Card Tips:The Seal of Orichalcos

"The Seal of Orichalcos":

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• This card can be searched by "Dark Sage", "Ancient Gear Drill", "Angmarl the Fiendish Monarch", "Left Arm Offering", "Terraforming", "An Owl of Luck", "Demise of the Land", "Ancient Fairy Dragon", "Madolche Butlerusk", "Planet Pathfinder", "Pop-Up", and "Set Rotation".
  • Since only one copy of this card can be activated per Duel, if these searchers are used, it may be best to run this with a Deck that uses other Field Spells to give your cards more targets.

• Use this card in Decks that don't need to Fusion, Synchro, or Xyz Summon regularly, such as "Monarchs".

• Simply play another Field Spell Card when this card's negative effect becomes too much of a burden.

• Use "Mind Control" to take control on one of the opponent's Special Summoned monsters, then activate this card to destroy it.

• Use card effects that change your monsters' ATK to manipulate the monsters your opponent can attack.

• If you control only 2 or more face-up monsters that all have the same ATK, this will prevent your opponent from attacking any of them.
  • Use "Alchemy Cycle" to make all your monsters' ATK the same for a turn.

• If your Special Summoned monsters are destroyed by this card's activation, take advantage of cards that activate only when monsters are destroyed, such as "Michizure", "Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon" or "Meklord Emperor" monsters.

• Use "Magic Deflector" or "World Suppression" to negate this card's effects for a turn, to free up Special Summons for the owner from the Extra Deck. This will also stop the card from destroying all of your Special Summoned monsters if you chain it to the activation.
  • Using either card in response to your activation of "The Seal" will prevent your monsters from being destroyed.
  • Be wary when using these cards, as the opponent may take this opportunity to try and destroy this card while it has no protection.

• While this card can only be activated once per Duel, "Pseudo Space" can be used to replicate its effect for a turn after it is destroyed. Moreover, replicating the effect will not destroy your Special Summoned monsters.

• This card can work well with Special Summoned monsters that can protect themselves from this card's destruction effect.
  • Special Summon "Wind-Up Zenmaines" and activate this card, allowing yourself to destroy an opponent's card at the end of the turn.

• Use "Forbidden Lance" or "Interdimensional Matter Transporter" to prevent a Special Summoned monster from being destroyed by the effects of this card. Remember that Xyz Monsters will lose their Xyz Material if the latter card is used, however.
  • "Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon" will protect all of your Special Summoned monsters from being destroyed by this card's effect.

• Use "Malefic Stardust Dragon" or "Field Barrier" to protect this card from further destruction, since this card can only protect itself once per turn.

• Summon "Papa-Corn" while this card is on the field. Its effect combined with this card will give it 2700 ATK.

• Summon "The Dark Creator" after activating this card to swarm the field with powerful monsters, preferably ones with even higher ATK to protect "The Dark Creator" with.

• If you know that this card's negative effect will empty your field, take advantage of that with activation conditions such as "Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen".

• Use this card in a "Watt" Deck. It will protect your "Watthopper", which in turn protects the rest of your monsters, and the direct attacks from your monsters will deal more damage.

• This card's second effect forms a good combo with the effects of "Divine Grace - Northwemko" and "Lightray Daedalus".

• This card can be used to destroy your Special Summoned "Andro Sphinx" and "Sphinx Teleia", so that "Theinen the Great Sphinx" can be Special Summoned.

• Activate this card to destroy "Yubel" or "Yubel - Terror Incarnate" and activate their effects.

• The "Duston" archetype can benefit from this card, abusing both the defensive support to buy time and the offensive support for ending the game quicker.

• This card works well with "Monarch" monsters, since they tend to have identical ATK and typically do not use Extra Deck Summons or Special Summons.

• Use this to destroy a Special Summoned "Lightpulsar Dragon" and trigger its effect, Summoning a powerful DARK high-level Dragon, preferably "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon", "Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons", "Beelzeus of the Diabolic Dragons", or (Traditional Format only) "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End".

• Use this card to get rid of pesky monsters like "Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction" that your opponent may have 'gifted' to you (with cards like "Creature Swap").

• This card's protection effect can make it useful for "Malefic" and "Earthbound Immortal" Decks that must have a Field Spell present at all times.

• If facing a Deck that relies heavily on a Field Spell(s), use "Set Rotation" to Set this card to your opponent's field. They will be unable to activate their own Field Spell without destroying all Special Summoned monsters they control.

Playing against "The Seal of Orichalcos"

• Use a card effect that returns this card to the hand or Deck, such as "Murmur of the Forest", or banishes this card, such as "Caius the Shadow Monarch", to bypass its ability to prevent its own destruction.
  • For a monster that does not require a Tribute Summon or difficult Summoning conditions, use "Arkbrave Dragon". Special Summon it with a single "Return of the Dragon Lords" or "Call of the Haunted" to clear away all of your opponent's Spells and Traps, including this card.

• Perhaps the best way to get rid of this card is with "Phoenix Wing Wind Blast", which will spin it to the top of their Deck and clog their next draw with a now-completely useless card.

• Fittingly, Special Summoning a "Legendary Knight" with "Legend of Heart" will allow its effect to banish this card.

• Field Spells must fully resolve before their effects can be applied, so chaining "Mystical Space Typhoon" or "Dust Tornado" to this card's activation will destroy it (and since its activation wasn't negated, your opponent will still be unable to use it for the rest of the Duel).
  • Avoid straight-up using Counter Trap Cards such as "Magic Jammer" or "Dark Bribe"; although they will negate the activation of this card and destroy it before any of its effects can apply, your opponent will still be able to activate any further copies they may have.
    • "Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell" gets around this. To avoid the discard cost making this card inferior to a simple chained "Mystical Space Typhoon", discard a Spell Card with a Graveyard effect such as "Destruction Swordsman Fusion", "Return of the Dragon Lords", or "Machine Angel Ritual".
• Using "Spiritualism" will put this card back into your opponent's hand, and due to the negative effect of "The Seal" it will be unable to be played again.