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Nordic Beasts:
1. Tanngnjostr/Black Goat
The Engine of the Nordic Beasts. Summons from the hand and pulls all the Beasts from the deck by switching from defense to attack
2. Guldfaxe
He’s just the generic level 4 tuner of legend. Mostly useful since he’s the ONLY Nordic Beast Tuner.
3.Tanngrisnir/White Goat
Summons Tokens for defense or big Synchro plays. Also makes Rank 3 XYZs summons with Black Goat.
4. Garmr
Really not all that spectacular. Brings nothing necessary to Nordic Beasts.
Nordic Alfar: (mostly Spellcasters)
1. Dverg
Gives extra normal summons of Nordic monsters and recurs Nordic Relics. Not to special.
2. Ljosalf
Special summons from the hand… sometimes. Not very good. Has some weird plays but not a card one should keep in mind.
3. Mara
She synchros from the hand, which is awesome, but the limitations drive her into the ground.
4. Svartalf
Pretty ridiculous level 5 Tuner. Recurs Nordic monsters is the ultimate in search-ability.
Nordic Ascendant (Fairys)
1. Mimir
Weird Treeborn Frog esque effect. This card might do something if you put your mind to it.
2. Valkyrie
Pretty much an instant Odin effect. Is it worth it though?
3.Vanadis
The Quickdraw of Nordics in a sense.
The Aesir:
1. Thor, Lord of the Aesir
Requires a Nordic Beast Tuner. The weakest “god” but the easiest to summon.
2. Loki, Lord of the Aesir
Requires a Nordic Alfar Tuner. Very good effect and stats but is usually just as easy to summon as Odin, who is superior.
3. Odin, Father of the Aesir
Requires a Nordic Ascendant Tuner. Incredibly powerful being unaffected by spells and traps but hard to summon.
Tyr of the Nordic Champions… poop.
Nordic Relics:
1. Draupnir
Equip spell that gives an 800 Atk boost. Pretty simple
2. Gungnir
Remove a Nordic to destroy a card. In the end it’s pretty underwhelming.
3. Laevateinn
Destroys stuff, but’s unegatable. Also underwhelming.
3. Megingjord
Doubles a Nordic’s ATK and DEF until the end phase.
Extra Support
1. Gleipnir, the Fetters of Fenrir
A trap that searches any Nordic monsters. Simple but effective
2. The Nordic Lights
In short… it’s just a bad field spell.
Other Cards that work well…
Beasts:
Reborn Tengu
Chaos Sorcerer
Ryko the Lightsworn Hunter
Super-Nimble Mega Hamster
Chain Dog (XYZs Summoning)
Alfar:
Level Eater
Plants
The Tricky
Cyber Dragon
Savlage Warrior
Rank 5 XYZs
Spellcaster Support
Ascendant:
Best used when splashed with other Nordic decks.
I can’t wait to listen to this episode.
Oh, and Tyr, Odin’s son, isn’t that bad, but Nordic Lights sucks. Especially with three MST’s and a Heavy Storm.
YESSS! Early episode! Can’t wait to listen to it when I come back home from school 🙂
How about scapegoat, seeing as most of the beasts are goats.
C’mon laevattin is’nt that bad a card in fact it’s pretty useful when you dont care about your monsters- and its unnegatable, thats pretty good in todays meta.
Laevateinn is awesome. It’s an after the fact Sakuretsu Armor.
Matt predicted right on Fossil Dyna being reprinted in the Wave 2 tins 🙂
Great podcast as always. I might just have to make a Nordic deck now that I pulled a Odin from one of the tins I bought.
BTW, If I haven’t mentioned this before, I do like the intro music very much. Very catchy IMO.
Keep up the great work.
This holiday season, Konami is showing that they are not afraid to demand our money. I’m absolutely supportive of such aggressive action towards leveling the playing field and hope they continue this trend in the future!
What’s the songs name, by the way?
I have both our Intro/Outro and the Segment Change posted on our “About” page, near the bottom.
Both Musicians have some pretty cool work too!
Cool! Love the music.
Thanks for your time.