Card Tips:Maha Vailo, Light of the Heavens

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• This card can be searched by "Temperance of Prophecy", "Magician's Circle", "Endymion's Lab", "Justice of Prophecy", "Thelematech Clatis", "Dragodies, the Empowered Warrior", "Spellbook Star Hall", "Spellbook of Judgment", "The Grand Spellbook Tower", "Lemon Magician Girl", "Lyna the Light Charmer, Lustrous", "Shadow's Light", "Chaos Zone", "Chaos-End Master", "Witch of the Black Forest", and other generic searchers.

• "Spellbook of Life" is an Equip Spell that can not only Special Summon this card from the Graveyard (and equip to it), but also does not destroy/banish the equipped monster if it (the Equip Spell) leaves the field. However, it does require another "Spellbook" card in the hand in order to be activated.
  • Cards such as "Foolish Burial", "Magicians' Souls", and "Trade-In" have costs/effects that can easily send "Maha Vailo" to the Graveyard.
  • "Spellbook of Wisdom" can be useful alongside this Equip Spell, since not only can it be used for the Equip Spell's activation condition, but can also protect "Maha Vailo" from the effects of Trap Cards. While it can also protect from Spell effects, caution should be used, since "Maha Vailo" won't be affected by the effects of its Equip Spells either.

• Since this card is a Level 8 monster, "Dimension Magic" can be useful for Special Summoning this card from the hand, especially with the aid of "Dimension Conjurer".

• Cards such as "Fateful Adventure" and "Tool Box" can be useful for accumulating Equip Spells over multiple turns.

• Since this card's effect boosts benefits from equipping many Equip Spells to itself, "Mage Power" is an ideal Equip Spell to use, since its effect boosts the equipped monster's ATK/DEF by the number of Spells/Traps on the field.

• With the easily-achieved potential for this card to attain a high ATK from its own effect, this card can benefit from the following Equip Spells:
  • "Archfiend's Staff of Despair", whose effect can decrease the ATK of all the opponent's monsters by half of the equipped monster's ATK.
  • "Shooting Star Bow - Ceal", whose effect reduces the ATK of the equipped monster by 1000, but also allows it to attack directly.
  • "Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce", while reducing the equipped monster's ATK by 500 and requiring a discard to activate, allows the equipped monster to attack twice.

• "Sinful Spoils of Doom - Rciela" can be tremendously helpful with this card, as either of that Quick-Play Spell's effects can help enable OTKs, either by protecting "Maha Vailo" from monster effects or immensely reducing the ATK of the opponent's monsters.

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• "Union Carrier" can equip LIGHT and/or Spellcaster monsters from the Deck to this card, including monsters whose effects can be activated after sending them to the GY with this card's "● 3+" effect, such as "Electromagnetic Turtle".