This card will be hard to beat except for a negate. mst or destroying or bouncing the ritual summoned monster cannot stop this from resolving it just need that recquirment to activate.
There's no search in that deck. Genex Undine or Buzzsaw Shark targeting a level 7 Mermail are the two best ways to search Citadel Whale. Nimble Sunfish is ok.
Sure, you can use this for cards that have an effect when they're summoned. I think there are even some Performapal monsters that can be used for that.
The card was originally released at least one year before D'Arc was printed, so it was meant to work as a counter to self-burn alongside Leonidas before D'Arc outclassed them
You can't, the effect of Skills that automatically activates at the start of the duel, is applied all the time.
In Holy Guard's case, the effect is automatically applied whenever you would take battle damage during your own turn. You can't choose, it's more akin to a continuous effect.
I guess he refers to the fact that an evil-looking guy with long, fair hair appears in a card that contains the word "Vicious", but yeah, no. Highly doubt Konami would have bothered to turn this card into a Cowboy Bebop nod.
Not by itself. But if you have a pendulum scale 6 or more and run a lot of light monsters that are level 5 or more (within the other scale) it ends up helping.
