Card Tips:Steelswarm Hercules
- This card can be searched by "Infestation Infection", "Sky Scourge Cidhels", "Three-Eyed Ghost", "Chaos Zone", "Witch of the Black Forest", "Union Activation", and other generic searchers.
- After using this card's effect, you can equip "Megamorph" to it for a game-ending 6400 ATK.
- For even more damage, you can use "Evil HERO Infernal Gainer" to attack twice and win the game in 1 move, but this will require significant set-up. Alternatively, use "Dark Calling" or "Dark Fusion" to combine it with a Rock monster for an Evil HERO Dark Gaia OTK.
- Special Summon "Steelswarm Cell", then Special Summon "Steelswarm Genome" (that counts as 2 tributes) from your hand by banishing "Stygian Street Patrol" from the Graveyard, or from the Graveyard by activating "Infestation Ripples".
- You can also use "Double Summon".
- Tribute Summon "Steelswarm Mantis" by tributing "Steelswarm Caller" activate their effects to have 3 monsters on the field, then activate "Double Summon" and Summon this card.
- Special Summon 1 "Steelswarm" monster with 1500 ATK or less and use "Inferno Reckless Summon" to Special Summon 2 more copies, and use those to Tribute Summon this card. It doesn't matter if your opponent gets to Summon; you're just going to nuke everything else. "Steelswarm Cell" works with this strategy, as it can be Special Summoned by its own effect.
- You could use "Infestation Ripples" to fulfill the requirement of "Inferno Reckless Summon".
- If your opponent chains to this card's effect with "Effect Veiler", you will be at a massive disadvantage. You can use "Debunk" or "Dark Illusion" to prevent this.
- Summon this card then Special Summon Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord. Use both to Xyz Summon Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Gustav Max, activate its effect then Xyz Summon
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Juggernaut Liebe for an OTK.
Traditional Format[edit]
- If you drain your Life Points with cards like "Ultimate Offering", "Solemn Judgment" and "Solemn Warning" while also increasing your opponent's Life Points with cards like "Upstart Goblin", you can chain this card's activation with "Life Equalizer" to make it an OTK.
