Card Tips:Relinquished


 * This card can be searched via "Sangan", "Senju of the Thousand Hands", "Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands" and "Preparation of Rites".


 * In a deck centered around this card, "Contract with the Abyss" could be used if abundant with level one monsters.


 * "Advanced Ritual Art" is a preferred Ritual Spell card used to Ritual Summon "Relinquished". It requires less cards in your hand, improving hand advantage.
 * You can also use "Skull Servant" with "Advanced Ritual Art" for "Relinquished" in a "King of the Skull Servants" deck rather than use "The Lady in Wight".
 * If Synchro Monsters shall be included, "Flamvell Guard" can be used, since it is a Tuner and has a strong DEF similar to "Charcoal Inpachi" and "Oppressed People".


 * Your "Relinquished" will not be destroyed in battle if it is equipped with an opponent's card. One tactic is to keep a "Relinquished" that is equipped in attack position, even when your opponent has a monster with a higher ATK on the field. If your opponent attacks "Relinquished", they takes the same damage as you from battle and you can absorb his stronger card on your next turn. (This tactic works very well with a "Patrician of Darkness" on the field. You can force your opponent to attack "Relinquished" and then send their other attacks to your other monsters.) A good card to have is "The Dark Door" as if they have one monster stronger than Relinquished and one with any amount of attack, they can only use one.


 * Another extension of this tactic is to attack a monster with a higher ATK than your "Relinquished" while it is equipped. The equip card will be destroyed, you and your opponent both take the battle damage AND you can absorb his stronger monster during Main Phase 2. This damages your opponent and clears the board of threats.


 * Though it will prevent "Relinquished"'s effect from damaging your opponent, it is advisable to have "Ritual Cage" on the field when using him. In the event that your opponent is able to destroy the monster equipped to "Relinquished", "Ritual Cage" will prevent you from effectively taking a direct attack. "Ritual Cage" will also stop monster effects from targeting/destroying "Relinquished", so that's another plus.


 * "Relinquished's" effect is great to clear "Toolbox" monsters off of your opponent's side of the field. Cards such as "Giant Rat" and "Mystic Tomato" will not have their effects activated if destroyed while equipped to "Relinquished" because they were destroyed by "Relinquished's" effect, not by battle. Cards such as "Sangan", however, will still have their effects because they were still sent from the field to the Graveyard.


 * Some cards to help "Relinquished" include:
 * "Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands"
 * "Senju of the Thousand Hands"
 * "Sonic Bird"
 * "Advanced Ritual Art" + "Charcoal Inpachi"


 * This card can be brought back from the Graveyard by "Limit Reverse" as long as it was properly summoned.
 * "Graceful Revival" and "Escape from the Dark Dimension" can also be used if it was properly summoned (like if you removed "Relinquished" while in your graveyard for "Dark Nephthys" or "Kinka-byo"'s effect removes "Relinquished" from play after special summoning from your graveyard to use "Escape from the Dark Dimension").


 * If its sent to the Graveyard you can bring him back to your hand with "Recurring Nightmare" or "Dark Eruption".


 * Combining this card with "Ritual Weapon" and using "The Dark Door" can result in complete domination of the field, for if you were to take control of your enemy's strongest monster it would gain a additional 1500 ATK, which when combined with "The Dark Door" can give you domination in terms of attacking.


 * "Lava Golem" can be an amusing touch in "Relinquished" decks, costing your opponent 2 monsters and giving "Relinquished" 3000 ATK.
 * "Volcanic Queen" can be used as an alternative, as it requires your opponent to have only 1 monster as opposed to 2.
 * "Grinder Golem" can also be used instead if your opponent doesn't have monster(s), also one of the tokens can be used for "Relinquished's" ritual summoning.


 * This card works well with "Opti-Camouflage Armor", using your opponent's strongest monster's strength for a direct attack. The aforementioned "Lava Golem" is a great way to capitalize on this.
 * This combo can be furthered with Double Attack, allowing it to attack directly twice, and since Relinquished is level 1, you can practically discard anything for the cost.


 * Revival cards like Monster Reborn and Limit Reverse can be used to revive "Relinquished" as long as it was properly summoned onto the field prior to being sent to the graveyard. As Relinquished is a spellcaster-type monster, Magical Exemplar can be a very efficient way to summon it from the graveyard.


 * If a Ritual Spell that you can use to Ritual Summon "Relinquished" is in your Graveyard, you can use "Preparation of Rites" to retrieve that Ritual Spell and search this card from your Deck to allow for a quick 2nd "Relinquished".


 * "Djinn Releaser of Rituals" works well with this card. By preventing your opponent from Special Summoning monsters, they will be limited to their 1 Normal Summon per turn, which, combined with "Relinquished"'s ability to take their monsters, will often leave them wide open to direct attacks.
 * Additionally, using Secret Village of the Spellcasters will provide protection from Mystical Space Typhoon, Book of Moon, and other Spell Cards that bypass its effects. With Secret Village, Royal Decree, Djinn Releaser's effect, and a strong monster equipped, you create a strong lockdown that can only be broken with a monster card's effect.


 * Protect this card from high-level monsters with "Level Limit - Area B" or "Gravity Bind". Because "Relinquished" is a Level 1 monster, he will still be able to attack your opponent while "Gravity Bind" or "Level Limit - Area B" is on the field, which can damage your opponent if "Relinquished" is equipped with a monster that would not normally be able to attack under these conditions.


 * Combo this card with "Evocator Chevalier".


 * One of this card's weaknesses include Dragunity Phalanx, and you can use the combo above to probably prevent that from happening.


 * You can use the equipped card as a cost for "Release Restraint Wave" to give "Relinquished" a chance to absorb something stronger while also getting rid of any traps that could be harmful to "Relinquished".


 * A fun if strange card you can use with "Relinquished" is "Unstable Evolution". While your life points are lower, "Relinquished" will have his Original ATK change to 2400, and if you should ever get higher Life Points then it will still be on 1000 ATK, compared to the normal 0 ATK.


 * Use "Relinquished" with "Light of Intervention" to always get a boost from whatever monster you absorb.
 * Alternatively, "Ceasefire" can be used to flip your opponent's cards face up, and can also protect you from flip effects such as Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter or Penguin Soldier, as well as inflicting extra effect damage.


 * "Black Garden" works really well with Relinquished since he is unaffected by its effect, ensuring that he will always be the monster with the highest attack on the field.


 * If Relinquished is equipped with a suitable monster, it can be used to pay the cost for "Deck Devastation Virus" or "Eradicator Epidemic Virus". Again, "Lava Golem", "Volcanic Queen" and "Grinder Golem" can be useful here.


 * Ritual Weapon is a helpful card with which to equip Relinquished, as it gives a 1500 boost in addition to that of the monster it has absorbed.

Traditional Format

 * This card can be searched via "Witch of the Black Forest".


 * Some cards to help "Relinquished" include:
 * "Metamorphosis" + "Scapegoat" and/or "Magician of Faith" to bring out "Thousand-Eyes Restrict"
 * "Polymerization" and "Thousand-Eyes Idol" to bring out "Thousand-Eyes Restrict"


 * "Relinquished" Decks has now lost a lot of power, since "Thousand-Eyes Restrict" was banned in the September 2006 List. But it still retains the basic field control aspect.


 * When a small monster (or a face down monster, or no monster at all) is equipped, this card can be used with "Crush Card Virus".