Oh, and whoever loses the duel, loses their soul!

@XandWacky

6 ай бұрын

JOEY! IF YOU LOSE THE DUEL, YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL!

@JaimeD.

6 ай бұрын

Take a shot every time you hear this phrase. 🥤😂

@spacegodzilla3951

6 ай бұрын

XandWacky is right! Am I really capable of taking someone souls in a duel?

@JaimeD.

6 ай бұрын

​@@XandWackyYes, Tristan. I get it!

@HollywoodLego

6 ай бұрын

Joey: 😑 Gee, thanks for the reminder...

I would like to point out that if yugi set sangan on the first turn, he could’ve searched berfomet, use poly on the next turn to make the king of mythical beasts, and use monster reborn, and tribute what he summons for dark magician girl. Puts him WAY farther ahead.

@TGSAnime

6 ай бұрын

An equally good first turn play! Good spot!

@enlongjones2394

6 ай бұрын

And if he used Monster Reborn on Sangan, he could’ve gotten *another* search when he tributed it.

@Amitlu

6 ай бұрын

This is why you never show hands in a duel, plays make a lot less sense.

@chuguvsme

6 ай бұрын

-Except it isn't unless Sagan works like Witch of the Black Forest in- the anime. Nevermind I thought Befoment had 1800 atk

@solidsnakeandgrayfox

6 ай бұрын

Actually, he uses poly, grabs chimera and then dmg, that would be near game.

The thought of Catapult Turtle turning its turret around, jamming it into the ground, and self-yeeting at Atem is hilarious.

@animesoul479

6 ай бұрын

Does make you wonder how they'd animate it lol

@zZiL341yRj736

6 ай бұрын

The plot armor is strong with that card.

It would be funny if Yugi used Sangan to shuffle his deck, but then Yami used his own Sangan to shuffle his deck, and then their decks would be revealed to be shuffled the same way, so they still draw the same cards.

@flochforster88

6 ай бұрын

JUDGE!!

@Amsel_616

6 ай бұрын

Bruh

@yangchenlhamo7537

6 ай бұрын

And then Yugi used another sangan using monster reborn, but Yami got call of the haunted or something and also used sangan, and their decks were shuffled the same again.

@michaelkarimian7538

6 ай бұрын

That would be hilarious! 😆

@robrick9361

6 ай бұрын

SCREW PROBABILITY, I'M THE MAIN CHARACTER!

This is pretty standard for Yugi. In most duels where he is in control, he tends to value saving a life or teaching a lesson more than actually winning the duel. In fact, most of Yugi/Yami's official losses are because Yugi was in control and prioritized these things. Even in the final duel, its telling that Yami used Reborn to make a power play and Yugi used it to send a message

@nekoluxuria7721

6 ай бұрын

Its an annoyingly high constant buy yugi loves his symbolisms in every duel hes involved in

I always found it so fascinating that the duel mirrored Atem's duel against Raphael in every way, but the Pharaoh couldn't see that until Yugi played the card. Even when he played Swords of Revealing Light to "try and talk some sense into Yugi" per his own words, he wasn't realizing what Yugi was trying to do; teach him a lesson. As he always preferred to do when dueling. It was never about winning for Yugi-it was about learning and teaching and just loving the game. I think this shows Atem's psychology as well; not just overall but in the moment. Which is something I don't think is often talked about enough in this arc. It's been proven time and again that when we're extremely stressed out, or in high emotional situations, our brains just turn off so to speak because of the flood of adrenaline. Our working memory is overridden with basic instinct. And in a duel where if you lose, you lose your soul, those are pretty high stakes not just emotionally but physically. And you can tell by the expressions that pass across the Pharaoh's face; most prominently the "deer in headlights" look that The Pharaoh isn't all there. He wasn't all there ever since Yugi's soul got taken. And I REALLY think if the Pharaoh hadn't put his drive to save Yugi above his own issues, then Yugi would've won. But if his mental breakdown had lasted any longer...it would've been game over.

I feel like is someone was going to do the "Break the mirrored hands by shuffling deck" move they should have done it very near the end of the duel, as like a big "aha!" moment to solve the puzzle and win. Kinda a letdown to use that premise for all of ~3 turns before discarding it.

@Goldfire345

6 ай бұрын

I think the point of them Starting with the same hands and the same draws was about things atem shared in common with yugi and when yugi discarded the one thing they still had left in common that was to show that yugi was serious about fighting atem.

@MarioMastar

6 ай бұрын

@@Goldfire345That makes senese yeah... more narrative focused than duel focused. Still a shame they didn't play with that idea more literally as that sounds like a fun (albeit biased) way to duel someone. first turn advantage for knowing what the opponent will draw next, but second turn can always counter what the first turn does if the hand has counters. I think I'd love to see Yuma do a duel like that with Astral's strict and logical strategies vs Yuma's Out of left field "anything goes" strategies.

You know in Duel Links when you build the most overpowered deck possible, then you go up against a generic low level NPC, hit "auto-duel", and it loses in 3 turns? That's how Ghost Yugi duels

@ggriffyn5165

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@charziz6693

6 ай бұрын

The Auto-Duel only knows how to play DM era Yu-Gi-Oh, I gave it Rokkets and it just started set pass every turn

@kingyoshikage5117

6 ай бұрын

Also can’t use skills at all

Even though I haven't played YGO in nearly 20 years, this "Was X About To Defeat Y?" series has been one of my favorite things on KZread. Keep up the great work, mate! First-time commenter, long-time watcher.

@szbszig

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, same here. There are many of us, who loved old-style Yu-Gi-Oh! and the first two or three series of the anime. Then we grew up, while the card game changed drastically as well.

@michaelkarimian7538

6 ай бұрын

@@szbszigVery well said! I stopped after Gx because everything became way too complicated after that. Whenever I see duels from the original series I remember recording episodes so I wouldn’t miss them. 😇😇😇😇

@torazely

29 күн бұрын

I never got entirely invested in the anime, never saw much past the Battle City arc, and stopped playing the cards when I hit middle school, but this series gets me so invested in the franchise again.

There is a difference between misplaying and throwing, this duel is pretty much ghost yugi throwing the game to slap sense back into Atem.

It's extremely rare we get to see Mirror Matches in Yu-Gi-Oh, but when we do, they are incredibly memorable. The only others I can think of are the Volcanic Mirror Match in Season 4 of GX between Trueman and Axel, and the Red Dragon Archfiend Mirror Match between Jack Atlas and the Imposter Jack Atlas.

@MarioMastar

6 ай бұрын

I feel like they had to have at least 2 in Zexal but I just don't remember. I do recall the final duel between Astral and Yuma having them use the same deck but a different extra deck (as Astral took all the Utopia cards, leaving Yuma with only his Gagaga cards. Still love how that duel ended.) and maybe one of the duels with Number 96.... but I don't remember. it seems like the kind of thing that'd happen to Yuma given he had a lot of gimmicky duels that showed off a lot of quirky, outside the box strategies.

@lordofcrows

6 ай бұрын

​@@MarioMastarWasn't really a mirror, since Astral used a pure Utopia deck while Yuma used Onomatos tho

@roncerjani9063

6 ай бұрын

​@@MarioMastarActually, I think Astral had all the Numbers entirely at that point. Yuma had just Gagagas.

@Yojimbo16

6 ай бұрын

There was Jaden and Aster's 2nd Duel but it stopped being a mirror match halfway through.

@ryhi5

6 ай бұрын

@@Yojimbo16 doesn’t count! Asters deck was a mix of Elemental and Destiny Heroes and even then, his E-Hero fusions were different. The only matching cards were the avian, spark man and burstinatrix

With the amount of Duel Analysis videos that take place in the Waking the Dragons Arc, I'm surprised that we haven't seen the Kaiba vs. Alister duels yet.

You know it is something special when the first turn is given so much salt. Love it haha

I honestly think that the main reason for this duel is for Yugi to teach Atem, not to defeat him. To help Atem take his first step to conquering his inner darkness. That's why I can forgive any misplays and accept that Yugi is trying to teach Atem with a specific strategy.

@averylr32

6 ай бұрын

yeah i agree yugi was never trying to win

@caiusdrakegaming8087

6 ай бұрын

@@averylr32 Plus kind of hard for Atem to learn the lesson since you know... if he loses then his soul gets taken by the seal. So Yugi literally couldn't go all out while also trying to help Atem learn that lesson. Like I can get being annoyed at these kind of obvious misplays, but the reasoning why they're happening kind of requires them or else it's just a moot point.

@voltingmaster5458

6 ай бұрын

Besides if Yugi wins everyone loses, it’s as simple as that.

@rollflasher89

6 ай бұрын

It's also worth pointing out that Atem himself didn't want to fight anymore either, so yeah, just like the Judai vs Yugi duel, this duel was never really about winning but more about character development than anything.

@TheRibottoStudios

2 ай бұрын

@@rollflasher89 That's something I wish was talked about more in this arc; Atem's mental state. You can tell by the expressions that pass across his face during this duel that Atem isn't all there; his working memory is essentially turned off. And when that happens, you are much more liable to make stupid decisions that in hindsight make no sense, but in the moment they do, simply because of humanity's innate instinct to SURVIVE.

Waking the Dragons Arc duels are so amazing, especially this one. It was so much pressure for Yami, but very touching to overcome his heart of darkness problem all thanks to Ghost Yugi

@AceOBlade

6 ай бұрын

ye its BY FAR the best Filler arc in anime

@tarikkash4282

6 ай бұрын

You do realize that that wasn't the real yugi?

Yugi used Sangan to search his deck. So he should've known which cards Yami was going to draw from Card Destruction, and for the rest of the duel since the decks were in the same order to begin with. So I agree with the notion that Yugi wasn't really trying to defeat Yami. Especially since Yugi should've known that Yami would draw Divine Wind soon. (An argument against that is that perhaps Yugi's memory may not be good enough to remember which cards were next. However, Divine Wind was the only trap card in the top half of the deck... so I'm not sure how that card specifically would've been missed when searching from Sangan's effect.)

I love how this guy found a format to analyze a whole duel it’s like watching a full episode or multiple full episodes for free and have more understanding of the duel

Man, I've never seen Sam this livid about Ghost Yugi. It's both relatable and funny.

@tarikkash4282

6 ай бұрын

Very funny!

I think the reason their hands were the same at the start was supposed to reflect the fact that they were United, on the same page before dueling Raphael. But when Yami played the seal of oricalcos, their views changed. Playing card destruction represented this change in priorities and suddenly they have different cards. Yugi doesn’t play at his best because whole point of this is a test. It’s obvious enough he’s holding back that Yami comments on it. And if there’s no opportunity to pass a test, it isn’t one. Yugi’s performance essentially showed exactly what sort of catastrophic mistake Yami made plainly enough he can realize and try to grow from it

At least we don’t have to be forced to duel each other again in the series finale, that will just make this duel completely superfluous… 😅

@frankyquilavafireblast895

6 ай бұрын

What the F**** is this season!

@AEROStrik3

6 ай бұрын

@@frankyquilavafireblast895 filler No way mid series yugi beats atem. its only EoS yugi that can handily beat atem (except for maybe in a shadow game since atem has more resilience against shadow magic). EoS yugi was literally breaking the game causing infinite loops (probably inspired by atems duel against slifer) and creating new win conditions

@Zeronigel332

6 ай бұрын

@@AEROStrik3I’m so confuse by this notion because Yugi was alway ahead of Atem. Like the time he saw that Atem was going to let Arkana die and saved Arkana, or that time he tricked Atem to give him back his body to fight possessed Joey, or even the solution he came to early in the final marik duel

@AEROStrik3

6 ай бұрын

@@Zeronigel332 excellent points! yugi definitely had his moments but imo yugis character development was about growing into his own man who can stand on his own instead of someone that has to rely on atem. this is reflected in his personal deck during the ceremonial duel that had the level monsters

@Zeronigel332

6 ай бұрын

@@AEROStrik3 yeah and Yugi had that development already, the reason he had Atem mainly fight in battle city is because the battle city was more important to Atem than to him

I’m still waiting for Syrus vs Zane, Sam. Regardless, I really enjoy this duel. Seeing little Yugi go a bit a evil was fun to watch, sub or dub. There is a duel from Season 4 that you haven’t touched yet that I think could be interesting to analyse - Kaiba vs Alister.

@hgsqu33zy

6 ай бұрын

I agree that was a great duel between brothers

@lordofcrows

6 ай бұрын

I'm sorry But normal summon Aleister Effect?

@soukenmarufwt5224

6 ай бұрын

Syrus deserves to be crushed by Zane. That's how much I hate syrus truesdale

@mattbartels

6 ай бұрын

@@soukenmarufwt5224are you kidding? When Sy was closer to beating his big brother than most who cross Zane’s path would get - even Jaden, number one freshman from the first season? Here’s a description of the duel between the Truesdale brothers and a couple of possibilities how Syrus could have won. Apologies for the long description. Syrus Truesdale vs. Zane Truesdale Turn 1: Zane Zane draws "Infernal Dragon" and subsequently Normal Summons it (2000/0) in Defense Position. He then Sets a card. Turn 2: Syrus Syrus draws "Life Force". He then Normal Summons "Truckroid" (1000/2000) in Attack Position. "Truckroid" attacks and destroys "Infernal Dragon". Since "Truckroid" destroyed an opponent's monster by battle and sent it to the Graveyard, Syrus activates the effect of "Truckroid", equipping the destroyed monster to "Truckroid" and increasing the latter's ATK by the ATK of the destroyed monster ("Truckroid": 1000 → 3000/2000). Syrus then Sets a card. Turn 3: Zane Zane draws. He then Normal Summons "Exploder Dragon" (1000/0) in Attack Position. "Exploder Dragon" attacks "Truckroid". "Truckroid" destroys "Exploder Dragon", but due to the second effect of "Exploder Dragon", Zane takes no Battle Damage. Since "Exploder Dragon" was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, its first effect activates, destroying "Truckroid". Zane then activates "Quick Summon" to Normal Summon "Cyberdark Horn" (800/800) in Attack Position during the Battle Phase. Since "Cyberdark Horn" was Normal Summoned, Zane activates its first effect to take "Infernal Dragon" from his Graveyard and equip it to "Cyberdark Horn", increasing the latter's ATK by the ATK of "Infernal Dragon" ("Cyberdark Horn": 800 → 2800/800). "Cyberdark Horn" attacks directly, but Syrus activates his face-down "Life Force". Now if Syrus would take Battle Damage, he can pay 400 Life Points to nullify the damage he would take. Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 4000 → 3600). Turn 4: Syrus Syrus draws "Submarineroid" and subsequently Normal Summons it (800/1800) in Attack Position. "Submarineroid" attacks directly via its own effect (Zane 4000 → 3200). At the end of the Damage Step, Syrus activates the second effect of "Submarineroid" to switch the latter to Defense Position. Syrus then Sets a card. Turn 5: Zane Zane draws "Cyberdark Edge" and subsequently Normal Summons it (800/800) in Attack Position. Since "Cyberdark Edge" was Normal Summoned, Zane activates its first effect to take "Exploder Dragon" from his Graveyard and equip it to "Cyberdark Edge", increasing the latter's ATK by the ATK of "Exploder Dragon" ("Cyberdark Edge": 800 → 1800/800). "Cyberdark Horn" attacks "Submarineroid", but Syrus activates his face-down "Cyber Repairer" to prevent all Machine-type monsters he controls from being destroyed by battle this turn by letting Zane draw a card. Zane explains to Syrus that "Cyberdark Horn" will inflict piercing damage to Syrus since it attacked a Defense Position monster, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 3600 → 3200). "Cyberdark Edge" attacks directly via its own effect at the cost of Zane halving its ATK, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 3200 → 2800). Zane then Sets a card. Turn 6: Syrus Syrus draws "Pot of Greed" and subsequently activates it to draw two cards. Syrus then Normal Summons "Cycroid" (800/1000) in Attack Position. Syrus then activates "Training Wheels" to equip the latter to "Cycroid" and allow it to attack directly. Syrus then switches "Submarineroid" to Attack Position. "Submarineroid" attacks directly via its own effect (Zane 3200 → 2400). At the end of the Damage Step, Syrus activates the second effect of "Submarineroid" to switch it to Defense Position. "Cycroid" attacks directly via the effect of "Training Wheels" (Zane 2400 → 1600). Since "Cycroid" inflicted Battle Damage to Zane through a direct attack, the second effect of "Training Wheels" activates, removing "Cycroid" and "Training Wheels" from play until Syrus's next Standby Phase. Syrus then Sets a card. Turn 7: Zane Zane draws "Pot of Greed" and subsequently activates it to draw two cards. He then Normal Summons "Cyberdark Keel" (800/800) in Attack Position. Zane's hand contains "De-Fusion", "Instant Fusion", and "Fusion Guard". "Cyberdark Horn" attacks and destroys "Submarineroid". "Cyberdark Horn" would normally inflict piercing damage at this point, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 2800 → 2400). "Cyberdark Edge" and "Cyberdark Keel" attack directly, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" twice (Syrus 2400 → 2000 → 1600). Zane then Sets a card. Turn 8: Syrus Syrus draws "Power Bond". On Syrus' Standby Phase, "Cycroid" (800/1000) and "Training Wheels" return to the field. Syrus then activates "Power Bond" to fuse "Cycroid" with another "Cycroid" in his hand and Fusion Summon "Pair Cycroid" (1600/1300) in Attack Position. Due to the effect of "Power Bond", the ATK of "Pair Cycroid" is doubled ("Pair Cycroid": 1600 → 3200/2000). "Pair Cycroid" attacks directly via its own effect at the cost of Syrus decreasing the ATK of "Pair Cycroid" by 500 during damage calculation ("Pair Cycroid": 3200 → 2700/2000), but Zane activates his face-down "Power Wall" to send a number of cards from the top of his Deck to the Graveyard and decrease the Battle Damage he would take by 100 for each card discarded this way. Zane sends the top twenty-seven cards of his Deck in order to completely nullify the damage he would take. After damage calculation, "Pair Cycroid" regains the ATK it lost through its own effect ("Pair Cycroid": 2700 → 3200/2000). Syrus Sets a card. On Syrus' End Phase, the final effect of "Power Bond" activates, which would inflict damage to Syrus equal to the original ATK of "Pair Cycroid", but Syrus activates his face-down "Mirror Damage" and equips the latter to "Pair Cycroid". Due to the effect of "Mirror Damage", the damage that Syrus would take from the final effect of "Power Bond" is redirected to Zane, but Zane activates his face-down "Fusion Guard" to negate the final effect of "Power Bond" and send "Cyber End Dragon" from his Fusion Deck to the Graveyard. Turn 9: Zane Zane draws "Warp Beam" and subsequently activates it to target "Cyberdark Keel" and "Cyberdark Horn" and send "Infernal Dragon" and "Exploder Dragon" to the Graveyard ("Cyberdark Horn": 2800 → 800/800; "Cyberdark Edge": 1800 → 800/800) in order to decrease the ATK of "Cyberdark Keel" and "Cyberdark Horn" to 600 ("Cyberdark Horn": 800 → 600/800; "Cyberdark Keel": 800 → 600/800) and allow them to attack directly this turn. "Cyberdark Horn" and "Cyberdark Keel" attack directly, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" twice" (Syrus 1600 → 1200 → 800). "Cyberdark Edge" attacks directly through its own effect, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 800 → 400). Zane then activates his face-down "Rebirth Judgment" and declares Dragon for its effect. Now all monsters in both players' Graveyards will become the declared type while "Rebirth Judgment" is face-up. Zane then activates "Instant Fusion" to fuse "Cyberdark Horn", "Cyberdark Edge", and "Cyberdark Keel" together and Fusion Summon "Cyberdark Dragon" (1000/1000) in Attack Position. Since "Cyberdark Dragon" was Special Summoned, Zane activates its first effect to take "Cyber End Dragon" from his Graveyard and equip it to "Cyberdark Dragon", increasing the latter's ATK by the ATK of "Cyber End Dragon" ("Cyberdark Dragon": 1000 → 5000/1000). Due to the third effect of "Cyberdark Dragon", it gains 100 ATK for each card in Zane's Graveyard. There are currently thirty-eight ("Cyberdark Dragon": 5000 → 8800/1000). "Cyberdark Dragon" attacks Syrus' "Pair Cycroid", but Syrus activates his face-down "Emergency Provisions" to send "Mirror Damage" to the Graveyard and gain 1000 Life Points (Syrus 400 → 1400). Since "Mirror Damage" was removed from the field, its final effect destroys "Pair Cycroid". A replay occurs and Zane uses "Cyberdark Dragon" to attack directly, but Syrus activates the effect of "Life Force" (Syrus 1400 → 1000). Zane then activates "De-Fusion" to return "Cyberdark Dragon" to the Fusion Deck and Special Summon "Cyberdark Horn", "Cyberdark Edge", and "Cyberdark Keel" (800/800 each) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. "Cyberdark Horn", "Cyberdark Edge", and "Cyberdark Keel" attack directly (Syrus 1000 → 200 → 0 → 0). On Sy’s first turn, had he put Truckroid in defence mode the next few turns would have likely snowballed into a win for him since Truckroid has 2000 defence points and Zane wouldn’t be drawing monsters that started with more than that in attack points throughout the duel and while Exploder Dragon’s ability packs a punch it only works when it destroys itself in battle, therefore he wouldn’t be able to load his graveyard with dragons as quickly. Also when Sy summoned Pair Cycroid had he attacked Cyberdark Keel instead of Zane’s life points, Zane’s Power Wall would have him mill 24 cards to survive instead of 27 and he wouldn’t have had access to Warp Beam.

@zexalbrony4799

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. I remember watching a KZread recreate the Duel on EDOPRO and if what they did was correct in reverse engineering the Duel, then Syrus had both Cyroid and Training Wheels in his hand on his second turn so he could have used that combo instead of Submarinroid and that would have snowballed and lead to him winning, and I'd love to here Sam talk about this.

Fun fact: 14:06 is one of the very few (maybe only) times we see a Duel Disk de-activate. Yet, it just sort of magically fades from duel mode to off mode. We don't actually physically see the Disk move back despite how many times we see it go the other way at the start of a duel throughout the show.

@anonluxor470

6 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly we see the duel disk de-activate after joey vs kaiba

@williamrichards3794

6 ай бұрын

@anonluxor470 just went back and watched and yes we do see Kaiba's disk deactivate at the end of that duel. The more you know!

It's just the first turn and he's already going apeshit. 10/10

Don't know if anyone else mentioned this Ghost Yugi misplay , but when Sangan was destroyed , he could've also searched his deck for Kuriboh since he knew a direct attack was coming . We know Kuriboh is usually in their deck , and we see it being used in this arc of the story , so why wouldn't he get that instead of ANY other card knowing that direct attack is coming ? ?

@adrianawilliams4810

6 ай бұрын

He had to wait until Atems battle phase was done , at least in the anime if a monster effect doesn’t directly affect the battle phase then you have to wait until your opponents Battle Phase has been completed in order for you to activate an affect . So if let’s say Kuribho had been destroyed then Yugi would be able to immediately use his affect since it affects the battle phase of the duel but since Sangan ability was related to to battle phase (I am getting sick of that phrase right about now 😅) Yugi couldn’t use it .

@lwonka4310

6 ай бұрын

@adrianawilliams4810 Wait what ? If he had to wait til his battle phase ends how would Kuriboh's effect work ? ? After Sangan is destroyed , Kuriboh is added to Ghost Yugi's hand . Now when Atem attacks , he simply discards it to negative the direct attack . That's how it would've worked if Kuriboh was already in his hand , so why would adding it to his hand by Sangan negate his ability to discard it during Atem's next attack ? ?

@adrianawilliams4810

6 ай бұрын

@@lwonka4310 because Sangan affect happens after the battle phase not during it for the anime at least . So discarding Kuribho wouldn’t have negated the damage since the BP ended (I refuse to type Battle phase anymore) and damage calculation had as well meaning searching for Kuribho didn’t do anything .

@lwonka4310

6 ай бұрын

@adrianawilliams4810 OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH okay , sorry I didn't get it at first 😂😂😂 I understand it now ! ! Sangan's effect in the card game happens after being destroyed and during the battle phase so that's why getting Kuriboh would be logical in my mind . But in the anime things are weird , so you're saying that anime Sangan's effect doesn't happen after being destroyed but after the battle phase . That makes sense and I don't blame you for not wanting to typing all that out ! ! But thank you for explaining it a second time cause now I understand what you mean 😂😂 Anime effects are weird , so yeah if Sangan's anime effect happens after the Battle Phase then that negates getting Kuriboh as a viable play here .

I've always wanted to see Divine Wind get printed. I actually thought Divine Wrath was supposed to be the tcg replacement for so long.

@MarioMastar

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, seems like yet another case of a card made purely for the plot. Though that said....an IRL version of the Tennis card from GX would be really interesting. instead of lifepoints, you get points based on tennis scoring system where every time you take out a monster (by attacking, not card effect) or attack directly, you get points and first to complete a "set" wins. Only earning points once per turn akin to a tennis rally.

@LightshaverConstellation

6 ай бұрын

I'm actually somewhat surprised we never got divine wind even if they changed it a little because they printed a lot of anti effect damage cards.

@kyuubinaruto17

2 ай бұрын

Kinda pointless, though. Divine Winds is just Barrel Behind the Door minus the extra 500 damage.

I hope we get to see you cover the duels between Kaiba and Alister, from what I could tell Kaiba's duels with Alister were WAY too close. Frankly I think Kaiba needed one more duel in Waking the Dragons.

Really emotional duel,wish it had more impact in waking the dragons arc.

What Yugi could have done with Sangan's effect was just look at his deck before shuffling it. He could have memorized Yami's card order and have his unknown

I’d like a duel analysis of Joey vs Rex in this arc, it was a cool battle and ended with one of my favorite og cards Gearfried the Swordmaster

That duel was so heartbreaking for me ugh those two are so close xo

The reason he doesn't set Big Shield Gardna is for it to be a *deterrent*. If he set it face down, someone may attack it. Sure, they'd most likely lose Life Points, though then Big Shield Gardna would be forced into Attack Mode by its own effect, leaving it with 100 ATK to use.

Really enjoyed this analysis, Sam! I never knew this duel was so full of misplays, thank you for covering it. One duel I’d like to suggest for a future video in this series is Bakura and Marik, I feel like there’ll be a lot of misplays (both obvious and subtle), there to cover, and I feel it could be a very entertaining video.

I personally like the symbolic meaning of that duel. Sure, it's not executed very well, but it still gets the message across. Things like this give the anime dept (But who cares about *that,* right?)

@dannysmi7162

6 ай бұрын

The depth: Don’t be evil, or something.

Super excited for this duel analysis video! Thanks so much for uploading! Might comment more later!

That demonstration in the simulator was a very nice touch. Kinda makes me wish there was more use of it.

Just love that reaction @1:26 to the first play of the duel 😆

When the Seal is activated, monsters on the field do become Dark Attributed so you’re correct

My favourite series... please make more of this Sam... cheers nice job

This is my favorite season 4 duel , I have wanted it cover forever thank you so much ! I have been having a rough time lately and this helped me 😊

I'm rewatching all of Duel Monsters and I just finished this duel a few days ago, and I gotta say that I found it really weird that they introduce such a cool concept (both players having the same cards and order) Then a few minutes later, "I'm using Sangan so that I can shuffle my deck" lol

@SpeedBoostTorchic

6 ай бұрын

I know right? Its a huge wasted opportunity. Although, I think it would be cool if the Pharaoh then used his own Sangan to shuffle his own deck and then having them end up in the same order again. Gaining info on opponents deck while symbolically showing that the Pharaoh is dedicated to preserving the connection between him and Yugi.

Since he was getting Betfomet next turn, Gyugi(Ghostyugi) could've done this: Set Sangan-Draw Berfomet on destruction-Turn 2:Reborn Sangan- tribute for Berfomet- draw Card Destruction-Fuse into Chimera-Activate Destruction-Play Seal one turn early. By turn three, he could do his End play earlier thereby winning the game or forcing an early use of Divine Winds, winning the game regardless.

If you want to analyse a duel where player's have odd hands and knowledge of each other's hands, maybe consider analysing Jack Atlas vs Dragan (Duel for Redemption, ep. 124-125). Their hands are identical to their hands when they first dueled (however, the first duel is only in flashbacks). It's an interesting duel nonetheless however.

Despite Yugi creating a lot of misplays on purpose, its still my favourite duel out of all of them. Its not about winning or losing. Its about sending a message. ... DORO! MONSTA CARDO!!!

@dannysmi7162

6 ай бұрын

I don’t see why this was necessary. Yami already realized what he did wrong immediately upon losing the duel to Raphael since Yugi’s soul was taken.

@deoxysandmew2162

6 ай бұрын

@@dannysmi7162I guess Atem was still doubting his own self after a first loss, hence he needed a bit of self-reflection. That's how I see it at least...

Definitely a fun concept for a duel since even amoung other mirror match duels in the franchise i cant think of many others were they have the same hand and draws.

Love watching you play and your vids here too. Keep up the good work. Doing amazing!

Love your duel analysis videos. ❤

Love watching your videos man 👍

Given the amount of misplays, I wonder how the duel would go if both did basically have the same deck. Exceptions could be like Yugi drawing the seal of oricalchos followed by Yami drawing Eye of Timaeus. Might be a fun duel to engineer

This one was again a perfect recap and analysis of a rather inconspicuous duel I've forgotten about every time I rewatched the series.

This was less of a duel and more a rebuke of Rafael's moral challenge that Atem failed. Basically saying "You gave into darkness, just like anyone else. But you can overcome it, just like everyone else." If Atem didn't accept that, he would have lost no matter how well he played.

It’s okay if you didn’t like how Ghost Yugi dueled. He purposely went out of character because his sole intention was to test Yami Yugi and also help him overcome the darkness in his heart. He did this on purpose. In fact, I dare to say that he wasn’t attempting to win and misplayed on purpose.

@Jjop017

6 ай бұрын

I agree. I know this is an anime about card games, but the whole point of thks duel was to show Atem how he looked to give I to darkness and help him overcome it. For Yugi it is about helping Atem put himself back together. It was a character driven duel, not Yugi going all out to win. Atem even recognized this.

I remember tearing up for Pharoah at the ending part of this episode. It's one of the reasons why I enjoy this arc where he develops emotion and to be his own character without Yugi for awhile.

A little bit biased since I grew up watching it, but I would love to see more Zexal duel analysis’! Perhaps potentially an analysis of a few early duels if the duellists didn’t have access to certain number cards, similarly to how you analysed Yama’s initial duel with Raphael and determined whether or not he could win without the Seal or Orichalcos? Regardless, I can’t get enough of these videos and I’m looking forward to your content in the future!

@MarioMastar

6 ай бұрын

Zexal is what brought me back into Yugioh after a 20 year hiatus. I just picked it because all the episodes were on Yugioh's youtube channel (Shucks GX wasn't at the time cause it was great to relive that!). Zexal is fantastic. Had some amazing duels that really showed some wild back against the wall strategies and how versatile Xyz monsters are. Plus I love how Yuma's the only Yu-protag who actually sucks at dueling and gets better over time. Relying on Astral to get through the tougher duels and the ending is so beautiful! While I think 5Ds was the best in terms of story, Zexal will always be my favorite over all. Sure people find Yuma really annoying at first, but he really grows on you over time and honestly...he's the closest anyone gets to what we ALL were like on the playground.

My favorite format of yours ❤❤❤

these videos are so much fun to watch, very entertaining.

I like how genuinely concerned he is

In the wrong context and if you don't much about the anime, you're basically watching Yugi play with himself.

9:21 Actually, that's the Brain Washed Celtic Guardian

I honestly love this duel as it's the first and I think only time yugi helps yami instead of the other way around like usual.

@RPGNoZero

6 ай бұрын

You forgot Pegasus duel?

@AuraMasterKareem

6 ай бұрын

@RPGNoZero no and it's different as usually yugi was the one struggling and in his head too much but in this duel it was yami who was struggling and couldn't overcome his worries. In the pegasus duel it was more both yugis thinking of ways to overcome pegasus together.

This will never get old.

We need more than these duel breakdowns please

I would love to see "Was Aporia About To Defeat Leo/Luna/Jack?". The answer is most likely yes if he just focused on taking them out one by one (probably starting with Luna). But what I wonder more about is if it was possible to win without Life Stream Dragon. (Imagine if it ends up with an OTK for Jack had Leo not used the cards which Aporia countered. The power of hindsight.)

@the1magageneral323

6 ай бұрын

No way to win without life force dragon

I love the part of displaying the alternative plays using YGOPRO. Deconstructing the rather simple duels and taking them apart like that is really entertaining to watch

Just finished watching Kaiba vs Alister and I’m eagerly awaiting you to cover those two duels

This is an obvious one. But I would like to see ‘Was Team Unicorn about to beat Team 5Ds’

@Retroflow97

6 ай бұрын

This & team Ragnarok

@soukenmarufwt5224

6 ай бұрын

Ragnarock still baffles me to this day. Halldor had multiple opportunities to win. Screws it up because ragnarock lore and kept negating Obins effect by his useless trap that does nothing.

Yug vs Gurimo, Rebecca & Duke vs Valon, Kaiba vs Alistair 1&2, and Joey vs Rex are the only duels left in season 4

Love your videos dude! I wish you the best from Argentina

Normal summoning in face up defense? Moving your monsters to the spell and trap zone due to Seal? The show had some wild shit.

That duel is basically Yami's soul searching

This is my favorite type of your content, please make more 🔥

Great video. Here is an idea for video, what were Bastion's other decks?

Syrus vs Makoto duel breakdown please

Hi TGS Anime I love this and I hope you have a good day and you are awesome and keep up with the great work

You should analyze some of the live duels:p I particularly like the yugi vs seto duels alot and we can see their hands in some of the productions, but the cards they use sometimes have some of the anime effect but it still be funny to watch u break them down

I would love to see you cover duels that only occurred in the Japanese dub that might have been seen in the west, like Chazz versus Aster or something

You should do the Joey vs Zigfried duel next. That is a relatively lengthy duel with much to talk about. I think you would make a great video on it. Keep up the good work.

LOL You really tore Yugi a new one. Great analysis! For future duels: Aster Phoenix vs Jaden round 2 Aster Phoenix vs Adrian Gecko Zane Truesdale vs Syrus Truesdale Thanks again for the video. 😇

I think big shield went face up because if attacked while facedown its effect force it into atack position

Do you think Arcana could have defeated Yugi during Battle City?

A "Spoooky Ghost" version. That's so subtle and so funny

The whole animation error tirade and the shade at the face-up defense monsters was real cute ngl XD

@tarikkash4282

6 ай бұрын

Actually season 5 has plenty of animation errors! WINK WINK!

Kinda just thought of this possible theory for why big shield is always played face up defense. It is in the anime his negative effect isn't to go into attack mode after being attacked, instead it has to be summoned face up. I just don't remember it ever being set or actually attacked.

@roncerjani9063

6 ай бұрын

It was attacked in the last Duel of the series. However, for whom is unaware of its effect, they see a monster wall with 2600 DEF and would definitely not try to attack it with weaker monsters. However, if he Sets it face down, the player might attack it and switch it into attack by just pure accident.

@soukenmarufwt5224

6 ай бұрын

This is incorrect. In the Manga. Big Shield Gardna has no effect. It's a normal defense wall. The anime always uses the manga version for reference, since it was never suppose to have an effect. Real card is terrible for being a wall. It's drawn being an effect monster cause the real card has long been printed.

The only memory I had of this duel was from the abridged series. More of these please

The goat has return

That time the Pharoah dueled a Baby Panda.

7:13 Number 39: Exodia, Lord of Searing Flames

Love watching Sam get progressively more and more annoyed throughout the episode

I am glad you did this duel ❤

Amazing analysis but what game are you playing for the gameplay section?

Little Yugi vs Bakura would be interesting to see. Yugi's second duel without the Pharaoh and the first major sign he's come into his own as a duelist

@kyuubinaruto17

6 ай бұрын

The anime ruined it. Not the duel itself, though. In the manga the duel was sole focused from beginning to end. The anime constantly split it between Yugi/Bakura and Atem's forces vs Zorc.

FINALLY ONE OF MY ALL TIMW FAVORITE DUELS.

Technically, isn't searching and shuffling the deck literally the best play in a duel where your deck and order matches your opponents? This isn't modern day online Duel Links, so you physically have to look thru your Deck to find a specific card(s). I don't think duel disks can search cards and auto shuffle yet, right? There's nothing stopping ghost Yugi from scanning from the top and seeing the exact draw order of Atem for pretty much the rest of the duel (unless Atem also does a search like by using his own Sangan). Even if you tell them to start searching from the bottom to try and mitigate this, you at least know what cards he WON'T draw naturally.

@MarioMastar

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah that's true. If he searched for sangen, he could memorize the order of the deck then shuffle then he'd know exactly what Yami was going to draw until he shuffled. Really wish this kind of mirror duel was done more seriously cause there's some brilliant teaching opportunities here on how turn order and different plays can completely change a deck's outcome. Kind of reminds me of the concept of "dueling yourself". as you playing both sides know what both hands have, but you're purely testing out offensive, defensive, and counter strategies to see if there's a weakness you don't know about in your play style.

Waking the dragons is so underrated.. I went through hell watching it... Truly awesome..♥️💪

Is it possible to take a look at Yubel vs Adrian Gecko? The match they have right before Jaden arrives near the end of the arc. That was one of my favorite duels in Gx's third season.

I think the reason was more nuanced. Yami lost to Rafeal and got Yugi captured by focusing too much on viciously winning by the most direct strategy. He was playing like Kaiba early in the series and thus losing himself while blinding himself to the importance of playing the game beyond what he percieves are the raw mechanics. Yes Yugi played inefficiently, Yami realized that and Yugi lost for it..but I don't think Yugi was ever trying to win or nessisarily set up the Rafael situation. He was showing Yami after his defeat that the win felt hollow despite having played better and really noether were any better off in their situation. They are both on the same team..a win for Yugi wouldn't get him out of his predicament in a way he would be satisfied with..his whole point was to help guide Yamis during spirit back on track so he could save them all. It's like the duel between Kaibaman and Jaden where the experience was the whole point. It was never about who would win but how the game was played and how they felt afterward. Vicious efficiency was the opposite of the heart of the cards mentality that helped Yami win until this point so encouraging it would only make things worse. He was playing into Dartz hand that way. Going the predictable strategy doesn't work if you opponet knows what that would be for you and plans to counter with OP nonsense that monkeywrenches it. In the end, Yami leaves this and wins the way he always does..through convoluted magic BS that shouldn't be legal..aka, the heart of the cards. Not the best dueling mentality in real life but in a magic world of ancient alchemic demons and rules that make themselves up, you need to play the game being presented not the one advertised.

The Jaden vs Alexis duels would be a nice video to see. Chazz vs Aster would also be cool to see dissected. Jack vs Carly would also be pretty cool to see.

if you haven't already done it, you should look into Jack vs Yuya in the final

You shoukd break down some GX season 4 duels for sure, ik u hate the mixup deck but would love to see your breakdown of cyrus's beach duel (cant remember rival clan dudes name) 😅😅❤ but if not would still love to see more gx s4🎉

I saw this duel yesterday and was thinking "Sam should go over this duel". This is insane.

Ghost Yugi knows. He’s doing it to test.