After deciding on the next short video to play, Yusei Hoshi quickly found an interesting appetizer. The title now appeared before the eyes of the duelists of the six worlds.
"Opening Hand with 5 Pieces of Exodia! The Opponent's Mentality Collapses!"
DM World
The moment they saw this title, many of the duelists were stunned. Old Exodia? What was Old Exodia? Was it another new deck? But when they saw the monster cards displayed on the screen of the short video, they immediately fell silent. Old Exodia? 5 pieces of Old Exodia? Holy cow! It was referring to the Forbidden One, Exodia!!!
Thinking of Exodia, Kaiba immediately lost his cool! Back when the duel rules were not yet perfected, he had been defeated by Yugi's five assembled pieces of Exodia! Now! Had they come to an Exodia deck?!
"The Forbidden One! It's Exodia!"
"Grandpa! It's your favorite card!"
"I'm sorry, Grandpa! If I hadn't given them to Weevil Underwood back then, those cards wouldn't have been..." Yugi's whole body trembled with excitement, his voice quivering.
And the nearby Solomon Muto was silent. Exodia was his life's work. To be able to see it again now was enough to satisfy him.
GX World
Also shocked that the next short video was about Exodia were the people at Duel Academy. In their impression, Exodia only existed in a hazy memory. The sudden appearance of Exodia-related video information was like a bolt from the blue, leaving them somewhat at a loss.
"Exodia? The mysterious and powerful deck that disappeared long ago."
"Isn't it? If I hadn't seen these words, I would have forgotten about this forgotten deck."
"Wait, didn't everyone notice something strange about this title? Opening hand, five pieces of Exodia???"
"Huh? For real? Doesn't that mean... you win at the start of the game? Is that for real?"
"...."
Amidst the emotional and mournful voices of the duelists, there was more of a sense of remembrance for Exodia. It seemed that later duelists rarely used Exodia as a mainstream deck. Even if there were imitation Exodia cards in later generations, they didn't cause much of a stir. Because in itself, assembling five pieces was too difficult.
Before the duelists of the six worlds could continue to reminisce about Exodia, the duel short video had already begun. The opening was a thunderclap!
Exodia's Binding Play: "Alright! Let's play a game! Everyone, pay attention! This young man has five cards in his opening hand going second! Before his opponent could even react on their first turn, this young man immediately revealed the cards in his hand to his opponent. Right Arm of the Forbidden One! Right Leg of the Forbidden One! Left Leg of the Forbidden One! Left Arm of the Forbidden One! That's right! This young man opened with 4 pieces of Exodia! And the last card he revealed was none other than Exodia the Forbidden One!!!"
"..."
Accompanied by the video blogger's excited voice, the five pieces of Exodia on the screen were indeed all revealed in the opening hand! And this scene once again left the duelists of the six worlds completely dumbfounded! What the hell? Someone really opened with five pieces of Exodia? This is cheating, right! What are the odds of opening with five pieces of Exodia? It's at least a 1 in 650,000 chance! Someone really did it?! If it's not cheating, then it's a fake video!
But before the duelists of the six worlds could refute, the video blogger's voice rang out again.
Exodia's Binding Play: "You think this is cheating? You think this is fake? No, no, no, this really happened. This scene is from a tournament where a 13-year-old boy opened with 5 pieces of Exodia and won instantly. Although I can't believe it either, this is real. That boy, happily raised his hands, look, as if he had saved the world..." In his words, the video blogger's tone was bitter and complex. But in the short video, the boy had indeed opened with five pieces of Exodia in a tournament. Even if they didn't admit it, they had to. This... was the truth.
Exodia's Binding Play: "I believe every player has a dream of opening with five pieces of Exodia. Including myself. But I've played Exodia for so long, and it's never happened to me once. But, that doesn't mean we can't assemble five pieces of Exodia in other ways, right? So, I, your host, am here to provide a few deck build options to help us assemble the five pieces. First option, Panda Exodia! The core card of this build is this card. Treasure Panda!"
[Card Name: Treasure Panda (Level 4)]
[Attribute: EARTH]
[Type: Beast]
[ATK/DEF: 1100/2000]
"Why do I say this card is the key? Because its effect allows you to banish a Spell/Trap from your Graveyard to Special Summon a Normal monster from your deck. One card for a Level 1, and the pieces of Exodia are all Level 1! So the question is, how do we get Spells and Traps in our Graveyard? Naturally, it's with related draw cards. For example, Good Goblin Housekeeping, Into the Void, Upstart Goblin, and so on. And it doesn't matter if the pieces go to the Graveyard. We can run Dark Factory of Mass Production, which can help us recover two Normal monsters from the Graveyard. So, the strategy is very clear, isn't it? Panda banishes Spells/Traps from the Graveyard to summon the pieces. The deck runs Good Goblin Housekeeping and Wonder Wand, which can both send the pieces to the Graveyard and then draw two cards. Then the same idea, constantly drawing through our deck, until we finally assemble the five pieces. It's that simple. But I have to say in advance, the probability is not high. If you could run the forbidden card Pot of Greed, then I have nothing to say, you're invincible."
After the first Exodia strategy was explained, the duelists of the six worlds were all stunned. Huh? What was this strange combo? What kind of thought process could combine these cards to find a possibility of assembling Exodia in one turn? And! The idea was strangely novel! And there was no difficulty in understanding it. Even they, the old-school duelists, after listening to this so-called up-host's explanation, could understand the specific operation. And with the fast-playing Exodia animation on the screen, they actually had the thought that assembling five pieces of Exodia was very simple! When this thought emerged, they were startled by themselves!
Exodia's Binding Play: "The second strategy. The basic idea of this strategy doesn't deviate from the central idea, which is to draw through your deck. But there are various ways to draw, and the operation will be different. For example, there is an Exodia deck that runs a Fortune Lady engine. The idea is similar. Fortune Lady Watery plus Fortune Lady Past Synchro Summon into Stardust Charge Warrior! Then Stardust Charge Warrior lets us draw a card! Then combine it with the Spell card De-Synchro! Turn Stardust Charge Warrior back into Watery and Past. This way, you can activate Watery's effect and draw two cards. Then continue this idea to keep drawing. The in-archetype Fortune Lady also has the Spell card Fortune's Future to recover a banished in-archetype monster and draw two cards! So this is also an Exodia-focused fun deck. Note, don't take this to ranked, you'll cry."
Yes. You'll cry. The first to cry out was actually a duelist in the 5DS world. And this duelist was none other than Carly Carmine, who used Fortune Ladies!
"Huh? Huh, huh?" Carly's glasses almost fell to the ground. "My Fortune Ladies? Huh? How did they become Exodia's plaything! Waaaah! I'm not taking pictures anymore!" The nearby Jack waved his hand helplessly. He really didn't know what to do with this Carly, who had returned to normal from her dark persona. Sometimes she was cute, sometimes she was a handful. Besides, wasn't Exodia more prestigious than Fortune Ladies? Running Fortune Ladies, wasn't this a powerful combination?
"Ahem! Shh!" Jack whispered a few words. "Carly, don't you think this is big news? Think about it, Exodia! A strategy to assemble Exodia in one turn! Shouldn't you be taking pictures of this?" Carly was stunned! That's right! She had to take pictures of this!
Exodia's Binding Play: "After the second strategy, let's talk about the third strategy. This one is much more interesting. We can run Neo-Spacian HEROes to help us draw. It involves three key cards! The first is Convert Contact. If you have no monsters, it can help us send Neo-Spacians from our hand and deck to the Graveyard. The second is Common Soul. For each 'Neo-Spacian' with a different name on the field, you draw one card. In theory, you can draw up to five cards. The third is Contact Gate. As long as you have no cards on the field, you can use it from your hand to fill your board with Neo-Spacians. With these three cards, the strategy is linked! We draw, and if we draw a key card, we can continue to draw, and assemble five pieces of Exodia in one turn. Same old story, it's a fun deck, for fun, don't play it seriously!"
There's more? What kind of dueling mindset and thought process did these people from the higher world have? One after another, these strategies could be thought up! Ridiculous! And what was even more ridiculous was, how could they think of linking all these cards together? With so many cards in the card pool, to be able to think of this point must have been a very difficult thing!
GX World...
These Neo-Spacians! Jaden Yuki had always understood the effects and combos of these cards very well! So after listening to these ideas, he immediately showed an expression of sudden realization. So that was it! Neo-Spacians could also provide a lot of draw support for assembling Exodia! If that was the case, could he run Exodia cards in his HERO deck?
Exodia's Binding Play: "Finally, we come to our fourth strategy! This one is different from the previous ones! It can be considered a specialized Exodia deck! Let's take a simple look at the combo! As long as you have Sangen Summoning Sarcophagus in your hand, we can use its effect! Place Sangen Summoning Sarcophagus in the Spell/Trap Zone. Then activate its effect, pay 2000 LP to Special Summon it! Search for Millenniumoon Shield from the deck! Then activate Millenniumoon Shield's effect, and after placing it, pay another 2000 LP! We can then Special Summon Millenniumoon Shield! Search for Millennium Cross from the deck! And then activate Millennium Cross's effect! We reveal the five pieces from our hand, deck, or field. And we can perform a Fusion Summon from the deck! The soul that has slept for a thousand years awakens!The Unspeakable Traitor!!!" (Note: Card names are fan-translations of a new archetype)
[Card Name: The Unspeakable Traitor (Level 10)]
[Attribute: DARK]
[Type: Spellcaster]
[ATK/DEF: ?/0]
[Effect: 5 "Forbidden One" monsters]
[● This card on the field cannot be destroyed by your opponent's card effects.]
[● Once per turn, during damage calculation, if this card battles: You can make this card's ATK become equal to your current LP.]
[● Once per turn, when a Spell/Trap Card or effect is activated (Quick Effect): You can negate the activation.]
[● During your opponent's End Phase: You can Set 1 "Exxod" Spell/Trap from your Deck.]
[● During your Standby Phase: You must pay 1000 LP.]
"At the end of the turn, we can set Obliterate!!! from the deck. This card can provide us with the effect of destroying the opponent's entire field, and it can also help us recover the five pieces. The setup ends here. If you open with Millennium Cross, then you don't need to pay life points! The Fusion Exodia's ATK can reach 8000."
Exodia? Fusion? Exodia actually had a specialized Fusion deck?! After listening to the final explanation of the video, the duelists of the six worlds completely lost it! Exodia was strong because of the instant win from assembling five pieces! But now, Exodia also had a specialized Millennium Fusion deck! And the Fusion Exodia brought by this deck was so damn easy to summon! This was a bit hard to handle.
DM World
After hearing these strategies, and the final specialized Exodia Fusion deck, Solomon Muto's sleeping memories were wiped away! He was completely dumbfounded. "Wait? Am I really getting old and going backwards? Isn't the Exodia deck about stalling turns with high-defense monsters, and relying on Traps and Spells to disrupt, and then slowly assembling the pieces? Listening to this young man, can we really assemble five pieces of Exodia in one turn?" Solomon couldn't stop asking a series of questions. The nearby Yugi nodded with a wry smile. "Grandpa, it seems so. And that specialized Exodia deck... it seems that summoning the ace Exodia is getting easier and easier..." Yugi was shocked in his heart, but he had to accept this fact! Sir! The times have changed! Exodia even has a specialized deck! Whether it's a fun deck or a Fusion deck, it's no longer the five pieces that you could only assemble by stalling turns!
Exodia's Binding Play: "You think that's it? No, no, no, actually there is another very interesting Exodia deck. The deck is Ignister Exodia! At a YCS National Championship, a kind old uncle used this deck to defeat the weak little mermaid, the Tearlaments clan. Want to know? I'll reveal that national championship duel for you right away!"
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