Crashing monsters intentionally

Don't be afraid to use the Battle Phase to your advantage, or whenever you're in a pinch.

Say you're in a simplified game state after both you and your opponent threw everything you had at each other. It's your turn and you topdeck an Effect Veiler, against your opponent's leftover monster. Don't sigh in defeat yet!

Sacred Fire King Garunix is in your GY, and you still have lots of monsters left in your Main Deck. Additionally, you haven't used Salamangreat Almiraj this Duel. Let's see what we can do.

• Normal Summon Effect Veiler.
• Link Summon Salamangreat Almiraj using Veiler as material.
• Enter the Battle Phase, and attack one of your opponent's monsters with Almiraj.
• Almiraj is destroyed; Activate Sacred Fire King Garunix's effect to Special Summon itself.
• Activate Sacred's effect to destroy something from the Main Deck.

This works with any FIRE monster, not just Almiraj - we just wanted to show that you can use any handtrap to trigger Sacred and get things into rotation once again.

Of course, keep an eye on your Life Points, don't crash into something too big and accidentally lose the game that way.