Card Tips:Ancient Fairy Dragon

"Ancient Fairy Dragon":

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• This card is useful against any decks that rely on field spells, such as Zombie World, Geartown, Ojama Country, Ancient Forest, Clock Tower Prison, Necrovalley or A Legendary Ocean.
  • This can greatly speed up the summoning in Zombie World or A Legendary Ocean decks. In the former it can help summon Zombie Master to summon even more zombies, as well as leave your normal summon open. It can also help summon Paladin of the Cursed Dragon, who can summon other monsters thanks to Zombie World. In A Legendary Ocean decks, it can summon level 5 monsters, who's level will be reduced thanks to A Legendary Ocean, as well as provide a quick tribute to summon level 7 monsters, who's level will be reduced as well and requiring only one tribute.
  • If planned beforehand, this card's effect is also useful for Special Summoning Destiny Hero - Dreadmaster once all 4 Clock Counters have been placed on Clock Tower Prison, but Destiny Hero - Dreadmaster's effect will destroy Ancient Fairy Dragon.
  • The following apply if you use a deck with "Geartown": Use this card's effect to destroy Geartown. Doing this will allow you to bring out Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon or other Ancient Gears, except for Ancient Gear Golem and Ancient Gear Beast (they cannot be Special Summoned). You can also Special Summon a Gadget monster, then tribute it while Geartown is on the field to summon Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon or Ancient Gear Golem. You can also summon two Gadgets a turn to quickly thin your deck and swarm the field (to do this, simply normal summon one Gadget and then special summon the Gadget that was added to your hand through Ancient Fairy Dragon's effect).
  • This card can work well with Ojama Country since it changes its ATK for its DEF and you recover life points for it.
  • This card can work well with decks that use Ancient Forest. Simply use Ancient Fairy Dragon's summoning effect, skip your battle phase, and the next time you want to attack, destroy the Ancient Forest (and gain 1000 life points) and then attack. After you've attacked, play the other Ancient Forest in your hand during your Main Phase 2.

• If you already Normal Summoned this turn, you can use Star Blast or Cost Down so you will be able to Special Summon a high level monster.

• This card's effect to Special Summon a monster can also be useful in giving you field advantage through Inferno Reckless Summon.

• Combine this card with Fire Princess allow you to destroys your opponent's Field Spell Cards and gain Life Points and inflict Effect Damage your opponent.

• Use Hidden Book of Spell or The Transmigration Prophecy to recycle the destroyed field spells to continue using this card's effect. Since you add a card from your deck to your hand anyways, the deck thickening downside is a non-issue.

• This card makes other Synchro Summons easier.

• This card fits well in a Gemini deck, which is composed of lots of level 4 or lower monsters that rely on being quickly Summoned.
  • This card is especially good for special summoning gemini monsters with effects that destroy cards on the field, making up for the lost battle phase.
  • If you run a Gemini deck that includes Spell Counter support for Dark Valkyria, You can use this to search for Magical Citadel of Endymion as well as summon Dark Valkyria and Crusader of Endymion faster.

• If your opponent is stalling with cards like Swords of Revealing Light, two face up copies of Marauding Captain, Solar Flare Dragon or Command Knight, you can use this card's special summoning ability and not worry abut skipping your battle phase (because you wouldn't be able to attack anyway).

• Combo with Regulus or with Recycle. If you have at least 2 field spells you can use Ancient Fairy Dragon to get the field spells in your graveyard and into your hand while Regulus can consistently put the other field spell back in the deck so it can be constantly recycled.

• This card is great against Earthbound Immortals and Sin, because they need field spells to stay on the field. It is also useful in Life Points increasing decks.

• Lightsworn monsters can help benefit from this monster's Special Summoning effect. One way is using this card as a back up way of summoning Wulf, Lightsworn Beast, even if Wulf is added to your hand from the deck instead of going directly to the Graveyard.

• Use this card's effect to get out monsters from the VWXYZ archetype. You can easily get out cards like XYZ-Dragon Cannon if you use Witch of the Black Forest or Sangan to get the pieces into your hand.