- This card can be searched via "E - Emergency Call", "Chaos-End Master", and "Elemental Hero Stratos".
- You can Normal Summon Elemental Hero Bladedge or Elemental Hero Neos with this card without having to Tribute. Damage Condenser is an excellent way to Special Summon this card from your Deck or use Foolish Burial to send it from the Deck to the Graveyard.
- Hero Mask and Elemental Hero Prisma can also search out and send Necroshade to the graveyard.
- Using Polymerization for one of Necroshade's fusions will also get Necroshade to the graveyard. Elemental Hero Necroid Shaman and Elemental Hero Darkbright aren't the worst E-Hero fusions ever, Necroid Shaman can destroy a monster and replace it with a weaker one in attack position, and Darkbright has Piercing with a Michizure-esque effect.
- Discard with Monster Reincarnation, then simply retrieve your high level Hero and Summon it without Tribute.
- Future Fusion,foolish Burial,Dark Grepher,and Armageddon Knight can send this card to the Graveyard.