Anubis the Last Judge – #MZTM-EN003
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand or GY) while you have 3 or more cards in your GY with different names that are “Temple of the Kings” and/or Traps, by placing 2 of them on the bottom of the Deck in any order. You can send this card from your hand to the GY; add 1 “The Man with the Mark” from your Deck to your hand. If a Spell/Trap(s) you control is destroyed by card effect: You can target 1 card your opponent controls; destroy it. You can only use each effect of “Anubis the Last Judge” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: May 2nd, 2025
Rating: xx
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Anubis the Last Judge ends our look at Odion’s cards and is not only a great boss monster but a top search card for you as well.
Doesn’t start off with the text you like to see: Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. To summon Anubis, you’ll need three or more cards in the grave with different names that are “Temple of the Kings or that are traps. This shouldn’t bee too hard considering how many Continuous Trap Cards you’ll run in the archetype, as well as the two versions of Temple of the Kings. On the plus side, you can summon Anubis this way from the Graveyard or hand, which ties into its other effect. On the field, Anubis is a 3000ATK monster that you’ll keep in Attack Position because of its 0DEF. You also get a 1-for-1 effect each turn if you lose a Spell/Trap via card effect. If this was in any fashion you could crash your Trap Monsters into bigger monsters and pop them via Anubis, but sadly it is not. Anubis will at least pay you back for losing your Trap Monsters or your Field/Continuous Spell(s). Not as good of a 1-for-1 that it could’ve been but it is still nice.
That search effect I mentioned: Discard from the hand to search The Man with the Mark, gets you to the card you need to get things going for the archetype. There’s no downside to this effect as you can Special Summon Anubis from the grave once you get the requirements in order, and The Man with the Mark gets you to the old or new Temple of the Kings, and the new one gets you to an Apophis Trap Card, that’s one trap down, two to go. You can also use Anubis alongside The Man with the Mark or either of the Serket monsters for a Fusion Summon of Divine Serpent of Apophis, but you aren’t ever using TMwtM for something like that.
Doesn’t have overpowering negation or a fantastic 1-for-1 ability unless you are the one trading your Spell/Trap card(s) for better effects. Is great for getting the strategy going with its discard and can pull itself out of the grave or the hand with relative ease within the archetype and trap-heavy strategies to be a big attacker that can even the playing field if you lose one of your Spell/Trap cards. Not needing Temple of the Kings to be summoned is a big advantage for Anubis, and it is needed for the strategy for it to run as smooth as possible. You won’t be depending on him to be the best attacker on your field, and that’s a good thing.
Advanced- 4/5
Art- 4.5/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Crunch$G
We end the week off with Anubis from Judgment of Anubis finally becoming a monster with Anubis the Last Judge.
Anubis the Last Judge is a Level 10 EARTH Fiend with 3000 ATK and 0 DEF. Nice ATK for a monster to have, EARTH is nice and Fiend is pretty good. This cannot be Normal Summoned or Set and must first be Special Summoned from your hand or graveyard while you have 3 or more cards with different names in your graveyard that are Temple of the Kings and/or Traps by placing 2 of them on the bottom of the Deck in any order. Not a hard summoning condition to meet, and it can recover your Traps back into the Deck or your Temple of the Kings if you really need it. You’ll likely summon this from the graveyard, since he has the effect to send this card from the hand to the graveyard to add a The Man with the Mark from your Deck to your hand, searching for your main play enabler for the Deck. Finally, if a Spell/Trap(s) you control is destroyed by card effect, you can target a card the opponent controls and destroy it, punishing the opponent for a Harpie’s Feather Duster potentially or any other card that destroys your backrow, though the main single backrow removal we see now is Cosmic Cyclone and not MST. HOPT on each effect, of course. It’s a nice boss for the Main Deck with an easy summoning condition that recovers your Trap Cards and it can be pitched from hand to grave to search the main playmaker for the Deck. The last effect might come up sometimes, but I imagine this will likely be removed first before your backrow. Still, playing 3 is good to get to your The Man with the Mark and having copies in the Deck to banish so you can summon Merciless Scorpion of Serket.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Art: 4.5/5 Very royal.
Mighty
Vee
Weirdly, the week isn’t ending with Divine Serpent Apophis, but instead the sub-boss of Odion’s deck, Anubis the Last Judge (not that it makes it any less important). It’s a level 10 EARTH Fiend monster, making it the perfect banish fodder for Merciless Scorpion of Serket if you’re not running Lord of the Heavenly Prison. As it mentions Temple of the Kings, Treasures of the Kings can search it, though unfortunately that’s the only reliable way to search it. Statwise, Anubis packs a mean 3000 attack in exhange for a terrible 0 defense for some reason. Why? Is it supposed to be a shout-out to Zombie monsters having 0 defense? It isn’t even a Zombie!
We’ve got a rare semi-nomi monster in 2025 so you’ll have to Special Summon Anubis through its own condition first before you can Special Summon it through other ways. Anubis has a very unique summoning condition with a lot of words that make it more complicated than it needs to be. Basically, you can Special Summon it from your hand or Graveyard as long as you have 3 cards in your Graveyard with different names that are either Traps or Temple of the Kings by placing 2 of said cards on the bottom of your deck– so either 2 Traps with different names, or a Trap and Temple of the Kings. If you’re dedicated to summoning Anubis, it’s not hard to fulfill at all, but keep in mind you’ll lose out on The Man with the Mark’s search if you choose to dump a Trap instead, and you’ll still have to worry about getting the other 2 cards! You’ll usually be summoning Anubis later on in the duel, since Odion is very lacking in offensive presence outside of its Fusion monsters and it’ll be much easier to summon when your Graveyard is full of dead Apophis Traps; recycling them is also very welcome. Speaking of Man, that brings us to Anubis’s first hard once per turn effect, letting you send it from your hand to the Graveyard to simply search Man. As one of your main playmakers, this alone is a reason to play Anubis, and it puts itself in the Graveyard so you can summon it later when necessary. Finally, Anubis has a very questionable hard once per turn effect that triggers if one of your Spell or Trap cards are destroyed by card effect, letting you target and destroy 1 card your opponent controls. Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to leverage this as a disruption or removal, as there’s no real way to destroy your own Spells or Traps on command in pure Odion decks. There is an extremely fringe case for using Divine Serpent Apophis to destroy your own Apophis monsters to get around cards that protect them from the effects of Extra Deck monsters, but these are so rare it’s not worth considering. It’s more of a passive deterrent to punish your opponent for trying to destroy your Apophis Traps or Temple of the Kings, even if Man protects them anyway. Despite these weird quirks, you’ll still play 3 copies just for more copies of Man; recycling your Traps and getting a decent beater is just a bonus.
+Additional copies of The Man with the Mark
+Good attack stat and discourages your opponent from destroying your backrow and Apophis monsters
-Very finicky to summon on turn 1 without specifically going for it
-Destruction effect is hard to weaponize proactively
Advanced: 3.5/5
Art: 4/5 Now this is some spicy art, probably the best of the bunch.
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