Card Tips:Destruct Potion
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- Use this card to destroy high ATK monsters who destroy themselves like "Mist Archfiend" or "Karate Man'.
- Destroy "Doomsday Horror" with this card, putting all banished DARK monsters back in the Graveyards. This can also lead to you gaining an enormous amount of LP.
- On your Draw Phase, you can destroy the "Lava Golem" that your opponent gave you with this card's effect, also causing you to gain 3000 LP.
- Destroy "King of the Skull Servants" for a massive LP boost, and to power up another "King of the Skull Servants.
- In an Amazoness deck, use this card to destroy "Amazoness Paladin" while "Amazoness Village" is active. You will gain at least 2000 LP and replace her with another Amazoness from your Deck.
- In any deck which benefits from Destruction Effects, this card can work well as a counter to cards that would remove your monster without destroying it, such as "Raiza the Storm Monarch", "Compulsory Evacuation Device", "Dimensional Prison", "Neo-Spacian Grand Mole", etc.
- In a "Sanctuary in the Sky" Fairy deck, this card can combo well with "Guardian Angel Joan" to create an enormous difference in LP. After "Angel Joan" attacks and destroys an opponent's Monster (which will cause you to gain Life Points based on that monster's ATK), use this card to destroy your "Guardian Angel Joan" to gain additional LP. If played along with cards like "The Agent of Force - Mars", "Ancient Sacred Wyvern" or "Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin" you can maintain field presence and let your monsters grow even bigger.
- Use this card to destroy an "/Assault Mode" monster and summon its original form. Then you can activate another "Assault Mode Activate" and re-summon another copy of the "/Assault Form" monster for extra battle damage.
- Since "Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis" inflicts 800 damage to your opponent when it is Destroyed and to the grave, use "Destruct Potion" to gain "Lifepoints" while also inflicting 800 damage to the opponent.
- Note that since "Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis" is destroyed after Damage calculation when it attacks (without starting a chain to which "Destruct Potion" could respond), "Potion" is more useful when you opponent attempts to attack it or after its own effect Special Summons it from the "Graveyard".
- Use this card with "Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys" or "Fire King High Avatar Garunix," preferably at the end of your opponent's turn, to gain life points, then wipe the board on the next turn.
- By extension, this tactic makes it a viable choice in "Fire King" decks as a whole, as all of its members react well with destruction effects. While the extra life points don't directly aid the strategy, they can help the player buy time to set up more complex combos.
- Use this card with powerful Machine-Type Fusion Monsters who were summoned by "Power Bond" gain twice the Life Points you would have lost.
- This works extremely well with a "Power Bond" or "Limiter Removal" used for "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem". If you cannot perform an OTK with "Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem" you can instantly Special Summon "Ancient Gear Golem" to attempt to finish off the opponent– plus gain 8800 life points.
- You can destroy a "Crystal Beast" while it is equipped with "Crystal Release", and then put 2 "Crystal Beast" monsters in your Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- Most "Inca" monsters benefit from this card– including the Synchro Monsters. Use this on "Sun Dragon Inti" and "Moon Dragon Quilla" to activate their respective resurrection effects or on "Oracle of the Sun"/"Supay" to trigger their Searching effects.
- Use this on "Black Brutdrago" to revive one of your "Gemini monsters" and gain 3000 life points.
- Use this on one of your Gemini monsters that has "Supervise" equipped to it. When "Supervise" is sent to the Graveyard, you can summon it back, or a stronger one.
- This is a decent tactic for reusing "Dark Valkyria's" normally one-shot effect.
- Do this during your own Battle Phase after your monster attacks for an extra attack.
- If you use this tactic on a "Chthonian Emperor Dragon" with a "Gemini Booster" equipped to it, not only will you gain 3100 life, but "Gemini Booster" will activate in the Graveyard and grant the re-summoned "Chthonian Emperor Dragon" its Gemini ability to attack twice per turn.
- When you have "Magical Citadel of Endymion" on the field, use this on a "Silent Magician LV4" (or "Magical Exemplar") with many Spell Counters. Not only will you can a good amount of LP, but you will get to move its counters to the "Citadel," possibly setting up for a Special Summon of "Endymion, the Master Magician".
- Use this card with "Rise of the Snake Deity" when playing a "Venom" Deck.
- Use this card in a "B.E.S." deck that's about to be removed from the field without being destroyed, to still be able to Special Summon with "Boss Rush" during the End Phase.
- As this card both destroys your monster and recovers Life Points simultaneously, it works well as a means to Special Summon any of the "Meklord Emperors" from your hand.
- Ideally, sacrifice a monster with a high Attack (such as a "Meklord Emperor") to summon "Meklord Emperor Granel ∞". Since its ATK is equal to half your Life Points "Granel" will gain ATK equal to half that of the destroyed target.
- If you are relying on "Meklord Emperor Skiel ∞" or "Meklord Emperor Wisel ∞," this card is still useful for getting around their attack-restricting effects. Activate this card during the battle phase to blow up a "Meklord Emperor" that already attacked to let the rest of your monsters attack (or replace it with a new "Emperor" for additional damage).
- Use this card on a face-up Beast-type monster you control, while you have a "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" in your hand or your Graveyard, so you will gain Life Points and Special Summon the "Green Baboon" at a reduced cost.
- Unlike other cards, this card's secondary effect still functions if the targeted monster isn't destroyed. Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons, and its upgraded form Beelzeus of the Diabolic Dragons, makes for a good target if you just want to gain LP.
- You can use this card to bring out the higher forms of "Yubel" (note that you won't gain any LP).
- Use this on a monster taken by "Mind Control" or one summoned by cards that will destroy it during the End Phase, like "Swing of Memories".
- If there is a face-up "Pandemonium" on the field, you can destroy an "Archfiend" monster, gain back some Life Points, and search for another Archfiend.
- Furthermore, if you destroy a "Terrorking Archfiend", you can discard a "Desrook Archfiend" to revive him and also search for another "Desrook" if you wish.
- Other useful monsters include.
- "Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World" to gain 2700 Life Points, then return another "Dark World" monster to your hand to get "Grapha" back onto the field.
- "Elemental HERO Core" to revive an important "HERO" monster.
- "Number C101: Silent Honor DARK" to gain 5,600 life points (assuming Number 101: Silent Honor ARK is in your grave).
- "Greedy Venom Fusion Dragon", "Elemental HERO Absolute Zero", "Deep-Eyes White Dragon", or a Fusion Summoned "Starving Venom Fusion Dragon" to destroy monsters your opponent controls.