Maiden of White – #SDWD-EN041
You can send this card from your hand or field to the GY; place 1 “True Light” from your hand, Deck, or GY, face-up in your Spell & Trap Zone. If you Special Summon “Blue-Eyes White Dragon” while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can Special Summon this card. When a card or effect is activated that targets this card on the field, or when this card is targeted for an attack (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon 1 “Blue-Eyes White Dragon” or 1 Level 1 LIGHT Tuner from your GY. You can only use each effect of “Maiden of White” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: April 21st, 2025
Rating: 4
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,
It was going to happen eventually, especially with them becoming a potential Tier 1 archetype now. It is Blue-Eyes week on Pojo CoTD, beginning with Maiden of White.
Retrain of Maiden with Eyes of Blue, this maiden is your True Light searcher for the archetype. Including the hand in the effect of sending Maiden to the grave saves your Normal Summon for something else, and True Light is activate immediately because Maiden places it face-up (wish Magician’s Selection would have done that). With True Light face-up immediately, you’ll get a Special Summon of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from hand or Graveyard, or get another Blue-Eyes Spell/Trap set from the Deck. The first one is more offensive-based and works into Maiden’s second effect, while the second is about setting up and gaining advantage. Both are good.
Maiden bringing herself back when you Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon makes sense with the first effect she carries. As mentioned above, True Light being activated off Maiden’s discard to search it can get you a Blue-Eyes White Dragon Special Summon, which then can get you a Maiden of White Special Summon from the Graveyard. If this was it you’d have your Level 1 Tuner and a Level 8 Dragon for Synchro Summon, but Maiden has one more effect.
Maiden of White carries her predecessor’s effect of being targeted for an attack or card effect ability to Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the grave, but this Maiden has the option to Special Summon a Level 1 LIGHT Tuner instead of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. You can target Maiden with something like Beacon of White or Vision with Eyes of Blue and Special Summon whichever choice you’d like from your Graveyard without losing Maiden in the process and, if you happen to have effect monster(s) that can target positively then you can also do that. You don’t need to wait for an attack to trigger this effect, which is great for both versions of the card, the added ability to go after a Level 1 LIGHT Tuner instead can enable Synchro Summoning without having to commit Maiden to the Synchro Summon and allow you to go into a Level 10 Synchro as well.
First version of this card helped Blue-Eyes. This version with the new support helps Blue-Eyes even more. A dedicated True Light searcher that doesn’t lose out on being a monster just because it can be discarded to search a certain Spell/Trap. Special Summon ability made sense with the discard to search, and the added ability to summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon or a Level 1 LIGHT Tuner makes this the prime Maiden to play. Great One for One target and combined with other support in the archetype (Primite) it is the card you want to see in your starting hand.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 3.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
The new Blue-Eyes support is finally up for review with their new Structure Deck, and it’s become a respectable competitor whether pure-ish or with variants like Primite, Invoked, or Buster Blader. Today we start the new support with their new Level 1 Tuner who is amazing for the archetype: Maiden of White.
Maiden of White is a Level 1 LIGHT Spellcaster Tuner with 0 ATK and DEF. No stats, but a Level 1 LIGHT Spellcaster is nice in Blue-Eyes, especially as a Tuner. The first effect lets you send this card from the hand or face-up field to the graveyard to activate a copy of True Light from your hand, Deck, or graveyard. Amazing Blue-Eyes got an immediate True Light while Dark Magician only gets a Field Spell to set Eternal Soul. Immeidate access to True Light on a monster as searchable as this in Blue-Eyes is great for the strategy to get your Dragons on the field or more of your backrow into play, you just hope True Light doesn’t get banished, since this makes that card a 1-of now. If you Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon while this is in your graveyard, you can revive it, which is instant access to Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon. Finally, when a card or effect targets this on the field, or it is targeted for an attack, you can Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon or any Level 1 LIGHT Tuner from your graveyard, which is fairly easy to trigger with Sage with Eyes of Blue or Mausoleum of White (the latter which is finally seeing play) to set up more Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragons or any other Extra Deck monster in the Blue-Eyes strategy. Each effect is a HOPT, which is fine, since this does so much for Blue-Eyes by getting to True Light, being able to revive itself, and also get more bodies on the field like your main Dragon or your other Level 1 Tuners. Play 3 in the Deck and you’ll likely see it or one of the searchers for it in your opening hand.
Advanced Rating: 4.5/5
Art: 4/5 Maiden with Eyes of Blue alt art pretty much.
Mighty
Vee
As much as I would’ve loved to cover the Materiactor support, it’s time to leave Supreme Darkness behind as we prepare for Alliance Insight. But fear not! After completely dodging the recent banlist, it’s the perfect time to finally cover the Blue-Eyes support from the Blue-Eyes White Destiny structure deck, which has finally pushed Blue-Eyes back into the meta after almost a decade (granted, with a little help from Primite). Maiden of White starts us off, a level 1 LIGHT Spellcaster Tuner monster, just like the original Maiden with Eyes of Blue. You’ll mainly want to search it with Wishes for Eyes of Blue, though in some combo lines you’ll have to search it with Sage with Eyes of Blue too. Predictably, Maiden has not improved at all in the stat department as it still retains its horrible 0 attack and defense. At least you can search it with Piri Reis Map if you’re desperate enough, but generally I don’t think you will be.
Once again we have ourselves 3 hard once per turn effects. Get used to them! The first will let you send Maiden from your hand or field to the Graveyard to place a True Light from your hand, deck, or Graveyard directly to your Spell/Trap Zone face-up. Despite relentlessly mocking this card in our initial review (hint hint) this is actually very important for Blue-Eyes combos since True Light will be reviving a Blue-Eyes monster later; more on that tomorrow! Speaking of which, Maiden has a trigger to Special Summon itself from the Graveyard any time you Special Summon a Blue-Eyes White Dragon (obligatory “except during the Damage Step”). This goes perfectly with True Light reviving a Blue-Eyes that you may or may not have happened to mill with Mausoleum of White; again, we’ll go a bit more in-depth when we discuss tomorrow’s card. Finally, as a nod to the original, Maiden has a Quick Effect that triggers if it’s targeted by any effect or for an attack, letting you Special Summon either Blue-Eyes White Dragon or a level 1 LIGHT Tuner from your Graveyard. Mausoleum of White, which tomorrow’s card will conveniently search, can easily trigger this, though in some combos you won’t even need to use this at all. Naturally, this will instantly set up a level 9 Synchro Summon or at least help set up an even higher level Synchro monster. It’s not as flexible as the original, but Maiden’s other 2 effects far outweigh it; accessing True Light and reviving itself alone makes it a key playmaker in Blue-Eyes. It’s not the strongest 1-card combo in the deck, but it can still combo on its own and is excellent for multi-card combos, so I’d recommend playing 3.
+Accesses other key combo pieces like True Light and enables level 9 Synchros
+Decent 1 card combo starter that still ends on Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon
-Being a Spellcaster can lead to awkward lines with Spirit with Eyes of Blue
-Still relies on Mausoleum of White for full combo potential
Advanced: 3.5/5
Art: 2.75/5 Can’t say I’m too fond of Kisara here, her face just looks weird and the pose isn’t much better. At least she traded in her brown caveman clothes though.
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