Altergeist

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"Altergeist" is an archetype of female Spellcaster monsters with various Attributes (primarily DARK) used by Emma Bessho in the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime, debuting in Circuit Break.

Design

Appearance

Each member of this archetype is based on a mythological, ghostly female creature, but with cybernetic features unlike traditional spellcaster monsters. All of the monsters shown so far has a feminine appearance. The "Altergeist" monsters also sport a head piece that project laterally from their heads and lacks facial features except a smiling mouth.

Etymology

The name "Altergeist" is a play on the word poltergeist, formed from the words alter and geist. All members of the archetype are themed after a mythological character followed by a computing terminology.

Members

Altergeist	Origin
Altergeist	Mythology	Computing
Dragvirion	Dragon/Gwyllion	Virus/Drag
Fifinellag	Fifinella	Lag
Hextia	Hestia	Hexadecimal
Kidolga	Durga	Kilobyte
Kunquery	Centaurides/Pontianak	Query language
Marionetter	Marionette	Data network
Meluseek	Melusine	Zero seek
Multifaker	Fairy	Rogue security software
Pixiel	Pixie	Pixel
Primebanshee	Banshee	Cisco Prime
Silquitous	Silkie	Ubiquitous computing

Support

Card	Origin
Altergeist Camouflage	Camouflage
Altergeist Emulatelf	Emulation
Altergeist Haunted Rock	Deadlock
Altergeist Manifestation	Manifestation
Altergeist Protocol	Protocol
Personal Spoofing	Spoofing attack

Playing style

The Main Deck monsters have slight disruptive capabilities, negating an opposing card's effects, stopping an attack, returning an opposing card to the hand or sending them to the Graveyard. Also, they have swarming capabilities that can be used to set up the Link Summon of their ace monsters, namely "Altergeist Primebanshee" and "Hextia", whose effects further reaffirms their swarming and disruptive abilities. Some of them also have an effect that triggers when they are used as Link Materials, searching for resources or retrieving cards from the Graveyard. So far, they are supported by Trap Cards that either revive them, protect them from attacks or even negate and destroy opposing cards.

The key to many of their successful plays is the power of Altergeist Multifaker who can Special Summon itself from the hand and any Altergeist from the Deck when a Trap Card is activated. As a result, they tend to be a slower strategy than most modern Decks, relying heavily on floodgates to slow down an opponent's strategy to a crawl. Altergeists aim to reduce games down to slow wars of attrition that they can win through field control and their many floating effects. A typical first turn would involve using Altergeist Marionetter to Set an Altergeist Trap from Deck (mostly Altergeist Protocol), then using Personal Spoofing to search Multifaker, which then Summons itself and Altergeist Silquitous to bounce any opposing cards that come into play. By recycling Multifaker over and over (as Personal Spoofing can "search" the same card it returns to the Deck), you can have access to any of the more specialised Altergeists whenever you need them, ranging from Meluseek to remove troublesome cards to Kunquery to control the Battle Phase.

If an opponent is unable to remove the field presence of the monsters, then Altergiest Hexstia can come into play, taking full advantage of their floating effects to negate most Spell/Trap cards, while also acting as the Deck's main offensive presence. By repeatedly shutting down their opponent's options and bouncing opponent's defensive cards, Altergeists can reduce their opponents to complete helplessness, only able to watch as their cards get picked off one by one.

Recommended cards

Monsters

Effect Monsters

Ritual Monsters

Litmus Doom Swordsman

Extra Deck

Fusion Monsters

Xyz Monsters

Raidraptor - Ultimate Falcon

Link Monsters

Official Decklists

V Jump recommended Altergeist Deck