Card Tips:Light and Darkness Dragon

Summoning and Utilizing Light and Darkness Dragon

 * When "Light and Darkness Dragon" is destroyed, Special Summon "Felgrand Dragon" or "Darkblaze Dragon" to gain its effect.
 * You can also Special Summon "Lightpulsar Dragon" with this card's effect to create another defense line, or if this card was destroyed during your Batlle Phase, you can Special Summon "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" instead.


 * Use cards like "Giant Germ", "Nimble Momonga", and "Gravekeeper's Spy" to maintain enough field presence in order to summon Light and Darkness Dragon, or "Kaiser Sea Horse" or "Totem Dragon" to Tribute Summon Light and Darkness Dragon with only one tribute.
 * Indestructible monsters such as "Spirit Reaper" and "Gellenduo" also appropriate for this card's Tribute.


 * You can use "Mausoleum of the Emperor" to get this card out quickly with no Tributes.


 * Flipping Light and Darkness Dragon face-down with "Book of Moon" will reset its ATK points.
 * "Forbidden Chalice" can also do the same (with addition 400 ATK until End Phase).


 * Use this card's effect to Special Summon "Herald of Creation" while you have a "Treeborn Frog" in your Graveyard. During your Standby Phase, because Light and Darkness Dragon destroyed all of your cards during the previous turn, you can Special Summon Treeborn Frog. Discard a card with Herald's effect to return the Dragon to your hand, and then Tribute those two to Tribute Summon this card.


 * If you reduce this card's Level by at least 1 with cards like Level Eater or Star Blast, this card can be used for Synchro Summoning either Light or Dark End Dragon.
 * This can only applicable when Light and Darkness Dragon's ATK and DEF are 800/400 respectively, otherwise Light and Darkness Dragon will just negate Level Eater's effect.


 * You can make a loop with this card and "Dragunity Arma Leyvaten". When you summon Leyvaten, equip Light and Darkness Dragon to it. Whenever this card or Leyvaten is destroyed, your field will be destroyed by the effect of Light and Darkness Dragon. Then, use Light and Darkness Dragon's other effect to special summon Leyvaten from your graveyard, re-equip "Light and Darkness Dragon" to it, and repeat. The only weakness in this loop is cards that can remove the two monsters from play, or send them back to the hand or deck. Also keep in mind that the effect of "Dragunity Arma Leyvaten" can still "miss the timing", so be extremely careful when executing this combo.
 * Another loop of this card can be made with the help of "Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon" and "Divine Dragon Apocralyph".


 * You can use Swap Frog's 3rd effect to put this card back in your hand after it's been weakened. Even if it still has enough ATK/DEF to negate one more effect, Light and Darkness Dragon cannot prevent Swap Frog from returning it to the hand; returning a monster to the hand is a cost to use Swap Frog's 3rd effect (Normal Summoning a Frog monster), and Light and Darkness Dragon cannot negate costs.


 * Special Summon "Genex Ally Birdman" by returning this card to your hand as a cost. If you have another monster on the field or a monster that can be easily Special Summoned (like "Treeborn Frog", "Jester Confit" or "The Tricky"), Tribute both to Tribute Summon Light and Darkness Dragon once again, with its ATK/DEF points returned to normal.
 * This strategy is especially useful in Frognarchs Decks, since they run Treeborn Frog for easy Tributes and can benefit a lot from Birdman, thanks to its recycling abilities and access to "Locomotion R-Genex" and various Synchro Monsters.
 * This can also be done with Frog monsters, as mentioned above. In Formula Monarch builds that use the Frog engine, Special Summon "Swap Frog" with its own effect. Return Light and Darkness Dragon to your hand as a cost to activate Swap Frog's effect, then Normal Summon a Frog monster with a different name like Treeborn Frog or Dupe Frog (using the extra Normal Summon that "Swap Frog" provided). Then Tribute Summon Light and Darkness Dragon using both Frogs.


 * Because this card cannot negate Counter Traps, you can use "Solemn Warning", "Solemn Judgment", or "Seven Tools of the Bandit" alongside this card to prevent the Summon/activation of dangerous monsters or Traps (especially Counter Traps).


 * To Summon "Light and Darkness Dragon" easily, you can use "Limit Impulse" which gives you 2 Tokens that can be easily use to Summon Light and Darkness Dragon. Keep in mind that "Limit Impulse" decrease your Hand advantage significantly.


 * If somehow this card is trapped during two-way Chains (such as "Mirror Force" and "Dimensional Prison" combo), you can save it with "Burst Breath", so that not only "Light and Darkness Dragon" is saved from banishment via "Dimensional Prison", but also wiping the Field of troublesome monsters and make your opponent waste cards more.
 * Keep in mind that your opponent must have at least 1 face-up monster with lower DEF than Light and Darkness Dragon's ATK (so that Burst Breath could activate), and your Field must not have too many monsters, in order to minimize casualties.
 * Also, if Light and Darkness Dragon is sent to the Graveyard this way, its third effect will NOT activate, so think twice before using this maneuver.


 * If you can Summon this card while having face-up "Splendid Venus" on your side of the Field, your Dragon will have already lost 500 ATK, but in return you can still activate your Spells and Traps without being negated, even by Light and Darkness Dragon (its ATK/DEF will not decrease). So it will only negate your opponent's Spell and Traps, giving you good advantage.

Countering Light and Darkness Dragon

 * When trying to get rid of your opponent's Light and Darkness Dragon, use easily chainable cards like "Enemy Controller" or "Compulsory Evacuation Device" to exploit his once-per-chain effect, while depleting as few resources as possible.
 * Using those chainable cards in conjunction with Monster Effects that doesn't have a big cost (like "Chaos Sorcerer", "Lonefire Blossom" or "Elemental HERO Stratos") allows you to get rid of the Dragon while also gaining the Monster effect, allowing you to spend as few cards as possible.


 * A really easy way to destroy this card is to use a Monarch monster. Tribute Summon a Monarch (like "Mobius the Frost Monarch" for example): this card will try to negate its effect. Even if it had its full ATK and DEF, it will end with at least 2300 ATK, which is low enough for your Monarch to destroy in battle.


 * To easily destroy your opponent's Light and Darkness Dragon, Summon "Doomcaliber Knight" and activate any monster effect. That will activate Light and Darkness Dragon's effect. In response, Doomcaliber Knight will activate as the third chain, negating Light and Darkness Dragon's effect and destroying it in the process.


 * You can also use the effect of "Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress" multiple times, because Lyla will not turn into Defense Position if her effect's negated, so you'll be able to activate its effect many times, until the ATK/DEF of Light and Darkness Dragon becomes 800/400 respectively.
 * This can also applicable with Spirit Monsters instead of Lyla.


 * When you have no monster in your field and your opponent's Light and Darkness Dragon declares an attack, you can activate Battle Fader's effect as chain link 1, and Light and Darkness Dragon's effect will attempt to negate it in the chain link 2, and after that, activate Dimensional Prison to get rid of your opponent's Light and Darkness Dragon and still Special Summon Battle Fader.


 * A good way to lower Light and Darkness Dragon's ATK fast is by having "Treeborn Frog" in your Graveyard. When it comes to your Standby Phase, you can keep activating its effect indefinitely. Eventually, it will Special Summon, and your opponent will have a weak Light and Darkness Dragon. This method also applies to "Samsara Lotus", when it activates during your End Phase and "Naturia Pineapple" in the same way as Treeborn Frog.
 * This trick can also performed with "Totem Dragon" in Disaster Dragon mirror-match (specifically against Light and Disaster variant).


 * A good way to get rid of Light and Darkness Dragon is to use any card effect, then when it tries to use its effect to negate, Chain it with "Divine Wrath".


 * Use the effect of "Quillbolt Hedgehog", "Worm Yagan" or "Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor" to get rid of this card's negation effect easily. Because Quillbolt, Yagan and Vayu don't leave the Graveyard unless their effects resolve, they can be activated once again after being negated by Light and Darkness Dragon. Activate them until your opponent can't negate them anymore, then Special Summon what you were intending to, or make your desired play.
 * This can also be done with "Plaguespreader Zombie". Be careful though: since returning a card to the top of your Deck is a cost, you must give up a card each time you try to use Plaguespreader's effect to revive itself, even if its effect to revive is negated.

Traditional Format

 * When "Light and Darkness Dragon is destroyed, use its effect to Special Summon "Destiny Hero - Disk Commander" to draw 2 cards