Card Tips:Skull Lair
- This card can be searched by "Pharaonic Advent", "The Despair Uranus", and other generic searchers.
- Any Number refers to an amount of cards equal to the Level of the monster you wish to destroy. For example, to destroy a Level 4 monster, banish 4 monster cards. For a Level 8 monster, banish 8 monster cards.
- When your opponent summons a high Level monster when you have "Soul Absorption" down, activate this card and banish several monsters, so you'll gain a massive amount of Life Points.
- This card serves well in a Dinosaur-Type Deck. Simply banish 4 or more Dinosaurs from play when your opponent summons a monster. Your next turn, summon "Tyranno Infinity" during your turn (or use this card with "Babycerasaurus" to summon "Tyranno Infinity" from your deck). It'll be hard to get rid of him at that point, so keep building up your Graveyard and banish your Dinosaurs to keep pumping him up.
- "Skull Lair" also comes in handy when paired with "Gren Maju Da Eiza" or "Golden Homunculus". "Gren Maju Da Eiza" gains 400 ATK for each card that's banished, but cannot be searched (since it has ? ATK). "Golden Homunculus" is easily searched through "Shining Angel", and since "Golden Homunculus" will have more ATK points than "Gren Maju Da Eiza" until 15 cards have been banished (which is when "Gren Maju Da Eiza" and "Golden Homunculus" will have 6000 ATK each), it is the easiest removal Beatstick. In Banish Decks, this combo can be very useful in a late game or as an emergency move so long as you have a card with the "Skull Lair" effect that allows you to banish monster cards.
- Use this card while you have "D.D. Scout Plane" in your Graveyard, so that you can destroy an opponent's monster, and get easy access to Tribute fodder on your side of the field. With three of them, you can summon cards like "Destiny HERO - Plasma", "Destiny HERO - Dogma", Legal Egyptian Gods, and the Wicked Gods.
- Use "Stygian Dirge" to lower the number of cards you need to banish from your Graveyard.
- LV monsters automatically dump cards in the Graveyard, and with the effect of "Winged Kuriboh LV9"
- This card grants access to "Chaos Greed".
- In a Mill Deck, banish three monsters to destroy your own "Warm Worm" and force your opponent to Mill three of their own cards. If "Necroface" is one of the banished monsters, you can take out an additional five cards.
- Use this card in a "Fortune Lady" Deck, you can banish 1 Fortune Lady from your Graveyard to destroy "Fortune Lady Light" and activate its effect to Special Summon another "Fortune Lady" from your deck, and you can return the banished "Fortune Lady" with, "Fortune's Future".
- This card goes well in a "Lightsworn" Deck, adding in extra destruction. Combine it with "Light of Redemption" to get back lost monsters.
Traditional Format[edit]
- Because its effect (according to the reprinted version) requires the removal of monster cards, some wonderful Chaos/D. D. strategies can come about, such as the removal of the "VWXYZ" monsters and their return due to "Dimension Fusion" or "Return from the Different Dimension", whereupon they can all be re-removed in order to fuse them into the "VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon". Combine this strategy with a Bazoo Return Deck for added effect.
