Always thought ishizu was testing seto rather than actually dueling him

Both of them were driven by tunnel vision goals. Kaiba could've used Soul Exchange to summon his Blue-Eyes, but he REALLY wanted his Obelisk to beat her. Ishizu could've attacked directly and won, but she REALLY wanted to win with Blast Held by a Tribute.

He would've soul exchange the 2 monsters for Blue-eyes instead if she didn't summon

She also could have won earlier. Her goal (Accord to her necklace) wasn't to beat kaiba. It was to destroy kaiba's obelisk. During the tourney kaiba went god card crazy. So by beating obelisk and kaiba in one fell swoop she would have decimated kaiba utterly and completely. The rod (and kaibas past self) told him his destiny was thru his blue eyes and not the god card.

Ishizu had the millennium necklace showing her a route to victory. Without the interference of another millennium item, that future is guaranteed. She was simply following a path that she was given for victory

I think she was specifically trying to use sacrifices blast to destroy Obelisk and win the duel that way. She specifically needed to destroy obelisk to achieve some goal that I can't remember off the top of my head

Unfortunate, she could just have used keldo and agidoooo to mill 10 and fuse into kitkallos

2 words plot armor

It’s because she kept telling him her plan

You forgot something. Blue-eyes was in Kaiba's hand the whole time. If Ishizu entered her battle phase without the third monster, soul exchange would have just tributed her monsters for blue eyes. Kaiba still would have lost if he attacked with blue-eyes due to ishizu's trap card, but the direct attack wouldn't have gone through like you said.

The same thing happened in the Marik vs Mai quarter final. If Mai had just attacked directly with her 3 harpies instead of summoning Ra she would have won..

ishizu is the literally pulling off the "F around and find out" strategy lol

Kaiba wanted to the perfect victory by beating Ishizu with the one card she gave him. Ishizu was fallowing the visions she saw with her millennium necklace. Kaiba was about to call his attack with Obelisk until Marik’s millennium rod got in the way and showed a vision to Kaiba that Obelisk isn’t the answer. Kaiba changes fate and summons his Blue-Eyes White Dragon and wins.

On modern terms: Let her cook, she’s just setting up her board, so she can make the combo, and OTK him with style. 😂

Duel Monsters tended to treat normal spells as quick play spells. (Ex. Yami chaining Pot of Greed and Monster Reborn on Kaiba/Marik’s turns). In the duel with Ishizu, Kaiba used Soul exchange during her turn to summon Obelisk after she summoned her last monster. She could have attacked in her previous turn like you said, but she couldn’t have won before Obelisk was summoned.

Ishizu and Mai both got screwed over. Although i feel like Mai was definitely screwed over worse.

*Ishizu:* "I could easy win this duel, but I'm gonna flex my magic on this dweeb." *2 minutes later*

Kaiba had the blue eyes white dragon, could use soul exchange to summon it using rhe 2 monsters instead of 3 with obelisk

In this duel, Ishizu just trying to prove to Kaiba that she can see the future

Ishizu didn’t attack mainly because she thought that fate couldn’t be changed. The future she saw was oh him summoning obelisk and her destroying

The point of the duel was effectively the future isn’t set in stone. Something she thought with her over reliance on the necklace and like a few others said she didn’t want to just beat him but fully humble him, put him into his place. But beating him with the card she gave him. Honestly if it wasn’t for the rod reminding him about the blue eyes in his hand she would have won.

I think ishizu was bound a bit by destiny, she could see the future and manipulate it to a degree but a limitation being that she must follow some degree of control from that destiny.

Ishizu: Nah i'd win.

Yes but she wasn’t just trying to win she wanted to humiliate seto by having him lose by using his best wepond obalisk

Imagine the humiliation Kaiba would get if he lost to ishizu then Joey 😂

While it’s not stated directly, it’s basically her thinking the future can’t be changed, so if she sees “I will make this move” then she decides to make the move she saw instead of trying to change fate.

Man seeing agido and kelbek giving me chills down my spine, these two where Knightmares in the tearlement deck strategy

She's not a duelist who pursue victory,she just wants a different future and save her brother

Nah watch TGS anime he research that episode in more detail. The battle city soul exchange works different from the real world

She choked like the warriors

Isuzu wearing Necklace Shows Kaiba Past President and Future about Yugi vs Kaiba then Kaiba was Shocked Stone Tablet was Yugi Vs Kaiba after that he Summons Blue eyes White Dragon

You know how you can tell Seto Kaiba has some of the most boring duels? They only last 2 episodes. 😂

Of course they cheated....Seto wasn't even holding The Millennium rod & it still told him how to win.

Bro got dat batman plot armour

Both Kaiba and Ishizu passed up opportunities to win early.

Noticed this too. As I recall, he hadn't drawn Blue Eyes yet, so he couldn't use Soul Exchange on just two of her monsters. As others are saying, Ishizu knew Obelisk needed to be summoned in that duel, and summoning her third monster was the only way it would happen before Kaiba decked out.

To be fair, if she wasn't following her necklace, she wouldn't have gotten that far anyway.

In the 1st movie it should have ended when Yugi summoned the Sorcerer of Dark Magic because he negates and destroys traps as a standard effect... which is what the Pyramid of Light is... but writing dictates otherwise, nobody ever took the anime or films seriously in terms of how the game is played 😂 because it ignores so many rules for the sake of storytelling

@Multiversal Studios: The reason why she did not attack dirrectly to win the duel, was because she wanted to deserve obelisk the tourmentor, so if she win without faceing obelisk, she would have refused to win obelisk from kaiba, and since kaiba is extremely disappointed to lose the tournament that early, when yami yugi face Evil yami Marik Kaiba would have been more against giving both Obelisk the tourmentor and metal fiend sanctuary, so Yami yugi could have end-up just faceing evil Yami Marik with only Slifer the sky dragon. In the video game battle city where it applies the battle city rules except you have 8,000 life points and a few diffrences, since you beat Kaiba at getting Obelisk from Ishisu in the museum, then joey lose to maco sunami, since only 8 can be in the finial so the player as to be one of the 8, and then during the finial kaiba lose to ishisu the same way you mention up above because in that reality Kaiba does not have obelisk the tourmentor so she as nothing to prove.

Could have been great as Seto's second love interest next to Blue-Eyes. Imagine the ancient Egyptian drama then.

He probably woul've used soul exchange anyways to summon blue eyes if she didn't summon a third monster

Seto used normal summon twice on his next turn

U also forgot that all spell cards was quick play when they turn over so he would’ve tributes both her monsters for blue eyes

Crazy how a new soul exchange is coming out because of this

I lost… that giant rock lied to me

This is a contradiction on Ishizu’s Millennium Necklace’s Future Telling. Ishizu tells Kaiba he is fated to duel the Pharaoh again, but later tells him he’s fated to lose to her. Given how the tournament brackets go, Ishizu’s Necklace is showing contradictory visions. If Ishizu wins, she’s wrong about Kaiba dueling the Pharaoh. If Kaiba Wins, Ishizu is wrong about getting Obelisk back from Kaiba. You see how these two visions can’t both happen once Kaiba and Ishizu are dueling before Kaiba and the Pharaoh are dueling? Ishizu made her moves like reading lines from a script, never once questioning how she could win if she played differently. I compare this to another power in another show: Psyqualia in Vanguard. Psyqualia can show one outcome, but that doesn’t mean it’s always guaranteed, because a miracle Heal Trigger can save the opponent and let them counter attack for victory.

That why plot armor steps in

Kaiba had Blue-Eyes in hand as well. If she just attacked, he would have been forced to tribute both of her monsters for Blue-Eyes to stay alive. And yes, I know that's not how the card works IRL, but Soul Exchange is different in the anime.

Ishizu was Mai in her duel against Tea... yes Kaiba was Tea 😂😂😂

Blue-eyes:am I a joke to you?

In OG Yugioh, all spells are quick-play.

When u bm your opponent but got comeback

That’s what I thought and said when I saw the episode

Another note. Doesnt she try to hit Obelisk with Blast Held by a Tribute. Which just destroys and damages the user of a tributed monster attacking. Why couldnt she use it on Blue Eyes? He was still a tribute summon

Soul exchange doesn’t work like that

Kid me: Ishizu can get it 👀 Adult me: Same

Well, if we are looking realistically, if Ishizu decided to not summon a third monster and just decided to go for game, Kaiba would've resorted to using soul exchange to summon the blue-eyes white dragon. Kaiba may have wanted to beat Ishizu with Obelisk, but he would not have allowed himself to lose the duel if he knew he would not be able to do so. What would've happen tho was that, now the virus bomb would have been inside the blue-eyes white dragon, instead of obelisk, and if Kaiba attacked, he would've lost with the blue-eyes. So for Kaiba to win, he had to tribute all of Ishizu's monsters, including the one with the virus bomb, in order to summon Obelisk, and then tribute obelisk and the other monster that Kaiba brought back from the GY, in order to summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon to attack ishizu directly for game. Kaiba had no other way to win the game at that point.

So the necklace told her what card he had face down, isn't that a barrier in itself? She can't just stop listening to something that tells her how to win. It's like using a meta deck against a potential win deck (like Exodia deck vs. Blue-eyes deck, or Odd-eyes deck vs. Deskbots)

Thank you! I'm not the only one annoyed at how Ishizu threw the duel in that sense, if she had tried to attack with either of the two it would have forced Seto to use Soul Exchange with blue eyes and then decked him out.

he had blue eyes in his hand

In Yu-Gi-Oh the villain is on the left and the hero is on the right so, Ishizu is the hero, and Seto was the Villain of the duel

But that's not really the way the soul exchange works, and yes she could have won, but it wasn't meant for that to happen. She knew that the only way hey brother could have possibly been defeated was for him to advance. It's weird how the animated series and how the cards actually work are two different things. Soul exchange works by you having a monster on the field and your opponent having a monster on the field, if you're requiring more than one tribute. Your opponent has to have at least one monster on the field for soul exchange to work, and you cannot attack on the turn that you use that card. So you have to set it up this other cards in order to successfully pull off a victory.

This could have been an ok plot point with just some slightly better writing. If Kaiba had also set a trap card so she decides against attacking and letting Kaiba destroy himself rather than risking her victory. She actually doesn't attack again from this point on, I believe. Another option is if the writers said the necklace gives her an idea of the future but not a direct scene by scene play of what will happen

Kaiba had Plot Armor

He also has blue eyes in his hand, even if she tried she would have had to deal with his blue eyes instead. So no, she didn't misplay.

He has obelisk on the field.

Also at some point she could use monster reborn to bring blue eyes and win

A win is a win

Melenium necklace dookie for not see that plotarmor strong though

Those who faith is in destiny than other will be blind to others possible people may bring

I wish they had more duels with Ishizu.

Did Kaiba just used Normal Spell card Soul exchange on ishizu's turn? 😂

All witch doesn't make sense because soul exchange is not a quick play 😂😂😂

What rare card did Seto Kaiba win when he "beat" Ishizu Ishtar in the duel.(Sell, Sell, Sell, & buy a 🥪.)😂😂😂😂😂

Is that just a regen of Des Feral Imp

Kaiba would’ve used soul exchange for Blue-Eyes then

With all due respect, It's called plot armor.

Plot armor

I like your way of thinking but sadly in battle city almost all spell cards are quick play spell cards. He was just waiting to see if he can summon blue eye's or obelisk depending if she summons or not. But thats alright, the anime was terrible with rulings and followed the rule of cool out of anything until the latter half of Yugioh

Nah she would've still lost as all Magic cards were used like quick spells back then. Once she summoned her monsters and attcked he would've activated Soul Exchange and summoned Blue eyes White Dragon.

soul exchange is quick spell in show

If we are going that way, yugi won, oden won, mai won and ishzi won....would have been a completely different finals

Why you use anime picture of "Dark Gremlin"? You know that's just Des Feral Imp, right?

Battle city is just a cluster of misplays

I thought this in 2004

Well nah he has blue eyes in hand he clearly could of it to tribute the two monsters but so she summoned the third to make it so he summons obilesk

To counter that Kaiba could've set soul exchange one turn earlier to make it less of a gamble. Miss play really

I hate this argument. If you had a preset path why deviate? When hiking, every one knows leaving the trail is a bad idea. No one uses GPS to deviate from the ETA. People use GPS to get there quicker. Intentionally going a different way than the way the GPS tells you to go is senseless. She saw a path to victory, she couldn't have known the Millenium Rod would interfere in the duel, and even if she did, the millenium items can protect their user any way. The thought thst she "Chose to throw the duel away for no reason" is stupid. She saw a direct path to victory and followed the plan she KNEW would work, because she SAW every single move in that duel, including Obelisk dying, Kaiba Losing and him HANDING OVER HIS GOD-CARD to HER.

The definition of “over extending”

semi finals shouldve been Yugi vs Odion and Ishizu vs Marik

Even if we forfet about it Seto should not be able to normal summon Blue-eyes. He just normal summoned Obelisk so he used his normal summon. And be honest he was about to declare attack with Obelisk so he end his main phase XD

To be fair… Yeah, She should’ve won but choose not to attack her opponent and let her powers do the talking for her, Which literally proves she messed up big time. But thats also the point of the episode, Kaiba kept saying no one can tell him his destiny, He makes his own. She just relied heavily on the milennium item to do the work for her because it has never failed until now. If she didn’t, she could’ve won the match.

plot armor is the stongest monster in Yugioh...

Battle City Finals was weird. A lot of the loser duelist couldve won but chose to not do the winning move. This one. Mai against Marik, she had 3 harpies against no defense. Bakura vs Marik, same with mai. Joey vs Marik, self explained.

Ishizu is looking thick

😤🙏maybe the writers just didn’t look too hard into the plot points? They’re already using soul exchange as a trap card, and then she loses cuz she can’t activate blast on BE even tho he tribute summoned it also? Face it guys the writers just didn’t try super hard to understand the game or the plot holes.

Tbf if he didnt have godcard tunnel vision kaiba wouldve won easily

(Ah-Gi-Doo) 😂🎉

You do realize KAIBA'S GIRLFRIEND IS ISHUZU THEY ENDED UP DATING

Phite Weople and Pygyptian Eeople STAY doing this 🤦‍♂️😭😭😭