Card Tips:Deck Lockdown
- This card can be searched by "Rogue of Endymion", "Watch Cat", "Watch Dog", "The Despair Uranus", and other generic searchers.
- This card shuts down all searcher cards like "Sangan", which can be used to your advantage; however, this card also affects the user.
- Use this card to stop a "Gladiator Beast" Deck from swapping out and receiving their effects.
- This card can also be used against a "Gadget" Deck, since it deactivates the ability to add "Gadget" monsters to the hand.
- This can can be used against Exodia Decks, since many rely on searcher cards like "Sangan" and "Emissary of the Afterlife".
- Activate "Solomon's Lawbook" to skip the second Standby Phase after this card's activation, and this card will remain on the field until its destroyed by another effect.
- Combo this card with "Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar" to compensate for the somewhat slow speed of "Alien" Decks. "Cosmic Fortress Gol'gar" can both recycle this card and place A-Counters by bouncing it.
- You can use this card against Elemental Dragon, Spellbook/Prophecy, Dino Rabbit, Fire Fist, Gadget and any other deck that relies on searching and adding cards to the hand.
Traditional Format[edit]
- Before the second Standby Phase arrives, activate "Giant Trunade" to reuse this card.