Card Tips:The Seal of Orichalcos

"The Seal of Orichalcos":

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• This card can be searched by "Terraforming", "Demise of the Land", "Pop-Up", "Ancient Fairy Dragon", "Madolche Butlerusk", "An Owl of Luck", "Left Arm Offering" and "Planet Pathfinder".
  • 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.

• 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 only 2 face-up monsters that have the same ATK are under control, this will prevent your opponent from attacking.
  • 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, cards that activate or can be activated when monsters are destroyed can be used, like "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 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.

• 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

• 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 "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End" (TCG Traditional Format only).

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

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.

• • "Arkbrave Dragon" is best at getting rid of this card due to their effects not relying on being Tribute Summoned or difficult Summoning Conditions to activate. Simply activating "Return of the Dragon Lords" or "Call of the Haunted" can clear away all of your opponent's Spells/Traps, including this card.
  • Fittingly, Special Summoning a "Legendary Knight" will allow its effect to banish this card.

• Counter Trap Cards such as "Magic Jammer" or "Dark Bribe" can negate the activation of this card and destroy it before any of its effects can apply.
  • "Cursed Seal of the Forbidden Spell" can also accomplish this, and prevent them from activating any further copies (since this card's activation was negated).

• 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.