Doom of Dimensions nears the end of its card list as Konami reveals some new support for the Dogmatika archetype. On top of this, Konami has also confirmed the remaining two decks for the Legendary 5Ds Collection.
New Dogmatika Cards:
Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Thunderous
Level 8 Light
Spellcaster/Effect Monster
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effects of this card's name each once per turn.
(1) During the Main Phase, if a monster Special Summoned from the Extra Deck is on the field (Quick Effect): You can Special Summon from your hand.
(2) If this card is Special Summoned from the hand: You can Set 1 “Dogmatika” Trap from your Deck. It can be activated this turn while your opponent controls a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Link Monster with 2500 or more ATK.
Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Thunderous starts off strong with a self-special summon ability, which is easy to activate regardless of whether you’re going first or second.
At Quick Effect speed, her presence gives you some form of board interaction due to her ability to immediately set an in-archetype Trap card from the deck.
If your opponent is willing to bring out a bigger-bodied extra deck monster, then that newly placed trap card is automatically online on the same turn.
Depending on the match-up and deck list, Fleurdelis, the Thunderous can have pretty potent versatility depending on the Trap card brought out.
Dogmatika Encounter allows the controlling player to grab another body from the deck.
Dogmatika Punishment can pop a monster while seeding the graveyard with a resource, or get another effect online from the multitude of extra deck monsters that have an effect when sent to said graveyard (e.g Herald of the Arc Light).
Or in case of a match-up with archetypes that like to banish their own resources (aka. Maliss), then Dogmatika Genesis could be a good speedbump to the opponent’s play lines.
Fleurdelis, the Thunderous not only plays well with her other Dogmatika siblings, but her 2,500 stat line allows the Regensis archetype another path onto the field.
Now the biggest issue plaguing this card is that it’s highly reliant on the opponent’s movement if you’re going second.
The ability to bypass the natural slowness of using Trap cards is nice, but you’d have to wonder if the opponent already has a game plan online for your Dogmatika trap, activatable or not.
Quadogmatika Beast
Normal Trap Card
You can only activate 1 card with this card’s name per turn.
(1) Target 1 monster in your GY or banishment; you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck until the end of your next turn, also send 1 “Dogmatika” monster from your Deck, or 1 monster from your Extra Deck, with equal or higher ATK to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon the targeted monster.
This Trap card definitely fits in with Domatika’s love of locking out its controlling player from extra deck summoning. For its overall card design, however, this card feels a little odd.
Even with Fleurdelis, the Thunderous setting up this card for activation, Quadogmatika Beast seems like it was designed more as a safety net rather than a tool to push for your win condition.
This is because the cost of this card’s effect requires one of the controlling player’s monsters already in the graveyard or banishment zone.
It’s a small thing caveat given how Dogmatika normally goes about its play lines, but it does make it a little difficult to justify setting this card unless you’re going first.
Credit where it's due, though, Quadogmatika Beast is pulling double-duty as both a pseudo Monster Reborn and Foolish Burial. Two cards whose effects became the building blocks, and later on the measuring stick, that modern card designs would be compared to.
Will Quadogmatika Beast be the card to bring Dogmatika back into the zeitgeist of modern Yu-Gi-Oh? Most likely not. That said, options are always a good thing when promoting archetypes and the overall health of a format.
Legendary 5Ds Decks Confirmed:
Last week, Konami announced a special collection set. This set would feature structure decks based around three of the main cast members of the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds animated series.
At the time, we only knew one of the decks centered around the series protagonist, Yusei Fudo, and his Synchron archetype.
Instead of keeping the fanbase guessing, Konami had decided to confirm the other two structure decks. The Legendary 5Ds Collection will also feature decks centered around Aki Izayoi and Crow Hogan.
The former was a little surprising, as Konami had just revealed new Rose Dragon support cards in the Doom of Dimensions expansion.
With only the product tagline, ‘An Akiza Deck designed for use with the new Akiza-themed cards in Doom of Dimensions.’ we can only assume that Konami might have plans to expand the archetype further.
Unfortunately, the tagline for Crow’s deck, ‘And a Crow Deck featuring the latest Blackwings from 2022’s Darkwing Blast and more!’ doesn’t leave us much room for optimism.
There’s a chance we might be getting retrains of Crow’s signature monsters, but if we take the product advertising at face value, the deck could also be full of reprints.
Hopefully this is not the case, and Konami does right by its customers and makes this a product players, or at least fans of the 5Ds animated series, eager to purchase.