Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz – #BLMM-EN025
If you Ritual Summon exactly 1 “Nekroz” Ritual Monster with a card effect that requires use of monsters, this card you control can be used as the entire Tribute. You can only use each of the following effects of “Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz” once per turn. If you have a Warrior “Nekroz” monster in your field or GY: You can Special Summon this card from your hand. If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Nekroz” Ritual Monster or 1 “Nekroz” Spell from your Deck to your hand.
Date Reviewed: September 2nd, 2025
Rating: 3.92
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Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz goes hand-in-hand with Avance, which makes sense considering the lore.
Like Avance, Emilia can be used as the whole tribute for a Nekroz Ritual Summon. Whenever this is an effect on an in-archetype monster for Rituals, it is a good thing. She is your new Nekroz Ritual Monster or Spell searcher, potentially eliminating the need for Manju and Senju to be played in the deck. These two effects alone are good enough to make her a necessity in the archetype, but making her an extender if there happens to be a Warrior-Type Nekroz on the field or in the grave is the cherry on top. You can summon Avance to search her, who can then Special Summon herself to then search whatever you need for your Ritual Summon(s). If you happen to do two Ritual Summons in the same turn, and then banish both Nekroz Spells for their effects, Avance will get them back to your hand for next turn, as well as any Nekroz monsters that were banished as well (Nekroz Mirror).
Recovery of resources and card advantage is the name of the game when you are trying to build a board, and with Ritual archetypes that can be difficult. Avance and Emilia both do their best to recoup for you and lessen the investment for Ritual Summons. They do it very well.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
From a Nekroz summong a monster from the Deck to the most likely target to summon, we now have Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz.
Emilia is a Level 4 WATER Spellcaster with 1600 ATK and 800 DEF. A very small improvement in stats to yesterday, but it’s still a WATER Spellcaster. Once again, if you would Ritual Summon a Nekroz Ritual with an effect using monsters, you can use this card on the field as the entire material, making Ritual Summoning much easier in Nekroz. The remaining effects are each HOPT, first letting you Special Summon this card from the hand if you have a Warrior Nekroz on your field or in your graveyard, which is a simple enough condition to meet considering some of the best Nekroz monsters (Brionac, Clausolas, Trishula, Areadbhair, and Shurit) are all Warriors. If Normal or Special Summoned, you can add any Nekroz Ritual Monster or any Nekroz Spell from your Deck to your hand, which should help complete your Ritual Summon by fetching for your missing piece. Emilia is yet another good support piece for Nekroz being more Ritual Summoning fodder, an easy Special Summon condition if not summoning from Deck with Avance, and searching for missing Ritual Summoning pieces for your plays. Another solid 3-of in Nekroz.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4/5 Emilia did seem like one of the more important Gishkis when it came to lore, so nice she joins another archetype and becomes more playable.
Mighty
Vee
Dance Princess of the Nekroz is not a great card. Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz is a much better card, and is next in our Nekroz support coverage. Emilia’s still a level 4 WATER Spellcaster monster, and as usual you can search it with Nekroz of Brionac (I forgot to mention it yesterday, but by extension that also means you can use Preparation of Rites!). Of course, realistically you’ll be summoning it with Avance, Swordsman of the Nekroz. As the third iteration of Emilia (not counting the Ritual Nekroz forms), this Emilia still retains the classic 1600 attack and 800 defense. Poor stats, but it shouldn’t matter too much in most situations.
Just like Avance, Emilia can be used as the entire Tribute for a Nekroz Ritual monster when it’s being Tributed from the field, which is again very helpful for fielding the high-level Nekroz Ritual monsters. I am once again puzzled that it won’t count from the hand, but that just means you’ll have to be a little more careful with your combo lines. Emilia fortunately has a more orthodox set of effects than Avance, with 2 hard once per turn effects. As long as there’s a Warrior Nekroz monster on the field or in your Graveyard, you’ll be able to Special Summon Emilia from your hand. This is meant to combo with Brionac since it’s conveniently a Warrior Nekroz, and in the modern landscape, it’s best to avoid using up your Normal Summon when you can help it. That said, it’ll mostly be relevant for extending and having fodder for Nekroz Divinemirror after recycling Emilia with Avance’s effect since you’ll usually have a Warrior Nekroz in the Graveyard or Nekroz of Areadbhair fielded at that point. Emilia’s final effect is pretty straightforward, simply searching any Nekroz Ritual monster or Spell on Normal or Special Summon. Again, you’ll want to use your Normal Summon on Avance, so unless you start with Brionac this actually isn’t too great as a combo starter (and even in that case, if you don’t have Avance you should search that instead), but it’s still an excellent way to fish for necessary combo pieces. The bread and butter combo line will have you search Areadbhair to get Emilia into the Graveyard as banish fodder to recycle later, but as always, search what you need! Tomorrow’s card, Nekroz Divinemirror, will also be great for combo lines trying to set up Nekroz of Trishula during your opponent’s turn. It might not be a good starter, but you’ll still run 3 copies; it can still pull off some nasty 2-card combos as long as you can get a Nekroz Warrior in the Graveyard. Save us, Brionac!
+Great combo piece and extender
+Level 4 body for Bahamut Shark plays (in OCG)
-Requires a Nekroz Warrior to summon itself
-Poor combo ability on its own
Advanced: 3.75/5
Art: 4.25/5 I love Emilia! No, really! In any case, my favorite Emilia outfit.
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