Stardust Overdrive Preview: Fortune Ladies

As I already announced yesterday, I will today present you a whole new archtype brougth to the TCG in Stardust Overdrive. This theme is loaded with it's very own D-Draw, Ring of Destruction, Disc Commander and a very special searcher: I'm talking about the Fortune Ladies. Here they are:

Fortune Lady Light
Light/Spellcaster - Effect/1/?/?
This card's ATK and DEF are equal to its Level x 200. During each of your Standby Phases, increase the Level of this card by 1 (max 12). When this card is removed from the field by a card effect, you can Special Summon 1 "Fortune Lady" monster from your Deck.

Lighty is our prime search monster. Whenever she's removed from the feild by a card effect, you can special summon another Fortune Lady from your deck. So,how can we remove her from the feild? My first thought was Torrential Tribute. You can also use Compulsory Evacuation Devyce to brign her back to your hand,which also is "remove her from the field".
Now, let's look at Lights friends:
Fortune Lady Fire
Fire/Spellcaster - Effect/2/?/?
This card's ATK and DEF are equal to its Level x200. Increase this card's Level by 1 during your Standby Phase (Max. 12). When this card is Special Summoned in Attack Position by the effect of a "Fortune Lady", destroy 1 face-up monster on your opponent's side of the field, and inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's ATK.

Hi, one-sided Ring Of Destruction? With this lady, you can get rid of ANY monster you don't like. You can also summon her with Dark if you ahve to get rid of a monster during your battle phase. As you see, you have your very own Murmillo here.

Fortune Lady Wind
Wind/Spellcaster - Effect/3/?/?
This card's ATK and DEF are equal to its Level x 300. During your Standby Phase, this card's Level is increased by 1. (max. Level 12). When this card is Normal Summoned, you can destroy a number of Spell and Trap Cards your opponent controls equal to the total number of "Fortune Lady" monsters you control.

Stratos' S/T destruction effect reloaded! It's realy sad this doesn't work when she's special summoned, but I think she would be too strong if it would. With her,you can get rid of you opponet's back field and especialy Royal Oppression.


Fortune Lady Water
Water/Spellcaster - Effect/4/?/?
This card's ATK and DEF are equal to its Level x 300. During your Standby Phase, this card's Level is increased by 1. (max. 12). If you control a "Fortune Lady" monster other than "Fortune Lady Water" when this card is Special Summoned to your side of the field, draw 2 cards.

When your opponet gets this card running,you will remember why you hated Disc Commander. Simply summon her with Dark or Light to get free card advanatge.


Fortune Lady Dark
Dark/Spellcaster - Effect/5/?/?
Increase this card's Level by 1 during your Standby Phase (max. 12). This card's ATK and DEF are equal to its Level x 400. While you control this face-up card, when a face-up "Fortune Lady" monster you control destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you can select 1 "Fortune Lady" monster in your Graveyard and Special Summon it.

This card is the reason why you should run 2 copies of Foolish Burial. Because she's level 5, you would have to tribute a monster to summon her, but Light's effect solves that problem. With her,you can easily perform monster destruction (with Fire) oder draw actions (with Water) from your graveyard.

So far about the Fortune Ladies themeselfs. I would suggest the following monster lineup:

3 Light
2 Fire
2 Water
2 Wind
2 Dark

3 Light because she is your primary search option. Without her, the deck won't win. Playing the rest of them twice is enough as you can simplay search every single one of them with Light's effect.

But there are even more supporter for them:


Catoblepas and the Witch of Fate
Earth/Spellcaster - Effect/4/1800/0
When your opponent Special Summons, you can remove from play 1 monster from your Graveyard with ? ATK to destroy the Special Summoned monsters.

This guy saves you from any special summons. Simply remove one Fortune Lady from your Graveyard to destory your opponet's DaD,Heraklinos or any Synchro exept Stardust Dragon. I would add 1 of him.

Also,did you see that all Fortune Ladies are Spellcasters? We can simply use Magical Exemplar to swarm the field with the Ladies that were destroyed or we send to the graveyard with Foolish Burial. Let's add 2 Exemplars to the mix.

So until now we have:

3 Light
2 Water
2 Wind
2 Dark
2 Magical Exemplar
1 Fire
1 Catoblepas and the Witch of Fate

2 Foolish Burrial

One moment please. Didn't I mention that Fortune Ladies also have thier very own D-Draw? In fact, this is more a Pot of Greed with restriction:
Fortune's Future
Select 1 of your removed from play "Fortune Lady" monsters. Return it to the Graveyard, and then draw 2 cards.

It's the same here like with Watery: If your opponet throws down this card,you will remember why Pot is banned ;)
If you have Dark on your field, you can directly special summon the Lady you brouht back to your graveyard! Playing Soul Release in your main deck wouldn't be a bad idea here,would it?

Also,as I said before, Light's effect will activate no matter how she's removed from the field, exept by battle. S0 let's add a pair of CEDs to the deck. After addign the staplesm it will look like this:

3 Light
2 Water
2 Dark
2 Magical Exemplar
1 Wind
1 Fire
1 Catoblepas and the Witch of Fate

3 Fortune's Future
2 Foolish Burial
1 Soul Release
1 Heavy Storm

2 Compulsory Evecuation Device
1 Mirror Force
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute

Makes total numer of 28, so we still have 12 free slots to fill.
Don't you also think that playing only 13 monsters is a bit to less? With all this draw power, I think adding a pair of Tragoedias is a must. She will have high attack power and,as she has ? ATK, she can be romved for Catoblepas.
This makes 15 monsters.
Now, as I already said, the deck has trouble if you don't have your Light Lady. As it has ? ATK, you can not search her with Shining Angel or Sangan. But there is another card you can use to search her:
Anyone of you remembers Rai-Mei? Set him,let him destroy and be happy about your Light Lady! 1 Cyber Valley as additional target should work quite well,so let's add it.
And there is one more guy who can abuse Light once every turn, and I would wounder if you know it:
Kinka-Byo
He removes your Light from play, lets you abuse her effect, gives you a traget for Fortune's Future, and has a great synergy with Foolish Burial.
Now,with 7 Lights and 5 Darks, I think we can add a pair of Chaos Sorcerers here, and with them, DaD can join in.

So now we have:

3 Light
2 Water
2 Dark
2 Magical Exempla
2 Tragoedia
2 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Wind
1 DAD
1 Fire
1 Catoblepas and the Witch of Fate
1 Kinka-Byo
1 Cyber Valley
1 Rai-Mei

3 Fortune's Future
2 Foolish Burial
1 Soul Release
1 Heavy Storm

2 Compulsory Evecuation Device
1 Mirror Force
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute

20 Monsters is quite enough I think. Now, as all our monsters have different levels, I would like to add Reasoning to the deck. Also, with that many Darks, let's play a pair of Allures. 2 Gold Sacros can also help you to search your Light Lady or any traget for Fortune's Future.
I would also like to add MST and Trunade, for ensuring Dark will hit her target. Also, Lighning Vortex will be a help to fill your graveyard and destory opposing monsters. For even more search power for Light, you can add the single copy of One For One you're still allowed to play. For more protection, let's add 2 BTHs

3 Light
2 Water
2 Dark
2 Magical Exemplar
2 Tragoedia
2 Chaos Sorcerer
1 Wind
1 DAD
1 Fire
1 Catoblepas and the Witch of Fate
1 Kinka-Byo
1 Cyber Valley
1 Rai-Mei

3 Fortune's Future
2 Foolish Burial
2 Gold Sacro
2 Allure
1 Reasoning
1 Soul Release
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
1 Mystical Space typhoon

2 Compulsory Evecuation Device
2 BTH
1 Mirror Force
1 Call Of The Haunted
1 Torrential Tribute



Makes 41 cards. I think when you get the Fortune Lady Engine running, almost nothing will be able to stop you, as you have easy access to monster destruction, draw power and some other devastating effects like DAD and CS. If you like crazy cards,you can even add Fuh-Rin-Ka-Zan if you like (seriuosly, how many of you could remember to this old card? I can beacuse my brother always crushed my Dark World field with this while he had Elemental Mistress Doriado on his field...good old times xD).
Like always,this is a spontanous build,so feel free to critize ;)

Good luck to all of you at the Sneak tomorrow, if I don't overlseep I will briefly present you my successes tomorrow afternoon.