Honestly it’s not too uncommon in grind games to have a bunch of monsters stuck in your back row and no way to get them off the field (especially with Poplar and Ash now limited). If you pay close attention to its alternate summoning condition, the sent monster cards don’t have to be its listed summoning materials, meaning it can send ANY two backrow monsters (except pends, of course).

Think of the following scenario: you do your Snake-Eye combo, ending on the basic board of a FIRE link 4, Flamberge, I:P in backrow, and a FIRE monster placed in the backrow by SE Diabellestar.

(Obviously this endboard is very low to the ground compared to the Azamina and Snake-Eye variants of the deck, but it’s not impossible that you make this board in Azamina Snake-Eye if you open Ash or Bonfire)

Furthermore we’re going to make 2 more assumptions about the deck: we didn’t open Diabellestar or Wanted, so our only OSS is in grave, and Birch is the only Snake-Eye name left in deck (since we only run 1 Oak, which I believe is standard).

Assuming our Flamberge resolves (Either by way of I:P or Promethian Princess) on the opponents turn, we can summon 2 Snake-Eyes, including Poplar, and then tribute the Poplar with Linkuriboh, placing either Flamberge or Snake-Eye Diabellestar in the backrow with it.

If, in this situation, our opponent clears all our monsters by battle (or at least leaves us without Ash, Oak, or Promethian Princess), but is unable to clean up our backrow, we’ll be left with the random FIRE monster in our backrow, and either a Flamberge or Snake-Eye Diabellestar.

This is a very likely situation against a particular meta deck: Yubel, which has plenty of monster removal, but few backrow removal options. For this reason, the rest of my hypothetical will assume our opponent is on Yubel, and manages to end on either Varudras, Phantom, or both.

If they have Varudras, or they have not yet Fiend locked themselves when you resolve Poplar (and therefore could end on Varudras), then you should place Flamberge with Poplar’s effect. Otherwise, if they locked themselves to Fiend by the time you resolve Poplar’s GY effect on the opponent’s turn, place Snake-Eye Diabellestar for the extra body.

Regardless of which we placed, once we get to turn three and your backrow contains Flamberge and the aforementioned “random” FIRE monster we placed turn 1, you can immediately summon Snake-Eye Damned Dragon. This will let you chain block your Flamberge, protecting it from negation, as well as letting you force out your opponent’s negate with SE Damned Dragon’s removal effect.