Card Tips:Exchange of the Spirit

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• This card can be searched by "Keldo the Sacred Protector", "Trap Trick", "Trap Tracks", "Lady Labrynth of the Silver Castle", "Lilith, Lady of Lament", "Triple Tactics Thrust", "Angel of Blue Tears", "Farewelcome Labrynth", "Labrynth Set-Up", and other generic searchers.

• Try to get just a few key cards (like a set of "Exodia") to the Graveyard as early as possible.

• Use cards such as "Reasoning", "Monster Gate", "Magical Merchant", or "Lightsworn" monsters to meet this card's activation condition faster, although you may run the risk of sending all copies of this card to the Graveyard (if you don't already have a copy in your hand or Set on the field).

• After this card resolves, use "Localized Tornado" to refill your Deck.

• Chain "Fiend Comedian" to this card's activation. Either you eliminate your opponent's entire Deck as a result, or you refill your new Main Deck.

• It is still theoretically possible to FTK with this card post-erratum if the only cards in your opponent's GY are all 15 cards of their starting Extra Deck. The effect of "Zaborg the Mega Monarch" can easily send at least 8 cards from both players' Extra Decks to the GY, so any strategy that focus on Normal Summoning it and using its effect by targeting itself twice each, or using the effect of "Zaborg" in conjunction with other card effects that can send from the Extra Deck (e.g. "Dogmatika") can send all of the cards in one turn will complete the setup.

• Chain the effects of "Mudora the Sword Oracle" and/or "Keldo the Sacred Protector" to this card's activation to reduce the number of cards in your opponent's GY, leaving them with a smaller Deck post-resolution.

Traditional Format

• Use "Painful Choice" to both meet this card's activation condition faster and to ensure that you've discarded the cards you want to use after activating this card's effect.
• Due to how quickly "Mirage of Nightmare" can mill your Deck, it is recommended to use this card alongside it. If you've lost too many cards, "Exchange of the Spirit" can partially refill your Deck, and bite a large chunk out of your opponent's.