Card Tips:Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude

"Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude":

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• This card can be searched via "Destiny Signal", "D - Time" "Elemental HERO Stratos", "Field-Commander Rahz", "Freed the Matchless General", "Dark General Freed", "Reinforcement of the Army", "Resonator Engine", "Summoner Monk", "Soul Rope", "Mystic Tomato", "Creeping Darkness, and "Sangan".

• 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 either of "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" or "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End" 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"
• "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
• "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", "Pigeonholing Books of Spell", "Plaguespreader Zombie", and "Raiza the Storm Monarch".

• A word of note: "Diamond Dude" WILL NOT activate spells in such a way that Spell Counters will be generated. The wording on "Destiny HERO - Diamond Dude" says that "you can activate its effect", which does not mean the same thing as regular "activate". In simple terms, the effect, NOT THE CARD (which is required for Spell Counter generation) will be activated. (Then again, you don't pay costs or need to fulfill requirements on the cards that you can activate.)

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• This card can be searched via "Last Will".