Q&A for How to Beat Exodia

Try to learn his tactics and try to predict his movement. If you do that, you have a chance of winning. if you lose, remember, it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game.

You can use Soul Release to banish all the pieces of Exodia from your opponent's graveyard.

Yes. But I would not use it because they can see your hand. I recommend trying to banish a piece of Exodia.

To summon Exodia, all you need to do is get all five pieces in your hand and then you win the game.

There is no certain deck that is designed to counter Exodia, but you can try to make then discard their hand (best way to beat Exodia).

Exchange is a card that forces both players to show their hands, and let the other person take 1 card from that hand. You just have to take a part of Exodia and play it. This can also be used to prevent things like Five Headed Dragon, Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, or Dragon Master Knight by stealing polymerization, which you can use for discarding spell effects. Exchange can completely shut down some decks.

Find some good counter cards made specifically for preventing traps and spells.

No, because once your opponent gets all five pieces of Exodia, the automatically win the Duel. No traps, spells, or monster effects can negate the effect of all five Exodia pieces once your opponent has them. However, you still have a chance to get rid of some pieces by using cards that make your opponent discard their hand before they activate the effect of all five pieces.

Yes, but your opponent probably will not summon exodia as that locks them out of their only way of winning.

Monster reborn could be useful in a Exodia deck, but most times you will be able to keep the five pieces away from the graveyard. If you have the card Obliberate! on the other hand, you should probably have Monster reborn in your deck.

That is helpful, locking them out of a single exodia piece disables the entire deck.

No, exodia is a hand condition, any any player who knows half of what he/she’s doing will know not to summon exodia.

Yes, you can simply destroy it before it grows out of hand, prevent it from gaining attack with a negate, remove it with a monster effect, etc. Necross is not a strong card by any means.

Sacred beasts recently got new support, and were actually very competitive early last year. The god cards also got a structure deck, but they are by no means good.

No, Exodia is not banned because it is by no means a strong deck in the modern format. Most modern decks can easily take out an Exodia deck in 2-3 turns.

You can buy the five pieces of Exodia online, such as on eBay, for example. It is not good to buy boosters if you really want a specific card though.

If they get all five pieces in one turn, there is nothing you can do. They win when all they have all five pieces in their hand or the field.

Besides all five pieces of the Forbidden One, you would want to have a lot of drawing cards, such as Jar of Greed, Pot of duality or Pot of Avarice. You would also want to have some protective spells and traps, such as Dark Bribe, Drowning Mirror Force and Mystic Mine. Other good cards are Obliberate! and Sangan.

You can usually have 6 cards in your hand. For example, the card Enervating mist lowers the opponent's hand limit to five. Other than that, most of the cards make the hand limit higher.

Yes, it is legal to play only 1 copy of each piece of Exodia. At the current limit, it hasn’t done much in any competitive scene.

Exodia isn’t a good trade competitively, as it’s a gimmick deck at best. However, if you are looking for a casual deck, or just want the pieces of Exodia for collection reasons, you should probably ask your friend’s dad what cards he would like to trade.

Yes, that’s pretty much an instant win against Exodia decks. However, Snatch Steal is banned.

Exodia doesn’t place their pieces on the field, the point is to have all 5 in the hand.

Use cards like Gold Sarcophagus, Sangan, and Witch of the Black Forest. I don't recommend Different Dimension Capsule because if you search a piece with it, since the pieces of Exodia are limited 1, if it is destroyed, your piece still will be banished and it will be hard to use Exodia the Forbidden One's effect.

Against Exodia? No. Once your opponent has all five pieces of Exodia in their hand, they win, and you cannot activate or negate anything against it.

Yes, you can but try having cards that can banish cards from the Graveyard, as well as having some cards that have the ability to gain life points.

Summoning Exodia is an automatic win, regardless of what cards are on the field.

If one piece of Exodia, such as the head, was summoned by your opponent, either by accident or to defend themselves as they have another copy of that piece in their hand, it would be possible to send any copies of that piece from the hand and deck to the grave with chain destruction. However, most players would not do this unless extremely desperate or sloppy with their moves, so your best chance would be to get rid of the pieces as quickly as possible.

An easy way out is Raigeki, as it destroys all your opponent's monsters, or even Dark Hole.

Exchange shuts down Exodia completely. Exchange allows both players to trade cards from their hands. So if you were to take a piece, you would defeat Exodia immediately. Be careful, though, as this can also risk your deck's stability as well.