Card Tips:Obelisk the Tormentor


 * The Original Promo Egyptian God cards are illegal to use in any and all real duels (both Traditional and Advanced Format alike), and they also have no effects, but they can be used in Nightmare Troubadour, Spirit Caller, Tag Force 2, and 5Ds Stardust Accelerator.

Advanced Format:

 * The effects of the "Piece Golems" can speed up this card's summoning considerably.


 * A good combo to use with "Obelisk the Tormentor's" effect is to include cards that can be special summoned easily therefore getting monsters on the field to activate Obelisk's effect to tribute two monsters to destroy all of your opponent's monsters.


 * You can use "Fires of Doomsday" for this card's ability to destroy all monsters your opponent controls.


 * Among the best choices to remove it are with cards that don't target like "Smashing Ground", using "Honest" to destroy it in battle or gain control of it with "Creature Swap".


 * A decent way of preventing your Obelisk from falling into the hands of your opponent from "Creature Swap" since it does not target (given if it is your only monster out on the field), you can use the card "Pole Position" to prevent it from happening since the card does not target your Obelisk and negates spells from affecting the strongest monster out on the field.


 * A good combo to summon this card is to use "One for One" in combination with "Destiny Hero - Malicious" and "Evil Thorn". Discard "Destiny Hero - Malicious" with "One for One" and Special Summon "Evil Thorn". Activate the effect of "Evil Thorn" in order to Summon two more. Then use "Destiny Hero - Malicious'" effect to Summon another copy and then tribute all three to Summon "Obelisk the Tormentor".


 * This card works considerably well in Six Samurai and Blackwing decks.


 * You can use "The Tricky", "Tricky Spell 4", and "Ojama Trio". First use "The Tricky", next use "Ojama Trio". Next use "Tricky Spell 4" and tribute for Obelisk.


 * When you have five monsters in the Graveyard use Soul Release and Return from the Different Dimension to summon those monsters and then tribute three of them for Obelisk the Tormentor and you can use the other two for his effect.


 * You can use Nightmare Archfiends and Owner's Seal as a combination to instantly Special Summon 3 monsters to Tribute for this card, which can also work for The Winged Dragon of Ra.


 * This card works well in a Remove From Play Deck. By using either D.D. Survivor's or D.D. Scout Plane's effect while Dimensional Fissure or Macro Cosmos is in play, you can continuously Tribute them for Obelisk's effect to clear your opponent's field.


 * Use your opponent's monsters as Tributes for this card's effect using Soul Exchange.


 * With some good Insect-Type monsters to put in your Graveyard, Spider Egg can both protect you from an attack and Special Summon 3 Spider tokens, providing another way to summon this card.


 * In a Dragon deck, 2 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragons can recycle two Dragons each of your turns, allowing you to use Obelisk's effect every turn. They can also easily put a Hardened Armed Dragon on the field for Obelisk's Normal Summon, giving you a virtually indestructible Obelisk.
 * The only ways to kill this Obelisk is to tribute him via Lava Golem or other similar cards, or to overpower it (unlikely). Additionally, Crystal Abundance and Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End will work as they do not destroy.


 * To temporarily prevent this card from being destroyed by battle, you can use DNA Transplant and Honest. Since neither cards target Obelisk, by having DNA Transplant having your monsters be LIGHT monsters, should your opponent happen to have a monster stronger than Obelisk, you can discard Honest to prevent it from being destroyed by battle and inflict 4000 points onto your opponent.


 * DNA Transplant can also call attributes beside light and prevent others from using Honest's effect on Obelisk.


 * Monsters such as Spirit Reaper, Shiba-Warrior Taro, and Marshmallon are useful monsters to summon this card, as they cannot be destroyed by battle.


 * Special Summon a monster and use Inferno Reckless Summon in order to special summon two more of the same monster. Tribute all three to summon this card.


 * Machine Duplication can get you monster's on the field quickly, allowing you to tribute them to summon this card OR activate it's effect


 * This card can be easily summoned in a Frog Deck thanks to Treeborn Frog and Ronintoadin.


 * This card will basically be a dead draw, if your opponent has Mask of Restrict, or Fog King, because they prevent tributing alltogether. So be sure to deal with them first.


 * "Hammer Shot" will get rid of this card.


 * "Yomi Ship" will get rid of this card.


 * "Blind Destruction" can get rid of this card.