JMP-EN004 Obelisk the Tormentor Yu-Gi-Oh! Card

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Type:	Monster
Type I:	Normal
Type II:	Divine-Beast
Attribute:	Light
Level:	10
Attack:	4000
Defence:	4000
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Obelisk the Tormentor Yu-Gi-Oh! card from other Yu-Gi-Oh! sets

Number	Name	Set	Price
GBI-002	Obelisk the Tormentor	Gameboy Worldwide Edition: God Cards
GLD4-EN030	Obelisk the Tormentor	Gold Series 4: Pyramids Edition
JUMP-EN037	Obelisk the Tormentor	Shonen Jump: Magazine
LC01-EN001	Obelisk the Tormentor	Legendary Collection

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Play tips for this YuGiOh Card

• A good way to protect this card is Stardust Dragon that protect him from a Lighting Vortex or such cards.

• In an Ojama deck, with at least 3 of them in your Graveyard, use Tri-Wight Zone for instant three tributes.

• Cosmic Compass combined with Double Summon can make an excellent combo to summon "Obelisk", providing that your opponent has at least 2 monsters in play.
  • (You can also use "Cosmic Compass" to benefit from "Obelisk's" effect. To destroy all of your opponnent's monsters, play this card right and you get a deadly arsenal of tributes for the price of one card.)

• The effects of the Piece Golems can speed up this card's summoning considerably.

• A good combo to use with "Obelisk the Tormentor's" effect is to include cards that can be special summoned easily therefore getting monsters on the field to activate Obelisk's effect to tribute two monsters to destroy all of your opponent's monsters.

• You can use Fires of Doomsday for this card's ability to destroy all monsters your opponent controls.

• Among the best choices to remove it are with cards that don't target like Smashing Ground, using Honest to destroy it in battle or gain control of it with Creature Swap.

• A decent way of preventing your "Obelisk" from falling into the hands of your opponent from "Creature Swap" since it does not target (given if it is your only monster out on the field), you can use the card Pole Position to prevent it from happening since the card does not target your "Obelisk" and negates spells from affecting the strongest monster out on the field.

• A good combo to summon this card is to use One for One in combination with Destiny Hero - Malicious and Evil Thorn. Discard "Destiny Hero - Malicious" with "One for One" and Special Summon "Evil Thorn". Activate the effect of "Evil Thorn" in order to Summon two more. Then use "Destiny Hero - Malicious'" effect to Summon another copy and then tribute all three to Summon "Obelisk the Tormentor".

• This card works considerably well in Six Samurai and Blackwing decks.

• You can use The Tricky, Tricky Spell 4, and Ojama Trio. First use "The Tricky", next use "Ojama Trio". Next use "Tricky Spell 4" and tribute for Obelisk.

• When you have five monsters in the Graveyard use Soul Release and Return from the Different Dimension to summon those monsters and then tribute three of them for "Obelisk the Tormentor" and you can use the other two for his effect.

• You can use Nightmare Archfiends and Owner's Seal as a combination to instantly Special Summon 3 monsters to Tribute for this card, which can also work for The Winged Dragon of Ra.

• This card works well in a Remove From Play Deck. By using either D.D. Survivor's" or D.D. Scout Plane's" effect while Dimensional Fissure or Macro Cosmos is in play, you can continuously Tribute them for "Obelisk's" effect to clear your opponent's field.

• Use your opponent's monsters as Tributes for this card's effect using Soul Exchange.

• With some good Insect-Type monsters to put in your Graveyard, Spider Egg can both protect you from an attack and Special Summon 3 Spider tokens, providing another way to summon this card.

• In a Dragon deck, 2 Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragons can recycle two Dragons each of your turns, allowing you to use "Obelisk's" effect every turn. They can also easily put a Hardened Armed Dragon on the field for "Obelisk's" Normal Summon, giving you a virtually indestructible "Obelisk".
  • The only ways to kill this "Obelisk" is to tribute him via Lava Golem or similar cards, or to overpower it (unlikely if you don't have "Honest"). Additionally, Crystal Abundance and Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus will work as they do not destroy. D.D. Warrior Lady, Legendary Jujitsu Master, "Creature Swap", and Guardian Sphinx work too because they don't target.

• To temporarily prevent this card from being destroyed by battle, you can use DNA Transplant and "Honest". Since neither cards target "Obelisk", by having "DNA Transplant" having your monsters be LIGHT monsters, should your opponent happen to have a monster stronger than "Obelisk", you can discard "Honest" to prevent it from being destroyed by battle and inflict 4000 points to your opponent.

• • "DNA Transplant" can also call attributes beside LIGHT and prevent others from using "Honest's" effect on "Obelisk".

• Monsters such as Spirit Reaper, Shiba-Warrior Taro, and Marshmallon are useful monsters to summon this card, as they cannot be destroyed by battle.

• Special Summon a monster and use Inferno Reckless Summon in order to Special Summon two more of the same monster. Tribute all three to summon this card.

• Machine Duplication can get you monsters on the field quickly, allowing you to tribute them to summon this card or activate its effect. This can be combined with Magnet Circle LV2 or "One for One" to get Obelisk out instantly.

• This card can be easily summoned in a Frog Deck thanks to Treeborn Frog and Ronintoadin. Frogs also summon quickly enough to use "Obelisk" even without "Treeborn Frog".

• This card will be a dead draw if your opponent has Mask of Restrict or Fog King because they prevent tributing altogether. So be sure to deal with them first.

• Hammer Shot, Yomi Ship, Blind Destruction, Mirror Force, Exploder Dragon, "Smashing Ground", Widespread Ruin, Judgment Dragon, Lightning Vortex,... can get rid of this card.

• Notes on destroying "Obelisk" by battle. The key is getting a monster to 4000 attack or more during a single turn.
  • The card Metalmorph is very useful since it gives any monster with more than 1700 attack the power to destroy "Obelisk". Many Level 4 Monster Cards have enough attack when equipped with "Metalmorph".
  • Several Fusion Monsters are strong enough to destroy Obelisk by battle, but it can be difficult to summon powerful ones in one turn. If "Obelisk" is summoned later in the game, try to use Miracle Fusion to summon Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman (if the materials are in your Graveyard and you have at least 5 Elemental Heroes in your graveyard) or Overload Fusion to summon Chimeratech Overdragon (if you have at least 5 Machine-Type monsters in your graveyard).
  • Try to summon Level 10 Monster Cards of your own. Many level 10 monsters can overpower Obelisk (or at least end up destroying both of them), including The Wicked Dreadroot, Raviel, Lord of Phantasms, or The Wicked Avatar if you have 3 tributes available. Or activate "Spider Egg" if your opponent attacked the turn before and you have an Insect deck. "Fires of Doomsday" can be activated during your opponent's turn for 2 tokens. Reptilianne Spawn can also give tokens. (There are a myriad of options depending on what deck you have). If you have several Continuous Spell Cards in your hand summon Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder. Occasionally even Uria, Lord of Searing Flames can destroy Obelisk. Darkness Neosphere, if used in a Fiend deck, can easily be summoned from your hand. Since it cannot be destroyed by battle it can destroy "Obelisk" and still survive. If your opponent summons their trump card, just summon your own. Use ideas created to summon "Obelisk" to summon a 3-tributer of your own.
  • If you are willing to take a direct attack from "Obelisk" (which won't have very pretty results), you can summon Gorz the Emissary of Darkness or activate Apple of Frigg which will create a token powerful enough to destroy "Obelisk".
  • If you have Shooting Quasar Dragon you can destroy Obelisk and also be able to summon Shooting Star Dragon from your Extra Deck.
• One of the quickest ways to Summon "Obelisk" is through Special Summon. However, his effect makes that troublesome. For instance The Shallow Grave may bring him out and prevent him from being destroyed that turn since he is face-down, yet once he is face-up the effect kicks in. But if Sauropod Brachion is on the Field, you can always flip all monster into face-down position again. However, the blanket immunity for "Obelisk" is lost while he is face-down. The benefit is that your opponent must either use a card to destroy him or intentionally attack a 4000 DEF monster to make him face-up during their turn instead of yours.

• As shown in the anime, one strategy that can be used to quickly summon "Obelisk" to the field is to summon "The Tricky" and when your opponent has three or more Monsters on the field, activate "Tricky Spell 4" and then Tribute 3 of the Tricky Tokens.

• If your opponent has summoned Obelisk using the aforementioned Cosmic Compass or The Tricky + Tricky Spell 4 combo, then they most likely used obelisk's effect to get rid of your monsters. If you find yourself with no monster to defend yourself with, a good card to summon is Temporal Machine God Metaion. Metaion's effect will activate upon battling obelisk, bouncing back to your opponent's hand and adding 300 damage to for each card returned this way, forcing your opponent to redo all there hard work at summoning it in the first place.

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