Card Tips:Machina Fortress


 * You can discard this card and any other monster to summon it from the graveyard. In other words, since it can be summoned through the first effect; use it as part of the cost along with any other Machine-type monster.


 * Discard "Heavy Mech Support Platform" and this card to Special Summon it, and set "Roll Out!" on the field. If your opponent targets this card, use "Roll Out!" to protect it from being destroyed. To be more careful, after Special Summoning "Machina Fortress", Normal Summon and Equip a Union Monster which can prevent it from being destroyed. Using "Machina Peacekeeper" or "Machina Gearframe" could be useful since they allow you to search your deck for another Union Monster.


 * A good way to Special Summon this card on the first turn is to Normal Summon "Scrap Recycler" and send this card to the graveyard. Then discard two Level 4 machines to Special Summon it, and then use "Recycler's" effect to return the two Level 4 Machines to your deck and draw 1 card.
 * You only have to discard 8 or more Levels' worth of Machine-Type monsters from your hand in order to Special Summon this card.
 * This also works with "Foolish Burial".


 * In Traditional format, you can use "Card of Safe Return" to draw 1 card every time this card is Special Summoned from the graveyard.


 * If you Normal Summon "Machina Soldier" and use its effect, you can Special Summon this card from your hand without a cost.


 * You can add "Toon Cannon Soldier" with "Toon Table of Contents" for an easy level 4 monster that you can use as half of the cost for this card's Special Summoning requirement.


 * You can discard "Ancient Gear Golem" or "Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon" to Special Summon "Machina Fortress", then use "Ancient Gear Workshop" to add the discarded card to to your hand and discard it again to summon another "Machina Fortress". "Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon" can be Special Summoned from your Graveyard using "Geartown"; this is an easy way to swarm the field.


 * Summon any of the "Gadget" monsters, then add another "Gadget" to your hand, then discard the new "Gadget" and "Machina Fortress" to special summon "Machina Fortress", to summon two monsters from your hand while losing nothing more from your hand.


 * You can use "Shreddder" to send "Machina Fortress" to the Graveyard to destroy a face-up level 7 or lower monster your opponent controls. Then can you discard machines to special summon "Machina Fortress".


 * You can use "Generation Shift" to destroy a "Machina Fortress" currently on the field, then add another to your hand. Then you can Special Summon both the "Machina Fortress" in your hand and the one in your Graveyard by using their effects.
 * Additionally, you can use "Generation Shift" on "Machina Gearframe" when you summon it, allowing you to add "Machina Fortress" and an additional "Machina Gearframe" to your hand. The "Machina Gearframe" in your hand can either be summoned for its effect, or used it can be used as tribute fodder for special summoning "Machina Fortress".


 * This card works well with "Rope of Life" and by using it to kamikaze, you can destroy any card your opponent controls, then you can rope of life during the battle phase and bring out a 3300 ATK Fortress and attack again.

List of Machine-type monsters that can add machine type monsters from your deck to your hand easily:
 * "Jade Knight" (when it's destroyed by battle while face up, you add a level 4 LIGHT machine from your deck to your hand)
 * "Sphere of Chaos" (when it's tribute summoned, just add a level 3 machine type monster from your deck to your hand)