Tales of the White Forest – #INFO-EN058
If you control an Illusion or Spellcaster monster: Add 1 “White Forest” monster from your Deck to your hand. If this card is sent to the GY to activate a monster effect: You can Set this card. You can only use each effect of “Tales of the White Forest” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: October 1st, 2024
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,
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- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
An archetype so focused on their Spells and Traps needs to have good Spells and Traps, so we’ll look at one of their best ones with Tales of the White Forest.
Tales is a Normal Spell that if you control a Spellcaster or Illusion monster, you can activate this to search for any White Forest monster. Good to get to a missing piece, but you need to commit to a summon first, so it’s a brick if you don’t have a Spellcaster or Illusion to summon. Most of the time you should have the requirement to activate this card if you’re playing any White Forest variant, so you should be good in that regard, so this can help get you to your missing piece, likely either Elzette or Astellar. The other effect triggers in the graveyard if it was sent there to activate a monster effect, letting you set it back to the field. Considering most to all your effects will send Spells and Traps to trigger, having the White Forest Spells and Traps recover themselves is great to be able to send again for another White Forest effect, or to activate said card when it comes back. HOPT on each effect, so no searching a ton, and you might want other engines like Toys and Runick if you need more Spells and Traps to send. The actitvation requirement along with the fact it is searchable and recurrable means you only need 1, but you can use multiples for extra consistency if you really need it.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4/5 They’re cool artworks, but if I look at the White Forest arts by themselves without a card frame, I probably would struggle to name which art is which card.
Mighty
Vee
Speaking of White Forest backrow, we’re going to cover arguably the best of the bunch, Tales of the White Forest, a Normal Spell searchable with both Silvy of the White Forest and tomorrow’s card, Rciela, Sinister Soul of the White Forest. Tales has two simple hard once per turn effects– the first can only be used if you control an Illusion or Spellcaster monster (that is, all White Woods monsters so far, plus Diabellstar the Black Witch and Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper), searching any White Forest monster. This can get you to Elzette of the White Forest or any other White Forest monster you need. I’m usually not a fan of conditional ROTAs, but given White Forest’s combo flexibility, I’m not too mad about it. Tales’ other effect is so far shared by all White Woods backrow, letting you set it directly to your field if it’s sent to the Graveyard to activate a monster effect. The combo synergy is a no-brainer! You discard it with Elzette or Astellar, then you can set it back and immediately activate it and combo off by grabbing an extender, like either of the Tuners. There’s not much to complain about with a ROTA, though it can be a brick in really, really bad hands, its combo utility when paired with Elzette and Astellar is worth it in pure builds. Runick hybrids don’t need Tales, instead opting for Woes of the White Forest for its disruptive power instead.
+ROTA for an archetype filled with good names
+Excellent combo synergy with both starters
-Potential brick in bad hands
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 4.5/5 Get used to the shadow puppet aesthetic! I for one am all for it.
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