Queen Azamina – #SUDA-EN009
(This card is always treated as a “Sinful Spoils” card.)
If this card in your hand or field is sent to the GY or banished, by an activated effect: You can Special Summon it. When your “Azamina” or “White Forest” monster destroys an opponent’s monster by battle: You can target 1 “Sinful Spoils” Spell/Trap in your GY; add it to your hand. You can only use each effect of “Queen Azamina” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: April 7th, 2025
Rating: xx
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
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Crunch$G
Diabellstar lore part 2 this week as we see more Azamina stuff with the queen herself: Queen Azamina.
Queen Azamina is a Level 8 DARK Illusion with 2500 ATK and 2000 DEF. Nice stats, DARK is always great, and Illusion is pretty good. It’s always treated as a Sinful Spoils card for all the Azamina things you can do with it. The first effect triggers if this card is sent from your hand or field to the graveyard or banishment by an activated effect, letting you Special Summon it. Immediately, I think of using this with The Hallowed Azamina to get one of your Fusions out and then getting to summon this back for free, giving you a big body on the board, with a useful effect when an Azamina or White Forest monster destroys an opponent’s monster in battle, letting you target and add a Sinful Spoils Spell/Trap from your graveyard to your hand, so it’s some recursion at least that this can trigger on its own destroying a monster in battle. HOPT on each effect, as we can expect. Queen Azamina is a fine card in White Forest Azamina builds, to be honest. It isn’t broken, but it makes The Hallowed Azamina free for example, and the second effect it has can come up to recover Sinful Spoils cards. It’s searchable, and you probably won’t always need it to win the game, but having a copy in White Forest Azamina isn’t going to be a bad call either.
Advanced Rating: 3/5 Art: 4/5 Creepy
Mighty
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You might’ve noticed we didn’t cover any proper Azamina cards last week, and that’s because they got a full wave in Supreme Darkness! Queen Azamina starts us off, a level 8 DARK Illusion monster to mirror Diabell, Queen of the White Forest. As with all Azamina cards, your primary searchers for it are Azamina Mu Rcielago, Elzette, Azamina of the White Forest, and Deception of the Sinful Spoils. It’s also considered a Sinful Spoils card, though because it’s a monster and not a Spell or Trap, it’s not really searchable by traditional methods (though it will come up for a certain purpose!). Finally, unsurprisingly it shares Diabell and Diabellstar the Black Witch’s stats of 2500 attack and 2000 defense, which are rather low for a level 8 monster but it’s fine considering Azamina is usually paired with decks with excellent offensive presence anyway.
Like I mentioned, Queen Azamina has a name clause making it a Sinful Spoils card– this isn’t relevant for searching purposes, but it makes it a valid fodder to send as a Fusion material with The Hallowed Azamina. That brings us to Queen Azamina’s first effect, a hard once per turn effect that triggers if it’s sent to the Graveyard or Banishment by an activated effect while in your hand or on your field, simply letting you Special Summon it. This is obviously meant to pair with The Hallowed Azamina to get a free body alongside your Azamina Fusion monster, and it’s pretty much the only reason to play Queen Azamina. That’s because its other effect, also hard once per turn, triggers if any of your White Forest or Azamina monsters destroys a monster by battle, letting you recycle any Sinful Spoils Spell or Trap back to your hand from your Graveyard. I like recycling, but I hate battle effects even more! Of course, it’s not totally useless, but you’d have to be keeping Queen Azamina on the field as a beater instead of using it as a combo piece, which is generally not something you want to do. The first effect is decent enough that a few lists do play it, but in practice I don’t think it’s a great card; there are more valuable Sinful Spoils and Azamina targets to get to that are integral to your bread and butter combo lines while Queen Azamina is not. I guess it’s better in more Azamina-focused builds, but those are few and far between in the meta space. Overall, not a terrible card, but you aren’t losing out on much, even after the final wave of Diabellstar cards in Alliance Insight.
+Free body after being sent with The Hallowed Azamina
+Can help a little with recycling in longer games
-Somewhat awkward to integrate into combos due to being a Sinful Spoils monster
-Battle effect is not great
Advanced: 3/5
Art: 3.75/5 What’s with those ear fins? Is she a fish?
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