Chaotic Elements – #ALIN-EN067
Add 1 Level 5 or higher monster (LIGHT or DARK, Pyro or Aqua) from your Deck or GY to your hand, then if you have 3 or more Pyro and/or Aqua monsters in your GY, you can destroy 1 card on the field. If your opponent controls a monster (LIGHT or DARK, Pyro or Aqua): You can banish this card from your GY, then target 1 monster your opponent controls; take control of it until the End Phase. You can only use each effect of “Chaotic Elements” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: June 9th, 2025
Rating: 3.5
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King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
We’re starting this week with some Ashened support of all things…not really surprising that we haven’t covered them in a while, TCG exclusive archetypes have a bad history of failure.
Chaotic Elements is a Normal Spell with two effects. The first being the generic ability to search, in this case, you are searching out any Level 5 or higher monster (LIGHT or DARK, Pyro or Aqua) from your Deck or adding back from the gave. You are almost always searching from the Deck, but the idea that they have to be LIGHT or DARK Aqua or Pyro monsters narrows the search radius incredibly for this card. While it isn’t specific to Ashened, it does search Veidos, Hero, and King within that archetype. Among other things, Helios and Tistina get a search card in Chaotic Elements, but lets be real, its Ashened support.
If you happen to have three or more Pyro, Aqua or combo of those monsters in your grave you get a spot removal ability attached to your search. Honestly the Spell is good enough to shotgun straight-away without this, but in Ashened you may way to try to take advantage of this spot removal.
If your opponent would control one of the search targets Chaotic Elements can search for (LIGHT or DARK, Pyro or Aqua) you can take control of that monster until the End Phase through banishing Chaotic Elements in the grave. If that isn’t the cherry on top to confirm it’s Ashened support I’m not sure what is? You give your opponent Veidos to destroy City as part of your strategy in the archetype so why not give you a Spell that not only allows you to search out Veidos, but also steal it back essentially for free. It won’t be around in the End Phase so your opponent won’t get it back, and your opponent is HIGHLY unlikely to be playing anything this card can search, so this would be the only way to get this effect off. Building your board up with Ashened monsters to then steal Veidos rather than destroying it with Hero to swing for game works just as much as destroying Veidos with Hero even if doing so would trigger Hero. Ashened City turns opponents Special Summoned monsters into Pyro so Hero’s ability could still be online even if you stole Veidos instead of destroying him.
I guess this archetype needed a bone thrown their way. It’s a shame they didn’t get a downright broken card to start their archetype off on the right foot. With the history of TCG exclusives not having success you think they would’ve done that but alas, they did not. Chaotic Elements helps them immensely by giving them a searcher for the two best monsters that can’t be searched by Bonfire. It is at least a two of in the archetype if not three, but the archetype still revolves around the Field Spell so keep that in mind.
Advanced- 3/5 Art- 3/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
Last week was very monster heavy, so we go in the opposite direction this week with some of the good Spells & Traps in ALIN, starting with a searcher intended for two of the previous TCG exclusive archetypes: Chaotic Elements.
Chaotic Elements is a Normal Spell that lets you add any Level 5 or higher monster from your Deck or graveyard to your hand that is either a LIGHT/DARK Pyro/Aqua monster, then if you have 3 or more Pyro and/or Aqua monsters in your graveyard, you can destroy a card on the field. The obvious support here is for Tistina and Ashened since those were the two TCG exclusive Decks that Japan got recently, and this was indirect support for both before they each got an actual card in Duelist’s Advance. In Tistina, you can grab Crystal God Tistina, Demigod of the Tistina, Tainted of the Tistina, and the upcoming Miasma Dragon Tistina. Crystal God you likely won’t grab as Tistina has ways to summon from Deck, but Demigod and Misama are both searchers for the archetype that aren’t hard to summon and Tainted of the Tistina helps make your Rank 10. For Ashened you get Hero of the Ashened City, King of the Ashened City, and Veidos the Eruption Dragon of Extinction (you could also put Embers of the Ashened or Veidos the Dragon of Endless Darkness from the grave back in the Extra Deck). Veidos seems like the most obvious target for Ashened to search with this, but there’s also many ways the Deck can get to him, so you can in that case grab King to summon Hero or another Ashened from Deck. There are some other miscellaneous targets as well, with the most generic being Danger! Nessie! and it should be noted K9 can grab both K9 – #66a Jokull and K9 – #66b Lantern, but they also have their own searcher and access to Seventh Tachyon, so it depends really on how many searchers you want. Besides that, the only remaining good target would be Tearlaments Kitkallos if it was legal, but Tear also never had a problem putting it back in the Extra Deck. Now, for the second part after you search, it’s a nice little bonus since Ashened and Tistina shouldn’t have an issue putting 3 Pyro or Aqua monsters in the grave respectively. Also, if your opponent controls a LIGHT/DARK Pyro/Aqua monster, you can banish this card from the graveyard to target a monster the opponent controls to take control of it. Likely won’t come up often, though Ashened does change the opponent’s monsters into Pyros on your turn and it would be funny to use against an opponent’s Ryzeal Detonator, even if it’ll just result in the opponent destroying their own Detonator and likely reviving it with Eclipse Twins if that’s an option. HOPT on each effect, it’s an interesting searcher for the game to have. The pool of monsters is of course very small, and Pyro and Aqua monsters aren’t usually LIGHT or DARK outside Ashened and Tistina, but we can get more targets in the future. It’s solid in K9 as well thankfully since they got a DARK Pyro and Aqua. I’d hope what this can search will grow in the future, but Ashened and Tistina both appreciate a boost like this.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4.5/5 You know, I didn’t think Ashened and Tistina were part of the same lore actually.
Mighty
Vee
This week is more one-off support from Alliance Insight, though not particularly coded like last week’s batch. Chaotic Elements is an odd little card to start us off, a Normal Spell with 2 hard once per turn effects. The first effect will let you search any level 5 or higher monster that is either LIGHT or DARK and Pyro or Aqua (so basically, a LIGHT Pyro or Aqua, or a DARK Pyro or Aqua) or recycle one from your Graveyard back to your hand. As a bonus, if you have 3 or more Pyro and (or) Aqua monsters in your Graveyard, you’ll be able to destroy any card on the field. The search targets are highly specific because this card is tailor-made for the formerly TCG exclusive archetypes, Ashened and Tistina, which are DARK Pyro and LIGHT Aqua monsters respectively. This’ll help you get to Veidos the Eruption Dragon of Extinction or Demigod of the Tistina, both of them being pretty big combo pieces for their respective decks. Other notable targets are Danger! Nessie!, which happens to be a DARK Aqua monster, and 2 combo pieces for the upcoming K9 archetype (coincidence? I think not). The other effect of Chaotic Elements will let you banish it from your Graveyard as long as your opponent controls a monster that is either LIGHT or DARK and Pyro or Aqua (please do not keep doing these weird clauses), letting you target and take control of any of your opponent’s monsters. This effect obviously has much stronger applications in Ashened considering their gimmick involves putting Veidos on their field, so you’ll be able to take it back for various plays. Tistina’s applications are much more limited, but you’ll mostly just be trying to get Demigod anyway. Chaotic Elements is a weird card, but in the decks that appreciate it, it’s a nice boost in consistency, especially since those particular decks (Ashened and Tistina) aren’t exactly known for being combo extraordinaires. Tweak ratios to taste.
+Searches vital combo pieces for certain decks
+Bonus effects can be game-changing when they come up
-Very limited search targets
-Its dedicated decks are largely mediocre
Advanced: 3.5/5
Art: 3/5 What is that, some kind of Tistina jellyfish?
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