Card Tips:Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

"Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier":

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• Note the effect can be used multiple times per turn, if you intend to bounce multiple cards, bounce ONLY ONE first. Then bounce the rest at once. this way if Brionac gets hit with "Divine Wrath", etc, you only lose one card, not several, for its would-be cost.

• Counter Brionac with "Goblin of Greed", to make your opponent unable to pay its cost.

• This card would actually be ideal for a deck that runs "Ojamagic". By discarding "Ojamagic" you can get 3 more cards in your hand to discard for his effect.

• This card works well in an Infernity deck.

• Use "Degenerate Circuit" with this monster to remove your opponent's monsters from play.

• In a Dragon deck, use "Super Rejuvenation" to replenish your hand after discarding Dragon Monsters to use this card's effect.

• Use "Forced Requisition" to make your opponent discard as you discard.

• This card can return "Swords of Revealing Light", "Nightmare's Steel Cage or "Swords of Concealing Light" to your hand.
  • Similarly, this card can be useful in Spell Counter Decks. By returning Continuous, Equip and Field Spell Cards back to your hand each turn, you can quickly generate Spell Counters on Monsters on the Field. If you discard low level Spellcaster type Monsters like "Frequency Magician," you can bring them back with "Magical Exemplar" for the Synchro Summon of "Tempest Magician".

• "Morphing Jar" works well with this card.

• This card can be used in a "Lightsworn Deck". You can use this cards ability to return your cards to your hand while sending different "Lightsworn" monsters to the graveyard. Then you can summon "Judgement Dragon" and then use "Judgement Dragon's" ability with out destroying your own cards. Alternatively, you can return "Lightsworn" monsters from the field to your hand then discard them for "Brionac's" effect.

• Use this card in a Exodia Deck/Burn Deck; Use "Rescue Cat" for deck thinning and searching out "X-Saber Airbellum" and another LV3-Beast, Synchro Summon this card. Then play "Card of Safe Return", "Spell Economics", "Mass Driver". Now you got two chances to win: Either you draw all pieces of Exodia (Because of COSR you always draw when you revive with "Premature Burial", and "Spell Economics" prevents you from paying life points), or you burn down your opponent with "Mass Driver".

• This card can be easily be summoned via "Marauding Captain" and a level 3 Tuner Monster. A similar combo can be performed with "Level Warrior" and a level 2 Tuner Monster.

• If you run a "Crystal Beast" deck, and you have four "Crystal beasts" in your spell/trap zone along with "Ancient City - Rainbow Ruins", use this card to draw out "Exodia", by discarding one card to return "Rainbow Ruins" to your hand and play "Rainbow Ruins" again to draw another card.

• Maintain your hand advantage by combining the effects of this card with "Yamata Dragon".

• A quick way to summon this card is to use "Summoner Monk" to search out "Road Synchron". "Road Synchron's" level will be reduced by two since it is not being used to synchro summon "Road Warrior".

• This card works great in combination with "Dark Armed Dragon". It can be used to add DARK monsters to the graveyard to meet "DAD's" summoning condition and bounce Face-down Spell/Trap cards that could be disastrous to "Dark Armed Dragon" such as "Bottomless Trap Hole", "Solemn Judgment", etc. And once "Dark Armed Dragon" is out, you can continue adding DARK monsters to the graveyard and destroy cards on the field. And if you have 2 DARK monsters left during Main Phase 2, you can discard a third to return your "Dark Armed Dragon" to your hand so that it won't get destroyed during your opponent's turn.

• Use this card in combination with "Neo-Spacian Grand Mole" and "Call of the Haunted". When "Brionac" is out on the field, activate "Call of the Haunted" and target "Neo-Spacian Grand Mole". After attacking, you can use this card's effect to reuse "Call of the Haunted".

• This card works well with the "Monarchs" and "Level Eater". Use "Level Eater" on this card to Special Summon "Level Eater". Then Tribute Summon a "Monarch". Then use "Level Eaters" effect, targeting the "Monarch" and use this card's effect to return the "Monarch" to your hand, allowing you to re-use its effect.

• You can use this card's effect on "Majestic Mech - Ohka" so it doesn't get destroyed.

• This card can create an OTK when combine with “The Fabled Chawa” “Spring of Rebirth” 2 “Fabled Lurrie” and “Ancient Sacred Wyvern”.
  • After you get out "Brionac", discard 1 "Fabled Lurrie" to Special Summon both "Fabled Lurrie" and "The Fabled Chawa" with their own effects, activate "Spring of Rebirth", than discard the other "Fabled Lurrie" to return the one on the field to your hand with "Brionac"'s effect, gain 500 Life Points from "Spring of Rebirth" and Special Summon the "Fabled Lurrie" that was discarded than repeat until you have a nice amount of Life Points, finally Tune "Brionac" with "The Fabled Chawa" to Synchro Summon "Ancient Sacred Wyvern" and attack for game. this combo also works with "The Fabled Peggulsus", "Mist Valley Baby Roc" or "The Fabled Cerburrel" instead of "Fabled Lurrie".
    • Instead of synchro summoning using "The Fabled Chawa", you can use "Lightwave Tuning" on "The Fabled Lurrie" to make it a tuner as well.
      • An alternate win condition would be to have "Fire Princess" on the field while infinitely gaining life points through the Lurrie loop.

• Use this card in decks where you have cards like "Salvage" Or "Recycling Batteries" so you can discard at least 1 monster and then bring them back to do it again if you need/want to.

Traditional Format

• This card can be quickly Synchro Summoned by using "Rescue Cat's" effect for two Level 3 Beasts.

• This card works well with "Premature Burial". You can reuse "Premature Burial" many times to gain field advantage. Also, you can combine this combo with "Destiny Hero - Disk Commander" for drawing many cards or "Rescue Cat" for another Synchro Monster. This can only be done in Traditional Format since "Premature Burial" and "Destiny Hero - Disk Commander" were banned as of September 2008.

• This card works well in a plant deck. Activate "Card of Safe Return", then play "Miracle Fertilizer" to bring back a Plant monster from your Graveyard. You will draw a card thanks to "Card of Safe Return". Then you can discard a card by Brionac's effect to return "Fertilizer" to your hand, which you can then play again and use its effect, the entire time not loosing any hand advantage. Do this numerous times to swarm the field with powerful plants such as "Gigaplant" and "Tytannial, Princess of Camellias" or even Synchro Summon 3 powerful monsters in 1 turn.
  • This combination can also be used as a burn OTK. By using "Brionac", "Card of Safe Return", and "Miracle Fertilizer", bring back a Tuner and a non-tuner monster, and Synchro Summon into "Dark Strike Fighter". Then continue your reviving of plants, each time using "Dark Strike Fighter's" effect to tribute off the monsters to burn your opponent until they are out of Life Points.
  • "Brionac" can also be used in another burn OTK by reviving "Sacred Crane" with "Symbol of Heritage" once you have 3 in your graveyard, sending "Symbol of Heritage" back to your hand, using "Sacred Crane's" draw effect when Special Summoned, and "Mass Driver" or "Toon Cannon Soldier" to tribute "Sacred Crane". This combo also works with 3 copies of "Molten Zombie" in your Graveyard.

• Use this card in a Exodia Deck/Burn Deck; Use "Rescue Cat" for deck thinning and searching out "X-Saber Airbellum" and another Level 3-Beast, Synchro Summon this card. Then play "Card of Safe Return", "Spell Economics", "Mass Driver". Now you got two chances to win: Either you draw all pieces of Exodia (Because of "Card of Safe Return" you always draw when you revive with "Premature Burial", and "Spell Economics" prevents you from paying life points), or you burn down your opponent with "Mass Driver".