Card Tips:Scapegoat

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• You can Set a monster in the same turn you activate "Scapegoat".

• "Scapegoat" is a very flexible card, doubly so because it is a Quick-Play Spell Card. It is best set onto the field, and then activated in your opponent's End Phase. That way, the "Cannot summon on the turn this card is activated" will not apply. It is also a great way to bluff your opponent and make them waste cards like "Mystical Space Typhoon" and "Dust Tornado". For this reason, it is often a good idea to activate "Scapegoat" only when necessary.

• Since the Sheep Tokens "cannot be used as a Tribute for a Tribute Summon", use the Sheep Tokens for cards that require Monster Tributes such as Magical Dimension, Two-Pronged Attack, etc.

• "Scapegoat" can be used with a Toon Deck, since it only specifies that the tokens can't be tributed for a Tribute Summon. However, they can still be tributed for a Special Summon, or for a card effect, such as Tributing for "Cannon Soldier"'s effect or Tributing to special summon the higher level toons such as Toon Summoned Skull, Toon Dark Magician Girl, Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon.

• You can do a lot of damage if you have Toon World on the field, this card and three Toon Dark Magician Girl cards. Toon Dark Magician Girl can attack the turn she is summoned and since its a special summon, you can summon all three by tributing the goats.

• "Metamorphosis" works very well with Sheep Tokens. Since they are 1-Star monsters they can be tributed to Special Summon "Thousand-Eyes Restrict".

• Using "DNA Surgery," you can alter the type of "Sheep Tokens" so that they can be used to "Special Summon" monsters with specific summoning restrictions. This applies to monsters suchs as "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms," which requires you to tribute 3 "Fiend" monsters in order to "Special Summon" it from your hand.

• Activate this card during your opponent's End Phase, then on your turn, tribute 3 of the tokens to Special Summon high-powered monsters like Destiny Hero - Plasma, Destiny Hero - Dogma.
• Use this card in combination with United We Stand for a substantial ATK and DEF boost.

• If your opponent activates Creature Swap, chain Scapegoat and give 1 Scapegoat token monster to your opponenet, in exchange for 1 of your opponent monsters. You can do the same thing with Mystic Box.

• This card can also be used against an opponent's Fissure so that one of your Scapegoat tokens would be destroyed rather one of your monsters (In most cases anyway).

• Activate Enemy Controller and sacrifice a Scapegoat to take control of an opponent's monster and tribute it for a Tribute Summon. This way you get to keep three Scapegoats on your side of the field, were able to use one as a tribute, AND destroyed an opponent's monster.

• These may be used for Ritual Summons and Synchro Summons.

• If you use this card to defend against an opponent's attack, summon "Junk Synchron" on your next turn and special summon a level 2 monster. Now you have enough cards to summon "Stardust Dragon" or "Red Dragon Archfiend".

• You can also use United We stand or Chthonian Alliance, making one of the tokens either 3200 or 2400 attack points. Also, Staunch Defender can be used to force your opponent to attack your boosted Scapegoat token.