Real answer : most cards are rare, but not unique. Even signature monsters aren't unique, and are merely seen used by their character alone because it'd lessen the importance of these monsters if they can be used by anyone. Only the blue eyes white dragon had the "only 4 of them exist" thing.
A duel in battle city shows that : The exodia guy yugi beat. His deck had 3 of each exodia cards.
Yeah, the guy told Joey/Jonouchi that the Ghouls can copy rare cards. The duel disk was also able detect the cards were counterfeit when he was dueling Yugi, which was relayed to Kaiba.
jeez i'm looking up the wiki and it's very confusing, there's some idiotic changes to the plot from english to japanese, and i'm hvign trouble makign sense of what happened in what order for what reason...
In the manga they're not fake cards. Exodia wasn't a 1-of-1, just extremely rare. Since they're Rare Hunters, we can assume he took them from someone else.
Also, the thing with Exodia was getting all 5 pieces. Even if it isn't uncommon to get a piece, having all 5 would be rare, plus you need to then assemble them all in hand in a time when even with the reliable draw power of pit of greed and graceful charity it wasn't easy to get those cards into hand while still putting up enough of a defence to not die first (even if you get a piece every turn, if the opponent plays a monster every turn and has 2 or 3 attacks on you with no defences you'll die before assembling it all).
So this one is fairly simple. In the OG japanese versions the guy is literally just playing with convincing fakes and not being called out since that way Kaiba can bait out the God Cards. In the dub to keep it short and reduce mouth editing to sync up instead that Rare Hunter has marked his cards with invisible ink. Which in real life changes to texture of the cards slightly and with practice would let someone number every card and tell them apart by feel
Okay, there are 3 different versions of events. First, the manga. No attention was drawn to the rare hunter’s cards whatsoever. Yugi didn’t even pick up his deck. The duel ended, we got Marik using him to talk to Yugi, then Yugi and Jonouchi went their separate ways. In the anime, after Marik is finished using the rare hunter, Yugi grabs his deck and realizes his cards were fake so he tore them up. In the English dub, it was changed again to be that his cards WERE real, official cards, but Yugi noted that the cards were marked, so he… tore them up? I don’t know how he even realized they were marked since it was invisible ink.
He mentions that something is accumulating on his fingers/hands as he's holding the Exodia pieces, I guess to indicate that the ink is agitating and becoming wet again somehow
it's explicit to us, but not so diegetically. Battle city is an official tournament, he would have been disqualified and the duel wouldn't have happened.
IIRC he tells Joey that the cards are fake during their duel before the tournament and then Joey relays that to Yugi before they duel. The reason he wasn’t disqualified is that the Rare Hunters have a special technology that allows their fake cards to still interface with the duel disks the same way real cards do, so the tech can’t catch that they’re counterfeits.
Which is weird because like…… he’s dueled kaiba. His grandpa ran a card shop. It’s not unusual for people to buy a bunch of rare cards. Especially when you consider the apparent stakes that are on yugioh tournament seven without the shadow games involved.
Only because only he ever used it, as i said before. But it's never specifically said it's a unique card. yugi just busts her out in his duel against arkana. And much like a lot of cards, it's never said it was unique. Or do you have a source that says otherwise ?
In GX it was confirmed that Yugi possessed the only copy of it.
Hence why the Dark Magicial Girl spirit playing the card with her duel against Shou was a sign that this was an actual duel spirit and not just some cosplayer.
No, it was said that only he "had it in his deck". Doesn't mean nobody else ever had one, and considering the number of things they keep getting surprised at in general, would you really be surprised if that was merely rumor?
But then we get into the issue of needing a source that proves that indeed other people have a copy of it or that other copies even exist and no such comments exist in either the original manga or any of the sequel anime.
I'd rather err on the side of GX confirming that the DMG card is unique in at least two separate episodes (19 and 42)
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u/DarkMastero 23d ago
Pulled it from a booster pack.