Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG: Alliance Insight Review

Alliance Insight, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG set, is already out! It released on May 1st, 2025, in fact. This set includes excellent cards, from promising new archetypes to great support for already existing archetypes. They should impact the current format quite a bit!

Below, check out the best cards from Alliance Insight!

The new @Ignister cards are a few of the most important cards from this new set, not only because they may put this archetype on a new level in the meta, but because they also indirectly support Maliss. Maliss, in turn, should become the best deck in the game.

While Backup @Ignister and Wizard @Ignister are decent extenders, Allied Code Talker @Ignister will be a great card on your final board thanks to its negate effect.

The iconic Ancient Fairy Dragon is now part of a full "archetype". This archetype doesn't exactly have a name yet, but all the cards above, which are all related to Ancient Fairy Dragon, also all interact with each other.

Regulus the Fairy Beast and World of Spirits make this archetype consistent and are essential, as they let you access your main interaction card, Eternal Sunshine. This card lets you negate the effects of a monster under your opponent's control once per chain.

The "Diabell" sub-archetype also got some interesting support cards. Diabellstar Vengeance is a decent extender that lets you destroy 1 card on your opponent's board, and then summon a Synchro tuner monster if you control another Diabell card.

Diabellze the White Witch is another extender, but, unlike other cards, it is also considered a "White Forest" card. Furthermore, you can access this new "Witch" through Filia Diabell's effect, as it can add it from your deck to your hand.

Regenesis is an archetype formed by monsters with the same ATK/DEF (2500), inspired by the first five books in the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Considering these first support cards, it doesn't seem that strong, but it could become a great support engine in decks with monsters that have 2500 ATK or DEF, like Maliss and Blue-eyes, two of the main decks in the current meta. The idea is to use Regenesis Archfiend to get Regenesis Sage, which has a negate effect.

The new Dragon Ruler support cards are quite interesting and will give this deck what it needs the most: more consistency and extra deck monsters.

Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers is an excellent starter, whereas Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps is a great follow-up card.

The Quick Spell Here There Be Dragons is an extender that lets you access your XYZ monsters more easily, and is an interaction if you activate it on your opponent's turn.

These XYZ Dragon Rulers are a sort of "basic pack" for your extra deck. Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras is a consistency card, Eclipse, Dragon Ruler of Catastrophes is an interaction boss monster, and Disaster, Dragon Ruler of All Apocalypses is a finisher.

Star Ryzeal is one of the most exciting support cards in this set, as it might just put "pure" Ryzeal back into the meta.

Through its effects, you can access this archetype's spells/traps, so you'll have even more ways to access your field spell negate, Ryzeal Cross, or maybe even add Ryzeal Plasma Hole to this list to make up for the recent Ryzeal Detonator limitation.

Maliss P March Hare is most likely the best card in this set because it is a support card that should make Maliss a tier-0 list alongside the @Ignister cards we mentioned before.

"March Hare" is an extender that can replace the Bystial cards in this deck, as you can summon it from your hand when you banish another Maliss card from your hand or your graveyard.

As for its effect when it is banished, instead of summoning it, as the other Maliss cards, it'll let you return 1 banished Maliss monster to your hand.

Besides a new monster, Maliss will also get a great new Quick Spell that is an interaction and an extender, as it negates the effects of an enemy monster when you banish one of your Maliss monsters.

Cyberdark Wurm is an excellent extender that you can use both in the Cyberdark deck or the traditional Cyber Dragon list. It might not be a starter, but it is a Cyber spell/trap searcher, and you can send a Cyber Dragon monster as its cost. This will give you an advantage even when your opponent ends up negating this effect.

Live☆Twin also got new support cards that should make it meta. The main one is Evil★Twin Ki-sikil Deal, a link-1 monster that makes this entire archetype more consistent and more resilient. When you activate it, you can send 1 "Lil-la" monster from your deck or extra deck to your graveyard as a cost, and then draw 1 card whenever your opponent activates a card or effect as an answer to you activating one of your "Kil-sikil" or "Lil-la" monsters. Another support card for this archetype is Live☆Twin Lil-la Sweet, which, in your hand, is a handtrap that negates any effects your opponent activates as an answer to you activating one of your Live☆Twin cards. Furthermore, it is an extender when it is in your graveyard and if you control a "Kil-sikil" monster.

Fallen Angel of the Golden Land is the newest "Eldlich" fusion monster, and, this time, it is actually a great card. With it, you'll be able to put more copies of Eldlich the Golden Lord in play more easily, and, as such, it makes playing rank 10 monsters even better. As for the new trap, Eldlixir of the Glorious Golden Land, it makes this archetype more versatile, as it can recycle one of your banished "Golden Land" or "Eldlixir" spells/traps, or even act as a bounce interaction.

Snake-Eyes Vengeance Dragon is a great support card for Snake-Eye, which is once again a decent deck after KONAMI freed another copy of Snake-Eye Ash and Snake-Eyes Poplar into the meta.

"Vengeance Dragon"'s main phase effect could be a way to follow-up or interact with your opponent. Furthermore, it also lets you interact during the battle phase, as it lets you destroy one monster and one continuous spell in play. It is a great card whenever you need to finish matches.

Besides the "Diabell" support cards we mentioned before, White Forest got an excellent field spell, Witch of the White Forest. This card should put this deck on another level.

Firstly, it is a ROTA for White Forest monsters, but it also protects the monsters in this archetype the first time they would be destroyed in battle each turn. Witch of the White Forest also lets you pick one White Forest monster under your control and use it as a tuner that turn.

Juraishin, the Cursed Thunder God is a great Synchro monster. Its Quick Effect is a combination of Raigeki's and Harpie's Feather Duster's effects, but you can only use it on your opponent's turn.

It might be strong, but I don't believe it will be popular in the meta straight away. To use its effects well, we'll first need to build a deck that can access level 11 Synchro monsters easily.

Songs of the Dominators is the new "Dominus" handtrap. You can activate it from your hand if you don't have any monsters in the graveyard.

Songs of the Dominators lets you negate an effect activated by a monster on the opponent's board without targeting it. Furthermore, if you have a trap in your graveyard when you activate this card, you'll be able to add 1 "Dominus" card from your deck to your hand.

As for the "lock down" effect when you activate this card from your hand (a common effect in "Dominus" cards), it simply won't let you activate monster effects from your hand, your graveyard, or the banished pile until the next turn.

TCG-Exclusive Cards

The second batch of Mitsurugi cards include excellent support cards that will make this archetype more than just a support engine. It can now be the star of its own deck, which we'll call "Mitsurugi Ryzeal". It could become one of the best decks in the format.

The best Mitsurugi cards are Mitsurugi no Mikoto, Aramasa and Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi, which make this archetype a lot more consistent. Mitsurugi cards have been quite decent ever since they were released, but the archetype was quite inconsistent. It was its biggest flaw.

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