Card Tips:Number C5: Chaos Chimera Dragon

"Number C5: Chaos Chimera Dragon":

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• This card can be Special Summoned by using "Rank-Up-Magic Astral Force" on "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon", "Evilswarm Bahamut", "Evilswarm Ophion", "Evilswarm Ouroboros", "Galaxy Stealth Dragon",and "Queen Dragun Djinn".

• This card can also be Special Summoned by using "Rank-Up-Magic Argent Chaos Force" on any Rank 5 Xyz monster (or "The Phantom Knights' Rank-Up-Magic Launch", if it is a DARK monster). Alternatively, you can use "D. Tribe" followed by "Rank-Up-Magic Barian's Force" or "Rank-Up-Magic Numeron Force".

• "Outer Entity Nyarla" can assist in the summoning of this card when used with "Rank-Up-Magic" cards by having it attach a Dragon-Type monster from your Graveyard to it using its effect as well as manipulating its Rank.

• This card is easily Summonable in "Hieratic" Decks and "Hazy Flame" Decks which heavily use Level 6 monsters.
  • In addition, "Hazy Flame" decks can make excellent use of this card, given that the archetype (through "Hazy Pillar") has a strong emphasis on restoring Xyz Material.
    • "Hazy Flame Sphinx", "Hazy Flame Hydra" and "Hazy Flame Peryton" can make creating a 5 XYZ "Chaos Chimera Dragon" easy, with 'Hazy Flame Hydra" you can also add 1 Hazy Flame monster from the Graveyard to the XYZ summoned monster - potentially giving this card 6000 ATK out of the gate.

• Utilizing "XYZ Unit" You can further increase this monsters Attack by an additional 1200 ATK
• This card can be recycled with "Recurring Nightmare" and "Dark Eruption".

• Use this card's second effect to add an opponent's monster that can be Normal Summoned to the top of their Deck, then activate "Conscription" to Special Summon that monster to your side of the field.

• Since this card can restore its Xyz Materials, cards like "Xyz Veil" can protect it efficiently.

• This card can be used for "Deck Devastation Virus" or "Eradicator Epidemic Virus" due to its ability to manipulate its ATK.

• While this monster's Xyz Material-gaining effect is costly, it can be extremely effective both in and against Graveyard-heavy decks. You can reuse a spent card from your own Graveyard, or get rid of a card from your opponent's Graveyard, or even place a useless card from the opponent's Graveyard onto their Deck to make them waste their Draw Phase.

• Use cards like "Overlay Eater" and "Overlay Regen" to increase this cards Xyz Material count and thus boost its ATK and effects.
  • When this monster's Xyz Material is depleted, such as after its last attack or if it was re-Summoned after being destroyed, you can also use "Numbers Overlay Boost" to restore its ATK and Xyz Materials right away.

• While it is typically better to have more life points than your opponent, there are advantages to being able to lower your life points at will. Since this card's third effect manipulates your life points, you can use the effect to eliminate an opponent's advantage over you due to you having more life points, or give yourself an advantage by using effects that require you to have lower life points than your opponent. For example:
  • You have more life points than your opponent. You use Number C5: Chaos Chimera Dragon's third effect to make you life points lower than your opponent's. You then equip the monster with Unstable Evolution, essentially granting it an extra 2400 attack points. (Even when your opponent's life points drop below your own again, Unstable Evolution will make Number C5 1000 points stronger than it would be without it (like an extra Xyz material), though it will take up a spell/trap zone.