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Miss Crane
Mysterious Idol X (Alter)

The Modern Magus Magazine

Hey, everyone! Get out your party poppers and bring out the champagne!

Why? Because it’s the legendary Tsukihime collab of course! Look at that amazing Arcueid SSR Berserker in the gacha, and I’m certain Ciel will be a steadfast welfare for all players to enjoy! And of course, let’s not forget the original story written by Kinoko Nas...ugh.

Nope, I can’t delude myself any further. Dreams will be dreams, even if I’ve submitted Tsukihime collab for my most desired collab material without fail in the player survey each year.

So instead FGO is contributing to furthering everyone’s crippling idol addiction by making all your favourites stars on stage. It’s like they’re daring us to descend even further unto the rabbit hole.

Miss Crane

Introduction

So this has been hinted at here and there by minor content in the game for a while, but the real tragedy is that the wide-brimmed witch silhouette we saw in the teaser image was this girl. It feels like we’re lacking a traditional western witch period, and LB6 would’ve been a great time to see one with all the faeries being hinted at (don’t think we ignored that Medb strengthening, DW).

In any case, you too now can be a kind-hearted Japanese man in folklore who gets pulled out of poverty by a crane disguised as your new hot wife except she’s slowly killing herself by making fancy outfits for you to sell.

Y’know, the whole milf angle gets kind of slaughtered when you state the legend straight like that. Miss Crane, please go single.

Servant Data

Caster

QAAAB (Caster)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

3

4

2

5

-

Attribute	Earth
Alignment	Neutral Good

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

April Fool's

Max HP 14,971

HP Rank

Max ATK 9,749

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,506	Base HP	2,195
Max Atk	9,749	Max HP	14,971
Grail Atk	10,672	Grail HP	16,401

Territory Creation (Atelier) C+

Increase your Arts Card effectiveness by 7%.
Increase your Arts Card Critical Star Drop Rate by 30%.

Item Creation (Cloth) A

Increase Received Buff Success Rate by 10% for all allies while on the field.

Overview

As the eternal saying goes, when you’re a support NP Caster, your base stats don’t really matter. But in Miss Crane’s case, she actually manages to put that into practice, since she’s the first support Caster SSR in a goddamn eternity to break away even a decent distance from the 14259 HP stat all of her kin seem to have…except Skadi. But even then she’s only a couple hundred off.

So Miss Crane is a bit more durable than other Casters, in turn for a notably lower attack state. Guess her dreams of being the new Arts crit Caster god are dead. Poor her.

She’s got a bit more to talk about on the Passives side of things. She may have the standard Territory Creation and Item Creation, but both are variants, with pretty funky additional bonuses on them - her Territory Creation also gives her a notable boost to stargen on her Arts cards, meaning on average her Arts cards will produce 2 stars each, as opposed to the “one if you’re lucky” most Arts cards get. Meanwhile her Item Creation applies its buff success rate buff not only to her, but to every ally, provided she’s on the frontline.

While incredibly niche, that can have some value, I suppose. Lanling notably has a want for Buff Success Rate Up, and I guess there’s always Hans’s NP if people are still running him as a support in this day and age. So far as practicality goes, it’s likely only ever gonna make Nero’s IP more consistent if you’re using her for an AOE farmer, or something like that. It’s interesting, at the very least.

NP Generation

Card Hits	3	4	2	5	-
Per Hit	0.39%	0.39%	0.39%	0.39%	0.39%

	NP per Hit (%)						0.39%
	NP when Attacked (%)						3%

	Star Absorption	49
	Star Generation per Hit	10.8%

Miss Crane apparently decided she wants to go really hard on the Arts card stargen angle, hence why she’s got 4-hit Arts in a BAAAQ deck and the typical low base NP gain rate to match. It’s not that bad, though - with her Territory Creation factored in her Arts NP gain is 1.66, pretty much dead on average. Her other cards take a big hit, though, with her Buster straight up challenging CasGil’s Quick for the worst card for NP gain on a Caster. Her Quick is pretty much on par with a Lancelot or Vlad Quick, and her Extra card’s NP gain is uh...passable?

But I digress. Being a BAAAQ Servant with solid Arts NP gain more or less makes your NP gain solid no matter what, just bear in mind you’ll be getting very little gauge out of the remainder of her kit.

The stargen front proves a little more intriguing. Due to her aforementioned passive, Miss Crane’s Arts cards produce about as many stars as 2-hit Quicks, meaning she more or less produces a decent sum of critical stars regardless of how you form her Brave chain. And when you factor in her first skill which...doesn’t affect her own stargen. Well darn. Okay, she still has far better stargen than most BAAAQ Servants, but it’s never gonna get crazy.

So on the whole, she’s competent in the generation area, if nothing impressive.

Servant Skills

Invi Shield

Lady's Affection for Garments EX

Apply Invincible to all allies except self (1 turn).
Increase Critical Star Drop Rate for all allies except self (3 turns).
Gain Critical Stars based on number of [Spiritron Dress Users] except self.

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Star Rate +	50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	100%
Stars per ally +	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

First on the skill lineup is Lady’s Love of Fashion EX. Because nobody’s a real woman if they don’t like clothing, right?

Wait wait, put down the pitchforks, it’s a joke!

This skill is frankly very unique, providing both a 1-turn Invincible buff and a huge 3-turn stargen buff to Miss Crane’s allies, but not herself. On top of that, she gets a star bomb based on how many of her allies have Spiritron Dresses? Crap, is there a list for that?

In any case, it’s a pretty curious bonus, and one that makes me glad some of my favourite Servants got largely unassuming Spiritron Dresses to trigger the effect (Summer Musashi, Summer BB, and Ibuki-douji’s skin/eye colour changes...I think they count?) Nobody can complain about a bonus star bomb, right?

The main perk of this skill is certainly the Invincible buff, since we all love living through NP’s and not dying. The issue, however, is that Miss Crane herself still gets butchered by AOE NP’s, though this problem is kind of resolved by her own kit.

This thing comes on a surprisingly generous 7 turn base cooldown, though I’ll note that skill cooldowns for Miss Crane aren’t really that important...which I’ll get into later.

Start Np

Overnight Haori B

Increase own NP Gauge.
Decrease own HP by 2,000 [Demerit].
Apply Target Focus to all allies except self (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
NP +	50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	100%
CD	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	7

Good god the madmen did it. DW actually put a 100% gauge charger on an SSR, with practically no frills attached.

One-Night Gown B is a proverbial holy grail, though somewhat downplayed by the fact her NP is purely support. At skill level 10 it’ll charge her gauge all the way to full, albeit at the lowly cost of 2000 HP, as well as applying Taunt to her two other allies on use.

Aha, now you see the synergy with her Invincible buff. Still doesn’t help for AOE NP’s, but the single target ones will assuredly tink into Miss Crane’s allies.

Like most instant-gauge skills, there’s not much beyond this to speak of. It is notable that this skill is one of the few 3-turn, supportive Taunts out there, for all it’s worth. The cooldown is also a hefty 9 turns base, but as I said for her first skill, the cooldowns shouldn’t matter that much.

Critical Star Absorption Up

Thousand-Year Gratitude A

Increase Critical Star Gather Rate for an ally (3 turns).
Increase Critical Strength for an ally (3 turns).
Apply Instant Death Immune to an ally (3 turns).
Decrease own HP by 1,000 [Demerit].

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Star Gather +	300%	320%	340%	360%	380%	400%	420%	440%	460%	500%
Crit Dmg +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Last for the skill lineup is 1000 Years’ Gratitude, or as I like to call it “Hero’s Bridemaid in disguise”. Providing the threefold combo of Star Focus, Critical Damage Up, and Instant Death immunity for 3 turns, this is a neat injection of pure sauce into the veins of your primary damage Servant, in exchange for 1000 of Miss Crane’s HP.

Hell, she wasn’t doing anything with that HP otherwise.

There’s a clear direction all of Miss Crane’s skills are leading into, with the stargen/star bomb tying into a critical buff for her allies, and pretty much buffing everyone to the moon except herself. No wonder her legend is about self-destructive devotion.

This skill is pretty much another feather in the proverbial cap, as well as an interesting interaction in providing Instant Death immunity. I keep thinking DW is going to pull an Instant Death cheese CQ out of their ass any day now after the horror that was the Gilgamesh in New York KH CQ, but I can’t really say that fear has come to pass. But hey, neat to keep in the back pocket.

Noble Phantasm

Innocence, The Crane's Tearful Farewell Poem EX

(Can only be used when there are at least 20 Critical Stars available)
Increase ATK for leftmost ally aside from self (3 turns).
Increase NP Strength by 30% for leftmost ally aside from self (3 turns).
Order change self to last reserve slot.
[Can only switch out if at least two party members are on the field]
[Servant from position #4 of backline will enter the field]

<Overcharge>

Increase NP Gauge for leftmost ally aside from self.

Show Info/Video

Innocence, The Crane's Tearful Farewell Poem

Tenimuhou - Tsurunoenishi Namida no Wakare

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	EX	Anti-Personnel

Effect	(Can only be used when there are at least 20 Critical Stars available) Increase ATK for leftmost ally aside from self (3 turns). Increase NP Strength by 30% for leftmost ally aside from self (3 turns). Order change self to last reserve slot. [Can only switch out if at least two party members are on the field] [Servant from position #4 of backline will enter the field]

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Atk +	20%	30%	35%	37.5%	40%
NP Damage +	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%
Order Change

Overcharge Effect	Increase NP Gauge for leftmost ally aside from self.

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
NP +	30%	35%	40%	45%	50%

And now the back curtain is lifted, revealing what Miss Crane’s kit is leading up to all this time.

She’s a goddamn baton passer.

Should I be calling her Oricorio from now on?

To explain, Miss Crane’s NP essentially has 3 components: The activation requirement, the effect, and the “Peace out, motherfuckers” finish.

First, at least 20 stars need to be present to select her NP in the card screen. This isn’t a cost - she doesn’t consume them, so delete all your memes of her leaving with the 20 stars in hand - it’s not true to the mechanics, even if it’s funny. She also cannot be the only Servant present on the battlefield. At least 1 ally needs to be around to trigger her NP, else it’s not selectable.

Second, you get the benefits. The leftmost ally other than Miss Crane herself is handed a hefty 20-40% attack buff (scaling on NP level) and a 30% NP damage buff for 3 turns, while also having their gauge charged for 30-50% based on Overcharge.

Then finally, she gets the heck out, moving to the backmost slot of your formation while sending the Servant in position #4 of the backline in if you have 4 or more Servants present.

What this ultimately makes her game plan is like a self-sufficient Battlesuit-swapped support option. You bring her in on turn 1, set up all of her skills, pop her NP, then bring a fresh support in to fill her place. Or alternatively, keep her in the backrow then Battlesuit her in when you need her kit, then swap her back out with her NP on the end of that turn.

Frankly, it’s really bizarre, extremely cool, and unfortunately very niche.

...largely because the benefits from her NP aren’t that great.

Don’t get me wrong, the damage boost is pretty impactful, and you’ll never hear me disparage a gauge charge, but for a NP you essentially only get once in a battle, you could probably make it a bit more world-ending. It’s kind of impossible to use for farming purposes since it can’t be activated if a prior NP clears a wave, and it would depend on you to wait a turn and sit through a second NP animation to get her NP for a gauge charge otherwise.

So ultimately, this NP, and Miss Crane’s kit as a package deal, is built entirely for Challenge Quests.

You pay the Servant slot and 28 cost (12 of it for Golden Captures the Carp, since that’s the only welfare 20 star bomb CE so far as I know), bring her in on turn 1, give your lineup 100% Stargen up, 1-turn Invincible, 3 turn taunt, the stars from both her CE and 1st skill (if applicable), Star Focus, a 50% Critical Damage buff, 20% Attack Up, 30% NP damage up, 30-40% gauge charge depending on how much you NP chain, then she disappears to the backline to (hopefully) never be seen again. She replaces herself with one of the big five for turn two, then you carry on like she was never there.

Whether or not people will want to run that, or if it’s worth building an entire SSR Caster support for...well, that’s for me to say, right?

Conclusion

So how fine is our feathery female? On one hand, she’s as graceful as a swan:

Miss Crane brings a lot to the table at essentially the cost of taking up a slot and her presence for a turn during the battle. Her supportive effects are far from impactful, giving a significant offensive boost or clutch defensive safeguard when you may want it for challenging content. The reason I give this all praise when competing supports provide more, is because you can have Miss Crane’s benefits while also having her competitors in the formation, instead of having to compete to be present in the 3-man frontline. It’s kind of like Mashu’s unique, untouchable niche of being 0 cost. Sure, she doesn’t give the most amazing contribution for it, but no other Servant can be as ‘free’ as her.

To DW’s credit, they were very careful to make Miss Crane’s buffs universally useful. All of her buffs provide benefit to any kind of damage Servant - she makes them produce plenty of stars, then gives them Star Focus and Critical Damage Up to capitalize. She provides Attack Up and NP Damage Up instead of more niche card type buffs, and her defensive boosts are oriented to best ensure they provide protection even if she subs out for a fresh Servant. She can be run in literally any kind of team besides sheer stall and she brings something to the table. And if you’re still doing Jeanne+Double Merlin in the year of our Lord, Miss Crane not being useful to you is probably a you problem.

However, she’s also something of a headless chicken:

When we boil things down, Miss Crane doesn’t feel like a real Servant. Or rather, if you try to use her like one, not touching her NP, she’s pretty terrible. That’s not me bashing the play she’s made to enable, but more that she has to be used in that way to be viable. You can’t use Miss Crane to substitute a big name support, but supplement them, because she alone is not that great a support. In a sense she’s like the true megawhale support, since her power grows in proportion to how good your existing support lineup is.

And that brings me to the biggest negative of Miss Crane, her nicheness. She’s pretty much useless for farming purposes, is probably overkill for a majority of content, and so only has value for showy setups in CQ’s and harder parts of a story chapter. And even then, she’s 3 turns of buffs you pop on turn 1, or sub in with Battlesuit, then never see again if you win the battle. Is that really worth rolling the gacha for, or spending all the investment to raise?

So, I’m not really sure how having your Crane wife leave you gives you a bajillion benefits, but it is what it is.

Miss Crane is one of the most abnormal Servants in the game, and it makes her pretty hard to draw a firm stance on as a result. Just looking on paper, she’s another addition to the list of “attempts to be a support, but not as good as Waver/Merlin/Skadi/Reines/Casturia...and Tamamo, I guess.” But saying that would ignore fundamentally she doesn’t compete for a role with any other Servant in the game, outside of taking a team slot.

And I’m going to be real - the #5 slot in my teams for Challenge Quests? Usually I have no clue what to put there. Numbers 1-3 is the A team. #4 is the backup support should one on the frontline die prematurely. #6 is the super-durable keystone solo Servant to try and save things if things go terribly, your Heracles or whatever else.

The #5 slot? I never know what to run. And Miss Crane provides a surprisingly neat solution. Run her in the frontline, YEET her out turn 1 for your real support, now placed in Slot #4, #5 is your backup support as usual, then #6 remains your solo god. It does still mean Miss Crane ends up the last line of defense instead of the solo god, but usually that means she soaks up some hits for your important Servant, which is pretty neat.

But ultimately that’s an indulgence spared to people who already have a rock-solid selection of Servants that can’t be improved further due to the game’s limitations. For the average F2P, it’s like offering a topping of caviar with gold flakes on their Weetabix. It feels pretty unnecessary, and you should be improving the base before putting such an absurd seasoning on top.

Regardless, she does provide a new niche which no other Servant in the game can provide, and one that is flexible to almost all team compositions. If you lack Casturia or just any big name Caster support period, I recommend not looking at this birb until you have the normal supportive corner on lockdown. If you do, however, Miss Crane makes a welcome and versatile addition to spice up difficult content in the game.

Rath™ Seal of Approval.

Mysterious Idol X (Alter)

Introduction

It feels like an eternity since she actually got revealed, but hey, we have our welfare Foreigner in the game now. I have to admit, the whole idol, being Arturia, and Alter parts of MIXA don’t really appeal to me.

But the glasses? Well, I’ve heard they’re very versatile…

Servant Data

Foreigner

QQABB (Lancer)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

4

3

4

5

4

Attribute	Star
Alignment	Neutral Good

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

April Fool's

Max HP 12,375

HP Rank

Max ATK 9,045

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,507	Base HP	1,980
Max Atk	9,045	Max HP	12,375
Grail Atk	10,952	Grail HP	15,004

Traits

Servant Humanoid Dragon Saberface Threat to Humanity Knights of the Round Table Hominidae Entity of the Outer Realm

Card Hits	4	3	4	5	4
Per Hit	0.90%	0.90%	0.90%	0.90%	0.90%

	NP per Hit (%)	0.90%
NP when Attacked (%)	3%

	Star Absorption	153
Star Generation per Hit	15.0%

Quick/Buster Up

Unparalleled Waltz B

Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (3 times, 3 turns).
Increase own Buster Card effectiveness (3 times, 3 turns).
Apply Evade to self (1 time, 3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Quick +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Buster +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

MIXA opens up her Idol-themed skill set with Peerless Waltz B, your factory default dual-card booster skill. The numbers are pretty typical, boosting both her Quick and Buster cards by 30% for 3 turns, albeit with a 3-time limitation on each, which frankly feels kinda unnecessary. I guess they thought having the 1-time Evasion on top of the skill would be too much, even though it’s the weakest form of Evasion possible.

Well, outside of chance-based Evasion. Remember that, Fionn? Thankfully DW hasn’t put it in player hands since, even if they’ve adored throwing it on enemies as of late.

With a 7-turn base cooldown this skill is pretty typical for its values. It’s an important offensive steroid for MIXA, acts as her emergency defensive tool, and does that on a fairly short cooldown. It’s a dependable staple.

Crit Dmg

Infinite Upstream Lyrics C

Increase own Critical Strength (1 turn).
Apply Special ATK [Mechanical] to self (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Crit Dmg +	50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	100%
Special ATK +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	4

Next up is Endlessly Flowing Lyrics C. It feels almost bizarre that until now we haven’t had a foreigner with a serious, serious crit focus to accompany the class’s high star weight. Well, MIXA is making a start with this skill, providing a hefty 100% Critical Damage Up buff for 1 turn, as well as a 3-turn 50% Anti-Mechanical trait buff in the same package.

And heyo, it’s a new trait. Unlike Medb’s one, this actually has enemies and Servants applicable to it. Mechanical covers pretty much everything that is either a digital entity (like the Alter Egos, BB, and the enemy types which normally only exist in Moon Cell), or some form of artificial being...and Lu Bu. I tried to scour lore on this thing, but I’m not really sure why Lu Bu qualifies unless God Force’s omnitool gadget nature somehow does it for him. Or they took ‘killing machine’ a little too literally.

In any case, with Nasu’s crippling addiction to mecha, it seems likely this trait will crop up more than it has already, with a good sum of the major fights in LB5 having this trait to begin with.

The cherry on the top for this skill is its 6 turn base cooldown, making it incredibly quick to refresh, as well as making the Anti-Mechanical buff practically permanent.

Dmg Up

King's Singing Voice C

Increase ATK for all allies (3 turns).
Restore HP for all allies.

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
ATK +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
HP +	1000	1100	1200	1300	1400	1500	1600	1700	1800	2000
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Last and probably least for MIXA’s skill lineup is King’s Singing Voice C. Contrary to the saying of keeping the best till last, this skill is just a Charisma clone with a moderate team heal tied in.

Considering you’ll universally be popping this thing for the offensive benefits, the heal has very little practical use until it becomes the 5th turn after you pop it initially. So it’s just a moderate damage boost for MIXA’s NP and cards.

And heck, that’s far from a bad deal, it’s just one you can’t talk about much. It even has the standard 7-turn cooldown to boot. Booooring!

Noble Phantasm

Lumino Calibur B

Deal damage to all enemies.
Deal extra Special Attack damage to [Evil] enemies.

<Overcharge>

Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (1 turn). [Activates first]

Show Info/Video

Lumino Calibur

Glimmering Phantom Sword of the Musical Ruler

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	B	Anti-Personnel	4

Effect	Deal damage to all enemies. Deal extra Special Attack damage to [Evil] enemies.

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Damage +	600%	800%	900%	950%	1000%
Add. Damage +	150%	150%	150%	150%	150%

Overcharge Effect	Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (1 turn). [Activates first]

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Quick +	20%	25%	30%	35%	40%

It’d be nice if I got one MMM once in a while with just support or Buster NPs. But nope, here’s a Quick AOE, now do the math for looping, Rath.

In any case, MIXA is promising for looping prospects at first glance, not only being a Quick AOE Servant but being in an Extra class, giving her prospects at being the holy grail for F2P players worldwide - the welfare universal farmer.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, and see what it does first.

Luminocalibur has only 2 effect components to it, outside of the Quick AOE damage it deals. First, before damage, it provides MIXA with a pretty good 20-40% (scaling with Overcharge) Quick Up buff for a turn, then the damage of her NP itself has a +50% damage modifier when hitting the Good trait. For once an Alter is actually feeling villainous in their kit, I guess.

The damage output of this NP as a result is pretty chunky. With just her own buffs active her NP5 NP hits for 30k dmg on neutral targets, putting her very reliably past Hand and Gate farming requirements with little effort. If she’s hitting either of her effective damage conditions it bumps to 45k, and 67k with both, though the applicable targets for that are pretty limited. I’ll take this moment to point out vanilla BB (one such applicable target) is good alignment but Ereshkigal is evil.

Logik.

In most circumstances, though, you’ll be looking at MIXA’s damage output under double Skadi, where she’s dishing out 50k on neutral targets for her first 2 NPs, then 80k on wave 3. She’ll probably struggle to edge out the damage necessary for boss killing in events on wave 3, but I’ll just point out Dantes at NP1, the premier Quick universal farmer, only does roughly 10% more damage than MIXA on Wave 3, so she’s really not doing too bad on the damage front.

With all that talk of farming and damage, I should probably cover the actual refund part of looping. MIXA’s NP may only have 4 hits to it, which is by most standards pretty rough for a Quick AOE, but her high base NP gain helps compensate a lot: With just her own buffs she nets 16% refund off her NP. Under double Skadi, that bumps to 27% (30% if she clears the wave). Add in a battlesuit swap Paracelsus or Nero Bride and it’s 40%. Lastly, if she gets 2 hits of overkill or is targeting Riders/Casters, it hits 50% refund, the minimum for a 3-turn loop with double Skadi. Alternatively, you can just run Waver/Reines on battlesuit swap and spot her for the missing 40% she needs if she gets 30% refund per NP.

The long and short is, if it’s not Berserkers or Assassins she loops consistently. If it is, you may need a more expensive setup. She seems to be dependent on LB Kaleido if not facing Riders/Casters, so she’s still not exactly poverty-friendly, but it’s more than a start. She has setups, she does good damage, and she can loop class neutral, so she actually can flex the benefits of being a Foreigner.

Conclusion

So how stunning is Mysterious Idol X Alter’s debut? On one hand, she’s drowning in superchats:

Even just tossing her NP out the window, MHXA’s Foreigner form isn’t half bad. She has a powerful crit skill to flex both her high stargen and Foreigner star weight, with a plethora of offensive buffs at her disposal she can hit pretty hard, and she comes packing a fire-and-forget defensive option to provide a safeguard should she have to face off enemy NP’s. Unlike some looping options out there, MIXA can hit pretty damn hard with her regular cards should she need to supplement her NP.

But hey, MIXA is very much a solid looper. She may face dependence on her card chain for CQ scenarios, but on paper she should be able to consistently 3-turn a wide range of nodes with a double Skadi battlesuit setup. While certainly not the simplest or most braindead farmer to use, she does so while pushing out very respectable damage regardless of class type, which makes her very valuable to have on the table.

It’s also worth shouting out both of MIXA’s effective damage options. While Mechanical is technically a more niche trait, a large sum of enemy types possess it among generics, while the Servant lineup is limited, but not incredibly narrow. Meanwhile, the Good trait is one of the best traits out there to hit effectively, especially since FGO tends to make a habit of throwing it on even villains when they feel like it.

However, she may be facing some connection problems (which are not her fault at all, right?):

Pretty much any semblance of consistent farming with MIXA requires LB Kaleidoscope, which is almost as much of a gatekeeper as rolling an SSR for some. At the least, I know some people who still don’t have one after playing since launch, and it took me personally until around Skadi release to have an LB Kaleido of my own. And, uh, not that I’ve blown out my credit card, but I’m something of a whale myself. So yeah, the welfare universal farmer angle is kind of less effective when you largely need a hard-to-obtain CE for her setups.

You know, I love to joke about the present Casturia farming meta completely invalidating other options, but it’s pleasant when a Quick Servant shows up and gives them a bit of a bloody nose. While MIXA hardly outclasses Space Ishtar or Summer Musashi, she does provide another accessible farmer for those who only have Skadi to latch onto, while hitting at the weight of some of the best universal farmers out there damage-wise.

Her pretty good critical damage output for CQ scenarios and superb personal NP gain is just the cherry on the cake, but it does make her more solidified as a strong welfare option to raise and put at your disposal. Rath™ Seal of Approval with a recommendation.

Outro

I could give a normal cordial outro for this MMM, or I could just take a single paragraph to get every possible idol reference possible out of my system.

That seems like a simple choice no? Like slamming a masochistic pirate against a wall which resembles a green necromancer for some reason because a fox friendzoned you and you want a relationship where a comet calls you their “Honey” in a perfect accent, while you ponder how to brainwash a devil into thinking she’s an angel before your local drug-dealing Yakuza dragon sics her gorilla wife on you for speaking kusoshit mitailike Japanihongo.

Oh, excuse me for a moment, there appears to be a death metal singer at my doorstep. I’ll surely be alive to deliver the next MMM, everyone. Until then!

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