Card Tips:Mechanical Hound
- This card can be searched by "Qliphort Genius", "Infinitrack River Stormer", "Clockwork Night", "Machina Metalcruncher", "Urgent Schedule", "Machina Armored Unit", "Psychic Arsenal", "Frontline Observer", "Aussa the Earth Charmer, Immovable", "BOXer", "Additional Mirror Level 7", "Witch of the Black Forest", "Link Party", and other generic searchers.
- This card can be Tribute Summoned with one Tribute using "The Trojan Horse", "Superheavy Samurai Big Waraji", "Chronomaly Mayan Machine" and "The First Monarch".
- Use this card's effect together with "Cyber Phoenix" to prevent your opponent from affecting them with Spell and Trap cards.
- Use it with "Royal Decree" to disable all of your opponents Spell and Trap cards, but keep in mind your Trap cards will be disabled as well.
- This card can be very effective in a "Dark World" Deck.
- This card can work well in a Pendulum-based deck that can Pendulum Summon Level 7 monsters such as Pendulum Magician deck.
- Ironically, this card works very well against Pendulum decks since setting Pendulum scales counts as activating Spell cards.
- Use "Tribute Doll" to special summon this monster from your hand.
- Combine with "Snipe Hunter" so you can make sure you have no cards in your hand.