- This card can be searched by "Single Purchase", "Temple of the Kings", "Transmodify", "Broken Blocker", "Sangan", "Rescue Ferret", "Soul Rope", "Resonator Engine", "Vampire Dragon", "Summoner Monk", "Dragunity Corsesca", "Photon Veil", "Chaos Zone", "Shining Angel", "Nova Summoner" and "Cyber Angel Benten".
- With "Scroll of Bewitchment" or "DNA Transplant", you make any monster you control get this monster's effect to win a single battle against a stronger monster.
- This card's effect is best used on LIGHT monsters that can attack multiple times ("Asura Priest", "Chimeratech Overdragon", "Cyber Twin Dragon", "Ruin, Queen of Oblivion", "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning", etc.)
- This card can also be used on your LIGHT monster that has an effect that activates when it destroys a monster by battle or inflicts battle damage ("Absorbing Kid from the Sky", "Guardian Angel Joan", "Mystical Knight of Jackal", "Elemental HERO Voltic", "Metaphys Ragnarok" etc.)
- Return this card to your hand using "Monster Reincarnation", "Beckoning Light" or "Light of Redemption". If it would be Special Summoned during your turn, return it to the hand with its effect.
Countering[]
- Attack with monsters that prevent other monsters from activating their effects (at least during the Battle Phase, such as "Armades, Keeper of Boundaries", "Number S39: Utopia the Lightning", "Ancient Gear Hydra", "Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon", some "Dinowrestler" monsters).
- "Macro Cosmos" or "Dimensional Fissure" will prevent "Honest" from being used, as the cost to activate the effect of "Honest" cannot be paid.
- "Chivalry", "Debunk", "Face-Off" or any other Counter Trap Card that meets its activation conditions and can negate monster effects can be used to stop the effect of "Honest".
Traditional Format[]
- This card can be searched by "Last Will".
- "Trap Dustshoot" can be used against "Honest".
- With "Athena" and "Ultimate Offering", you can use this card's effect to return to the hand during the Main Phase and continuously Summon it again, dealing Damage for a slightly effective OTK. Bear in mind, you can't be at a noticeable Life Point disadvantage to do this. If you run "Spring of Rebirth", your Life Points will stay the same while your opponent's go down.
- If you do run "Spring of Rebirth", an alternative to "Athena" is "Fire Princess".
- If you run two "Spring of Rebirths", "Ultimate Offering", "The Sanctuary in the Sky" and "The Agent of Judgment - Saturn" you can pull off a deadly combo. Continually summon "Honest" using "Ultimate Offering" to increase the disparity between you and your opponent's Life Points until the disparity is great enough to use the effect of "Saturn" for the OTK game.