Exchange of the Spirit OTK

The gist of an Exchange of the Spirit OTK Deck is to quickly get as many cards into your Graveyard as possible, before your opponent can fill up theirs, before activating Exchange of the Spirit, and switching both players' Decks with their Graveyards. Ideally, the opponent will have no Graveyard when Exchange of the Spirit is activated, so he/she will lose from a Deck Out during their next turn, thus causing a One Turn Kill, though technically, this strategy is viable as long as you have at least one more card than them and don't mill your Deck for more cards (as, by the time you draw your last card, they would've drawn theirs last turn, and will lose during their next turn). Also, Fiend Comedian works perfectly with this kind of deck, for 2 reasons. The first being that calling the toss correctly removes your opponent's graveyard, allowing you to activate Exchange of the Spirit and deck out next turn. The second being that if you call it incorrectly, your graveyard will fill up with cards quickly and you can activate Exchange of the Spirit sooner. There are many builds for this deck, but the following are some of the more popular cards used:

Monster Cards

 * A Cat of Ill Omen
 * Cyber Jar
 * Elemental Hero Bubbleman
 * Morphing Jar
 * Magical Merchant
 * Makyura the Destructor
 * Penguin Knight
 * Chaos Necromancer

Spell Cards

 * Book of Moon
 * Book of Taiyou
 * Bubble Illusion
 * Card Destruction
 * Foolish Burial
 * Painful Choice
 * Reasoning
 * Cathedral of Nobles
 * The Cheerful Coffin
 * A Feather of the Phoenix
 * Monster Reincarnation

Trap Cards

 * Exchange of the Spirit
 * Fiend Comedian
 * Good Goblin Housekeeping
 * Sixth Sense
 * Needlebug Nest
 * Blasting the Ruins

Similir to the OTK, the Exchange of the Spirit FTK involves getting 15 cards in your graveyard then activating Exchange of the Spirit on your first turn, and typically using the following cards:


 * Exchange of the Spirit
 * Reasoning
 * Makyura the Destructor
 * The Cheerful Coffin
 * Reckless Greed
 * And a Deck mostly filled with Spell/Trap Cards.

First, activate Reasoning. This will burn through your Deck and possibly send 15 cards to the Graveyard. Then, activate The Cheerful Coffin and discard Makyura the Destructor. Finally, activate Exchange of the Spirit. Your opponent has no Graveyard, so they are left with no cards in their Deck, and thus they will Deck Out next turn.

In addition to the afformentioned combination, you can also use Future Fusion to summon Chimeratech Overdragon by sending Cyber Dragon and at least 14 other machine-type monsters to the graveyard,thus fulfilling the condition.And at the start of your opponent's turn activate exchange of the spirit.

As an alternative, you can replace Makyura the Destructor and The Cheerful Coffin with Cathedral of Nobles in the OCG. This First Turn Kill also makes use of many Deck thinning cards. Examples include:


 * Toon Table of Contents
 * Gather Your Mind
 * Upstart Goblin
 * Legacy of Yata-Garasu
 * Jar of Greed

As another alternative, you can replace Makyura the Destructor and The Cheerful Coffin with Elemental Hero Bubbleman and Bubble Illusion. One of the best cards to use in a Deck with Exchange of the Spirit, however, is Penguin Knight, so on the off-chance that your opponent can skip his/her Draw Phases or has a full Graveyard, you can shuffle the cards in your Graveyard with the cards in your Deck.