The First Monarch | Deck and Rulings

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update 20/03/2020

The First Monarch

Type	Trap Card
Property	Continuous
Card Effect Type	Card effect / Trigger-like Effect / Continuous-like Effect
Passcode	08522996

Archetypes	Monarch / Trap Monster
Related to Archetypes	Monarch

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Special Summon this card as an Effect Monster (Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 6/ATK 1000/DEF 2400). (This card is also still a Trap Card.) If Summoned this way: You can discard 1 card, then declare 1 Attribute; this card becomes that Attribute, and can be treated as 2 Tributes for the Tribute Summon of a monster with the same Attribute as this card. If this card was Summoned this way, you cannot Special Summon monsters, except monsters with this card's Attribute.

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Other	Solemn Odion Roaming Event [SR]

Evaluation

Rating

B

Pros

Good Defense.
Can act as 2 tributes.

Cons

Must discard to use as 2 tributes.
Prevents you from Special Summoning monsters of a different attribute than this card.

Tips

Ancient Gear

Ancient Gear monsters need to Tribute Summon some of their best monsters like Ancient Gear Golem. They can sometimes be slow to put out monsters on the field without their newer support, so The First Monarch can be helpful as tribute fodder.

Ancient Gear Golem

Ancient Gear Golem - Ultimate Pound

Ancient Gear Hydra

Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon

Egyptian Gods

The First Monarch can ease the summoning of a DIVINE monster if you change his attribute to DIVINE. This is useful since the Egyptian Gods can usually only be summoned through Tribute Summon.

Slifer the Sky Dragon

The Winged Dragon of Ra

Obelisk the Tormentor

Advance Force

With Advance Force on the field, The First Monarch can be the sole tribute for a level-7 or higher monster.

Decks

Monarch Deck

Monarch
Monarch

Rulings

Classifications

Actions	Discards for cost / Declares an Attribute
Monster/Spell/Trap categories	Treats Trap Cards as monsters
Summoning categories	Special Summons itself from your Spell & Trap Card Zone / Double Tributer / Prevents your Special Summons
Stat changes	Changes Attribute

Comments

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Anonymous

Just to confirm a few things about this card. 1) it does work with egyptian god cards and also beast king requiring 3 summons, you just need an extra monster on the field.

2) If you already have this card on the field and used it's effect the game glitches and will not allow you to summon an extra copy from your hand.

Decent card situationally even though it is bugged.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Yes I can confirm 100% you can as I did it 30 mins ago. You just need to use to use it's specical effect and select Earth with one other monster on the field.

I've been messing around today with Serket decks with First Monarch and had a few OTKs

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Nice. Gonna try this out. Thanks

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

NP

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No card ever says they need 3 "tributes", it's always "tribute 3 monsters".

Anonymous

I'm not sure, but I think this card can be counted as 2 tributes for a dark monster even when you don't discard, right ?

I think I used it to tribute summon a Red-eyes dragon a few months ago.

Is that normal ?

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I tested it and it doesn't count as 2 if you don't discard, even for a DARK monster.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Maybe what happened was a bug that was fixed then

<< Anonymous

Dragonaut Reply

That only happens if you had NO cards in your hand when you activate it (you get locked into only summoning Dark monsters for some reason)

<< Anonymous(Dragonaut)

Anonymous Reply

...You get locked into whatever Attribute The First Monarch is if it's Summoned itself. Whether you used the discard effect or not doesn't matter. If you don't use the discard effect, it is (usually) DARK, and thus locks you into DARK.

Anonymous

nice card, gonna use this with blue eyes tuners for black rose dragon

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

ok

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

need to discard 1 card first to select pyro type

Anonymous

Can this card act as two of the three tributes for Uria and Witcher?

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Anonymous

How come it doesn't work on Yubel or am I missing something?

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Anonymous

It's a good trap but what I don't like about it... is the fact you have to discard

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Anonymous

This can work in an Egyptian God based deck. Since you can tribute this card and 1 other monster to summon an Egyptian God card.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Badly this dont work because Egyptian God says "Tribute 3 Monsters" :(

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

:(

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

No the first anon is correct. If you used the first monarch effect to discard 1 card from your hand you treat this card as 2 tribute for tribute summon of any attribute of your choice so with this you can tribute this card and 1 other monster to summon god card

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

If you have a fabled monster that summons itself from discard you can have all required tributes I think.

Anonymous

Kinda nice for a Dark Lord deck since they're all dark attribute, you discard a card which is good for a dark lord deck and it allows you to summon any dark lord in your hand by tributing this one card. And if not all that then you have a 2400 Def wall for the time being.
And maybe even decent for a blue eyes deck.

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Anonymous

you could use it to in darklord decks so you can summon morningstar

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Anonymous

Why would you need to discard an Egyptian God to use it as tribute fodder for another god card? All the card says is discard and declare attribute, never says it has to be the same as what you discarded. Doesn’t even have to be a monster.

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

I guess whoever made the article misread the card. Won't be the first time that happens in Gamea XD

Hope they fix that part.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

the monster u tributing this for needs the same attribute as this one which gets it by discarding a certain attribute so for summoning a god u need divine attribute if thats how it works ?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

you do not need to discard a certain attribute

the double tribute effect relies on the attribute you DECLARED

Anonymous

This has an error, you discard a card, then declare an attribute. This card becomes the declared attribute. It doesn't matter what you discard

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<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

so whats the error ?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

The article makes it as if you have to discard a monster with the same attribute, that's the error.

Anonymous

this could help SSA decks big time.

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