Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG - Supreme Darkness Review (The Best Cards!)

The new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG set, Supreme Darkness, will be valid from January 24th onward! It will bring us excellent cards, including support for old archetypes as well as entirely new, promising archetypes. We'll also get generic cards that will certainly impact the current metagame.

Check out below our review of the best cards from Supreme Darkness!

Elzette, Azamina of the White Forest is a great support for its archetype, which will finally have a card that connects it to the Sinful Spoils and Azamina archetypes. This new "Elzette" can both be an extender and a starter, and is a vital card, considering it has 3 great effects.

Primite Dragon Ether Beryl is the "normal summon" of the Primita archetype, which is a generic engine that supports monsters without any effects. "Primite Dragon" will make Primite quite consistent as an engine, so it will most likely become very popular. When the Blue-Eyes archetype gets more support (so, when its structure deck is released), this card will be as popular as it will ever be.

The new Crystron support cards are excellent and will probably make this deck one of the best budget decks in the format. It will become a lot more consistent, and also resilient to handtrap interactions, which is a great advantage in a format like this one, as it is full of them. These new cards will also let you access this deck's boss monster more easily, and will give you a trap card interaction.

Tenyi also got great support cards in this new set, and they'll be even better in its strongest version, Swordsoul Tenyi. Tenyi Spirit-Surya is an excellent extender, and will make this deck more resilient to interactions. Furthermore, this deck also got Eternal Perfection of the Tenyi, a field spell that is a searcher for other spells in this archetype and therefore will make it more consistent. The last card it will get is Tenyi Spirit - Mula Adhara, which is a great endgame card, but also adds any field spell from your deck to your hand, which is extremely strong.

Mulcharmy Meowls will probably be one of the best cards from this set because, as most of its archetype, it is a very impactful handtrap. This release came right at the right time, too: it will heavily influence this format, as many decks in it rely on special summons straight from your graveyard or banishment.

Template Skipper is a fascinating extender for Cyberse decks, particularly Maliss, which is relatively strong in this format. This new "Skipper" can help you set up your combos with this deck after you get hit with an Artifact Lancea, and, as a result, it definitely has a regular spot in Maliss lists.

Eclipse Twins is a generic class 4 monster which will heavily impact this format, as it will be quite useful in Ryzeal. Similar to Gigantic Spright, which you can summon with link-2 monsters, Eclipse Twins lets you treat rank 4 xyz monsters under your control as level 4 monsters for material. Furthermore, through its graveyard effect, you can play around boardbreakers, as you can bring back 1 xyz monster with this card as material if it was sent to your graveyard on your opponent's turn.

A Bao A Qu, the Lightless Shadow will also heavily impact the game, as it is considered by many a new Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess. "A Bao A Qu" is quite versatile: you can use it to destroy 1 card on the board or banish it until your end phase to summon 1 Light or Dark monster from your graveyard. Furthermore, it lets you draw cards on your standby phase, though you'll have to return the same number of cards you drew to the bottom of your deck. Nonetheless, this will be a great way to filter your hand.

Clockwork Knight will be great in decks that focus on the Machine type, and is a searcher for Clockwork Night. Even if you don't want to use it because of its effect, you'll still gain a lot from it, as it is great to simply put a Machine monster in your graveyard. This may make many archetypes a lot more consistent.

Double Wild is a ROTA for level 10 monsters in decks that only play a certain type of monster. In the OCG, this card was popular in a few Yubel builds, which will most likely happen in the TCG too, but only in Yubel lists that don't play Fiendsmith.

Mitsurugi is a TCG-exclusive archetype that will most likely become one of the most popular figures in the new metagame, something that hasn't happened in years. This archetype focuses on ritual-summons and all of its monsters are Reptiles that give you some sort of advantage when you tribute them. The most important card in this archetype is Mitsurugi Ritual, which summons ritual monsters if you tribute monsters in your deck, a fascinating effect.

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