Card Tips:Black Brutdrago

"Black Brutdrago":

This can be easily Summoned in a Plant deck with "Gigaplant" and "Nettles". When this is destroyed, you can Summon "Gigaplant" back, use its effect to Summon "Nettles" and get another copy of this card.
- There are two nearly identical strategies for other type-themed decks:
  - Zombie- "Il Blud" and "Plaguespreader Zombie".
  - Fiend- "Doom Shaman" and "Dark Tinker".

This card works well with "Il Blud" and "Zombie World". When this card is destroyed, "Il Blud" can be brought back to the field and due to "Zombie World" will be able to Special Summon "Black Brutdrago" as well.

A way to Synchro Summon this card is to have "Tuned Magician" in your Graveyard, Summon "Blazewing Butterfly" and equip it with "Supervise", then tribute "Blazewing" for its effect, destroying "Supervise", and Special Summon "Tuned Magician" to the field with Blazewings' effect, and use "Supervise'" effect to Special Summon "Blazewing", giving you the 8 Levels and a Tuner.

When this card is destroyed and you summon and Gemini Summon "Tuned Magician", use "Swing of Memories" to bring back a level 4 "Gemini" to synchro summon another copy of this card.

If you used two "Gemini" Monsters for the synchro summon of this card, you could use "De-Synchro" and an appropriate fusing card to swap out for "Superalloy Beast Raptinus".
- Conversely, you could use "De-Fusion" to swap out "Superalloy Beast Raptinus" for this card if both "Gemini" Monsters are level 4 and at least one of them is "Tuned Magician".
  - A third option is to Synchro Summon this card and use "Dragon's Mirror" to get both.
- If you plan to use the Fusion version of this trick, make sure you use "Dark Valkyria" as the other monster. If you Synchro after using her effect, then "De-sychro" on your next turn, you have the chance to use her effect again before fusing her into "Raptinus".

This card can be an effective counter to "Majestic Star Dragon's" field clearing effect if you have "Phoenix Gearfried" in your graveyard and make your opponent use it before it can negate this card's effect.
Use level 4 Tuner monsters for the reason most Gemini monsters are level 4. Use revival cards if there's a level 4 Gemini monster in your Graveyard, then Normal Summon the level 4 Tuner monster.

This card works well with "Wicked Rebirth" as effects activated by monster destruction can't be negated.

You can use traps that destroy your monsters to abuse this card's monster reviving effect. After attacking, destroy "Black Brutdrago" with effects like "Destruct Potion" and "Des Counterblow" and revive "Phoenix Gearfried" to score another big hit.
- If you have a Call of the Haunted or similar monster revival card also set to bring back another monster, this can turn into a OTK.
  - With "Call of the Haunted" and "Des Counterblow" you could revive "Black Brutdrago" for another attack, getting it destroyed again, and revive "Phoenix Gearfried" a second time, inflicting 11600 battle damage in one turn.

Using "Natural Tune" on one of your "Gemini monsters" makes it easier to summon this card.

This card combos well with Dark Hole, enabling a direct attack from your revived gemini monster.
- In this circumstance, Chthonian Emperor Dragon (with it's effect to attack twice) can do the most damage at 4800.

Use the effect of discarding a Gemini monster while having Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord on your side of the field to boost Exodius attack and destroy a magic or trap card at the same time.

Traditional Format[edit]

Since this card's second effect is just like "Blazewing Butterfly", choose to summon that card, and use its effect to summon another "Gemini monster" in its place. The only benefit from that would be if you have "Card of Safe Return" in play, so you can draw two cards instead of one.