Maliss Q Hearts Crypter – #CRBR-EN020
3 monsters, including a “Maliss” monster
(Quick Effect): You can target 1 of your banished “Maliss” cards; shuffle it into the Deck, and if you do, banish 1 card on the field (while this card points to a monster, this effect and its activation cannot be negated). If this card is banished: You can pay 900 LP; Special Summon it and double its ATK. You can only use each effect of “Maliss <Q> Hearts Crypter” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: January 17th, 2025
Rating: 3.92
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 end on Maliss Q Hearts Crypter this week, fitting as we haven’t looked at a Maliss Link Monster yet this time around.
Link 3 that needs at least one Maliss monster (sorry, no generic players here). Low ATK for a Link 3 but if you know the archetype that is a good thing. A 1-for-1 banish ability on field: cycling back a Maliss card you have banished to banish a card on field. Good way to cycle back anything you’d like to search from your Deck (Maliss Spell/Trap Cards). Bonus if you have Hearts Crypter pointing to another monster, as it prevents negation of its banish ability. Spot removal was missing from the archetype and that is what Hearts Crypter does for it…as well as become a big body when banished.
When banished in any fashion, you pay 900LP like with all the Maliss Link Monsters to Special Summon her back, but her attack is then doubled. Hearts Crypter becomes 5000ATK when summoned back by her own effect, enabling OTK’s to happen on turns when you’re attacking. Combined with Underground’s potential to add 3000ATK to all your Maliss Link Monsters, you have the ability to FTK if you were able to clear their field and have Hearts Crypter with Underground and your three different Maliss Trap Cards banished. Sounds like a lot, and it can be, so lets focus on Hearts Crypter becoming 5000ATK off of only paying 900LP to summon herself back from the banished area. Red Ransom banishes a Cyberse from your Deck when summoned back this way (setting up more combos if you haven’t activated the Cyberse monster’s effect this turn, while White Binder can draw you a card, Hearts Crypter is your best attack option of these three as well as being a removal option.
Each Maliss Link Monster does something to help the strategy along. Hearts Crypter gives the archetype an attacker as well as on-field removal that also recycles a Maliss card for you to search out or banish again. The potential with Underground to be an absolute force in ATK isn’t going to happen before you are able to win, but you never know, and it is good to have that in your back pocket. As is, 5000ATK is 5000ATK alongside a 1-for-1 removal ability that can’t be negated if Hearts Crypter points to a monster. Easy removal that gets you back something to the Deck, protects its own effect, and pumps itself up off its own Special Summon ability: Hearts Crypter is a closeout weapon.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
The week ends off with the queen of the entire Maliss archetype, Maliss Q Hearts Crypter.
Hearts Crypter is a Link-3 DARK Cyberse with 2500 ATK and arrows pointing Up, Bottom Left, and Bottom Right. Good ATK on a Link-3, DARK/Cyberse is great, and arrows are pretty standard on most Link-3 monsters. Materials are any 3 monsters, including at least 1 Maliss monster, so you got some room for options while still needing you to stay in archetype for 1 material, but also needing 3 monsters does make it costly to summon. The first effect is a Quick Effect to target a banished Maliss card and shuffle it into the Deck, then you banish a card on the field, and the activation and effect of this cannot be negated while it points to another monster. A Quick Effect banish for any card on the field is always good, especially when you can’t have it be negated by the opponent. You should also be able to fuel this with extra Maliss names you banish or if you are under Dimension Shifter, which is an option for Maliss, though the archetype does use the grave for some plays. The other effect triggers if banished, letting you pay 900 LP to summon this back and double its ATK, which of course you can only do if you summoned it properly first, but at least the Links can also come back if banished, and this does come back bigger with 5000 ATK, making it very hard to run over in battle. Hearts Crypter is solid, but it doesn’t extend your combos like the other two Links, instead being an endboard piece you end your turn off of or try to summon off of TB-11 instead, but then you can’t summon it back if its banished. Like the other Link Monsters in the archetype and most Extra Deck monsters in general, you only play 1 of this, but it’s a 1-of you might regret not having if you don’t run it.
Advanced Rating: 3.5/5
Art: 4.5/5 Based on the initial artwork reveal, some assumed this would be a Pendulum considering how high up her legs were to give room for a potential Pendulum Effect box.
Mighty
Vee
God save us from the Queen! Ending the week is the de facto boss monster of the Maliss archetype, Maliss Q Hearts Crypter, a Link 3 DARK Cyberse Link monster with up, bottom left, and bottom right arrows, which are quite helpful for this deck. Hearts Crypter requires 3 monsters, with at least one of them being a Maliss monster, so it’s not very easy to summon, though the Sky Striker engine and generic Cyberse tools help a lot. It also comes with a solid 2500 attack for a Link 3 monster, though it won’t be uncommon for it to be a lot more…
Hearts Crypter comes with two hard once per turn effects, the first being a Quick Effect to shuffle a Maliss card back into your deck to banish any card on the field; additionally, if Hearts Crypter is pointing to a monster, your opponent can’t negate this effect at all. Non-targeting banish is excellent as removal as always, and it’s even stronger as disruption to stop any pesky Graveyard floaters. Obviously, you can also use it as a combo piece in a pinch by banishing your own Maliss monsters as well. The bonus effect is rather easy to play around, but it’s easy to fulfill with the bread and butter combos and an additional layer of complexity your opponent needs to play around, so there’s little reason to avoid it unless it messes up your Link arrows. Recycling your Maliss cards is a cherry on top, especially when you generally don’t want to play too many copies of the Traps. Hearts Crypter’s other effect is half-shared with the other Maliss Link monsters, triggering if it’s banished to let you pay 900 Life Points to Special Summon it. In Hearts Crypter’s case, its bonus effect for reviving itself is doubling its attack, making it a monstrous 5000 attack. It can go even higher if you go out of your way to activate Maliss in Underground’s attack boost, but between Firewall Dragon Darkfluid – Neo Tempest Terahertz and Hearts Crypter, you should not be desperate for OTK power in this deck. Otherwise, the revival effect is excellent as a combo extender and it essentially lets you bring back Hearts Crypter practically every turn, something very valuable in a grindy format like this one; it also more than compensates for the lack of protection. Pure builds seem to only run 1 or 2 copies, which is understandable since it revives itself. In the standard Sky Striker hybrid combos, you’ll usually use Hearts Crypter as a Link material to make Terahertz, then revive it with Maliss C GWC-06 since the endboard otherwise isn’t too aggressive without it. Overall an excellent boss monster for the deck.
+Strong disruption that can function as a combo extender in a pinch
+Constantly revives itself as long as you can keep banishing it
-Lacks protection without help from Maliss P Dormous
-Can sometimes be awkward to make due to the 3 monster requirement
Advanced: 4.25/5
Art: 4.5/5 Konami always goes extra for these kinds of decks, not that I’m complaining! I sure hope she’s not as guillotine-happy as Disney’s rendition of the Queen of Hearts.
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