strongest zombie yugioh card Yu-Gi-Oh! - Reborn (EEN-EN009) - Elemental Energy - Unlimited Edition but banish it when it leaves the field Goblin Zombie - Speed Duel:

If you ask me, in my +10 years playing TCGs, there are usually three aspects that need to be true for a card to be good or, at least, one of them needs to happen

Just a great bundle of abilities and source of cheap earthbending for very little mana

When the card declares an attack, the player can send a monster from the hand or deck to the graveyard, and for every Normal Monster in the grave, Exodius gains 1,000 ATK

Most of that rise came in 2025 and the first half of 2026

We have it second on our list, but one could argue that it is at least as good as Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, since it can kill him

Can lead to truly gross situations, and also can get a land tapping for huge amounts of mana by cloning land auras so you can hit some threshold to go infinite