Card Tips:Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder

"Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder":

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• This card can be searched by "Dark Summoning Beast", "Dark Beckoning Beast", "Opening of the Spirit Gates", "Fusion Conscription", "Fusion Reserve", "Thunder Dragon Fusion", "Thunder Dragonduo", "Chaos Zone", and other generic searchers.

• This card can be useful in a "The Weather" Deck because they can make use of many Continuous Spell Cards.

• This card can be used in a "Crystal Beast" Deck, since "Crystal Beast" monsters can become Continuous Spell Cards when destroyed; therefore, they can be sent to the Graveyard for this card's Summoning condition.
  • This card can make for additional boss monster for the Deck (either along side, or independent of "Rainbow Dragon"). Since "Rainbow Dragon" counts "Crystal Beast" cards from the field or Graveyard, sending "Crystal Beast" monsters from the Spell & Trap Zones to the Graveyard to Summon this card before "Rainbow Dragon" can give the player two 4000 ATK beatsticks.
  • This card's Defense Position effect can work alongside "Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise" and "Amethyst Cat". The former can switch "Hamon" to Defense Position after attacking, while the latter can attack directly each turn, while being safe from being attacked.

• By using this Defense Position card alongside another monster that prevents other monsters from being attacked, such as "Batteryman D" or "Morphtronic Magnen", a lock can be established.

• While this card is in Defense Position, equip "Mist Body" to make the opponent's only attack target unable to be destroyed by battle.

• While this card is in Defense Position, it can act as a good 'staller' to protect Fiend monsters for a tribute to summon "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms".

• Since this card has the highest original ATK among Thunder monsters, cards like "Makiu, the Magical Mist" and "Wattcine" can be used to their maximum potential.

Summoning tips

• Use Continuous Spell Cards like "Messenger of Peace", "Level Limit - Area B", "Burden of the Mighty" and "Quiet Life" to stall the opponent before Summoning this card.

• Like the "Crystal Beasts", "Pumprincess the Princess of Ghosts" can be treated as a Continuous Spell Card that can be used for the Summon of this card.

• "Destiny Board" can potentially be used to gather Continuous Spell Cards onto the field. However, by the time this card can be Summoned there will only be 1 "Spirit Message" Spell Card required to place before being declared achieving an an instant win.

• "Cerulean Skyfire" helps immensely with getting "Hamon" onto the field, as it will allow you to use not only Continuous Spells, but Set Spells as well; this gives some use to cards that may be unusable at that point of the duel. "Cerulean Skyfire" will also provide 1 negation per turn depending on the battle position of "Hamon".