Card Tips:Scanner
- This card can be searched by "Dogu", "Single Purchase", "Temple of the Kings", "Serpentine Princess", "Vampire Dragon", "Small Scuffle", "Mimiclay", "Where Arf Thou?", "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", "One for One", "Dragunity Corsesca", "Ties of the Brethren", "Painful Escape", "Rescue Ferret", "Chaos Zone", "Rai-Mei", "Photon Veil", "Machina Armored Unit", "Gear Gigant X", "Road Warrior" and "Cyber Repair Plant".
- Use "D.D. Designator" to declare the name of an extremely powerful monster then summon this card to mimic it.
- This card is very useful in Archetype-themed Decks, including those of the "Morphtronics" and the "Gladiator Beasts"; able to take the name of 1 of your opponent's monsters of that Archetype and can be protected by the support cards of that Archetype.
- This is a good card for Synchro Summoning for removal decks.
- Use "Scanner" after you've used "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" since it removes the cards from play you may have removed an extremly powerful monster.
- This card can be very useful with "D.D. Crow".
- This card is a wise choice for a Side Deck in mirror matches with "Gladiator Beasts".
- This card can be very useful for Zombie decks that run "Book of Life", especially when facing a "Lightsworn" or "Dark Armed Dragon" based deck.
- Side Deck this card for any deck using "Allure of Darkness" or any other popular cards that require your opponent to remove from play.
- Use this card with "Memory Crush King", since "Memory Crush King" can remove Synchro Monsters; Synchros tend to have high ATK, so that can be used to your advantage.
- "Scanner" works well with "Card Ejector".
- It is good idea to use "Power Pickaxe" if you have "Scanner" in your deck.
- With "Dark Core", you can use it on an opponent's monster with high ATK (eg. "Five-Headed Dragon") and then use the effect of "Scanner" on the monster you removed from play.
- It is possible to use this card's effect to copy monsters like "Stardust Dragon" to summon "Shooting Star Dragon, or use the same method to copy "Power Tool Dragon" and summon "Life Stream Dragon".
