Use an effect to prevent " Exodius" from being destroyed in battle. For insurance, be sure the card has an added effect to prevent battle damage. (e.g. " Necro Defender", " Zero Gardna", " Waboku", etc.) If your opponent takes control of your " Exodia Necross" and does not have all 5 pieces of Exodia in his/her Graveyard, " Exodia Necross" is destroyed if face-up. Activate " Ultimate Offering" and " Precious Cards from Beyond" then Normal Summon 2 monsters (preferably 1 " Samsara Kaiser"). Tribute them to Summon " Red Ogre". Draw 2 cards from " Precious Cards from Beyond", then discard one to return " Red Ogre" to your hand. Continue this until you get all of the pieces in your hand. " Mysterious Puppeteer" will make any Normal Summon by " Ultimate Offering" effectively costless. Both being Warrior-type monster they can be searched by " Reinforcement of the Army". If you must discard or use for a Tribute a Piece of Exodia at the start of the loop, use " Monster Reincarnation" or " Dark Factory of Mass Production" to return it to your hand. Once you can repeat this loop 2/3 times, there will be no problem to finish it. Two copies of " Level Eater" can serve as tribute fodder for " Red Ogre", allowing you to save 1000 life points each time you summon it. Your hand would increase by one card per summon as you would draw two from " Precious Cards from Beyond" and discard one to return the "Ogre" to your hand. You can get +3 per summon if you add " Card of Safe Return" (Traditional Format only). Exodius" can be used in many OTK strategies, as " Diffusion Wave-Motion" can provide some awesome support. An example of a simple OTK strategy involves: Exodia Necross" can be removed from the field by Spell/Trap cards that do not destroy, or by monster effects that destroy (such as " Hieratic Sun Dragon Overlord of Heliopolis").

Send all pieces of "Exodia the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard so that " Exodia Necross" can be summoned; or The effect " This card is destroyed when any of " Exodia the Forbidden One", " Right Arm of the Forbidden One", " Left Arm of the Forbidden One", " Right Leg of the Forbidden One" or " Left Leg of the Forbidden One" is not in your Graveyard." is a Continuous Effect. (It is also applied during the Damage Step.) [1] Spirit Barrier (not necessary for the loop but good if your opponent has a high ATK monster and you do not have enough Life Points)Burn cards will eat this play style alive. An alternative to stopping Burn cards from eating your life points, is encouraging it. " Self-Destruct Button" is a great way to save space and time in bad draws, as a tie is a great way to start over in losing situations. This card requires you to be behind, and have a difference of 7000 life points or more to activate, which is relatively easy to achieve. So, " Upstart Goblin" helps to separate the life points, as well as any cards with life point costs, such as " Final Countdown". During your Standby Phase have " King Tiger Wanghu" and " Card of Safe Return" Face-up on your side of the field and " Destiny Hero - Departed" in your Graveyard. "Departed" is Special Summoned to your opponent's side of the field and you can draw one card due to the effect of "Card of Safe Return". "Departed" is destroyed by the effect of "Wanghu" but Special Summons itself again during the same Standby Phase. This will cause an infinite loop. Repeat this until you get all the 5 Pieces of Exodia in your hand. Some cards, such as " Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En" and " Naturia Barkion", can prove to be a threat to your stalling engine and will have to be dealt with. Cards like " Dark Hole" and " Lava Golem" are effective ways to get rid of them. While " Skill Drain" is active, " Exodia Necross"' ATK is returned to its original 1800 points. Even if " Skill Drain" then leaves play, " Exodia Necross" does no[ sic] regain any ATK increases it had because of its effect, but it will begin to accumulate ATK points again.

Exodia Necross" cannot be Normal Summoned or Set, and cannot be Special Summoned EXCEPT by the effect of " Contract with Exodia". So " Exodia Necross" cannot be Special Summoned with " Monster Reborn", etc., even if Special Summoned properly first. Notably, "Exodia the Forbidden One" and the other "Forbidden One" cards were the only monsters ever specifically mentioned in the rulebooks (other than as an example), due to "Exodia the Forbidden One" being the only card with an alternative victory condition at the time. "Exodia the Forbidden One" is no longer mentioned in the rulebook, as its card text suffices to clarify its effect. While the primary purpose of "Exodia" is to declare an automatic win through having all five pieces of the "Forbidden One", there are other ways to use it.Have "Dark Magician of Chaos", 3 " Cyber Valley", " Spell Economics" and " Dimension Fusion". Have the 3 "Cyber Valley" and the "DMoC" Banished. Activate " Spell Economics". Activate "Dimension Fusion" to Special Summon "DMoC" and the The main card, " Exodia the Forbidden One", is one of the first five Effect Monsters ever to be released and the first card to have an alternative victory condition. Summon " Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord" and use its effect to send all 5 pieces of "Exodia the Forbidden One" to the Graveyard to declare an instant win. Samsara Kaiser (recommended at least one at the beginning of the loop, you can start even without it, but will be impossible to continue if you don't draw it) While " Skill Drain" is active, " Exodia Necross" is not destroyed if Exodia pieces are removed from the Graveyard, but it will be destroyed if the effect of " Skill Drain" disappears.