Card Tips:Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude

"Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude":

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• This card can be searched by "Destiny Signal", "Elemental HERO Stratos", "Field-Commander Rahz", "Freed the Matchless General", "Dark General Freed", "Reinforcement of the Army", "Resonator Engine", "Summoner Monk", "Soul Rope", "Vampire Dragon", "Mystic Tomato", "Masked HERO Dian", "Creeping Darkness" and "Gaia, Knight in Brightest Night".

• Use "Convulsion of Nature" to know exactly which the next card of your deck is and activate the effect of this card at the proper time.

• Since costs and activation requirements are not paid, or do not have to be met, using cards such as "Destiny Draw" or "Magical Stone Excavation" or "The Beginning of the End" will get you free cards, and cards such as "Lightning Vortex" or "Tribute to the Doomed" will destroy the opponent's monsters without needing to discard. "Primal Seed" also works, even without "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" in your Deck.
  • Also, you can activate the effects of most monster-specific and cost-effective cards:

• "Ojama Delta Hurricane!!" without the "Ojamas"
• "Wrath of Neos" without "Elemental HERO Neos"
• "Des Croaking" without the "Des Frogs"
• "The Law of the Normal" without having 5 Level 2 or lower Normal Monsters on the field
• "Short Circuit" without Batterymen
• "Mega Ton Magical Cannon" with no Spell Counters
• "Dark Magic Attack" or "Thousand Knives" without "Dark Magician"
• "Bonding - H2O" without "Oxygeddon" and "Hydrogeddon"
• "Burst Stream of Destruction" without "Blue-Eyes White Dragon"
• "Earthbound Whirlwind" without an "Earthbound Immortal"
• "Crystal Abundance" without sending 4 "Crystal Beasts" to the Graveyard
• "Pot of Duality" and still able to Special Summon that turn
• "Hidden Armory" to gather an Equip Card and get a Summon right away.
• "Stray Lambs" to bring 2 Tokens for the Tribute Summon of a Level 7 or higher monster

• Use practical Normal Spells like "Lightning Vortex" with a cost/activation requirement that's possible to fulfill in your Deck, so that you do not get stuck if you draw them. For example, "Destiny Draw" provides a Draw Engine while "The Beginning of the End" draws you 3 cards with no further costs.
  • "Summoner Monk" can help you discard Normal Spells so that you may use "Magical Stone Excavation" via this monster's effect later to recover them.
• Use with "Pot of Benevolence" to keep recycling your Normal Spell Cards. If "Pot of Benevolence" is sent to the Graveyard by "Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude", it will not be banished as it is already in the Graveyard. This also means you can even recycle "Pot of Benevolence" with its own effect.

• Get the cards you want on top of your Deck with "A Feather of the Phoenix", "Archfiend's Oath", "Big Eye", "Spellbook Organization", "Plaguespreader Zombie" and "Raiza the Storm Monarch".

• This card combines well with spells that can search for monsters, such as "Reinforcement of the Army", since those will let you use fewer monster cards in your deck (and therefore more spells, increasing the chance of using it successfully) and will generate guaranteed card advantage when pulled with its ability. Cards that can search out "Diamond Dude" itself are best; also, "E - Emergency Call" can be used to search for "Elemental HERO Stratos" which can bring out Diamond Dude.

• You can Special summon up to 2 Ancient Gear Golem (1 from your hand and/or 1 deck) if you send Spell Gear without send 3 gear cards.

Traditional Format

• This card can be searched by "Sangan" and "Last Will".