- Notable cards that can be summoned with Giant Rat:
- Another Giant Rat
- Ancient Gear Engineer
- Black Stego
- Card Trooper
- Criosphinx
- Des Lacooda
- Elemental Hero Clayman
- Elemental Hero Wildheart
- Enraged Muka Muka
- Exiled Force
- Exploder Dragon
- Giant Soldier of Stone
- Golem Sentry
- Green Gadget
- Hero Kid
- Hyper Hammerhead
- Injection Fairy Lily
- Jutte Fighter
- Kinetic Soldier
- Labyrinth Wall
- Legendary Jujitsu Master
- Man-Eater Bug
- Millennium Shield
- Nimble Momonga
- Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
- Nobleman-Eater Bug
- Protector of the Sanctuary
- Psychic Commander
- Pyramid Turtle
- Red Gadget
- Warrior Lady of the Wasteland
- Stone Statue of the Aztecs
- Yellow Gadget
- Use Giant Rat to summon Black Stego when it is attacked. It will go to defense mode, thus protecting your life points and potentially itself.
- To lengthen the cycle of stalling you can use Giant Rat 3 times then Warrior Lady of the Wasteland 3 times for six stalls.
- Use this card with Creature Swap. If Giant Rat get's destroyed while on your opponent's side of the field, he will still special summon a monster on your side of the field.