Card Tips:Magical Thorn
- This card can be searched by "Pharaonic Advent", "The Despair Uranus", and other generic searchers.
- This card combined with a piercer and "Robbin' Goblin" will cause a severe amount of damage
- "Magical Thorn" is a good Trap Card in, or against, a "Dark World" Deck.
- "Magical Thorn" also works very well once you have "Helpoemer" in the Graveyard.
- With "Forced Requisition", the opponent will be forced to discard cards from his/her hand each time you do, and with "Magical Thorn" in play, the opponent will lose 500 Life Points per card. "Mirage of Nightmare", when added into this combo, gives you a powerful Draw/Burn Engine.
- With "Tempest Magician" and this combo, when cards are discarded to generate counters, the opponent will be forced to discard and take damage. Then the counters can be removed to effectively double the damage the opponent takes from the above combination.
- "Morphing Jar" and "Card Destruction" are great ways to dish out heavy amounts of damage because they can consistently make the opponent lose up to 6 cards, and as well as up to 3000 Life Points with the effect of "Magical Thorn".
- Using "Forced Requisition" will cause your opponent to discard even more cards and deal more damage.
- Combine this card with "Greed", "Serial Spell" and "Card Destruction" to inflict large amounts of damage and mill out some of the opponent's Deck.
- Watch out though, because you will also lose a good bit of life points.
- Having "Des Wombat" and/or "Solemn Wishes" on your field can counteract this.
- Watch out though, because you will also lose a good bit of life points.
- This card can help "X-Saber" Decks particularly with "X-Saber Airbellum" and "XX-Saber Gottoms".
- This card may also work in conjunction with "Royal Tribute" in a "Gravekeeper's" Deck.
- Use this card with monsters with discard effects such as "Spirit Reaper", "Don Zaloog", "Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch", "Rigorous Reaver" or "Jurrac Gallim".
- If using beatdown strategies, use this card with "Robbin' Goblin".
- Use "Drop Off" and "Drastic Drop Off" to make the opponent discard on their Draw Phase and take burn damage.
- Combo with a well timed "Book of Eclipse" to make the opponent draw and discard up to 5 cards.
- This card works well in an Empty Jar Deck.
- Combining this card with "Forced Requisition" and "Armed Dragon LV10" to inflict damage to your opponent every time you use Armed Dragon's effect.
- Use "Coffin Seller" to inflict even more damage.
- Dark Smog will banish one monster from their Graveyard. discarding one card from their hand and inflicting 500 Damage.
- Combine this card with "Forced Requisition" and any card that requires you to discard cards, such as "Lightning Vortex", "Rising Energy, and Armed Dragons.
- This is even more potent with cards that makes you discard multiple cards like "Full Salvo" or forces both players to discard cards, such as "Card Destruction", "Dragged Down into the Grave", or "Morphing Jar".
