes/Effect: Being a FIRE type and having a sub 1500 attack score makes it searchable by Turtle, but I would have liked a 1450+ attack to avoid it being run over under Messenger of Peace. The effect is quite solid.

T:                                                                    8.5/10

A:                                                                    8.5/10

Dependability: Fire Princess requires a LOT of support to work effectively. It can almost be argued that she requires an entire deck around her, and the requisite stall/burn set up, not to mention cards that increase life points.

T:                                                                    2.5/10

A:                                                                    2.5/10

The Bottom Line: Fire Princess can be a good burn monster.

A BAD Score—

Traditional:                                                     3.13

Advanced:                                                      3.13

FORCE System Suggestions:

++        Contributes to Energy

--          Weakens Field Control, On-Field Presence