Breakers of Shadow Special Edition has a mix of past, present and future cards to help you build and enhance your Decks! From the "past" column comes Number 23: Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld, a Rank 8 Xyz Monster that sees a lot of play at every level of competition!

Rank 8 monsters like Lancelot are popular because you can make them from any two Level 8 monsters, from Blue-Eyes White Dragon to Kozmo Dark Destroyer. Many of the most iconic cards in Dueling are Level 8, so lots of Duelists’ favorite cards can be used to Xyz Summon Rank 8 monsters!

Number 23: Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld has fairly low ATK and DEF for a monster, but it has a pile of great effects that make it worth the effort to Summon! As long as Lancelot has Xyz Material, it can attack your opponent directly, and whenever it inflicts battle damage you can target any face-up monster your opponent controls and destroy it! The direct attack ability gives Lancelot the same kind of game-ending power as Number 47: Nightmare Shark and Number 82: Heartlandraco without the "other monsters cannot attack" limitation that forces a strategic commitment for the turn.

Lancelot would be pretty great just with those first two abilities, but it actually has a third! During either player’s turn, you can detach one Xyz Material to negate the activation of a Spell/Trap Card or the effect of another monster. It won’t destroy a monster whose effect activation is negated, so if the monster is big enough it can just attack over Lancelot, but the ability to negate Spell/Traps, including cards activated in Pendulum Zones, is extremely relevant and powerful. Keeping Emergency Teleport, The Monarchs Stormforth or Wavering Eyes from ever resolving can be the difference between a win and a loss, and that’s something that not very many Decks can do.

Number 23: Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld is one of two cards from the past you'll have another chance to get from Breakers of Shadow Special Edition ! Each Special Edition has three packs of Breakers of Shadow, one of two popular cards from the past and one of two preview cards from the next booster, Shining Victories !