Card Tips:Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes

"Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes":

"Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes" works well with any Reptile monsters in your Graveyard, even Reptile-type "Alien" monsters. For this reason, this card could potentially work just as well in an "Alien"-based Deck as well as a "Venom" Deck. It also works well with a "Reptilianne" Deck, or the more recent "Worm" Deck (especially due to "Worm Zero").

To make sure to have some Reptile-type monsters in your Graveyard for reviving and increasing the ATK of "Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes" and "Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes", you can use "Snake Whistle", "Snake Rain", "Damage = Reptile", "Card Trooper", "Magical Merchant", etc.

Use "Damage = Reptile" or "Damage Condenser" to quickly Summon "Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes" to later sacrifice for "Vennominaga".

To quickly Special Summon "Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes", make sure you have "Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes" and a Set "Rise of the Snake Deity" on your side of the field. You can then use any number of destructive effects upon "Vennominon" to force the Summon of "Vennominaga". "Offering to the Snake Deity" is designed for this purpose and is therefore the most efficient card to use for this effect. Other cards that work are "Hammer Shot", "Tribute to the Doomed", "Offerings to the Doomed" or "Snipe Hunter".

"Final Attack Orders" forces all face-up monsters to go into Attack Position. This can help you put "Hyper-Venom Counter" more easily or simply allow you to finish off your opponent's Life Points. "Ojama Trio" can allow you easy access to the opponent's Life Points if used alongside "Final Attack Orders". You can use "Battle Mania" during your opponent's turn to force the "Ojama Tokens" to attack "Vennominaga".

Chain "Torrential Tribute" to the Summon of "Vennominaga", clearing the field and allowing "Vennominaga" to place its first Hyper-Venom Counter much more easily. Or, even better, chain "Torrential Tribute" to the Summoning of "Vennominon", which would destroy him, then activate "Rise of the Snake Deity" to Summon "Vennominaga", thus securing a clear field for her to attack and consequently place Hyper-Venom Counters.

Use "Limit Reverse" to Special Summon "Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes", then change it to Defense Position to destroy it, allowing you to easily Special Summon this card with "Rise of the Snake Deity".

"Venom Swamp" can be useful for clearing the field. A combination of "Light of Intervention" and "Lightning Vortex" can clear the field for "Vennominaga" to attack directly, in addition to sending another Reptile-Type monster to the Graveyard to boost the ATK of "Venominaga".

While this card cannot be destroyed or banished from the field by card effects, it can be Tributed for "Lava Golem","Santa Claws" or "Volcanic Queen". Keep a "Mask of Restrict" handy to prevent this.

Use "Des Feral Imp" to further power up "Vennominaga", and if your "Rise of the Snake Deity" is negated/destroyed you can still have another chance. It also helps if you are forced to discard "Vennominaga" or other key cards.

This card cannot be affected by card effects, but it is still dependent upon Reptiles being in the Graveyard to have any ATK and it can be destroyed by battle. Cards that boost ATK by an enormous amount, such as "Metalmorph" or "The Wicked Avatar" can allow the opponent to overwhelm it and any card effect that would banish Reptiles from the Graveyard is highly devastating to "Vennominaga". Such banish cards include "Fiend Comedian", "Big Burn", "Soul Release", "The Transmigration Prophecy" and most devastating, "Rainbow Neos". "Imperial Iron Wall" can prevent your Reptile-type monsters from being banished, although it makes your "Venominaga" vulnerable to be destroyed by battle, since you can't banish your monsters to revive her. Cards like "Red Screen" and "Swords of Revealing Light" can help with that.

Remember that "Zombie World" can be fatal for this card. All of your Reptiles in your Graveyard will become Zombies and the ATK of "Venominaga" will fall to 0. Any monster could destroy by battle and she wouldn't be able to resurrect. Keep some "Mystical Space Typhoons", "Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spells", or a "Solemn Judgment" in your Deck to prevent this. The Flip Effect of "Worm Apocalypse" can also destroy Zombie World.
The same goes for "Rebirth Judgment".Your opponent can change the type of all monster in any player's Graveyard to any other than Reptiles and, therefore, reducing this card's ATK to 0. However, you can also use it to boost this card's ATK by changing the type of monster to Reptile
Attack with "Asura Priest" and discard "Honest". "Asura Priest" can destroy "Vennominaga" each time she returns until your opponent runs out of Reptiles.

"Big Bang Shot" on another monster like "Red Dragon Archfiend" will keep your opponent from hiding behind Defense Position monsters since it won't affect "Vennominaga".

Traditional Format

"Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes" works well in a Reptile-based "Worm" deck, especially when "Future Fusion" is activated to Fusion Summon "Worm Zero", turning this card into a powerful beatstick.