Card Tips:Stardust Dragon


 * This card can easily be summoned with a level 3 Tuner Monster (like "Dark Resonator") and "Instant Fusion", using it to special summon a Level 5 Fusion monster (Like "Reaper on the Nightmare").


 * This card works well against any cards with effects that are capable of destroying large numbers of cards, such as "XYZ-Dragon Cannon" and "Demise, King of Armageddon".


 * This card can counter the effect of "Dark Armed Dragon", regardless of what card the player using it tries to destroy. However, since "Dark Armed Dragon" has higher ATK than this card, it can still destroy it simply by attacking.  The same goes for Judgment Dragon.


 * This card works well with "Mist Body" so it will not be destroyed by battle and it will last longer.


 * This card can negate the destroying abilities of cards like "Mirror Force", "Torrential Tribute", "Lightning Vortex", even the "Yubel" set.


 * Use "Card of Safe Return" with this card, so every time it revives itself after preventing destruction, you get to draw an extra card.


 * When facing an opponent using "Stardust Dragon", use card effects that do not destroy cards on the field, but which offer alternatives--such as ATK modifiers, like "Shrink" or "Rush Recklessly", or cards that return it to the Extra Deck, like "Compulsory Evacuation Device". Also note that "Stardust Dragon" cannot defend against effects that remove cards from play, but can against card that both removes and destroys.


 * If you opponent has used "Stardust Dragon's" effect during your turn, use "Monster Reborn" to special summon it from your opponent's graveyard, before your opponent can use it. Keep in mind, however, that if you use its effect, it will return to opponent's side of the field.


 * This card can be seen as an alternative to the popular and powerful "Prime Material Dragon"--it's slightly stronger and there is effectively no cost for using its effect. However, it can only be used once per turn since it temporarily tributes itself for the counter-effect.  If you expect to face an opponent who might use multiple destroying effects in a turn, you can still use "Prime Material Dragon" and/or "Destruction Jammer".


 * You can protect "Stardust Dragon" from the effects that would remove it from play or send it back to the Extra Deck (such as "Dark Core" or "Compulsory Evacuation Device", respectively) by chaining something that would destroy a card on the field, such as "Mystical Space Typhoon", and then using "Stardust Dragon's" effect. Since "Stardust Dragon" would then be in the Graveyard, it would be safe from those such cards, and would come back during the End Phase.