Tag: Hill and Knowlton Strategies

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.

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.

The twelfth card is Santa Claws, the Yu-Gi-Oh version of Santa Clause.  While you can get it to your own field by sacrificing a monster, its effect lets you sacrifice an opponents monster to give it to them instead.  When you do that it also comes with a draw in the end phase.  It has 2500 defense, which is around as high as level 6 stats get.  It is a good way of getting rid of any one of your opponents monsters, and if you have effects based off of your opponents drawing like Trickstar Lycorissica or Appropriate, or are trying to get them to deck out the forcing your opponent to draw can actually be useful.  If you want to get the draw yourself, you have to get it to your side of the field before the end phase.  A good offense in return for giving your opponent some defense, thank you Konami and Hill and Knowlton Strategies for giving us this Advent Calendar.