Card Tips:Strike of the Monarchs
- This card can be searched by "Tenacity of the Monarchs", "Pantheism of the Monarchs", "Quick Booster", "Spell Calling", "Miracle of the Supreme King", "Mecha Phantom Beast Jaculuslan", and other generic searchers.
- Easy ways to gain a Normal Summoned monster without having to Tribute include:
- Cards like "Cost Down" or "Mischief of the Gnomes", since their Level decreases are only temporary, allowing for a Level 5-6 monster to be Normal Summoned in the meantime.
- "Mausoleum of the Emperor".
- High-Level monsters that can be Normal Summoned without Tributing, such as "Beast King Barbaros", "Hundred-Footed Horror", "Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast", and all the Timelord monsters.
- Monsters that can increase their own Levels, such as "Gagaga Magician", "Mecha Phantom Beast" monsters, and "Inzektor" monsters.
- For "Mecha Phantom Beast" Decks, this card's activation cost can form a combo with the first effect of "Mecha Phantom Beast Harrliard".
- Alternatively, cards like "Star Light, Star Bright" or "Galaxy Queen's Light" can be used to manipulate the Levels of one's Level 4 or lower Normal Summoned monsters.
- This card's second effect essentially serves as a temporary version of "DNA Transplant".
- See also: Card Tips:DNA Transplant
- Because of this effect's temporary nature, it can have an advantage over the permanent nature of "DNA Transplant". For example, it can temporarily allow the Fusion/Synchro/Xyz Summons of certain monsters that require monsters of a specific Attribute to be their Material(s), without preventing the usage of other Extra Deck monsters (or card effects such as "Genex Ally" monsters and "Mask Change II") that are reliant on a certain Attribute(s).
- This card is also better in the particular aspect of it having many interactions with the effects of the "Monarch" Spell/Trap Cards, "Ehther the Heavenly Monarch", "Erebus the Underworld Monarch", and "Edea the Heavenly Squire".