Card Tips:Arcanite Magician


 * "Pitch-Black Power Stone" and "Magical Citadel of Endymion" can make this card very powerful.


 * To bring this card into play as quickly as your first turn, Normal Summon "Arcane Apprentice" and then activate "Instant Fusion" to bring out "Musician King". This will also grant another Spell Counter to many of your other Spellcasters as well as "Magical Citadel of Endymion".
 * If you have "Night Wing Sorceress" on the field when you do this, you can bring "Arcanite Magician/Assault Mode" out that very same turn, since "Arcane Apprentice" will add "Assault Mode Activate" to your hand from your Deck. Then, "Night Wing Sorceress will let you activate it the turn you Set it.


 * The best Spellcasters to Synchro Summon this card would be "Night's End Sorcerer", "Frequency Magician" (or "Arcane Apprentice") and "The Tricky". Frequency Magician is the preferred because it's effect can be useful if you have a third monster on the field to get a free power up.


 * Remember that the Tuner does not necessarily need to be a Spellcaster, so you can add this card to the Extra Deck of a deck that runs a few Spellcasters that are not Tuners, like "Breaker the Magical Warrior".


 * If you are going to summon Arcanite Magician/Assault Mode on your turn use its effect to destroy cards so you can use your spell counters and not just remove them.


 * This card can be special summoned with Limit Reverse, however it will not gain the 2 spellcounters since it was not synchro-summoned.


 * Don't forget that there is no limit to Spell Counters that can be placed on this card, but it doesn't gain them normally so if you use a card effect such as Apprentice Magician or Spell Power Grasp you can place spell counters on this card increasing its strength by 1000 points per Spell Counter.


 * When you use specific combos to get Spell Counters on Arcanite Magician, you can use Honest with this card for a really high attack monster.


 * One easy way to Synchro Summon Arcanite Magician is to first use Summoner Monk's effect to Special Summon Rescue Cat. Next, use Rescue Cat's effect, and Special Summon two X-Saber Airbellum. Finally, Tune one of the X-Saber Airbellum to the Summoner Monk in order to Synchro Summon Arcanite Magician. Following this, you can then destroy two of your opponent's cards and (if their Monster Card Zones are empty) attack directly with X-Saber Airbellum, potentially making them lose three cards that will help them currently or later on in the Game. This combo sees frequent play in Arcanite Beat Decks.


 * One of Arcanite Magician's other useful features is that he only has 400 ATK as soon as he is Synchro Summoned to the Field. Because his ATK boost is due to his effect, and happens after he is Synchro Summoned, he is immune to Bottomless Trap Hole.


 * You can load up the spell counters on Magical Exemplar as she gets 2 whenever a spell card is activated. After you summon Arcanite Magician, simply take the counters off of Magical Exemplar to wipe the field clean, given you have enough counters on Magical Exemplar.


 * An easy way of summoning two Arcanite Magicians at once, if your really lucky to pull this, is to flip summon Gravekeeper's sky to search for another 4 stared Gravekeeper and special summon it. Normal summon Rescue Cat and use its effect to special summon 2 X-Saber Airbellum and then Synchro.