Card Tips:Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower

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• This card can be searched by "Pyramid Turtle", "Eldlixir of Black Awakening", "Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine", "Samurai Skull", "Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy", "Mystic Potato", "Mystic Tomato", "Chaos Zone", "Sphere of Chaos", "Serpentine Princess", "Battle Royal Mode - Joining", "Vampire Dragon", "Rescue Ferret", "Umbramirage the Elemental Lord", "Sangan", "Witch of the Black Forest", and other generic searchers.

• The following cards can be used in conjunction with this card's second effect to mill the top two cards of your opponent's Deck:
  • "Pyramid Turtle"
  • "Vampire Genesis"
  • "Zombie Master"
  • "Il Blud"
  • "Spirit of the Pharaoh"
  • "Zombie World"
  • You can Suicide "Pyramid Turtle" into your opponent's monsters to get "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower" out quickly.

• If you have only two or three "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower" on your side of the field, your opponent cannot attack.
  • Use "Soul Charge" when you have 2 or more of this card in your Graveyard to bring them out simultaneously.
  • A "weaker" form of this is to have "Spirit Reaper" on your side of the field alongside at least one "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower". This forces them to target "Reaper" for their attacks, and it cannot be destroyed by battle - though it can still be targeted by monster effects tied to attacks, and damage calculation still applies (including piercing if "Reaper" is in Defense Position).

• You can activate "Zoma the Spirit" when your "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower" is about to be destroyed by battle in order to save it. Since "Zoma" is a Zombie-Type, your opponent will have to discard as well.

• By using "Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon" with "Zombie World", you can activate the second effect of "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower" each time "Red-Eyes" destroys a monster in battle.

• You can chain "Inferno Reckless Summon" to this card's Special Summon to bring out 2 more copies of "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower", triggering its second effect to mill 2 of your opponent's cards as well.

• If there are 3 "Towers" on your field, suicide "Pyramid Turtle" to Special Summon another "Pyramid Turtle" and repeat the process as many times as possible. This can send 18 cards from your opponent's deck to the Graveyard.
  • Once on the last "Pyramid Turtle", Special Summon "Goblin Zombie" and suicide it to bring a "Kasha" into your hand. Special Summoning "Kasha" will cause its effect to chain to that of "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower"; when it resolves, assuming no other cards are activated, it will return all other monsters on the field to both Decks, then mill 2 cards from the opponent's Deck for each "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower" in the chain. If done correctly, you will have a 3000+ ATK monster and a diminished board on your opponent's side for it to take advantage of.
  • You can activate "The Transmigration Prophecy" or "Pot of Avarice" to return 2 "Pyramid Turtles" to the deck and mill even more of your opponent's cards.
  • Also, you can suicide "Vampire's Curse" into an opponent's monster with more than 2500 ATK and keep activating its effect, which in turn triggers the effects of each "Tower".
  • While you have "Zombie World" face-up, use "Giant Rat" to start off the chain instead, ensuring you can summon up to 6 monsters with this effect (2 more "Rats", 3 "Turtles", and one "Zombie" that can be searched by "Turtle"). This can mill 36 cards from your opponent's Deck, resulting in a Deck Out if it was 41 cards or less.
  • While you have "Zombie World" face-up, you can also use the effect of "Gilasaurus" to mill even more opponent's cards, up to a maximum of 12 cards per copy of "Gilasaurus" should both you and your opponent choose to Special Summon using its effect.

• Have 3 copies of this card (brought easily by "Inferno Reckless Summon"), "Destiny HERO - Departed", "DNA Surgery", "Remove Brainwashing" and "Imperial Iron Wall". Right now, if your opponent dares destroy the HERO, he/she will revive turn by turn and the opponent shall lose a whole lot of cards from their Deck.

• Use any number of copies of this card with "DNA Surgery", "Colossal Fighter" and either "Lava Golem" or "Grinder Golem". "Colossal Fighter" can continuously attack "Lava Golem" and revive, while "DNA Surgery" will turn him into a Zombie once on the field, thus triggering "Soul Absorbing Bone Tower's" effect. Note that this does not work with "Zombie World", as "Colossal Fighter" would be treated as a Zombie-type monster in the graveyard, and thus cannot revive itself.

• This card is perfect for "Malevolent Mech - Goku En", as Goku En is sent to the Graveyard if it is the only Zombie on the field when summoned by its effect and this card cannot be targeted if there is another Zombie on the field.
• Combine this card with Zombie World, Dark World Grimoire and play The Wicked Worm Beast with a hand of at least 7. Worm Beast will go to your hand at End Phase and will go over your hand size limit. Discard Worm Beast and use Grimoires effect to Special Summon him. This creates a never ending loop which will mill your opponents entire deck in one turn.
• If Zombie World is on the field, by summoning the Zoodiacs , you can mill lots of cards from your opponent's deck from a single Zoodiac.
  • If you're playing Traditional Format, by having 3 copies of this card and a single Zoodiac, you can easily Xyz Summon all 6 Zoodiac Xyz monsters ending with Drill Driver Vespenato, milling 42 cards from your opponent's deck.

Traditional Format

• This card can be searched by "Last Will".

• This card can be combined with the effects of "Imperial Iron Wall", "Card of Safe Return" and "Plaguespreader Zombie" to have "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower's" discard effect activate in an endless cycle that will allow you to win by having your opponent deck out during your his/her next draw phase.