LIGHT AND DARKNESS DRAGON

LIGHT AND DARKNESS DRAGON

Effect: This card cannot be Special Summoned. While this card is face-up on the field, its Attribute is also treated as DARK. When a Spell or Trap Card is activated, or the effect of an Effect Monster is activated, that activation is negated and this card loses 500 ATK and DEF. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, select 1 monster in your Graveyard. Then destroy all cards you control, and Special Summon that monster.
Here you can find the rulings about Light and darkness dragon http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Rulings:Light_and_Darkness_Dragon
I will not copy past it since than you will need to scroll to much to read the rest of my article
As you can see (if you used the link of the rulings) this card is one of the most controversial cards in the history of yugioh.
This card is also one of those things that you definitely don’t want to have on your opponents side of the field.
It costs your opponent at least 1 or 2 cards to get rid of him (generally).
Easy ways of summoning him:
- Mausoleum of the Emperor: Both players can Normal Summon or Set monsters without Tribute(s) by paying 1000 Life Points x the number of monsters needed to Tribute Summon them.
this is the card most new players use to summon him but it comes with a great cost of 2000 lp
-Star Blast: Pay any number of Life Points in multiples of 500. Reduce the Level of 1 monster you control or that is in your hand by 1 for each 500 Life Points you paid, until the End Phase.
A lesser version of Mausoleum of the Emperor, don’t use this.
Both of these cards come with a 2000 lp cost and give you a -1 so with this your dragon wont give you that much of a Advantech anymore
-totem dragon: This card can be treated as 2 Tributes for the Tribute Summon of a Dragon-Type monster. If this card is in your Graveyard during your Standby Phase and you control no monsters, you can Special Summon this card in Attack Position. You cannot activate this effect if there are any monsters in your Graveyard that are not Dragon-Type. If this card is Special Summoned with this effect, remove it from play when it is removed from the field.
With this card it becomes possible to use light and darkness dragon in a dragon deck.
Totem dragon can be brought into the game easy with cards such as future fusion (FGD), foolish burial, lava dragon.
When you are using Light And Darkness Dragon in a dragon deck you will most likely have a high atk points monster in your graveyard to summon as your Light and Darkness Dragon’s parting gift.
- it may be weird but I find that the easiest way to summon Light and Darkness Dragon is just by tributing 2 monsters.
Meaning that we can use it in any deck that swarms the field and is able to maintain those monsters for 2 turns.
The deck that fits this requirement perfectly is frogs.
With the frog dupe/substi lock having 2 monsters during your turn is no problem + they mostly have a treeborn frog in the graveyard so even more sacrifices
Not only that but if you are able to get the dupe/substi lock out + Light and Darkness Dragon than your opponent can not atk and can not use any effects so this is basically the PERFECT lock. After that you can use unifrog or any other direct atk monster like raging flame spirit to start slowly chipping away at your opponents life points.
Ironically frogs are also Light and Darkness dragon’s biggest weakness or maybe one particular frog is more accurate and I am talking about non other than treeborn frog.
Let me explain what happens if you put our dragon vs this little monster
-standby phase
-activate treeborn frog’s effect
- Light and Darkness Dragon negates
-since it is still the standby phase treeborn frog can activate his effect again
- Light and Darkness dragon negates
-and so on until Light and Darkness Dragon ATK/DEF are drained
-finaly we can summon treeborn frog w/o Light and Darkness Dragon interfearing
-end standby phase
Light and Darkness Dragon also works well in any deck that that uses (abuses) dandylion since those 2 tokens dandy summons can be used to summon Light and Darkness Dragon.
Decks like plants/debris can take use of dandylion’s tokens to summon Light and Darkness Dragon.

Now some players think that if you have Light and Darkness Dragon on your field that this means that you can’t do anything either.
This is NOT true
Basically every card that you can chain to Light and Darkness Dragon’s effect can be used wile he is on the field.
When your opponent activates a card to lower your Light and Darkness Dragon’s atk/def points than you can activate these cards
Threatening Roar: this is a card that can work well in just about any deck and it helps to keep you dragon on the field for one more turn.
Interdimensional Matter transport: for this you can check one of my last articals
Forbidden Chalice: this card is not a card that you want to chain when your opponent activates a effect but reader when you want to do something during your turn since it allows the use of effects/spells/traps during one turn and on top of that at the end of this turn your Light and Darkness Dragon will go back to his full atk/def points
Note: during this turn I advice not to atk and be extra carful since Light and Darkness Dragon will no longer negate cards such as torrential tribute and mirror force.
Other cards that work well with him just because he is a 8 star monster and need tributes.
Trade-in, Herald of creation, brain control, soul exchange.
All in all this card is one of the most feared cards there are in yugioh and especially for decks that rely on combos and “low atk/strong effect monster” also it is devestating vs chain burn
Finally if you want to counter Light and Darkness Dragon that I advise you to put a treeborn frog in your side deck edit: or a honest since it also has a effect that you can keep using to lower the dragons atk/def.

LADD is not overly hard to get off the field..but against certain kinds of decks that don't normally pack certain counter cards for him by default will be at a disadvantage. Monarch decks come to mind, as they don't normally pack PWWB or something to bounce LADD with in chain as per his effect; since as everyone knows..his eff is not multitrigger and can be chained too; hence how you can reset his stat's via a chain of BOM, IMT, forbidden chalice,etc.

Personally I don't mind him all that much...Find a way to waste 2 negates off his effect then run him over with a 1900+ atk beater and let it set your opp back a tad since it blows up their field.

Overall the card can be a hit and miss depending how its used and what deck your going against. one such example comes to mind when i played a mirror match against a LADD Chaos Control. We both were able to abuse our treeborns in the grave to loop each others LADD's and make them useless.

So it all depends who your playing. just remember to play him smart...because he will negate your cards as well, so don't set yourself back 2-3 turns due to him being out; just a fyi more less

a good way that i found out to get rid of L&D is special summoning colossal, kamikaze and revive and then destroy whatever L&D revives

yes but this only work if you have a lv 5 special summon card in your hand and a lv 3 tuner

as for the lv 5 it will mostly only be cyber dragon unless you run a sun/moon deck

Heh...colossal is a ok counter as long as you can keep it out of def mode; as so his effect doesn't get negated to reborn itself.

Cyber and a level three tuner is probably what you would be shooting for to get him out though.

In my case with tino; we had a match recently where i was using deep draw BEWD hopeless and i ran into issues with colossal myself; only issue came when he put his colossal in defense to tank my dragons and i got out ladd so he couldnt cancel and i negated colossals's effect.

It all depends though. LADD is best used to simply stall for a turn or two; until you can transition into something else. Like generally with my dragon deck, I make sure to try to have at least one REDMD in my grave so I don't lose field presence after he dies and i can re-swarm next turn.

IMO, probably behind SD/AM, LADD is one of the top lock cards to use in a deck. Other cards like Horus and Jinzo are respectable but only lock down one aspect of play; where all SD/AM and LADD lock down the entire spectrum.

well when I try to counter LADD and SD/AM I find the best way to do it is with a lv 5 special summon monster and a lv 3 tuner.

one of the only counters I have vs SD/AM is with cyber dragon combined with a lv 3 tuner. eather that or stall with 2 trap cards to keep one of monster alive and synchro 8 next turn

there is noting more fun than killing a SD/AM with a 3000 atk collosal figher since you can imidiatly kill the rivived stardust as well

LADD is one nasty son of a B, that is why i built a deck that gets him out easily, you will see it in tourneys when shining darkness comes out.

awesome article dude! awesome ty so much