Nekroz of Metaltron – #BLMM-EN026
Pendulum Effect
If your “Nekroz” card(s) is banished face-up (except during the Damage Step): You can target 1 Spell/Trap on the field; banish it. You can only use this effect of “Nekroz of Metaltron” once per turn.
Monster Effect
You can Ritual Summon this card with any “Nekroz” Ritual Spell. Must be Ritual Summoned, using monsters, and you cannot use Level 9 monsters. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; banish this card (until the End Phase), and if you do, banish that monster. You can only use this effect of “Nekroz of Metaltron” once per turn. Any monster destroyed by battle with your “Nekroz” monster is banished.
Date Reviewed: September 5th, 2025
Rating: 3.67
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,
Nekroz of Metaltron is the newest Ritual Monster for Nekroz and ends our week of Nekroz.
A Pendulum Ritual Monster, interesting. I never really thought of Nekroz as a Pendulum archetype, even as a secondary option, and even with two dedicated Pendulum Monsters within the archetype. Scale of 5 isn’t too bad, though it eliminates the Main Deck monsters that are below that Level unless you ran Zefrasaber. If you do place Nekroz of Metaltron into your Spell/Trap Zone though, and a Nekroz card was banished face-up, you could banish a Spell/Trap on the field. Thank goodness they didn’t specify where the Nekroz being banished had to be. You can banish any of your Nekroz Ritual Spells along with the monster for cost and then use Nekroz of Metaltron to banish a Spell/Trap your opponent has. It’s handy removal and works well with the banishing of your Ritual Spell(s) to search more Ritual Spells.
As a monster, Nekroz of Metaltron is Level 9, so as much as you put into Trishula you’ve gotta put into this card (Avarce or Emilia). Like Trishula yesterday, you cannot use a Level 9 to summon this, and like yesterday I’m not sure why you’d want to. Spot removal banish-style during any Main Phase, but you are banishing this monster until the End Phase as well. It allows you to target something face-up that is going after it and avoid being destroyed or cycled back, etc, however, you are losing out on a high ATK monster until your End Phase that you just used at least one Spell and one monster to summon. The monster you target will be banished for good and you’ll get Nekroz of Metaltron back in your End Phase, but you lose out on her usefulness for the rest of the turn. Any monster destroyed by battle with any Nekroz monster is banished instead is a double-edged sword like Trishula yesterday. Against something like Maliss, this is terrible, but against most other decks this is a good effect that even when your opponent could benefit from a monster being banished, you will likely have the advantage still. Odd that you’ll likely keep losing Nekroz of Metaltron during the Main Phase of each turn until the End Phase and you need this on the field for you to banish monsters destroyed by battle against Nekroz…
As a Pendulum, it allows for you to get rid of something each turn you banish a Nekroz card face-up. As a monster, it can banish something, and act like Omega with removing itself from the field until the End Phase. You get to do this each turn, and during either Main Phase, and she can dodge pretty much any effect that goes after her as long as you can target a monster your opponent has that is face-up. It isn’t the strongest, or most dominant Nekroz Ritual Monster, but it has a lot of potential with the flexibility of banishing opponent’s monsters each turn while protecting itself. Once you pay for it you should be good to go with its ability to dodge and come back. Balanced spot removal on both ends of this Pendulum Monster.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We end the week off with Zefra Metaltron being the latest Extra Deck monster in the Duel Terminal lore to become a Nekroz Ritual, now being Nekroz of Metaltron.
Nekroz of Metaltron as a Pendulum is a Scale 5 with a Pendulum Effect where if a Nekroz card(s) is banished face-up, you can target a Spell/Trap on the field and banish it. If it could target a monster, it would be great removal, but otherwise you’ll likely just be summoning this. If you really want Pendulum Scales in Nekroz of all Decks, you got the Zefras at least.
Metaltron as a monster is a Level 9 LIGHT Wyrm Ritual Pendulum with 2500 ATK and 3000 DEF. Pretty solid stats for a Level 9, though being a LIGHT monster is odd in Nekroz, but Wyrm is fine in a Deck with a bunch of Types being represented. You can Ritual Summon this with any Nekroz Ritual Spell and it must be Ritual Summoned using only monsters, and no Level 9s. During the Main Phase, you get a Quick Effect option to target a monster the opponent controls and banish it by also banishing this card, but Metaltron returns to the field during the End Phase. It’s good monster removal, giving Nekroz something next to Areadbhair and Clausolas for disruption along with a Divinemirror/Trishula combo, and it can be strong with Unicore negating the effects of all Extra Deck monsters on the field. HOPT on that effect, and all monsters destroyed in battle with your Nekroz monsters are banished, which is a nice bonus. Metaltron is decent, adding a new disruption piece for Nekroz to handle monsters. The Pendulum Effect is okay, but being a Pendulum is mostly for some lore flavor since it’s related to Zefra. Playing 1 is fine, it isn’t the most powerful option in the Deck, but it’s a good additional piece to a Nekroz end board.
Advanced Rating: 3.5/5
Art: 3.5/5 Dunno, a Nekroz with the Metaltron armor feels odd. Doesn’t match the asthetics of the other Rituals mostly remaining blue.
Mighty
Vee
They couldn’t resist printing another Nekroz Ritual monster, so ending the week is another boss monster for the Nekroz archetype, Nekroz of Metaltron, a level 9 LIGHT Wyrm Ritual Pendulum monster that serves as a shout-out to Zefra Metaltron. It has a scale of 5, which frankly is not useful when Zefraxa, Flame Beast of the Nekroz has a scale of 7, but you won’t be Pendulum Summoning anyway– that would require you to run Zefraxa, which stinks. And no, sorry, this won’t finally break Nekroz Kaleidoscope! Like the other Nekroz Rituals, Emilia, Dance Priestess of the Nekroz and Nekroz of Brionac are the most reliable ways to search it, though it is the only Wyrm Nekroz Ritual. Metaltron comes with a decent stat spread of 2500 attack and 3000 defense; not super amazing, but not a huge dealbreaker as long as you play your Ritual Spells right.
Metaltron has only 1 Pendulum effect and it’s a hard once per turn effect that triggers if a Nekroz card is banished face-up, letting you target and banish any Spell or Trap on the field. This is supposed to help you break boards by getting rid of troublesome backrow while you combo with Nekroz Divinemirror. In practice, this isn’t all that useful; I really wish it’d just straight up banish any card! Hypothetically, this sets up a fun system with Metaltron in the Pendulum Zone and another Metaltron on the field to take advantage of this effect as disruption, but again, being limited to backrow makes it a lot less useful than it could’ve been. Shame!
Perhaps to compensate for the Pendulum effect, Metaltron weirdly enough only has 1 hard once per turn Quick Effect, in addition to its requirement of being Ritual Summoned without level 9 monsters (you’re already used to this with Nekroz Rituals). Metaltron’s effect can be activated during the Main Phase, targeting any monster your opponent controls and banishing both that monster and Metaltron itself, with Metaltron returning during the End Phase. Self-banishing as disruption is rare but extremely useful, considering that it lets Metaltron dodge all sorts of removal while whittling away at your opponent’s advantage. Though, I will say it is annoying when you banish Metaltron during your own turn so you can’t use it to attack. Like I mentioned, this is meant to pair with Metaltron’s Pendulum effect so you can get rid of both a monster and a backrow at the same time. Is this worth running 2 Metaltrons and setting them up? Personally, not at all. It’s still decent disruption though, and a third potential endboard piece after Nekroz of Areadbhair and Nekroz of Trishula. I’d run 1 copy just because, but I wish it wasn’t so overbalanced. We shall now pray for Bahamut Shark’s return.
+Solid disruption with a Quick banish and fairly easy to summon with the new support
+Can provide an Extra Deck body for Nekroz Kaleidoscope
-Pendulum effect requires a way to banish on command to make full use of it
-Underwhelming compared to stronger endboard pieces like Nekroz of Areadbhair and Nekroz of Trishula
Advanced: 3.5/5
Art: 4/5 I’ll never get sick of Emilia! Though, like Avance, I can’t say I’m a fan of TCG using the foil on the armor, grrr…
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