Card Tips:Dark Armed Dragon

"Dark Armed Dragon":

Using Dark Armed Dragon

Dark Armed Dragon is so effective, it has its own tournament-winning deck, briefly summarized below.

Use Destiny Draw, discarding Destiny Hero - Malicious from your hand. Then, use Malicious's effect to Special Summon a second copy of itself from the Deck, chaining Emergency Teleport to Special Summon Krebons from the deck as well. Tune Malicious and Krebons together, Synchro Summoning any level 8 Synchro Monster, and you will have 2 DARK monsters in the Graveyard for Dark Armed Dragon to use. As for the third DARK monster:

You can summon Armageddon Knight (remember, you can still Normal Summon) and activate his effect;

Or you can Tribute the Synchro Monster you just Summoned for any level 5 or 6 monster (The Synchro Monster must be DARK as well).

Discard a level 5 or higher DARK monster to Special Summon "Dark Grepher", then activate its effect, discarding a DARK monster to send another from your Deck to your Graveyard, thus setting the 3-monster requirement to summon this card.

You can also use other cards like "The Dark Creator", "Armageddon Knight" or "Skull Lair" to manipulate your Graveyard.

When this card is in your Graveyard, use "Phantom of Chaos"'s effect and remove it from play, then if you have a lot of DARK monsters in your grave, there will be a big problem for your opponent.

There is an OTK possiblity with this card. First, summon "Dark Armed Dragon" and use his effect to clear your opponent's field. Then, if you removed powerful DARK monsters from play you can activate "Dimension Fusion" to summon the removed from play monsters and attack to end the game. In advanced format, you can use Return from the Different Dimension instead of Dimension Fusion.

If you have a "Mystic Tomato" or "Giant Germ" on your field, you can suicide them into your opponent's monster to get the requirement for "Dark Armed Dragon"'s summoning easily at the cost of some Life Points and your Battle Phase.

Use Burial from a Different Dimension to reload your Graveyard with DARK monsters after you've used up three of them.

You can use "A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon" to return "Dark Armed Dragon" to your hand and destroy all spells and traps, then summon "Dark Armed Dragon" back to the field and use is effect to destroy your opponent's monsters and attack your opponent directly.

Flip a Flip Effect Monster face-up and then use "Dark Armed Dragon"'s effect to destroy it and avoid the risk to your Life Points. This is especially useful if the Flip Effect Monster is DARK since you won't lose any ammunition.

Remember that Dark Armed Dragon doesn't remove cards from play when he's summoned. Therefore, use his effect to get rid of face downs (because they usually pose the most threat) and attack for some serious damage.

This card works good with Dark Crusader as you can keep discarding cards from your hand using Dark Crusader effect and powering him up, an use Dark Armed Dragon effect to destroy all cards on the field.

Use Gold Sarcophagus to remove Necroface and remove the top five cards of the deck. Then use Burial from a Different Dimension to return 3 monsters back to the grave for DAD.

Be sure to add two "Allure of Darkness" to increase your chances of drawing "Dark Armed Dragon"

(Summon DAD in one turn)By discarding one Dark monster 5 level or higher you can special summon Dark Grepher from you're hand, then activate his seccond effect, discard a Dark monster to send a Dark monster from you're deck to the graveyard.Now you have 3 dark monsters on you're Grave so special summon DAD and then normal summon Shadowpriestess of Ohm and tribute Dark Grepher to inflict 800 damage to you're opponent and have one more Dark monster to the grave.Remove from play all Dark monsters in you're grave to destroy many cards you're opponent controls and then do a direct attack for massive damage(2800+1700+800=5300).

To be summoned, Dark Armed Dragon needs 3 DARK monsters in the Graveyard. To activate its destruction effect, it has to be able to remove monsters from play from the Graveyard. "Imperial Iron Wall" can counter its effect.

"Dimensional Fissure" and "Macro Cosmos" effectively erase the Graveyard, preventing both summoning and destruction.

"Soul Release" removes Graveyard cards from play, preventing both summoning and destruction.

"Truckroid" extracts its victims from the Graveyard to increase its own attack power by using them as Equip Spell Cards, preventing both summoning and destruction.

"Magical Thorn" makes your opponent suffer for sending cards to the Graveyard via Effect Damage per card.

When Core Chimair Drago is face up on the field Light and Dark Monsters can't be Special Summoned so Dark Armed Dragon can't be summoned.

Summon "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer" and equip him with "Mist Body". Kycoo's effect will prevent your opponent from removing cards from play in their own graveyard, ergo they will not be able to activate DAD's effect to destroy cards on the field.