Dragon of Pride and Soul – #INFO-EN000
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) while your opponent has 25 or more cards in their GY. While you have 25 or more cards in your GY, this card gains 2500 ATK/DEF.
Date Reviewed: August 23rd, 2024
Rating: xx
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,
Dragon of Pride and Soul ends the week and, despite the great artwork it isn’t very useful.
If your opponent has 25 or more cards in their grave, the game is likely nearing its end regardless of who will win. I get the “25” is meant for the anniversary, but they could’ve made it “combined graveyards total 25 or more”, that would’ve made it more playable. Double the ATK if you have 25 or more cards in your graveyard also doesn’t seem very useful. That Grass Looks Greener isn’t in the game right now, and even if it was I still wouldn’t think this card was playable. While having that card around would make things easier on Pride and Soul to summon itself, you are depending on your opponent to do that and not set up their board AND you would have to have the much smaller deck AND still get 25 or more cards in the grave to add 2500ATK/DEF to Pride and Soul.
Love the artwork, the concept could’ve been tightened up to make it playable, but they did this already with the previous anniversary card. Maybe in five years they’ll make a 30 year anniversary card that is playable.
Advanced- 1/5 Art- 5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
The week ends off with yet another special card to celebrate the 25th Anniversary for the game, which now it seems we’ll get a new one each set for a bit, Dragon of Pride and Soul.
Dragon of Pride and Soul is a Level 8 DARK Dragon with 2500 ATK and DEF. Fine stats, and DARK Dragon iss great, even if this looks more like a LIGHT monster. It cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and must be Special Summoned if the opponent has 25 or more cards in the graveyard. This is almost the same problem as Magician of Bonds and Unity, except that only relies on something like this for the ATK boost, while here you need the opponent to get so many cards in the graveyard to summon it. Unless you can somehow force your opponent to do a ton of milling and discarding, I don’t know how often you’ll get this off. While you have 25 or more cards in your graveyard, this gains 2500 ATK/DEF. So it’s at least easier to get the stat boost, since it’s relying on you to get the amount of cards needed into the graveyard. Sadly, this still comes at the cost of it being harder to summon. It’s another card to celebrate the anniversary, so it probably isn’t meant to be good, but they’re at least cool to look at.
Advanced Rating: 1/5
Art: 5/5 They are really going for some grand artwork for these cards to celebrate these milestones (similar to Magician of Bonds and Unity as well as Ten Thousand Dragon).
Mighty
Vee
(What? How long have we been celebrating the 25th anniversary again?) Wrapping up this week is Dragon of Pride and Soul, another card to celebrate Yugioh’s 25th anniversary following Magicians of Bonds and Unity (ignore that I called it level 7!). As an analogue to Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Dragon is a level 8 DARK Dragon monster. There’s almost nothing better to be than a DARK Dragon (frankly, only being a level 1 FIRE comes even close in my opinion), but that can only get you so far if your effects aren’t good enough. Either way, you can grab it with typical Chaos Dragon tools like Chaos Space and Starliege Seyfert, as well as the upcoming Tachyon support if you really wanted to. Like Magicians, it shares the stat spread of 2500 for both attack and defense, really hammering in the 25th anniversary thing.
Dragon’s effect is the direct inverse of Magicians– that is, it can’t be Normal Summoned or Set and must be Special Summoned from your hand while your opponent has 25 or more cards in your Graveyard this time around. Conversely, it’ll gain 2500 attack and defense while your Graveyard has 25 or more cards in it. The result is, predictably, the same as for Magicians; terrible! With inverted conditions, Dragon is arguably more difficult to summon than Magicians in exchange for its stat boost being easier to fulfill. Of course, I say this in marginal terms since accomplishing either of these without your opponent’s help is a herculean task, especially without the help of Ishizu cards. While you could’ve made a case for Magicians in aggressive mill decks as a free body, that case is much weaker for Dragon by virtue of banking on your opponent. It’s a cute gimmick card for gimmick decks. Don’t even think about playing it in a real deck, or I’ll know!
+Potentially massive stats
+DARK Dragon!
-Horrifically difficult to summon and gain the stat boost
-Beater with zero protection or utility whatsoever
Advanced: 1.25/5
Art: 4/5 I like Magicians slightly more, but this guy still looks great with his yellow Rasengan thing.
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