Can divine wrath be used on exodia the forbidden one?

Answer 1

No. The effect of Exodia the Forbidden One is not considered to be activated. Therefore, Divine Wrath cannot be used to chain to its effect as the timing is incorrect. Furthermore, TCG/OCG rulings state that the Automatic Victory condition brought about by the effect of Exodia the Forbidden One occurs immediately without interruption. If all the conditions are met during a chain, for example, the game immediately stops and the Player with the five pieces is declared the winner (the chain links do not continue to resolve).

For example:

• You have four pieces of the Exodia set in your Hand. The next card on top of your Deck is the last piece. You only have 800 Life Points left.

1. You activate Legacy of Yata-Garasu and choose to "Draw one card". (Chain Link 1)
2. Your opponent chains by activating Seven Tools of the Bandit to negate the effect of Legacy of Yata-Garasu and destroy it. (Chain Link 2)
3. Your opponent chains to their own card, activating Poison of the Old Man and chooses to "Inflict 800 points of Direct Damage". (Chain Link 3; normally, if this resolved, you would lose)
4. Knowing that you would lose, you chain to Poison of the Old Man by activating Jar of Greed. Your opponent then decides to pass priority, allowing the chain to resolve. (Chain Link 4)
5. The chains then resolve backwards with the effect of Jar of Greed activating first. With the effect of Jar of Greed,you Draw the last piece of Exodia. You are immediately declared the victor and the remaining chains do not finish resolving. This means you were saved from Posion of the Old Man's final blow to your Life Points, whereas normally, if you did not Draw the last piece, Chain Link 3 (Poison of the Old Man) would resolve, inflicting 800 damage to your Life Points thus winning your opponent the Duel (at this point, your opponent is immediately declared the victor, and Chain Links 2 and 1 do not finish resolving).