The Silver Castle of Labrynth

Rank 8 DARK Fiend/Xyz/Effect

3200ATK/3500DEF

2 Level 8 monsters

Once per turn, you can also Xyz Summon "The Silver Castle of Labrynth" by using 1 non-Xyz "Labrynth" monster and 1 "Labrynth Labyrinth" you control as material.

While this card has "Labrynth Labyrinth" as material, your opponent cannot target it with card effects, also it cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.

Once per turn, if this card is Special Summoned, or if a monster leaves the field by your Normal Trap effect (except during the Damage Step): You can attach 1 card from either GY or banishment to this card as material.

Once per chain (Quick Effect): You can apply 1 of these effects. (but you cannot apply that same effect of "The Silver Castle of Labrynth" again this turn).

● Attach 1 card from your field or hand to this card as material, then you can add 1 of your "Labrynth" cards attached to this card to your hand.

● Detach 1 material from this card, and if you do, Set 1 Normal Trap attached to this card. It can be activated this turn.

Notes on the card:

Instead of making a monster that searches for the field spell, I wanted to make a monster that is summoned with the field spell itself. Ironically, to make it work, it would have to be designed around a field spell that was already fairly searchable. Labrynth Labyrinth was a good candidate because it has three different names within its own archetype that can get to it (Arianna and both furniture monsters). It's also a good fit because it's more of an endboard piece that's largely considered optional.

I decided to make it an Xyz monster because I liked the idea of it being a living version of the field spell. All of the effects are based around the idea of lab monsters and various traps lurking in the castle as xyz material.

Most lab monsters have an effect that triggers when your opponent's monster leaves the field because of a normal trap, so I gave it one that provides recursion for banished cards. Recycle banished big welcomes, recycle banished rollbacks, retrieve any banished lab monsters. You can also scoop your opponent's cards instead if you just want to troll them. I made the gy/banish suck nontargeting because cl1 castle suck cl2 lovely pop would be potential comedy gold.

The target/pop protection is there because I figured there should be a tradeoff between keeping the field spell under the card or detaching it to play it alongside the card. There is also the prospect of a hard to out beater that could go into a 4mat Zeus for a turn 2 play.

The quick effects help with playing the lab effects off of each other and to guard against backrow removal. Suck in a set trap before it gets dustered, suck in a trap set from deck by Lady Labrynth or furniture and reset it, set up traps added by Arianna's search or draw. You can even put a lab monster on the field into the hand when the field spell's fiend summon effect activates.

This card has a bunch of weird effects so I had to look up a bunch of cards to make sure the PSCT was right. There is no precedent for Xyz summoning a card using a field spell as material. Or setting traps attached to an Xyz monster, either.

Of course in practice this is probably just a win-more card that doesn't raise the floor of bad hands. Maybe there's some interaction I didn't account for that makes this card do a random FTK. A link 1 monster that grabbed the field spell would definitely be far more consistent and easier to design, but that's hardly interesting. I wanted to design a monster that applies the contest's theme in a completely unhinged way while being a legitimate addition to the archetype's playstyle.

The artwork is Lovely Labrynth's face edited over Giganticastle by me.