Card Tips:Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
- This card can be searched by "Dogu", "Single Purchase", "Chaos Zone", "Painful Escape", "Exchange of Night and Day", "Charging Gaia the Fierce Knight" and "Beginning of Heaven and Earth".
- As a Warrior-Type LIGHT monster, this card can be recycled with "Beckoning Light" and "The Warrior Returning Alive".
- Use "Honest" when attacking your opponent's first and most powerful monster, then use the boosted ATK to crush your opponent's Life Points.
- Fairly easy cards to dump to the Graveyard such as "D.D. Crow" and "Effect Veiler" can be used to help Summon this quickly.
- Equip "Armory Arm" to this card to inflict damage every time this card destroys a monster and raise its attack to 4000. If your opponent controls an Attack Position monster that hasn't modified its original ATK, destroying it in battle will always cause 4000 damage (difference in ATK + the damage inflicted by "Armory Arm"). If your opponent controls 2 (or more) Attack Position monsters that fit this condition OR controls only 1 Attack Position monster (so your second attack can be a direct attack), the ability to attacking twice of this card can perform an OTK.
- As previously stated, if "Armory Arm" is not an option, running Equip Cards like "Vylon Prism" can help a lot in making it 4000 ATK during the Damage Step.
- The effect of "Summoner Monk" can be used to Special Summon any of the following Level 4 LIGHT Tuner monsters: "Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn", "Guldfaxe of the Nordic Beasts", "Hyper Synchron", "Vylon Prism" (do not activate its effect), or "The Fabled Rubyruda". Then use both monsters to Synchro Summon any Level 8 Synchro Monster, and if the Synchro Materials are in your Graveyard, banish them to Special Summon this card from your hand. If a "Road Synchron" is Special Summoned, they can be used for a Synchro Summon of a Level 6 Synchro Monster instead.
- This card can be equipped with "Light Laser" to combine both the effects of this card without any of the drawbacks.
- Use the effect of "Armageddon Knight" to easily get a DARK monster in the Graveyard for this card's Summoning.
Preventing/Countering "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning"
- Every "Barrier Statue" monster, except "Barrier Statue of the Heavens".
- Chaos Hunter
- Necrovalley
- Imperial Iron Wall
- Chaos Trap Hole
- Koa'ki Meiru Drago
- Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
- Archlord Kristya
- Jowgen the Spiritualist
- Mirror of the Ice Barrier
- Steelswarm Roach
- Thunder King Rai-Oh
- Light-Imprisoning Mirror
- Warrior Elimination"
Traditional Format
- Use "Graceful Charity" to send DARK and LIGHT Attribute monsters to the Graveyard to make the Summoning of this monster easier.
- After using its first effect of banishing a monster, activate "Metamorphosis" to turn this card into "Cyber Twin Dragon", "Gatling Dragon", etc.
