Beware the Silver Sentinel!
Look around you. Can you see the Silver Sentinel? Probably not, which is very unfortunate because he can see you, and he’s lying in wait for the perfect time to strike! Silver Sentinel is a very different kind of monster that you can Set in your Spell & Trap Card Zone, where he waits to strike back against anyone that tries to destroy your Spells and Traps!
Silver Sentinel is a Level 4 EARTH Warrior-type monster with 1500 ATK and 1300 DEF. You generally won’t Normal Summon him. Instead, you’ll Set him in your Spell & Trap Card Zone. From there, he’ll keep a watchful eye on your opponent, and if your opponent destroys him with a card effect, there will be trouble. During the End Phase of the turn in which your Set-as-a-Spell Sentinel was destroyed by your opponent, you can Special Summon it to the field and destroy one of your opponent’s cards, kind of like Wind-Up Zenmaines. The best part about his effect is that it happens during the End Phase. Your opponent will have to make their moves, knowing that one of the cards they play is going to be destroyed before their turn is through.
One thing that will happen after the first time you use Silver Sentinel, is that your opponent will suddenly become very wary of destroying your face-down cards, wondering if the Sentinel is hiding there – or even if it’s face-down at all! At that point, you have the power to shape the Duel, using the power of a card that may not even be face-down. Experts at bluffing face-down cards will find a great ally in the Silver Sentinel, as many trigger-happy Duelists will use Mystical Space Typhoon the second they draw it, fearing the power of Mirror Force or Torrential Tribute. In Trap-heavy Decks, it adds a wrong choice for your opponent’s Typhoons and provides a staunch deterrent to the use of Heavy Storm. You can even search it out with Reinforcement of the Army to trick your opponent into thinking you have it Set, forcing them to hold back on their plans. It’s pretty impressive when a card can be useful even if you don’t actually use it.
While Silver Sentinel can be used in any kind of Deck, there are a few where it really shines. HERO Decks usually use very few monsters and lots of Spells and Traps, relying on powerful searching effects to grab the monsters they need. HERO Decks use Reinforcement of the Army to grab their HERO monsters, and you can use it to search for Silver Sentinel as well. Decks with high Trap counts will also benefit from the Sentinel, as they can easily add him to their set of face-downs, ready to strike back after he’s destroyed. Also, as Silver Sentinel is a Warrior, a Deck that uses Warrior-type monsters as Xyz Material for Heroic Champion – Excalibur and/or Blade Armor Ninja can either use his effect, or just Summon him to Xyz Summon a bigger monster! Silver Sentinel shines extra bright because there are so many ways to use it outside of its effect!
Silver Sentinel is a monster that can make your opponent’s Spell and Trap destruction backfire and put them in a terrible position. In addition, because it’s so different to most other cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, it’s likely to be used in a lot of different ways! If you’re the kind of Duelist that like to make surprise attacks out of nowhere, then this is definitely the card for you!