Card Tips:Skull Conductor

"Skull Conductor":

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• This card can be searched by "Goblin Zombie", "Pyramid Turtle", "Eldlixir of Black Awakening", "Eldlixir of Scarlet Sanguine", "Samurai Skull", "Creeping Darkness", "Dark General Freed", "Chaos Zone", "Summoner Monk", "Primathmech Alembertian", "Battle Royal Mode - Joining", "Vampire Dragon", "Resonator Engine", "Soul Rope", "Rescue Ferret", "Witch of the Black Forest", and other generic searchers.

• During your Battle Phase, after you attack with this card, you can return this card to your hand with "Compulsory Evacuation Device", then in your Main Phase 2 you can discard it to use its effect.
  • Or, you can use "Begone, Knave!" to return it to your hand after attacking.
  • "Deck Devastation Virus" can be used instead to destroy your opponent's monsters with ATK equal and lower to 1500.

• You can return this card from your Graveyard to your hand with "Recurring Nightmare".

• This card won't be destroyed by its first effect if you have "Archfiend Zombie-Skull".
  • Mind you, if the Battle Phase is not entered on any turn, its self-destruction effect will not activate.

• You can use this card to summon any one of the following with or without "The Lady in Wight": "Patrician of Darkness", "Skull Conductor" itself, "Vampire Lord" or "Vampire's Curse".
  • If you choose to summon "Vampire Lord", you can have it banish right away to summon "Vampire Genesis".

• The pairs of Zombies you can summon with this card's second effect include:
  • 300+1700: ("Skull Servant" or "Spirit Reaper") + ("Double Coston", "Fear from the Dark", "Giant Axe Mummy", "Mezuki" or "Red-Headed Oni");
  • 400+1600: ("Beast of the Pharaoh", "Ghostrick Jiangshi", "Pain Painter", "Plaguespreader Zombie" or "Soul-Absorbing Bone Tower") + ("Bone Crusher", "Ghostrick Stein", "Shadow Ghoul" or "Dragon Zombie");
  • 500+1500: ("Des Lacooda" or "Nightmare Horse") + ("Armored Zombie", "Shutendoji" or "Wandering Mummy");
  • 700+1300: ("Malice Ascendant" or "Vampire Baby") + ("Gernia", "Magical Ghost", "The Kick Man" or "Yaranzo");
  • 800+1200: ("The Wandering Doomed") + ("Pyramid Turtle").
  • 900+1100: ("Pharaoh's Servant" or "Pharaonic Protector") + ("Chopman the Desperate Outlaw", "Corroding Shark", "Goblin Zombie" or "Three-Legged Zombies").
  • 1000+1000: "Burning Skull Head", "Plague Wolf", "Poison Mummy", "Reborn Zombie", "Return Zombie" or "Blue-Blooded Oni". You can summon any two of these, including 2 copies of the same card.

• Note that the monsters you can summon alongside "Plaguespreader Zombie"/"Pain Painter" are Level 3, 4 and 5, allowing you to easily Synchro summon a Level 5, 6 or 7 Synchro monster respectively.

• This card works well in "Skull Flame" decks, as you can summon two "Burning Skull Heads" and sacrifice them for a "Skull Flame", dealing 2000 damage and getting out a 2600 ATK beatstick.

• This card can also be used in a "Ghostrick" deck to summon "Ghostrick Jiangshi" and "Ghostrick Stein" to quickly summon a Rank 3 monster, like "Ghostrick Alucard".