Card Tips:Solidarity

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• The 800 ATK gain is quite significant, and multiple "Solidarity" cards stack their boosts, so some Decks can get away with running 2 or 3 copies of this card. Theme a deck or Archetype around one Monster Type and this card will prove quite useful. Some Decks that can use it handily are listed below:
  • Zombie Decks ("Zombie World" and "DNA Surgery" will not help because "Solidarity" uses the printed Types on Monster Cards)
  • Plant Decks
    • Tributing a "Lonefire Blossom" will easily give your summoned Plant monster an attack boost.
  • Psychic Decks
    • Psychics have a decent amount of Tuners with powerful Synchros at their disposal so this is still feasible.
  • Dragon Decks
    • Dragon-type monsters are among those with the most Synchros, Tuners, Xyz Monsters, and support cards related to them.
  • Elemental HERO (sans Fusion Substitute Monsters)
  • Destiny HERO Deck
  • Six Samurai Deck
  • Blackwing Deck
  • Venom Deck
  • Spell Counter Decks (forgoing outliers like "Armor Exe" and "Dark Valkyria")
  • Worm Deck (without such support cards as "Honest")
  • Alien Deck
  • Frog Deck (Beatdown variants that use "Junk Warrior" will have difficulty using this)
  • Fortune Lady Deck
  • Meklord Deck
  • Disaster Dragon Deck
  • Watt Deck (without "Wattaildragon")
  • Dark World Deck
  • Machina Gadget Deck
  • LV Dragon Decks
  • Hieratic Deck

• "Burden of the Mighty" can further widen the ATK gap between each player's Monsters.

• If your opponent is using "Solidarity", "DNA Surgery" can change their monsters to a Type not in their Graveyard, costing their Monsters the ATK boost.
  • "DNA Surgery" can also change monsters on your side of the Field to the Type in your Graveyard (giving them the boost), but once they themselves get destroyed, the boost will be halted.

• Decks involving Reptiles can add "Viper's Rebirth", which also requires all of a single type of Monster in one's Graveyard.

• This card works very well with "The Immortal Bushi" in a pure Warrior deck, and even better with "Colossal Fighter".

• Tokens and Trap Monsters will not count as a monster in the Graveyard when they are destroyed.

• Tuners, Synchro Monsters and Xyz Monsters can easily ruin this card's effect. Below are some options to counteract this.
  • "Plaguespreader Zombie" may be used in non-Zombie Decks because it can Special Summon and banish itself from the Graveyard when sent there.
  • Using "Soul Release" to banish monsters of different Types from your Graveyard so that you will only have one Type.
  • Monsters like "Chaos Sorcerer" can remove monsters in your Graveyard if they are LIGHT or DARK.
  • "Skull Lair" can banish any non-conductive Monsters from your Graveyard. Be sure not to banish all the monsters of the correct Type.

Traditional Format

• This card can work well with "Sinister Serpent" in any Monster Type Deck since it can be brought to your hand during your Standby Phase. However, you'll need to play a little carefully because there will be an opening which your opponents can exploit while Sinister Serpent is in your graveyard (in a non-Reptile Deck).