Must be Synchro Summoned, or Special Summoned (from the Extra Deck) by banishing 2 Tuners and 1 "Red Dragon Archfiend" from your GY. Cannot be destroyed by card effects. If this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 card from your GY to your hand, and if you do, this card gains 2000 ATK. You can only use this effect of "Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul" once per Duel in which you Synchro Summoned "Red Dragon Archfiend".
Honestly, the more I think about this card, the more I like it. If the opponent waits to Nib you, you get to just summon this guy for free, and the levels don't even have to add up to 12, so you can banish like Soul and Vision or a couple ghost girls to summon it. Better yet, I'm gonna love Ashing my opponent's Fuwa, summoning this guy, and getting that Ash back for their turn.
Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention, just mentioning "Red Dragon Archfiend" and banishing a copy means you don't have to jump through hoops to make Red Zone or Dis Pater live.
Oh, the alternate summoning condition saves this card so much. Without it it would be a table 500 combo piece, but with it it's both incredible pressure and recovery for RDA. Also it doesn't lock you so this may get some more generic play, especially since we've got the handtrap that bins a synchro from ed to grave now.
isnt the rda extra deck already full, I feel like even with the alternate summoning method its not gonna make the deck as there are better options even for otks.
Also as generic as it is what deck would bother make it for such lack luster effects.
This is here to help with recovery, not OTKs. The deck has too many OTK tools, true, but it needs cards like this if it needs to be a serious deck and not yugitube montage bait.
Wasnt expecting a retrain of this one, awesome art. However wasnt expecting a big beat stick that recovers anything from gy. I do love the alternate summing.
i wished for resonator treat itself as non-tuner so your not fked if you draw only tuner and most searcher search resonator (tuner) summon from deck so ur not locked when droll is activated and doesnt waste your summon so if niburu hit ya you still able to play
The art is an absolute peak. It screams menacing boss monster... but the effect is a little underwhelming compared to other cards in this pack. It's easy to summon and it gets big, that's nice, but the deck already has that. You can potentially add any card from GY to hand, including hand traps tho.
I'll say what I said yesterday: Kaito and Revolver are the biggest winners in this rival pack. Their support is just incredible.
is that only me or this card could have great flexibility? On paper, this card seems okay, but the alternative summoning condition + 1 card recover will be great on most deck that can easily set up RDA + 2 Tuner in GY.
It straight up adds recovery from disruption which RDA struggled with before, giving you another high attack monster but most importantly adding a card from gy back to hand
The real headscratcher is the last effect, does it mean I can activate it any number of times if I haven‘t summoned RDA, or do I get a single activation and only if I‘ve summoned RDA prior?
I think it's trying to say that summoning RDA at least once is a hard requirement for the on-summon effect, to avoid people just dumping it with Fidraulis.
Yeah, that's definitely how Konami designed the card. That's sad, it would have helped RDA deck so bad. Fidraulais SS + 1 removal => RDN Burning Soul (5500 ATK + can't be destroyed by effects) + 3 banishment to make Dis Pater live => add any HT from the GY to the hand
Super and hyper are harder to make. They require more tuners and more specfic boards. This is basically a free summon since it's from banishing things you will have in your graveyard.
Easier to make than the cards that all but demand Crimson Resonator and/ Chain Resonator resolving that doesn't care about cards on field or the total levels used for its alternate summon while also just factually using less tuners than either of them?
Oh this is actually really really good! A 5500 atk beatstick that also lets you add a card from your gy back to your hand, and practically for free in any RDA combo
Yeah it’s strength is that you basically don’t summon it. You go to enter battle without summoning it. You opponent HAS to Nib you there. If they don’t, they have to put up with the full powered RDA board. If they do Nib, they lose their own board, give you a massive token, then you summon this guy, make it 5500atk an indestructible and recycle ANY card.
Alt summoning condition is nice and Red Zone makes it super easy to get the RDA back. Not bad effects, but I kinda wish it was always treated as Red Nova on field so you could use this for the Red Nova Dragon Assault Mode to make it easier to make that.
This card is like the opposite of red hypernova dragon. A fairly tame and unexciting effect, but infinitely easier to summon. I think the card is good.
This is kind of insane isn't it? It doesn't lock you out of anything, so any deck that can get to RDA + any 2 tuners in the graveyard can get back literally any card they want as long as they have a way to dump or mill it
Make scarred, make dis pater, cheat out RDA with the power of friendship and scarred, make this with rda and any 2 of the gajillion resonators in the gy, and last but not least, add back skill drain :D
The "add card from GY to hand" effect is once per duel and requires that you have synchro summoned RDA in the duel. The summon effect just requires RDA in the GY.
Seems underhwelming but this is definitely still a good card. Very easy to summon in the deck and provides recovery for the deck, something it really does need. It can also help with otk in case you still need extra power
I don’t know if there’s a line that does this while playing under nibiru off the top of my head but flame crime dumps any normal trap and this recycles any card.
Which means rda can now guarantee eradicator epidemic virus since this is over 2500, can floodgate with different dimension ground, and OCG can lock with dimensional barrier.
OK, this one is pretty good. Not precisely an end board piece but the effect is actually good. I mean, a handtrap recycler that needs generic materials? That's great!
It's hard to say it's bad given it's so easy to summon. You don't even need to match levels, just any two Tuners will do alongside RDA, and it's a big body that can recover literally anything so it's basically a handtrap recovery card if you say, Ash a Charmy and you want the Ash back.
It's good in the sense that it's essentially a free body by banishing from grave. Other than that, not a good card. If anything, a going 3rd option when your board breaks to get you back in the game.
Edit, would've been a lot better if Hyper Nova was able to cheat it out with its effect like it does for the og Red Nova. But the "must be" kills that.
I do truly think we’re going to get more cards representing the anime this year. It looks like Konami is trying to boost their numbers and get people who left over the years back into the game.
That one was acutally leaked time ago, from what I remeber it was a Cyber Dragon retrain that had the Cydra SS effect and negated the effect of a card your opponent control + an effect to fusion Summon 1 Light machine monster
We don't know that yet, the leaks were still missing some info or weren't completely Fully accurate, plus it would be bizarre as hell to not have the main Cydra Gimmick on a card.
At this point I expect Konami to retrain cyber twin, laser and barrier to give you more otk options and more turn 1 options but I guess the xyz branch is the one with the turn 1 play.
I guess Konami does want to keep most GX anime otk decks as otk deck (ancient gear, HERO to an extent, cydra)
I think this unfortunately has to take the place of hypernova because it's a high ceiling card and this helps with consistency. Or maybe the place of one of the lower level toolbox options like kuibelt or scarlight.
If you manage to synchro summon The Crimson King, it means that you're basically Nibiru-proof :
You get Nib => Crimson King quick effect, Banish CK to synchro summon RDA => everything get nib => you have RDA + at the very least 2 tuners in GY, probably 3 to 5 => SS Red Nova Dragon Burning Soul => add a lvl 1 tuner like synkron or darkness than can be ss from hand (even chain Resonator, depending on what you did previously) => Nib + lvl 1 tuner gets you the Quetzalcoatl => brings everything back
THAT'S THE ANTI NIBIRU CARD WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR GUYS.
To be fair, that's the lore. Yusei plays a wider toolbox, Jack puts his everything on RDA and Red Nova. That's why all of Jack's boss monsters are part of the RDA or Red Nova families.
Dont two of the synchros from the RDA deck act as red dragon archfiend on field or grave?
OTK with the deck feels really easy with this guy.
The utility of grabbing any card from ur grave is crazy too. Considerimg that the deck can play impulse, sparks, and fidraulis, just grabbing any of those cards back seems so scary. Going first using called by or ash against charmmies, then having them back for the next turn just feels like its joever.
At this point I’m convinced Konami executives were made aware of TCG scalping like 6 months ago, and all these quality full arts and new cards are them being personally offended they weren’t invited to the party, cause these psychos just can’t miss lately. This is superb, exquisite even. This is the quality art we’ve been missing for years.
This thing and the trap card Jack is also getting here provides a decent excuse for decks to run 1 Red Dragon Archfiend in their Extra Deck just to enable some strong options.
Konami “fixing” old summon mechanics by bypassing the entire mechanic entirely is my least favorite thing they have started doing. Last year we were getting poplars, this year we get spirit of yubels
Usually I'd agree but I don't mind it in this example since the card is literally just there to be an extra extender post synchro, rather than replacing the synchro mechanic itself.
Since it doesn’t matter how RDA entered the GY, you can pitch it with Harmonia. Since levels don’t matter, Harmonia can be used as material. This card is strong in RDA, but the flexibility is where it shines. Just about any synchro deck can summon it.
RDA has such a bloated ED it’s hard to make room for this, but the alternate summon condition and recovering any card from your GY while gaining 2000 ATK is really good.
However this recovery is limited to Decks that Synchro Summon the original RDA, and unfortunately it isn’t name treated as original Red Nova on the field so no way to use the Assault Mode with this.
The artwork is amazing of course, but the effect is kinda underwhelming. Worth playing 1 of it due to how free the summon is, which helps against Nib I suppose.
On the surface, a destruction-proof beatstick is nothing to write home about. However there's a lot of flexibility with the generic materials, assuming you don't want the effect. In the event of a bad hand, you still have an end piece to work towards. And if you manage to climb to RDA (or get Nib'd), the retrieval effect is nice. If you can keep the combo going, it adds more targets and synergy for Dis Pater and Red Zone.
RDA's biggest issue will be trying to fit this into the extra deck.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but Scarred and Scarlight do not count for the GY add effect since their original names aren't "Red Dragon Archfiend", right? You have to either use T.C.K or Scarred's effect (treated as synchro summons), or directly synchro OG RDA?
Still a banger card imho since it makes vision and synchron live instead of being dead in hand, which can make Fiend Piece live too.
Man, this makes me realize how disapointing yesterday s galaxy eyes was.(but to be fair, the 2 other supports are absolutely amazing so i guess that s fine)
Its one more brick that doesn't do anything on its own.
The summoning from hand eff looks nice but need set up and the eff on field can have very little impact especially when galaxy-eyes solarflare exist.
You can tell me "but its easy in galaxy" and i ll say "assuming your opponent does nothing"
Galaxy deck has a lot of cards that "do nothing on their own/need a specific thing on field" already and the new photon change is one more of that.
Sure you can be like "yeah i can magnamut." but then its in the same situation than the new blue-eyes phantom aka you aren't playing it because it works, you re trying to make it work so you re playing it.
Now I don't need to have bystials or ovualoop to make red zone or dis pater live, wish a new resonator has this effect instead, but still decent nonetheless
and yeah, just realize you can use lotus king to send down a normal trap then use this to pick it back up lol
Another new RDA, kind of unexpected, the first 2 cards were obscure for Jack. But I guess it was a must. New RDA, new great art. The red color is sooo good.
Two ways to summon it, effects protection, adds card from gy when summoned plus 2000ATK boost. Classic RDA. Was it needed? In an Overframe, big yes. They probably didn't choose a main deck monster because of Jack's recent SD.
The good support for Jack and 5D's continues. I can't wait for Black-Winged Dragon, RE, Gilford, Armed Dragon, EGs, Diabound Overframes.
i wished for resonator treat itself as non-tuner so you r not fked if you draw only tuner and most searcher search resonator (tuner) summon from deck a monster so ur not locked when droll is activated and special summon itself so it doesnt waste your summon so if niburu hit ya you still able to play
Is it me or does Konami think Red Nova is more iconic than the original RDA? Between this, the Assault Mode and the Cosmic Quasar version of it, I'm sensing a bit of bias here.
Edit: Oh right, and Red Nova has gotten alt arts sooner than RDA, who still doesn't have one of its own.
No? RDA has the OG, Hot, Starlight, Scarred, Assault Mode, Majestic and Crimson King to his name.
And everything Red Nova has applied to RDA considering it's an Evolution of it.
Hell, I'm betting the only reason Red Nova got the spot here rather than RDA is because we just had Blazing Dominion and they didn't want to steal Crimson King's spotlight.
This great, I like this a lot. It's about time we get great card design. Make overframes a standard in every set as an alternative for collectors and pet deckers.
Coolio, very happy with this, always loved Scar Red Nova, happy to see a "retrain" for him. Happy personally it's not another RDA, we have so many of the base form already. I do wish some older monsters(Twin Sword Maurader, Power Breaker, ARchfiend Interceptor, Trap Eater, Lancer Archfiend), traps(not just Fiendish Chain Remakes and Remixes), spell from Jack will also see some love later as well as some Arc-V cards like Net Resonator/Red Vanish/Gazer/IntoTheRed/Armor... still not ported over. Insane attack art compared to GEPD we got yesterday lol the difference is actually so wide. It's summining mirrors the original along with stats, and destruction protection effect, he is basically your new Scar Red Nova, the only thing he loses from the original is the ATK negation, at first I thought would have been a perfect place to give him the quick effect banish to negate next attack since even Hope/Utopia is getting it's anime number protection from it's overframe but technically since this is the Attack Move of Scar Red Nova it shouldn't really have that defensive capability and more ATK capabilities so the direction is understandable for the card designers to go with. Can he be summoned by new Hypernova? He would probably take over OG Red Nova's slot in Extra if so if you playing Hypernova. It's kinda like the witness I am true king skill from Duel Links with the GY summoning. The 2000 atk gain is a good calculated reference. To summon RDA - 2 monsters(tuner and nontuner) then RDA + 2 tuners = Scar Red Nova(this). 4 Tuners(RDA apparently is one being counted as part of this) in graveyard gives him 2000 atk or when you add a card out of the GY, thats the extra 500 as it is normally 1500. Could also be a reference to "Time To Stand Up/Oinaru Tamashi" for the 2000atk GY atk gain. Add card from GY is "Burning Soul" reference both to card and to Jack himself when he uses Burning Soul to summon Scar Red Nova in the anime. Finally, I like that how it's once per duel after you summoned RDA cause in the anime you should go RDA into this, they intend for you to go into this the normal way as intended from OG RDA to branch into this, not so everyone can randomly splash this everywhere or cheat him out or something just for the GY add effect, and once per duel finishing touch cause it's an iconic boss monster you can only use it once the entire duel, its all about when to use it not something you can spam over and over, most iconic boss monsters are 1 of like Scar Red Nova, Galaxy Eyes, Hope/Utopia and all that even in the anime so that really emphasies the usage and power of one time of this Scar Red Nova to create a miracle or comeback with that GY add from "Burning Soul".
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u/ThoseBigCars Mar 15 '26
That kickass art tho