How to help your Mystical Knight (of Jackal, that is)

Mystical Knight of Jackal (or Jackal Paladin…much cooler name) is my 
personal favorite card.  Not only does he look unbelievably cool, but he 
can create a nasty lock for your opponent when played correctly.  Here I 
shall list several things that help, and hinder, Jackal Paladin.

Mystical Knight Of Jackal
PGD 069, Ultra Rare
Light/Beast-Warrior
Level 7: Attack- 2700, Defense- 1200
Effect: You can return your opponent’s own monster that is sent to the 
Graveyard by this monster as a result of battle to the top of his/her Deck.


Firstly (and obviously), graveyard recursion.  Graceful Charity + Monster 
Reborn/Premature Burial/Call of the Haunted are great ways to get Jackal on 
the field; his two tribute requirement can be hard to pull off, so it’s 
best to revive him from the graveyard.

Secondly (and also obviously), hand disruption Magic (Spell) 
cards.  Delinquent Duo and Confiscation obviously work very well with 
Jackal, but The Forceful Sentry does so even more.  By returning a card to 
your opponent’s deck, you eliminate the chance of discarding a Sinister 
Serpent or high level Monster (as with DD…plus, it’s free).  Jackal will be 
preventing your opponent from drawing anything useful anyway, so there’s a 
very good chance that what you return with TFS won’t be coming back.

Thirdly, Fairy Meteor Crush/Big Bang Shot (which will be in Magician’s 
Force).  With 2700 attack points on Jackal, your opponent will probably be 
playing his Monsters in defense mode.  With FMC/BBS, even if he does, 
you’ll STILL be doing massive damage with Jackal.  I’d actually recommend 
Fairy Meteor Crush over Big Bang Shot, though, because if they have M/T 
removal but not Monster removal and you have BBS equipped, they can kill 
Jackal.  The 300 won’t really make much of a difference either way.  I’d 
also mention that Monster from DM75GD’s article that gives Beast Warriors 
the FMC effect, but he’s not available in English yet.

Fourthly, Light of Intervention/Royal Command.  With these cards you won’t 
have to worry about whether you’re destroying Flip Effect Monsters; they 
won’t be able to use their Flip Effects.  Just imagine…they set a Cyber 
Jar…you have Jackal out, Royal Command Set and FMC in hand.  Hehe.  This 
won’t happen much, obviously, but it’s fun to picture, isn’t it?

Fifthly, Imperial Order and Magic (Spell?) Drain (Not Jammer…I don’t like 
Jammer).  Protect your Jackal from those annoying Magic Cards with Order 
while you continuously kill the same monster over and over and then hit him 
hard with whichever other monster you feel like playing.  Drain works well 
too, even before Jackal is out, to lessen your opponent’s hand size.

Sixthly, Jinzo/Magic-Trap Removal.  Kind of like the protection from 
Magics, these guys will protect your Jackal from Traps.  Not too much 
explaining necessary.


Now some things that hurt him…

Sangan/Witch of the Black Forest: Kill one of these, your opponent gets the 
effect, and then it’s sent to the deck for them to use all over 
again.  Quite annoying.

Being a two tribute monster: Well…he’s two tributes…that’s bad.

Monster removal.  It’s annoying.

I’m sure there’s more, but why would I want to focus on the NEGATIVE 
aspects of Jackal Paladin?  To sum things up, he’s an underrated card that 
takes a lot of strategy to play correctly (and takes a deck built around 
him to work really well).  So give him a shot…if you think you’re worthy.

That’s all for now,
Jason Cohen (Lord Tranorix)

Send mail (positive, negative, both, neither) to foodman37@excite.com.  I’m 
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