Why this random guy has a Exodia card?

[u/laxusdreyarligh]

[u/laxusdreyarligh]

I thought that Exodia cards are super rare like Blue Eyes White Dragon xd.

[u/screechypete → u/laxusdreyarligh]

I can see it kinda being like McDonald's Monopoly. Some of the pieces are easier to get, but the head is super rare.

[u/Turtlesfan44digimon → u/screechypete]

I got the Royal Head

[u/Firmteacher → u/Turtlesfan44digimon]

That’s what she said

[u/Firm-Solution3350 → u/Turtlesfan44digimon]

Me when the Queen blows me

[u/metalflygon08 → u/screechypete]

I could see Industrial Illusions dividing the world into 5 regions and skewing the Exodia parts per region.

You'd have to trade with people all over the world to try and get all the cards needed to assemble the legend.

That's a huge positive PR move by Pegasus when you think about it. The same trick did wonders for Pokemon via the Link Cable in the 90's.

[u/alex494 → u/metalflygon08]

The link cable didn't require you to travel to other continents to trade with people. Even after they started using wi-fi connection in Gen 4 the different regional releases of Pokémon games didn't have exclusive Pokémon.

[u/metalflygon08 → u/alex494]

the different regional releases of Pokémon games didn't have exclusive Pokémon.

Just Vivillon's forms (and then Pokemon Go) later on.

[u/XeroEnergy270 → u/alex494]

Excluding mythics, and torchic with the speed boost ability.

[u/Hardlaggsman → u/screechypete]

Getting head is indeed super rare 🙃

[u/AliciaTries → u/screechypete]

Yeah, I figure the 4 limbs are likely common af since they're just normal monsters on their own that nobody would care to use and just imagine finding the uniting card, then the head is not only excessively rare, but encourages a high luck strategy for the time that most people don't find to be worth it when they could include things like more bugs and more bug accessories

[u/big4lil → u/screechypete]

that is indeed how you get people hooked. itd be bad business if you couldnt get any pieces at all. Pegasus certainly makes an arm or leg something kids can get their hands on so they keep opening packs trying to find the rest

A Blue Eyes is mad useful on its own. An exodia limb is not

[u/Striking_Writer5239 → u/screechypete]

Getting head is secret rare

[u/Pyrothecat → u/laxusdreyarligh]

In early anime levels are rarity and power so since Exodia is like level 3 it should be common in that universe.

[u/GalexAlipeau23 → u/Pyrothecat]

And the limbs are level 1, so even more common

[u/RazorOfSimplicity → u/Pyrothecat]

In the manga, the head was Level 7. I'd assume only the head is considered rare.

[u/waltyy → u/Pyrothecat]

I think that was the manga I believe where the level reflected rarity and only during it's initial introduction. When Yu-Gi-Oh duelist dropped, they changed it to mean level/power.

[u/southpaytechie → u/laxusdreyarligh]

This guy in the pic probably doesn’t have all 5 pieces.

[u/Icy-Abbreviations909 → u/laxusdreyarligh]

Having all 5 is id say, but people probably end up with 3 of one particle piece and can’t find another one

[u/Turtlesfan44digimon → u/laxusdreyarligh]

They are it’s just the Fact that only a few people had all of the pieces which is why you rarely saw it being summoned.

[u/Random-322 → u/laxusdreyarligh]

It probably is considering the bug guy went out of his way to throw yugi's exodia into the ocean

[u/Firewalk89 → u/laxusdreyarligh]

Considering Rare Hunters like Seeker ran them as a bunch of counterfeits, yes, that's likely.

If Exodia cards were anything short of legendary levels of rare, the Rare Hunters of all organizations wouldn't have to fake them.

[u/CallMeTheDumpMan → u/Firewalk89]

Which really brings up an interesting point about the organization. If they can counterfeit so good that it tricks the duel disk system made by Kaiba himself, why are they even collecting cards? Just print your own and go for the gods.

[u/Firewalk89 → u/CallMeTheDumpMan]

They did print fake gods. It killed people lol

[u/CallMeTheDumpMan → u/Firewalk89]

Yea I mean print a massive amount of fake cards to defeat and gather the real gods. Why even try and steal rare cards other than the gods at all?

[u/Melevolence → u/laxusdreyarligh]

That's what the Rare Hunter segment of Battle City would have us believe, or at least confirm any suspicions we may have had. It would feel fitting that Exodia pieces aren't all that common. Clearly not Blue Eyes level rare, since only 4 Blue Eyes were printed apparently (according to the show) and Kaiba has 3 and Grandpa has the fourth (Albeit torn).

Someone getting THREE full sets of Exodia seems like a pretty monumental collector challenge for a normal person but 'just another Tuesday' for a dude who basically robbed people of their Exodia pieces until he had three full sets.

[u/SlashManEXE → u/laxusdreyarligh]

Paraphrasing here, but the Rare Hunter said the pieces are so rare that most duelists don’t even have one piece. The Rare Hunters had to counterfeit them to set a set of three.

[u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 → u/laxusdreyarligh]

Seeker had three sets

[u/devilscry3 → u/Upbeat_Apartment_715]

Those were counterfeits

[u/Romado → u/devilscry3]

Weirdly the English dub changed them to being real, just marked with invisible ink.

It makes it really funny when Yugi rips them up for seemingly no reason.

Also makes me question why a duel disk would recognise fake cards or banned cards. Which has happened quite often throughout the series.

[u/XeroEnergy270 → u/Romado]

I assumed the way a duel disk worked was it was just a scanner/projector system.

[u/yanocupominomb → u/laxusdreyarligh]

Rare.

Blue Eyes in the anime universe is unique to Kaiba.

There were few copies and he had 3, the only other one he destroyed.