Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG: Legacy of Destruction Main Cards Review

Legacy of Destruction will officially be available to play from April 25th, 2024 onward! This new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG set will bring great support cards for several decks, and also introduce new archetypes that might shake up the metagame.

Check out below our review of the most relevant cards from Legacy of Destruction!

After it lost some of its extra deck monsters to the April 2024 banlist, Snake-Eye will actually get a new support card: Snake-Eyes Diabellstar.

This great extender will try to make this deck more resilient to enemy interaction. Furthermore, because of its battle phase effect, we can easily use it to deal with monsters that are protected in battles or that can't be targeted by effects.

Diabellze the Original Sinkeeper is another support card that may see play in Snake-Eye, considering this deck is one of the main decks that uses the Sinful Spoils engine in today's meta. This new card might make up for Anti-Spell Fragrance, which was recently limited, because it has a "lockdown" effect that is similar to the one in this now limited card.

The new Ragnaraika archetype has a lot of potential. It interacts with Plant, Insect, and Reptile monster types. Its strategy is to spam monsters on the board to use their links, and their interactions mostly focus on destroying your opponent's cards.

I believe this deck will be a viable rogue deck, but I see more potential in builds that combine it with other archetypes that have synergy with its monster types. For instance, Traptrix.

Tenpai is possibly the best archetype in this set, and has a lot of potential in today's metagame. This archetype uses Fire Dragons and focuses on synchro-summon. Additionally, its effects are entirely connected to the battle phase, which means this deck's strategy is better when you're going second.

Lightsworn is quite loved by players, but, several years ago by now, it lost space in modern Yu-Gi-Oh!. Well, now it may return to its golden days once more, as these new cards will try to make this archetype a lot better. Lightsworn Dragonling and Weiss, Lightsworn Archfiend will make this deck a lot more consistent, and are useful both in your hand or when you send them to your graveyard.

Naturally, after the April 2024 banlist, which removed Baronne de Fleur and Borreload Savage Dragon from the game, synchro decks in general have struggled to find their footing, so Lightsworn might still have a long way to go before it reclaims its status in the game. Nonetheless, this archetype has a lot of potential and may become one of its top competitors quite soon.

Nightmare Apprentice is one of the most relevant cards in this set because it is a starter/Illusion monster searcher, which not only boosts Chimera as soon as it is available to play in the TCG, but also makes it important to any other future archetype that focuses on this type of monster.

The new Voiceless Voice cards won't impact this archetype that much, but they are good cards and may even be great if you combine them together.

Through Blessing of the Voiceless Voice's effect, you can ritual-summon Saffira, Divine Dragon of the Voiceless Voice on your opponent's turn to, hopefully, find tech cards with its "draw 2" effect. Additionally, you can, of course, remove one card from your opponent's hand if one of your ritual monsters goes to battle phase.

Melodious fusions are truly a surprise to us players. Even though this deck was completely off the metagame radar before, its new support cards are so great they'll make this deck an excellent rogue deck.

Bacha the Melodious Maestra will significantly improve this deck's consistency, and, besides this, it will protect the activated effects on the other fusions in this archetype.

However, this deck's greatest star is Flowering Etoile the Melodious Magnificat, which can return up to 5 of your opponent's cards to their hand due to how many monsters this deck can spam on the board.

Centur-Ion Auxila is a great support card for the Centur-Ion archetype, as it is a searcher that will improve this deck's going second (which will now be able to access its counter trap more easily). As a result, this deck may finally occupy a higher meta tier in Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG's competitive scene.

Varudras, the Final Bringer of the End Times is also one of the most relevant cards in this set. This is a rank 10 omni-negate that also destroys cards in addition to its main effect. Even though other omni-negates were banned, we can somewhat understand why this new card was created because it isn't as generic as Baronne de Fleur and Borreload Savage Dragon.

Nightmare Throne is one of this set's best cards; it is a great support card both for Yubel archetypes and other strategies that focus on Fiend monsters. This card can be a ROTA for 0 ATK/DEF Fiends, or destroy a monster with these stats directly from your deck (to trigger its effects) to play around Droll & Lock Bird or even Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring. This way, besides improving Yubel's consistency, Nightmare Throne will also improve its resilience.

Code of Soul is a good extender for any deck that focuses on Cyberse monsters, but it has other effects that make it a great support card for Salamangreat.

In addition to having an effect that is similar to Salamangreat Sanctuary's, Code of Soul lets you interact with your opponent on their turn by giving you a monster effect. You only need to use its effect to "revive" Salamangreat Pyro Phoenix, which will destroy all cards on your opponent's board, and, this way, you also get to protect your counter trap.

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