Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon
Fusion Effect Monster
Card text
"Dark Magician" + "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" or 1 Dragon Effect Monster Cannot be destroyed by card effects. Neither player can target this card with card effects. During your Main Phase: You can destroy 1 monster your opponent controls, and if you do, inflict damage to your opponent equal to that monster's original ATK. You can use this effect a number of times per turn up to the number of Normal Monsters used as material for this card. Once per turn, when a card or effect is activated (Quick Effect): You can discard 1 card; negate the activation, and if you do, destroy that card, and if you do that, this card gains 1000 ATK.
- Attribute
- DARK
- Type
- Spellcaster
- Level
- 8
- ATK
- 3000
- DEF
- 2500
Explained
A Fusion of "Dark Magician" + "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" or a Dragon Effect Monster. It can't be destroyed or targeted by card effects, destroys monsters and burns for their original ATK (once per Normal Monster used as material), and discards to negate an activation once per turn.
As a boss monster in Dark Magician and Red-Eyes decks: hard to remove, with a negation each turn.
- Using the destroy/burn effect when no Normal Monster was used as material. You can't.
- Expecting burn damage from a monster with ? ATK printed.
How it works
Materials: “Dark Magician” + “Red-Eyes Black Dragon” or 1 Dragon Effect Monster.
- Continuous: Can’t be destroyed by card effects, and neither player can target it with card effects.
- Main Phase: Destroy 1 monster your opponent controls, and inflict damage equal to its original ATK. You can use this as many times per turn as the number of Normal Monsters used as its Fusion Material.
- Quick Effect (once per turn): When a card or effect is activated, discard 1 card to negate the activation, destroy that card, and gain 1000 ATK.
When to use it
Dragoon is one of the strongest single monsters for Dark Magician fans: it shrugs off most removal and stops one play per turn.
Rulings in plain English
Destroy/burn: Doesn’t target; you choose at resolution. Destroying and damage are simultaneous. It uses the printed ATK (“?” deals nothing). If Dragoon was banished and returned, or flipped face-down and back, it can’t use this.
Negate: Discarding is the cost. Usable in the Damage Step. Negating, destroying and the ATK gain are simultaneous. The 1000 ATK goes away if Dragoon’s effects are negated or it leaves the field.
