Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest – #INFO-EN039
1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters
If this card is Special Summoned: You can send 1 Spell/Trap from your hand or field to the GY; add 1 “White Forest” card or 1 LIGHT Spellcaster monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of “Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest” once per turn. Illusion and Spellcaster Synchro Monsters you control gain 500 ATK, also they cannot be destroyed by your opponent’s card effects.
Date Reviewed: October 2nd, 2024
Rating: 4.00
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,
Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest is the next form of Rucia and one of the two Synchro Monsters we’ll review this week.
Level 6 Tuner Synchro, Rciela is a generic Level 6 that is, like Tales of the White Forest, a RoTA. Search any White Forest card or LIGHT Spellcaster from the Deck and add to your hand upon Special Summon. That effect kicking when Special Summoned is key, as you have the ability to Special Summon Rciela back from the grave with relative ease using Diabell, generic stuff like Monster Reborn, or Woes of the White Forest. Rciela can search out another copy of any of your Main Deck White Forest monsters who will aid in Synchro Climbing whether it’s a new Synchro Monster or using Rciela and either Elzette or Astellar to make a Synchro eight. Sending a Spell/Trap to the grave is what the White Forest archetype does and all the Spell/Trap cards within the archetype rest, negating the cost. If you choose something else, like a Sinful Spoils card or a monster of yours that is a Spell/Trap at the moment, you aren’t losing much and may even be setting up your grave. Of course there’s the Toy Box support that can be added into the archetype that only adds to the advantage that you can gain.
Illusion and Spellcaster Synchro Monsters getting a 500ATK boost is okay, but the protection against opponent card effects is much more useful. Not that bumping Rciela to 2500ATK and Silvera to 2400ATK isn’t important, it allows them to hang with higher Level/Rank/Link monsters better than without the boost, but protection against effects that would out them on the field is needed far more as effects are the way to win games, not brute force caveman Yu-Gi-Oh!.
You may not have Rciela on the field for too long, as Synchro Climbing is what this archetype likes to do, but she is going to get you to a bigger Synchro Monster and you want to make sure Rciela is on your fiend for your Illusion and Spellcaster Synchro monsters for that card effect protection.
Advanced- 4/5
Art- 5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Next up for the archetype centered around Synchro Tuners, we got one of the two Synchro Tuners for White Forest to review today: Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest.
Rciela is a Level 6 LIGHT Spellcaster Synchro Tuner with 2000 ATK and 1500 DEF. Not amazing stats, but not bad either, plus it’s another LIGHT Spellcaster, and a Level 6 Tuner works with the archetypes Level 2 non-Tuners for a Level 8 Synchro. Materials are any Tuner and non-Tuner, meaning it’s completely generic. Upon being Special Summoned, you can send a Spell/Trap from your hand or field to the graveyard to search for any White Forest card or any LIGHT Spellcaster. So it’s a searcher for the entire archetype, plus any generic LIGHT Spellcaster as a bonus if you want. Effect Veiler is a LIGHT Spellcaster, so the archetype having a searchable hand trap to access, especially one like Effect Veiler, is amazing. The search is a HOPT, which is fine. The other effect is a Continuous Effect, giving your Illusion and Spellcaster Synchros a 500 ATK boost and protection from destruction via the opponent’s effects, which is nice for your White Forest Synchros and other generic cards you’ll run. The search is nice, getting you to missing White Forest cards, hand traps, or other play enablers outside the archetype. The second effect is good to help your other Synchros out, it’s overall a fine card. White Forest can recycle it easily with their Level 4 Tuners, so you only need 1, but good card.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 5/5 Some top tier artwork here.
Mighty
Vee
Fortunately, we don’t have to discuss the other level 6 Synchro since there’s not much to talk about, but we do have to go over Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest. The upgraded form of Rucia of the White Forest, it’s a level 6 LIGHT Spellcaster Synchro Tuner monster. It has generic requirements of a Tuner and any non-Tuner, so a lot of decks can make it, though as is usually the case, White Forest proper (and Runick hybrids) will get the most mileage out of it. Rciela’s base stats are rather low, with only 2000 attack and 1500 defense– fair stats for a Tuner and a combo bridge, though it’s more than made up for by Rciela and Silvera’s Continuous Effects that add some offensive pressure.
While on the field, Rciela will boost that attack of your Illusion and Spellcaster Synchro monsters by 500 (same as Silvera) and grant them destruction protection against your opponent’s effects. Both are neat effects and they can help their boss monster reach frightening stats if you can field Rciela and Silvera, but the main reason you’ll summon Rciela is its single hard once per turn effect. This effect triggers if Rciela is Special Summoned to send a Spell or Trap from your hand or field to the Graveyard then search any White Forest card or any LIGHT Spellcaster. Naturally, you’ll search whatever card you need to climb into the boss, whether it be another White Forest monster or Tales of the White Forest (or Woes of the White Forest if you don’t have it yet). Alternatively, if you have everything you need, you can also search Effect Veiler for a free disruption; it’s the only Hand Trap Runick hybrids run for a reason! Either way, this card can easily climb into the archetype’s boss as long as you can grab either of the level 2 monsters. Runick hybrids have it even easier since they can use the Runick Fusion monsters as material (coincidentally, Hugin the Runick Wings can also discard your White Forest Spells). Both White Forest Synchro Tuners are important, though as a combo piece Rciela is much more important. You’ll still play both anyway, regardless of build.
+ROTA on an accessible Synchro monster
+Solid stat boost and protection
-Can be a dead card if you somehow don’t have fodder
-Relies on other cards to field bodies to Synchro climb
Advanced: 4/5
Art: 4.25/5 Rucia?! Are you okay?!
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