Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers – #ALIN-EN018
You can discard this card and 1 Dragon or LIGHT monster; add 2 “Dragon Ruler” monsters from your Deck to your hand, except “Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers”. You can banish from your GY, this card and 1 Dragon or LIGHT monster, then target 1 “Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras” in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only use 1 “Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers” effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps – #ALIN-EN019
You can discard this card and 1 Dragon or DARK monster, then target 2 of your banished “Dragon Ruler” monsters with different Attributes, except “Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps”; Special Summon them, but they cannot attack this turn. You can banish from your GY, this card and 1 Dragon or DARK monster, then target 1 “Eclipse, Dragon Ruler of Catastrophes” in your GY; Special Summon it. You can only use 1 “Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps” effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Date Reviewed: July 7th, 2025
Rating: See Below
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
It is Dragon Ruler week to start off the first full week of July and as someone who loves dragons I’m so happy that the Rulers got their archetype support to round out the archetype in full. We’re doing a two-for-one special the first two days of the week, starting with the two new baby forms: Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers & Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps.
Both bare the same discard ability as the other “baby dragons” for their bigger Dragon Ruler forms: “Discard this and a Dragon or matching Attribute” with each getting a unique effect. For Flickers, adding two Dragon Ruler monsters from Deck to hand except itself makes Flickers the ultimate search card for the archetype now. Any baby or Dragon Ruler form is now fully searchable while setting up the grave for any Dragon Ruler summon. While neither of the two monsters we review today will have a larger Dragon Rulers form, they do in turn have a way to help their Xyz versions.
Flickers can Special Summon its Xyz form from the grave through banishing itself and a LIGHT or Dragon monster. While you won’t get to use its effect because you won’t have any materials attached, you still have an easy way to Special Summon a Rank 7 with 3000ATK that can be used for a Link Summon or strictly as a beater.
Dragon Rulers needed a search card like this. They needed something better than Sacred Sword of the Seven Stars to get through their deck, and this is it. Direct, sets up the grave (unless the monster is a LIGHT and not Dragon-Type), and while you can only use one effect per turn and only once per turn, you will have two Dragon Ruler monsters to your hand to go further that turn. Every archetype needs a direct searcher and Flickers is it.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 5/5
Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps is the same as Flickers, but Nebulus is for getting back anything you banish. Discarding a DARK or Dragon-Type alongside it to retrieve two Dragon Ruler monsters with different Attributes from the banished area would be enough. Adding them to your hand would be better, but Special Summoning them is tremendous. Sure, they can’t attack this turn, that hardly matters. Any two Main Deck Dragon Ruler monsters make a Link-2 or Rank 7, or become fodder for other Dragon Rulers in your hand or in the grave.
Pertaining to helps its Xyz form, Nebulus can banish itself and a Dragon or DARK to Special Summon it like Flickers does for its Xyz form. Once again you have a beater on the field that is without any materials attached, but at 2700ATK it should hold its own and adds some power to an archetype that loves to put heavy-hitters on the field to end games.
Both new baby forms of the new Dragon Rulers add more stability and ways to get you to resources that you want or ones you already used. Where Flickers gets them from Deck to hand, Nebulus Special Summons and gives you something to work with on the field immediately. Dragon Rulers didn’t have a way to get back stuff from banished until now and it does make a difference. Both babies set up the grave for Dragon Ruler Special Summons and work seamlessly with the archetype. Bout time the Rulers got a LIGHT and DARK monster to add into the archetype.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We got the Dragon Rulers off the list now, so it’s time they get legacy support starting with two new babies for the Deck: Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers and Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps.
Starting with Spectral, a Level 2 LIGHT Dragon with 600 ATK and 1000 DEF. Not impressive stat wise, but a LIGHT Dragon is great. Anyways, discard this card with any LIGHT or Dragon to add 2 Dragon Ruler monsters with different Attributes, besides Spectral, from your Deck to your hand. Instantly you could search for another baby and a big Dragon Ruler to use the baby and the other Ruler you searched to get its corresponding Dragon Ruler summoned from the Deck, then you got 2 Dragons to summon the Dragon Ruler you put in the graveyard to immediately summon it and make a Rank 7. It’s a nice double searcher for the Deck that can fill up your graveyard, at the cost of being fat Ash Blossom bait. The other effect lets you banish itself and a LIGHT or Dragon in your graveyard to summon Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras from the graveyard, basically giving the Xyzs the summoning effects the original Rulers have to make their main Rank 7 boss with two Rank 7 Dragons. One effect per turn and only once that turn, just like all the old Dragon Rulers. Spectral is what you likely want to see in your opening hand to get Dragon Ruler combos started, hoping it doesn’t get negated since you’re giving up 2 cards for it, though at least it is graveyard setup for the Deck. With a heavy Dragon count in a Dragon Ruler Deck, you don’t need to worry about drawing the extra discard fodder, just drawing this itself. Play 3.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4.5/5 Cute little baby.
Now for Nebulus, Level 2 DARK Dragon with 1000 ATK and 600 DEF. Again, not impressive with the stats, but DARK Dragons are arguably better. Discard this and a DARK/Dragon to target two banished Dragon Rulers with different Attributes, besides Nebulus, and Special Summon them, but they cannot attack this turn. Main thing here is you get 2 Level 7s on the field hopefully for a Rank 7, or just summon two babies to make Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres. Honestly, with how easy it already is to get Dragon Rulers on the board, along with engines in the Deck like Tenpai Dragons and Armed Dragons, you don’t really struggle to make Rank 7 monsters in the Deck, but I guess this can be recovery if you got the extra Dragon. Second effect is the same as Spectral, just swap LIGHT with DARK and Chasma with Eclipse, Dragon Ruler of Catastrophies, and again one effect per turn on this. It’s fine to make a recovery play, but other than that you aren’t struggling to make Rank 7 monsters or get bodies on the field with Dragon Rulers, even when most of them have one effect per turn and only once that turn on them. It’s solid to play to extend plays maybe, but you don’t need to max on it.
Advanced Rating: 3/5
Art: 4.5/5 Another cute baby.
Mighty
Vee
Duelist Advance just came out but we’re still stuck in Alliance Insight! Talk about speeding up releases. Oh well! This week we’re covering the Dragon Ruler support, long-awaited not necessarily for meta potential but for nostalgia instead. We’ll be doing a double feature for the first couple of cards, starting with Spectral, Dragon Ruler of Flickers and Nebulus, Dragon Ruler of Mishaps, a pair of level 2 Dragon monsters that are LIGHT and DARK respectively (you already know what I’ll say about Nebulus). Ironically, their searchability isn’t that great since their levels are too low to comfortably use for Starliege Seyfert, and you’ll want them in the hand so something like Dragon Ravine isn’t too great either. That means you’ll have to rely on Bystials to summon Hieratic Dragon King of Atum or pray for the unlikely chance you open Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms and Lightning, Dragon Ruler of Drafts– you’ll have an easier time hard opening Spectral and Nebulus instead. And no, using Spright to get to them is not a good idea. Statwise, as expected of baby Dragon Rulers, they have pretty poor stats; Spectral has 600 attack and 1000 defense while Nebulus inverts it for 1000 attack and 600 defense instead. Don’t count on them for combat!
In typical Dragon Ruler fashion, Spectral has the obnoxious hard once per turn, one per turn effect clause, so both effects are hard once per turn and you can only use one of them each turn– get ready to see that again for Nebulus. Fortunately, this time around I’d say it’s kind of worth it; Spectral’s first effect will let you discard it and any other Dragon or LIGHT monster to search any 2 Dragon Ruler monsters except another Spectral. Your bread and butter combo lines will want to discard an adult Dragon Ruler, then search Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos along with a baby Dragon Ruler. This’ll set up a Rank 7 Xyz Summon (spoilers!) and be able to banish Blaster so that you can search Tenpai Dragon Genroku to go into your Tenpai combos– not necessarily to OTK, but instead to summon Sangenpai Bident Dragion as a level 7 body, because we always need more of those here. Spectral’s other effect is a little less impressive, but still potentially useful; it’ll let you banish it and any other Dragon or LIGHT monster to Special Summon a Chasma, Dragon Ruler of Auroras from your Graveyard. It’s basically a hail-Mary to revive Chasma as a beater and start your combos again by banishing another adult Dragon Ruler to search out more combo pieces. It’ll also help set up the Xyz Summon of the new Dragon Ruler boss monster, which we’ll get to in due time. Spectral would be extremely powerful if you could use both effects, but alas, it’s a little too faithful to the Dragon Ruler spirit, and they don’t really have a solid way to guarantee opening Spectral either. You’ll want to run 3 in any Dragon Ruler-focused deck, and potentially even Small World!
+Obscenely powerful 2 card combo starter
+Reviving Chasma can be useful in longer games
-Poor searchability for a combo starter
-Dreaded “one per turn” effect clause
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 3.75/5 Aurora borealis, coming not to your kitchen, but to your local card shop.
EDIT: I forgot that Chasma requires you to detach an Xyz material. Still keeping the same score but all I can say is, cowabummer!
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Nebulus also has a hard once per turn one per turn clause on its 2 effects, though again it’s not a huge deal since the first effect is the one that’ll come up more frequently when it matters. By discarding it along with any other Dragon or DARK monster, you can Special Summon 2 Dragon Rulers from your banishment with different Attributes, excluding, what else, another Nebulus, though they won’t be able to attack the same turn. The attack restriction actually kind of stinks, because in my testing I’ve had more than a few situations where I could’ve secured an OTK (remember the adult Dragon Rulers have decently high stats), but going first it’s not a big deal; at the bare minimum you’ll be able to make Hieratic Seal of the Heavenly Spheres. If you can revive 2 adult Dragon Rulers, you can make yet another Rank 7 Xyz, which brings us to Nebulus’s other effect; mirroring Spectal, it’ll let you banish it and another Dragon or DARK monster to Special Summon Eclipse, Dragon Ruler of Catastrophes from your Graveyard. It’s the same deal as Spectral reviving Chasma; we’ll talk more about Eclipse later, but it’ll still be able to help make the new boss monster on later turns, though unfortunately Eclipse will miss out on Xyz materials to use its negation effect. Nebulus is strong on paper, but unfortunately, its poor searchability hurts it even more than Spectral, considering it’s an extender that doesn’t help with starting your combos at all. You’ll have to rely on burning your Chasma search if you send Tempest. Topping lists have been running either 1 or none, which bodes poorly for this little fellow. I’d run just 1, but it’s up to taste in the end.
+Potentially strong extender that can recycle banished Dragon Rulers and field more bodies
+Revives Eclipse to help rebuild boards
-Poor searchability limits its usefulness as an extender
-Doesn’t revive Eclipse with Xyz materials
Advanced: 3.25/5
Art: 4/5 I like this guy a little more, totally not biased because it kinda looks like a Nargacuga.
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