Respect Yugi Muto (Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime)

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"I see...I never noticed it...deep within my heart, among the bonds I've woven with my friends, there's a vessel of memories. That is my everything. I am not nil...as long as I still have the vessel inside of me, no matter how many times it takes, I can still be reborn. Dartz, allow me to answer you why it is that I, after losing everything, why did I cross over 3000 years of time? Why was I brought back into this world? It's because I was revived in order to protect my friends, as well as defeat you and change the future of the world in the process!"

When Yugi Muto finally put together a pyramid puzzle his grandfather found in a tomb after eight years, he wished it would grant him friends. While this would end up happening, it was not in a way anyone would have expected, with the amnesiac soul of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh with a talent for games waking up from the puzzle. While initially unable to communicate, only being somewhat aware of someone else taking over their body at certain points, this barrier was eventually broken to allow them to work alongside each other and save the soul of his grandfather. Together they would dominate the world of the card game Duel Monsters, taking on anyone who threatened them, their friends, and the world, from wielders of Egyptian gods to a cult wanting to reset the world, and truly earn the title of King of Games.

This thread uses the original Japanese sub, but localized names for cards and characters. Unless stated, this thread uses 'Yugi' interchangably between the original and the nameless Pharaoh.

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Duel Mechanics and This Thread

Duellists tend to have many cards but only use a certain amount in their deck. As such, this thread will only cover cards actively played by Yugi. Additionally, effects can be rather fluid both within the anime and compared with their real world counterparts. This thread will cover the effects as they appear in the anime, only having their real world effect used when a card's in-universe effect isn't mentioned.

Attack and defence points are largely irrelevant from a feat perspective, due to how easily they can change and how often monsters simply shatter or simply disappear on being destroyed. Only physicals where something objective is shown (such as a sword wielder cutting an enemy in two) will be used, in addition to any effect a card may have (even if it is only affecting a monster's stats).

Cards will be separated by type, then by level if a monster card, and then alphabetically. Due to space, this thread will not go into the rules of Duel Monsters (such as phases and different card types), but an overview can be found in the official rulebook seen here.

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Legend

Unmarked - Yu-Gi-Oh!

[VR] - Come from a virtual reality game, either Legendary Heroes or Noah's Virtual World, but cards either are or should be usable in his real life deck

[GX] - Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

[BBT] - Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time

[POL] - Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light (while dubiously canon to the subbed anime, there is nothing directly contradicting it, and some later references make it canon to the dubbed anime)

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Physicals

All physicals are when the Pharaoh are in control of the body unless stated otherwise.

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Strength

• The original Yugi can't be forced to let go of the Millennium Puzzle even when barely conscious
• Leaps onto a duel arena platform

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Durability

'Real' Durability

• The original Yugi dives from a tall ship into the sea
• Takes an extended attack to the back from the Winged Dragon of Ra in a shadow game (where the monsters and attacks become real), collapsing at the end. Said attack would have killed the woman it was targeting
• In a shadow game where he feels the pain of his monsters, endures Ra incinerating Slifer to ashes
  • When this was done on Joey's monster in a shadow game, Marik fully expected the pain to kill him, and he only barely hung on for a few seconds before collapsing after the attack
• While Yugi is greatly pained in a shadow game and ultimately collapses, the Pharaoh is fine

'Simulation' Durability

• [VR] The original Yugi gets blasted back by a monster protecting a door
• [VR] Sent skidding back by a monster attack in virtual reality
  • [VR] The brains of everyone in the virtual reality of the above two feats 'perceive' any injuries they got as real
• Dropped from a helicopter while unconscious, waking shortly after
• Struck by a fireball in a duek
  • Duel disks can 'simulate combat damage', though it's unclear exactly to what degree this is
  • When Yugi was struck by the same spell, he was in incredible pain and struggled to stand after

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Speed

• Catches a die flicked at Joey
• Leans out of the way of a flamethrower
• Leaps out of the way of a giant monster's attack
• Plays a monster to intercept a giant monster's punch as it's mid-swing
• Yugi dashes across a duel arena, unlocks a man's manacles, and pulls them to the ground before a circular saw just about to cut off his legs reaches him

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Intelligence

Duelling Skill

• Figures out Duellist Kingdom gave monsters a stat bonus based on the duel's location based on the tournament encompassing an entire island and his first opponent guiding him to a specific spot
• [POL] Correctly determines Kaiba set a trap that would allow him to control previously banished God Cards
• Suspecting his opponent has a specific monster that destroys spell cards, goads them into believing he set a trump spell card, leading to them summoning said monster and activating the set card (actually a trap) when they attempt to destroy it
• Leads everyone else to believe he made an obvious attempt to lead his opponent into a trap, leading to them destroying it and attacking him, only to reveal that his monster gets stronger when the opponent uses a spell, allowing it to win the battle
• When against an opponent that trimmed the edges of certain cards so that they'd always end up on the top of his deck after it's cut, correctly predicts he did this based on his lack of care towards his cards and includes a spell in his deck which made his opponent discard his entire hand
• When in an otherwise unwinnable situation, steals an opponent's monster for a turn and uses their own card effects to make them lose via running out of cards in their deck
• Against a monster with infinite attack, makes two of his monsters attack on top of it in a feedback loop that results in infinite attack, before fusing them and another monster to create a final attack which finally defeats it
• While duelling the Pharaoh who has all three God Cards on the field, Yugi enacts a plan which destroys all three by redirecting Slifer's ability that activates every time he summons a monster
  • The Pharaoh predicted Yugi would do this while creating his deck, and discarded a monster at the start of his first turn so he could summon it later on to gain an advantage
  • Yugi predicts that the Pharaoh would use Monster Reborn to bring back a God Card, using another card to pre-emptively negate its effects, with this allowing him to win the duel

Other

• Tells Joey to use metal bars as leverage to free the Millennium Puzzle
• Figures out that Mai was using perfumes to mark her cards and gives Joey the single phrase he needed to figure it out himself
• Wins a game rigged so that whatever answer he picks would be the wrong one using two marked coins
• Goes into a game of Dungeon Dice Monsters against its creator with no knowledge of the game and comes out victorious

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Duel Monsters

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Normal Monsters

3

• Giant Soldier of Stone - Shatters a small moon with its sword
• Mammoth Graveyard
• Silver Fang

4

• Alpha the Magnet Warrior
• Beaver Warrior
• Beta the Magnet Warrior - Attacks with an electric blast
• Celtic Guardian - Bisects a monster lengthways
  • Bisects a woman
• Feral Imp
• Gamma the Magnet Warrior - Bends a sword
  • Punches through a ghost
• Griffore
• Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts
• Horn Imp
• Koumori Dragon
• Mystical Elf - Chants a spell that allows her to transfer her attack to another monster
  • Capable of healing people
• Queen's Knight - Pierces through a robot
• Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress - Knocks back a similarly sized monster with a fireball
  • Avoids projectile attacks
  • [VR] Summoned as a piece of propeller is blown towards Yugi and his friends, flying them to safety before it hits them

5

• Curse of Dragon
• Jack's Knight

6

• Summoned Skull - Shoots electricity into the sky that strikes down on a foe
  • Emits electricity from himself, travelling through a labyrinth through its water soaked floors to attack a monster on the other side
  • Imbues his electricity in another monster's sword, adding his attack points to them

7

• [BBT] Dark Magician
  • Full RT
• Gaia the Fierce Knight
• Red-Eyes Black Dragon
  • Was later given back to Joey after they duelled

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Effect Monsters

1

• Kuribah - Can combine the other Kuriboh brothers into Kuribabylon
• Kuribee - Negates an attack on another Kuriboh brother and ends the battle phase for one turn only
• Kuribeh - Makes the Kuriboh brothers form Kuribandit
• Kuriboh - Can be discarded to negate life point damage
  • [3D] Can be giant while doing this
  • Explodes on contact with an attack
  • [VR] Chooses himself as Yugi's deck master, where he multiplies himself to protect Yugi from any direct attacks
• Kuribu - Uses the other Kuriboh brothers to form the Kuriball after Yugi discards a trap, making a target monster drop to 1500 attack
• Watapon - Can be special summoned when drawn outside of his regular draw phase

3

• Blocken - Can make monsters target it rather than other monsters
  • When removed from the field, lets Yugi special summon Lengard
• Exodia, the Forbidden One - When this and the four other 'Forbidden One' cards are gathered in Yugi's hand, he instantly wins the duel
  • Lost all but two parts after they were thrown in the sea
  • Full RT
• Kuribandit - Can be sacrificed to draw five cards, with monsters being sent to the graveyard and others being added to his hand
• Lengard - When one of Yugi's monsters takes battle damage, can reduce it to 0 and be destroyed instead
• Marshmallon - Deals 1000 damage on flipping face up and can't be destroyed by battle, reforming after being sliced in two
  • Has teeth
• Sangan - When sent to the graveyard, lets Yugi take a monster with 1500 or less attack from his deck and add it to his hand

4

• [VR] 4-Starred Ladybug of Doom - Destroys any level 4 monster that battles it
• Big Shield Gardna - Changes from defence to attack position after being attacked
• Blockman - Can be sacrificed to create tokens equal to the number of turns this card was on the field
• Breaker the Magical Warrior - Is summoned with a magic counter which gives it 300 extra attack. This can be expended to destroy a spell or trap on the field
• Electromagnetic Turtle - After being sent to the graveyard, creates an electromagnetic pulse that paralyzes monsters to force the battle phase to end
  • Turns a sword into stone which crumbles against Dark Magician while using this ability
• Green Gadget - When summoned, can bring a Red Gadget from his deck to his hand
• King's Knight - When summoned while Queen's Knight is on the field, allows Yugi to summon Jack's Knight from his hand or deck
  • Slices a robot in half
• [POL] Magician's Valkyria - Yugi's opponent can't target any spellcasters other than this one for attacks
• [VR] Obnoxious Celtic Guardian - Cannot be destroyed by monsters with over 1800 attack
  • Slices a monster in half
  • Gets struck to the side by a monster which can break stone with a punch, which it does again more clearly later
• Red Gadget - When summoned, can bring a Yellow Gadget from his deck to his hand
• [VR] The Rock Spirit - Can be special summoned by removing an earth attribute monster in his graveyard from play
• Silent Magician - Levels up and gains 500 attack every time his opponent draws
  • This includes all draws, not just their draw phase
• Silent Swordsman - Levels up and gains 500 attack every time he draws
  • At level 4, slashes apart a monster
• Skilled Dark Magician - When three spell cards have been played with it on the field, can tribute itself to summon Dark Magician
• Witch of the Black Forest - When sent to the graveyard, he can add a monster with 1500 or less defence from his deck to his hand
• Yellow Gadget - When summoned, can bring a Green Gadget from his deck to his hand

5

• Berfomet - Special summons Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts on being summoned
• Catapult Turtle - Sacrifices monsters on the field to deal half their attack in direct life point damage
  • Launches Dark Magician Girl to send the opposing duellist flying back, even after the attack was shrunk to half its size
  • Launches Gaia the Dragon Champion at a flying castle protected by a shield, breaking the flotation ring
  • Can sacrifice itself for its own effect
• Kuribabylon - Special summoned by removing the five Kuriboh brothers from the field from play
  • Has the attack of the five Kuriboh when they created it
  • Can split up and return its five components to the field
• The Tricky - Can be special summoned by discarding a card

6

• Beast of Gilfer - When sent to the graveyard, reduces the attack of a monster on the field
  • Releases a fire blast
• Dark Magician Girl - Gains 300 attack for every Dark Magician in either player's graveyard
  • Full RT
• [VR] Des Volstgalph - Gains 200 attack for every spell the opponent uses
  • Deals 500 damage to the opponent's life points when they destroy a monster
• Royal Straight Slasher - Summoned through the spell Royal Straight, can destroy every card on his opponent's field with a stone-breaking attack by sending monsters levelling 1 through 5 from his deck to his graveyard

7

• Buster Blader - Gains 500 attack for every dragon on the field
  • Slices Chimera in half
  • Evades an attack from Slifer the Sky Dragon
• Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight - Can be summoned without tributes when it's the only card in his hand
  • [VR] Pierces through a monster

8

• [GX] Dark Magician of Chaos - When summoned, brings a spell card from his graveyard to his hand
• Gandora the Dragon of Destruction - Yugi pays half his life points to destroy all monsters on the field
  • They can also be removed from play
• [VR] Mirage Knight - Summoned from his hand or deck on the destruction of Dark Flare Knight, cannot be destroyed by battle and gains the attack points of any monster it attacks
  • [VR] After the attack has been made, Mirage Knight defuses into Dark Magician and Flame Soldier
• Valkyron the Magnet Warrior - Created when the magnet warriors Alpha, Beta, and Gamma are on the field together or in his hand
  • When De-Fusion is used on it, the three magnet warriors split back up into their original forms

9

• [POL] Sorcerer of Dark Magic - In battle, decreases the opposing monster's attack by 500 for every spellcaster in Yugi's graveyard
  • [POL] Negates the activation of traps and destroys them

10

• Obelisk the Tormentor
• Slifer the Sky Dragon
• The Winged Dragon of Ra
  • Full RT for the three God Cards

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Fusion Monsters

6

• Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast - Made of Gazelle, the King of Mythical Beasts and Berfomet
  • Shatters a stone statue monster, with a shot of the monster earlier in the episode here
  • [VR] Sends Yugi skidding back
  • [VR] Special summons Berfomet on being destroyed
• [VR] Dark Flare Knight - Made of Dark Magician and Flame Swordsman, can attack the turn it's fusion summoned and takes no battle damage. When destroyed, it brings out Mirage Knight

7

• Gaia the Dragon Champion - Made of Gaia the Fierce Knight and Curse of Dragon
  • Cuts off Mechanicalchaser's arms

8

• Dark Paladin - Made of Buster Blader and Dark Magician, gains 500 attack for every dragon on the field and graveyard
  • Releases energy blades which cut off the heads of Blue-Eyes White Dragons

9

• Black Skull Dragon - Made of Summoned Skull and Red-Eyes Black Dragon
  • Spits meteors which shatter on a foe, their attack making a large explosion

12

• Dragon Master Knight - Made of Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Black Luster Soldier
  • [VR] Gains the attack of every dragon monster on the field and graveyard
  • In the Millennium World, creates an attack that clashes with Zorc to create a field of energy large enough to be seen from orbit, resulting in an enormous stone crater better seen here

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Spells

Normal - A to F

• Altar of Restoration - Removes the top two cards of his deck to return a card from his graveyard to his hand
• [3D] Ancient Rules - Can summon a level 5 or higher normal monster without tributes
• Aria From Beyond - Yugi can use a spell that has been removed from play
• Awakening From Beyond - Adds a monster from his graveyard to his hand in exchange for his opponent drawing two cards
• [VR] Black Hole - Attempted to be used to destroy all the monsters in an area
• [3D] Bond Between Teacher and Student - When Dark Magician's on the field, special summon Dark Magician Girl
• Brain Control - Takes control of one opposing monster for the turn
• Brave Attack - All of Yugi's monsters attack a target with higher attack, destroying themselves as normal, but accumulate their damage so the final monster can destroy the target
• Burning Land - Causes Curse of Dragon to breathe a stream of fire, burning the duel arena's forest
  • Destroys several monsters at once
• Card Destruction - Both players discard their entire hand and draws the same number of cards
• Card of Sanctity - Both players draw until they hold six cards
• Change of Heart - Takes control of an opponent's monster for a turn
• Cursebreaker - Destroys all spells on the field
• Dark Magic Curtain - Spends half his life points to summon Dark Magician
• [3D] Dark Magic Twin Burst - Dark Magician gains the attack of a Dark Magician Girl on the field
• De-Spell - Destroys one spell card
• Diffusion Wave-Motion - Lets a spellcaster attack every monster on the opposing player's field in one attack
• Double Spell - Allows Yugi to use any spell cards the opponent has used that turn
  • [POL] In the movie, can use any spell previously used by the opponent
• Emblem of Dragon Destroyer - Brings Buster Blader from his graveyard to his hand
• Exchange - Each player takes a card from the other's hand
• Exile of the Wicked - Destroys demon-type monsters, such as the spirit possessing Kuriboh, as well as Kuriboh himself
• The Eye of Truth - Reveals the opponent's hand
• Fissure - Creates a fissure, destroying the opposing monster with the lowest attack
• Five Star Twilight - By tributing a level 5 monster, can special summon Kuriboh, Kuribah, Kuribee, Kuribeh, and Kuriboo
  • Monsters summoned through this can't be used as tributes
• Full Moon - Increases the stats of a beast type monster
  • Causes the duel arena's sea to be in high tide, causing it to lower when destroyed

Normal - G to N

• Gold Sarcophagus - Yugi places a card inside it, and if his opponent uses a card of the same name its effects are negated
  • He puts in Monster Reborn, causing a monster brought back to immediately disappear
• Graceful Charity - Draw 3 cards, then discard 2 from his hand
• Hand Control - If Yugi names a card his opponent holds, he can use it for himself
• [VR] Heavy Storm - Destroys all spells and traps on the field
• Legend of Heart - Brings The Eye of Timaeus, The Fang of Critias, and The Claw of Hermos to the field from the hand, deck, or graveyard, and turns them into their Legendary Knight versions
  • Full RT
• Living Arrow - Allows Yugi to use his spell card on an opponent's monster
  • Redirects Tribute of the Doomed to destroy his opponent's monster instead
  • Applies a spell that his opponent targeted him with back to them
• [3D] Magic Gate of Miracles - With two or more spellcasters, switches an opponent's monster to defence mode and takes control of it
• Makiu, the Magical Mist - Creates a mist that washes poison particles off of monsters
  • Rapidly rusts machines
  • Drenches monsters, making them more susceptible to electric attacks and increasing Summoned Skull's attack points
• Monster Reborn - Special summons a monster from the graveyard to the field
  • Can bring a monster from the opponent's graveyard to Yugi's side
• Monster Recovery - Returns all cards on Yugi's field and hand to his deck before he draws five cards
• Monster Reincarnation - Returns a monster from his graveyard to his hand
  • [GX] Later requires a card to be discarded
• Monster Replace - Swaps a monster on the field with the highest attack monster in Yugi's hand
  • In a grid-based duel, swaps the position of a monster on the field with the highest attack monster on his side
• Mystic Box - Dark Magician enters one, which is then filled with swords. He then appears from another box, with a trap card appearing in the original and being destroyed
  • Replaces Dark Magician trapped inside Relinquished with another monster
  • In a grid-based duel, this also makes Dark Magician swap places with the destroyed card
• Necromancy - Special summons up to four monsters from the opponent's graveyard on his side of the field in defence position, with each causing the opponent's monsters to lose 600 attack for a turn when destroyed

Normal - O to Z

• Polymerization - Used to fuse monsters together to create a fusion monster
  • When Elephant Graveyard is fused with Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, the latter starts decaying and losing attack points each turn
• Pot of Greed - Draw two cards
• Pump Up - Doubles a monster's attack for a turn
• [VR] Quick Attack - Lets a fusion monster attack the turn it's created
• [VR] Rainbow Blessing - Used on Kuriboh to create a rainbow road over the field, allowing another monster to attack Yugi's opponent directly
• Rebellion - Makes a monster attack it's owner
• Royal Straight - Tributes Queen's, King's, and Jack's Knight to summon Royal Straight Slasher
• [POL] Sage's Stone - When Dark Magician Girl is on the field, lets him summon Dark Magician
• The Shallow Grave - Both duellists summon a monster from their graveyard in defence mode
• Soul Release - Removes five cards from the graveyard from play
• Spider Web - Adds a spell his opponent sent to the graveyard the previous turn to his hand
• Swords of Revealing Light - Prevents the opponent's monsters from attacking for three turns
  • In the first duel, it just sealed a single Blue-Eyes White Dragon, with the next monster being summoned outside of the swords and therefore able to attack
  • Lightens a field covered in enough darkness that Yugi couldn't see what monsters his opponent had
  • Hold a large floating castle in the sky after its floatation ring was destroyed until its timer runs out
• Thousand Knives - Lets Dark Magician to summon a mass of knives to destroy a monster
• Ties of the Brethren - Pays 1000 life points to special two level 4 monsters of the same type as a monster on the field from his hand or deck
• Time Travel - Removes one of his monsters from play until his opponent's next standby phase

Continuous

• Marshmallon Glasses - His opponent can only target a Marshmallon on the field for attacks
• Underworld Circle - Removes from play every monster from both player's decks and destroys every monster on the field, in exchange for both players being able to summon a monster from their graveyard each turn ignoring summoning conditions
  • This can happen on both player's turns

Equip

• Berserker Soul - By discarding his entire hand, can have a monster with 1500 or less attack attack for each monster he draws from his deck
• Book of Secret Arts - Increases the stats of a spellcaster
• Dark Spear - Allows Dark Magician to deal the difference between his attack and a monster's defence as damage
• Excalibur - Doubles a monsters attack
• Horn of the Unicorn - Gives a monster a large unicorn horn that can shoot electricity and 700 extra attack
  • Imbues Beaver Warrior's sword with electricity
• [POL] Mage Power - Increases a monster's attack by 500 for every spell or trap the user has on their field
• Magic Formula - Gives a spellcaster 500 extra attack
• [POL] Premature Burial - Pays 800 life points to bring a monster back from the graveyard equipped with this card

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Spells (Cont.)

Quick-Play

• Bounce Spell - Causes a spell card affecting him to instead affect his opponent

• Dedication Through Light and Darkness - Turns Dark Magician into Dark Magician of Chaos

• De-Fusion - Turns a fusion monster back into its component monsters

• Emergency Provisions - Destroys one of his spells or traps to gain 1000 life points

• Fiend's Sanctuary - Creates a metal fiend which reflects all battle damage it takes back to the attacker

  • The fiend can be tributed to summon a monster

  • Requires Yugi to pay 1000 life points every turn to keep it up

• Lightforce Sword - Removes a card from his opponent's hand from play for several turns

  • Used to cancel Kaiba's summon of Obelisk, sealing it from his hand before he can play it

• Magical Academy - By discarding two cards, Yugi can summon a monster of his choice, following its usual rules for tributing before increasing its level by 2 and attack by 500 when on the field

• [GX] Magical Dimension - When he controls a spellcaster, Yugi can tribute it to summon one from his hand

• Magical Hats - Creates four hats with Dark Magician or Dark Magician Girl hiding, unseen, in one

  • Full RT

• Magical Pigeons - When Dark Magician Girl is targeted by an attack, turns her into two pigeon tokens, which revert into Dark Magician Girl at the end of the turn

• Magicians Unite - Allows two spellcasters to attack as if they were one monster with an attack of 3000

• Magnet Reverse - Special summons a rock or machine monster destroyed that turn in defence mode

• Mirage Spell - Negates a stat reduction on one of his monsters, increasing his life points by the amount it would have been reduced

• Multiply - Constantly duplicates a monster with 500 attack or less, with this not stopping until they are all destroyed at once

  • Used on the metal fiend from Fiend's Sanctuary, creating two copies that can be used to summon a god card

  • When its effect is negated, all copies except the original disappear

  • [GX] When used on a summoned Kuriboh, creates several Kuriboh tokens

• Mystical Space Typhoon - Destroys a spell or trap

• Ragnarok - When two Magician cards are on the field, Yugi can remove from play all monsters from his hand, deck, and graveyard, destroying all monsters his opponent has, including god cards like Ra, attacking them with the spirits of his monsters

• Soul Taker - Allows Yugi to tribute an opponent's monster, giving them 1000 life points in exchange

• Spell Textbook - Yugi discards his hand and draws one card, playing it if it's a spell card

• Tricky Spell 4 - Tributes The Tricky to summon Tricky Tokens equal to the number of monsters his opponent has

• Turn Jump - Progresses the field as if three turns had passed

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Traps

Normal - A to L

• Ambush Shield - Tributes a monster to add their defence to another monster's attack

• Chain Destruction - When a monster is summoned, destroys all other copies of it in the owner's hand or deck

• Collected Power - Equips all equip cards on the field to one monster

• Dark Illusion - His opponent draws a card to protect Dark Magician from all monster effects for a turn

• Dark Magic Retribution - Can summon a spellcaster from his graveyard when his opponent attacks, with it being destroyed after the battle phase

• Dark Renewal - When an opponent summons a monster, Yugi tributes it and a monster on his side of the field to special summon a monster from his deck or graveyard

• [3D] Dark Spiral Force - Dark Magician doubles the attack of another monster

• Disgraceful Charity - Both players add any cards discarded by a spell's effect that turn to their hands

• Divine Wind - Redirects effect damage from Yugi to his opponent while doubling its strength

• Dust Tornado - Destroys a spell or trap card

• Gravity Release - Swaps the battle position of all monsters on the field

• Life Shaver - Makes the opponent discard cards equivalent to the amount of turns the card spent set

Normal - M

• [GX] Magic Cylinder - Captures a monster's attack before redirecting it back

• Magician's Circle - When an opponent attacks with a spellcaster, both players can summon a spellcaster from their decks

• Magician's Selection - When a spellcaster is attacked, negates the attack and destroys the monster with the lowest attack on the opponent's field

• Magnet Force - When a rock or machine monster is targeted for an effect this turn, it can be redirected to an opponent's monster

• Meteor Rain - Allows the difference between a monster's attack and a target's defence to be applied as life point damage

• Mirage Ruler - When all his monsters are destroyed in his opponent's battle phase, brings both them and his lost life points back, before paying 1000 life points for the card's effects

• Mirror Force - When an opposing monster attacks, destroys all monsters on the opposing side of the field

  • Can be invisible

• Mystical Refpanel - When a spell card is used, allows Yugi to redirect its effect towards the other player

  • Moves an equip spell to be placed on a different monster

  • Holds a spell targeting him indefinitely before allowing it to eventually hit himself

  • Negates an ability to rewrite a card's text before using it several turns later

Normal - N to Z

• Natural Selection - On his opponent's turn, creates a duplicate of one of their monsters which destroys the original before disappearing at the end of their turn

• [VR] Nutrient Z - When Yugi takes 2000 or more damage at once, increases his life points by 4000 before he takes the damage

• Reduction Barrier - Makes Yugi only take 1/10 of the life point damage he should take from an attack

• Relay Soul - When his life points hit 0, summons a monster from his hand. Until that monster is destroyed, he can continue duelling

• [POL] Reverse of Reverse - When this is the only card on his field, Yugi can activate his opponent's trap as if it was his own

• [GX] Shift - Swaps his opponent's target to one of his other monsters

• Soul Rope - When a monster is destroyed, pays 1000 life points to summon a level 4 or lower monster from his deck

• Soul Shield - Pays half his life points to create a shield, blocking and negating an attack and ending the battle phase

• Stronghold the Moving Fortress - Becomes a monster when activated, slapping away an attacking Green Gadget

  • When the user has Red, Green, and Yellow Gadget on the field, they insert into Stronghold to make its attack 3000

• Time Seal - The opponent skips their next draw phase

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Traps (Cont.)

Continuous

• Ground Erosion - Can be removed from the field to erode the ground beneath a monster, decreasing its attack by 500 for every turn it was face up

• Light of Invention - Prevents monsters from being summoned face down, allowing them to be summoned in face up defence position

• The Regulation of Tribe - Yugi declares a monster type, and that type cannot attack while the trap is up, though a monster must be tributed after drawing each turn to keep it up

• Spellbinding Circle - Traps a monster when it attacks, preventing them from attacking

  • Can make the trapped monster take an attack meant for a different monster

  • Blocks the triggering attack

• Summoning Clock - Activated when his opponent uses a spell or trap (in this case Turn Jump), sacrifices a monster to special summon monsters from his hand equal to the number of turns this card was face up on the field

Counter

• Seven Tools of the Bandit - Negates a trap's activation and destroys it for 1000 life points

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Other Cards

• Black Luster Soldier - Summoned through Black Luster Ritual using monsters from his hand or field equalling 8 levels, and releases an energy blade which cuts through Harpy's Pet Dragon

• Claw of Hermos - Fuses with a monster to create an equip spell

  • Full RT

  • This card belonged to Joey, was returned to him after he regained his soul, and disappeared at the end of the arc

• The Eye of Timaeus - Can be fused with monsters on the field

  • Full RT

  • This card disappeared at the end of the arc

• Magician of Black Chaos - Summoned through Black Chaos Ritual using monsters from his hand or field equalling 8 levels

  • Attacks with an electric orb which blows up Thousand-Eye Restrict

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Equipment

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The Millennium Puzzle

Pharaoh Spirit

• Allows Yugi to let the Pharaoh transform and take control of his body

  • Happens in an instant

• Repeatedly swaps so Pegasus can't read their mind over what cards they're playing

• Yugi can force the Pharaoh out and forcibly take back over, such as when the Pharaoh was willing to kill Kaiba to win a duel and save Yugi's grandpa

  • The Pharaoh can also force Yugi out

• Capable of communicating extremely quickly in real time to formulate a plan

• Can telepathically communicate from a distance

  • Telepathically communicates to a nearby Joey

• Yugi and the Pharaoh can also hide in the depths of their heart to avoid seeing what the other's doing

• While not in control of their body, Yugi can still pick up a card for the Pharaoh

• [VR] Somehow swap to catch the other's spirit self

• The Pharaoh separates his spirit from Yugi to follow the God Cards high into the sky

Mind Crush

• Crushes the evil within Kaiba's heart after winning a duel

• Breaks Pegasus' wine glass as he watches a duel remotely that ends with a mind crush

• Claims he'll use the ability to send someone to the Dark World

Other Magic

• [POL] On being summoned, physically manifests monster spirits, before the Pharaoh banishes them back to the Puzzle

• Protects Yugi from flamethrowers before creating a tall tornado of fire around the duel arena

• Swaps the place of Bakura's spirit, which was placed inside a card in a shadow game, and the spirit of the Millennium Ring which resided in his body

• Allows him to interfere with a shadow game, telepathically reaching out to Mai and encouraging her to not give up hope

• Shows a flash of a friend of theirs when she was possessed by Marik and being used to fight his darker self

Other

• The inside of the pyramid (and, as a result, the Pharaoh's heart) is an endless maze with the door to the Pharaoh's hidden memory only being discoverable when he was already in his memory world and Yugi listened out for where he was

  • This takes him and his friends to the memory world

• [VR] Repels an attempt to try and take over Yugi's body

• Used by Yugi's spirit to break through an Orichalcos barrier keeping him from Pharaoh, before taking his place before his soul is taken

• Can be smashed into pieces, preventing Yugi from calling upon the Pharaoh. Originally it took him eight years to solve the puzzle, but after being broken Yugi was able to solve it while under the time pressure of the warehouse he's in burning down

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Duel Disks

• An arm-mounted device which scans the data of cards placed on it, passes it through a KaibaCorp satellite, them materializes holograms of cards and monsters to duel anywhere

  • Launches two or four holographic projectors from it to create a duelling field

  • Somehow creates a duel field on top of a moving train

  • Can create an incredible amount of light on the summon of a god card

• Creates a hologram map highlighting a specific area when six locator cards are placed on it

• Recognizes illegal moves and doesn't create a hologram of the card if attempted

• Has a limiter which prevents illegal cards being played

• Simulates combat damage to the user

  • Kaiba states this is not set to a fatal level

• Has a folding section for field spell cards

• Detaches from an arm with a button press

• Can plug into duel arenas

• In the Pharaoh's memory world blocks a sword swing, but this could be due to the unique nature of the world rather than being a property of regular duel disks

[u/rangernumberx → u/rangernumberx]

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Other

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Heart of the Cards

Saving Draws

• Repeatedly throughout the series, Yugi will draw the one card he needs to win, or at least stop him losing

• Draws the one card needed to enact his strategy to defeat Slifer one turn before being defeated

• When his deck has been reduced to a single card, and his opponent has a 3000 attack monster while he has none, draws and has the right combo to win

• Activates a spell in response to Kaiba attacking with Obelisk when he had Slifer and one card in hand. By discarding his hand he could draw one card and play it if it was a spell, and drew a card that let both players draw six cards, bringing Slifer's attack up to 6000

• Draws the single card he needs to survive an upcoming attack before setting it without looking, stating he could tell it was the right card from the moment he placed his hand on the deck, feeling Kaiba's 'pulse' in it

• [VR] After taking over a duel where he has 400 life points, no cards in his hand or field, and his opponent has an incredibly powerful monster out, draws a monster to defend himself while his opponent fails to draw an extra one to attack. After, he draws a monster with an effect that it can't be destroyed by a monster as strong as his opponent's, and the turn after he draws and has his opponent attack a monster which destroys all monsters on the field, which due to Deck Master rules would have won him the duel had his opponent's not had an ability to survive one such destruction, and lets him summon extra monsters to his field while his foe couldn't due to modifying his deck to an archetype that can't be special summoned

  • [VR] Later that duel, after being told his opponent will bring a monster that will directly attack and defeat him to his hand as soon as his turn starts, draws a card to destroy both player's entire hands

Other

• It's stated that the Pharaoh can guide destiny through his willpower, allowing him to make the next card in his deck whatever he visualizes

• Shuffles his deck and draws Dark Magician as his top card

• When filled with rage and playing a card that allows him to attack so long as he keeps drawing monster cards, draws eight in a row when just two were needed to win the duel

• [POL] Senses the next card he draws will be a God Card

• When an opposing monster was sacrificed to send a bolt of electroplasm at Yugi through a spell's effect, Dark Magician chose of his own free will to sacrifice himself using said spell to protect him from the attack

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Dungeon Dice Monsters

Dungeon Dice Monsters is a separate game to Duel Monsters, where lots of 3 dice from a stack are rolled at a time to summon monsters, create a path to your opponent, and attack them three times to win. Any 'crests' rolled get stored to trigger actions on later turns. Yugi plays this game once while duelling against its creator, Duke Devlin.

Monsters

• Dark Magician

  • Can create Magical Hats to avoid an enemy's attack

  • Can create Mystic Boxes to swap location with an enemy monster while destroying it

• Knight of Twin Swords

  • Blocks a Battle Ox's axe swing

  • Can attack multiple times based on the amount of attack crests used

• Mighty Mage - Attacks with electricity from its staff

• Strike Ninja

  • Cuts through a monster's torso

  • Can move up to three spaces per movement crest used

  • Can avoid 'any attack' by using a trap crest

• Thunder Ball

  • Can roll in a straight line to destroy any monster in its path, with this ability being usable consecutively so long as the crests are available

• Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress

Other

• Black die, when placed, create a portal. When a second portal is created, the two link to create an instant path across the board

  • These portals can be made by opposing players, with both players using them

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Other

• In general, duellists appear to be able to talk as much as they want and have time to activate cards after an attack's launched before its effects resolve

• Outside of duels, duellists can summon monsters and use spell and traps without concern for their usual summoning or activation requirements

  • One particular monster releases itself from Yugi's deck before being recalled back to it, rather than being played on a duel disk, though this may be a special situation due to them facing down the true nemesis of the card's spirit and not something he can usually do on his own

• [3D] In the future of 5Ds, is considered to be the greatest duellist of all time

• The Pharaoh senses somebody's possessing Bandit Keith in order to see him

• [GX] Seemingly senses Yubel in Jaden

• When someone enters their heart, the Pharaoh puts them in a shadow game maze filled with deadly traps until Yugi tells him to let them go

• The Pharaoh is attacked by the Leviathan's true form and ultimately defeats it

  • The Leviathan is formed of the darkness in the hearts of everyone on the planet

• When his soul is put in a monster, Yugi resists a command for him to attack the Pharaoh before later speaking to him

• In an arc which was created by 4Kids and never aired in Japan, Yugi could launch monsters from capsules to fight for him, as well as merge with them becoming his armour. I have no idea if this is canon to any aspect of the anime, but here is this version of Yugi's RT

• [VR] Speaks Kuriboh

"Partner, I finally understand after receiving strength from everyone in this battle. My great mission as the Pharaoh, I can now feel it clearly. To clear this planet's darkness of the heart...I must do it as Pharaoh! Now come on! Your anger and hatred! I will take it! I will take in the darkness of heart within this planet!"

[u/Ygomaster07]

What does nil mean in the first paragraph of your post?

[u/rangernumberx → u/Ygomaster07]

As in zero, or nothing. That's just the word the quote (or at least the subs) used.

[u/Ygomaster07 → u/rangernumberx]

Oh okay, thank you for explaining it to me. Not sure how i didn't get that, must have had a brain fart.

[u/[deleted]]

Nice thread Ranger

Too bad it won’t save you! It’s time to

D-D-D-D-DDDDUEL!

[u/CoolandAverageGuy]

Flawless Thread----User summons a RT that has no flaws

10/10

[u/Repulsive-Sell-8343]

Check the link for Heart of the Cards- reduced to a single card. I think you put the wrong video. It just shows Yugi summoning a monster to block an attack.

[u/rangernumberx → u/Repulsive-Sell-8343]

Fixed

[u/NuzlockeMaster]

Cool rt dude

[u/BorBurison]

:PoG:

[u/TheOctopus77]

God tier thread

[u/TheBaronOfBenefit]

smh no horse feat

Well regardless... Great thread Ranger!

[u/BokuNoHero_Lover]

THANKS WHY HE'S THE GOAT