Vampire Lord | Deck and Rulings

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Vampire Lord
How to get / rarity
Evaluation
Tips, related cards, skills
Vampire Lord works against
Rulings
Decks

Vampire Lord

Attribute	DARK
Monster Type	Zombie
Card type	Effect
Card Effect Type	Trigger Effect
Level	★5
Passcode	53839837
ATK	2000
DEF	1500

text

When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent: Declare 1 card type (Monster, Spell, or Trap); your opponent sends 1 card of that type from their Deck to the Graveyard. During your next Standby Phase after this card in your possession was destroyed and sent to your Graveyard by an opponent's card effect: Special Summon this card from the Graveyard.

How to get / rarity

Pack	Crimson Kingdom [UR]
Level-up reward	--
Victory against	--
Card trader	--
Other	--

Evaluation

Rating

-/10

Pros

Can make your opponent discard a card from their deck.
Special summons in your standby phase as long as it's destroyed by your opponent's card effect.

Cons

Needs to inflict damage to make your opponent discard a card.
Level 5 monster and low defense.
Can only be special summoned if it's destroyed by your opponent's card effect.

Tips, related cards, skills

Vampire Lord works against

Vampire Lord can be special-summoned from the Graveyard when it is destroyed by the effects of cards. Use the effect to deal with cards like below.

Order to Charge

Commonly used in several meta decks, this card is what makes normal monsters quite strong and versatile, but using it against Vampire Lord will only stop it for 1 turn.

Michizure

If your opponents uses Michizure, you can destroy your opponent's monster using your other monster aside from Vampire Lord. Activating Michizure will leave them with targeting either Vampire Lord, that can be special summoned next turn, or your other monster, allowing your Vampire Lord to attack.

Yomi Ship

An easy monster removal card that sometimes players use, often in Mako decks. If you see a Mako player setting this, there's a pretty good chance it might be Yomi Ship, so make sure you use Vampire Lord to attack first.

Rulings

Decks

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Comments

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Phrisck 31days ago

Is it just me or are the Pros/Cons sections in this site always bullshit?

Anonymous

with 48 packs left the remaining cards are 2 UR (vampire lord and dark paladin) and 2 SR (dark general freed and buster blader swordmaster)
should i reset or wait till i get vampire and paladin (are they worth it)
this is my first box so i don't have any copy of vampire lord or dark paladin
thanks for reading and hopefully answering

<< Anonymous

rob Reply

if you want to run red eyes zombies go for your wyverns and gozuki now, if you want some more fun/useful cards dark paladin is amazing for farming super Joey and other dragon users + vampire lord is a really cool card imo. I'd wait

KIDCOM1C

My zombie deck so fun to use

<< Anonymous(KIDCOM1C)

Anonymous Reply

Fun indeed, good for you. *stare into wallet, cries in the corner

<< Anonymous(KIDCOM1C)

Anonymous Reply

Bruh, use Kaibas heavy starter, then it's even more fun and with the summoning animation! Also if you do, take out e-con, the three traps at the end and the 4 star zombie. Add a third red eyes zombie, 3 magical merchants, a monster reincarnation, and a standard red eyes - should be ridiculous!

<< Anonymous(KIDCOM1C)

Anonymous Reply

The buyers remourse will be real

Anonymous

No way this is worth a UR spot in the box. How would u ever land an attack with this garbage card. It's basically a downgraded mefist. And mefist has penetration damage to use his effect. U gotta be playing a really crap opponent to gain board advantage with this.

Anonymous

one of my favorite cards but still seems usless in this game.
Even with vamipre kingdom which isnt in this game already and a full vampire deck, he is one of the weaker vampires.
However at least he looks cool :D

<< Anonymous

Castlevania fan Reply

Yeah, who cares about the effect and stats? He is a muthafukin dracula ffs.

<< Anonymous

Josh Reply

Pre 5ds he was a staple in control decks

Anonymous

Why is being a level 5 monster a con?

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Because this card would be the best card available in Duel Links if it was lvl 1-4.

<< Anonymous

Josh Reply

Because every one's who hasn't played him trashes his stats he's one of the best control cards in the game pre 5ds

Anonymous

This card is utter trash, not sure why is it even UR... and of course i end up with 3 copies of this useless crap.

<< Anonymous

Player J Reply

What makes you think he is trash?

<< Anonymous(Player J)

Anonymous Reply

1 tribute for only 2000atk, low defense and his effect does not cover his terribly low stats... I know this card was a thing in tcg old times but duel links is another format here we do not have trap hole, fisure, smashing ground, rageki, dark hole,torrential, mirror force, exiled force,ring of destruction... etc. Just frustrated i ended up really fast with 3 of this instead of gozuki,lotus or wyv

<< Anonymous

Player J Reply

I had to buy 298 packs to get my first copy of V. Lord I think you are extremely lucky!

Slowking

With the release of the Zombie support (Vampire Lord/Lady, Gozuki m.m.) Will it finally be worth it to get Goblin Zombie from Bakura?

<< Anonymous(Slowking)

DaSwifta Reply

It can search for Gozuki, aswell as Kyonshee so yes it would be worth it, but probably only once we get a character with Wasteland field spell as their skill. OR maybe that's not necessary in a Zombie deck. I don't know. But Red-Eyes Zombie Dragon is probably the preferred boss monster for Zombie decks cause it counters your opponents Zombie monsters and also has higher stats for the same cost

<< Anonymous(DaSwifta)

Slowking Reply

Fair argument. I'm still collecting the cards right now but I'm envisioning a deck using Bakuras Tether of Defeat and Vampire Lord to mill through the opponents deck and Red Eyes Zombie Dragon as a secondary boss monster. Of course with Gozuki and maybe Blood Sucker if he works.

<< Anonymous(Slowking)

Anonymous Reply

Do it. I'm running the same type of deck, and with only one copy each of vamp Lord and gozuki and other monsters of my choice. A competitive version of the deck would be somethin to reckon with. I'd suggest using it with warm worm

Anonymous

Why is it i can never get the animation for him

<< Anonymous

KIDCOM1C Reply

Use with seto

Anonymous

Dayyum i can remember when i bought vampire deck and this card was in, like 12 years ago

<< Anonymous

thehaxfactory Reply

Vampire Lord shutting down Order to Charge is huge for the game though because Order to Charge is a huge part of the Harpie match up and it's why it's so hard to keep a lead over Harpies as long as they have resources. Vampire Lord might shift the meta away from normal monsters a bit.

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Well there isnt left any hhg meta right now. Its all about paradox brothers against paradox brothers even a good harpies deck is useless against a good dark magican paradox brothers deck

<< Anonymous

DaSwifta Reply

Actually, Harpies are (though they are less played) still a large part of the meta, and eventually Paradox bros will be nerfed, so Harpies are still good and it's probably good that konami adds cards to shut them down a bit.

<< Anonymous(DaSwifta)

Anonymous Reply

It's 3sd and rebd meta right now. Hhg is still good but not top compared to those two decks.

Anonymous

This card has an intro animation. I wonder if all box face cards will finallly get them

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

it's only cuz it's the real life card photo, not from the animation game

<< Anonymous

Anonymous Reply

Have animation....

<< Anonymous

DaSwifta Reply

For some reason I don't get the animation when I use it with Kaiba. Is this a glitch or something? And they never mentioned it had one, they just showed it in the reveal trailer

Anonymous

So glad he was added. He's a cool card to see come in with his effect as if the opponent doesn't have a good way to out him, he just sits there with the back row until they lose by hitting 0 LP or decking out.

<< Anonymous

Edgar81539 Reply

I mean... ok? Battle position manipulation is extremely common in PVP and with 1500 defense this thing is far from sturdy. It doesn't really deserve the UR status but ok.

<< Anonymous(Edgar81539)

Anonymous Reply

Well, I normally play 2 Adhesive Trap Hole and 2-3 Shield Spear, even if the position changes, you can protect him against being run over easily. He can still be run over, but they have to put in work for it. I can agree that he didn't need to be a UR, though I feel like they put him there because of Vampire Genesis and so that he isn't pulled because of the 1 SR when you purchase deal.

<< Anonymous(Edgar81539)

DaSwifta Reply

The reason it's UR is because it's one of Kaiba's signature cards from the original anime, and because they wanted it on the front of the pack. There's no reason for Black Luster Soldier to be UR either, in fact Black Luster Soldier without any good support is probably much worse, but it's an UR because Yugi uses it in the anime and because they wanted it on the cover.