Lava Golem

PGD-107-Retail Secret Rare
Fire/Fiend/8/3000/2500
Effect: This monster must be Special Summoned on your opponent’s side of the field by offering 2 monsters on your opponent’s side of the field as a Tribute. This card inflicts 1000 points of Direct Damage to the Life Points of this card’s controller during each of his/her Standby Phases. When you Special Summon this monster, you cannot Normal Summon or Set a monster during the same turn.

 

Now this is a card many underrate. I actually think it is quite an ok card if you got the right stuff. Anything to stall this baby from attacking or getting tribute or destroyed can help you out. But with out the proper stuff be warned do not run it. I about 4 months ago for a fun deck (not my real deck) tried out one of these decks made wrong of course with a stupid plan IMO. I would try to sac two of there monsters and then when they got it I would creature swap it. Not the best combo, but in all honesty I have yet to see a tourney lava golem deck. There is so many decks I would love to have/play but I don't have time or money to do so. But if you are looking for a deck with potential this is one to try. Not necessarily the easiest card to get considering it is a secret rare, but it never caught on so it is around 25$$$.

Overall: like I said previously the card can be comboed with many things and really devastate your opponent know with card like Nightmare Wheel.

3/5 in the right deck

Lava Golem

Great burn card. Have Mask of the Accursed and Mask of Restrict to prevent attack and sacrifice.

4/5
 

Get rid of 2 monsters, not bad. Do 1000 lp damage to them per turn, not bad. Have a 3000 atk monster not good. It's kind of iffy in anything but gravity bind or burn decks. Sure, you can kill them in 8 turns, but they can kill you with 3 attacks. Another thing, your opponent MUST have 2 monsters. It will most likely be a dead draw.

Overall 3.6
 

Lava Golem

Pros:
Burns 'em

Cons:
The two tribute requirments
You just gave them a very nice attacker

Lava Golem is one of those harder combos to pull off.  That is why you have to base your whole deck off it.  The main thing to do is play a Gravity Bind, Mask of Restrict, Imperial Order, and Nightmare Wheel.  That doesn't sound very easy unless you have copies of some of those cards.
If you manage to pull that off, they will be losing 1500 lp a turn!  So saying they already had 8000 you will have them dead in.........6 turns!  That is if they don't do something like some how discard Jinzo and play Call of the Haunted and then activate some freaky Spell cards that'll kill ya when they have 2 strongmonsters out there.  If you happen to run across one of these decks, it's not a bad idea to have Rageki Break or Skill Drain in your side deck.  Then they just gave you a very strong monster with the stats of BEWD.  Otherwise if you don't pull that combo it'll just fire back at you.

Casual- 3
Tourney- 2.5
Draft- 2 ( its a toss here cus you have 4000 lp saying that could kill them in 3 turns.  The thing is, your probably not gonna get much of a defense and its gonna kill you unless you have like 5 monsters facedown or somthin)

Peace out, signin out, Knocked_out