Card Tips:Red Nova Dragon

"Red Nova Dragon":

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• This card works well with Infernity Deck and Disaster 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".

• This card can perform an OTK in a Psychic deck by using "Mind Master" and "Brain Research Lab" or "Telekinetic Charging Cell". 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.)

• Another way to boost Red Nova Dragon's attack is to use "Future Fusion", discarding 5 "Dragon"-Type Tuner monsters from your deck to the graveyard, giving Red Nova Dragon a 2500 ATK bonus.

• 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 Tuner monsters, of which there are many.

• Since this card requires 3 Synchro Material Monsters, 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".

• 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".

• In a Dragunity deck you can use "Dragon Control Technique" in order to equip this card with "Dragunity Brandistock". This will give Red Nova Dragon two attacks.

• In one turn you can increase the attack of this card by 1500 by Summoning Junk Synchron to Special Summon a Level 1 Non-Tuner monster from your Graveyard and use them to Synchro Summon Armory Arm and equip it to Red Nova Dragon.

• Instead of trying to destroy your opponent's "Red Nova Dragon", send it back to the Extra Deck instead, with cards such as "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier".

• Protect this card from cards like "Compulsory Evacuation Device" and "Dimensional Prison" with cards like "The Dragon's Bead".

• Use with "Soul Absorption" to gain 500 Life Points every time you negate an attack.

Tips for Synchro Summoning this card:

• "Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth" can Summon this card essentially on its own, as long as you have at least 3 cards in hand. Use its effect to Special Summon 2 "Fishborg Blaster" and 2 "Oyster Meister from the Deck. Tune 1 "Fishborg Blaster" and "Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth" to Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend". Tune the other "Fishborg Blaster" and 1 "Oyster Meister" to Summon "Armory Arm", and get an "Oyster Token". Use the effect of "Fishborg Blaster" to Special Summon it back from the Graveyard by discarding 1 card from your hand. Tune it with the "Oyster Token" for "Formula Synchron", and draw a card. Revive "Fishborg Blaster" yet again and tune it with the other "Oyster Meister" for a second "Armory Arm" and another "Oyster Token". Equip one "Armory Arm" with the other to make room on the field. Revive "Fishborg Blaster" and tune it with the "Oyster Token" for a second "Formula Synchron". Tune the 2 "Formula Synchron" with "Red Dragon Archfiend" to Summon "Red Nova Dragon". You now have a "Red Nova Dragon" with 5500 ATK and an "Armory Arm" with 2800 ATK. You also draw 2 cards, because of the formula synchrons, which may help reload your hand.

• 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 1 face-up Spell or Trap on your opponent's side of the field, since Red Nova Dragon is a DARK Attribute monster.

• In a Blackwing Deck if "Red Dragon Archfiend" is on the field, use "Blackwing - Blizzard the Far North" to Special Summon a "Blackwing - Mistral the Silver Shield" from your Graveyard and use them to Synchro Summon "Red Nova Dragon." Also if "Red Dragon Archfiend" is on the field and you also have "Black Whirlwind" in play, you can summon "Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame" and search for "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" and Special Summon it using its Effect. If "Blackwing - Shura the Blue Flame" destroys a monster, Special Summon "Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor." Since "Vayu" will have its effect negated, you can then Synchro Summon during main phase 2, or use "Urgent Tuning" to get "Red Nova Dragon" on the field during the same battle phase and deliver a quick Beatdown or possible OTK.

• You can use "Twilight Rose Knight's" effect to Summon "Copy Plant" and fulfill the Tuner requirements for this card.
  • Use Hanewata with Court of Justice to Special Summon Counselor Lily to fulfill the Tuner Monster requirements and give this card an extra 1000 ATK by paying 500 Life Points.

• 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.

• 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.

• You can play "Brain Research Lab" and then summon "Mind Master" with any other psychic monster. Then mill at least 4 level 2 or lower monsters, ending with a level 4 monster like "Destructotron" to clear the back field. Then play "Telekinetic Power Well" to summon three level two psychics. Tune two with Destructotron to get "Red Dragon Archfiend". Then use the last to mill as many tuners as possible with Mind Master and end with "Psychic Commander". Tune MM and Commander with Red Dragon Archfiend to have yourself a "Red Nova Dragon" with massive ATK.

• 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 the ATK of 1 monster your opponent controls by 1000.

• 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 Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" then combine him with your other 2 Tuners on the field to Synchro Summon "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.

• You can Synchro Summon this card with a "Destiny Hero - Malicious" in the Graveyard. 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 Graveyard 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 "Red Nova Dragon".

• You could activate "Screen of Red" to bring out a Level 1 Tuner and use "Synchro Magnet" when you summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" to summon "Red Nova Dragon".

• If Red Dragon Archfiend is in your graveyard, you can use cards like Descending Lost Star, Wicked Rebirth, or Call of the Haunted to bring it back.

• In a Dragon deck based around Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, and you already have a level 6 Dragon such as Prime Material Dragon on the field before hand, special summon Magna Drago and follow up with Inferno Reckless Summon to have 3 Magna Dragos. Tune a Magna with the Prime for Red Dragon Archfiend and tune the other 2 Magna Dragos to get you Red Nova Dragon

• If you have a Red Dragon Archfiend in the field, special summon a Create Resonator(if you have one in your hand),use Glow-Up Bulb(if you have one in the graveyard)'s effect to special summon him back into the field and that gives you 2 tuners to tune into Red Nova Dragon

• You can use "Hyper Synchron", "Cost Down" and the effect of "Plaguespreader Zombie" to Synchro Summon this card with 1500 ATK via it's own effect (1 Tuner for "Red Dragon Archfiend" and 2 for "Red Nova Dragon") and an added 800 ATK via Hyper Synchrons effect, giving a total 5800 ATK.

• You can use "Formula Synchron" and another level 2 tuner monster to Synchro Summon this card during your opponent's turn.

• You can Activate "Double Summon". Then Normal summon"Summoner Monk", and activate its effect to Special Summon "Hyper Synchron". Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend".

• Set Any remaining spell and trap cards. Then, Summon "Infernity Beetle", Assuming you have no cards in your hand, use "Infernity Beetle"'s effect, Summoning 2 more. Then, You can Synchro Summon This card

• In a Lightsworn deck, you can summon "Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner", discarding "Glow-Up Bulb" to Special Summon "Wulf, Lightsworn Beast", then Special Summon Glow-Up Bulb to synchro for "Red Dragon Archfiend". Then, revive "Plaguespreader Zombie" and "Spore" (by removing Glow-Up Bulb) to give you the materials to Synchro Summon "Red Nova Dragon". If you revive Plaguespreader first by topping a Wulf or "Dandylion" then you can gain extra field presence when you mill for Glow-Up Bulb as well.

• In a X-Saber deck, summon XX-Saber Fulhelmknight and destroy an opponent's monster in defense position with Fulhelmknight, using his effect to special summon X-Saber Palomuro. Then, tune Fulhelmknight and Palomuro with Red Dragon Archfiend.