Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames – #PHNI-EN052
2+ Effect Monsters
You cannot Special Summon monsters, except FIRE monsters. You can only use each of the following effects of “Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames” once per turn. During your Main Phase: You can Special Summon 1 FIRE monster from your GY. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent’s field, while this card is in your GY (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 FIRE monster you control and 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy them, and if you do, Special Summon this card.
Date Reviewed: January 2, 2025
Rating: 4.50
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames was a powerful factor in making the “Year of Fire” a year to remember (or forget if you weren’t running the strategy).
A Link 3, Princess requires effect monsters to Link Summon and will lock you into FIRE monsters…though that doesn’t matter. 2700ATK is very strong for a Link 3, add on the ability to Special Summon a FIRE monster from the grave each turn and you have yourself a boss monster. Princess will get you back any of your Tenpai Dragon monsters, or, more realistically, Snake-Eye/Fire King monsters that you want to summon back. No restriction on which monster, no “effect(s) are negated” clause, just a FIRE Monster Reborn for your grave. You recoup one of the three monsters you used for the Link Summon, making the investment for Promethean Princess essentially two monsters instead of three. She could even summon back Ash Blossom and you can use her for a Synchro Summon.
As if that wasn’t enough to make Promethean Princess a great asset to the FIRE Attribute strategies running around in 2024, she has a Special Summon ability of her own to get back to the field. Your opponent is going to Special Summon, and if Princess is in the grave when they do, you can trade a monster they have and a FIRE monster you have to summon her back. The effect destroys the monsters in question, so any effects upon destruction will trigger. While this may benefit your opponent, this alongside Fire Kings meant more advantage. In Snake-Eye, this put a Snake-Eye into the grave for Flameberge Dragon.
Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames solidified the “Year of Fire” for all FIRE archetypes. Snake-Eye got a high ATK boss monster that could reliably Special Summon from the grave. Tenpai got a FIRE Extra Deck monster to lean on when their OTK’s fell through, Fire King got a boss monster that would destroy them to reborn herself. Usable in any FIRE strategy, Princess will be top lady of FIRE for the foreseeable future.
Advanced- 4.5/5 Art- 5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
The runner up is here for the Top 10 of 2024, and it’s more FIRE support that made this the year of the FIRE Attribute. From Phantom Nightmare, we have Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames.
Promethean Princess is a Link-3 FIRE Fiend with 2700 ATK and arrows pointing Left, Right, and Down. Great ATK for a Link-3, and great arrows for a Link-3, also FIRE and Fiend is nice. Materials are any 2+ Effect Monsters, which is shockingly generic for a card meant to only support the FIRE Attribute, hence not allowing you to Special Summon any non-FIRE monsters while you control this, but you can get out of that by using this as Link Material, and there are good Link-4 FIRE monsters to summon like Amblowhale or Raging Phoenix. Each effect of this card are HOPTs, first letting you Special Summon any FIRE monster from the graveyard, which is some strong extension for anything FIRE related to have access to. It was great in Snake-Eye and Fire King for sure to revive monsters you can trigger the effects of on summon or use as Link Material or destroy to trigger their effects of. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned to the opponent’s field while this is in the graveyard, you can target a FIRE monster you control and a monster the opponent controls to destroy them and revive this, which can be disruptive against the opponent, or combo with Worldsea Dragon Zealantis and Salamangreat Raging Phoenix to try and OTK the opponent. Promethean Princess is a strong Link for the FIRE Attribute for what it offers to the entire Attribute. It’s nice extension and disruption to have for them, for sure a staple in the Extra Deck for any FIRE Deck.
Advanced Rating: 4.5/5
Art: 5/5 Konami has made some great art recently.
My #2: Dominus Impulse
Mighty
Vee
Coincidentally for January 2nd, we get to our silver medalist and number 2 on our countdown, Promethean Princess, Bestower of Flames. While Soulburning Volcano was the set that kicked off the Year of FIRE, Princess would be the card to break the gates wide open. This Link 3 FIRE Fiend Link monster takes any two Effect monsters, which I wasn’t too concerned about in our initial review, but once again I stand with my mouth agape in the face of the Yugioh community’s ingenuity.
Getting the elephant out of the room, we’re all aware of what makes Princess such an amazing card– its ability to revive any FIRE monster makes it an integral combo piece to many FIRE decks, including Fire King, Salamangreat, Volcanic, and of course, Snake-Eye. Even decks like Tenpai play Princess “just in case” because of niche scenarios that it can dig you out of with its revival effect. That alone makes Princess great, but it goes a step further with its effect to revive itself and destroy one of your opponent’s monsters, effectively making itself self-recycling disruption. It pairs excellently with Salamangreat Raging Phoenix and Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale, providing either offensive pressure or an added bonus disruption, depending on what you feel like. While the FIRE lock can be annoying, it’s not too hard to get around, especially by making either of the two aforementioned FIRE monsters to get Princess off of the field. While I’m glad the hybrid never took off, a great showcase of Princess not being as generic as it looks comes from the short-lived Millennium Snake-Eye hybrid, which used Beatrice, Lady of the Eternal to send Snake-Eye Ash to the Graveyard, then Linked it off for Princess to revive Ash and kickstart your Snake-Eye combos. In my circles, many people wanted to see Princess hit to Forbidden, and I can empathize with why; but after years of being a relatively weak attribute, I think FIRE deserves to have a generic bombshell card for current decks and future decks to come.
+Provides almost any FIRE deck with an extender and additional disruption
+Generates constant offensive pressure, especially in decks that benefit from self-destruction
-Needs a bit of finesse to maneuver around the FIRE lock
-Vulnerable to being banished or otherwise disrupted from the Graveyard
Advanced: 4.5/5
Art: 4.5/5 Surtr?! Is that you?
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