Card Tips:Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon

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• This card can be searched by "Dogu", "Single Purchase", "Painful Escape", "Chaos Zone", "Draconnection", "Minerva, Lightsworn Maiden", "The Melody of Awakening Dragon" and "Priestess with Eyes of Blue".

• "Chain Material" can be used to Summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" easily then offer it to Special Summon this card. Be sure to use "Burial from a Different Dimension" afterwards to return the 3 copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to your Graveyard.
• Use this card in a "Vullet" Deck, since the Monsters give you certain advantages when targeted by a Link Monster. In addition, if a "Vullet" Monster is destroyed, you can Special Summon another one during the End Phase.
• This card can be summoned with "A Wild Monster Appears!" and then tributed during your opponent's turn by using "Escalation of the Monarchs" to summon "The Tyrant Neptune". When summoning "Neptune", you can target "Shining Dragon" to have "Neptune" gain it's effects, making it an extraordinarily powerful monster.
• "Daigusto Emeral" can be useful in a "Blue-Eyes" Deck geared towards Summoning this card, since it can resurrect "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" to Tribute it, or "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".

• Summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" with "Summoner of Illusions" or "Dragon's Mirror", then Tribute it to Special Summon this card. "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" can be brought back using "Monster Reincarnation". Use "Burial from a Different Dimension" to return the Dragons banished by "Dragon's Mirror" to your Graveyard.

• This card can be more useful than "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" because it can negate card effects that target it: However, if there are no other Dragons in your Graveyard, this card has less ATK, and "De-Fusion" can't be used with this card to Special Summon your three copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from your Graveyard in a situation that required it.

• Use this card in conjunction with "Vanguard of the Dragon" and "Spirit Ryu" to send cards to the Graveyard to boost the ATKs of "Vanguard", "Spirit Ryu" and "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon".

• This card can be equipped with "Metalsilver Armor" to make your other monsters slightly invulnerable to your opponent's card effects.

• This card can be equipped with "Mist Body" to make a monster that can be invulnerable to card effects that target and battle. Combine "Mist Body" with "Mound of the Bound Creator" and there will be an almost invincible monster. Only cards that banish without targeting or destroying, such as "Destruction Sword Flash", and cards that send cards to the Graveyard without destroying, such as "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End" will work against this card. Use "Field Barrier", "Stardust Dragon" and/or "Magic Reflector" to protect "Mound of the Creator" from effects that could destroy it.

• Given the correct ATK circumstances, this card could easily defeat "Red Nova Dragon" because its effect that banishes itself targets this card, which means it can be negated.

• Using "Dragon Shield" or "Safe Zone" on this card makes it virtually indestructible.
  • "Mound of the Bound Creator" can also be used to protect this card from all card effects that target and destroy monsters since it is a Level 10 monster. "Imperial Iron Wall" can prevent this card from being banished.

• Use cards that will send Dragons to the Graveyard to power this card up like "Full Salvo", "Magical Merchant", "Dragon Shrine" and "Armed Dragons".

• This card can be Summoned by using the combined effect of "Mystical Beast of Serket" and "Temple of the Kings" to Special Summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" from your Extra Deck, then allowing yourself to Special Summon this card from your hand by Tributing "Blue-Eyes Ultimate".

• Cards that do not target can still affect "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon". Use "The Huge Revolution is Over", "Solemn Strike", "Dimensional Barrier", etc. to counter such cards.

Traditional Format

• This card can be searched by "Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms".
• Choose this card when you activate "Last Turn". Any other Dragons you control or have in your hand will be sent to the Graveyard, powering this Monster up.
• "Sixth Sense" is a great card to use. If you roll either of the numbers you declared, you will draw that many cards. If you don't roll either number, you will send cards from the top of your Deck to the Graveyard, hopefully Dragons.

• Summon "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" with "Cyber-Stein", then Tribute it to Special Summon this card. Make sure you have 3 copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in your Graveyard when you do this.

• Use "Painful Choice" to send 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" for "Dragon's Mirror" or 4 random Dragons to give this card a 1200 ATK point boost.