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"The Calculator":

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• This card can be searched by "Serpentine Princess", "Vampire Dragon", "Rai-Mei" and "Photon Veil".

• You can use this card in combination with "Greed Quasar" because "Greed Quasar" can increase its own level.

• By activating 3 "Metal Reflect Slimes" on the turn you summon this card, its ATK will be at least 9600 or more (if you have another monster on the field). If your opponent has no cards on his/her field, it'll be an OTK.

• This card works well with "Tragoedia", since it is a Level 10 Monster, can Special Summon itself and change its Level.

• This card fits in well in a "Fortune Lady" deck, since all the Fortune Ladies gain levels.

• This card comboes well with "Machine Duplication" and "Woodborg Inpachi". "The Calculator" could have at least 5100ATK.

• This card can be used in tandem with "Zombie World" and in combination with "Malevolent Mech - Goku En", then playing "Book of Life" with "Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon" and/or "Vampire Lord".

• Good cards to use with "The Calculator" include "Yubel", "Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys", "Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast", "Metal Reflect Slime", "Guardian of Order", "Beast King Barbaros" and "Cyber Dragon".
  • If after normal summoning a "Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast" to the field using its effects, you reduce its ATK with "Shooting Star Bow - Ceal"; you can use "Machine Duplication" and get more "Fusilier Dragons". This will give you (2) 2800 ATK monsters, (1) 400 ATK monster that can direct-attack, and 6300 ATK-boost to "The Calculator" (6900 ATK points). In total, the ATK of all your monsters combined would be 12900, more than enough to OTK.
    • "Galaxy Queen's Light" can be used too, and works well.

• If you have no monsters you can Special Summon "Cyber Dragon" then Normal Summon "The Calculator". This card will have 2100 atk. You can also Special Summon "Guardian of Order" and increase attack of "The Calculator" to 4500.

• You can also use "Graceful Revival" to bring it back from graveyard. And if his ATK is 1500 or less you can activate "Inferno Reckless Summon" and bring 2 more on the field.

• You could also use "Infected Mail" to attack with a boosted "Calculator".

• This card could make a good combo with "Junk Warrior".

• On a similar note, if you use the effect of "Junk Synchron" to bring this card back, it is then a legal target for "Inferno Reckless Summon", provided your opponent has a monster out. Then, you can Synchro Summon into "Junk Warrior", who will have an impressive 7700 attack points, with each of "The Calculator" at 2700 ATK.
• The above can be a formation of a powerful FTK if you're going second. Discard "The Calculator" to Special Summon "Quickdraw Synchron", then do the above. This will result in 2 4200-ATK "The Calculators" and a 10,700 ATK "Junk Warrior".

• This card is great in many swarm decks that use level 4 monsters, particularly Crystal Beasts, as it will benefit from the decent amount of total levels on the field from multiple monsters.

• This card works well in a Batteryman deck thanks to its type (which can power up "Batteryman Charger" or serve to feed the effect of "Batteryman Industrial Strength"). In a single turn, a player could Normal Summon "The Calculator", Special Summon "Batteryman Industrial Strength", and attack for a combined total of 5600 damage.

• This card works well in a Swarm deck.

• "Yubel" works well with this card, and each time your opponent destroys a "Yubel" card, "Yubel" gets stronger, and so does this card.

• This card works well in a "The Creator" deck since it´s level is 8 and "The Calculator" is 2 you can summon "The Calculator" with 3000 ATK without tribute.

• This card works tremendously well with a "Pyramid of Light" Deck, everytime you special summon "Theinen the Great Sphinx", "Andro Sphinx" or "Sphinx Teleia" who are all level 10 monsters, that's an extra 3000 ATK which means you could max "The Calculator" out to over 12000 ATK more than enough for an OTK.

• This card also works well with "LV" monsters because they can get high Level cards out very quickly.

• This card is also useful in a Dragon Deck based on "Five-Headed Dragon", since it is a Level 12 Monster and can easily be summoned by using "Dragon's Mirror".
  • Instead of "Five-Headed Dragon", "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" is a good choice as well.
  • In addition, "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" can power up this card further, since it can special summon itself and another high level Dragon-Type Monster.

• This card works well in a Fabled Deck. "Fabled Raven" is able to increase its own level and ATK by discarding cards. If you discard "The Fabled Cerburrel" or "Fabled Krus" by this effect, you will get another monster out to further increase this cards ATK.

• This card should not be used with Effect cards that only modify attack and do not offer an effect. The effect of "The Calculator" ensures that its ATK is always equal to the combined levels of all monsters you control x300.
  • Use the first effect of "Magic Hole Golem" to allow this card to perform a direct attack. Because the ATK of "The Calculator" is always the total combined levels of all monsters you control x300, the second effect of "Magic Hole Golem" will not function and you can deal full damage to your opponent's Life Points. Use card effects like that of "Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce" to double the damage further.

• Combine this card with "Battle Waltz" while you control a high leveled Synchro Monster like "Red Nova Dragon"

• A really good Monster combo for "The Calculator" is also having "Endymion, the Master Magician", "Stardust Dragon", "Relinquished" and "Dragon Master Knight" together on the field. Their effects compliment each other perfectly.

• Use "Monster Reborn" on "The Calculator" and then use "Inferno Reckless Summon" to Summon three such copies. Then, use "Dragon's Mirror" to summon "Dragon Master Knight" and then use "Galaxy Queen's Light" on them to get three 14400 ATK Monsters for an OTK. If you control a "Skilled Dark Magician" and two face down "Night Beam" and "Dark Magic Attack" to OTK for sure as you will have a "Dark Magician" which will make all of them 18000 ATK Monsters.

• Use 3 "Tannhauser Gate"s on 2 copies of Yubel to make 2 level 80 monsters, then use "Galaxy Queen's Light" with three "The Calculator" also on the field to have 5 Lv. 80 monsters (resulting in 3 "The Calculators" at 120,000 Atk each).

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• This card can be searched by "Witch of the Black Forest" or "Sangan".