MMM - Solitary Sister Serves Scrumptious Seasonal Snacks, Simultaneously Scathach-Skadi Scores Supportive Strengthening (Christmas 2021)

Boy, Tarrasque never gets it easy, does he? If being used as an ICBM in not one, but two separate Martha NP’s wasn’t enough, he has to serve as a portable grill for the Christmas season. And believe me, having to endure all that heat, oil, and spillages on your pristine draconic self isn’t fun.

Just saying…if Martha ‘happened’ to ‘accidentally’ get eaten by Tarrasque, I’d be shocked, sure, but I wouldn’t blame him.

Being a support Caster, it’s unsurprising that Martha Santa is quite defensively-leaned in her base stats. With the 3rd worst Attack stat of her class and rarity and 2nd best HP stat, she gets a reasonably good deal out of it, packing some great bulk for her rarity, even if her damage output isn’t gonna be too great in exchange.

Martha’s passive lineup, meanwhile, is typical for a Caster with a bonus passive. Her Territory Creation grants a decent 8% Arts booster, while her lesser Item Creation at least makes her debuffs slightly more consistent, yet the main star of her passive lineup is her EX-rank Riding, boosting her two Quicks by a significant 12%. She needs the Riding rank to use Tarrasque, after all.

With both her strong durability and decent passive lineup in play, Martha Santa has a good start in her base statistics.

With a BAAQQ card deck, Martha Santa is not only an elusive Caster with a Quick-focused deck, but also the second with a Quick NP. DW really don’t chill on filling in an archetype once they’ve blown open the doors for it, huh?
As for what that means for NP gain, Martha packs 2 3-hit Arts cards, a fan favourite, with a base NP gain of 0.66%. With her Territory Creation in play, that leads to a base Arts gain of 2.1384, reasonably above average for her card deck. Miraculously, her Quicks don’t slack either, the two of them producing very respectable NP gauge thanks to their 4 hits and Martha’s Riding passive pumping their effects in general.

Where Martha crumbles, if anywhere, is her Extra card, its 4 hits not providing anywhere near decent NP gauge for her base NP gain, though having good NP gain on Arts/Quicks is significantly more important.

So far as stargen goes, Martha’s deck and great Quick cards make her pretty effective at producing stars, even if she doesn’t exactly focus on it. Her Quicks will provide a tidy sum when splashed into a chain, which is easily all you need, though.

Everything taken into account, Martha Santa has both pretty good NP gain and stargen on her regular cards to work with, an important foundation for a Support to build upon.

So how is Martha Santa on the whole?

On one hand, she’s certainly a feast for all the family:

However, she’s also as half-baked as your Grandma’s apple tart on Christmas:

I will lend it to DW, balancing a welfare support is difficult. Make them too weak and they just look terrible in comparison to both high-roll SSR and accessible low-rarity options alike, while making them too strong can kind of just throw the power level of all players in the game and the loss of not scoring them in their event into disarray.

But with that in mind, Martha Santa strikes that balance fairly well - she packs one of the craziest sheer offensive boosts available to any support if she meets her trait bonuses, and her access to gauge chargers keeps her competitive with other budget support options out there, but that comes in exchange for very little ability to boost NP refund, and a lack of defensive support tools that keep her in check for farming and difficult content both.

So while she won’t be a mainstay to any specific team type for a certain type of content, she has enough on hand that it’s unlikely you’ll never find a good use for the gal. If nothing else, Tarrasque deserves some recognition for being reduced to a series of kitchen utilities when the time is appropriate. Rath™ Seal of Approval.