No, not whatever the Karzahni Artakha was doing in ’07; this is a neat little combo that has been possible for a while but I just figured out the other day. And by “the other day”, I mean it was like a month and a half ago last year, but I accidentally left the write-up in drafts. Whoops.
Basically, from a single activation of known culprit Emergency Teleport, we will climb into a successful Fusion Summon of any Toa Nuva of our choice. How? Through the power of explosions, of course.
First of all, the Teleport will get Psi-Reflector, a fairly traditional choice. We proceed to perform the usual combo line of adding Assault Beast, discarding Assault Beast to get the Assault Mode trap, and revealing it with Psi-Reflector’s effect to revive that same Assault Beast. We will increase its Level by 4, thus setting us up for a Level 1 + 8 = 9 Synchro Summon into Power Tool Braver Dragon.
When Special Summoned, Braver Equips up to 3 Equip Spells to itself, and in this case two of those have to be specifically one of the Toa Mata’s Great Kanohi and one of its Nuva counterparts, preferably from the half that searches Continuous Spells. For the sake of illustration, let the pair be Pakari and Pakari Nuva . As Kanohi, both of those cards destroy themselves when another Kanohi becomes equipped, so what if we put on two simultaneously? Yes Rico, kaboom. Both are destroyed immediately and go to the GY, which conveniently triggers their respective effects.
On Chain Link 1, the Pakari Nuva (which you have to be careful to activate first here) will banish Psi-Reflector to put Nuva Symbol of Deep Wisdom on the field. On Chain Link 2, the Pakari will banish Assault Beast to add Onua Mata from your Deck to your hand. It’s important that the Nuva Symbol matches the Toa Mata in this step, because next we will use the Symbol’s first effect to return it to the Deck, showing off the Onua that’s already in our hand to acquire a search of Energized Protodermis Destiny . Activate Destiny targeting Braver Dragon, go through the immersive steps of melting it down into a puddle of Energized Protodermis for lacking a great destiny, and Special Summon Energized Protodermis Chamber from your Deck. Its effect will trigger to fuse with the Onua in your hand – and there’s your Onua Nuva ! You even still have Assault Mode Activate in the hand as a discard for the on-Summon search, and your Normal Summon remains entirely unused.
The choice of Onua Nuva in this example is not entirely arbitrary, because he specifically comes with the side benefit of putting any single card from your GY back on top of your Deck, while his matching Nuva Symbol lets you draw after using a Toa Nuva effect. So if you spend the search on getting that Nuva Symbol set up a second time, you can actually just add a card from your GY back to your hand. That allows this curious combo to end on not just a Toa Nuva, but on one equipped with the Kanohi Vahi – which you get into the GY by picking it as the 3rd equip to Braver. This usage can be observed in the video below.
You may also notice that the thing doing the heavy lifting with regards to Nuva access in this combo isn’t actually the Emergency Teleport or the Psi-Reflector, but rather the Power Tool Braver Dragon lurking in the Extra Deck. It should, in theory, be entirely possible to integrate a Nuva line into any deck that can make a Level 9 Synchro – but unfortunately I haven’t yet been able to find time to experiment with that beyond the straightforward combo above.
While we’re at it, I’d like to add that there are various other deckbuilding tasks like that which are stuck in limbo and won’t make it into the schedule. If you’re reading this and happen to be interested in doing that kind of thing, please leave a comment or otherwise get in touch with me. At this point I’m legitimately willing to pay someone to take that workload off my hands.