Card Tips:Athena


 * This card can be searched via Witch of the Black Forest.


 * While this card is on the field, continuously attack your opponent's 1500 ATK or higher monsters with Shining Angel and Nova Summoner. After you've cycled through all 6 of these cards in your deck, activate Athena`s effect to offer the LIGHT Fairy monster to special summon a Shining Angel or a Nova Summoner in your graveyard. You deal 4800 damage with Athena`s effect through this combo.


 * Using the above combo with The Sanctuary in the Sky, you take 0 damage from the battles, as well as may summon Airknight Parshath with Nova Summoner. After that, you could tribute Airknight Parshath to summon Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin with a lot of ATK.


 * If you use the first and second combo together you will deal 14400 damage. 4800 per each Athena on the field.


 * This card can be Tribute Summoned with one Tribute, using either "Kaiser Sea Horse", or "Gellenduo", or Special Summoned by using "Tribute Doll" or "Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen".


 * Use this card in conjunction with Honest with its return to hand effect, and Ultimate Offering to continually summon it, dealing 600 damage, to create an OTK. See Athena OTK for tips on this OTK.


 * You can send a Radiant Jeral from your side of the field to summon another Radiant Jeral in your graveyard with athena's effect while The Sanctuary in the Sky is on the field to increase your lifepoint by 1000 points each turn, and fullfill the requeriments of Fairy-type monster like The Agent of Force - Mars, The Agent of Judgment - Saturn, Ancient Sacred Wyvern, or Neo-Parshath, the Sky Paladin. They all need that you have higher life points that your opponent.


 * Use "Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen" to bring this card out on the first turn and "Foolish Burial" to send a powerful Fairy (like "Arcana Force XXI - The World") to the Graveyard. You can still Normal Summon so Summon a Fairy monster and use This card to Tribute it to bring back the powerful fairy (and do 1200 damage to your opponent with Athena's effect).


 * Use this card with the Heads effect of Arcana Force XVIII - The Moon and tribute the Moon Token to summon a Fairy-type monster from your Graveyard. An additional Normal Summon means up to 1800 damage from Athena's effect and at least 2 2500+ Fairies.


 * While "The Sanctuary in the Sky" and "DNA Surgery" selecting Fairy-Type are active, attack an opponent's monster with 3 copies of multiple searchers to inflict massive damage. For example "Nova Summoner", "Shining Angel", "UFOroid", "UFO Turtle", "Masked Dragon" then "Troop Dragon".


 * In fact, having DNA Surgery(Fairy) and Athena on the field means that your opponent will be taking 600 damage each time either player summons a monster.
 * Use the above combo with one Spear Cretin in the graveyard and one face down on the field. On your turn, flip the Spear Cretin face up and tribute it via Athena's effect to summon a fairy in your graveyard, then use Spear Cretin's effect to bring back the other Spear Cretin. Your opponent takes 1200 to 1800 damage depending on the position of the monster they summoned. You can potentially use this method to swarm the field with fairy monsters. Just watch out for the Man-eater Bugs and Cyber Jars your opponent may bring back. You can limit their options with a Soul Release, however.
 * You can further improve on this combo by adding a Card of Safe Return (Traditional format only). This allows you to draw 2 extra cards per turn.


 * You can use this card with "Arcana Force 0 - The Fool" to Special Summon The Fool to the field in Face-up Defense Position very easily. It will also deal 600 damage.


 * This card can be an extremely powerful asset in an Arcana Force deck. It not only damages the opponent for each Arcana Force monster summoned, but also has the ability to send the monster to the graveyard and reincarnate it for a second chance at the coin toss.


 * Special Summon Hanewata with Athena's effect to have instant access to a Level 8 Synchro Monster.


 * Use Dark Room of Nightmare to inflict 900 damage for each Fairy-Type monster Summoned instead.


 * You can perform a OTK if you have The Agent of Creation - Venus, Hecatrice, and Athena in your hand, as well as any field clearing spells like Heavy Storm, Nobleman of Crossout, or Fissure. First, fetch a Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen with Hecatrice, and then use the Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen. Use Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen to Special Summon Athena and then follow with summoning The Agent of Creation - Venus and 3 Mystical Shine Balls. Use Athena's summoning effect to special summon hecatrice, and the damage from Athena's effect will total to 3000 at this point. After that, by using the appropriate spell, you can' clear the field and land direct attacks with all the monsters (2600 + 1500 + 1600 + 500 + 500 = 6700) to inflict a total of 9700 LP damage.