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"Relinquished":

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• This card can be searched via "Sangan", "Witch of the Black Forest", "Senju of the Thousand Hands","Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands,and "Preparation of Rites".

• In a deck centered around this card, "Contract with the Abyss" could be used if abundant with level one monsters.
• Advanced Ritual Art is a preferred Ritual Spell card to use to Ritual Summon Relinquished. It requires less cards in your hand, improving hand advantage. Use Charcoal Inpachi as the ritual material since it is the strongest level 1 Normal Monster.
  • You can also use Skull Servant with Advanced Ritual Art for Relinquished in a King of the Skull Servants deck rather than use The Lady in Wight.

• Your Relinquished will not be destroyed in battle if it is equipped with an opponent's card. One tactic is to keep a Relinquished that is equipped in attack position, even when your opponent has a monster with a higher ATK on the field. If your opponent attacks Relinquished, they takes the same damage as you from battle and you can absorb his stronger card on your next turn. (This tactic works very well with a Patrician of Darkness on the field. You can force your opponent to attack Relinquished and then send their other attacks to your other monsters.) A good card to have is The Dark Door as if they have one monster stronger than Relinquished and one with any amount of attack, they can only use one.

• Another extension of this tactic is to attack a monster with a higher ATK than your Relinquished while it is equipped. The equip card will be destroyed, you and your opponent both take the battle damage AND you can absorb his stronger monster during Main Phase 2. This damages your opponent and clears the board of threats.

• Though it will prevent Relinquished's effect from damaging your opponent, it is advisable to have "Ritual Cage" on the field when using him. In the event that your opponent is able to destroy the monster equipped to Relinquished, Ritual Cage will prevent you from effectively taking a direct attack. Ritual Cage will also stop monster effects from targeting/destroying Relinquished, so that's another plus.

• Relinquished's effect is great to clear Toolbox monsters off of your opponent's side of the field. Cards such as Giant Rat and Mystic Tomato will not have their effects activated if destroyed while equipped to Relinquished because they were destroyed by Relinquished's effect, not by battle. Cards such as Sangan, however, will still have their effects because they were still sent from the field to the Graveyard.

• Some cards to help Relinquished include:
  • Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands
  • Senju of the Thousand Hands
  • Sonic Bird
  • Advanced Ritual Art + Charcoal Inpachi
  • Metamorphosis + Scapegoat and/or Magician of Faith to bring out Thousand-Eyes Restrict
  • Polymerization and Thousand-Eyes Idol to bring out Thousand-Eyes Restrict

• Relinquished Decks has now lost a lot of power, since Thousand-Eyes Restrict was banned in the September 2006 List. But it still retains the basic field control aspect.

• This card can be brought back from the Graveyard by Limit Reverse as long as it was properly summoned.
  • Graceful Revival and Escape from the Dark Dimension can also be used if it was properly summoned (like if you removed Relinquished while in your graveyard for Dark Nephthys or Kinka-byo's effect removes Relinquished from play after special summoning from your graveyard to use Escape from the Dark Dimension).

• When no monster is equipped, this card can be used with Crush Card Virus.

• If its sent to the Graveyard you can bring him back with Recurring Nightmare.

• Combining this card with Ritual Weapon and using The Dark Door can result in complete domination of the field, for if you were to take control of your enemy's strongest monster it would gain a additonal 1500 ATK, which when combined with The Dark Door can give you domination in terms of attacking.

• "Lava Golem" can be an amusing touch in "Relinquished" decks, costing your opponent 2 monsters and giving "Relinquished" 3000 ATK.

• This card works well with "Opti-Camouflage Armor", using your opponent's strongest monster's strength for a direct attack. The aforementioned "Lava Golem" is a great way to capitalize on this.

• If you're fighting a "Relinquished", you can disarm it with "Tailor of the Fickle" or "Collected Power", leaving a 0-ATK window to your opponent's Life Points. "Eternal Rest" and "Really Eternal Rest" will also kill it quickly.

• Monster Reborn can be used to revive Relinquished as long as it was properly summoned onto the field prior to being removed from it.

• If a Ritual Spell that you can use to Ritual Summon Relinquished is in your Graveyard, you can use Preparation of Rites to retrieve that Ritual Spell and search this card from your Deck to allow for a quick 2nd Relinquished.

• "Djinn Releaser of Rituals" works well with this card. By preventing your opponent from Special Summoning monsters, they will be limited to their 1 Normal Summon per turn, which, combined with Relinquished's ability to take their monsters, will often leave them wide open to direct attacks.

• Protect this card from high-level monsters with Level Limit - Area B.

• Combo this card with Evocator Chevalier.