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This month’s featured card is The Diva Stage It is a yellow nexus from BSC16. This is the first nexus to be reviewed in this section, but it is a very unusual card.
The Diva Stage is an uncommon card with a cost of 4 and two yellow reduction. It has one yellow symbol. The nexus has two levels. As usual, no core is required to activate its LV1/LV2 effect. One core is needed to activate its LV2 effect.
The first effect of this nexus activates during your attack step. When you summon a spirit using On Stage, during that turn, the spirit is treated as being its highest level. This could certainly be useful, if you don’t have the core to level your spirits up all the way.
But, its LV2 effect is the interesting one. If you have 10 or more spirits with different names in the family Stage Style on your start step, you win the game. Yes… win the game, regardless of the state of your opponent’s life or deck.
There’s no denying it would be awesome to win this way. The question is, how feasible is it? There are a few things that need to be factored. First, cost. Since the Stage Style family cards are often considered evolved forms of Private Wear spirits, some have a high cost like you would expect. For example, the cost 10 The EternalIdol Noah-Fleur. But not all are unreasonable. The SmileGirl Ran-Blasear actually costs only 2, and there is a fair amount with costs 5 and under. Of course, it goes without saying that you would only want to use this card in a yellow Song Princess deck, so you should be able to rely on cost reduction.
The next way to get your Stage Style spirits out more easily is to rely on the On Stage effects when available. That way, you can trade away their Private Wear forms and summon the spirits at no cost. But this would also require keeping both forms of each in your deck. And the more cards you have, the less likely you are to draw what you want. Also, it’s probably a good idea to keep more than 10 spirits with Stage Style available, so you may need to go over 40 cards to keep a balanced deck when aiming for this win strategy.
To make the summoning easier without relying on On Stage, there are effects like The EternalIdol Noah-Fleur’s, which lets you summon any Song Princesses from your hand at no cost. The Diva Trickster also lets you summon Song Princess cards at no cost (in your removed from game area).
The other issue, and the potentially even harder one, is to keep all your spirits, and this nexus, on the field while you set up. You could perhaps hold them in your hand and rely on Noah-Fleur’s effect, but that too would pose a risk. Probably, the safest option is to rely on stall tactics like Burst Wall. The Golden Belfry could be used to protect the nexus. Of course, adding in all these extra safe-guards still doesn’t protect you from deck destruction.
In conclusion, to use an effect like this would take a considerable amount of effort, and working around it. You’re better off trying to win the game normally, but if most factors go in your favor, it could be pulled off.
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