So, if I make two changes to card effects, specifically "Hand Control" and The Eye of Timaeus, there is a narrow path to victory Add the following effect: "Fusion Monsters Summoned by this card gains the effect(s) of Fusion Material monsters in the Graveyard" Hand Control would force Rafael to destroy a card to activate Necromancy. He would destroy "Purity of the Cemetery" Turn 10: Yami Yugi Yami Yugi draws "Card of Sanctity". During the Standby Phase, the effect of "Purity of the Cemetery" activates. Since Yami has 6 Monsters in Graveyard ("Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts", "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast", "Berfomet", "Kuribabylon", "Dark Magician Girl" and "Big Shield Gardna"), "Purity of the Cemetery" deals 600 Damage to him (Yugi 1200 ? 600). Yami Yugi activates "Card of Sanctity" to make him and Rafael draw until both have 6 Cards in their Hands. Yugi's hand now contains "Hand Control", "Dark Magician", "Sangan", "Magical Hats", "De-Fusion" and "The Seal of Orichalcos" Yami Yugi then activates "Hand Control" and declares "Necromancy". Since Yami Yugi guessed right, Rafael is forced to activate "Necromancy" immediately (Rafael had already guessed which Card he wanted to use, so he simply says: "Use it, Yugi".). Rafael must destroy a Spell/Trap card to activate it. Rafael selects "Purity of the Cemetery". "Big Shield Gardna" (100/2600), "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" (1500/1200), "Berfomet" (1400/1800) and "Kuribabylon" (?/200) are Special Summoned to Yami Yugi's side of the Field in Defense Position. Rafael's hand is shown to contain "Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou", "Kishido Spirit", "Aid to the Doomed", "Rod of the Mind's Eye", "Necromancy", and "Monster Rebirth". Yami Yugi then Tributes "Kuribabylon" and "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" to summon "Dark Magician" (2500/2100) in Attack mode. "Dark Magician" attacks "Guardian Grarl" and is destroyed (Yami Yugi: 600→100). Since "Dark Magician" is in the Graveyard, "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" gains 300 ATK, since it has "Dark Magician Girl's" effect (2600→2900/1700). Since "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight's" ATK was changed by a Card effect, "Crystal Seal" is Destroyed. "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" attacks Rafael's "Guardian Grarl". Yami Yugi then activates "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight's" effect to discard "Sangan" and Destroy "Guardian Grarl". Yami Yugi then attacks and destroys "Backup Gardna" with "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight". Yami Yugi then sets “Magical Hats” Turn 11: Rafael Rafael draws. Due to the effect of "Guardian Treasure", Rafael draws one extra card. Rafael then activates "Monster Rebirth" to take "Backup Gardna" from his Graveyard and return it to the Deck. Rafael activates "Nightmare Binding" attempting to decrease the ATK of Yami Yugi's "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" by 800, increase Rafael's Life Points by 800, and forbid Yami Yugi from Tributing "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight". Yami Yugi counters with by discarding "The Seal of Orichalcos" to negate the activation and effect of "Nighmare Binding" and destroy it. Rafael then activates "Swords of Revealing Light" to prevent Yami from attacking for 3 Turns and forcing all of Yami's monster to be face-up while "Swords of Revealing Light" is active. Turn 12: Yami Yugi Due to "Swords of Revealing Light", Yami cannot attack (3 more Turns). Yami Yugi draws "Catapult Turtle". Yami Yugi then activates "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight's" effect to discard “De-Fusion” and Destroy “Guardian Kay’est”. Turn 13: Rafael Rafael draws. Due to the effect of "Guardian Treasure", Rafael draws one extra card. Rafael's hand contains "Wicked Breaking Flamberge - Baou", "Kishido Spirit", "Morale Boost" and "Rod of the Mind's Eye". From here, it’s unclear what Rafael maybe able to do. The honest answer is not much. With no monsters on the field, all Rafael can do is hope he can draw “Backup Gardna”. If he does that, he can Summon it, then play “Celestial Sword - Eatos” and (maybe) win. (Yugi totally uses Magical Hats to buy him enough time and cards to win) If he fails to draw “Backup Gardna”, then all Yami Yugi needs to do is tribute either “Berformer” or “Big Shield Gardna” and Summon “Archfiend of Gilfer”, and once the effect of “Swords of Revealing Light” wears off, Yami Yugi can attack directly with “Archfiend of Gilfer” and “Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight” for game.

Season 4 is not canon to the manga but it is canon to the anime. Dark side of Dimensions made it clear that the anime and manga are two different continuities. And Duel spirits and the DS world would become important plot points for GX and 5D's.

Hooray

Lol Yugioh Elo ratings would be interesting

Bro, the ranking system can be harsh. I think it was worth it

The hardest choice are made for the strongest mind

No it wasn’t, if the seal wasn’t played then nothing would’ve been at stake. Even if Yugi lost. It would’ve just been a regular duel .

​@@RB01.10sarcasm?

Dark Magician: seriously dude? After I Deux ex machina'd my way to save your ass against Arcana, THIS is my thanks?!

@@silvertherockwreckingoni9785 I suppose without things being as dramatic Yugi could have just responded with "you are not the first monster to get a ride on Catapult Turtle. Just enjoy the trip."

@@silvertherockwreckingoni9785 as "MY WORTHLESS DARK MAGICIAN GIRL" echos in your mind. . . lmao

Like a stern father looking down on a shameful son. No turtle cannon can sacrifice you out of that one

OMG!!!

Huh, even while being obviously comedic, that's still...really touching.

@@adamloga3788 especially when you remember Kuriboh effect is to discard it from your hand to negate all battle damage from that attack and winged kuriboh makes so, if destroyed, you wont take any more damage that turn

What episode is that?

@@lilusagi4992 i dont remember sadly

@@lilusagi4992 episode 71

I like the fact that you an Seal Emoji.

@@stevetom2506 🦭 said thanks. 🙏🏾

Lmao, the seal emoji

"I'm guessing that's not a show on Sea World"

I mean... At least he has proven to have balls.

lol

a synchro what

"Monsters... stacked... on TOP of each other!? And what in Ra's name kind of word is this 'Ekseez' anyway!? 'S ridiculuous!"

Atem would had a stroke if he duels against a Shadoll/Burning abyss player

@@fernandoguillen5996 I would love to see his reaction to my Red-Eyes Burndown Deck... jus the Extra Deck alone... 3 Fusion, 10 Synchro and 4 Xyz Monsters... (10 points for each one you can guess!)

Not even meta decks, just 99% of modern decks period.

also says the guy with Electromagnetic Turtle... WHICH HE PLAYED VS KAIBA IN BATTLE CITY!

@@Xehanort107 Exactly.

"Graveyard? you mean the Deck zone 2.0."

YOU CANT PLAY A CARD FROM YOUR DECK!

Yeah , Yugi put so much blind faith in him and really did trust him and look what happened then Yami didn’t even win .

@@adrianawilliams4810 Hence why Yugi activated the Seal right back in their next duel.

@@shinystarmiestudios4179 Well that was mostly to show how Yami was acting . But J do think a small part of him was like “hahahaha payback b!/(h

That's the point, Yami realized he not only broke their trust but lost Yugi because of his actions

But at least it gave him an interesting character development

*Fire Labyrinth has entered chat* *Penalty Game has entered chat*

Thoughts exactly. Looks like your going to the shadow realm Jimbo.

Pharoahs were arrogant

@@FireOverLordX And Atem's greatest weakness is his ego and pride as shown plenty of other times in the series because even if he can be quite modest, he still is someone who was propped up as a god, and despite his lack of his memories, I chalk it up that it was still the "essence" of who he is as a person, even as a quote-unquote "blank slate".

@@BryonYoungblood Exactly, I don't think he was ever evil its just that his morals conflict with Yugi's

*cackles*

Wasn't there 5 blue eyes? Or was that early yugioh rumors....

@@thevashfan12392 those were rumors

@@shade08538 what about pegasus summoning toon blue eyes white dragon. Wouldn't he have to send a blue eyes white dragon to the graveyard to special summon toon blue eyes? Or was that completely skipped. I do remember the pity duel between kaiba and yugi at the gates. Yugi combining an arrow with polymerization and then fusing a zombie mammoth to a blue eyes ultimate dragon. That was a huge F the rules moment.

@@thevashfan12392 No, Toon Blue-Eyes doesn't need regular Blue-Eyes to be summoned

I always thought that was supposed to be the character flaw, but then the dub went with this "you gave in to anger" bullshit. Like no, Atem just doesn't understand how to duel without stakes. He never came out for duels that weren't for the fate of the world before (yes Kaiba is treated as wrong for getting on Yugi's case for being dramatic, but he kind of has a point, it's just not the one he thinks he's making). Rebecca, for example, was dealt with by Yugi on his own. The only duel I can think of pre-dragons arc, even in filler episodes was the time Atem dueled the guy creeping on Tea and he was pretty clearly in control the whole game so it's not a great representation. Other than that, he's always put the fate of the world on the line for every duel he's been in. He always bet too many Star Chips or Locator Cards to be able to afford to lose, or his soul was on the line, or his opponent was going to get his God Card or his Puzzle. Looking back on it that way, not only does it make Kaibas constant jabs over Yugi being dramatic af actually feel more meaningful and relevant, but it also explains why Atems final test was for him to lose a duel - he has to show he's learned it's ok to lose sometimes and not every duel is life or death. You put that guy in the Rafael duel and of course he's going to play like the fate of the world is on the line and not recognize that it isn't. That's the only way he knows how.

Yup even as a kid I always said this no stakes but still plays it anyways.

Probably give Yugi the finger as he’s carried away by the helicopter.

@@GiftedContractor He dueled Joey in both the manga and anime so he can win back his Red Eyes and Atem officially lost. So he has been in a no-stake duel before since he didn't even want to keep the card.

@@Ramona122003 the difference being: 1 was his friend, the other was one Atem assumed was a Villain with world destroying goals

Not even a few years, he had Electromagnetic Turtle last arc.

Kalin Kessler:"hAndLesS CoMBo"

@@cbbblue8348 😂😂😂 Yugi would pass out if he saw Kalin's dueling style.

GY

I literally summon my Dark Magician most of the time from my gy with eternal soul or some other spell or trap

OwO

Well damn

Interesting

@Tekuani Fair point. I just had an interesting idea that could have happened.

yeah but it is asking a lot to have some sort of direct interaction with the season's antagonist before he duels him, so unfortunately that be how it be

SET THE FUCKING CARD DOWN YES ITS NOT A GOOD THING TO DO IN NORMAL STANDARTS BUT HERE IT MAKES SENSE STOP DEVELOPING BAD HABITS!

The Crystal Prison prevented Magician Knight from being targeted.

@@Gevaudan1471 didnt think about that...

@@Gevaudan1471 for attacks, nothing says he can't equip cards to dmgtdk

Interesting

Assuming that play is legal, and he can combine DMG with Magical Hats to buy time, how is he eventually defeating Grarl and eventually Eatos without a Seal boosted Kuribabalon and Tameas already used?

Wouldn’t it have proven rafael right? His point was that anyone can be evil, and if yugi had done that, he would move on to be under the orichalcos, effectively making him evil

Not sure how wrong it would prove Rafeal but it would certainly be an example of how willingness to make sacrifices can be instrumental to victory.

Kuriboh is always happy after being discarded to the GY, and cards trust Yugi even when he does that because he has Catapult Turtle in his deck, so I don't think there's any problem for sacrificing monsters. Raphael is just a poser

But Yugi would have taken Rafael's soul for no reason. There were no stakes until Yugi played the card. So actually he would have proven Rafael entirely correct: Yugi would have taken a soul just to stroke his ego.

@@sleepysaffron No because he is fucking dead now. therefore he is wrong

@@jaretco6423 I think that that's only for the Spirit Board messages. Those can be set in the the Monster Zone, but I don't think it applies to all spells and traps.

The sad part is this saga never got any Manga counterpart. It's kind of disappointing, as imagine how different the Millenium World arc could've been if the events of Waking the Dragons was made canon and made remembered throughout the finale.

@@chaoscontroller316 Except in the manga Atem got over his fear of losing when he was facing Mai and he became 'ready to lose'. Battle City highlighted this when he refused to kill Bakura to win despite everything at stake until Yami Bakura returned and assured Bakura's safety, or when he was willing to lose to save Marik from his evil side despite Marik trying to kill him and forced a death between him and Joey. This arc basically ignores all of Atem's development for two seasons.

It's very mildly hinted at? More specifically in the final duel with Yugi..It's mildly hinted at that to move on they'd need to do the one thing he's afraid of and has never happened to him before: loosing a duel (in a fair way, he's lost plenty of times in unfair duels); he has to "learn how to loose gracefully" which kinda hints that he can't stand loosing.

@@testerwulf3357 That is more on the dub where the final test was to see if Atem could lose with grace since winning was easy for him, but even then it wasn't so much about Atem being afraid of a lost, but more about him learning to be humble. In the manga and sub of the anime the final trial was to see if anyone could put an end to Atem's battle legacy and put him to rest. Or 'take his sword'.

Its kinda how Yugi vs Mai in the dub would make more sense in the manga. In the dub Yami struggles because Yugi is wrestling for control over their body because he doesn’t trust Yami after he tried to kill Kaiba In the manga Yami struggles vs Mai because he’s cocky & is entirely thinking about facing Pegasus. I dont like how the manga did though and love how the dub displayed Yugi’s fear of Yami, but the problem is that there isn’t enough of this plot point in the dub because Yami is more morally righteous. Manga Yami with the dub’s plot point about how Yugi is scared of Yami for harming people woulda made more sense.

He also had an actual archetype when Yugi was still running a frankenstein deck. Raphael might even give some of the GX characters trouble with his 3k beatstick that he could special summon with ease.

His deck was oddly specific, oh you're attacking my monster? Here's a card that says you can't, oh you're doing a special destruction that negates any spell? Good thing this monster card has an ability to revive said monster you destroyed. Oh you fused two monsters here's a card that locks him in place unless it's atk changes. Oh now you have a card that let's you attack multiple times per turn? Here's a card that says you can't do that now. I get that for plot he had to lose but why the hell was every single card he had so specific and precise on defeating the Pharoah?

@@moviemaker2011z I think Raphael studied the Pharoah's deck in previous tournaments and built his deck specifically to target him.

@@RenaldyCalixte And yet he loses the next time they duel.

@@AzureRoxe Raphael only lost because he surrendered.

if i was yami yugi i would have been like thanks for the card raphael i think i'll rip it up XD

Yeah it was pretty obvious what Rafael was planning. Had Yugi not activated it, nobody would've lost their soul. Like c'mon Atem, maybe LISTEN to Yugi next time?

Raphael: hey Darts I beat Yugi Dart: umm Raphael, then why don't I have his soul yet? Raphael : see what happened was........... Dart: so let me get this straight, You gave him the card and expected him to play it? Raphael: Well everyone has darkness in their hearts so I thought he'd play it. Darts: ugh you dumbass!

@@DJninjablade22 XD

Or he could just rip the seal then and there and then it'd have counted as a DNF instead of a loss

I know for a fact that original attack came into play in Yugioh GX, but yeah the real yugioh made no sense from start to finish.

@@theentity5201 Who hurt you?

@@theentity5201 atem would've joined yugi in leviathan so yugi wouldn't be in any position to beg

@@theentity5201 Hmm. Interesting idea, too bad Raphael didnt crush Yugi the second time, now did he? Oh thats right, he got his monsters and his morales totally destroyed and that was the end. But sure, keep fantasizing.

@@theentity5201 Honestly sounds like a skill issue (jk jk jk)

From the wiki: "Yami Yugi could have won had he used Underworld Circle to bring back King's Knight instead of Big Shield Gardna, then attacked Rafael directly with it once Dreadscythe was destroyed, thus winning the Duel, as Rafael had no cards on the Field that could protect him and only 1200 Life Points left."

Jaden vs Yubel wasn't the final duel of GX. Jaden vs Yugi was.

I take it you haven't watched season 4 of GX

@@ShadicRothZz1998 Sorry, forgot to add the Season 3 part. Thanks.

@@kingofgameskingodiscontinu4260 there's a season 4

@@max46019 brooo....

Couple things. Pump up is only until the end phase according to the graphic in the video, so he would just be wasting it on a face down monster without doing any damage. Secondly, he had no reason to suspect rafael had such a high def monster or what his stragety would be later, so its not even misplay.

More like a simple miscalculation, considering Atem felt Chimera's 2100 ATK would be enough to take down what he perceived to be a low DEF monster just because of how Rafael opened the Duel, only to be surprised when he saw Backup Gardna had 2200 DEF.

Chimera just sucks, that is the issue.

Good play, although I suspect if Rafael was attacked with a monster that had more than Backup Gardna's DEF, he would activate Rescuer from the Grave in his GY. And unfortunately, I think Pump Up only lasts until the End Phase. This would still be an interesting variation of the duel because if it did play out this way, Raphael would have to flip Backup Gardna face up for him to play the Grarl combo and then there would be nothing stopping Kuribabylon from destroying the 500ATK Backup Gardna

@@lpfan4491 😂😂..wow that's disrespectful. Chimera is a monster Yugi/Atem uses a lot. Has helped him in other duels. But you just say Chimera sucks. That's funny. 😂

Hayato/Chumley played every move the best of his abilities. Chronos/Crowler even contemplated on losing on purpose because he was surprised and proud that someone from the red dorm could pick up his slack after being held back a year. I don’t see any alternative plays in that duel where the outcome may have changed.

No, I think they could. The field spell limitation isn't an effect, but a ruling, so I think they would be able to play their version. It's the inverse distinction that's made for the battle protection of the anime number monsters

Which goes along with how Rafael wanted to teach Yami a lesson, that it's ok to lose

@@EddieB-ready He wanted to prove that the pharaoh was evil, which worked as Yami Yugi kinda played an evil card that takes souls just so he could win (and he didn't win which caused his best friend to get soul sucked out leaving just him alone in the body); he had to go through an entire thing of fighting Yugi to fight his darkness as banishing Yugi (and betraying his trust) was the proof of his evilness

See that's why this duel was just made to get Atem to screw up. You dont play the seal and you lose hey no big deal but once you play the seal your literal soul is on the line and if it had just been Atem in the duel then bye bye series

I mean no offense but this whole duel was supposed to make the viewer think don't play the card. This duel was meant to show atem character flaw

@@darknesswave100 they should have done it where both play the seal and Yu-Gi is losing bad and now he is forced to use it

My memory as a child was mixed up , and I thought that yugi, original , was taken in the 1st Duel vs that episodic villain . And so driving the cast to save him. This was just...stupid seeing as he didn’t need to activate the seal .

@@EMICIME now u think about it that there was no stakes it's kinda funny but then again it shows the pharaohs dark side tht losing to him is not an option he might have mental problems

Honestly he could do a huge amount of duels this way. The videos are also pretty popular so he'd probably need to implement polls at some point to prioritize the most popular ones.

The event of the duel monsters anime unfortunately retconned that series where as if I recall the series continues with duel monsters after the dark games. In which case if this was canon I would think he would of rather refused to go back to the way he used to be as he was a better person now as opposed to then.

Another interpretation is that Atem hadn't actually changed that much at all, at least not yet, and it was little Yugi's influence on his mind that softened him in those following seasons, and when the Seal of Orichalcos separated little Yugi from him, he reverted back to his old self. And it was only after losing little Yugi after this duel and having to deal with the consequences of it that Atem got true internalized character growth.

I don't care if its filler, its awesome and deserves to be canon!

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@@sameash3153 Filler or not, Leviathan vs The Egyptian Gods was the BEST FIGHT in Yugioh history. All 3 Gods obeying the pharaoh in a unison attack. It was literally the God's greatest moment in the anime.

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Yami always cared about saving the world, not his title…

@@TheJaredPunch the title's just the cherry on top. But he let his desire to have stakes override his common sense. If he didn't play the Seal, literally nothing would have been lost

He probably would have won if Raphael hadn’t top-decked a Guardian and its respective equip spell together on three separate occasions. Guy clearly “forgot” to shuffle his deck.

@@hypersilver1111 Or he pulled an Arkana (cutting the edges). Point is, Plot has gotta plot

@@hypersilver1111 Yugi and every anime character pulls the perfect card everytime. Like bro how many times has kaiba pulled the lord of d combos.

Pissing contest the arc

The question is: who pissed the highest?

@@chaoscontroller316 #Therealquestions

Til he meets Jaden and his future lover Yusei. Lol

Lol agreed xD

@@markmagician2471 lol I get that since you're goin GX I'd say Rafael style of play is like Alexis in terms of sacrificing life points to keep the monsters on the field. Rafael had a belief in his cards stronger than atem here.

@@royalty843 I meant with the heart of the cards

Not to mention Rafael had the clear advantage right out of the gate because Atem underestimated him, since he took 100 battle damage by assuming Rafael's Set Backup Gardna would have 2000 or less DEF for Chimera to plow through, then another 900 when Guardian Grarl sliced Chimera into pieces, as well as how Rafael had ways to protect his monsters while also hurting Atem, especially Purity of the Cemetery, and his desire not to have his monsters go to the Graveyard due to the connection he has with them as well as the ties to his family. What made it worse too is that Atem let his fear of losing get the better of him in this Duel, especially because he thought losing would equal his methods were wrong, and his ego couldn't take it, and neither could his pride. Which is why he played right into Rafael's hands when he willingly used The Seal of Orichalcos just because he thought it was the only way to free Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight from Crystal Seal, when he could have had other options. He just was too blinded by his ego being hurt that he didn't see it.

Yeah, he would have won lol, they had to screw over Vector with actual magic bs but Vector had the best plan in the entire franchise

@@fudouakio4759 Indeed. His cunning plan involving the V cards he gave while posing as Rei to use as part of not only his deck destruction combo with Vain Betrayal but also deliver the troll move of the century by revealing his real identity and that his friendship was a lie just to gain advantage in their duel. But let’s be honest, Vector did this just to take the piss out of Yuma like the troll prince of card games that he is and watching Vector trolling Yuma was one of not only Zexal’s crowning moments but in all of YGO. Vector still remain my favourite villain of the series. On a side note: outside of V Salamander, the other V cards Yuma got from Vector (V Gnome, B Sylph, V Undine and V Call) have never been used or their effects revealed. I’m hoping in a future set for printing anime cards, we get those cards to support Utopia Ray V like Salamander did. To top it all off, perhaps a Utopia variant that reference Ray V equipped with Salamander or even Chimera Clad like say ‘Salamander Utopia Ray V’ and ‘Chimera Utopia Ray V’ much like Dragonic and Leo Utopia Ray.

@@bladersmosh actually, among these cards that haven't had their effects revealed, V Call's effect was revealed. It basically searches for a V monster.

@@bladersmosh Lol, i just want them to print tons more Umbral Horrors and make it a legit archetype, with those monsters in it (Since they fit the monster theme of the deck)

Yuma would've won regardless

the duel was briliant ngl but Yami already learned it's wrong to choose victory over a person's life after his rematch with Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom. He abandoned that mindset and grew to value life such as when he enraged at Pandora for killing his opponent. So this duel kinda reset his development and start over.

@Zone Heart Well, that was only in the dub. In the original, he basically had to realize the true strength of a Duelist isn't from winning, but being prepared to lose and potentially suffer from it, and realizing how even if he was the one who was scared to lose because of his pride, regardless of the fact Kaiba would die, Yugi was the one who wasn't scared of winning or losing, but of killing someone just for the sake of victory. For the dub, I'd say that *MAYBE* this is, but it also can count as a parallel to that moment in Duelist Kingdom because of the fact Yugi had been able to take control and stop Atem from killing Kaiba, but this time, Atem "won" by preventing Yugi from getting in his way and lost more than just the Duel--- he'd also seen he was like everyone else and had darkness in his heart as well as Yugi protecting him by sacrificing his soul so Atem would be able to carry on.

@Zone Heart I see that as a breaking of it as well

Interestingly, Atem’s arrogance and pride was more pronounced in the manga version of Duelist Kingdom. He could’ve defeated Pegasus in his first duel but prolonged it because that wasn’t how he wanted to win. The reason why he stopped doing penalty games after that arc was to reinforce that he wasn’t evil.

@Melissa D "Or how about when he almost killed Bakura" That isn't true in any version. Yami was never going to attack Bakura and was willing to lose. "Then you’ve got the pyramid of light movie " That movie isn't acknowledged in the original anime. "keeps playing even though he could throw the duel at any time and nothing bad would happen. " Not true since the moment the Pyramid of Light was played it became a Shadow Game and Yami knew this. Which is why he was taking real damage from every attack. He also kept telling Kaiba to stop, not throw the duel, since he's the one who started the Shadow Game. "Basically while it’s not perfect, it honestly makes a lot of sense for dub Atem to play the orichalcos" No it doesn't because he wasn't even willing to send normal Marik to the Shadow Realm to stop Yami Marik from taking over the world. The same Marik who did nothing but terrorized him and his friends to the point that even normal Marik wondered how Atem could be so forgiven.

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It was bcuz of joeys big mouth

And the Abridged Series made it even funnier with Kaiba saying "YUGI LOST A CARD GAME?!".

@@Cindy67917 I don't want to hear it... you're a disgrace to the game, Yugi!

Yugi gave his championship crown to some nobody?! No one deserves that title but me!!

Going for that sinister vibe, and thanks glad you liked it

thank you for explaining in a way i couldnt

I wish she'd touch me alright

Too bad none of that makes any sense because that is not at all how spirits work in Yugioh... until GX, which is a direct sequel to this crappy season _because_ of that bad continuity.

@@BloodrealmX explain

@@legendarylancers7446 The monster spirits used in the Shadow Games in ancient Egypt that are depicted on the writings which Pegasus based Duel Monsters on were pieces of human souls called Ka that were extracted, stored, and later summoned using the power of the Millennium Items. Some people could also command the Ka of their own soul as well. In the case of Dark Magicial Girl in particular, she was the Ka of a girl named Mana who was the apprentice of High Priest Mahad, who the Dark Magician was based on. She was not, in fact, the ancient guardian of three crystalline dragon statues from Atlantis ten thousand years ago, as that would have been seven thousand years before Mana would be born.

Big Shield Gardna is a normal monster in the anime (if it wasn't, several duelist could had defeated him in the past. I think Arkana would be the first in this case).

​@@juliuswatcher1157 Yes in the earlier seasons but by this point it is a effect monster you can see later on when he faces Dartz, Dartz attacks with his Malevolence intending to end Kaiba but he activates Attack Guidance Barrier to redirect the attack to Yami's Big Shield Gardena, who's in defense and once the attack whiffs it gets switched to attack which confirms it has that effect during this season at least.

dark magician girl's heartbroken look is,in turn heartbreaking. though it makes you wonder if monsters have reactions at all because their spirits become part of the hologram or if kaiba is just a dick who decided to give the holograms such realistic AI that they can be emotionally hurt by being sacrificed or the duelist making a morally questionable move. hell,even arkana's dark dark magician got straight up offended by him talking about how his cards are just his meaningless servants.

@@JT5555 true,monsters have feelings confirmed

@@JT5555 spirits are part а the cards. Its just not everyone can see spirits besides hologramms

Sad Dark Magician Girl is painful to look at. 😭

@@heavydonkeykong5190 it is😭

@Zone Heart Or a really obviously stacked deck...

considering Raphael chopped the bridge down, I doubt he was going to accept a surrender

This is like a repeat of Kaiba vs Yami in Duelist Kingdom, It was after that duel that Yami grew to value life over winning. Which begs the question: if Yami already experienced a similar stituation and learned from it, why did he still choose victory over a person's life in this duel again?

What would happen if he had surrendered? What would rafaels reaction be

@@bassgx1459 second time Atem let winning a duel cloud his judgment. Loss of a duel vs lost of your own vessel's soul...... I'd take the former, definitely as since nothing was on the line and it would've made Rafael a complete fool.

I agree despite the change in fusion monsters I feel like zane was playing a little off

I'd like to see Jaden vs aster more

Yeah instead cyber end dragon he could have used his chimera Tech that he supposedly had in the later episodes but for some reason he never used in the early series

@@danielcain8136 I think the reason why he didn't use it was because of how OP it was

@@danielcain8136 which Chimeratech? I dont really believe Chimeratech Overdragon wouldve defeated Edo, but if Fortress then sure.

Kaiba's win in DK doesn't count, not even in his own eyes.

Glad you like them!

For Thousand-Eyes Restrict, obviously.

@@1997gamer Scapegoat plus Metamophorsis is way easier to summon Restrict, synergizes better and was actually meta during the fromat in GX (and yes, Metamorphosis was still legal in anime since Jaden uses it to summon Neo Bubbleman later in the anime). Then again, maybe Jinzo was taking a page from Gx book of "how can summon my fusion mosnters the more ineffective way possible?" that Jaden also reads from since he never plays fusion substitute type cards, with the exception of E.Hero Prisma, that is a Lv5 in the anime.

That was only in the manga. And if you're going to tell me that they're the same canon, they're not. Death T never happened in the anime, Yami Bakura was first fought in Duelist Kingdom instead of right before it, etc.

@@darkknight5541 so why don't people consider this arc cannon

@@mohammedyousef4005 Because it doesn't have anything to do with the Egyptian stuff the rest of the series deals with (Millennium Items, origins of duel monsters, etc.). Personally, I think that's bull.

@@darkknight5541 but aren't the Knights realated to Atlantis which was sort of Egyptian

@@mohammedyousef4005 Its complicated, I guess. Personally, I don't care. I love the season.

Lol

Lul

I think he means the EYE of Timeas

@@overlordelektro7940 nah. It was very clearly the EYE of Oricalcos...lol

You've commented this on another video pertaining the seal of orichalcous lol

Try tuning into yu-gi-oh character profiles they go into cards and characters and a lot of stuff

Beast of Gilfer: bruh

It’s allowed as long as there’s no judges online on duelingbook

I don't technically count wen kaiba n peagasus beat him y kuz in peagusus case it was a timer on the duel n he kidnapped his grandpa n in kaiba case he threatened 2 jump off the edge if Yugi attacked him n besides u would want 2 win a duel legit wit no technalities or nothing u Kno n I'm pretty sure everyone feels the same way so Rafael is the only legit person 2 beat Yugi in my opinion

@@skesplash7223 But remember when Kaiba played monster reborn? He technically won had the regular effect as it was shown was followed. In the Japanese version, he has dialogue that says “Because he resurrected the head of blue eyes he had to wait a turn to attack”

@@TheKpa11 that is true

the issues with season one duels is that the rules were being developed as it progressed and it was more free flowing kinda like a dungeons and dragons game, hence with that one specifically Kaiba couldn’t attack the turn he reborned one of the heads. In the ghost kaiba duel, ghost kaiba couldn’t attack because he set a card negate attack is worded so vaguely that it seems to only work on magical attacks, which is probably why Kaiba didn’t activate it during the duel on DK with Yugi

I think the main issue is that losing usually had some big stake involved. If he loses Duelist Kingdom his grandfather is never getting his soul back. If he loses to Marik or any of his henchmen it's gonna be fatal. If he loses to Yugi he loses all the bonds he's made since being in darkness 3000 years. The whole thing with Rafael feels a little suspect, because it negated some character development. With Kaiba he was ready to kill to win to protect his grandfather. But when it came to Bakura he wasn't willing to wipe out regular Bakura for a win. Then with Rafael he's back to not being able to accept losing.

@@kyuubinaruto17 I think with Raphael he saw him as someone that needed to be stopped because his boss Dartz was dangerous. Whereas with Bakura, Yugi had no idea Bakura was working with Marik.

He learned that last arc, hence why he wasn't willing to kill Bakura and held back against Yami Marik because he was trying to save him. Atem was over this weakness after Yugi kept him from killing Kaiba in Duelist Kingdom.

@@kyuubinaruto17 Thing is though, Rafael isn't like Regular Bakura. The thing with Yami is, after that situation with Kaiba happened in Duelist Kingdom, he'll try to save you if you show that you have a reason for what you did. Rafael though had already proven himself to be willing to commit mass murder for a frankly shit reason, thus Yami decided he was gonna go all out.