Card Tips:Trance Archfiend
- This card can be searched by "Single Purchase", "Temple of the Kings", "Vampire Dragon", "Dark General Freed", "Creeping Darkness", "Summoner Monk", "Soul Rope", "Resonator Engine", "Dragunity Corsesca", "Transmodify", "Archfiend Heiress", "Archfiend Palabyrinth", "Pandemonium", "Skilled Red Magician", "Mystic Tomato", "Chaos Zone" and "Lucent, Netherlord of Dark World".
- This card is potentially very useful in "Dark World" and "Fabled" Decks.
- Its first effect makes it easy to discard cards from your hand - notice that the discard is not a cost.
- Its second effect makes it easy to retrieve "Dark World" monsters banished with "The Gates of Dark World" or "Allure of Darkness" (and it is a DARK Fiend itself, making it compatible with those cards).
- This card is also useful in an "Archfiend" Deck, allowing you to return "Stygian Street Patrol" to your hand.
- When playing first in a deck that uses "Archfiend Emperor, the First Lord of Horror", "Trance Archfiend" can be used to easily get "Archfiend Emperor" into the graveyard for revival by "Archfiend's Roar", "Archfiend Cavalry", or "Archfiend Empress". You can also use this card to recover a monster that was banished as a Cost for Archfiend Emperor's effect.
- This card has synergy with "Hundred Eyes Dragon".
- When this card is destroyed, you can add a "Battle Fader" or "Genex Ally Birdman" you've used back to your hand.
- In an Exodia Deck, you can recover one of your banished of the Exodia limbs. If you have all but one Exodia limb because your opponent managed to banish the last one, use this card's effect to recover that part and win the duel. Just make sure you have enough LPs when you want to destroy this card by battle yourself.
- Use this card with "Infernity" monsters to quickly empty your hand.
- You can Special Summon this card from your Graveyard using "Archfiend's Roar". At the End Phase, it gets destroyed, allowing you to use its second effect to get back one of your banished DARK monsters.
- This can be especially useful in "Dark World" Decks, as mentioned above.
Traditional Format
- This card can be searched by "Sangan", "Last Will" and "Witch of the Black Forest".
