Here There Be Dragons – #ALIN-EN061
Special Summon 1 “Dragon Ruler” monster from your hand, GY, or banishment, then immediately after this effect resolves, you can Xyz Summon 1 “Dragon Ruler” Xyz Monster using only “Dragon Ruler” monsters you control. During your Main Phase: You can banish this card from your GY, then target any number of your banished “Dragon Ruler” monsters with different Attributes; return them to the GY. You can only use 1 “Here There Be Dragons” effect per turn, and only once that turn.
Date Reviewed: July 9th, 2025
Rating: 3.33
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,
A Spell Card in Dragon Rulers? Yes, they have Spell support now!
Here There Be Dragons is a Quick-Play Spell way of getting to your new Dragon Ruler Xyz Monsters. Special Summon a Dragon Ruler from anywhere but the Deck just to go into an Xyz Summon of a Dragon Ruler Xyz Monster using nothing but Dragon Rulers…Kashtira sad now. Note the “can” in the card text, meaning you can summon any Dragon Ruler from banished, grave, or hand and leave it at that if you wanted. This makes it a defensive card for you if you happen to be without another Dragon Ruler for your Xyz Summon, using HTBD as a way to block LP damage. It being a Quick-Play does give you new-found attack power, chaining this after attacking your opponent to make one of your new Xyz Dragon Ruler monsters and attacking for more damage…as if Dragon Rulers needed help with OTK potential.
What is a Spell/Trap nowadays without a grave effect? Obsolete it seems. Here There Be Dragons can also get back your banished Dragon Ruler monsters to the grave so you can banish them again for summons. With six different Attributes to choose from, you are putting up to six cards back into the grave for the price of one, that’s a +5 for an archetype that relies heavily on their grave. The only catch is that you cannot use both effects in the same turn, truly a balance because cycling back to the grave six monsters in the same turn that you likely built your board would be unfair to your opponent. Both effects in the same turn would likely mean at least three monsters in addition to whatever is on the field for you already.
For the first dedicated Spell to the archetype, Here There Be Dragons does what the archetype likes: works with the grave, gets back from the banished so you’re not left wanting fodder for summons, and summons another Dragon Ruler for more attack potential. Don’t see your summoning any of the baby forms with this unless you were hard-pressed to defend.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We’re done with the two-for-one reviews this week and now have a new Spell specifically to support the Dragon Rulers: Here There Be Dragons.
Here There Be Dragons is a Quick-Play Spell that lets you Special Summon a Dragon Ruler from your hand, graveyard, or banishment, and then you can Xyz Summon a Dragon Ruler Xyz by using Dragon Rulers you control as material. Solid way to get another Dragon Ruler on the field, plus it’s a way to overlay your two Xyz Monsters to summon the big new Dragon Ruler boss, otherwise you get Chasma or Eclipse onto the field if you don’t have them already. Other effect banishes this card from the graveyard to target banished Dragon Rulers with different Attributes and return them to the graveyard, setting the grave back up for your Dragon Rulers to summon themselves. One effect per turn and only once that turn, it’s another decent recovery option for Dragon Rulers, and makes Friday’s card a bit more useful. You don’t want to brick on this, so I’d say 1 max if you opt for it.
Advanced Rating: 3/5
Art: 4/5 I see a big Dragon clash coming soon.
Mighty
Vee
The double features are finally over with today’s card, Here There be Dragons, which is not an archetypal card by name despite being associated with Dragon Ruler so it is tragically unsearchable for the time being. Being a Quick-Play Spell unfortunately does not spare it from having 2 hard once per turn, one per turn effects, which I once again find baffling but I guess you can’t say it isn’t faithful to Dragon Rulers! On activation, Here There be Dragons will let you Special Summon a Dragon Ruler from your hand, Graveyard, or banishment, then optionally Xyz Summon a Dragon Ruler Xyz monster using Dragon Ruler monsters you control. The extending part is fine, but the main point of this card is to enable summoning their new boss monster during the opponent’s turn, since it has a field nuke that triggers on Xyz Summon. Outside of that, besides being an emergency extender, it can surprise your opponent with a Chasma, Dragon Ruler or Auroras or Eclipse, Dragon Ruler of Catastrophes, though generally it’s a lot more useful to just make them on your own turn unless you’re paranoid of anti-monster boardbreakers. The other effect (once again, one per turn, why?) will let you banish it from your Graveyard to return any number of Dragon Rulers with different Attributes from your banishment to your Graveyard. This is handy for getting Chasma and Eclipse back into the Graveyard so you can revive them with Spectral and Nebulus, though it’ll also help set up the original Dragon Ruler quartet so you can banish them again for their search effects if necessary. It’s meant for recycling later on so it’s not a huge deal that you can’t activate it on the same turn, but it’s still pretty weird since stronger cards have no such restrictions (and are actually searchable). It’s hard to give this card a great score since I’m not a fan of extenders that depend on your hand, but if you’re going to play pure Dragon Ruler, you don’t have much of a choice other than to play 3. Hybrid builds that aren’t very interested in the new boss monster and can compensate with more effective extenders can skimp out on it entirely. Hope they get a way to search it later.
+Decent extender in emergencies
+Can enable the nuke effect of Disaster, Dragon Ruler of All Apocalypses during your opponent’s turn
-Very poor combo ability with bad hands
-Unsearchable combo piece
Advanced: 3/5
Art: 3.25/5 I don’t know about you guys, but I think the aurora borealis is much preferable to natural disasters.
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