Card Tips:Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord

"Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord":

This card can be searched by "Three-Eyed Ghost", "Justice of Prophecy", "Timestar Magician", "Thelematech Clatis", "Spellbook Star Hall", "Lemon Magician Girl", "Dharc the Dark Charmer, Gloomy", "Chaos Zone", "Witch of the Black Forest", and other generic searchers.
- If this card is added to the hand with the effect of "Witch of the Black Forest", it can still Special Summon itself, since its Summoning condition is not an effect that activates.

By shuffling all your monsters from the Graveyard to the Deck, you can easily Special Summon "Guardian Eatos" with its condition.

Use "Twin Swords of Flashing Light - Tryce" to allow this card to gain 2000 ATK per turn and send two monsters instead of one.

In an Exodia Deck focused on this card, an OTK can be achieved by using this card and "Diffusion Wave-Motion", and a card to prevent "Exodius's" destruction such as "Zero Gardna", "Waboku" or "Necro Defender".
- This move works best with cards that can generate Tokens on your opponent's side of the field such as "Ojama Trio", "Black Garden" and "Nightmare Archfiends".
- As added insurance, "Safe Zone" can protect this card from being destroyed by card effects (and thus, banished), or "Spell Wall" can insure that your opponent cannot use card effects in response to this card's attack.

It is not necessary to have numerous monsters in the Graveyard to Summon this card. Cards that discard themselves, such as "King of the Swamp", or mill from the Deck, such as "Foolish Burial", can be used to get a single monster in the Graveyard, permitting the Summon of this card on the first turn.

This card can be used to recycle monster cards whose effects have already been used, such as "Nimble Momonga".

Use "Snake Rain" and select 4 Normal Reptile monsters. If a Normal Monster was discarded for the cost of "Snake Rain", this card will gain a total of 5000 ATK.

When used in a Skull Servant Deck, this card will power both itself up and "King of the Skull Servants" at the same time by sending copies of "Skull Servant" to the Graveyard.

This card can be used in combination with "Fiend Comedian" to either banish the opponent's cards, or if guessed incorrectly, give this card a huge ATK boost.

If this card is Special Summoned, and then "The Calculator" is Normal Summoned, "The Calculator" will get a 3000 ATK bonus.

In a simple Deck, this card's condition that Special Summons itself can give you quick Tribute fodder for monsters such as "Monarch" monsters while recycling the monsters in your Graveyard.

This card works well with "Lycanthrope" and an Ojama Deck. When this card is Special Summoned, use "Advanced Ritual Art" to dump three Ojama monsters and Summon "Lycanthrope". "Exodius" will gain 3000 (4000 if you declare an attack) ATK, plus the opponent will receive extra damage from the effect of "Lycanthrope".

If this card is destroyed or removed from the field before its last effect is activated, "Backup Soldier" can be used to return the "Exodia" parts in the Graveyard to the hand and get an alternative automatic win.

This card works well in a deck focused on Normal Dragon-type monsters, which at the same time can power up cards like "Cyberdark Dragon", "Dark Paladin", "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" or "Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon".

If used in a deck with a bulk of level 1 monsters, this card can be deadly. By using "Advanced Ritual Art" to summon "Gishki Zielgigas", you can discard 10 level 1 monsters from your deck and give "Exodius" 10,000 ATK in one turn. This also lets you meet conditions to summon "Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord" quickly.

A Pendulum/Xyz hybrid deck centered around Normal Pendulum monsters (such as "Igknights") can get enormous mileage out of Exodius' effects, even without utilizing the alternative win condition. Summoning Exodius can recycle Pendulums that were used as Xyz materials AND return the Xyz monsters to the Extra Deck, while Exodius' Atk gets a boost every time you remove Xyz materials. This works well with Xyx monsters that remove multiple materials at once ("Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon").

To increase this monster's ATK dramatically, use "Future Fusion" to send any number of Normal Machine-Type monsters to the Graveyard to Summon "Chimeratech Overdragon". Alternately, send five Normal Dragon-Type monsters to the Graveyard to Summon "Five-Headed Dragon".

If "DNA Surgery" or "Reprodocus" is on the field, choose Aqua type to summon "Egyptian God Slime".

Traditional Format[edit]

Once this card is Summoned, use "Painful Choice" and select five Normal Monsters to give it a 4000 ATK point boost.

This card can be used in a combo with "Last Turn", if there are a significant number of Normal Monsters in the hand or on the field. Activate "Last Turn", targeting this card for its effect. If there are 3 or more Normal Monsters either in the hand or on the field when "Last Turn" is activated, this card will be significantly stronger than the opponent's chosen monster.