A far more consistent variation of this loop uses "[[Plaguespreader Zombie]]". Summon both "Quillbolt" and "Plaguespreader" to the field, and Xyz Summon "[[Ghostrick Socuteboss]]", then activate its effect. Then, Summon "[[Ghostrick Angel of Mischief]]" by using "Socuteboss " as the Xyz Material", then detach an Xyz Material (not "Socuteboss")" to add a generic "Ghostrick" Spell/Trap to your hand. Place this Spell/Trap back on top of your Deck to revive "Plaguespreader", then revive "Quillbolt" with its effect. This returns to the start of the loop.

If a card is active that banishes Spell Cards that would go to the Graveyard (such as "[[Macro Cosmos]]" or "[[Banisher of the LightWinged Kuriboh LV9]]"), and there is a "[[Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning]]" or "[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End]]" on the field, then any player with two copies of "[[Primal Seed]]" and a [[Normal Spell Card|Normal]] or [[Quick-Play Spell Card]] in their hand can activate that Spell Card an unlimited number of times per turn, by repeatedly using one copy of "Primal Seed" to bring back the other copy along with that Spell Card. This allows for an [[OTK]] with a card as weak as "[[Sparks]]", as well as numerous other possibilities such as arbitrarily high Life Points or ATK. This loop is why "Primal Seed" is currently [[Limited]] in the ''OCG''; it was Limited in the ''TCG'' as well until [[April 2014 Lists (TCG)|1 April 2014]].

===In the animeABC Loop===* In This loop uses two copies of "[[YuA-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 064|episode 64Assault Core]]" and "[[Firewall Dragon] of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX'', [[Syrus]] used ". When "A-Assault Core" is sent from the field to the mandatory effect of [[Hassleberry]]'s "[[Ultimate Tyranno (anime)|Ultimate TyrannoGY]], its effect can be activated in order to add the second "A-Assault Core" against him, forcing it from the GY to attack and destroy the hand, while also triggering the effect of "Firewall Dragon" as Chain Link 1, allowing the player to Special Summon "A-Assault Core". This can be abused by using "[[Decoyroid (anime)|DecoyroidCannon Soldier]]" over and over while the combined effects of in order to Tribute "[[Ambulanceroid (anime)|Ambulanceroid]]A-Assault Core" and "[[Rescueroid (anime)|Rescueroid]]" continuously Summoned every time it is Summoned, inflicting as much damage as needed in order to win. In order for it back to work, the field. This allowed Syrus's player must have at least one other monster in their hand that can be Special Summoned by "Firewall Dragon", otherwise its effect cannot be activated. This strategy was adopted by some ''[[Cyber Summon Blaster (anime)|Cyber Summon BlasterOCG]]" '' players during the April 2018 format for being easy to continuously damage Hassleberry until he lost pull off, but also because they were able to play normally even if the DuelFTK was stopped.* In <ref name="abc loop">[[Yu-Gihttps://roadoftheking.com/ocg-2018-04-metagame-report-Oh! ZEXAL 9- Episode 098|episode 9810/ Road of the King]] of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL''OCG 2018.04 Metagame Report #9, [[Yuma Tsukumo]] and [[Astral]] fused into [[Dark ZEXAL]] against [[Vector]], with #10</ref> The combo is no longer possible due to the latter, who was blinded by rage, taking control. He equipped 2021 errata of "[[DZW - Chimera Clad (anime)|Dark ZEXAL Weapon - Chimera Clad]]Firewall Dragon" restricting its effects to only being able to be used once per turn. ===Samsara Lotus Loop==="[[Number C39: Utopia Ray V (anime)|Chaos Number 39Samsara Lotus]]" can Special Summon itself from the GY during the End Phase as long as the player does not control any Spell/Trap Cards. This can be combined with three other cards: Utopia Ray V]]", granting it immunity by battle destruction and the ability to [[attackTopologic Bomber Dragon]] once again with doubled ", "[[ATKKnightmare Cerberus]] whenever Dark ZEXAL took ", and "[[battle damageTrickstar Black Catbat]] from attacks involving it". He then proceed to attack "Topologic Bomber Dragon" must be in the higher-ATK "[[Number 104: Masquerade (anime)|Number 104: MasqueradeExtra Monster Zone]]", taking the first damage and triggering the first ATK boost. However, Vector while "Knightmare Cerberus" is [[activateco-link]]d ed with "[[Extra Hundred]]Trickstar Black Catbat" in response to the second attack, preventing . By Special Summoning "MasqueradeSamsara Lotus" from being destroyed in exchange for letting to the zone pointed to by "Utopia Ray VBlack Catbat" attack it a third time. However, by the second effect of "Extra HundredTopologic Bomber Dragon"is triggered, each time destroy all monsters in the [[Main Monster Zone]]s. Since "Cerberus" and "MasqueradeBlack Catbat" would be targeted for an attack from then onare co-linked, its ATK would become 100 points higher than neither of them are destroyed because of the attacker's. Astral didn't realize the dangereffect of "Cerberus", and continued to attack with only "Utopia Ray VSamsara Lotus" again and again, losing 100 [[LP]] each time, until he was down to 600is destroyed. At When that pointhappens, Yuma managed to cancel the fusion and promptly ended effect of "Black Catbat" inflicts 200 damage to the turnopponent. This can be repeated any number of times, preventing the 500 damage since none of "[[Sargasso the Different Dimension Battlefield (anime)|Sargasso these cards have restrictions to how many times they can be used. Despite requiring this many monsters on the Different Dimension Battlefieldfield, there are several ways to perform this with 1 or 2-card combos by Summoning monsters like "[[Aromaseraphy Jasmine]]" from reducing their LP to 0. Had he not managed to, Astral would probably have continued the loop until he lost.* In , "[[Crystron Halqifibrax]]" and "[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V - Episode 061|episode 61Summon Sorceress]]of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V'', ". ===Telefon Loop==="[[Yuya Sakaki|Yuya'sMorphtronic Telefon]] opponent, " has an effect to Special Summon a "[[Chojiro TokumatsuMorphtronic]] had "monster from the GY whose its [[Flower Cardian Lightshower (anime)Level]] were equal or lower than the [[Dice|Flower Cardian Lightshowerdice]]" on the field, making it that every time Yuya drew roll result of this effect. Due to this effect is only a card, he would take 1500 points of damage, so long as Chojiro skipped his Draw Phase. Chojiro also had "soft [[Fraud Freeze (anime)|Fraud Freezeonce per turn]]and the fact that ", preventing Yuya from performing Telefon" can summon another copy of itself regardless of the dice roll result due to being a Pendulum Summon on his turn. When Yuya had 1000 Life Points remaining and his next draw would result in defeat[[Level 1 Monster Cards|Level 1 monster]], Yuya drew player can infinitely Special Summon each copies of "Telefon"[[Performapal Rain Goat (anime)|Performapal Rain Goat]]", an effect he immediately activated, discarding it to reduce the damage of 1500 back-and-forth from "Lightshowertheir GY as long as they were not interruped by opponent'scard effects. This can be exploited by either using each copies of "Telefon" effect to 0. Yuya then activated the effect conduct any number of "[[Performapal Teeter Totter Hopper (anime)|Performapal Teeter Totter HopperLink Summon]]ing as long as the user wished, as well as being used as an infinite fodder for a tribute-burn cards such as "[[Cannon Soldier]]" from his Graveyard. ==Tournament rulings==Current tournament rules state that if a player wants to perform a controlled loop, because a monster was sent from they may physically perform the loop once and then tell their opponent exactly the hand number of times they wish to the Graveyardrepeat it. Furthermore, when summoned The opponent may then respond to any iteration of the loop by this effect, "Teeter Totter Hopper" cannot be destroyed by battle once per turn, but during stating the End Phase of the opponent's turn, it can be sent to the Graveyard to add a Level 3 or lower "Performapal" monster from the Graveyard to the handiteration number.<ref>[https://web. Yuya would use this effect to add archive.org/web/20201118000152/https://img.yugioh-card.com/en/gameplay/penalty_guide/YGOTCG_Policy_v_2_1.pdf]</ref> For example:* Player 1 controls "Rain Goat[[Imperial Iron Wall]]", "[[Glow-Up Bulb]]" back to his hand every turn, thus preventing Chojiro from inflicting damage with "Lightshower[[Cannon Soldier]]", and "Lightshower" won't be able to destroy [[Quillbolt Hedgehog]]".* Player 1 Tributes "Quillbolt Hedgehog" for the effect of "Teeter Totter HopperCannon Soldier" due to its effect, creating a inflict 500 damage. Player 2 does not respond.* Player 1 Special Summons "Quillbolt Hedgehog" with its own effect. Player 2 does not respond.* At this point, Player 1 may tell Player 2 that they intend to repeat the loop that can only be broken if Chojiro draws a card, which he did so on his next turntotal of 16 times / 15 more times until Player 2's LP are reduced to 0. Had he continued on without drawing, he would have had Player 1 does not need to continue physically move cards 15 more times.* Player 2 may respond by stating they intend to Chain "[[Hope for Escape]]" on exactly the loop for an extensive amount of 12th time "Quillbolt Hedgehog" activates its effect.* "Hope for Yuya Escape" resolves (or Player 1 responds to run out of cards from his Deck, but at the same time would have given Yuya a major hand advantage "Hope for Escape" and that could have resulted in his defeatChain resolves). * In [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V - Episode 099|episode 99]] of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V''The controlled loop is considered to end here. If Player 1 wants to continue the loop at this point, they must physically move cards to Tribute and Special Summon "Quillbolt Hedgehog" 1 more time, [[Declan Akaba]] activated the giving Player 2 an opportunity to respond before Player 1 may declare another controlled loop. ==In the anime==* In {{episode|gx|64|ref}}, [[Syrus Truesdale|Syrus]] used the mandatory effect of "[[D/D/D Wisdom King Chaos Apocalypse Tyranno Hassleberry|Hassleberry]]'s "[[Ultimate Tyranno (anime)|D/D/D Wisdom King Chaos ApocalypseUltimate Tyranno]]" against him, forcing it to attack and destroy "[[Jean-Michel Roger[Decoyroid (anime)|Decoyroid]], which lets him Special Summon it from his hand by destroying two face-up Spell/Trap Cards he controls, those cards being " over and over while the combined effects of "[[D/D Savant Nikola Ambulanceroid (anime)|D/D Savant NikolaAmbulanceroid]]" and "[[D/D Savant Thomas Rescueroid (anime)|D/D Savant ThomasRescueroid]]"continuously Summoned it back to the field. Since This allowed Syrus's "Nikola" was destroyed while it was in [[Cyber Summon Blaster (anime)|Cyber Summon Blaster]]" to continuously damage Hassleberry until he lost the Pendulum Zone, its effect let Declan return a "D/D/D" monster, "Chaos Apocalypse", on his field to his handDuel.* In {{episode|zexal|98|ref}}, [[Yuma Tsukumo]] and then place up to two face-up "D/D" Pendulum Monsters from his Extra Deck ("Nikola" and "Thomas") to his Pendulum Zone. Declan followed up with "[[Dark Contract with the Swinging Abyss[[Astral]] fused into [[Dark ZEXAL]] against [[Vector]]", inflicted damage equal to with the DEF of a "D/D" Pendulum Monster that latter, who was returned to his handblinded by rage, taking control. As the DEF of He equipped "Chaos Apocalypse[[DZW - Chimera Clad (anime)|Dark ZEXAL Weapon - Chimera Clad]]" is 2000, this was enough to wipe out the rest of Jean's LP. Attempting to bypass his loss"[[Number C39: Utopia Ray V (anime)|Chaos Number 39: Utopia Ray V]]", Jean re-entered the Duel granting it immunity by battle destruction and took the 2000 LP intrusion penalty. Declan revealed that he would simply use the effect of "Chaos Apocalypse" ability to Special Summon it [[attack]] once again, triggering the effect of "Nikola", and in turn triggering with doubled [[ATK]] whenever Dark ZEXAL took [[battle damage]] from attacks involving it. He then proceed to attack the effect of higher-ATK "Abyss Pendulum", which would deplete Jean's LP again[[Number 104: Masquerade (anime)|Number 104: Masquerade]]", taking the first damage and triggering the first ATK boost. Realizing that Declan would repeat this loop each time he attempted However, Vector [[activate]]d "[[Extra Hundred]]" in response to re-enter the Duelsecond attack, Jean forfeited and fledpreventing "Masquerade" from being destroyed in exchange for letting "Utopia Ray V" attack it a third time.* In [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V - Episode 133|Episode 133]] of ''ARC-V'', [[Yuri]] activated However, by the Ignition Effect second effect of "[[Starving Venom Fusion Dragon (anime)|Starving Venom Fusion Dragon]]Extra Hundred", each time " targeting [[Yusho Sakaki]]'s Masquerade"[[Performapal Sky Magician]]" to gain would be targeted for an attack from then on, its effectsATK would become 100 points higher than the attacker's. However, he then chained Astral didn't realize the effect of danger, and continued to attack with "Utopia Ray V"again and again, losing 100 [[Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (anime)|Clear Wing Synchro Dragon]]"LP]] each time, destroying "Starving Venom" and gaining its ATKuntil he was down to 600. Yuri proceeded to activate "[[Flower At that point, Yuma managed to cancel the fusion and promptly ended the turn, preventing the 500 damage of Destruction]]" and "[[Fruit of DestructionSargasso the Different Dimension Battlefield (anime)|Sargasso the Different Dimension Battlefield]]", with the latter from reducing the ATK of "Clear Wing" by 3000 their LP to 0. Had he not managed to Summon back "Starving Venom", and Astral would probably have continued the former inflicting damage to Yusholoop until he lost.* In {{episode|arcv|61|ref}}, and reducing the ATK of "Sky Magician"[[Yuya Sakaki|Yuya's]] opponent, equal to difference between current and original ATK of [[Chojiro Tokumatsu]] had "Clear Wing[[Flower Cardian Lightshower (anime)|Flower Cardian Lightshower]]"on the field, initially 200. As "Starving Venom" was just Summoned again, Yuri triggered the combo by activating its Ignition Effect again. The loop was repeated making it that every time Yuya drew a total of 5 timescard, with the he would take 1500 damage increasing by 200 points each time, before , so long as Chojiro skipped his Draw Phase. Chojiro also had "Starving Venom" attacked "Sky Magician" and defeated Yusho.* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions[[Fraud Freeze (anime)|Fraud Freeze]]'' film", in response to preventing Yuya from performing a Pendulum Summon on his turn. When Yuya had 1000 Life Points remaining and his next draw would result in defeat, Yuya drew "[[Aigami]] targeting [[Yugi Mutou Performapal Rain Goat (mangaanime)|Yugi'sPerformapal Rain Goat]] "[[Lord Gaia , an effect he immediately activated, discarding it to reduce the Fierce Knight (anime)|Lord Gaia 1500 damage from the Fierce Knight]]effect of "Lightshower" for an attack with his to 0. Yuya then activated the effect of "[[Indiora Doom Volt the Cubic Emperor Performapal Teeter Totter Hopper (anime)|Indiora Doom Volt the Cubic EmperorPerformapal Teeter Totter Hopper]]"from his Graveyard, because a monster was sent from the hand to the latter activated his Set "[[Dimension Sphinx (anime)|Dimension Sphinx]]"Graveyard. Furthermore, when Summoned by this effect, targeting "Lord GaiaTeeter Totter Hopper", inflicting damage to Aigami equal to cannot be destroyed by battle once per turn, but during the difference between End Phase of the ATK of "Lord Gaiaopponent's turn, it can be sent to the Graveyard to add a Level 3 or lower "Performapal" and a monster that attacked it, provided from the attacking monster's ATK was at least double Graveyard to the ATK of hand. Yuya would use this effect to add "Lord GaiaRain Goat". Yugi then activated back to his Set hand every turn, thus preventing Chojiro from inflicting damage with "[[Dimension Guardian (anime)|Dimension Guardian]]Lightshower" , and targeted "Lord GaiaLightshower" won't be able to destroy ", preventing its destruction by battle while it remained in Attack Position. Finally, Yugi activated his Set "[[Dimension Mirage (anime)|Dimension Mirage]]Teeter Totter Hopper"due to its effect, and targeted "Indiora Doom Volt"creating a loop that can only be broken if Chojiro draws a card, allowing Yugi to banish monsters from which he did so on his Graveyard next turn. Had he continued on without drawing, he would have had to force it continue the loop for an extensive amount of time for Yuya to declare another attack so long as it failed destroy run out of cards from his Deck, but at the same time, would have given Yuya a monster Yugi controlled by battle. As "Lord Gaia" was being attacked by "Indiora Doom Volt"major hand advantage that could have resulted in his defeat. * In {{episode|arcv|99|ref}}, a monster with more than twice its ATK, the [[Declan Akaba]] activated the effect of "Dimension Sphinx" inflicted damage to Aigami equal to the difference between the battling monsters' ATK. Due to the effect of [[D/D/D Chaos King Apocalypse (anime)|D/D/D Chaos King Apocalypse]]"Dimension Guardian", "Lord Gaia" was not destroyed against [[Jean-Michel Roget]], which lets him Special Summon it from his hand by that battledestroying two face-up Spell/Trap Cards he controls, allowing Yugi to activate the effect of those cards being "[[D/D Savant Nikola (anime)|D/D Savant Nikola]]"Dimension Mirageand ", banishing a monster from his Graveyard to force [[D/D Savant Thomas (anime)|D/D Savant Thomas]]"Indiora Doom Volt. Since " to attack Nikola"Lord Gaia" againwas destroyed while it was in the Pendulum Zone, once again triggering the its effect of let Declan return a "Dimension SphinxD/D/D". Yugi then repeated this loop by banishing monsters for the effect of monster, "Dimension MirageChaos Apocalypse" until he depleted Aigami's LP, on his field to his hand, and then place up to two face-up "D/D" Pendulum Monsters from his Extra Deck ("Nikola" and "Thomas") to his Pendulum Zone. Declan followed up with "[[Dark Contract with the Swinging Abyss]]", which inflicted damage to the opponent equal to the DEF of a "D/D" Pendulum Monster that was returned to his hand. As the DEF of "Chaos Apocalypse" is 2000, this was enough to wipe out the rest of Jean's LP. Attempting to bypass his loss, Jean re-entered the Duel and took the 2000 LP intrusion penalty. Declan revealed that he would simply use the effect of "Chaos Apocalypse" to Special Summon it again, triggering the effect of "Nikola", and in turn triggering the effect of "Abyss Pendulum", which would deplete Jean's LP again. Realizing that Declan would repeat this loop each time he attempted to re-enter the Duel, Jean forfeited and fled.* In {{episode|arcv|133|ref}} of ''ARC-V'', [[Yuri]] activated the Ignition Effect of "[[Starving Venom Fusion Dragon (anime)|Starving Venom Fusion Dragon]]" targeting [[Yusho Sakaki]]'s "[[Performapal Sky Magician]]" to gain its effects. However, he then chained the effect of "[[Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (anime)|Clear Wing Synchro Dragon]]", destroying "Starving Venom" and gaining its ATK. Yuri proceeded to activate "[[Destruction Flower]]" and "[[Destruction Fruit]]", with the latter reducing the ATK of "Clear Wing" by 3000 to Summon back "Starving Venom", and the former inflicting damage to Yusho, and reducing the ATK of "Sky Magician", equal to difference between current and original ATK of "Clear Wing", initially 200. As "Starving Venom" was just Summoned again, Yuri triggered the combo by activating its Ignition Effect again. The loop was repeated a total of 5 times, with the damage increasing by 200 points each time, until the ATK of "Sky Magician" dropped to 0 and Yusho's LP to 200, meaning that repeating once more would have caused his loss. However, Yuri instead had "Starving Venom" attack "Sky Magician", defeating Yusho by battle damage.* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions]]'' film, in response to [[Aigami]] targeting [[Yugi Mutou (manga)|Yugi's]] "[[Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight (anime)|Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight]]" for an attack with his "[[Indiora Doom Volt the Cubic Emperor (anime)|Indiora Doom Volt the Cubic Emperor]]", the latter activated his Set "[[Dimension Sphinx (anime)|Dimension Sphinx]]", targeting "Lord Gaia", inflicting damage to Aigami equal to the difference between the ATK of "Lord Gaia" and a monster that attacked it, provided the attacking monster's ATK was at least double the ATK of "Lord Gaia". Yugi then activated his Set "[[Dimension Guardian (anime)|Dimension Guardian]]" and targeted "Lord Gaia", preventing its destruction by battle while it remained in Attack Position. Finally, Yugi activated his Set "[[Dimension Mirage (anime)|Dimension Mirage]]", and targeted "Indiora Doom Volt", allowing Yugi to banish monsters from his Graveyard to force it to declare another attack so long as it failed destroy a monster Yugi controlled by battle. As "Lord Gaia" was being attacked by "Indiora Doom Volt", a monster with more than twice its ATK, the effect of "Dimension Sphinx" inflicted damage to Aigami equal to the difference between the battling monsters' ATK. Due to the effect of "Dimension Guardian", "Lord Gaia" was not destroyed by that battle, allowing Yugi to activate the effect of "Dimension Mirage", banishing a monster from his Graveyard to force "Indiora Doom Volt" to attack "Lord Gaia" again, once again triggering the effect of "Dimension Sphinx". Yugi then repeated this loop by banishing monsters for the effect of "Dimension Mirage" until he depleted Aigami's LP.* In {{episode|vrains|102|ref}}, [[Yusaku Fujiki|Playmaker]] attacked [[Bohman]]'s "[[Perfectron Hydradrive Dragon]]", whose effect prevents battle damage as long as it has [[Hydradrive Counter]]s and allows it to protect itself from battle destruction by removing 1 of them (which he had 4 of at that point), with "[[Firewall Dragon Darkfluid (anime)|Firewall Dragon Darkfluid]]". After [[damage calculation]], a mandatory effect of "Perfectron" activates which would destroy all monsters Playmaker controls, but "Darkfluid" negated it using one of its own counters (of which it also had 4). The effect of "Darkfluid" also allows it to attack again if it negates an effect while battling, so Playmaker repeatedly attacked "Perfectron" until its counters ran out and Bohman took damage, which was enough to drop his LP to 0. == References ==<references/>

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