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The archetype's Main Deck Effect Monsters are designed to further this strategy. The first effect of "[[World Chalice Guardragon]]" allows the controller to send it from the hand or field to the GY in order to negate the activation of a card that targets a [[linked]] monster and destroy it, thus offering protection to the controller from threats to the archetypes' Link Monsters. This also places "Guardragon" in the GY to enable its second effect, banishing it from the GY to Special Summon a Normal Monster from the GY to one of the controller's zones that a Link Monster points to. "[[Lee the World Chalice Fairy]]" enables the player to add a "World Chalice" monster from their Deck to their hand if Normal or Special Summoned, and also allows the controller to recover it from the GY to their hand if they send a monster from their hand or field to the GY. Both monsters have great synergy with each other as a result, given that the latter can place monsters in the GY in the process of recurring itself, which the former can then Special Summon for the controller to continue their combos.

The archetype's Link Monsters all possess a common effect wherein if they are sent to the GY, the controller can Special Summon a "World Chalice" monster from their hand, thus preventing the controller from losing field advantage should the monster be sent to the GY. Additionally, these effects also encourage the player to use the Link Monsters as Link Materials themselves. This is reinforced by the archetype's Link Monsters all possessing [[Link Rating]]s in successive numbers from 1 to 3. As another thread of commonality, they also all possess effects that apply when the monster is linked to other monsters, thus emphasizing a need to consider where the Link Monsters can be best summoned in order to fully benefit from their effects.