This card is searchable by "Gazelle, the King of Mythical Claws." You can search "Nightmare Magician" and use it to push for further damage or as additional material for summon of a fusion,link, synchro, or xyz
Choose from multiple effects: draw 2 cards, return all Spell/Trap Cards on the field, destroy opponent's monsters, or peek into opponent's hand and shuffle a card back
One of the challenges of balancing the slots in the setwhat do we need to fill, what is the mechanical need for a card, what is the flavor reason that we need a cardwas that we wanted to get a certain amount of cards per game in the set, Dillon Deveney, Magic principle narrative designer, explained
It's a 3000 ATK monster that can't be destroyed by battle, making it a problem for the opponent on every turn they can't get rid of it
The name's a little on the nose, but who can fault that level of nostalgia