Card Tips:Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder

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• This card can be searched by "Chaos Zone".

• Use the Crystal Beasts as Tributes for "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder", since they can become Continuous Spell Cards when destroyed. This is also a great backup or substitute for "Rainbow Dragon", as it only requires any three Crystal Beasts in the Spell & Trap Card Zone (as opposed to the requirement of 7 different Crystal Beasts for "Rainbow Dragon"). The downside, of course, is that the Crystal Beasts are destroyed in the process of summoning "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder".
  • In the Crystal Beasts deck, it is great to use "Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise" and "Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat" with it. You are able to either have a hit and run strategy with "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" using the effect of "Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise" or a permanent 'pinger' with "Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat".

• If "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, it's a good idea to use "Monster Reincarnation" to bring "Hamon" back to your hand to Special Summon "Hamon" to the field in the same turn, or later on.

• Use "Destiny Board" to get the "Spirit Message" cards out from your hand or Deck. By the time "Spirit Message "A"" is activated, you will have the 3 Continuous Spell Cards you will need as Tributes. However this may seem pointless as you are one spell off an instant win.

• Use Continuous Spell Cards like "Messenger of Peace", "Level Limit - Area B" to stall your opponent, and then Tribute them for "Hamon".

• If for nothing else, this card can prove to be a quick Tribute fodder, especially for ATK-based cards like "Great Maju Garzett", as "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" can theoretically be summoned in one turn without taking up your Normal Summon. In the aforementioned example, you would also have a 8000 ATK monster, which may form an OTK.

• By having this card in Defense Position and a face-up "Batteryman D" on your side of the field, your opponent cannot attack your monsters as "Batteryman D" prevents attacks on all your Thunder-Type monsters except himself while "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" is the only monster your opponent can attack while in Defense Position. Since "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" is a Thunder-Type monster, "Batteryman D" protects all other Thunder-Type monsters and "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" protects all other monsters, a lockdown on any opposing attacks targeting your monsters will form.

• You can run multiple copies of "Burden of the Mighty" to severely weaken your opponent's monsters until you can draw "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" and summon it.

• This card has the highest original ATK of any Thunder-Type monster, so this card is a prime target for "Makiu, the Magical Mist" to basically destroy all average-ATK monsters your opponent controls.

• The "Convulsion of Nature" and "Archfiend's Oath" combo can help draw "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" faster, and also provides two of his three Tributes, since they are Continuous Spell Cards. Additionally, if they are destroyed, you can use "Recycle" to retrieve them, as well as any other lost Continuous Spells. "Card Shuffle" can also help if you know that you are about to draw a bad card when your deck is flipped upside down due to "Convulsion of Nature". "Recycle" and "Card Shuffle" are also Continuous Spells, which aid in summoning "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder".

• While "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" is in Defence Position, equip "Mist Body" in order to create an almost lock in which the opponent can only attack "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" and he cannot be destroyed in battle thanks to "Mist Body"

• Add a "Morphtronic Magnen" to the field in Defense Position alongside "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder", and your opponent can't attack any monster at all.

• This card (in Defense Mode) is also good as a 'staller' in order to protect Fiend-Type monsters for a tribute to summon "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms".

• It is also possible to achieve an OTK when "Rainbow Dragon" and this card are on the field.

• Use this card in combination with "Makiu, the Magical Mist" to destroy almost all monsters your opponent controls, since "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder" has 4000 ATK.

• You can use this card with "Wattcine" to gain 4000 Life Points after this card attacks directly.

• Like the Crystal Beasts, "Pumprincess the Princess of Ghosts" can be treated as a Continuous Spell Card that can be used for the Summon of this card.