I am not sure why our card today is has “Rebirth” in it. It should have been called Sophia, Goddess of Unstoppable Oblivion as it banishes everything in sight and it can not be stopped. In order to run this card in a deck, you would have to have a deck dedicated to it’s summon. The requirements of having a Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, and XYZ monster on the field is a lot to ask out of any deck. Even though you can use your opponent’s monsters, you are still looking at having three different special summoned monsters on the field at the same time. Normally, if you have three or four of the above monsters, you are probably going to win anyways.

So what type of deck could Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth see the light of day in? It is going to need to be a deck that can special summon like crazy. Then you will have to modify it to summon the special summoned monsters it is not built to summon. Basically, you are looking at a combination of several decks. You’re going to need tuners, so Spore, Plaguespreader, Laval’s, and Fable’s may be a good add. Most decks can play Effect Veiler as well. The Fusion is as easy as playing Instant Fusion and the Xyz monster is as easy as having two of the same level monster on the field. The main sticking point is the Ritual monster. Gishki decks are really good at getting the Rituals out. As the Ritual monster is probably going to be the hardest monster to bring out, a Gishki hybrid or maybe Demise, King of Armageddon deck may be the best deck to modify.

Once you summon the monsters you need during the game, you can always bring them back to the field with Call of the Haunted and Monster Reborn. I will give you one last deck idea to ponder. Try a Fairy deck with Harold. Use Ritual Foregone to summon Harold and stop your opponent from ruining your plan with its ability to negate. Then play Instant Fusion. Summon Venus and get three Shine Balls out. Xyz two Shine Balls, and bounce the other one with Birdman. Synchro the Birdman and Venus. Then say hello to Sophia. Granted, you will need all six cards in your hand, but it can be done without much modification to an already existing deck type.

Who are we kidding? First, Sophia has too many requirements to summon it. Second, those requirements do not fit well in the same deck. Finally, Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth is a dead draw almost every time. At level 11, we can’t even use it for Trade-In. Sorry Sophia, but as great and powerful as you are; you are just too demanding to bring out.

Traditional: 2/5
Advanced: 1/5

Today we are looking at: Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth

“Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 face-up Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz Monster from anywhere on the field, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. This card's Special Summon cannot be negated. When this card is Special Summoned: Banish all other cards from both players’ hands, fields, and Graveyards. Cards and effects cannot be activated in response to this effect's activation.”

This card looks really great until you read the effect closely and note it has to be one of each. If you get it on the field you should win, but how often will that happen? Even in a deck based around him it would pretty well take a heart of the cards moment, or five, to pull that off. I don’t really like her, at least if she was water she could pay water discard costs.

Advanced: 2/5 (Solely because she is in the elite club of eleven star monsters.)
Traditional: 1/5