Card Tips:Darkness Approaches
- This card can be searched by "Triple Tactics Thrust", "Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic", and other generic searchers.
- This card's cost may be very welcome in a "Fabled" Deck.
- Prior to its second erratum, this card had a few niche advantages:
- Targeting a opponent's monster whose ATK relies entirely on its effect, such as "Evil HERO Dark Gaia" or "Montage Dragon, would leave your opponent with a very vulnerable Attack Position monster with 0 ATK.
- A monster in face-down Attack Position is unaffected by cards like "Mystic Swordsman LV2" and "Sasuke Samurai".
Traditional Format[edit]
- The cost of this card becomes nearly irrelevant if it is targeting "Morphing Jar" to re-use its Flip effect.
Video games[edit]
- Though this card has limited use in real life, it is incredibly useful in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards. In this game, it can flip all of its controller's monsters face-down at no cost, letting them be flipped to use their normally-single-use effects twice. For instance, use it with "Revival Jam" to Summon four fairly powerful monsters.
- This card is similarly powerful in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist of the Roses. Perhaps its greatest use is with "Magician of Faith", since this allows for theoretically-infinite recycling of Monster effects every turn, including effects that increase ATK. It is slightly riskier, though, in that it flips down the opponent's monsters as well.
- It can also be used with monsters with Flip effects that increase ATK/DEF. Since monsters in this game keep their ATK/DEF changes when flipped face-down, cards such as "Mystical Elf" and "Boo Koo" can stack their ATK/DEF increases with their previous uses.