Dragon Master Lords – #ALIN-EN000
2 Level 12 monsters
While this Xyz Summoned card is in your Monster Zone, your opponent cannot target it with card effects, also it cannot be destroyed by your opponent’s card effects. While you have 25 or more cards in your GY, if this card attacks a Defense Position monster, inflict double piercing battle damage to your opponent. Once per turn, if your opponent has 25 or more cards in their GY: You can detach 1 material from this card; Special Summon 1 monster from your Deck, Extra Deck, or GY.
Date Reviewed: June 6th, 2025
Rating: 2.08
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,
Dragon Master Lords ends the week and is one of those anniversary cards that needs 25 cards for it to gain effect(s)…yay…
Two Level 12 monsters needed for the Xyz Summon, you are safely not making this in most decks outside of something like Infinitrack. If you do somehow Xyz Summon this card, your opponent thankfully cannot target it with card effect nor destroy it with card effects. For needing two Level 12 monsters it should automatically get that kind of protection, though non-targeting bounce effects still work on it.
Here’s the 25 card effect…if you have 25 or more cards in the grave, you get double piercing. It’s good that it has such great protection, because double piercing for a monster with 5000/5000 stat line isn’t very useful. If you summon Dragon Master Lords it should be almost a game-ending play. With the protection it has it can keep swinging away at the opponent and your other monsters can clean up, or, vice-versa. The double piercing damage ensures if your opponent tries to wall up it will still likely be game over because anything under 1000DEF would be game-ending with the double piercing damage, and you are likely doing damage beforehand with Dragon Master Lords.
Detach a material to Special Summon a monster from the Deck, Extra Deck, or Graveyard is an insane effect…if it didn’t require your opponent to have 25 or more cards in their graveyard. This effect isn’t going to ever happen because the game isn’t going to last that long. If they do have that many cards in their grave I’m doubting you are able to go for this monster because the board is likely stacked with negation. The only way you are pulling this off would be Dark Ruler No More on your turn to make this card and then eliminate a negation monster but you aren’t doing any damage this turn. Dragon Master Lords does have the protection against targeting and destruction abilities of card effects, but there are still ways to out it.
Of all the anniversary cards this one takes the cake for most playable. While it needs Level 12 monsters, Xyz Align in a Dragon deck can do this. It has tremendous protection and stats and while you likely are never using its detach ability to Special Summon any monster that can be summoned from Deck, Extra Deck or Graveyard without special conditions, you have that tacked on just in case. Double piercing if you have 25 or more cards in the grave isn’t happening either but who really cares when you have a near-invincible monster on the field with 5000/5000? It can still be tributed though, so be careful.
Advanced- 2/5 Art- 5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
After two years, the Quarter Century celebration is finally over and we got the final card created to celebrate this occasion, and we really went grand with Dragon Master Lords.
Dragon Master Lords is a Rank 12 DARK Dragon Xyz with 5000 ATK and DEF. 5000 stats will always be the pinnacle of the game most likely, and DARK Dragons are still appreciated. Materials are any 2 Level 12 monsters, which I’m sure Konami would hope would be Paladins of Bonds and Unity and Ultimate Dragon of Pride and Soul, but it can be any 2 Level 12s to be fair. While this Xyz Summoned card is in the Monster Zone, your opponent cannot target or destroy it with card effects. So it’s not indestructable, but it’s very hard to out with that protection on a 5000/5000 body. While you have 25 or more cards in your graveyard, this card does double piercing damage attacking a Defense Position monster, which with 5000 ATK should be near lethal at least in a lot of cases. Still needs you to have 25 cards in your graveyard, so it will need setup for this to be very dangerous against Defense Position monsters. If your opponent has 25 cards in their graveyard, however, you can detach a material from this card to summon any monster from your Deck, Extra Deck, or graveyard. Considering that requirement, it’s nice we finally have a payoff that’s worthy of trying to ask you to have your opponent have 25 cards in the graveyard since you’ll likely have to do all the work and the opponent will try to avoid it and remove this beforehand. Only negative, besides the steep requirement, is that it doesn’t ignore summoning conditions, but still a plethora of monsters to summon. Now, you’ll likely never pull off the graveyard requirements for either effect, especially for the opponent’s graveyard, and if you do summon a 5000/5000 monster, you’ll likely be able to finish the game before you get 25 cards in the grave if you haven’t already. The protection might make this the best of these anniversary cards, since it is a generic Rank 12, but you never really see Rank 12s get made at all, and if you do then you got competition with Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder and Super Starslayer TY-PHON – Sky Crisis also being generic Rank 12 monsters that some might forget since they are extremely rarely summoned with Level 12s. It’s another cool annniversary card, but still not all that practical, yet somehow one of the easiest ones to summon out of all of anniversary cards we got.
Advanced Rating: 2/5
Art: 5/5 Didn’t think we’d get two Dragon Master Knight retrains within about a year.
Mighty
Vee
And now for something completely different as we end the week with Dragon Master Lords, yet another member of the 25th anniversary crew. This time around it’s a Rank 12 DARK Dragon Xyz monster, but in this case I don’t think I have to bring up being a DARK Dragon. It’ll take any 2 level 12 monsters, which sounds easy but is actually weirdly difficult to make. You’re obviously goaded into making it with Paladins of Bonds and Unity and Ultimate Dragon of Pride and Soul, but nobody sane will actually do this. Only a handful of archetypes can do this easily like Infinitrack (which can famously make Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder manually) or Centur-Ion (through brute forcing it with 2 level 12 Synchros– not recommended). Much like its namesake card, Dragon Master Knight, it packs a gargantuan stat spread of 5000 attack and defense; I would expect nothing less from a Rank 12 like this. Surely a 25th anniversary card will finally have good effects this time?
While Xyz Summoned, Dragon Master Lords has protection against your opponent’s targeting effects and is immune to destruction, so we’re off to a good start! A mini-towers with excellent stats can go a surprisingly long way; I’ll always mention how targeting is becoming much more common with recent boss monsters, so protection is kind of underrated these days. The praises end there, as we now get to the effects that require 25 cards in the Graveyard. If you have 25 or more cards in your Graveyard, Dragon Master Lords gains double piercing damage, which is rather rare since they rarely make pure beaters these days. Combined with its massive attack stat, you can straight up OTK your opponent in one hit against a monster with 1000 or less defense. The problem, of course, is once again that getting 25 cards in the Graveyard is a herculean task that only Ishizu Tear has a ghost of a chance of accomplishing. Even when you can, is it really worth it for a huge beater? Dragon Master Lords’ final effect is soft once per turn, only usable if your opponent has 25 or more cards in their Graveyard to let you detach a material and Special Summon any monster from your deck, Extra Deck, or Graveyard. For a broken effect, you’ll have to contend with the even more ridiculous requirement of praying your opponent has 25 cards in their Graveyard. If this somehow happens, there’s no reason not to abuse it for crazy endboard pieces like Naturia Exterio or The Last Warrior from Another Planet. If you have the opportunity to attack and the piercing effect is live, cards that can summon weak Tokens in Defense Position like Volcanic Trooper are great since they’ll all but confirm your victory if you can successfully attack. The key word here is “if” since, again, banking on your opponent having 25 or more cards in the Graveyard is much more difficult than your own, so this effect might as well not be there. Like the other 25th anniversary cards, Dragon Master Lords is not meant to be used seriously, but to its credit, it’s still a beater with amazing stats and protection in addition to not being totally impossible to summon. You won’t play this in a serious deck, but you could do worse as far as boss monsters go.
+Incredible stats with strong protection
+Special Summon effect can summon almost any monster and guarantee victory
-Surprisingly difficult to summon
-Graveyard requirements will basically never happen in a serious duel
Advanced: 2.25/5
Art: 4/5 The bling makes it kind of hard to tell what’s going on, but it’s fitting for the final 25th anniversary monster. At least, I hope it is…
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