Card Tips:Lava Golem

"Lava Golem":

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• This card can be searched by "Dark Spirit's Mastery", "Doomdog Octhros", "Tour Bus To Forbidden Realms", and other generic searchers.

• Combine this card with restriction cards ("Spellbinding Circle", "Nightmare Wheel", "Messenger of Peace", etc.) and "Misfortune" to deal heavy burn damage.

• After you Summon this card on your opponent's side of the field, you can use "Smashing Ground" or "Fissure" to destroy it, clearing your opponent's field of two monsters at little cost.

• Use "Darkworld Shackles" to eliminate the attacking threat and increase the burn damage to your opponent.

• This card along with "Volcanic Queen", "Santa Claws", "The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode" and "Kaiju" monsters can be extremely useful for removing monsters that are resistant to other forms of removal (including monsters completely immune to all card effects), such as "Apoqliphort Towers", "Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En", "Jinzo", "Stardust Dragon", "Marshmallon", or "Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes".
  • They are also useful in removing monsters with negate effects like "Shooting Quasar Dragon", "Naturia Exterio", and/or "Cyber Dragon Infinity" from your opponent's field in order to ensure your plays remain mostly undisrupted, but be aware that you won't be able to Normal Summon/Set during the turn you choose to do this with this card.
  • Note that you cannot drop this card on top of "Archlord Kristya", "Vanity's Ruler", etc. because you can't Tribute them if you aren't able to Special Summon in the first place.

• "Magic Cylinder", "Mask of the Accursed" and "Nightmare Wheel" can be used to prevent attacks from "Lava Golem" and inflict further damage.
  • You can also opt to activate "Dark Room of Nightmare" alongside or without "Mask of the Accursed"/"Nightmare Wheel" for a potential total of 2100 damage per turn.
  • "Mask of Restrict" can be used to prevent the opponent from Tributing "Lava Golem".
  • "Copycat" can be used to give the player a 3000 ATK monster that "Lava Golem" can't suicide with.
  • "Spellbinding Circle", "Level Limit - Area B" or "Gravity Bind" can be used to prevent it from attacking, without inflicting further damage.
  • "Zoma the Spirit", "Reflect Bounder, and/or "Dimension Wall" can be used to inflict damage without necessarily preventing it from attacking or keeping it on the field.
  • The "Duston" monsters can prevent the opponent from using "Lava Golem" for other means such as an Xyz or Synchro Summon.

• "Remove Brainwashing", "Enemy Controller", "Owner's Seal", "Dummy Golem" or "Rescue Warrior" can be used to take control of "Lava Golem".
  • After attacking with "Lava Golem", "Spiritual Fire Art - Kurenai", "Call of the Haunted" and another attack can be used to inflict a total of 9000 damage, potentially performing a One Turn Kill with four cards.
  • "Skill Drain" can be used to protect the controller from the negative effect of "Lava Golem".

• "Lava Golem" can be equipped to "Destiny HERO - Plasma" or "Relinquished" to clear the opponent's field and have a high ATK monster.

• "Guardian Sphinx", "Penguin Soldier", "Flip Flop Frog", "Begone, Knave!", "Neo-Spacian Grand Mole", "Ordeal of a Traveler" and "Herald of Creation" can be used to repeatedly return "Lava Golem" to the owner's hand for reuse.
  • In the case of "Penguin Soldier", the player could also return "Penguin Soldier" to their hand with its effect and reuse it.

• Use cards like "Swords of Revealing Light" or "Messenger of Peace" to stop your opponent from attacking for a few turns while this card deals damage to them.

• After you Summon it to your opponent's side of the field, activate "Curse of the Circle" and target "Lava Golem". Your opponent will now be unable to Tribute it off, and unable to use it for a Synchro Summon (unlikely as it is Level 8, but not impossible if your opponent uses Level affecting cards like "Harmonic Waves" or "Level Eater").

• If this is your opponent's only monster, you can use "Creature Swap" after summoning it to get this monster back, however, you would take burn damage during your turn.

• Use this card in combination with cards whose effect is especially useful if the the opponents monster has high ATK/DEF, like the above mentioned "Magic Cylinder" or i.e. "Relinquished" or "Sonic Chick".

• Use "Compulsory Evacuation Device" to return this card from the field to your hand, then Special Summon this monster again to the opponent's side of the field via its own effect to make the opponent lose 2 more monsters.

• After successfully Summoning this monster to the opponent's side of the field, get the control of this card with "Marionette Mite" or "Mind Control", then equip this card with as many"Vengeful Servant" as possible to during the End Phase inflict from 3000 up to 9000 damage to the opponent.

• "Change of Heart" can be used to take control of "Lava Golem" for an attack or to be used for Extra Deck summons, giving it back in time to burn your opponent.

• This card is a great counter to "Burning Abyss" decks, as all "Burning Abyss" monsters that can be Normal Summoned destroy themselves if there is a non-"Burning Abyss" monster on their side of the field.