Card Tips:Karma Cut

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  • This card works well against "Light and Darkness Dragon". Chain "Karma Cut" to the negation effect of "Light and Darkness Dragon" to remove it from play, saving yourself from anymore negation as well as preventing its third effect.
    • "Karma Cut" card will also stop your opponent from adding any copies of "Light and Darkness Dragon" from their Graveyard to their Deck with cards such as "Pot of Avarice" and "The Transmigration Prophecy".
  • This card also works well against Harpie decks. Most "Harpy"-based decks employ "Hysteric Party", which means the opponent will want to fill their Graveyard with "Harpies". By playing this, you can completely destroy that strategy.
    • Likewise, it works against Gusto decks too as they often rely on the graveyard to trigger beneficial card effects to their advantage and to set up for the summoning of "Daigusto Gulldos" and "Ultimate Axon Kicker". Be careful though as some Psychic decks may be ready for it with "Psychic Feel Zone" to use against you as a counter strategy.
  • Zombie monsters, especially "Zombie Master", "Mezuki" and "Goblin Zombie", will become their own worst enemy once this card is activated against them. The pain will increase as the Graveyard begins to accumulate more and more of these same cards.
  • "Chain Destruction" together with this card can become a good combo but requires great timing. If an important monster of their themed deck is summoned in any way [e.g. "Zombie Master" or "Mezuki" of Zombie Deck, "Gladiator Beast Laquari" or "Gladiator Beast Bestiari" of "Gladiator Beast" Deck (take note that you don't use "Chain Destruction" in response on Special Summon of "Gladiator Beast Laquari" by the effect of a "Gladiator Beast" or else you'll miss the timing: instead activate this card already)] activate "Chain Destruction" (don't chain "Karma Cut" with this card or else you'll miss the timing since the effect of "Chain Destruction" will still not send them to the graveyard in response of a chain and it will only remove 1 monster instead of all monsters thrown in the graveyard). If the effect of "Chain Destruction" resolves successfully, then activate "Karma Cut" afterwards so that it will remove the monster you don't want on the field and all monsters with the same name in the Graveyard too.
  • This card is an excellent way to safely remove "Wind-Up Zenmaines", "Maestroke the Symphony Djinn" and "Stardust Dragon" from the field without triggering their effects, as it does not destroy; just banish.
    • It will also work against monsters whose effects trigger when being destroyed or transfered from the field to the grave, such as "Sangan" and "Mystic Tomato" and other searchers OR monsters with effects that can protect themselves from destruction, such as "Red Nova Dragon" or "Ultimate Axon Kicker".
  • This card is also useful as a substitute of many cards, including "Raigeki Break" and also "Sakuretsu Armor", because it can't be counteracted by "Stardust Dragon", "Destruction Jammer", "Remote Revenge", etc.
    • However be aware that cards that prevent banishment by a player(s), such as "Imperial Iron Wall" and "Chaos Hunter", stop this card immediately. As do any chainable Monster Effects, Spells and Traps that will make the target be leave the field first before "Karma Cut" can banish it (thus causing it to resolve without effect as the target card is no longer on the field).
  • This card is incredibly useful against Lightsworn decks (as long as "Aurkus, Lightsworn Druid" isn't face-up on the field first) as you can chain it to almost any monster effect that deck theme can throw at you that is potentially a problem and possibly take out a number of Lightsworn effect monsters in a single hit that may have already been milled to the graveyard.