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When this card is destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard: You can Special Summon 1 EARTH monster with 1500 or less ATK from your Deck, in face-up Attack Position.


 
I always liked this card. It has a lot of neat targets going for it, as well as having an Attribute that makes sense for it's Type, when compared to the other 5 searchers(Shining Angel doesn't have Chain Dog/Redox/Grandsoil/Horn/etc, shoosh).
Plus, EARTHs in general tend to have a lot of toolbox shenanigans, so it's always nice when a supporting card truly feels like it belongs to multiple things of it's own kind.
...Just wish player interaction was more of a thing, but ehh, what can you do.

Oh, and unlike the other 5, this one's 1450 DEF lets it wall the others.
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Lots of great applications.

-Dream Clown because it'll be able to do it's thing when your turn arrives. Plus it's a Crane Crane target.

-Wind-up Kitten for a 1 time troll.

-Shield Warrior/Colossal Head for next future setup of despair.

-Hyper Hammerhead/Heraldic Beast Basilisk for your destruction and bounce uses.

-Injection Fairy Lily for a quick beatstick.

-Amazoness Sage for S/T hate.

-D.D. Crazy Beast for a tactical change

-Golem Sentri (because you'll do it next turn) which in turn works with Inverse Universe.

-Scrap Searcher (because it becomes Raigeki if you use Give and Take on it.)

-D.D. Warrior

-Exiled Force

-Iron Chain Snake is lulzy but hard to use well.

 

Works fine with Horn of the Phantom Beast.

Tech Soul Rope to make up for it's weakness.

 

 

That's what all true Duelists strive for mah boy.

That's a pretty fun level of playing.

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Lots of great applications.

-Dream Clown because it'll be able to do it's thing when your turn arrives. Plus it's a Crane Crane target.

-Wind-up Kitten for a 1 time troll.

-Shield Warrior/Colossal Head for next future setup of despair.

-Hyper Hammerhead/Heraldic Beast Basilisk for your destruction and bounce uses.

-Injection Fairy Lily for a quick beatstick.

-Amazoness Sage for S/T hate.

-D.D. Crazy Beast for a tactical change

-Golem Sentri (because you'll do it next turn) which in turn works with Inverse Universe.

-Scrap Searcher (because it becomes Raigeki if you use Give and Take on it.)

-D.D. Warrior

-Exiled Force

-Iron Chain Snake is lulzy but hard to use well.

 

Works fine with Horn of the Phantom Beast.

Tech Soul Rope to make up for it's weakness.

 

 

That's what all true Duelists strive for mah boy.

That's a pretty fun level of playing.

Crazy Beast control with Giant Rat used to be a thing. Kinda. Stun decks were much easier to justify back in the day.

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Crazy Beast control with Giant Rat used to be a thing. Kinda. Stun decks were much easier to justify back in the day.

Those must have been the days.

D.D. Crazy Beast is one of my all time favorite monsters.

It'd be awesome if Konami made it Ultra Rare and a Structured Deck of it.

Or if it was an Ultra/Secret at Joey's World.... whenever that's supposed to come out.

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Your head.

 

I don't like the joke.

 

OT:  I generally and absolutely LOVE Giant Rat-based searchers.  They are great design in terms of being enjoyable to use and have many different uses.  That's why I absolutely adore Pyramid Turtle in my Vampire Deck.  Also, Giant Rat is neat.

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Pro-move:

Opponent attacks with first monster, revealing your Giant Rat.

Rat searches for Giant Rat, opponent attacks with second monster.

You search for your third Giant Rat.

Opponent attacks with next monster expecting you to search your actual target now, you flip up your Horn of the Phantom Beast(s).

 

Not game-breaking, but worth the laugh.

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