This card is amazing for anyone who can make good reads.

Good Card for Good players.

They Rota for Stratos.
Call Stratos.

They Teleport.
Make the correct Call of Krebons / Commander.

They Remove Malicious for the Cost.
Call Malicious.
Since they removed for the cost already they much bring out the second.
Thus making the 3rd useless.

So many things as long as you can make correct reads.

I've had these two the side for quite some time now but haven't gotten around to testing them. I think it has some potential as a side deck card, maybe even main deck, it's just going to take some brave rouge duelists to run it successfully. I'm up to that challenge.

Yeah, I wouldn't call it the "best" card people aren't running but it's also (like Compulsory Evacuation Device, Royal Impregnable Fortress/"Imperial Iron Wall", etc) one of those many overlooked, at least Sidedeckable, cards that could help once you know how the opponent works.

The problem with cloak and dagger is that it is a ruling nightmare. After reading up on it I'm still not too sure how it works on timing etc.

It's not that bad if you think about it. Still not as big as Prohibition and others, lol.


Rulings

You declare a monster card name when "Cloak and Dagger" resolves.

This card's removal effect starts a Chain.

You cannot activate this card during the Damage Step.

If this card was already activated and face-up when the declared monster is flipped face-up or Summoned during the Damage Step, this card's effect will activate at the same time as a Flip Effect (after Damage Calculation).

This card must be face-up and active on the field before the declared monster is Summoned or flipped face-up. If you Chain this card's activation to the effect of a monster that activates when that monster is Summoned or flipped face-up and declare that monster's name, it will not be removed from play.

If "Cloak and Dagger" is face-up and active, and the declared monster is Summoned or flipped face-up during resolution of a Chain, it will be removed from play after resolving all effects on that Chain.

If multiple copies of the declared monster are Summoned at the same time, they will all be removed from play.

If "Ring of Destruction", etc. is Chained to the effect of "Cloak and Dagger" to destroy the monster that was Summoned or flipped face-up, "Cloak and Dagger" will still remove itself from play.

If multiple copies of the declared monster are Summoned by effects on different Links of the same Chain, only the first one Summoned (the one Summoned at the highest Chain Link) will be removed from play. For example, if 2 copies of "Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World" are discarded at the same time, only 1 is removed from play.

If your opponent already controls a copy of the declared monster, then Summons another copy, only the newly Summoned monster will be removed from play.

If you Special Summon the monster declared by "Cloak and Dagger", you can Chain "Inferno Reckless Summon" to the effect of "Cloak and Dagger". Only the first monster Summoned (the one that triggered the effect of "Cloak and Dagger") will be removed from play.

Two other cards that haven't been used but have good effects are.

Big Burn-works good against zombies and any gravebase recovery decks.

Fiend Comedian- I don't see why this isn't in lightsworn decks. You can either mill your deck or remove your opponents cards in the grave from play.

Cloak and dagger is like bait doll a random tech card.

ihotfirei and I have talked about this in the past, especially when I was able to be more active in the Online League. I'm 90% sure he used to at least side deck Fiend Comedian for various match ups but I'm not certain. I do agree it's a great card in a number of decks. Zombies also come to mind, especially with Mezuki and Plaguespreader Zombie.

Fiend comedian is pro and I still side it to this very day. I think my friend russel rothman side deck it in his lightsworn deck when he topped at baltimore(I think it was baltimore)

Cloak is Amazingly good in the Main deck.


It's always Great Cloaking Mali as they remove theirs. So Chaining it to Teleport.
Against LS you can Cloak a Card they get back from Beckoning / Reincarnarion.
You Can Cloak when they Finish Foolish into Wulf.
They Pitch Plague for Zombie Master. Call Plague. Ect ect.


Fiend Comedian is somethnig I haven't Tried.

Fiend Comedian is very nice in today's game, where the Graveyard is used quite often. You either remove their entire Graveyard, thus "resetting" them back to square 1 or you can thin your Deck and possibly get stuff into your own Graveyard to use. Either way, you mostly win.