Dragon’s Light and Darkness – #INFO-EN057
Activate 1 of these effects (but you can only use each effect of “Dragon’s Light and Darkness” once per turn);
● Shuffle 1 Level 8 Dragon monster from your hand into the Deck and add 1 Level 8 Dragon monster with a different Attribute from your Deck to your hand.
● Target 1 Dragon monster you control; it gains ATK equal to its Level x 200.
● When a card or effect is activated that targets a Dragon monster you control: Negate that effect.
Date Reviewed: September 18th, 2024
Rating: 3.08
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’s Light and Darkness is something to help the original Light and Darkness Dragon, as well the new monster we’re reviewing Friday, but could find itself into Dragon decks in general as well.
Quick-Play Spell that offers you three effects, but sadly, you can only activate one of them. If you have multiple of these cards you can only activate the same effect once per turn. Good balance even if you aren’t likely to have more than one of this card at a time. Level 8 RoTA for Dragon-Type monsters is something the original Light and Darkness Dragon wished it’d had back in its hay day. Swap a Level 8 Dragon in your hand for the one you need…as long as it’s a different Attribute. This may come up and hamper some strategies, but it is still a decent effect and adds to the ways to search for Dragons.
ATK boost equal to Level x 200 is something we’ve seen before, and intended to give likely a 1600ATK boost. Shrink is the same kind of effect and can be chained the same as this card, but is far more splashable into a strategy because it doesn’t depend on a Type. ATK boost is still good, and 1600ATK (if Level 8) should put you over the top to win a battle.
Negation is king in the game and likely is the best effect of this card. Negate a targeting effect that targets a Dragon of yours, and while it doesn’t destroy the card, it is a negation to add to the RoTA you could opt to use instead. You have plenty of generic negation options that also destroy, but most of the time they are trap cards. If that isn’t your style, this card fits even without destruction.
Specifically for Dragon-Type monsters, Dragon’s Light and Darkness gives you options. ATK boost helps in your battles, a RoTA for a Level 8 Dragon is certainly good even if it is technically a -1, and the negation ability helps protect while your monsters push for damage. The negation may beat out the RoTA, but swapping a Level 8 Dragon for a better one at that point in time is pretty good. Had that effect been to swap them in the hand or on the field it would be the best effect hands down.
Advanced- 3.5/5 Art- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Midweek brings us a brand new Spell to try and help you consistently summon the new Light and Darkness Dragon Fusion: Dragon’s Light and Darkness.
Dragon’s Light and Darkness is a Quick-Play Spell that has 3 effects to choose from, and you can use each once per turn in the case you draw multiple copies. First effect takes a Level 8 Dragon in your hand and shuffles it into the Deck to search for a Level 8 Dragon with a different Attribute from the Deck, so it can get you to a Dragon that’s more useful to you in exchange for the fact this is a minus 1 in card advantage, but that’s fine if you can regenerate said advantage. Second effect targets a Dragon you control to have it gain ATK equal to its Level times 200, which doesn’t help Light and Darkness Dragon or the Fusion with negates since you need DEF as well, but at least you won’t be sitting on a very weak monster anymore if you use this after the negates are gone. Also could boost any other Dragon for some more damage, or focus on your Light End or Dark End when their stats are getting low. Finally, the third effect is negation for cards or effects that target a Dragon you control, which is solid protection for anything that isn’t Light and Darkness Dragon since that’ll already just negate whatever targets it if it has the stats. It’s a solid card, mainly for the searching as that’s the best effect. The other two can come up if you drew into multiples of these, setting them for some defensive options. Fine card for a dedicated Light and Darkness Deck, more optitonal in any other Dragon strategy that already has searcher.
Advanced Rating: 3/5
Art: 4/5 Hey look, the new LADD.
Mighty
Vee
To continue riding the coattails of level 8 Dragon support (speaking of which, Duelists of Light, any day now, Jerome?), the Light and Darkness Dragon support brings the Quick-Play Spell, Dragon’s Light and Darkness. Light and Darkness itself isn’t once per turn, though you can only choose each of its effects once per turn if you somehow manage to access all three copies. The first choice is suspiciously similar to Draconnection, shuffling a level 8 Dragon from your hand to your deck to search another level 8 Dragon with a different attribute. It’s meant to cycle between Light End Sublimation Dragon and Dark End Evaporation Dragon if you have too many of a certain attribute, but funnily enough, this effect’s main purpose was theorized as an additional searcher for Tachyon instead. It’s not terrible for Light and Darkness, but considering neither of the Dragons can fuse on their own, it’s not a huge help. So if Draconnection is better for that, what about the other two effects? The second choice lets you target a Dragon you control and boost its attack by 200 times its level. This sounds fantastic on paper since you would get more negates out of your boss monster…until you realize the negates drop both attack and defense, so this is literally only for recovering attack to push for OTK. Not cool! Finally, you can activate this card in response to an effect that targets one of your Dragons, simply negating that effect. Though I usually hate exclusively targeting negation, it’s not so bad, since it’ll save your Sublimation or Evaporation from getting zinged by Infinite Impermanence. That said, odds are you’d just summon and fuse with the other Dragon anyway. I appreciate the card’s versatility, but all of its effects are just rather half-baked in the grand scheme of things. You’ll probably still run 3 copies in Light and Darkness proper because you have nothing better to run (alongside Draconnection, depressingly enough). You would have run this in Tachyon, but thanks to their bombshell final card, both this card and Draconnection are totally obsolete searchers. At least you can get The Bystial Lubellion!
+Can search strong level 8 Dragons
+Mix of effects for a variety of situations
-Doesn’t have high impact in most of these situations
-Search effect doesn’t even guarantee plays
Advanced: 2.75/5
Art: 3/5 How original!
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