Majesty’s Fiend – #MGED-EN134
Cannot be Special Summoned. Neither player can activate monster effects.
Date Reviewed: September 26th, 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,
Majesty’s Fiend is a good Throwback Thursday choice because its LIGHT Fiend stats align with the Fiendsmith Toolbox.
This monster belongs to the “Fiend” archetype which consist of Tribute-Level monsters that have a board-wide effect. In the case of Majesty’s Fiend, you are getting a Level 6 that cannot be Special Summoned. Instead of stopping Special Summons like many of the “Fiend” monsters do, Majesty’s Fiend stops monster effects for either player. These tribute monsters are often Side Deck material or splashed into an archetype as a means of lockdown when the player feels they have a decent control of the game. You can drop this turn zero and force your opponent to out it with a Spell or a Kaiju-like monster (if they have one). If they don’t, you are also locked out of monster effects, but you control the pace of the game.
With Link Monsters now in the game, you can get rid of Majesty’s Fiend whenever you want if you want to launch all your monster effects at once. The same can be said about using him for an Xyz Summon or a Synchro Summon. Unlike the other “Fiend” monsters that lock out the Special Summons (great effect), this locking out monster effects significantly narrows the plays your opponent can have. So many archetypes function on getting smaller monster effects going to make their bigger plays or search out important cards. They also bank on outing cards with monster effects rather than Spells or Traps.
Majesty’s Fiend is a great piece of Side Deck material, and, if you can use it within your strategy, the Main Deck as well. As a LIGHT Fiend, it works great with Engraver Toolbox as a target for Requiem or a search target for Tract. Engraver will likely get enough support to have its own full-on deck, and if/when they do, Majesty’s Fiend may find a place in there.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Fabled Lurrie is too easy and simple to review, so instead we look at a LIGHT Fiend that’s more generic and has its spot in the game’s history: Majesty’s Fiend.
Majesty’s Fiend is a Level 6 LIGHT Fiend with 2400 ATK and 1000 DEF. Monarch stats are nice, plus being a LIGHT Fiend makes this searchable now. It cannot be Special Summoned, similar to Vanity’s Fiend, and its only other effect prevents both players from activating monster effects. A very strong card in stun strategies that already won’t be activating a ton of monster effects, summoning this to prevent the opponent from being able to combo off unless they can get a monster big enough to run this over on the field, or have a good Spell/Trap to remove it. The main downside of this is only that it’s a Tribute Summon to get it onto the field, which is fine in a Deck like Monarch that’ll likely use this since it has the stats to synergize with their Spells and Traps. Other stun strategies could also use this if they can provide the tribute fodder. It could work in something like Runick. A good card that doesn’t have a spot in the meta since nothing is going to dedicate a Tribute Summon to it when they got satasificatory plays, but it can always pop up again.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4/5 Basically a light version of Vanity’s Fiend. I do wonder if we get Majesty’s Ruler one day?
Mighty
Vee
When Fiendsmith was first revealed, the main complaints were about easy access to Beatrice, though one complaint that fell under the radar (and fortunately never came to be) was the fact it could easily access today’s Throwback Thursday card, Majesty’s Fiend, part of the Majesty/Vanity mini-archetype. Majesty’s Fiend is, of course, a level 6 LIGHT Fiend monster, making it searchable with Fiendsmith’s Tract. For a level 6 monster, it has a respectable attack of 2400, though its defense is at a very low 1000, so I’d probably keep it in attack position if I can. Incidentally, these are also Monarch stats. The stars align!
Mercifully, Majesty’s Fiend can’t be Special Summoned in any way, so you’re forced to Tribute Summon it. Its sole effect prevents both players from activating monster effects. That’s it! Dedicated decks can easily access it through Fiendsmith with ample Tribute fodder, so when people weren’t bemoaning the incoming Beatrice ban, they were instead bemoaning how “every” deck could search and summon Majesty’s Fiend. Indeed, Majesty’s Fiend used to be a juggernaut in decks like Monarch (thanks, Monarch stats), since they did not rely on monster effects for disruption (or at least only used them as floodgates) and could easily set up tribute fodder to bring out Majesty’s Fiend. In practice, Majesty’s Fiend ends up hurting you more often than not in modern play. First, you’re losing out on more robust combos that end on multiple disruptions, like S:P Little Knight and Phantom of Yubel. Summoning Majesty’s Fiend turns off your other monster disruptions, which is particularly fatal for Snake-Eye and Yubel hybrids. Secondly, Majesty’s Fiend itself isn’t as invincible as it used to be as boardbreakers have become much stronger; even Infinite Impermanence alone shuts it down. Lastly, the weakest reason is that it’s a potential brick, though simply one copy isn’t enough to make it suboptimal– it’s the combination of all of these factors that make it unreliable in the current top Fiendsmith hybrid decks. It’s definitely still a strong floodgate on paper, but even with the strongest enabler in the world, it just isn’t as good as reliable, strong endboards.
+Vicious floodgate that can shut down many decks
+Can be easily accessed and fielded with Fiendsmith
-Floodgate hurts both you and the opponent
-Isn’t worth searching or using compared to other options with Fiendsmith
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 4/5 In general, probably my favorite pose of the Majesty/Vanity crew, though why does his hand almost look photoshopped in?
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