Card Tips:Dark Simorgh


 * This card can be Tribute Summoned with one Tribute using "Double Coston".


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

Kaiser Colosseum + Volcanic Queen/Lava Golem + Gravity Bind/Level Limit - Area B/Messenger of Peace
 * Dark Simorgh can be part of a lockdown: Use "Anti-Spell Fragrance" so that your opponent can't activate Spell Cards from their hand, nor activate them when on the field, they cannot set any Trap Cards (although they can still activate ones that are already face-down), and they can't defend with Set monsters, although they can still Normal or Special Summon.
 * "Exiled Force" can be used to escape this lock as it is not on the field when it resolves.
 * Using Kaiser Colosseum and cards like Ojama Trio and placing Dark Simorgh in Defense Mode with the above lock will prevent your opponent from doing anything at all short of using Volcanic Queen or Lava Golem (or in Ojama Trio's case, Honest). Other combinations that can also be used are:

Ojama King/Ojama Knight/Ground Collapse to prevent your opponent from summoning monsters

Destiny Hero - Plasma to prevent your opponent's monster effects from working


 * A good strategy is to combine Dark Simorgh with Armed Dragon because Armed Dragon is WIND. If you can play "Armed Dragon LV10" Dark Simorgh and "Anti-Spell Fragrance" the lockdown is even better because now you can keep destroying your opponents monsters every turn.


 * One counter to this card's effect is "Jetroid", which allows the user to play a Trap from the Hand, face-up, when it is attacked--you will be able to use a "Mirror Force" or a "Sakuretsu Armor" on the Dark Simorgh and then be able to use your Traps as normal.


 * Activate "Giant Trunade" or "Heavy Storm" before you summon this card safely on the field. That way your opponent cannot set cards again while this card is on the field.
 * Cold Wave also helps protect this card on the turn it is summoned; you can also shut your opponent down temporarily with it.


 * For various lock-on ways, Combo this card with "Jinzo", "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8", "Destiny Hero - Plasma" or "Medium of the Ice Barrier".


 * This card works extremely well with Blackwings because it prevents your opponent from setting cards (spells, traps and monsters), which means all of your blackwings will be able attack without worrying about face-down card's effects.


 * An easy way to summon this is to use The Tricky, discarding a dark monster, then tributing it, thereby putting one Wind and one Dark monster in the graveyard.


 * A very fast way to search for this card is to Synchro Summon Blackwing Armor Master and then activating Swallow's Nest, selecting this card.


 * A complete lock-down can be used with "Dark Simorgh*. First, set "Interdimensional Matter Transporter" and "Anti-Spell Fragrance". If you can keep these cards on the field and clear your opponents field, you're good to go. Summon either "The Last Warrior from Another Planet" or "Dark Simorgh" first, and activate IMT. Then activate ASF as a chain. After that, summon either "Dark Simorgh" or "The Last Warrior from Another Planet", depending on what you summoned first. At the End Phase, you'll get the other monster back. The Dark Fragrance combo shuts down your opponent's spells and traps and sets, while the Last Warrior prevents monster summoning, leaving you with powerful beat-sticks to assault your opponent with. "Kuriboh" and "Necro Gardna" are the only defenses against this combo.


 * This card goes very well with a Blackwing/Harpie deck.


 * This card can also help a Dragunity/Cyberdark deck.