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The final card in the Advent Calendar is Oh Tokenbaum!, the card which pictures a Christmas party. It lets you tribute multiple tokens of the same level, to summon monsters from the grave that share that level, but they don’t keep their effects and they die when the turn ends. It can be useful for setting up XYZ summons, because tokens can’t be used as material for those, and if there are extra deck monsters that have more specific requirements, you can switch tokens with the right level for monster in the grave that you need. It might also be useful for switching out tokens that would be destroyed by battle with monsters that your opponent can’t attack over. It might be useful on the attack as well. A decent card and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for gifting us this Advent Calendar.

The Twenty-third card is Hey, Trunade!, which is a spell that returns all set spells and traps to the hand. It is a lesser version of the card Giant Trunade that does the same thing without needing the cards to be face-down. It can be useful against Paleozoic decks or anything else with a lot of traps. It can be more useful than the Giant Trunade if you run continuous or equip spells and traps, but if not then you would be better off using the other one. A decent card, and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.

The twenty-second card is Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries, which is a good way of getting rid of extra deck monsters. It has no attack and decent defense, but it’s main use is that when your opponent controls more monsters than you, you can discard it to chose a monster from your extra deck and banish every copy of it in your opponents extra deck. It is great with links, especially if you’re using similar decks or aiming at cards that are out in most decks. It is one of a set of five hand traps that have four words separated by the & symbol and discard to activate. The hand traps seem to be mostly unrelated to each other despite their similar names and activations. A good weapon against the extra deck, and thank you to Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for giving us this Advent Calendar.

The twenty-first card is Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir, probably filling in for the children with sugar-plums or a creature to go with the mouse. Bagooska is a rank 4 XYZ monster that takes two materials, and loses one each standby phase, so it will last for three turns before it runs out of materials and destroys itself. Its effect is different depending if its attacking or defending. If it is in attack mode then it can’t be destroyed or targeted by your opponents effects, and if it is in defense mode then everything else goes into defense mode and the things that were already there lose any activated effects. It’s moderately powerful at 2100 attack and 2000 defense, and if you use cards like Numbers Overlay Boost or XYZ Override then you can make it last on the field even longer. Its defense has gotten somewhat less effective because of link monsters and their inability to go into defense mode. Overall a great shield and a decent attacker, and thank you to Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.

The twentieth card is Toy Magician, who has the effect of being set like a spell or trap and summoning itself upon its destruction. It shares that ability with the Artifact archetype and the Silver Sentinel. Whenever this card leaves face down defense position it gets to destroy spell and trap cards equal to how many of it are on the field. It only gets summoned if your opponent is the one to get it off your spell/trap zone. It is apparently part of an archetype seen in the series, but in real life there seems to be this card, Toy Knight which seems almost completely unrelated, and Toy Vendor which is support for the Fluffal archetype. It would go well with cards that can flip it face down like Tsukuyomi and Magical Hats, so it can get its effect off multiple times. A decent card that can act like Mystical Space Typhoon and tank a hit at the same time, thank you Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.

The nineteenth card is Valerifawn, Mystical Beast of the Forest.  It lets you discard a card to summon two other 1 or 2 star beasts.  There are three other Mystical Beasts of the Forest that are made to work with this card, Kalantosa who destroys something and Uniflora who summons another beast from the hand or grave, and Alpacaribou who can’t be summoned by Valerifawn.  There are other beings of the forest, but none who are capable of being summoned by Valerifawn.  You can also get a variety of minor support monsters for other groups, notably Ojama and Fabled.  There is actually a 2050 monster that you can get with this.  You could also use this to go to almost any 1 or 2 rank XYZ monsters, or use it to go into a link monster.  It looks to be a pretty good card, and thank you to Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for getting us this Advent Calendar.