Vampire Lord | Deck and Rulings

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.