Card Tips:Skill Drain


 * You can base a deck around this with "Chainsaw Insect", "Beast King Barbaros", "Berserk Dragon", "Fusilier Dragon, the Dual-Mode Beast", "Berserk Gorilla", and other cards (See Skill Drain Deck).


 * Necrofear Return decks benefit greatly from this card. "Dark Necrofear", "Dark Mimic LV3", "Sangan" and "Newdoria" are just a few of the mentionable fiend cards that work while Skill Drain is active on the field.


 * Bushi decks also work well with this card, as many of their most common monsters, such as "Exiled Force", "Fire Trooper" and "The Immortal Bushi" are not affected by "Skill Drain".


 * If your opponent uses extremely powerful monsters whose ATK are determined by their effect, this card will render them useless with 0 ATK. This is especially handy to counter monsters with ludicrously high ATK, such as "Chimeratech Overdragon", "Evil Hero Dark Gaia", "Armityle the Chaos Phantom" and "King of the Skull Servants".


 * Keep this card in your side deck, because it works well against Gladiator Beast, Lightsworn, Six Samurai and Dark decks. If your opponent uses a Gladiator Beast Deck, he/she can't activate effects of cards like Gladiator Beast Heraklinos, but keep in mind that they can still 'Tag-out'. If your opponent uses a Lightsworn Deck, this card stops the destruction effects of "Celestia, Lightsworn Angel" and "Judgment Dragon" and also stops their milling effects.


 * For Beatdown version of Spellcasters such as a Tricky Turbo Deck, combine this card with "Secret Village of the Spellcasters" to shutdown most current deck which are heavily based on Spell and Monster effects. Just prepare other cards that protect Spellcasters either from attacks or leaving the field since majority of Spellcasters have slightly weaker ATK than other strong monster types and lack of card that literally supports Spellcasters or this combination.


 * This card can easily shut down most of the Monsters in Fortune Lady decks.


 * This card works well in Vehicroid decks that special summon very easy "Super Vehicroid Jumbo Drill" with "Vehicroid Connection Zone" because it will not be destroyed by the effects because of "Vehicroid Connection Zone".


 * This card can absolutely cripple decks that rely on "Spell Counters". Many effect monsters that use "Spell Counters" are able to destroy or Magic and Trap cards, and because of this, Spell Counter decks usually do not have trap or spell destruction cards.


 * This card is perfect in a Malefic Deck. It negates there effects that destroy them while there on the field without a field spell card.


 * This card can also severely hurt any Naturia decks, since almost all of them are composed by Effect Monsters and usually has low ATK and DEF.