Card Tips:Red Nova Dragon

"Red Nova Dragon":

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• Given that "Red Dragon Archfiend" will likely survive a turn on its own, you can use "Junk Synchron", if it's in your Hand, to Special Summon a Level 1 Tuner Monster from the Graveyard, like "Sinister Sprocket", to allow this card's Synchro Summon. Plus, you can destroy one Face-up Spell Cards or Trap Cards on your opponent's side of the field, since Scar-Red Nova Dragon is a DARK Attribute monster.

• You can use Twilight Rose Knight's effect to Summon Copy Plant and fulfill the Tuner requirements for this card.

• This card works with well with Infernity Deck and Hopeless Dragon Deck.

• This card's ATK will become 5000 if summoned properly (1 Tuner used for "Red Dragon Archfiend", and 2 Tuners for this card), making it just as strong as "Five-Headed Dragon", "Dragon Master Knight", or "Malefic Truth Dragon".

• Infernity Beetle's effect to summon two more of itself can provide the two Tuners required for this card's summoning as well as making his ATK 5000, providing you have no cards in your hand.

• Deep Sea Diva's effect can be used to summon another copy of itself fulfilling the two Tuner requirements.

• In a Blackwing deck, this card could be an addition, since Black Whirlwind will fill your hand with the required tuners and Red Dragon Archfiend can quite easily be summoned.

• Special Summoning Plaguespreader Zombie allows you to Normal Summon a second Tuner.
  • Similarly, you can use Emergency Teleport and Special Summon Krebons from your Deck.

• You can summon the 2 Tuners quickly by using Telekinetic Power Well by bringing back 2 of either Krebons and/or Psychic Jumper that you may have used to summon Red Dragon Archfiend.
  • One way is to summon a Cyber Dragon/Vice Dragon/Oracle of the Sun, then using One for One by discarding 1 of the Psychic's to summon Level Eater (for later use). Then normal summon the second psychic to make Red Dragon Archfiend. Then use Telekinetic Power Well to summon the 2 Psychic's from your graveyard.

• This card can OTK fairly easily in a Psychic deck by using Mind Master and Brain Research Lab or Telekinetic Charging Cell to mill at least 7 tuners and then tune Red Dragon Archfiend with Mind Master and Psychic Commander. If your opponent has no monsters and Destructotron is used during the milling process, you can attack directly with 8000 ATK! (9 tuners in the graveyard.)

• You can also fairly easily OTK with this card in a Chimeratech Overdragon deck, as long as you include a good number of Machine-type tuners monsters, of which there are many.

• Since this card requires 3 synchro materials, and gains at least 1500 from its own effect, it would be even more effective to increase this card's atk further with Synchro Strike.

• A way to Synchro Summon this card would be if you can Special Summon Vice Dragon through its own effect and summon Dark Resonator normally to Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend. Then, Special Summon Synchro Magnet through its effect and use a card like Double Summon to summon Sinister Sprocket or even better Attack Gainer, which will reduce attack points of one monster you opponent control by 1000.

• You can use Archfiend's Roar to bring back Red Dragon Archfiend and summon Junk Synchron to get another tuner, or use Deep Sea Diva

• It can also be summoned easily in a Flamvell/Neo Flamvell deck, considering the monsters in your graveyard when you activate Rekindling, you can special summon any Level 4 monster, Flamvell Magician, Neo Flamvell Origin/Flamvell Archer,Flamvell Baby and Flamvell Firedog. Combine the level 4 monster with Flamvell Magician to make Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend then combine him with your other 2 Tuners on the field to Synchro Summon Scar-Red Nova Dragon, having a total of 6900 ATK on the field, in addition to a normal summon this turn, you could easily create an OTK situation.

• With a Destiny Hero - Malicious in the grave, special summon Krebons with Emergency Teleport or Graceful Revival, and use Inferno Reckless Summon to get two more Krebons out. Then remove the Malicious in the grave to special summon another from your deck. Synchro summon Red Dragon Archfiend using Destiny Hero - Malicious and the first Krebons. Then tune Red Dragon Archfiend with the two Krebons to Synchro Summon Scar-Red Nova Dragon.