Why Nobody Plays Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie Cards

In August 2004 Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie: The Pyramid of Light released in North America. Today we're taking a look at the cards in the two movie packs to figure out why nobody plays most of them.
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[@Chelaxim]

I got Watapon and I'm still mad 20 years later.

[@ArunaUtd]

Only real men use Watapon!

[@fun2building]

Fucking same My mom got Pyramid of Light though

[@giraton1]

Mooooood. My bro got shining and my dad the Pyramid.

[@P4brotagonist]

Same. God damn i was seething over it

[@r.heffner-hoe4983]

😂

[@xy394]

Blue Eyes Shining Dragon requiring you to play a card not even released has to be one of the most WTF things Konami ever did

[@InvaderWeezle]

I don't know why the TCG took so long to finally release Ultimate Dragon. It was out in the OCG for years by the time Shining Dragon existed

[@nmr7203]

It's also weird that it wasn't a Fusion monster.

[@ASavageEye]

@@nmr7203 That is not weird at all, in the movie it was also not a fusion monster.

[@intuitivelymagician2076]

I know 😂

[@robertfoxworthy5503]

​@@InvaderWeezleupper Deck skipped it as it was supposed to release with labyrinth of nightmare.

[@tylerwaddell8959]

Blue-eyes shining dragon looking so cool really locked in my love for yugioh as a kid. Even had this janky toy of it with moveable wings.

[@Dzeeff]

Kid me is very jealous of your toy lmao, always wanted that one

[@Bigparr43]

I feel like a lot of people had playground rules for summoning it, but I could be weird. I do remember a friend getting it and being jealous because my coolest card was a holo Jinzo. If only I had known

[@ASavageEye]

@@Bigparr43 Playground rules allowed for a lot of plays that of course make zero sense today. For us, we always just assumed that we could use Monster Reborn on a Shining Dragon in the graveyard and that was fine to summon it. Monster Reborn ignores monster effects because a monster in the Grave is dead so its effects dont work anyway 🤣🤣

[@TheLordofMetroids]

Now I paint models instead of playing cards, but Yugioh is really what sealed my love for giant dragons and dinosaurs.

[@TheLordofMetroids]

@@ASavageEye You ever play anyone who had completely different playground rules than you? How we played as kids was the star count of the monster at the bottom of your deck determined who went first. Weird but not insane. But for the insanity, if you started your turn with no cards in hand, you DREW FIVE Cards. Imagine the bemused and bewildered look on my cousins face at Christmas as I drew 5 cards for turn.

[@gligarguy4010]

Anyone else think Rare Metal Dragon looks like a Rhyhorn?

[@whadafish9440]

Back then I tried to find a way to play it, but couldnt make it happen. its a cool card

[@BlueKnight931]

That's why it's rare nintendo be hunting that thing with copyright strikes

[@SamehiroKuronashi]

I never thought of that in that way but now that you mentioned it, it does kinda look like a rhyhorn

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

When Anubis loses the duel, he transforms into a giant monster and sends Inferno Tempest & Fallout, to destroy Yugi's & Kaiba's decks but then they just pick Shinning Dragon off the ground and use it anyway. Effectively meaning all Anubis did was knock their cards onto the floor.

[@wakkaseta8351]

He flipped the table with extra steps.

[@soranora4597]

Anubis uses Inferno tempest and fallout. Yugi: Oh no, anyway, uses shining dragon

[@fangslore9988]

infernal tempest ironcally got a few reprints LMAO including Yugioh GX battle pack booster packs

[@ASavageEye]

@@fangslore9988 Inferno tempest is a win condition card in the right deck and still sees the occasional play in rogue decks to this day. You simply crash a 0atk monster into a 3000atk monster to take the required damage and devastate your opponents deck. You then use any one of a dozen spells to bring back a copy of Gren Maju and wipe out your opponents life points in one hit.

[@fangslore9988]

@@ASavageEye thats why its reprint was ironic

[@Yardnoc3103]

I think if Peten had an "If... you can" effect it would definitely have seen some play in Chaos or synchro decks.

[@nsiderultimaseth]

He would be a free body in tons of decks. I'm sure there would be decks running him to make Cherubini.

[@mateusrp1994]

He would get a format named after him, the same way Reborn Tengu did years later.

[@catsorafgc]

It probably would see play today simply because he’s a free body with a non once per turn effect. I’m sure a link deck would love a card like that

[@hermit3043]

It would have practically been reborn tengu almost a decade before reborn tengu existed.

[@vparsa87]

It’s called reborn tengu.

[@deancombs4075]

Fun fact, Sorcerer of Dark Magic has reversed atk/def of Dark Sage

[@satyayana1399]

another funfact, sorcerer of dark magic art were taken from manga panel in which mahad summoned (now in adult form) his ka against bakura inside pharaoh fake tomb

[@thedepressedguydoesstuff]

I think that’s actually one of my favorite Dark Magician archetype fun facts

[@___________0Z0X]

That was a pretty “DARK” fact!

[@rikflare7970]

My wife found a card tin at goodwill for a 1$, had sorcerer in the pile of sleeves, it’s stays in my side deck for her ✌️

[@darkdragon7210]

@@satyayana1399 Didn't Mahad die in the Illusion Magician's Outfit becoming the Dark Magician?

[@bmcoyne88]

"Theinen, meet the Pharaoh; and Pharaoh, meet your doom!" *laughs maniacally*

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

It should be mentioned that Theinen‘s 35,000 ATK wasn’t a random value. It’s the sum of its ATK plus all monsters' in Anubis‘s and Kaiba‘s GY.

[@darkdragon7210]

I didn't know that. Pretty cool!

[@lesterwilliamsjr649]

It is a shame we haven't gotten any new versions of cards from this movie. I like the Anibus cards and the way that female monster opened her mouth was terrifying.

[@Merilirem]

Ikr? We need retrains of all these!

[@emred4653]

she was so hot

[@jonathan-6958]

And arousing too (dont ask plz😅)

[@zanir2387]

​@jonathan-6958 🤨

[@autobotstarscream765]

They made a new archetype called Nemleria that can search both Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia with one card.

[@cdgames69]

For newer players: Sangan/Witch of the Black Forest to trigger Watapon was prior to an errata. Their effects now say that you can't activate cards with the added card's name until the end of the turn, but this wasn't always the case

[@trevorsamuels8392]

@cdgames69 Fortunately I don't have that sangan or witch of the black Forrest so I don't have to go by that. Wierd rule in the handbook allows for that loophole, think it went whatever the card says is what you do. Meaning if they ever make pot of greed legal again and alter the effect, you can just use the old cards to get around whatever handicap they give it.

[@cdgames69]

@@trevorsamuels8392 This is false, the rulebook makes no direct mention of erratas or rewritten effects, and it's also just not how you would handle this from an actual gameplay perspective because that's a profoundly stupid way to go about it Obviously when playing with a friend you can do whatever you want, but in regards to the rules at a tournament (as in "where the rules actually matter"), the latest errata on a given card always takes precedence regardless of what version of the card you have in your possession. There's even an entire page on their website explaining how you as a player should go about this. You could probably get away with activating a card added with Sangan, but this would be because your opponent didn't notice and not because you have an older version of the card, and if you were caught in the act but insisted that it's fine because you have an older copy, at best the judge that inevitably comes over would rule in favour of your opponent and the duel would proceed with you not being allowed to activate that card

[@cdgames69]

I believe I have found the rule you are talking about and it has nothing to do with this situation "If there is a discrepancy between the basic rules and a card’s effect, the card effect takes precedence" This does not say anything about what is printed on the card. Naturally in most cases, the effect printed on the card is that card's effect, but that's no longer the case if a card has had an errata @@trevorsamuels8392

[@zerocalvin]

but i can still special summon jester confit in master duel after searching it with sangan... so why i cant with watapon? isnt it the same effect?

[@cdgames69]

@@zerocalvin Jester Confit is not an activated effect. It's more like a condition. Watapon is an activated effect that can start a Chain

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

Learning that Watapon and Return from a Different Dimension were in the same promo pack is...odd. It's like finding a diamond in a slag heap.

[@Christopher-tz3mr]

I went to the theater after the movie was out for several weeks asked if I could buy left over movie promos. Imagine my shock when I received a box full and they said,"just take them"

[@shazilla4]

lol how despressing

[@solarlunar64]

I remember when someone got blue-eyes shining, and then try to make it “well if I get 3 blue eyes out I should be able to make him” and the many lunch debates thereafter.

[@nmr7203]

How did they get 3 Blue Eyes out

[@isuckatgaming3527]

​@@nmr7203 Screw the rules they have money

[@ryanhoule4415]

I had a Japanese Ultimate Blue-Eyes when Shining came out, and because of that I was probably the only one in my group who could use the damn thing.

[@TYSniper]

​@ryanhoule4415 I had the fake PG-03 Blue Eyes Ultimate dragon card. Still have it as a fun reminder, but of course I have the actual card now.

[@solarlunar64]

@@nmr7203 they cheated lol

[@kyuubimakai009]

The thing is, I actually DO play Sorcerer of Dark Magic in my Dark Magician Deck since it effectively shuts down most trap cards (except counter traps) and is rarely ever a brick in my personal build. Pairing it with Secret Village of the Spellcasters means your opponent is effectively locked out of their own backrow.

[@lucaslennan3356]

Lmao

[@Rogue_Wulf]

Same, the card is actually really good its crazy lmao

[@1stCallipostle]

That sounds incredibly slow but go off

[@fapuloes]

@@1stCallipostle I mean it's Dark Magicians, what do you expect?

[@Jason0binladen]

That's terrible you're open for Kaiju and raa sphere mode just play quintet magician negating spells/traps specifically isn't good we got hand traps now that negate way more red reboot is arguably better

[@michaelmahoney5677]

I absolutely adored the Sphinxes from this movie as a kid but DAMN are they unplayable

[@VamYGO]

Despite being the one no one wanted, Watapon was and can currently be used in an entirely NR FTK in Master Duel through use of Tethys, Goddess of Light

[@defender2222]

Honestly these cards need retrains. I would love it if one of the legendary sets actually did something with Anubis and his Sphinx monsters

[@Jason0binladen]

Maybe making pyramid of light a field spell like it should be

[@SelfReassuringTitle]

Next duelist pack is LIGHT attribute so fingers crossed

[@Merilirem]

I would love a sphinx archetype. Not to mention all the other cards.

[@dayvonlouis5187]

Especially Blue Eyes Shining Dragon it’s summoning requirement effectively ensures no one would use it unless they *really* wanted to

[@alphawolf7417]

​@dayvonlouis5187 Odd, considering Red-Eyes Darkness variants are.....well not common, but at least it had some, Shining Dragon was just forgotten.

[@Meguro-Masaki]

I was a kid when I went to see the movie with my dad. I remember my dad getting Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, while I got Sorcerer of Dark Magic. He noticed he got a holo and I didn’t, so he gave it to me. I have it framed to this day. 🥺🙏🏻 One of my favorite cards/memories.

[@adamellis6044]

I remember my parents buying me the dvd which also had the promo pack and I really wanted the sorcerer of dark magic, was so happy when I pulled it haha, that bad boy was put in all my decks and ended up with tape wrapped around the top because it started to peel 😂😂

[@LionWithAGun]

i remember my parents went to blockbuster to rent this movie for me and a cinderella story for my sisters. blockbuster gave them a promo pack and i pulled blue eyes shining. i was miffed af that i didnt have a ultimate dragon and my cousin stole the card to use with his fake ultimate dragon and gave me his watapon saying that itd be better for my deck

[@amadeus7447]

Missed these kind of videos, glad to see them back 🤩.

[@lvli044]

I pulled Watapon and was thrilled lol. I still have it. My childhood deck didn't have Ultimate or Spellcasters so it was the only card I could use. Being adorable was a bonus.

[@SowaraAkther1]

I personally believe that Blue Eyes Shining Dragon was the inspiration for my favourite monster, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman, so I have a special respect for it.

[@PorkShark]

I don't know why they didn't just give Theinen 35,000 ATK, they bothered to make Armityle after all

[@VixYW]

I did beat the first Tag Force game with a Pyramid of Light deck, not even knowing it was a movie card. Poping the trap with my own MST during the battle phase and going for game with Theniem seemed like such a busted strategy for me back then, and surviving long enough to set it up was easy enough in the game. I really wish they make a retrain of those cards one day.

[@Haj_Otter]

This was one of the few anime movies my parents went to go see with me in cinemas so i have alot of fond memeories of this movie. I still have my shining dragon somewhere in my collection too!

[@luisaguilar849]

I miss these types of videos glad to see you sprinkle them in every now and then

[@robertdaniels-lane7321]

I played all of them as a kid…illegally of course cause you know, we as kids made our own rules 🤣

[@masterfreelance99]

I loved Rare Metal Dragon as a kid. Being able to summon it made me happy, even if it didn't win me the game lol. I still hope that card becomes relevant somehow in the future. I guess it's just a pet card of mine now.

[@Merilirem]

Reminded me of the Pokémon Rhyhorn. So yeah, I still love my copy.

[@JJSquirtle]

Shoutouts to the structure deck reprint of Sorceror of Dark Magic, I never got to see Pyramid of Light in theatres so I was really happy to get Sorceror of Dark Magic another way.

[@lokithehero2309]

In GOAT format the Sphinxs are actually usable. I play them in a beatdown strategy with Skill Drain and Manticore of Darkness. Skill drain means they wont get popped if Pyramid leaves the field and Manticore can use dead sphinxs in hand as fodder to revive itself. Deck is hella bricky but its fun when it works. Also Reasoning/Monster Gate can cheat them out since their summoning condition isn't a restriction, it's just another way to summon them.

[@cutecombo8496]

Why would skill drain protect them from being popped...?

[@Flame6302]

I miss this “why nobody” series keep’em coming please! 🙏🏽

[@Sepharuma]

I used to use pyramid of light and the sphinxes for a lvl10 XYZ deck back in the day. Was pretty effective, in the right build!

[@matasa7463]

Oh yeah, they can’t attack but they can be used as material for other summonings… though they can’t trigger Thienen if they are tributed.

[@analoghabits9217]

worth mentioning that necroface was used to make inferno tempest a near-certain deckout. so many anime effects of these cards were really cool, shining dragon said " offer this card as a tribute to destroy any cards you choose"

[@desertsniper23]

When Gagaga Magician came out Sorcerer of Dark Magic became a lot easier to summon I remember a few of my friends that played that for a little bit.

[@UltimateD755]

Gagaga is my buddy

[@Kwevin6659]

One of the first games I played on Dueling Book was with Sorcerer of Dark Magic. I didn't know you had to say you were activating effects, I was used to the DS games where it automatically did that. So a Scrap player went second, doing their thing, I'd set Magician's Circle. My turn, used it and Dark Magic Circle to get Dark Magician and Girl out, tribute those for it. Attack, opponent activates Sakuretsu Armor, I don't know what buttons to press to say I use the trap effect, panic, shut it down, don't go back for a few years.

[@Tirgo69]

I'd be interested to see more videos about your memories playing with friends as a kid. Ofc there's videos already but there's ways to take a fresh look at it. Maybe specific packs or structures that your friend group was excited for and why, memorable cards that saw play you never saw anyone else use, weird strategies, etc. I don't know why but I always find it fascinating to hear about memories like that. Personally though I had Starter Deck Joey as a kid none of my friends were into it so I stuck to the video games to engage with the game

[@menotme8085]

Same, I don't have such a elaborate explanation, but I'm just a sucker for nostalgia

[@crh1985]

I played the sphinx card with toons. People hated it as I could pay 500 LP and summon a (sudo) blue-eye or dark magician and the toons had a buff with scapegoats as you tribute to special summon

[@AuntSteve]

Man, what a blast from the past. The summer after the movie came out I helped my Grandma with "National Night Out," and the local movie theater donated a bunch of the single promo cards they had left for grab bags. At the end I ended up going home with about 20 packs. Still have at least 4 of each promo in my binder.

[@Kobold1650]

Oh man, this brings backs memories. I loved the sphinxes as a kid, even though they were lack luster even back then.

[@Hoixon]

Ah hell yeah, cards I actually don't know and can learn new information!

[@masterjoda999]

The case of shining dragon is funny to me because of the whole "You need Blue Eyes Ultimate to summon it, but Blue Eyes Ultimate wasn't actually out at the time" thing.

[@menotme8085]

Always loved the look of the sphinxes, used to always try and use andro sphinx in duel generations... I only had one copy of it and one copy of pyramid of light, but man was it fun when it worked. I did not know inferno tempest was from this set. That thing was my favorite awful gren maju jank. Return from a different dimension too? Damn...

[@ThePageofRage]

I remember someone actually played Thenien in a locals once (Back in like 2005). He looked smug until he swung right into my Sakaretsu Armor.

[@manynukes11]

I pulled Shining Dragon too, and my family managed to pull the other 3 cards in their packs

[@MrNaruto7860]

I love the classic dzeef videos.

[@FullMetalSnorlax]

Rare metal dragon was one of the best targets for Hidden Soldiers. There are some other cards that let you swap a monster with a monster of the same level that could use it to dodge tribute summoning. But you're usually better off having an equip card and a 1800atk lv4 monster in your hand instead.

[@AloneTheorist]

Sorcerer of Dark magic could be good in the modern game in decks like Endymion and modern dark magician decks that can turbo out level 6 or higher Spellcasters to meet requirement. On the subject of rare metal dragon, it's effect lends itself to more modern style plays as alongside cards such as Goblindbergh and Kagetokage it could instantly set up a rank 4 xyz summon that requires 3 materials or you could use marauding captain to summon it and have a beefy defensive line as you'd have a warrior that is the only thing that could be attacked that also works great with equip spells and a powerful level 4 dragon. It also makes good link or fusion material using some of the above methods, most of these cards ironically just needed time to move ahead a bit to see some actual viable usability.

[@Bomberman204]

I got Watapon... he's still like my favorite card to this day... Lol loved summoning him with Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest, and he was one of few LIGHT monsters I had any synergy in my Magician Deck. He was tribute fodder for my DMG and Chaos Command Magician, while helping me summon Chaos Sorcerer 🤷‍♂️ (all of which helped me summon another terrible card, Sorcerer of Dark Magic 😂) of course it wasn't the best card, but on the playground it helped me countless times with all my draw cards (Pot of Greed, Card Destruction, Graceful Charity, etc). I was known for using Watapon lol, it was a bit of a joke, but I always screamed "I SUMMON WATAPON!!!" even more intensely than when I summoned a god card 😂 My friends would even Solemn my Puffball Buddy just to hurt my feelings.

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

My brother and I managed to get all of the Pyramid of Light cards when we were kids.. except for the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, my favorite monster. It wasn’t until a few years ago where my bf told me someone he knew gave him this huge deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards and I wanted to check them out… only to see that the deck had the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon. My bf gave me the deck to keep (since he doesn’t like Yu-Gi-Oh), and I was beyond happy to finally have my favorite

[@Dr.MikeGranato]

What a blast from the past. Thank you for this.

[@SmilePecoSmile]

I forgot about so many of these cards. Seeing the art brings back good memories.

[@nosfonader8792]

Sorcerer of Dark Magic was my favorite of the bunch. You just needed two Dark Magician Girls to summon it. It felt like an evolution for Dark Magician at the time and could have been Yugi's nee boss monster going forward. Imagine a protag that has a 3000 attack monster 😮 I wish the anime played with this idea.

[@dirtman6000]

I use the sphinx trio in my D.D. deck, they typically are used right before I would bring out gandora, to wipe the field and have two big monsters out. It doesn't work well today, but back when I was in high school, it was pretty good. With the support I gave them.

[@Snowmanx52]

I remember going to the movie the ticket lady gave me a bunch of packs so I could get all the cards, what a blessed soul.

[@Zusk0]

Dzeeff throwback to get one of these videos! I missed the more scripted content.

[@ComicKathy]

In the Manga Monster Masume, there is a newer chapter where our main character has to play a duel against a mummy. In it, the mummy summons things like blue eyes and attacks directly, causing the main character to use Tempest, clear her last blue eyes, and win the game. I say all this to say that even today, even in a comic, everyone loves seeing tempest work. ^^

[@matifloresta]

familiar knight can be useful in bistro butcher exodia combo: -switch control of bistro butcher to your opponent -use mystic tomato and similar cards -at some point you can decide to summon familiar knight and continue battling

[@TheForeverRanger]

One thing about the Sphinx's is that you can use them with the Mound of the Bound Creator to give them protection since they are all level 10.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

I feel like Blue Eyes Shining Dragon was the first time I ever _really_ took notice of the konami orbs, probably because those weren't a part of the Blue Eyes look before. BE Shining Dragon, and later RE Darkness Dragon that is clearly a counterpart to it (which hilariously dodged the orbs by making them diamonds), were both really cool designs and ideas imo, though it did always strike me as odd how they lost their arms during the upgrade (as well as two heads in BE's case). Shining was a remarkable departure from OG Blue Eyes given how closely Ultimate Dragon and Master Knight had stuck to the original design, though the paladin's white dragon does look like a different dragon entirely. It really stood out, and the faintly mechanical look to it's joints for me at least vaguely brings Ra to mind, appropriately given this was supposed to be the Blue Eyes form to rival the Gods. It's a shame how BE was literally unplayable then barely worth it by the time it could be summoned, and RE really needed to do something since it's just normal Red Eyes but conditionally bigger.

[@JJMomoida]

I never got a chance to get any of these cards from a pack. Used to live in a third-world country and I remember watching this movie on a pirated DVD lol... Family moved to the States a few years later. Started high school there and I remember this one afternoon, walking back home after being dropped off at the entrance of the condominium and I kid you fucking not there was a Blue Eyes Shining Dragon just there in the middle of one of the building's parking lots. It had some wear to it, you could tell some of it was at least in part to the fact that it'd been laying there on the pavement for god knows how long... I immediately picked it up and took it home. It was the real deal. I don't think I'll ever forget that because it was just such a random occurrence. I'd watched the movie but it was a few years back and I'd not really played much YGO since then.

[@Kaiskindacracked]

Loved the sphinx cards as a kid

[@QuestLogFaker]

Yo it's exactly what I asked for! Let's goooo 🤙 love this stuff from you man.

[@CasualYugiStuff]

I always loved the art on Rare Metal Dragon 💎

[@Wortigon2000]

huh, I remember putting a Sorcerer of Dark Magic in my Dark Magician deck on YGOPro back in the day, it was an interesting gimmick. As Magician's Navigation could bring out the requirements easily, while also proccing Dark Magic Circle, and unlik Jinzo, we could choose wether to take outa trap on activation or not, so we could use it alongside stuff like Magician's Navigation and Eternal Soul. (Also, havng a Dark Magician in the graveyard when we have both Eternal Soul and Dark Magic Circle on the field is pretty handy, for a "free" banish on the opponent's turn alongside what we do on ours.) Also any other traps you might want to put in that deck had the benefit, that you could choose not to activate the Sorcerer's effect, so you traps worked, your opponent's traps didn't. Mirror force for example was another funny card that not many people expected, so was Magic Cylinder, but I only put those in for 1-2 duels even when I used them, as they were only useful in a few rather specific matchups against a few friends that I played with a lot. Let's just say, that returning a fully powered up Ra's attack with Magic Cylinder is one of my favourite ways of winning to this day. Still it worked nicely against stuff like Slifer too. Too bad that Obelisk had targeting protection, didn't work against that one. For that, there was still Mirror Force.

[@BIankPage]

I remember going and seeing this movie with my parents and my brother. I have a Pyramid of Light, Sorcerer of Dark Magic, Familiar Knight, and Peten the Dark Clown in my collection because my parents and my brother ended up just giving me the cards they got from their ticket purchase. I remember when this movie came out I was 7 and I didn't fully know how to play, so I more or less just collected Yugioh and Pokemon cards back then. I have a lot of fond memories of this. I remember I always wanted Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon super badly.

[@rolo-royce-6626]

I had the Ancient Gear Dragon and the Super Conductor Tyranno when I was a kid, no matter how good they were in reality, those cards were incredible in my head

[@LunaticKD1991]

I got The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon from a pack when I went to see the movie in theaters. I had a Kaiba deck and I always tried to play it in the deck the moment I got Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon from a Shonen Jump magazine. It was almost impossible to summon though and 99% of the time it was a brick but when I did manage to summon it it was awesome. My little sister got Watapon.

[@Billy-ot8mk]

Sorcerer of Dark Magic was so cool when I first saw the movie. I just wish it had its movie effect and an easier summoning condition.

[@darkwarrior92]

I remember getting sorcerer of dark magic when i went to the movie with my friend who got blue eyes. I actually still use him in my deck because he can actually be summoned easily now

[@jakegianino5762]

You just posted this and I just watched this movie again last night weeeeird

[@theeverydaythinker6310]

I summoned sorcerer of dark magic fairly consistently in locals. In the trap heavy meta it was pretty dominant once it hit the field

[@Hyper_Drud]

I’ve heard of Inferno Tempest. In the manga Monster Musume there was a mummy monster girl who played with a deck full of monsters. The MC used it on her after crashing his Ash Blossom into her 3K attack monster.

[@davidmiddleton7958]

Although from across the pond, I have played those cards. Blue Eyes Shining Dragon is a staple of my Blue Eyes. Gets the opposition riled when they only have specific target! Also, Sleifer the Sky Dragon. Also, The Wing Dragon of Rah!

[@Alico_Reborn]

I got super lucky with the movie cards. My local theater had the movie run but it was not super popular. When the run was done, they had 30-40 of those packs left over. My grandmother worked there and asked if she could give them to me, and they let her. I had a full playset of all of the cards and then some. It made me immensely popular with other friends of mine who also played when I gave them my extra copies! I later built a pyramid of light deck for fun. It is one of the few Yu-gi-oh decks I still own!

[@Shea_Fresh]

11:45 I ran a dinosaur deck with Inferno Tempest, and once got the trigger to work with Tyranno Infinity in my hand, where the next turn I was able to summon it with stupid high attack power, only to have my friend use Magic Cylinder on me. (We didn't play by tournament rules, but I wonder how well that would have worked in that kind of setting. I still have it sitting around somewhere.)

[@poopfromcat7920]

I still have like 50 of these unopened and pulled multiple of all. My small town theater had a box full they gave my brother and me since nobody else went.

[@poopfromcat7920]

The gold foil packs that is.

[@Pvaultingfenderbass]

Omg I remember seeing the movie in theaters when I was SO little and I got that pyramid of light card

[@seangunnell9451]

Actually, I did use the Pyramid of Light and Sphinxes in a tournament one time in high school. And I actually did summon Theinen when my opponent used blast held by tribute to destroy every monster on my field. However, I don't think I used them in another tournament I entered.

[@albertgongora6944]

Man I remember back in the day both me and my brother had the blue eyes shining dragon and I also had the Sphinx as well Man what an awesome time to be a kid when Yu-Gi-Oh got its first movie

[@Instinct3000x]

Inferno tempest and soul absorption are a perfect combo for gaining life. So longs you can get monster cards that are banished.

[@lilpotayto]

I had a Sphinx deck as a kid and I remember one day at my cousin's house, I managed to summon Theinen. It was so exciting. I had never done it before. My cousin used a lockdown strategy with Jinzo and Hades and I almost never won. But this game he had no monsters on the field and I had my ace monster ready. I paid the cost. Pumped the attack to 6500. And got hit with Magic Cylinder for game. I gave up on the Sphinxes after that.

[@Giroutte]

Oh boy, I remember this cards all to well 😂 I remember as I mind I used to be so hyper at having these, I got Watapon with my promo card lol

[@TheB5randon]

I remember making a deck for the sphinxs and a deck for the blue eyes shining dragon that I was obsess to make viable. At the time I first made them, I managed to get them to a pretty good win rate, but when Link monsters and other modern cards came out it was way harder to get wins with them.

[@benetnasch2096]

My friends and I went to the last theater showing of this movie locally. The theater had only the 3 of us. On our way out of the theater the staff heard us talking about trading cards and decided to give us all the remaining promo card packs just to get rid of them. We had probably 30 copies of each card between the lot of us. To this day I still have no idea what happened to any of them. It's like they totally disappeared out of my collection.

[@Xudmud]

A point with Watapon: It's even less useful now since you can't trigger its effect off of Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest anymore, due to Sangan and Witch's errata.

[@shayoko6]

another way to summon shining dragon was summoner of illusions.and interdimensional matter transporter as support. it take luck and several cards so it isn't a strong combo. but it works. or cyber stein

[@zaknelthepony7124]

My parents used to by my siblings and I this 52 card deck of cards with YuGiOh monsters and pictures on it at the dollar store. Basically every time we went. It was not until they bought the Pyramid of Light movie, which had a copy of The Pyramid Of Light in it, that we learned there were more cards out there. And wanted them.

[@hybridbatgaming]

Even if most of these cards are pretty much unplayable, i still love that i have them. They are my childhood.

[@BryceDixonDev]

I saw this movie probably 4 or 5 times when it came out and the last time was the last showing for the theater I saw it at. The guy selling tickets and giving out cards basically said "we have a ton of these left over we're just supposed to get rid of, do you want them?" and gave me 4 boxes of them (IIRC it was like 1600 cards total or something)

[@onur.korkmaz_]

I still remember buying a vcd copy of this movie, and pulling both shining dragon and sorcerer of dark magic from it. I lost the shining dragon in time, but still have the sorcerer. Awesome movie!

[@onur.korkmaz_]

Also, deck destruction virus would be an amazing card if it was ever printed lol

[@travisohaver2790]

Gotta admit...... when you legit summon Blue Eyes Shining Dragon you felt like a badass.

[@babysinclairfan]

One thing to note is that 3 of the 4 movie promos had at least one effect missing from the anime version. Blue eyes shining could target any number of cards on the field and destroy them, along with itself. Sorcerer of dark magic could target a monster on the field and lower its attack for each spellcaster in the gy Pyramid of light destroyed amd banished any god cards on the field. I get that the gods werent released so pyramid of light couldnt have the anime effect, but the other two had no excuse.

[@zedxspecturm4698]

I remember I had shining dragon, during the movie pyramid of light had some crazy effect so mid movie in the theater I traded shining dragon with my friend. it was too dark to read that it didnt do whatever it did in the movie and I was SO SAD when I realized.

[@SonicZoroark]

I've actually played the Sphinx cards (years ago during the Zexal Era) and surprisingly, they were pretty good as a beat down deck

[@johnhaynes9841]

Sorcerer of dark magic is surprisingly useful in a deck where strong spellcaster cards are easy to summon I like using it in tandem with Dark Paladin to shut down my opponents backrow

[@matej164]

When I was a kid, my uncle worked at the cinema In Austria and during that time that Yu-gi-oh movie came out and my uncle got from other people he worked with a medium box full of Yu-gi-oh packs, they were all original cards and only 4 different cards were inside but large number of them, Watapon, Pyramid of Light, Sorcerer of Dark Magic or whatever he is called and Blue-eyes shining dragon, they were all on German language, so I exchanged them with my friends for other cards

[@Triforce9426]

I actually did rock Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon in the middle school cafeteria back in the day. I was the only kid around that could play it in duels cuz I was the only one with a Cyber Stein which made actually summoning Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon feasible.

[@Blitz0555]

I loved that movie so much as a kid. It's what got me into playing when I was six.

[@CarlosRIOS777]

I won a few matches in old Yugioh with Shining Dragon, but the fact that you gotta fusion summon ultimate Dragon was insane.