Stats                : Cyber Prima is a Level 6 Light/Warrior Effect Monster with 2300 ATK and 1600 DEF.  Being a Tribute means the effect has to overcome an inherent loss of a card to get it into play (be it a Monster offered as Tribute, a Premature Burial after dumping it into the Graveyard, or whatever).  It is a Light Monster, which is a good sign: while it is annoying that Chaos is still such a strong presence in the format, at least it is some kind of Attribute based support.  If is just unfortunate that it is for the Attributes that least need the aid.  Still, it helps this Monster.

 

Warriors are perhaps the best supported theme in the game, so that is another mark in Cyber Prima’s favor.  Granted their support is best for Level 4 Monsters, whether by design or not, still there is enough there to benefit Cyber Prima.

 

What won’t help her, and just guessing this is female as this Monster series is rather gender ambiguous, is that her ATK is only 2300 in a meta dominated by 2400 ATK Tributes and capable of dropping 2300 ATK Level 4 Monsters on a whim.  Goblin Attack Force, even though its not a deck staple to most, is a counter waiting in the wings for any Tribute Monster from 2100 ATK to 2300 ATK, as even if you drop and attack, you come out ahead in card count.  The reason 2100 ATK and below Tribute Monsters don’t fear Goblin Attack Force is we have Cyber Dragon already rendering them poor investments, so Goblin Attack Force would be redundant.  There are other Monsters that could do the same, but most have reasonable downsides: Jirai Gumo is usually expensive to attack with, Chainsaw Insect would give them a draw to replace the Monster you just slew, Zombyra can’t attack direct and loses ATK points as it destroys Monsters, etc.  There are a few others that would still be problems, but at least it’d be less than what we have now (or the potential for what we have now).  At least Cyber Prima’s 1600 DEF is useful in the current format.  Book of Moon might be at one, but it and Enemy Controller still see play and even if they didn’t, Tsukuyomi does.  All of those result in shots at beatsticks in their oft weaker DEF position.  Cyber Prima will require a real beatstick to slay her in DEF mode, not just Tsukuyomi or even a spent Breaker.  That helps, marginally.

 

Overall, though her stats should be good, in the current meta they aren’t up to snuff unless she has a very good effect.

 

Effect               : When Cyber Prima is Tribute Summoned successfully, she destroys all face up Spell Cards on the field.  This has some potential, but as a whole probably won’t be enough to get her played.  This is a nice, solid effect with some combo potential.  Of course, that means it won’t see play since the metagame is dominated overpowered cards, including several dedicated to Spell/Trap removal.

 

Uses and

Combinations  : Face-Up Spells are usually limited to Snatch Steal and Premature Burial and then a few other random Equip and stall cards.  It hits you as well, but honestly that’s a good thing, as it opens up some simple combos.  Smoke Grenade of the Thief can be equipped to any Monster but the one you are offering as Tribute to Summon Cyber Prima.  So just slap in on your opponent’s Monster (other than Spirit Reaper), then Tribute Summon Cyber Prima to give her a Monarch worthy effect.  If Return from the Different Dimension wasn’t so popular, then Big Bang Shot would also be useful (since it would remove the Equipped Monster as Cyber Prima destroyed it).  There are a few others, but sadly they get even weaker so I’ll let you hunt them out.  Too bad you can’t hit Trap Cards.  Still, Snatch Steal is popular enough that even in a CC deck this isn’t a total waste.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1/5 – Even though it feeds Chaos, it can’t compete with the utter brokenness of the average card used in this format.

 

Advanced        : 2/5 – Its stats are just a hair puny for it to be a poor choice for Chaos, but it would still work an on occasion pay for itself by nuking an opponent’s Premature Burial, Swords of Revealing Light, Snatch Steal, Messenger of Peace, and… that’s about it for commonly played Spells that remain face-up in play.  There are a few more, but they get more and more specialized after that.

 

Summary

Cyber Prima is one of those cards that should be great.  At least, if the game played out the way it tends to in the manga and such, where players often can rely on a Spell card being in play for several turns, and will even stack Continuous Spells on top of each other.  That’s not how things are though since even after so many Ban Lists, we still have mass Spell removal and many one-for-one Spells.  Anyone with an inkling of skill will make a one-for-one trade favor them.