Time to intermission out the former pose, because it'southward time to shoutOBLITERATE!!!
Introduction:
The Forbidden Ane has always stood the test of time in the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! as the iconic alternative win condition. Exodia decks have risen and fallen, tested and accounted inconsistent, attempted and shunned for literally decades. While Exodia Turbo builds take ever existed, has there ever been an really consistent Exodia deck? Besides, this is the only deck in the game with which you have a chance to win earlier your starting time Depict Phase. Today, I present this commodity equally a couple of groovy Exodia deck ideas that you quite possibly take not have considered or encountered earlier. And no, I will non be talking nearly any of the 'mainstream' Exodia decks like Deep Describe (featuring Blue-Optics,Cards of Consonance, Merchandise-In), Hope for Exodia (featuringHope for Escape, Gift Carte), or Nighttime World Exodia (featuring Snoww, Broww, and Gates). No, I'm really going to effort to put the creativity dorsum into the championship of this article series. I've prepared four different strategies, with a quick guide to each of them. They range from winning with Exodia, to using Exodia as material, to even cartoon out your entire deck through anarchistic means. I think you'll definitely want to see what'south coming next, so strap in and begin your best summoning chant.
Strategy One: Exodia with a Need for Speed?
Those in their right mind would never consider using Exodia monsters as Synchro material. Merely then over again, I don't remember sane has e'er been an accurate description of my articles. This variant is all virtually combining the Speedroid monsters alongside our Exodia cards. The biggest question on your mind right now may just be 'Why?', and in all honesty, that could be a fair point to make. To address that business organization, one of the biggest downsides of an Exodia deck is that many variants simply play solitaire. Information technology's your deck vs the clock, every bit you effort to become all 5 pieces earlier your opponent beats you. It truly can be such an extremely passive strategy. Just by adding Speedroids, the passivity of the deck merely melts away. When yous tin threaten your opponent with a string of cost-effective Synchro Summons, your opponent volition be forced onto the ropes to counter your assault. Fending off Synchro after Synchro can be difficult, and while you are distracting them, y'all have plenty of time to depict or search into your Exodia pieces.
Now, you lot are probably wondering what opponent would exist oblivious plenty to let that sort of thing happen. But the fact is, they have to walk a fine line betwixt over-committing to the field to try and rush y'all down before Exodia kicks in, and not committing enough resources to cease an explosion of Machines. While the basic Speedroid combo you want to start with involves Speedroid Terrortop + Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice OR Speedroid Taketomborg, the simple first gets a ton more interesting if you likewise draw into your revival Spells, such equallySpeed RecoveryorSoul Accuse.With added longevity from Superheavy Samurai Musashi,you literally can loop Formula Synchron into Musashi pretty much every turn. While simply one extra draw doesn't sound like much, it ways the world when y'all have the disruption to dorsum the play up due to the newest back up cards for the Exodia deck! Remember, any Synchro spamming deck loves being able to make T.G. Hyper Librarian first, especially one that wants to draw into its win condition. But the Speedroids are not alone, because y'all have Exodia support cards to work with now!
We'll beginning off by describingObliterate!!!the powerful Trap Card fix to strike fearfulness into any deck reliant on the Actress Deck. It is a Continuous Trap that lets you send any Forbidden I or Exodia monster from your hand or Deck to the Graveyard to bounce a monster on the field. If your opponent tries to Synchro or Xyz to try and protect themselves from your Speedroid onslaught, just bounce it back away. While this outset event is all about disruption, its second consequence is the i that helps you terminate the duel. Whenever the Trap goes from the field to the Graveyard, you lot get to recover a Forbidden One or Exodia monster from your Graveyard. And then if you happened to send a piece with its commencement event on a previous turn, you can just get that dorsum whenever it hits the Graveyard. Neat huh? Simply if that were your only way to become back Exodia pieces, this deck wouldn't accept an alternate win condition at all. So we have to turn to another new support card,The Legendary Exodia Incarnate. Summoned to the field past tributing whatsoever Exodia piece, this is your dominate monster AND draw engine tied into one card. Oh, and it'southward allowed to any and all bill of fare furnishings. Each of this guy'due south furnishings are every bit important, and so we will brainstorm with the mandatory one – at each of your End Phases, y'all get to recover a Forbidden One from your Graveyard. Then those pieces yous've been sending withObliterate!!!have some other fashion to make their way into the hand. Then when Incarnate is destroyed in battle, which is pretty much the only style to become him off the field outside of Kaijus, y'all get to reveal any number of Forbidden One cards in your manus to draw the aforementioned number of cards. Then at minimum, you should exist drawing 1 carte, cause you would have added back the piece used to Special Summon him. This becomes ridiculous later on in the duel when you need to depend upon a large 4-card depict to attempt to find your final Exodia piece. That is, if you have to rely upon lucksacks.
Primal Cards:
- Speedroid Terrortop
- This is the Speedroid that actually tin can start things off. Information technology tin can Special Summon itself, going into Synchros or Xyzs on a dime. Always the thing you wanna recycle with Musashi.
- Speedroid Taketomborg
- This is the Speedroid that Summons a tuner straight from the deck, allowing for Synchro or Xyz Summons with Terrortop without even using the Normal Summon.
- Speedroid Red-Eyed Die
- The best tuner, since it modifies the Level of the non-tuner, assuasive you to Synchro Summon any generic Synchro betwixt Level 2 and Level 7.
- v Forbidden One Monsters
- Can't be an Exodia deck without these fundamental cards!
- The Legendary Exodia Incarnate
- The dominate and monster depict power, wrapped up in a groovy package.
- Obliterate!!!
- Chief grade of disruption for your deck, besides removes the luck of drawing into your pieces. Simply get them to the Graveyard to afterward recover with Incarnate, Obliterate, or Night Manufactory of Mass Product.
- Unexpected Dai
- Another way to pull pieces correct out of the deck. Think, this is a way to become Incarnate or not-tuner Synchro material straight out of the deck.
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Master Deck:
| Left Leg of the Forbidden One
| Left Arm of the Forbidden One
| Right Leg of the Forbidden One
| Correct Arm of the Forbidden One
||| The Legendary Exodia Incarnate
| Speedroid Double Yoyo
|| Legion the Fiend Jester
||| Speedroid Terrortop
| Exodia the Forbidden I
| Speedroid Den-Den Daiko Duke
|| Speedroid Taketomborg
|| Speedroid Red-Eyed Dice
||| Unexpected Dai
|| Milky way Whirlwind
| Soul Accuse
| Upstart Goblin
|| Speed Recovery
|| Nighttime Factory of Mass Production
||| Wonder Wand
||| Reckless Greed
|| Drowning Mirror Force
|| Obliterate!!! Extra Deck:
| Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon
| Clear Wing Synchro Dragon
| Hello-Speedroid Kendama
| Stardust Charge Warrior
| T.G. Hyper Librarian
| Howdy-Speedroid Chanbara
|| Superheavy Samurai Musashi
| Hullo-Speedroid Puzzle
|| Formula Synchron
| The Phantom Knights of Suspension Sword
| Totem Bird
| Leviair the Sea Dragon
| Sylvan Princessprite
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Strategy Two: Crowning Exodia
Have y'all ever heard of this strategy? I bet someone you know has at least tried information technology. Combining the Monarch support with Exodia sounds pretty strange, since both sets of back up typically run into potential 'Bricky' hands, but they actually tin work together pretty well. Whether information technology is abusing all of the draw power ofPantheism of the Monarchs,the search power ofTenacity of the MonarchsandRender of the Monarchs, orthe lockdown of Domain of the True Monarchs, your deck definitely packs a big dial with or without Exodia. The all-time function is, you can even run more than cards that synergize with Tribute Summoning that as well assist out your Exodia cards! Yous could runObliterate!!!alongside Kuraz to both recover pieces while drawing additional cards. You could run the forgotten draw spell,Precious Cards from Beyond,that give yous even more than reward out of anEdea the Heavenly Squire-fueled Tribute Summon.If y'all want to take a page out of the Heart of the Cards playbook, runCarte du jour Advanceto exist able to set your next five draws. While some of these options audio kind of gimmicky, recollect that you do benefit from picking exactly what y'all have in your hand to guarantee that combos tin can go off and resolve properly.
And so the deck thinning is superb, is that the merely reason to run a deck like this? Quite bluntly, this strategy follows a similar logic to that of the Speedroid variant. Yous accept the Monarchs to apply heavy force per unit area on the opponent, and and so you accept Exodia to fall back upon as an alternate win condition. Remember that the Monarchs already have the insane ability to sparse out the deck drastically, and that is why this Exodia hybrid works in the first place. As for the Exodia back up cards, this is an interesting case where you have a decent statement either fashion. Either you runObliterate!!!andThe Legendary Exodia Incarnateor you lot don't. If you practice not, I suggest considering that you use more of an Extra Deck focused build. If you do, remember to tech in a couple of Unexpected Dai for the extra tribute fodder if needed.
But what kind of draw power does this deck actually take? I've spoken highly about information technology thus far, but I haven't quite put it all into perspective withal. It is quite normal, in my testing, to easily become through your entire deck in well-nigh 3 of your turns, as long every bit you open with aPrecious Cards from Beyond,Edea, andEhther the Heavenly Monarch.Now don't become me wrong, this opening can be considered very rare. But if you open up something similar that, you easily should decide to go for the Exodia win instead of through boxing damage. This variant may be a super draw, turbo-esque variant, merely it is not a decision-less, mindless, solitaire deck. You will interact with the opponent, and you improve be ready to accommodate your strategy to what your opponent throws at y'all. Specifically, if they play Mask of Restrict, you better accept some way to get it off the field. This deck cycles through draws past basically chaining Ehther Summon later Ehther summon during your opponent's Main Stage, drawing 2 from Precious each fourth dimension too as triggering Ehther's event to ship 2 Monarch S/Ts and Special Summoning Erebus from your deck. This gets you ii tributes for your next Ehther, as well as Erebus in the Graveyard to recycle back a fresh Ehther. And then yeah, you really do win with Exodia during your opponent's plow. Quite often really! Permit's get into the key cards of this unique tribute deck.
Fundamental Cards:
- Precious Cards from Across
- The combos begin with Squire, and and then it only ties into large draws. And when you take a behemothic array of options with Monarchs, you have tons of plays to get effectually your opponent'southward attempts to circumvent your strategy.
- Pantheism of the Monarchs&Tenacity of the Monarchs
- And these two are the most powerful Normal Spells for Monarchs. Brand sure y'all keep them in your deck. Non that you'd ever drop them… right?
- Ehther the Heavenly Monarch
- The key role of the describe loop, letting you depict an insane amount of cards during your opponent's turn. Information technology too lets y'all tutor a Kuraz out of your deck for fifty-fifty more actress draws.
- Erebus the Underworld Monarch
- The key disruption Monarch, also helps you to loop fifty-fifty more Ehther during your opponent's plow. Too, who doesn't like forcing your opponent to start with just 5 cards in hand.
- Kuraz the Calorie-free Monarch
- One of the other Monarchs that facilitates drawing, let's you trade in monsters, spells, or traps for additioanl draws. This even happens if information technology is Special Summoned past Ehther!
- 5 Forbidden One Monsters
- It's not worth it to draw all those cards without our Exodia pieces to win the duel!
- Edea the Heavenly Squire
- The master tribute material, since it also recycles back your Pantheism to draw even more cards! Likewise Special Summons a 2nd tribute material when it is summoned.
- Eidos the Underworld Squire
- The other half of the Squire combo, and information technology too grants you an additional Tribute Summon during your turn. This lets you do a fractional Ehther loop during your plough!
- The Prime Monarch
- Additional draw card, information technology too is a dandy source of tribute fodder.
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Master Deck:
| Left Leg of the Forbidden One
| Left Arm of the Forbidden Ane
| Right Leg of the Forbidden One
| Right Arm of the Forbidden One
| Exodia the Forbidden 1
||| Ehther the Heavenly Monarch
||| Erebus the Underworld Monarch
||| Edea the Heavenly Squire
||| Eidos the Underworld Squire
||| Kuraz, the Light Monarch
||| Pantheism of the Monarchs
| Reinforcement of the Army
||| Tenacity of the Monarchs
| Card Advance
|| Return of the Monarchs
||| Precious Cards from Beyond
||| Domain of the True Monarchs
|| The Prime Monarch
|| Escalation of the Monarchs Extra Deck: None.
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Strategy Iii: Tricky Exodia
Officially, stall-based Exodia builds really do not work all too well. Simply when it comes to stalling, no one does it better than the Ghostrick archetype. This is the sort of build you want to run if you just want to annoy your friends. Seriously though, information technology will piss them all off. The general idea is to actuateGhostrick Parade,search out all of your attack stoppers until yous only have Exodia cards left, so win the duel. This is all possible since Parade searches out a Ghostrick bill of fare on each assault, and since there is Mary, Lantern, and Jackfrost combined with Jiangshi, Mary, and the other Ghostrick stall options, y'all have plenty of ways to remain in the duel until Exodia rolls around. Withal, there is a grab. This deck lives and dies by Ghostrick Parade. If you don't get information technology, you are going to seriously fall behind in card reward, losing pretty much all promise of winning the duel. The expert news is, yous also can rely upon a pocket-sizeMagic Piperengine combined withKinka Byo.Another possibility would exist to run fifty-fifty more Ghostrick back up cards, such every bitGhostrick Go-CircularandGhostrick Yeti.
So plenty of bad news, what else does this deck offer? That my friends, is Xyz Summoning potential, specifically for Rank i Xyz Monsters. First off, yous have Ghostrick Dullahan, a smashing monster that cuts downwards your opponent's ATK points in a compression. It even adds back a Ghostrick from your Graveyard to stop some other assail. Truly, it's time to Fob or Treat! What else does the deck have up its sleeve? If I'thousand existence honest, not too much. This variant does non mesh well with the new Exodia support cards, so it's probably in your best interest to avert trying to fit too much into this variant to attempt to brand it function more than effectively. But it is a pretty artistic build nonetheless, which is why it got its mention hither!
Fundamental Cards:
- Ghostrick Parade
- Deck wins and loses on the back of this card.
- Ghostrick Jackfrost, Lantern, Mary,&Jiangshi
- All of these form the core of your Ghostrick monster engine. So it really goes without saying that yous need to be running them.
- five Forbidden One Monsters
- Can't be an Exodia deck without these fundamental cards!
- Where Arf Thou?
- A search card for all of your Level 1 monsters, especially since you lot are running so many.
- Attraction of Darkness
- A great selection to either get to Parade quicker or to get to the pieces remaining in a dwindled deck in the late game.
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Main Deck:
| Left Leg of the Forbidden One
| Left Arm of the Forbidden One
| Right Leg of the Forbidden One
| Right Arm of the Forbidden One
| Exodia the Forbidden One
||| Ghostrick Jiangshi
||| Ghostrick Lantern
||| Ghostrick Jackfrost
||| Ghostrick Mary
||| Dark Eruption
|| Allure of Darkness
| Upstart Goblin
| Ane Mean solar day of Peace
||| Where Arf G?
||| Terraforming
||| Pot of Duality
||| Ghostrick Parade
| Ghostrick Mansion
||| Ghostrick-Go-Circular Actress Deck:
||| Ghostrick Spoiled Angel
||| Ghostrick Dullahan
| Number 83: Galaxy Queen
| Number thirteen: Cain'south Doom
| Number 31: Abel'southward Doom
| Number 39: Utopia Roots
| Slacker Magician
| Number 54: Panthera leo Eye
|| Number 63: Shamoji Soldier
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Strategy Four: Volume of EXyzodia
You got this far into the article, so I am more than than happy to share a really crazy deck that actually works. No more tricky letdowns! Introducing Number Exodia Spellbooks, the deck I as well like to phone call Exceed Exodia. The unabridged purpose of the deck is to use the Exodia pieces for Xyz Summons, specifically to Xyz Summon Number 78: Number Archive. Archive is quite the powerful monster, and despite the fact that your pick of summon is random, it doesn't matter if yous just happen to run entirely Number monsters. The best news is, at that place are even multiple Numbers that tin dodge the End Phase banishing downside of Archive.Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Superior Dorais the outset of these monsters, clocking in at an insane amount of ATK and DEF points for a card that can exist summoned at the pocket-size cost of 2 Exodia pieces. Or perhaps yous'd rather happen to summon outNumber 24: Dragon Nosferatu Dragulas,who tin can plow itself confront-down with its consequence to dodge the End Phase banishing (read upward on Bilaterus' Ruling Article here if you don't know why). But the truth is, you would even be lucky if yous striking one of your other Numbers, like the powerful Spider Xyz MonstersNumber 77: The Seven Sins, Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula,andNumber 84: Pain Gainer.While these cannot protect themselves from being banished, they practice provide large amounts of attack power to give yourself the edge upward.
Now I have to be blunt with yous, while this is an Exodia deck by name, it does non actually aim to win past assembling pieces. The decks win condition is to go on using Archive turn later on turn to generate dominate Number after dominate Number. But the trouble is, you tin can merely run a maximum of 3 Number 78. And so it looks like nosotros need a way to continue summoning it dorsum from the Graveyard, with Xyz Material. This may seem like a nigh-impossible task, merely I propose that you lot have a little flake more faith in a theme that has passed its glory days, because we're going to turn to an archetype designed entirely around Spell Cards! That'due south right, we're bringing in the Spellbooks! While the theme is notorious for its searching ability and disruption in the form ofSpellbook of Fate,information technology actually functions well with any and all Spellcasters that tend to run a small Main Deck. And wouldn't you lot know, evenJustice of Prophecyfits perfectly with the new Exodia boss monster,The Legendary Exodia Incarnate! But where exercise the Numbers necktie back into this movie? That my friends, is the forgotten Spellbook card:Spellbook of Miracles.Since Number Archive is a Spellcaster-type monster, you can quite perfectly Summon your Number Archive back from the Graveyard every turn, every bit long as you have banished Spellbooks to apply as Xyz Textile. Which, but happens to be really like shooting fish in a barrel due to Spellbook of Fate.
Since we accept the basic parts of the deck all lined up, let's talk about what makes a Spellbook deck function. Spellbook decks are all about compiling free reward throughSpellbook Magician of Prophecy, The Grand Spellbook Tower,andJustice of Prophecy,usingSpellbook of Fateto interrupt and survive whatsoever of your opponent's attempts to wrestle control of the duel, then normally you lean upon aHigh Priestess of Prophecyto seal the duel. But in this instance, we have better options, because we have the added benefit of getting on the offensive with high powered Numbers. And don't forget just how big of a punch a fully loadedThe Legendary Exodia Incarnatecan pack! It tin can easily attain 4000 ATK points, while notwithstanding remaining unaffected by carte du jour furnishings. In my listen, the all-time part of this Spellbook variant is that you too have an additional disruption choice, since you bringObliterate!!!to the table. Information technology is a actually cool variant, I hope you have the time to try this 1 out.
Central Cards:
- 4 Normal Monster 'Forbidden Ones'
- We gotta accept at least some parts of Exodia if yous want to call this an Exodia deck. So take his Arms and Legs.
- Spellbook Sorcerer of Prophecy
- Step one: Normal Summon. Stride two: Search. Footstep three: Profit. Blueish boy truly is your all-powerful monster, despite rocking only 500 ATK points.
- The Legendary Exodia Incarnate
- Serves equally a primary boss monster for the deck, also happens to add together a bit more draw power.
- Exodius, the Ultimate Forbidden Lord
- While he was the original embodiment of Exodia, this other Level 10 monster serves as a backup boss monster to the deck. In particular, he recycles your Blue boy, and gets more pieces into your deck to send withObliterate!PLUS he is a inherently summoned Spellcaster that benefits from theSpellbook Star Hall'due southassail boost.
- Unexpected Dai
- Integral to both summoning Incarnate without losing your chance to Blue male child, also every bit helpful in creating the initial Number Annal Xyz Summon.
- Spellbook of Miracles
- You wanted to recycle your Number Hunter correct? Well go accept some fun!
- Spellbook of Secrets, Spellbook of Principal, Spellbook of Fate, Spellbook of Eternity
- The key cards of any Spellbook deck. Plainly other Spellbooks help the strategy, but these are the core ones.
- The Chiliad Spellbook Tower
- This is the Field Spell that gives yous an actress boost of draw power, since yous get to effectively draw 2 cards every unmarried turn. Talk most generating tons of advantage.
- Obliterate!!!
- Another form of disruption for your deck to use to its full potential. Recall, it helps you deckthin too equally increase the ability of your Exodia boss monsters.
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Principal Deck:
| Left Leg of the Forbidden One
| Left Arm of the Forbidden 1
| Right Leg of the Forbidden One
| Right Arm of the Forbidden One
|| Exodius, the Ultimate Forbidden Lord
||| The Legendary Exodia Incarnate
|| Justice of Prophecy
||| Spellbook Sorcerer of Prophecy
||| Unexpected Dai
|| Galaxy Cyclone
| Spellbook of Power
| Spellbook of Miracles
||| Spellbook of Primary
||| Spellbook of Secrets
|| Spellbook of Eternity
| Spellbook of Wisdom
|| Spellbook of Fate
|| The Grand Spellbook Belfry
||| Spellbook Star Hall
||| Obliterate!!! Extra Deck:
||| Number 77: The Vii Sins
| Number 84: Pain Gainer
||| Number 81: Superdreadnought Track Cannon Superior Dora
||| Number 35: Ravenous Tarantula
||| Number 24: Dragon Nosferatu Draculus
|| Number 78: Number Annal
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Equally always, the to a higher place lists are only my personal builds. To some, Exodia may just be that troll deck designed to annoy the opponent, but I strongly believe that y'all tin can bring a flake of inventiveness to the archetype to make information technology into something worth much more. Until the next time, I hope you keep innovating and building creative decks! Most of all, merely savor dueling for the fun that information technology tin can exist!
Reminder, I likewise take suggestions for future CDS articles! While I will not run out of cool ideas, I practice want to be writing articles almost strategies you lot are interested in. So if yous badly wish to see a CDS article most the archetype, theme, or strategy you lot love, feel free to private message me on the YGOrg Discord server or the YGOrganization Forums with your ideas to keep nether consideration: my username is Quincymccoy.
