Deception of the Sinful Spoils – #ROTA-EN055
You can Tribute 1 monster from your hand or field; add 1 “Azamina” card from your Deck to your hand. If a monster(s) is sent to your opponent’s GY, and you control an “Azamina” monster (except during the Damage Step): You can make your opponent lose 1500 LP, and if you do, gain 1500 LP. During the End Phase, if this card is in the GY because it was sent there from the Spell & Trap Zone this turn while face-up: You can Set it. You can only use each effect of “Deception of the Sinful Spoils” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: December 9th, 2024
Rating: 3.93
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,
We are back with the Diabellstar storyline cards and begin this week with Deception of the Sinful Spoils.
Continuous Spell that revolves around the Azamina part of the storyline, it is a 1-for-1 trade like many of the cards within the archetype. Give up a monster to search any Azamina card in your Deck. Currently only three targets are in the TCG, though that will be changing late next month when Supreme Darkness gives you more targets. Until then, The Hallowed Azamina, Azamina Debtors, and Azamina Determination are your choices. Hallowed Azamina remains the go-to with its Fusion Summon ability in conjunction with Sinful Spoils Spell/Trap Cards, but Debtors does the same thing but in Quick-Play form. They all perform the same Fusion Summon the same way, but at different speeds and have slightly different grave effects. From an offensive standpoint, Hallowed Azamina or Azamina Debtors are your best choices.
The gain 1500LP and your opponent loses 1500LP when you send a monster of theirs to the grave while controlling an Azamina monster is a good bit of LP swap. Each turn you can do this and while LP aren’t critical until very very low or OT, if you make your opponent lose 1500LP three times in a turn and a half, they will start to feel a little heat, and controlling an Azamina monster isn’t hard with multiple ways to cheat out a Fusion Summon.
End Phase effect instead of a banish not on the same turn effect is a welcome sight. Reset Deception of the Sinful Spoils if it got sent there this turn while face-up allows you to trade it with one of your Azamina Fusion Spells after getting the most out of it, as well as having it work with Diabellstar’s Special Summon ability.
Several effects, each of them proactive to the strategy of swarming and working with the Sinful Spoils Spell/Traps, Deception of the Sinful Spoils is a balanced search card that the player can build off of.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
More Diabellstar lore to continue some of the themes, with this week starting off with basically a missing piece from last week: Deception of the Sinful Spoils.
Deception is a Continuous Spell that lets you tribute a monster to add any Azamina card from your Deck to your hand. The cost is free if you set this from the Deck with Diabellstar, or you can just tribute some hand traps that won’t be useful to you or monsters you want in the graveyard. In return, you get your Hallowed Azamina to send this off and start summoning your Azamina Fusions, or after Supreme Darkness you can search for Azamina Elzette of the White Forest to make White Forest plays with her. If a monster(s) is sent to the opponent’s graveyard while you control an Azamina monster, you can make the opponent lose 1500 LP and you gain 1500 LP. So if you put this on the field and keep your Azamina monsters around, you can create a 3000 LP gap between your LP and the opponent’s, which is super relevant with TCG time rules. Finally, if this card is in the graveyard during the End Phase because it was sent there from the field face-up that turn, you can reset it back to the field, which would let you use it again with The Hallowed Azamina. Each effect is a HOPT of course. Deception is the key card to the Azamina package, as you get to it easily with Diabellstar (who you can get to easily with WANTED), and then she serves as fodder to search for your Azamina stuff. It also recovers itself when you use it for your Azamina cards and it gives you LP while taking some from the opponent to create a LP gap. Play it if you’re doing anything with Azamina.
Advanced Rating: 4.5/5
Art: 4.5/5 So I guess this is how the White Forest monsters become Azamina monsters?
Mighty
Vee
Following up on Azamina, this week we’re covering some of the Diabellstar lore support from Rage of the Abyss, starting with a card we should be very familiar with by now, the Continuous Spell Deception of the Sinful Spoils. As usual, you can search it with Diabellstar the Black Witch, though you can also grab it with last week’s Azamina Mu Rcielago as well as the upcoming Azamina and White Forest cross support monster in Supreme Darkness. Deception comes with 3, count’em, 3, hard once per turn effects, the first usable any time during your Main Phase to tribute a monster from your hand or field to search an Azamina card. This is Deception’s most important effect by far, since it’s how you’ll access The Hallowed Azamina; conveniently, Deception itself is the perfect fodder to sacrifice and bring out Azamina Ilia Silvia or Mu Rceilago since the other two effects aren’t particularly noteworthy. While it’s still possible to brick, the odds are astronomically small as long as you run a healthy amount of monster monsters, which shouldn’t be too difficult between your Snake-Eye and White Forest monsters and Fiendsmith or Fire King monsters if you choose to play them. Deception’s second effect triggers any time a monster is sent to your opponent’s Graveyard while you control an Azamina monster, making them lose 1500 Life Points while gaining 1500 for yourself as well. It’s not a true burn, but outside of extremely fringe scenarios that’s irrelevant anyway– the main point is that it can cheese match wins since an advantage of 3000 Life Points can be tough to overcome against an established board. That said, we’re heading into a format where some of the best decks can comfortably use Dimension Shifter, so might not come up too often in the near future. Finally, in typical Sinful Spoils fashion, Deception can set itself directly back to your backrow from the Graveyard during the End Phase as long as it was sent there that turn while face-up on the field. This is obviously meant to synergize with White Forest and Azamina cards by providing even more Spell fodder to sacrifice for your plays. With Azamina in particular, Deception basically pays for itself being sacked for The Hallowed Azamina (which is great, since you’ll essentially be losing 2 cards if you start the combo with Diabellstar). Despite the bricking risks, being able to bring out Rcielago or Silvia quickly is extremely strong, so many lists opt to run 3 copies, plus as many Diabellstar and WANTED: Seeker of Sinful Spoils as your region legally allows.
+Helps kickstart Azamina and Snake-Eye combos
+Recycles itself as backrow fodder
+Life Point steal
-Can be a brick with astronomically bad hands
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 3.75/5 Noooo, girls please look into the light!
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