Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Review: Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss

[Dragon/Synchro/Effect]

ATK/3,200 DEF/2,500

1 Tuner + 1 non-Tuner DARK Dragon Synchro Monster
(Quick Effect): You can target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; negate its effects until the end of this turn. When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: You can target 1 Tuner in your GY; Special Summon it in Defense Position. You can only use each effect of “Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss” once per turn.

Red Dragon Archfiend has many powerful forms. One of its powerful evolutions is Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss! This synchro monster has an impressive 3,200 ATK and a respectable 2,500 DEF. This synchro monster has two effects. It also enables the synchro summons of additional evolutions of Red Dragon Archfiend.

Synchro Summon Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss requires one tuner monster and one non-tuner dark dragon synchro monster for materials. This synchro summon has specific materials for its synchro summon. It requires a deck with non-tuner dark dragon synchro monsters.

One of the best non -tuner dark dragon synchro monsters for this synchro summon is Red Rising Dragon. Red Rising Dragon may special summon Clock Resonator from your graveyard. Then, you would have all of the necessary materials. The materials of Clock Resonator and Red Rising Dragon synchro summon Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss!

Use these monsters as materials for the Synchro Summon of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss!

First Effect:

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss negates the effects of an opponent’s card until the end of the turn. The opponent loses the advantage from one his or her cards. This effect may counter an opponent’s strategy.

In addition, this effect can swing the momentum in your favor! Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss can negate the effect of opponents cannot destroy a monster in battle. Monsters such as Masked HERO Divine Wind and Shiranui Skillsaga Supremacy lose their effects for one turn if you use Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abys’s first effect on them.

Furthermore, this effect of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss is a quick effect. You may activate this effect during either player’s turn. The proper timing can negate an opponent’s key card for his or her strategy.

Second Effect:

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss special summons one tuner monster from your graveyard per turn when it inflicts damage by battle to the opponent. This effect has a nice advantage and provides consistency for your synchro summons. You gain a tuner monster without a cost.

Furthermore, the effect presents an opportunity for you to synchro summon a powerful monster. Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss sets up a new synchro summon. Your field a new tuner monster for a synchro summon.

In addition, this effect sets up the synchro summon of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. You will need to special summon one level one tuner monster such as Barrier Resonator. The synchro summon includes one level one tuner monster and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss for the synchro summon of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane.

Synchro Material:

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss is material for some synchro monsters. Many synchro monsters in the archetype of Red Dragon Archfiend requires a dark dragon synchro monster. This card fits the requirement with its attribute and type.

For example, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity require one non-tuner dark dragon synchro monster for material. You may use Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss as material. The archetype has many tuner monsters to complete the synchro summon,

Use Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss as material for these synchro monsters!
  • Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane
  • Hot Red Dragon Archfiend King Calamity

Support:

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss has consistent support from its archetype. You can easily synchro summon this synchro monster with the proper materials. Cards in the archetype have the effect to special summon this synchro monster from the graveyard. The archetype also provides protection from the opponent’s card effects.

Red Gardna provides protection for Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss. Red Gardna prevents the opponent from destroying your monsters with their cards’ effects. Effect monster may activates its effect during either player’s turn, and it is a useful card when the opponent tries to destroy this synchro monster with his or her card’s effect.

Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane may special summon Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss from the graveyard. You regain access to Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss. Your field has two powerful synchro monsters. You have the potential to inflict major damage in battle.

Play these cards with Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss!
  • Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane
  • Red Gardna

Card Rating:

Overall, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss is a good card for decks with Red Dragon Archfiend. This synchro monster has useful effects, and it provides consistency for the synchro summons of high level synchro monsters. This synchro monster continues the progression of  Red Dragon Archfiend’s evolution. It has the effects to negate an opponent’s card effect and special summon a tuner monster to the field. Therefore, I recommend playing one or two copies of Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss in your deck.

Card Rating: 3.0 out of 5.0 stars

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