Stardust Overdrive Preview: Archangel Kristya

Next to it's indisputalbe star, Maximillion Pegasus' very own Dark Rabbit, Stardust Overdirve brings another Japan only card to Europe and America: Archangel Kristya

For those of you who don't know her,here she is:

LIGHT/Fairy - Effect/8/2800/2300
If there are exactly 4 Fairy-Type monsters in your Graveyard, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. When this card is Special Summoned this way, add 1 Fairy-Type monster from your Graveyard to your hand. While this card is face-up on the field, neither player can Special Summon monsters. If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, it is returned to the top of its owner's Deck instead.

Sounds similar to a card that poisned our meta for about a whole year, doesn't it?
In fact, I think Kristya will not influence the meta as much as the dark father did, but she is definitly a boss monster fairy decks were looking for. Did you ever imagine how strong Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo would be with higher attack points? Here you have him! besiedes or angel lady is even able to do more: When you summon her, you can pick a fairy from your graveyard and take it to your hand! Targets? Honest is the most obvisios. Other targets would be Artemis, Asura Priest, Gellendou, Marshmallon or Banisher.
As you see, you can do some realy crazy things with her.
Speaking of Artemis: You can simply add Krystia to your Counter Fairy decks. Lets see a simple decklist featuring Kristya:

3 Archangel Kristya
3 Boundful Artemis
3 Honest
2 Mask of Darkness
2 Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter
1 Gellenduo
1 Freed, The Brave Wanderer
1 Asura Priest
1 Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress
1 Mashmallon
1 Morphing Jar

2 Booko of Moon
2 Trade In
2 My Body As A Shield
1 Heavy Storm
1 Smashing Ground
1 Lightning Vortex

3 Dark Bribe
2 Magic Drain
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
2 Dimensional Prison
1 Mirror Force
1 Divine Wrath
1 Torrential Tribut
1 Solemn Judgement

Of course, this is only a sample decklist, I think there are many cards I din't see and many possible improvements.

So,let's look how this deck works. At first, 2 Trade In with onyl 3 targets look quite strage, but remember: Every time our Kristya would go the graveyard from the field, she returns to the top of our deck. So if we draw one of her and she doesn't happen to run into BTH,Prison, Oppression ect (what you should be able to stop with your Counter Traps/MBAAS) we have a monster we can play and that is a sure target for Trade In. Also, If we discard one copy of her, we can just get it back when we summon a second one (and discard it for the second Trade In if you're lucky). Or imagine this: You have Kristya in hand and Torrential Tribute face down. Simply summon her, clean the field and give your opponet a direct shot with your freshly recycled Artemis! And if your opponet can get rid of Artemis, you simply can summon Kristya again next trun (remember, the one you destoryed was send back to the top of your deck). So, let's have a look at Kristyas many fears in the current meta and how we play around it:

Kalut: Honest, Wrath, Book of Moon, Prison, Mirror Force
Honest: Wrath, Book of Moon, Prison, Mirror Force
Ryko/Celestia: MBAAS, Solemn, Wrath
BTH: Solemn, Bribe, MBAAS, Book of Moon, Storm
JD/DAD/Gyzraus/Murmillo: Her own effects prevents them

So far about Kristya. So now, let'slook at the rest of this deck: Artemis, Honest and Mask Of Darkness are no-brainers in my opinion. I added Gellenduo because it's a fairy and can save you some time, same with Marshmallon. Ryko is used as strong opening and for removing Oppression,Decree and other backfield cards. Lyla serves the same purpose, while she is an additional beatstick next to Kristya and Artemis.
Freed is used for grave control: If you have to many Fairies in your graveyard, you have to remove some of them to get out Kristya. Also, Freed has high ATK and can get rid of Jinzo or Colossal. The spell and traps are quite self-explaining I think. As much monster removal and as many counter traps as possible.


Remember,as your main effects are unaffected by Light-Imprisoning Mirror, you can side it against Lightsworns ( Artemis, Gellenduo and Kristya are contiuos effects and Honest activates in your hand,so the don't care about LIM). Other cards for your main deck could be Magic Jammer, Seven Tools of the Bandit, Ultimate Drop Off, Rai-Oh or even a Chaos Splash with some more Dark monsters liek Sprit Reaper, Sangan, Doom Calibur, all backed up by a pair of Chaos Sorcerers and eventualy DAD (cerntainly, I would never run him,for a reason see the my article about Chris Bowling's Twilight). Just be creative ;)
One of my next articles will deal with the light side of Dartz' strongest servant Raphael: Guardian Eatos!