With so many powerful level 3 XYZ monsters available, summoning them has never been easier!
XYZ monsters are a great way to increase your deck’s potential. By understanding their strengths and weaknesses, you can make the best choices for your specific playstyle.
12. Number 34: Terror-Byte
This card is a powerful monster that can be played only if you have at least 4 other monsters in your Graveyard. It is a DARK monster with the ability to inflict damage to your opponent equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Summoning a level 3 monster costs three level 3 monsters. ..
If you can pull this off, it’s well worth the challenge!
You can detach a material from this card to take control of a level 4 or lower monster your opponent controls until the end phase.
This prevents your opponent from summoning next turn, and you can use these materials for your own summon! ..
That way, you can never have to give the monster back.
11. Number 17: Leviathan Dragon
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This guy is pretty strong at 2000 attack.
If you have Number 17 on the field, you can detach a material from it to have it gain 500 attack. The downside is that once you’ve run out of XYZ materials, Number 17 can’t attack your opponent directly.
3000 attacks is still more than most of your opponent’s monsters. So you can leave the direct attacking to the rest of your monsters! ..
10. D/D/D Stone King Darius
This card is specific to D/D decks, as it requires fiend monsters to be special summoned.
This guy is definitely worth considering if you’re playing D/D monsters. ..
You can detach an XYZ material from D/D/D Stone King Darius to destroy any “Dark Contract” card you control, then draw a card.
D/D decks are incredibly powerful, but each spell has a cost – each turn, you lose 1000 life points. Dark Contract cards are the spells and traps that give D/D decks their power, but they come with a cost – every time you use them, you lose 1000 life points. ..
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The second effect of this card is just as good for the deck as well. ..
If you battle a monster with this card, it will be destroyed. However, this card will still survive.
With this ability, you can take on literally any monster your opponent throws at you – and they can’t do anything to stop you.
9. Number 75: Bamboozling Gossip Shadow
If you’re running a Number’s-oriented strategy, 75 is an amazing rank 3 monster. ..
You can detach two XYZ materials from this card to change an opponent’s monster effect when it activates. If the opponent’s monster has an effect that allows you to target a card with ATK less than the amount of materials detached, you can instead target that card.
The old effect is gone and is replaced with “each player draws a card.” ..
This card shuts down pesky monster effects while also gaining a little card advantage.
You can target a Number’s XYZ monster and attach this card (and all its materials) to it.
This card gives your Number’s monsters more fuel to activate their abilities. For example, you could attach this card as materials to Number 17: Leviathan Dragon and have its attack stat go all the way up to 4000.
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8. Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction
Number 30: Acid Golem is a powerful monster with an insane attack stat. It introduces a new way to burn your opponent for damage, making it a formidable foe. ..
If you control this card, you can’t Special Summon monsters. ..
During each standby phase, you have to detach one XYZ material from this card, or take 2000 points of damage. When you run out of XYZ materials, this guy also can’t attack – so not only will you be taking a lot of damage, but this monster will be completely useless!
This card is designed to summon a creature, then use its XYZ materials to transfer it to your opponent.
In 2000 damage every single turn, your opponent will have to pull something special out of the bag to overcome this burn strategy.
7. Grenosaurus
This XYZ monster is one of the first XYZ monsters players ever summoned, since it was included in the very first XYZ starter deck.
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When this fiery dino destroys a monster in battle, you can detach an XYZ material from this card to burn your opponent for 1000 damage.
This is a great way to deal damage quickly and easily, on top of the battle damage you’re already taking.
6. Phantom Knights of Break Sword
This card is a perfect reusable card destruction effect that can be used to end the game quickly.
You can detach an XYZ material from this card to destroy two cards: one you control and one your opponent controls. ..
If this card is destroyed, you can Special Summon 2 Phantom Knights monsters from your Graveyard with the same level. Then increase their levels by 1.
If you’re playing a Phantom Knight deck, you can’t summon non-Dark monsters for the rest of the turn. This isn’t a problem for decks that run entirely on dark monsters.
This effect sets you up perfectly for some rank 4 XYZ plays. And Phantom Knights have a lot of good Rank 4 options to choose from!
5. Leviair the Sea Dragon
If you’re playing a strategy that involves banishing monsters, then Leviair the Sea Dragon is an essential card for your extra deck.
You can detach XYZ material from this card to target one of your banished monsters, and then special summon it to your side of the field. ..
However, there is one card that can help with this problem: the Mirror Universe card. Mirror Universe allows you to banish monsters from your hand instead of from the banished pile, which can be very helpful in getting banished monsters back. ..
4. Dante, Traveler of the Burning Abyss
Dante is an amazing card for decks that like to mill cards. It can help you get rid of pesky cards quickly, and can even be used in conjunction with other cards to create powerful combos.
This is a card that sends cards from your deck to the graveyard.
This card can be a huge advantage in the right deck, as it triggers when it hits the graveyard.
With Dante, you can choose a number between 1 and 3 to mill that many cards.
Dante gains 500 attack for each card you send him. At full power, this guy is 2500 attack.
Dante is in a much better position to fight after attacking than he was before. With 2500 defense, Dante is in a much better position to survive an attack.
3. Salamangreat Miragestallio
I never thought I’d see this guy on the ban-list, but here he is.
I’m so glad we can all play Salamangreat Miragestallio again!
With this card, you can detach an XYZ material to special summon any Salamangreat monster from your deck. ..
Salamangreat monsters are a great way to activate their effects, so Miragestallio is a key card in this deck. ..
The Salamangreat Deck is focused on Link Summoning monsters, so it’s only natural that this card will eventually be used as a Link Material. ..
You can target any monster on the field and return it to the hand by targeting it with a link summon.
This card is amazing for getting rid of powerful extra deck monsters or for recycling monsters on your side of the field.
2. Number 47: Nightmare Shark
47 is a great number card, ranking anywhere from 3 to 5. ..
The Number 47 game finisher is an amazing ability that can be used even if your opponent has a lot of monsters to defend with. This ability can easily defeat them, even if they have high life points.
You can detach XYZ material from this card to have any water monster you control attack your opponent directly. ..
If you’re playing a pure water strategy, then this will open up many doors to demolish your opponent with. But in non-water decks you can always target Number 47: Nightmare Shark with its own ability to smack your opponent for 2000 damage!
1. Wind-Up Zenmaines
If you played Yu-Gi-Oh at the time Wind-Ups were released, then you’ll know exactly how powerful they can be because they were released just before Wind-Ups became one of the most popular cards in the game.
Wind-Up Zenmaines is the best rank 3 XYZ monster in all of Yu-Gi-Oh because it is incredibly useful in any deck that has level 3 monsters.
If this card is destroyed, you can detach an XYZ material from it to prevent it from being destroyed. ..
If you activated this effect, you can then target any other card on the field and destroy it!
This is a brilliant way of using your opponent’s destructive power to your own advantage.
The more Zenmaines is attacked, the more her own cards are destroyed. ..
This card is a great way to protect yourself from attacks. ..
