[Written] Phantom Beetle Warrior

[Thomas★Zero]

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Phantom Beetle Warrior

lv 8 DARK

Insect/Synchro/Effect

1 Tuner Monster + 1+ Insect Non-Tuner Monsters

Must be Synchro Summoned. At the start of the damage step, if this card battles an opponents monster: you can banish this card; destroy the monster this card battles, then, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the destroyed Monsters ATK. During your End Phase, if this card was banished by its own effect, Special Summon this card ignoring its summoning condition to your side of the field but its ATK and DEF become 0.

ATK/2800 DEF/2400

 

So Phantom Beetle Warrior is an idea of a Insect Synchro with a offensive stardust like ability where it can banish itself if facing stronger Monsters and inflict massive damage while during the end of the turn returning with 0 ATK and DEF which will leave this to be forced to use its ability the next time it battles.

 

In Insect Decks which can effectively utilize tuners this card can generally be called upon as a power beat stick.

[Darj]

A strong card but I actually cannot think of practical ways to Summon it. There should be some combos out there, like Mutated Insect Queen + Level1 Tuner, using Primitive Butterfly, or Masked Chameleon + Chainsaw Insect xD

However, as a Level8 it faces competition with other Synchro8s, namely the Dragon Archfiends who may be more effective than this by destroying the monster(s) right away in the MP1 and then attack.