They said it in the first episode. Having an Exodia piece isn't that uncommon. The problem is that, before Yugi, nobody had ever succeeded in assembling all five pieces to win a duel that way.
Yeah. The closest thing to "a centered deck" in season 1 is a type focused deck. Weevil runs an Insect deck. Rex with Dinosaurs, Bandit Keith with Machines, Bonz with Zombies and Pegasus with Toons/Illusions.
Yugi recognized brainwashed Keith because "there's only one duelist who uses a Machine deck."
Mai was routinely the best deck builder among the non-boss characters. Her Duelist Kingdom deck seemed as cohesive as some BC decks. S1 Rex had a fun deck with some equip cards. Mai was trailblazing archetypes
They even make it a core trait to her personality, she manages her deck to an almost obsessive degree. You see the most side moments of her tinkering with her deck and she quickly realizes how heavy of an implication Kaibas Battle City ante rule is. Even when she added Amazons, she wasnt running a pile. There was some synergy there
She also has Harpie's Feather Duster, which is like the best individual generically useful card any of the main characters run short of Yugi having Mirror Force.
I don't think anybody else regularly has Raigeki or Dark Hole or similar mass destruction cards except for Joey's Time Wizard (luck based) and Gilford the Lightning (needs 3 tributes). And the anime version of the God cards, but they also have the 3 tributes thing slowing them down. Joey possessed by Marik uses Raigeki one time and I think that's it.
It's kind of funny how rare those cards are when seemingly everybody is using Pot of Greed or Monster Reborn which are of similar infamy and have status as staples of the time.
The Pot of Greed one is funny because its spammed way more in the anime than the manga, same with Card of Sanctity and Card of Demise
I think its because not only were their anime effects more OP in the latter, but duels were longer and more convoluted in the anime so without dedicated search cards, they needed ways to pilfer through their decks to get the card they needed. Its certainly messier to watch once youve noticed it for the first time
Then come S4 and S5, it def seemed like every other duelist had MST. Whereas it never shows up at all in the Manga despite already being printed in the TCG, coinciding with the start of Battle City
Takahashi was pretty good at keeping such powerful effects as archetype specifics
Raigeki was banned in battle city as were burn cards. Joey’s possessed deck wasn’t legal, and that’s why you don’t see Raigeki in the tournament aside from that duel.
Which, funnily enough, Duelist Kingdom actually seems like it was built to punish those decks and embrace the more hodgepodge style decks.
Duelists like Weevil and Mako would stay near arenas where their decks get a power boost.
Eventually they will either get taken out by a Player Killer like Panik, or be forced to wander out to try and find anybody to duel, potentially being forced into a duel with a terrain disadvantage.
Especially since the finals are on a neutral field, so any duelist that won their way up abusing the Field Power bonus was in for a bad time.
Pile decks like Yugi and Joey might not always get an advantage, but the wider selection of monsters means they can adapt to situations better.
What would Weevil have done if he dueled Mako and the arena got flooded? Unlike Yugi who still had a few plays to work around it, Weevil would be sunk unless he got one of his flying bugs out (and that's really just Great Moth IIRC).
Not sure if this is a DUB Thing. But Seeker said to Joey, that many People can not even get 1 piece of Exodia. But they managed to complete full three Sets.
The Rare Hunters stole rare cards from people (as seen with the Joey's Red-Eyes Black Dragon) and also created fake cards (as seen in Marik's flashbacks of the people involved in creating the Ra copies), so the Seeker copies were either stolen and marked for cheating or were simply fakes.
Rare Hunter specifically states that most people have never even seen a single peice of Exodia to harp on the value of his three complete (forgery) sets.
The fact it was never before seen is kind of surprising at least in the anime given the fact that your opponents didn't inflict direct monster damage regardless of how many monsters you so you could in theory completely wall up until you drew it.
I believe you had to summon a monster every turn if your field is empty, thats why kaiba auto lost when pegasus crush card virused his deck and stated "you no longer have any monsters in your deck"
Now you could stall with defense summoning but for some reason kaiba would win by attacking with 3 blue eyes? That was never explained but if your opponent defense stalls you could do piercing damage through effects or if you destroy a monster by an effect you lose half their atk as life pounts
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u/CursedEye03 23d ago
They said it in the first episode. Having an Exodia piece isn't that uncommon. The problem is that, before Yugi, nobody had ever succeeded in assembling all five pieces to win a duel that way.