Card Tips:Tempest Magician

"Tempest Magician":

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• If at least 16 Spell Counters are on the field, this card can remove them all for a One Turn Kill.
  • "Magical Citadel of Endymion", "Magical Abductor" and many of the "Endymion" Pendulum Monsters are Spell Counter-gaining cards that can be played in the Field Zone or Pendulum Zone without using resources to Summon a monster.
  • "Magical Exemplar" and "Mythical Beast" monsters gain 2 Spell Counters per Spell activated, reducing the number of Spells needed to reach 16 Spell Counters.
    • "Mythical Beast Master Cerberus" can use its Pendulum Effect to search "Mythical Beast Jackal King", whose Pendulum Effect can Special Summon "Master Cerberus" to start gaining Spell Counters.

• Since this card removes all Spell Counters from the field with its effect, it can be particularly powerful against another Spell Counter Deck.

• This card can be used with "Forced Requisition" to force the opponent to discard when this card's second effect is activated.

• This card can be quickly Synchro Summoned using "Magical Exemplar" to Special Summon a Level 2 Tuner from the GY. "Foolish Burial" can both send such a monster to the GY, and give "Magical Exemplar" the 2 Spell Counters needed.

Countering

• "Effect Veiler", "Hanewata" or "Performage Flame Eater" can completely stop this card in its tracks.

• "Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit" can be activated in response to this card's first effect when it is Synchro Summoned, destroying it before it can activate its damaging effect.

• If going first, cards like "Spell of Pain", "Black-Winged Dragon" or "Rainbow Life" can negate or reflect the damage dealt, but they are susceptible to being destroyed by a Spell Counter Deck's other monsters, like "Arcanite Magician".