Dragonmaid Field Guide

Lady's Dragonmaid

• Her summon: banish the pair, one from your field and one from your GY. It doesn’t start a chain, so only a card that negates a Summon, like Solemn Strike, can stop it.
• When she’s Special Summoned: she summons Kitchen, Parlor or Chamber from your Deck.
• In either player’s Standby Phase: she Fusion Summons a Dragon Fusion by shuffling its materials from your field and/or your banishment back into the Deck. The pair she banished is exactly what Dragonmaid Sheou needs: a Dragonmaid plus a Level 5 or higher Dragon.
• Each of her effects is once per turn.
• Once she’s been summoned her own way, she can be revived.

Sheou and House

• Dragonmaid Sheou: a Quick Effect negates anything they activate and destroys that card, then Sheou goes back to your Extra Deck and House Dragonmaid comes out in its place. In each Standby Phase, Sheou also summons a Level 9 or lower Dragonmaid from your hand or GY.
• House Dragonmaid: whenever another face-up Dragon you control returns to your hand, House destroys one of their monsters. There’s no once-per-turn limit, but it misses timing: the return has to be the last thing that happened.

Once per turn, by name

A second copy doesn’t reset any of these. On their turn they’re all available again.

• Each small maid’s summon effect, and its Battle Phase effect
• Each of Lady’s effects, and each of Sheou’s
• One Dragonmaid Hospitality activation
• One Dragonmaid Tidying effect, whichever one
• Changeover’s GY effect, Cehrmba’s discard, Lorpar’s and Tinkhec’s discards
• Seal’s bounce (once per their turn) and its float (once per turn)
• One F&V, one High Spirits effect, each FotWD effect

Locks and zones

• Fallen of the White Dragon from your hand: for the rest of the turn you can only summon Level 8 Fusion and Synchro Monsters from the Extra Deck. No Striker Dragon, no Seal, no S:P, no House (Level 9) or Sheou (Level 10); Lady’s and Filia Regis (Level 8) still work. Play it after Seal.
• Seal’s bounce works only from an Extra Monster Zone. Link Summon it there.
• Kitchen’s send isn’t optional. After it adds a card, a Dragonmaid monster from your hand goes to the GY.
• Don’t revive the banished pair. Cehrmba can summon from banishment, but Lady’s needs that pair there in their Standby Phase.

High Spirits in your Draw Phase

This works with any maid line, including the Other hands rows. It baits Ash before your Normal Summon (High Spirits adds from the Deck, so Ash can hit it), and it costs you no starter. You need the maid itself in your hand to reveal: Sangen Kaimen is a Spell.

In your Draw Phase, activate High Spirits: reveal your maid and send Albion from your Extra Deck. Don’t discard the maid if it’s your only starter.

Then play your line as usual.

In the End Phase, Albion Sets The Fallen & The Virtuous from your Deck.

Their turn: Sheou negate, Seal bounce, Albaz from Seal, F&V.

If they Ash it, nothing is sent and you get no F&V, but that Ash is gone before your maid searches.

High Spirits for FotWD

With a spare Dragon to reveal (Lubellion or a Bystial), discard it and take FotWD as well. Not Albaz: Seal’s float and Incredible Ecclesia only summon it from your hand or Deck, so a discarded Albaz can’t come out on their turn. If Albaz is your only spare Dragon, reveal your maid and keep it, as above.

In your Draw Phase, activate High Spirits: reveal your spare Dragon (Lubellion or a Bystial), send Albion from your Extra Deck, discard that Dragon and add Fallen of the White Dragon.

After Seal:

Fallen of the White Dragon’s hand effect: send Titaniklad the Ash Dragon from your Extra Deck to the GY and Special Summon FotWD. Its summon effect Special Summons Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous from your Deck.

Synchro Summon Borreload Savage Dragon using Ecclesia and FotWD. Its effect equips Striker Dragon from your GY and places 1 Borrel Counter on Borreload.

In the End Phase, Albion Sets The Fallen & The Virtuous from your Deck, Titaniklad adds Fallen of Albaz or the second FotWD, and Ecclesia returns to your hand from the GY.

There’s one Albion, so it’s one Set F&V either way.

Not counted, but there

• Mirrorjade: when Albaz fuses with one of their Extra Deck monsters, Mirrorjade can then banish another monster as a Quick Effect (send an Albaz Fusion from your Extra Deck).
• Tidying in your GY: brings back Sheou or Lady’s in Defense Position if they sent it to the GY (not if they banished or bounced it).
• Battle Phase swaps: Parlor and Chamber’s Battle Phase effects also work in their Battle Phase. With House out, returning one to your hand destroys a monster, and it summons a Level 8 (Parlor) or Level 7+ (Chamber) Dragonmaid from your hand or GY.

Mirrorjade on their side

Branded and Dracotail play Mirrorjade the Iceblade Dragon. If your card sends their Fusion Summoned Mirrorjade to the GY or banishes it, all your monsters are destroyed in that End Phase. Sheou’s negate (it destroys Mirrorjade), F&V and Albaz using it as material all set it off. Returning it to the Extra Deck doesn’t, so Seal’s bounce and Tidying are the safe answers. If you have to destroy it, get Cehrmba face-up first: it keeps your Dragon Fusions, and Lorpar and Tinkhec are safe while you control a Fusion. Line 1, Line 2 and the two-card lines don’t put Cehrmba on the field; the Striker Dragon version of Line 1 does (Sheou summons Cehrmba). A Cehrmba summoned by Tidying doesn’t cover the wipe: it goes back to your hand in that same End Phase.

Notes on the table

• Parlor + Hospitality: whatever Kitchen adds goes straight back to the GY, since it’s the only Dragonmaid in your hand. Cehrmba is the useful one to have there. Kitchen can’t add another Kitchen.
• Set any F&V you drew. A Quick-Play in your hand can’t be used on their turn, but a Set one can. It adds a destroy to every line.
• Lubellion and the Bystials are extenders. After your line, send Lubellion from your hand to add a Bystial, and summon the Bystial by banishing Lubellion itself (it’s LIGHT) from your GY. Don’t banish the Chamber Sheou will summon in Line 1, or the Striker Dragon Line 4 needs. Magnamhut adds a Dragon in the End Phase, such as a small maid for your next turn. The Bystial takes a Main Monster Zone that Seal’s float may need.
• Hospitality with no Dragon form in your hand still needs a maid: it’s an extender, not a starter.
• Two copies of one maid: the second copy’s summon effect is already spent, so play the one-card line.

How often you open it

Out of every possible 5-card opening hand, before the opponent does anything:

• 78.3% have a small maid or Sangen Kaimen: Lady’s and Seal on your turn, Sheou on theirs.
• 52.3% also have a second piece (another small maid, Hospitality, Cehrmba, Tidying, or Tinkhec with Kitchen) for a Set Tidying.
• 37.1% have a maid plus FotWD or High Spirits for Line 4. Counting an F&V you drew, 51.7% end with a Set F&V.
• 15.2% have no maid but a Branded or Hospitality line (Line 5 and the last rows above).
• 6.5% have no line.

Nibiru count

Your own hand traps

• Ash (3): their first search, or their Maxx “C” or Mulcharmy (for Ash, drawing counts as adding from the Deck).
• Droll (2): after their first add. It also stops your adds for the rest of that turn.
• Maxx “C” (1): when they start a long combo.
• Bystials: a Quick Effect from your hand while they control a monster. Banish a LIGHT or DARK monster from their GY that they want back.
• A Set F&V: a destroy on their turn. Set it going first.

Why these ratios

• Branded and Bystials give the maids more resources and recycle more of the GY.
• Albaz or FotWD is the best target for Seal’s float when you want to remove their monsters on turn 2.
• Dogma recycles Tidying: when it’s summoned, it shuffles up to 2 cards from any GY or banishment into the Deck, so a banished Tidying can be searched again.
• Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon + F&V + hand traps won games with no maid in the opening hand (Line 5).
• The Branded engine is there for F&V. See What the Branded cards are for.
• 3 of each small maid, 1 of each Dragon form: every maid is a starter, and the maids fetch the Dragon forms.
• 2 Hospitality. Most Dragonmaid lists run 3; see Flex options.

Flex options

Cards other Dragonmaid lists play that this one doesn’t:

• A third Dragonmaid Hospitality.
• A second Dragonmaid Tidying.
• Super Starslayer TY-PHON - Sky Crisis and Salamangreat Almiraj in the Extra Deck.
• Infinite Impermanence.
• Branded Fusion (Limited 1).

Against a lot of Magistus Fairy Tail:

• Secreterion Dragon (a Dragon + a Spellcaster). While your Fusion Summoned Secreterion is on the field, their Special Summoned Dragons and Spellcasters can’t activate effects. Once a turn it summons a Dragon or Spellcaster from your GY and puts the other on the bottom of your Deck: bring back Ecclesia after she was its material with a maid or Striker Dragon (Changeover can fuse them), then make a Level 8 Synchro. Albaz can also fuse into it with one of their Spellcasters. It needs an Extra Deck slot, and it loses 100 ATK for each of your banished cards.

• Lady’s summon doesn’t start a chain, and there’s one copy. Once she’s in the GY she can only come back by revival (Hospitality, Cehrmba, Sheou, Tidying); a second pair only helps if she’s back in your Extra Deck.
• Lady’s Standby effect works in their Standby Phase and in yours. If they stopped it on their turn, it’s back in your next Standby Phase.
• Sheou’s negate swaps it for House. That House isn’t properly summoned, so it can’t be revived.
• House misses timing. Tidying and Filia have to be Chain Link 1. A Fusion returning to the Extra Deck doesn’t count.
• Seal’s bounce needs the Extra Monster Zone and doesn’t target. Its float is mandatory, once a turn, and the monster has 0 ATK.
• Albaz only fuses with their face-up monsters, never your others.
• High Spirits’ discard is optional. Reveal your only maid, send Albion, and keep the maid.

• FotWD’s hand summon limits you to Level 8 Fusions and Synchros for the rest of the turn. Normal Summoned or summoned by Ecclesia, it has no lock.
• Kitchen always sends a Dragonmaid monster from your hand after it adds.
• Hospitality is once a turn, and Ash can hit it because it sends from the Deck.
• Tidying gives one effect a turn. Its GY summon goes back to your hand in the End Phase.
• Lorpar’s discard is your turn only; Tinkhec’s is a Quick Effect. Both are safe from destruction while you control a Fusion.
• Small maids’ Battle Phase effects work in their Battle Phase too.