Card Tips:Last Turn

"Last Turn":

Traditional Format[edit]

This card works well with "Absolute King Back Jack", which is capable of taking the opponent by surprise during their "special Battle Phase".
- If your Deck also focuses on boosting your opponent's LP, "Self-Destruct Button" can be used with "Back Jack" in a pinch.
  - This card can be especially useful against strategies heavily reliant on the Extra Deck, as the majority of powerful monsters would tend to reside in the Extra Deck.

Depending on the monster one plans on choosing for this card's effect, using "Silent Graveyard" can be a good way of preventing the opponent from recovering from this card's effect.
If a powerful Dragon is chosen with this card's effect, "Return of the Dragon Lords" can be banished from your Graveyard to protect it from destruction.
As long as there is a WATER monsters in your Graveyard, "White Aura Dolphin" or "White Aura Whale" can be revived from your Graveyard by banishing a WATER monster from it. "Whale" is a better choice, however, due to its 2800 ATK.

Cards such as "Clashing Souls", "Cyber-Stein", "Pandemic Dragon", and "Wall of Revealing Light" serve as quick ways to meet this card's activation condition.
- Because the "Solemn" cards are useful in general, they can also be used to help meet this card's activation condition.
- "Gandora-X the Dragon of Demolition" halves your LP during each of your End Phases, which can come in handy if other cards can't be used.
- This card can also be useful in a "Kozmo" Deck, since its lower-Level monsters pay LP to activate their effects (along with the LP-reducing effect of "Kozmotown").
- In a Machine-Type Deck, the damaging effect of "Power Bond" can help to meet this card's LP requirement.

The ATK-gaining effect of "The Winged Dragon of Ra" both serves as an instantaneous way of meeting this card's activation condition and as a way of making it an ideal monster to choose for this card's effect (if it has high-enough ATK).
- In case that monster gets sent to the Graveyard anyway, the presence of "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Immortal Phoenix" in the Graveyard can help ensure a DRAW instead.

This card is best used during the opponent's End Phase, so that they do not have a chance to conduct Normal/Special Summons after the battle or use Spell Speed 1 effects to Summon a monster to their field.

An ideal monster to choose with this card's effect would be one that has an effect that prevents the opponent from Special Summoning (which would help ensure victory, since they'd have no monster to Summon), such as those of "Jowgen the Spiritualist", "Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo", "Vanity's Fiend", "Archlord Kristya", "Aurora Paragon" "The Last Warrior from Another Planet", a monster that was Ritual Summoned using "Djinn Releaser of Rituals", etc.
- To a lesser extent, an ideal monster would be one with an effect that can eliminate the opponent's monster before damage calculation, such as "Ally of Justice Catastor", "El Shaddoll Construct", "Mirror Force Dragon", etc.

The effects of cards like "Gravity Collapse" and "Non Aggression Area" can help ensure the opponent cannot Normal or Special Summon at all (even after they 'lose' the battle), although they can still potentially Normal Set a monster.

"Inferno Tempest" is ideal to use before activating this card, as the opponent will have no monsters in their Deck left to Summon (although, depending on which phase it currently is, they can still potentially Normal/Special Summon a monster from their hand or from among their banished monsters).

Choosing a Level 3 "Graydle" monster is very ideal, as that monster (when destroyed by battle) will take control of the opposing monster, ensuring one still controls a monster while the opponent controls none.
- However, "Graydle Eagle" is the best monster to choose, since it can also be equipped if the opposing monster destroys it with its effect.

"Number S39: Utopia the Lightning" is an ideal monster to choose (assuming it has 2 remaining Xyz Material attached to it, one of which is a "Utopia" Xyz Monster), since it can have 5000 ATK this way and prevent the opponent from activating any effects during the battle.

A "Bujin" monster that is aided by the presence of a "Bujingi Sinyou" in the Graveyard (as well as possibly "Bujingi Hare" and/or "Bujingi Turtle") can be a very powerful choice for this card's effect.
- It is important to remember that those "Bujingi" monsters can even be on the field or hand when this card is activated, since this card's effect will send them to the Graveyard anyway.

"Fire Hand" is an excellent choice, as it will either 'win' the battle, or (if it 'loses' the battle) destroy the opposing monster anyway and replace itself with an "Ice Hand".

If one doesn't have a monster with an ideal effect as described above, the next best monsters would be ones with effects that 'eliminate' the opposing monster even if they themselves 'lose' the battle, such as "D.D. Assailant", "D.D. Warrior Lady", "Exploder Dragon", "Legendary Jujitsu Master", "Wall of Illusion", "Yomi Ship", etc.
- Additional monsters include:
  - Monsters that cannot be destroyed by battle, such as "Infernity Guardian", "Marshmallon", "Vijam the Cubic Seed", etc.
  - Monsters with an effect that replaces itself with another monster(s) if they 'lose' the battle, such as "Dandylion", "Lightpulsar Dragon", "Marshmacaron", "Nimble Momonga", etc.
    - Alternatively, monsters that Special Summon themselves from the Graveyard when the chosen monster 'loses' the battle, such as "Chiwen, Light of the Yang Zing", "First-Aid Squad", "Keeper of the Shrine", etc.

Monsters such as "Elemental HERO Wildheart", "Kikinagashi Fucho", "Tenkabito Shien", or a "Forbidden Lance"-affected monster are ideal to control alongside the monster chosen for this card's effect, as they will not go to the Graveyard by this card's effect.
- Alternatively, monsters such as "Oyster Meister" or "Dandylion" can be used instead, since they both have effects that produce a Token(s) when sent to the Graveyard by this card's effect.