Build an Exodia Deck

Exodia is the most popular and oldest "special win condition" card in Yu-Gi-Oh. With newer cards being released which increase speed, Exodia is a more viable deck than ever before. This guide will show you how to use it correctly.

Steps

  1. Get the 5 pieces. Each one is Limited to 1 per deck.
  2. If you plan to use the "Appropriate Engine", "Library Engine" or "Underdog engine", skip to the tips section.
  3. Add cards to search Exodia. Emissary of the Afterlife, Where Arf Thou?, Legion the Fiend Jester, and Blue Dragon Summoner can search the limbs, and Deep Diver, Vampire Dragon, and Lavalval Chain can search all pieces, including the head.
  4. Add plenty of drawing cards. Upstart Goblin, Pot of Duality, Dark World Dealings, Reckless Greed, One Day of Peace, Reload, and Magical Mallet are all helpful. Do not use Pot of Greed, as it is forbidden.
  5. Include some deck thinning cards. These help get cards out of your deck so it is easier to draw Exodia. Use three copies of Thunder Dragon or Toon Table of Contents to search themselves.
  6. Add in stall cards like "Swift Scarecrow", "Battle Fader", "Swords of Revealing Light", "Nightmare's Steelcage", "Defense Draw", or "Messenger of Peace". This will protect your life points, as well as your monsters
  7. Include a few ways to recover Exodia from the graveyard. Otherwise, if your opponent manages to discard one, you will be unable to win. Good cards are Jar of Avarice, Monster Reincarnation, Dark Eruption, Backup Soldier, and Dark Factory of Mass Production. The latter two only work on the limbs. Don't use too many of these; you priority should be getting the Exodia pieces before your opponent can do anything.
  8. If your Exodia pieces are getting banished often, you may consider adding a card to retrieve them. Trance Archfiend, Dimensional Alchemist, and Necroface are good for this.
  9. You can fill in the rest of your deck with whatever you want, but recommended cards are "Deep Diver", "Jar of Greed", "Legacy of Yata-Garasu", 3 "Toon Table of Contents", "Monster Reincarnation", "Magical Stone Excavation" and "A Feather of the Phoenix"

Tips

  • "Underdog Engine" - uses "Heart of the Underdog" to continuously draw cards until you get the 5 pieces of Exodia in your hand. Very fast if your lucky, but also takes so much deck space. You need 3 "heart of the underdog", your 5 pieces of Exodia, and fill in everything else with Normal monsters. In addition, use three copies of "Reload" and "Hand Destruction", since they are quick-play spells which can be chained during the draw phase to trigger Underdog again. Use Pendulum normal monsters so you can summon stuff while trying to draw Underdog, level 4 and 6 Dinosaurs so you have access to the Evolzar Xyzs, and a few tuners for Synchro summoning.
  • "Library Engine" - abuses the card "Royal Magical Library" and drawing spell cards. This deck requires a lot of cards to perform correctly. You need 3 Royal Magical Library, 3 Magical Citadel of Endymion, 3 Spell Power Grasp, 3 Magical Mallet, 2-3 Reload, 2-3 Terraforming, 3 Toon Table of Contents, and the following draw engines: Trade-In with level 8 monsters (include Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon to search with your final Toon Table of Contents), Destiny Draw with Destiny HEROs (include Allure of Darkness), and/or Broken Bamboo Sword with Golden Bamboo Sword.
  • "Appropriate Engine" - focuses on the card "Appropriate" and forcing your opponent to draw cards so you can. This doesn't take too much of your deck space, but you will need 3 "Appropriate", 3 "Hand Destruction", 3 "dark world dealings", 2 or 3 "Destiny HERO Defender" and possibly a few "The Bistro Butcher" and "Cup of Ace".
  • In Traditional format, use Pot of Greed, Graceful Charity, Sangan, Pot of Avarice, and Witch of the Black Forest.
  • Hope for Escape engine: This engine uses Hope for Escape, a card that allows you to pay 1000 LP and draw cards for every 2000 LP difference between you and your opponent, along with effects that increase the opponent's life points. You will need 3 Hope for Escape, 2-3 Gift Card, 3 Jar of Greed, Legacy of Yata-Garasu, and Reckless Greed, 2-3 Accumulated Fortune, 3 Upstart Goblin, and stall cards like Swift Scarecrow, Waboku, and Threatening Roar. Kuriphoton, Kuribon, Soul Taker, Tri-and-Guess, and Defense Draw are also good.
  • Always go first. That way, you can have a pretty good shot at winning before your opponent can do anything.
  • Have only 40 cards in your deck. If you have any more, you do not understand the point of Exodia.

Warnings

  • Try not to lose the head of Exodia to the graveyard. It is the hardest to recover and few cards in your deck can recover it.
  • The Exodia set can be expensive to buy individually, try to get a bundle of it or buy packs of Dark Beginning 1 where it is common. The Exodia set can also be found in Yugi's Legendary Decks and Legendary Decks 2.
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