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The eighteenth card is a Christmas tree topper, Hoshiningen.  It is a monster that boosts light monsters by 500 attack and weakens dark monsters by 400 attack, it has 1000 attack as long as its effect is active.  It could be fairly useful in fairy decks, especially since it is a fairy as well.  If you can keep it alive it could be moderately useful, especially if your opponent uses dark monsters, probably only kept in the side deck.  There are actually similar monsters for all six of the main attributes, and they all have upgraded link versions, this ones being Hip Hoshiningen.  Either way, thank you Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for the Advent Calendar.

The seventeenth card is Lonefire Blossom, a fireworks plant.  It lets you sacrifice a plant on the field to get a plant from your deck.  It’s got low enough stats that you’ll generally just tribute it for it’s own effect, but if you have the Swords of Revealing Light or a similar card you can use it to get specific sets of monsters out, and if you have the Moon Mirror Shield you can keep it on the field and keep on switching out your plants.  Gigaplant can go great with this, special summoning a plant you tribute for Lonefire Blossoms effect, even itself.  This could go well with basically any plant deck.  I actually might add it to my own deck.  It is a great way of searching out plants, and thank you Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for getting us this Advent Calendar.

For the sixteenth card we have Yu-Gi-Ohs Gift Exchange, which has you and your opponent banish a card from your deck to put into the others hand in the end phase.  I can see this being useful when using a Bad Reaction to Simochi and Darklord Nurse Reficule, giving your opponent a continuous healing card like Darklord Marie.  It can also mean a bit more damage for Secret Barrel or Des Koala, and increasing the effect of Energy Drain.  There are also a few cards like Penalty Game! that require your opponent to have a specific number of cards that you can increase their hand to.  Other than Gift Exchange, Exchange is also a Yu-Gi-Oh card, and if you give them a card they can’t use but you can, Exchange let’s you grab it on the next turn, though your opponent will get another of your cards, this time of their choice.  An okay card, but definitely on theme.  Thank you Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for getting us this Advent Calendar.

The fourteenth card is Cockadoodledoo, a rooster for the manger.  It can be summoned as a 3, 4, or 5 star monster.  If no one controls a monster you can special summon it as a 3 star, or if your opponent has monsters and you don’t have anything you can special summon it as a 4 star.  It has low attack but 2000 defense, and it’s a tuner.  The ability to special summon it means you might be able to get a 4 to 8 star synchro monster out in one turn.  This should be a great card if your have a lot of synchro monsters in your extra deck, and looks to best either on the first turn or after a Dark Hole was played.  Thank you to Hill and Knowlton Strategies and Konami for getting us this Advent Calendar.

The thirteenth card is the Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys, a sacred being who dies and comes back to life shortly after.  Basically a Jesus analogue.  This cards resurrection effect comes into play when it’s destroyed by a card effect, and destroys all spell and trap cards on the field, if it’s beaten in battle or banished it doesn’t get to come back.  While it does have the resurrection ability it also only has 2400 attack, which is pretty low for an 8 star monster.  There is a Nephthys archetype this is included in, which has multiple ways of summoning this from the deck or hand, either by actually summoning it, or destroying it in the deck so that its ability activates.  While its attack isn’t great, using it with it’s archetype you can get it to the field pretty easily, and it’ll bounce back from any traps that would have cleared your field.  Thank you Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.