Mirage Wings

Mirage Wings are a series of DARK Winged Beast-type Monsters. They can be identified by 3 effects that they all share in common, they are:

1) "When this card is Summoned or Flipped Face-up, except by its own effect, remove from play this card if you control no non-"Mirage Wing" Monsters."

2) "During your Battle Phase, before you attack, you can Special Summon this removed from play card if you control no non-"Mirage Wing" Monsters."

3) "During the end of the Battle Phase, remove form play this card you control."

The result is that the monsters are near impossible to destroy by battle or card effects, however in exchange the player is forced to leave themselves open to direct attacks. Most Mirage Wings have low ATK, and effects that generally either increase their ATK, prevent damage, or remove cards from the Graveyard, either returning them to the Deck or removing them from play. The Spell and Trap support tends to focus on removing from play additional Mirage Wing monsters from the Deck (Mirage Chain/Mirage Deception/Vanishing Cards), or preventing direct attacks (Mirage - Darkness Ambush), or both (Mirage Force).