In the upcoming Duelist Pack: Rivals of the Pharaoh, you’ll see all kinds of cards used by the Duelists that were able to push the Pharaoh to his absolute limits. Today’s preview card belonged to Yugi’s first and greatest rival: Seto Kaiba! In true Kaiba fashion, if you ever want to make absolutely sure a particular monster can’t be used against you, just yank it straight out of your opponent’s Deck with Lullaby of Obedience!

Lullaby of Obedience is a Normal Spell Card that costs 2000 Life Points to activate. When you activate it, you get to name any one Monster Card. Your opponent will have to look through their Deck and find a copy of that card, if they have one. Then, they’ll have to choose: Either they put the named monster into your hand, or they let you Special Summon it in Attack Position, ignoring any Summoning conditions! Either way, you’re turning their own cards against them!

Kaiba originally used this card against Yugi, taking Yugi’s Slifer the Sky Dragon. This is a great example of one strategy for Lullaby of Obedience: take away powerful, Limited (or one of a kind) cards! Let’s say the only possible card your opponent could draw to defeat you is Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning. Name it with Lullaby of Obedience, and if they don’t have it you’re safe and if they do have it they have to hand it over to you. Now, not only do you have access to that powerful card, something just as important happens: Your opponent doesn’t have Envoy of the Beginning anymore!

In that example, your opponent will likely choose to put Envoy of the Beginning into your hand, making it more difficult for you to Summon it. You may have no way to play it at all, if you aren’t using LIGHT and DARK monsters. That’s why Lullaby of Obedience truly shines as a card in the Side Deck. You’ll use it in games where your opponent is using the same strategy as yours, so you can maximize the advantage of taking your opponent’s cards. Here’s just a few great examples of Decks that can use Lullaby of Obedience in the mirror match.

If 3 copies of Speedroid Terrortop are good, then 6 copies are even better! Especially when the extra 3 come at your opponent’s expense. There are a ton of Decks out there right now that use Speedroid Terrortop to jumpstart their strategy, and if your Deck is one of them, any opponent who’s also relying on the Level 3 WIND monster is fair game for Lullaby of Obedience. The choice of where to put the card doesn’t matter because you can just Special Summon it from your hand and claim its search effect anyways. For as long as Terrortop sees play, it’ll be a strong choice for Lullaby of Obedience.

Blue-Eyes Decks are one of the best places to use Lullaby of Obedience – fitting, since it’s a Kaiba card. Just about anything is a good card to name with your Lullaby! Try taking Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon, for example. Even if they choose to put it into your hand, it’s easy to Special Summon. Once it’s on the field, it can wipe out opposing monsters with its effect instead of attacking! You can also use your Lullaby to take a Blue-Eyes if you need a monster for Trade-In or Polymerization. Lullaby of Obedience is also great for taking Sage with Eyes of Blue. If they put it in your hand, you can use either of its effects. If they let you Special Summon it, you have it as a Tuner.

The Kozmo Deck now only has one copy of Kozmo Dark Destroyer, due to the recent changes to the Forbidden & Limited List. You can take advantage of that with Lullaby of Obedience! When you take their only copy of Dark Destroyer, your opponent will have to choose. Either you Special Summon it now, and destroy a monster with its effect, or you keep it in your hand to Special Summon later with your other Kozmo cards. Either way, it’s a tough situation for your opponent! This matchup will be especially tricky, however. If your opponent destroys their own Dark Destroyer, it’ll go to their graveyard and they will be the one to use its effect there. If they’re clever, they could actually come out ahead after you took their Dark Destroyer. Thus, it’s best to have a way to get rid of it before it’s destroyed. There are a few ways to go about that, with the simplest being to Tribute it for another of your Kozmo monsters or negate it with Kozmoll Dark Lady. If you can’t or don’t want to take Dark Destroyer, you can also use Lullaby of Obedience with great results by choosing Kozmo Tincan or Kozmo Strawman, for example.

The Monarch strategy was also affected by the new Forbidden & Limited List with several cards being Limited, including Ehther the Heavenly Monarch. Ehther is a great card to take with Lullaby of Obedience – not only does it rob your opponent of their only copy, but there’s no great option for your opponent to choose. If they let you put Ehther in your hand, you can use its effect when it’s Tribute Summoned, and you can even use its effect to be Tribute Summoned on their turn! They’ll probably want to let you Special Summon it instead, but that means you’re getting a 2800 ATK monster directly to the field that could help end the Duel immediately. Besides Ehther, you can also use Lullaby of Obedience to take Edea the Heavenly Squire or Eidos the Underworld Squire. Whether your opponent puts Edea or Eidos into your hand for later or onto the field immediately, Edea and Eidos will have one of their effects activated. Just make sure you have a strong follow-up if you take Edea or Eidos, because your opponent could be able to use their effects in the Graveyard.

There are tons of other great reasons to use Lullaby of Obedience. It can be a powerful card in any matchup, but its true strength is revealed when you’re using it in a mirror match. You’ll be able to find Lullaby of Obedience in Duelist Pack: Rivals of the Pharaoh starting September 16th!