How can you stop Exodia?

Answer 1

In order to stop an opponent from getting all of the five Exodia cards in their hand for an instant win, there are a few tactics that you can use: * Use hand destruction cards such as "Spirit Reaper", "Don Zaloong", "Card Destruction", "Delinquent Duo", "Dragged Down Into the Grave", and more to discard Exodia cards. * Activate "Necrovalley" to prevent your opponent from using any cards to retrieve Exodia cards from the Graveyard if they are sent there. * Send at least one Exodia card out-of-play by using "Banisher of Radiance", "Disappear", "Soul Release", "Macros Cosmos", "Dimensional Fissure", and more. Discarding Exodia cards is only a temporary measure against Exodia since those cards can be retrieved via "Monster Reincarnation", "Dark Factory of Mass Production", "Pot of Avarice", and more. Sending an Exodia card out-of-play is the most damaging and permanent way to stop Exodia. The fastest way to get that card back would be to use "Primal Seed" to put them back into your hand, but that requires cards that are banned in the Advanced Format in order to activate. The next fastest method would be to activate "Burial From a Different Dimension", but that only puts cards into the Graveyard where you would have to use another card to add them to your hand.