TOP 10: Yugioh Shenanigans (Screw The Rules Moments)

[@bruhvado6416]

“Yugi cheated and i felt bad for pegasus he had that game in the bag” Pegasus: “ i can see every card in your hand yugi boy”

[@sam7559]

To be fair, he wasn't looking at his cards, he was reading Yugi's mind which happen to include a list of the cards in his hand. Last I checked there was no official ruling saying I can't use ancient Egyptian black magic to read my opponent's thoughts.

[@dogsarec001]

@@sam7559 Last I checked you aren't supposed to know what your opponent's hand is with outside methods like mind reading

[@Kspice9000]

"Hmhpm 'smirk' Fool, with the heart of the cards, I don't need to know my hand." 'Proceeds to manipulate fate and reality to draw/play the only strategy that still needs about 7 sentences of bullshit to get the W'

[@SC-bp3cq]

well he is using his millinium eye to see his opponents mind like yugi does with the transion thing

[@Ty17V]

@@dogsarec001 By that same logic, Yugi has no business being here, because he's not actually the one dueling. That's Atem.

[@mesadrums375]

Opponent: his cards aren’t very good. This shouldn’t be too hard. Yugi: this fool thinks *rules* will help him against the heart of the cards...

[@christianmbabazi9722]

Never go against the cards lol

[@tashingaahiamadi4290]

💀breh

[@christchex91]

Yugi: the heart of the cards dictates that I can do what the f*** I want when I want I just have to believe

[@shineayandrews1869]

Canonically, Atem can basically will any card to the top of his deck, so. No one stands a chance.

[@jean6195]

Additional Pylons yeah I learned that a while back so Exodia is OP because oh get a high level defense monster stall out five turns until the arms,legs and main piece is collected

[@Oliver-fu1go]

The first season I feel the card game was more of a role playing game than a fully structured card game

[@lccuber9386]

YOU COULD ACTIVATE TRAPS FROM THE HAND!!!!!! AND YOU DIDNT NEED TO TRIBUTE SUMMON, AND YOU CAN'T DIRECT ATTACK. HOW MUCH MORE UNSTRUCTURED WOULD IT POSSIBLY BE!!!!!

[@Oliver-fu1go]

LC Cuber most aggressively someone has ever agreed with me haha

[@lccuber9386]

@@Oliver-fu1go lol just wanted to make it look like a rant lol Yugi screws the rules against everyone in Season 0 and 1 lol

[@keithgriner61]

@@lccuber9386 kinda hard to screw the rules when there aren't any. They all just kinda made them up as they went along until Battle City, and even then things got dicey for the sake for plot armor.

[@derrickhaggard]

@@keithgriner61 Even then the Lightforce Sword was a legal move cause in the manga Lightforce Sword was not a trap card but a spell card.

[@toawing]

Honestly I like the idea that no one actually knew how to play the game and just made it up as they went along. Then Kaiba dug through the only rule book ever made, (guarded by two dragons, locked in Peguses basement and coded in jibberish) and taught everyone how to play for season 2

[@5h0ckblock]

Screw the money I have rules

[@hyperdragon2846]

@@5h0ckblock wait try that again

[@ghostflame9211]

and then he added in an unnecessary rule that makes it so that fusion monsters cant attack the turn they are summoned... even though his strongest monster (that isnt a god) is a fusion monster lol

[@renatoramos8834]

@@ghostflame9211 And even printed that horrible card, quick attack.

[@psachickennugget8617]

That’s how I played Pokémon cards as a kid, I think that logic makes sense.

[@akba666]

Dartz: "You can't!" Yugi: "I just did!"

[@kianimoyson1902]

apparently the original series in a nutshell lol

[@jorshthehackerlive3688]

fire deflect yep

[@razkable]

Kaiba: How the hell did you do that. Pharoh: Its called cheating deal with it.

[@estebanrodas31]

akba666 Proof the screenwriters were aware of the bullshit they came up with.

[@GwenWood857geassotaku]

*insert the dead "roast" meme thing here*

[@OfficialRedTeamReview]

Kaiba: but...you can't do tha - Yugi: HEART OF THE CARDS. I WIN

[@DownloadARevolt20]

Kaiba: Oh yeah? AS PRESIDENT OF KAIBA CORP, I DECLARE THIS INVALID! >:D

[@SLE12]

Yugi: oh yeah for my name being in the show meaning i own this show i declare i win

[@voidtectonic]

RedTeamReview why does that feel like a quote from the abridged

[@notarealspy4090]

I USED KAIJU CARDS I OBVIOUSLY WIN

[@al.hernandez4891]

🤣

[@rachelclark6393]

I think the best explanation is that, if we go by the show's internal logic, Yami Yugi is an Egyptian Pharaoh who grew up in a world where all these monsters and spells were real tangible things and he was taught to use them in that way, in actual warfare. His tactics in Duelist Kingdom (mostly) make sense if you assume that each card is real and interacting with the world. Launching an attack at the foundations of a fortress when all your enemies are trapped inside is actually a good tactic. From a military standpoint, he didn't lose much, and his opponents had doomed themselves by not having an escape route. Of course, because we and everyone else know it's a game with specific (if vague) rules, it's total duckbutt. Plus, I always assumed the way things worked in Duelist Kingdom was that if you could justify it happening you could do it. Or we can assume that Yami Yugi merrily heated his way through because Pegaus cheated from the beginning and might actually kill his grandfather so he considered it fair game.

[@rikudosennin5828]

Underrated comment; deserves more likes.

[@zachhecita]

In short, he's not playing the game, he's fighting a war?

[@roxas4930]

Zach Hecita when you think about it, he is he's fighting a war where the loser loses everything, even some cases, their life

[@yaboijack7150]

Rachel Clark, nice job, keep up the good writing!

[@lewys9204]

Or... he just cheats.

[@alexanderholscher6548]

I think the biggest shenanigans moment is when Kaiba announced the Battle City Tournament, and permanently changed the rules to a game Pegasus created and owned the rights to.

[@shadenox8164]

The manga actually specifies that this is the expert ruleset, which means it would have been written by Industrial Illusions.

[@kanebunce3791]

Shows who tyhe better card game creator was. Hint: it was not the one who believed in magic.

[@EnemyOfLactose1758]

Eh who cares. Pegasus was dead anyway.

[@syzyphyz]

I mean that's how it works IRL, you don't have to own the card game to host a tournament with your own rules.

[@rikusawada6113]

@@EnemyOfLactose1758 Only in the manga. He was still alive and kicking in the anime, as two different movies and a repeat appearance in GX would show.

[@ElZamo92]

To be fair, literally EVERYONE in season one was cheating.

[@ralphjosephacobo8014]

The moon attack was awesome though

[@dianputra7336]

@@ralphjosephacobo8014 at that duel, mako cheated first. with umi on the field, none of his monsters are shown to yugi, no matter what the position the card is at. furthermore, his monsters can jump off water to attack, then goes back in so it cant be attacked. what do you call that if not cheating...

[@dianputra7336]

agreed...

[@mujiescomedy279]

ElZamo92 there were no rules, that’s why. The card game wasn’t invented yet

[@mattyorshin]

There was no rules lol

[@MrDanger88]

Yugi: It's called cheating. Deal with it Jaden: Uses Super Polymerization quite literally Yusei: Least amount of cheating out of all the main protags Yuma: Astral wins every game Yuya: Literally makes up a new summoning method, and the computer doesn't reject the action so everyone just accepts it

[@spartanq7781]

All of them at least once summoned a monster that wasn't even in their deck when the duel started.

[@skitking339]

@@spartanq7781 true, Yuma did it on the second episode

[@2712animefreak]

Yusei cheats the least because they've decided to make asspulls into an actual rule.

[@RaceBandit]

Late, but didn't Yuya lose a game really early on because he _forgot how to Pendulum Summon?_

[@jassimills6177]

Alert Taken He also has plot armor for the better part of the show - he can’t lose otherwise he’ll lose his AI, which makes for pretty steady plot armor.

[@matthewibalio7251]

Love how Yugi always has a smirk when he does an ass pull. Like he knows it shouldn’t be allowed but he wants to see how far he can get with ridiculous effects

[@williamthomas895]

probably one of the best comments here and the most true

[@Wayne3nterprises]

Lol

[@virginiavallek1654]

♾ +1

[@astoriafloyd4183]

"are they really going to let me do this" "yes, yes they will" "lets see how much i can do this" *ONE CAREER LATER* "wow people are fucking gullible"

[@BunniesLikeBananas]

“I feel bad for Pegasus. He was going to win them yugi cheated. “ Meanwhile Pegasus using his millennium eye to read minds and using hostages to his advanatage. Lmao

[@haikumagician4363]

Pegasus made the game. How does he not know the rules

[@Mitjitsu]

@@haikumagician4363 Ra had abilities that even Pegasus didn't know since he didn't know how to decipher the text.

[@algotkristoffersson15]

@@Mitjitsu wich he himself wrote

[@renatoramos8834]

Plus a bunch of OP cards with only one copy in the world that he coveniently printed for himself.

[@RoyalGrindi]

Pegasus literally had the ability to read minds- a geniune power the Millennium eye gave him Yugi uses his Millennium item to infuse with a king Pharaoh spirit that dominates the game since ancient Egypt, Marik uses his rod to turn duels into shadow duelsa nd literally inflict real life damage (and even kill) his opponents... Why is Pegasus getting picked on but any other Millennium user aren't?

[@bluedarkdarklin2552]

The only one to beat Yugi shenanigans was Kaiba. *BY ATTEMPTING ACTUALLY SUICIDE.*

[@FissionCube]

actually he only threatens suicide, (however this guy called dennis actually genuinley kills himself via childrens card game in arc-v)

[@agtgjoseph1668]

@@FissionCube yeah

[@hollyatherton3165]

I actually think Kaiba would have survived if Yugi had made the attack. I mean, he climbed up the side of a cliff just a few episodes before that. Something just tells me that he wouldn't have died.

[@Envinite]

"I'm gonna attempt what I call a pro gamer move"

[@konkeydonk]

@@hollyatherton3165 if anything he would've just jumped off just to trigger yugi

[@ThEuNdYiNg1]

i look at the yugi era as more like d&d where all the players just kinda have to make shit up and whoever makes up the best stuff is the winner

[@jammerlammer546]

lmao is that really what happens in dnd "ok i'm gonna kill the guy with my guy now" "NO! You can't do that! Because... My guy has MAGICAL POWERS!!"

[@TulipQ]

That is not even how DnD works. You can get creative with the effects of magic or how your use equipment, but you can't really do much of that if you are at a convention and competitively playing (like, some times people will see who can clear a dungeon or beat a big monster the fastest at a con) then the rules tend to be pretty serious and strict. Which is a shame, because I ran some 2e and my friends thought up using Tensor's Floating Disc as an improvised shield so the Cleric wouldn't die or be obviously cheating in his duel with a knight who could not fail to one hit kill the 2 hp cleric if his sword connected. Didn't save the cleric mind you, but it was clever. If you think I was a bad GM for putting them against such a Knight, just going to say that the knight was a lawful good character and they tried to overthrow his realm, not because they thought he was a tyrant but to make money quickly, and he took their challenge to his authority super graciously by saying it was to be resolved through single combat, rather than just having them all executed on the spot by the town guards.

[@jammerlammer546]

david savage Isn't ending the story by killing the "final boss" of said story kinda "winning" the game?

[@asmodeus6380]

Quite true for first edition IMO. Not aplicable to latter editions though.

[@TulipQ]

david savage I was referring to the competitive convention environment of game explicitly. There are people who do that. They do not fail at the game because there is no failing if you are having fun. On the beating the boss notion, that is actually fairly common to this day. Piazo and Wizards of the Coast still publish adventure books that often end in a final boss the players have to overcome and then they have won the module. Lots of people don't use these kinds of modules because they are inherently limited, but others do and in such a case there is a boss after beating which you have completed the story and get a happy ending much like a video game.

[@zacherynicoson9890]

Long story short, when you're losing, attack the moon.

[@theyear9076]

Zachery Nicoson lol

[@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS]

Zachery Nicoson hey it worked for piccolo

[@hugomoraledshdjd1182]

Zachery Nicoson It work for muten roshi

[@GotenIttetsu]

It is a major ass pull, but it does make sense since their cards are interactive with the "environment" and Pegasus said there were special rules that they'd have to learn. Moon thing, makes sense but wasn't his turn so it was bs. The Duelist Kingdom arc gets a pass since the rules were never stated and we were told that the cards would work differently. Atem may not have had his memories, but he had used those monsters before in the Shadow Games so it's possible that the normal monsters had effects back then that he knew of and could capitalize on with duels more or less free for alls. The only problem with this justification...IT WASN'T YOUR TURN YUGI!!!!! I'll let the stuff he did on his turn pass but unless he was utilizing quick effects that only he recognized because Ancient KoG Pharaoh, his cheats weren't bs moves and explanations...It was playing out of turn. Unless that was another unspoken rule but I doubt there were THAT many special rules. Seto may have his money to screw the rules, but Atem just DGAF.

[@L4Vo5]

Hey it worked in Portal

[@xavieno]

I’ll still never forget as a child when Yugi fused his undead mammoth with living arrow to rot blue eyes ultimate dragon from the inside. Even as a kid I called BS

[@karmax5615]

When I saw yami do that doesn’t make sense

[@makaramuss]

I was 6... I was like "I don't even fully know rules but I am certain you can't do that"

[@elreycharmeleon7522]

i remember being 9 and I said "uhhhhh, you are able to do that?"

[@ericbambach3222]

It was pretty funny to see "Germ Infection" be released in "Metal Raiders" about two months after the episode, it was pretty close to what Yugi did without the excessive "power of God and anime" on his side!

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

Here's a new card idea Blue eyes Rot Dragon Fusion/effect/dragon 4500 atk/3800 def 1 fusion dragon monster + 1 zombie monster This card must be fusion summoned, and cannot be special summoned any other way. If this card was fusion summoned using an opponents monster as a material, it is summoned to the opponents side of the field. Once per turn during each standby phase, this monsters atk is reduced by the atk of the fusion material with the lowest atk. If this cards atk cannot be lowered to exactly 0, it's atk stays at its current atk. This monster cannot change its battle position.

[@StupidMarioTeens12]

The entirety of Duelist Kingdom was pretty much ruleless because the creators didn't have any idea of a real card game ruling but the basic "I'm stronger so I kill your card"

[@areacua95]

I like to think that a lot of the weird things in duelist kingdom was Pegasus allowing all the bullshit to amuse himself

[@dragonstouch1042]

areacua95 that...would definitely fit with his character

[@ThiagoGlady]

Actually, in Yugi's defense, on most of these duels that he has won by cheating, he's opponents ware cheating first.

[@basimmicheal4371]

yeah the whole concept is cheating if u looked it that way .actually this is anime .the author has to get the most wins for atem to make him relevant as a main character .even discussing these things are a waste of time .cuz all the main guys are cheaters if u looked it that way

[@josephbedwell3164]

To be fair, Yugi never played any of these games. Atem is the cheat. Yugi is still legit.

[@josephbedwell3164]

Yugi semi-dueled Pegasus. Yugi dueled Joey, Bandit Keith, Bakura and Atem. Yugi only played 4.5 games through 5 seasons of the anime.

[@EmericMAMBOLE]

@@basimmicheal4371 Also, in the manga, it's pretty clear that's it's the millenium puzzle who increase his luck draw rate. Also, Yugi didn't cheat during Pegasus(according to manga rules), but the rules were never really explain in the anime

[@domenzigart50]

yeah, but yugi was using a fucking mileniums year old ghost that was learning about yougioh from when he was fucking born

[@michalephippen8614]

“My machines are made of a magic resistant metal”

[@cantbehelped]

Yugi fusing his Mammoth Graveyard into the Blue Eyes is etched into my soul. On my deathbed I will still remember the exact cadence coming from Yugis mouth as he proudly proclaims "Causing your monster to ROT and DECAY from the INSIDE OUT"

[@Realest1ne]

I read that in his voice 😂

[@sutanpuu]

It's not cheating, it's listening to the heart of cards

[@VestedUTuber]

Proof that the heart of the cards is actually evil.

[@spartanq7781]

That phase is never once said in the sub version. The dub tried to rationalize the bullshit.

[@jovannigaming3405]

@@spartanq7781 *Shenanigans

[@JanizMakudomaru]

After watching all these seasons I believe the "Heart of the Cards" is just the spirits within the cards speaking to the characters that believe in it.

[@prue5588]

@@JanizMakudomaru Hell no the heart of the cards is yugioh pull the rabbit out the hat. He's the Pharaoh the must powerful player in the world that can pull any card he wants

[@Fullmetal_Savi]

and we all thought kaiba was like "screw the rules i have money" but its actually yugi like "scree the rules im the main character!"

[@ZoroarkLover98]

The plot armor is more powerful than any magic or any amount of money

[@JustJoeKing5]

SaviGamer 616 screw the rules Im the pharaoh

[@lir1857]

@@JustJoeKing5 screw the rules im from egypt

[@otakuman1218]

SaviGamer 616 how do you scree the rules?

[@tedcross5362]

Yami Bakura: Screw the rules, I have Zorc.

[@leafy_cynical6732]

Funfact the whole heart of the cards is actually Atem using the puzzle’s secret ability. The puzzle allows the user to change their deck, this is why when Atem was battling ontop of the train he kept getting monster cards. He was unknowingly using the power of the puzzle.

[@Clepticomet]

Is there an episode where this was revealed?

[@RotaAbyssian]

Clarification: it doesn't change their deck, just turns odds in their favor. If you're in a bad position, your chances of getting something to get you out of it are raised, provided your deck has the means to begin with. BUT, this does still account for the Weevil scenario as he needed the initial luck to draw the cards needed to end the duel, and then draw extra to punish Weevil.

[@testerwulf3357]

I've always called bs on being a power of his puzzle as literally every other character can do this! Even Kaiba has stated multiple times that he "always draws the right card when he needs it most"..Kaiba doesn't have the puzzle yet has the same power to change fate to draw the right cards; most characters do but it depends on plot (characters only draw the cards they need most when plot needs them to win or draw out a battle for longer lol)

[@goldam1986]

Yugi and Atem were also manipulating luck too, without knowing it.

[@SammmmTa]

but joey can pull what he wants and he doesn’t have a millennium item

[@SonGokuSSJSSJ2]

You know that they didn't had real rules till battle city

[@SonGokuSSJSSJ2]

So almost all of the things aren't cheating

[@etienne8166]

Which makes in difficult to screw them *puts on sunglases*

[@Samurai-no4wu]

Plus some cards in the anime have different effects

[@gregoryhines869]

there were still rules in the game before battle city. you don't really ever see anyone do anything like this besides yugi, do you? Almost all normal monsters, with the exception of yugi's apparently, have no effect in the anime, and it shows. Also, saying "some cards have a different effect in the anime" is valid, what doesn't make sense is when it shows the original effect of a monster like Catapult Turtle in one episode, then some made up Bs in another. Just cause its the anime, and the rules weren't as strict as they are now, there were still rules, monsters still had effects only if they were effect monsters, along with traps and spells, and yugi is just a bit of a cheater. it's fine I guess cx

[@toastedTOoO]

i remember the maze duel against those twins. they had a shade that could just run all over the map (which also had its own rules).

[@donnywaveski1780]

Lightforce sword was a quick play spell in the Japanese version. That's why he played it from his hand.

[@donnywaveski1780]

I know. But in the original anime it was a spell, so he didn't break any rules.

[@drawkiin]

yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Appearances:Lightforce_Sword

[@cherylhutchinson6566]

But it had the color of a trap card though

[@CameoAfro]

4Kids re-colored it to make it look like the real world card. It's blue like a spell in the original.

[@bgpeters22]

+steve sabroe blue-green...you understand

[@AirIUnderwater]

The moment I clicked on this I was like, "the damned castle." And there it is.

[@jacobblanton5179]

I was expecting his first battle against Kaiba, where the Blue Eyes Kaiba stole refused to attack Yugi because the whole thing was a shadow game. But that episode wasn't released in the US I don't think.

[@joshuakim8697]

Even as a kid, I was like "this seems bs"

[@bot-kj2cs]

i was in between that, the moon and the forest.

[@TheJacobBlais]

Screw the rules moment: Every time Joey summons Flame swordsman without using a polly card

[@Kspice9000]

I was gonna say. And he did that every match. That and everyone summoning blue eyes and shit without tributes.

[@KaseyC.]

Flame Swordsman was made into a normal monster in the show instead of a fusion monster

[@xbrossiveaggro8346]

@@Kspice9000 That was because there wasn’t a rule that required tributes until Battle City.

[@buggart]

@@xbrossiveaggro8346 Yeah, when Joey dueled for the first time in Battle City he was confused why his monster didn't come out and Yugi had to explain to him the rules of tributing monsters.

[@Joker-fq6yx]

Don’t forget Tea’s “steal a nearby player’s dark magician” card

[@MrNFree]

wait you talk about the first episode with yugi getting exodia but ignore the fact that kaiba summons 3 white dragons without release in one turn? no that's fair

[@MrNFree]

also there was this one time were yugis summoned skull shocked every monster (apparently it has electric powers) cause there was a water spell or something on the field

[@omega5040]

maiku the magical mist, use with a summon skull or tunder type monster. destroys all monsters with a lower defense than the atk of the selected monster

[@MrNFree]

wait that's legit? my life is a lie

[@MrNFree]

okay I read up on it and the way yugi uses this card is bs... he first uses it to stop the effect of great moths scales that somehow weaken yugis moster and later it gives his summoned skull a 1000 atk boost

[@MrNFree]

oh and later it drops the atk and def of machine type monster by 300 and gives the summoned skull a 750 atk boost

[@jayhermz309]

Keep in mind most of these were back in duelist kingdom when the rules made no sense.

[@juancarlosherreranovo6270]

totally right, and also yugi wasnt the only one cheating, also mako with his moon card which aparently if you dont have water type monsters you cant attack the oponents water type monsters or panick darkness card that apparently makes the oponent blind for his oponents monsters so he cant see or atack them. as well as other examples.

[@ArnulfoSalgado]

To be fair to Mako, the moon card was Yugi's lol. The issue in Duelist Kingdom was that the game was made with special rules pertaining to the fields so that things like that would happen. Literally Pegasus programmed the game to do that. The bullshit in that duel was the Giant Soldier of Stone having the ability to destroy the moon.

[@frankspick7544]

which got turn into a real card called attack the moon

[@Metroid22540]

The rules *Still* make no sense! Just what the bloody hell does Pot of Greed do?!

[@jessebernz7701]

Field Power Bonuses!

[@exaltedtempest4376]

Yugi: THE HEART OF THE CARDS IS MAKING ME SUMMON EXODIA FROM MY POCKET Kaiba: WTF.... Thats cheating Yugi: Attack Exodia Kaiba: FFFFFUCK YOUUUUU YUUUGGGI

[@sonofgod6571]

Haha tf

[@namegeneric9344]

Omg so true XD lol

[@felon7682]

😭😂

[@phillipcochran4297]

I could totally see it happening too lol

[@derrickbartledoo2680]

Living Arrow and Mammoth Graveyard are what made Kaiba realized that death was the only escape from Atem's ass-pull strategies.

[@dragonstouch1042]

Hey, if Atem aced his buff checks and the omnipotent Dungeon Master of Duelist Kingdom did not cry foul, who are we to question?

[@Periii_]

Yami: Yugi, this may be our toughest opponent yet Yugi: W-who is it? Yami: This may haunt your nightmares, a fair duel Yugi: RUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ProcyonDei]

Which Yami?

[@cats6836]

Oh so TRUE

[@Vanisic]

ProcyonDei the Pharaoh is Yami

[@boooster101]

that's pretty much what happened in the TeamFourStar short of Yami vs. Cell Cell won because half of Yugis cards are banned and the rest is garbage

[@natelandherr5202]

You forgot to mention this dialogue in Yugi vs Dartz Dartz: You can’t!!!! Yugi: I just did!!!!

[@notoriousbig3k]

thats not even Yugi hes Atem the pharo spirit lol also the pharo is using hes magic powers to draw the right cards inspecially the Kuriboh

[@MechAleXtreme]

i believe the reason why he activates Lightforce Sword from his hand was because the card was originally designed as a spell card, but they realised that this was too powerful and made it a trap card, but the animation had already been done, so they changed Lightforce Sword in the anime to a trap card, but kept it's role in the episode

[@Laflamme78]

I'm pretty sure it was a dubbing thing, the original Japanese changes cards types to what it needs, but when dubbed 4kids changed it to what it is in real life, happened pretty often in DM.

[@williamcronshaw5262]

They were also just making stuff up as they go along in the first season.

[@MummdohSadaqer]

yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Lightforce_Sword_(anime)

[@mikoji123]

I do aggree i do even have a a copt of that card as a Magic Card

[@benmanion5970]

MechAleX wouldn’t work still, well if it was a quick play maybe it would? I’m not good with link chains xD

[@emberthefox4951]

Everyone forgets one key thing, they're facing Yami Yugi. That guy's playing with ancient rules.

[@DragoSonicMile]

Sure, but Ancient Rules just lets you summon a normal monster with five or more levels. It's not that broken compared to the real-world meta, which boils down to "I summon my entire deck and prevent you from doing anything".

[@emberthefox4951]

@@DragoSonicMile I can't tell if you missed my wordplay or are just pretending to not catch it.

[@spargel3850]

Yugis biggest fear and foe. The Rulebook.

[@dodoberg8133]

Doffus Rick yes, it is worse than Marik

[@OfTheiAm]

DA RULEZ

[@nougatchoko2461]

And he never beat it :)

[@varkolak7779]

what about Raphael?

[@benmanion5970]

Andrew Vlack it’s a joke learn that

[@ChairWithScoliosis]

my favorite was the guy used change of heart on dark magician and yugioh just says no, and it doesnt work lol

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Technically, Bakura was the one who decided that Change of Heart didn't work (his soul was in the card, so he retargeted to his own monster), because he wanted Yugi to win.

[@KefkeWren]

Okay, no. Season one (and arguably most of classic Yu-Gi-Oh) can't count. First of all, the anime is still mostly based on the manga at that point, which was created _before_ the game. Which means that, technically, it's the anime/manga that are right, and _the TCG_ which got the rules wrong! Secondly, though, the explanation is given in canon that the rules have undergone several revisions over the course of the series, which is why it starts out with the vastly more complex and realism based manga-rules of Season 1, before eventually settling into the more strict to TCG portrayals of the later series. *EDIT:* Third of all, it is important to differentiate the game in the series from the real-world game _based on_ the series, as they are clearly different games, and in more ways than just life point totals. In a lot of the matches you cite, the game is being processed by a computerized system, as well as remotely monitored by humans. Yet, all of the matches proceed, showing that in-universe what Yugi is doing is considered legal play. The VR system even has animations for things like crashing the flying castle and attacking the moon! Why is that? Well, as I hinted at above, in the manga and original episodes, Duel Monsters doesn't run on strict "card rule logic". It runs on something closer to real world rules of cause and effect. There are probably still limits, but in general Original Duel Monsters is a little closer to something like Dungeons & Dragons than it is to Magic: The Gathering. Cards do have rules, but the rules for cards are not rigidly defined. For example, how no player has an Extra Deck or fusion monster cards, so certain cards like Time Wizard and Polymerization are just able to change monsters in whatever way makes sense. So, just like how in D&D a player might not have a specific rule for a wall made of spiked blades, but could still combine a _Wall of Iron_ spell and a _Fabricate_ spell to produce one, Yugi may not have a specific card that says "Attack the castle's flight ring", but can combine a card that launches monsters with a monster skilled at aerial combat to produce that effect. In both cases, logic is applied to resolve what happens after that (probably adjudicated by some tournament official up in the control room in Yugi's case).

[@michaeluhlhorn8418]

You could also add stuff about the battle with Dartz. He ignored the fact that Dartz broke the "rules" according to the TCG by summoning Divine Serpent Geh by sacrificing all his life points. Then when Yugi does the combo with the two atlantean knights, he creates the summoning condition for Timaeus the Knight of Destiny, which when summoned by this way has infinite attack. And when two monsters with equal attack battle, both are destroyed. Dartz lost because the only thing keeping him in the duel was the clause that as long as Geh was alive he wouldn't lose. As Geh was destroyed but the monster that Yugi was using with the same clause wasn't Yugi won.

[@Kanyeez]

I 100% agree with you . But I would just say: "It's an anime. Not everything has to make sense in a world where cards spawn monster.And of course my favorite thing to say: "The anime cards are the same but there effect is different"

[@jessedale4287]

um you ended your sentence mid thought lol

[@Kanyeez]

Yami Bakura Did you click Read more ???

[@jessedale4287]

TheCringeFest Gaming 2014 for some reason that ddnt show up for me

[@CWWGMF]

2:35 - Keep in mind Time Wizard was originally one of Yugi’s cards. It makes sense that he had at least one card that worked with it.

[@mason123happy]

-Starts yu-gi-oh duel- Plays a pokemon card face down

[@MrKuger9]

Mason Brinegar And I place my credit card face down along with my drivers license.

[@JoseSurisRivera]

*opponent starts sweating*

[@146躁]

-nervous in Japanese-

[@valsioncustom]

MrKuger9 'I hope Kaiba doesn't realize that card is my suspended Drivers License!'

[@Squidkilla23]

Shu Shirakawa I summon Yugi and attack your life points directly *kicks Kaiba in the face*

[@goodcauset892]

Yugi: Screw the rules, ever heard of plot armor!?

[@FelixxAlrick]

Yugi: "I believe in the heart of the car-" Opponent: "Judge!"

[@pionevada282]

"You can't activate trap cards from your hand!" *Infinite Impermanence and Red Reboot: "Allow us to introduce ourselves"*

[@MrMarios3000]

So are we just gonna ignore the fact thats Joey's and Yugi's monsters had to pass through the Labyrinth Wall against the Paradox Brothers to see their monsters?

[@nonamephinsyt]

You're right on here. But this guys video is specifically targeting yugi

[@notoriousbig3k]

i think ur emissing the point do u remember that Pegasus was putting them to re-edit the cards "randomly" of their effects and no effects? because the tournament was not even legal it was legal only in front of the cameras but most stuff was not legal lol

[@ZoroarkLover98]

It was a special duel though, like a minigame

[@zaleost]

Wait.. you're saying that card doesn't let you layout a bunch of Jenga blocks together to make a maze in the middle of a duel?

[@j3nki541]

@@zaleost i was actually so disappointed when I later found out that the labyrinth doesn't work that way, I thought it was such a cool effect

[@thingsareabouttogetgrusome5092]

person: **loses card game** everyone: looks like you’re going to the shadow realm jimbo

[@THatGuy-rr6tr]

Yami : Screw the rules , I am Egyptian

[@TieJote]

Technically, He can make the rules just like the egyptians made all other rules.

[@shirothefish9688]

thats it, he's Egyptian so he doesnt actually understand the rules. everyone just feels too bad to tell him he doesnt know what he's talking about

[@loganladue2]

Kaiba: Screw the rules, I have money

[@unknownpeep5045]

Kaiba: "SCREW THE RULES, I AM RICH"

[@petrakurnia6772]

Not mere egyptian. From his name, maybe yami is the incarnation of Atum, the Father of Egyptian Gods (real myth). So it makes sense that he can screw the rules

I'm amazed the Mai battle wasn't here lol "Your alluring spell doesn't work on female monsters" 💀

[@shadenox8164]

That's just how the card worked in the anime.

[@hyperdragon5800]

old anime were wack, who knows, maybe those female monsters were gay

[@dinodan1214]

Mai basically said, "Your card didn't work because my monsters aren't lesbian."

[@KuttKilla]

The Dark Sage summon makes sense. Remember Time Wizard was given to Joey by Yugi. Meaning he very well could've had Dark Sage prior since Time Wizard was previously Yugi's.

[@derrickhaggard]

True.

[@asianguy2136]

True, but Time Wizard n Dark Magician have 2 b on the same side of the field.

[@KuttKilla]

@@asianguy2136 yes but Pegasus did mention that while they were on his island that dueling would be different at the beginning of his tournament. Pegasus even played some shady moves by normal rules but since he said it'd be different it makes it possible to pull a move like that.

[@asianguy2136]

@@KuttKilla but still it just didn't seem trite. With total honesty tho, I did enjoy watching yugioh growing up. Nothing will ever best the orginal in my book.

[@finalfantasy50]

yeah but dark sage doesnt get to summon on an opponents time wizard effect, also time wizard should have removed it from play, not make it 100 attack

[@boppinboyz]

How do you feel bad for Pegasus when Pegasus cheats too?

[@matthughes2322]

Pegasus cheats using his eye, he doesn't make up and disregard rules.

[@boppinboyz]

Cheating is still cheating bro lol

[@Dr.Barber]

At least he is using familiar, vanilla cheating. Yugi literally just makes up new rules and forces them on his opponent.

[@HonestFarmerLigue1Fan]

Dr. Barber nope. Dark Rabbit - although appeared cartoonish - it is NOT a Toon Monster so it shouldn't be able to hide inside Toon World and Kaiba should be able to deatroy it with Blue Eyes White Dragon. Pegasus also made up his rules just because he was creator of Duel Monsters

[@Dr.Barber]

rob140892 That's a type of cheating known as making cards that no one has seen or heard of before so no one knows what the fuck should be happening.

[@IrvinCascade]

4:54 In Yugi's defense, KaibaCorp had programmed these Version 1 Duel Disks, as well as the Dueling Arenas so TECHNICALLY these are all features he allowed to be programmed in and exploited. Not Yugi's fault that KaibaCorp were fans of D&D! XD

[@ChasehaWing]

I'm surprised the number 1 on this list wasn't just "EVERYTHING IN SEASON 1!" We got thinks like summoning an 8 star monster with no sacrifices, to destroying the moon, to Yugi fusing a monster with a spell card AND HIS OPPONENT'S MONSTER. Also Pegasus using mind reading which, although is not technically against the official rules, is still considered cheating by...everyone in existence. Season 1 was a war zone of anarchy.

[@darkhunter5293]

Well, in everybody's defence, this was before the rules we know today existed.

[@oni-Kira]

So season 1 was preparing for all the bs that will happen in the future ? Because literally everything you say is a shenanigan you can do it now All of this now is just special effects of cards

[@SakuraAvalon]

I have a feeling that the majority of these 'shenanigans' is you trying to use the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game rulings and card effects to call out Yugi using the original cards in Duel Monsters. Which doesn't work, because Yu-Gi-Oh! is loosely based off the card game from the Anime and Manga. While the Anime depicts the manga card game more faithfully and has different rules. Also since cards exist in the Anime/Manga first, using the real life effect to contradict is faulty, because the real life effect isn't the original, it's an altered version. In other words, it's like saying someone's cheating because they don't play Poker with the exact same rules as Black Jack.

[@SiNKarnage]

But in the last episode of GX Yugi cheats on Jaden with that trap to summon slifer. He missed timing he said "It can be activated when you summon a monster" but Jaden already attacked before he could activate it. And all the rules in GX stay the same as the rules we play by now (besides draw 6 on 1st turn)

[@EpicFishStudio]

and you cannot summon face-up defense anymore. but yeah. maybe yugi's special power, "The king of games" is to have immense luck and bend limits of rules while others can't argue against it.

[@SakuraAvalon]

Yamato Sam Uh, pretty sure he used it to revive Slifer when Jaden summoned a monster, then Jaden attacked Slifer and the duel ended with no real winner shown.

[@hommofroggy5727]

Yea good point there I thought the same in the anime the cards had different effect for fuck sake just look at the oricalchos deck just imagine it in real life

[@ivanlagayacrus1891]

+Kristi Bratja no, that's not what they're saying, they're saying that the anime effects aren't even based off the yu-gi-oh card game we know now but rather the older version known as duel monsters. (I'm pretty sure, someone please correct me if I'm wrong, its 4 am and I really shouldn't be trying to type a smart comment right now but too late)

[@ruthmcnally310]

Let's not forget the final duel, with shenanigans like, "This Magic card will open a hole that Obelisk will fall into!", "But Obelisk is immune to Magic!", "That's why I used it on the ground! Now Obelisk is stuck in the pit!" Not to mention that at one point, Isis outright states that Atem was able to will his draws to get the cards he wanted.

[@tico9951]

he battled isis into submission

[@tomtinker8220]

or the trap card that deflects slyfer's attacks on the other god cards.

[@angolin9352]

You must be talking about the dub. I remember the JP Ceremonial Battle mostly making sense, except for the Pharaoh's draws.

[@angolin9352]

Eli Reid Topdecking the exact right card, almost every time he needs it? Heart of the cards or no, I call hax.

[@Jorlem25]

More or less. One of the characters points out how unlikely Atem's draws were, and Isis/Ishizu says that the Pharaoh is able to transcend fate to draw the cards he needs. His deck, comprised of his most faithful servants, is reordering itself to help him.

[@aubreehesley3134]

"Isnt that against the rules?" "IM A MAIN CHARACTER! I WIN KAIBA!"

[@dawnevergarden3275]

"Screw the Rules I have money" -Seto Kaiba

[@Fan-uj1du]

“Screw the rules I have green hair,” -Seto Kaiba, Yu-Gi-Oh abridged

[@carlinrackley8547]

About number 3, Lightfore Sword was a spell card in the Japanese version of the anime, that was why he was able to play it without setting it. 4Kids made it a trap card because the real-world card is a trap card.

[@Runedrace]

Seto Kaiba: Screw the rules, I have money >:D *BEST LINE EVER!!!*

[@tylerfletcher1982]

Runedrace you know I could actually find that line

[@evensergiogames6432]

In america

[@senoke79]

If there is anything that i learned from YuGiOh season 0, it is that everyone cheats.

[@CatLover-dt9jh]

senoke79 yep

[@llc2344]

Pretty much.

[@haniffwilsongamingchannel749]

You said it! :D

[@Seththeprince]

And Yami is insane

[@angelmacias1293]

Dude, in Atem's (not Yugi) defense, most of the rules back then didn't exist like they do now. Especially in Season 1. That was 2001, which almost 2 decades ago! The official rules weren't brought until around battle city tournament. And besides as far as I'm concerned, most the opponents you mentioned were cheating also. Arkana trimmed his cards on his first hand, which Atem was smart enough to get a hold of, so it was only fair that he should cheat back (even though he actually didn't since the cars like that actually allows the opponent to use it as said in Battle City Rules, which Kaiba himself put.). The rare hunter was a MAJOR cheater. How can you accuse Atem of cheating, when the rare hunter was cheating the entire time? First, for having more than 3 copies of Exodia, even though in Duel Monsters, you can only have 3 copies of the same monster. And even worse, the Exodia cards were marked and overall FAKE, which is illegal in Duel Monsters. Yeah Atem summoned his trap card without putting it on the field, but I don't think that compares to what the rare hunter did to cheat. As for Mako, again its Season 1. Because you can say its bullshit that Atem destroyed the moon with his monster. But then so was Mako hiding his monsters in the sea, even though thats not in the actual game or using Yugi's moon card to control the tides to his advantage. Panic was anything but fair. He wasnt playing to win, he wanted to intimidate Atem into breaking down. He literally chained his legs and kept shooting flamethrowers at him. And like with Mako, he also used his Castle of Darkness to hide his monsters. Again, not in the actual game either. And don't even get me started with Pegasus. As for the battle with Dartz, in all honesty, alot of B.S. Moments happened in Season 4. Not surprised, since all of it was filler. But still I'll give you the reason to that particular battle. And if you want accuse Yugi of being a cheater, then yes I agree with you, but not for the reasons you stated for. He's a cheater for letting the pharaoh do all the work, while he gets all the credit and the title.

[@afropower8811]

exactly

[@zacharycannaday6075]

Ángel Macias Hey man a title in exchange for a host organism that lets yami control him is a VERY small price to pay

[@angelmacias1293]

Zachary Cannaday very small price? Most of the time, Atem only takes control of Yugi's body is when he's in a duel. And that's by Yugi's own free will. And the very few times he takes over when he's not dueling are also by Yugi's choice as well. And yes, Atem also chooses to come out as well, but most of the time is when Yugi is in trouble. Look I like Yugi a lot. And I honestly thought he gained great character development by defeating Atem legitimately and maintaining his title King of Games, after the pharaoh left. But that doesn't change the fact that he cheated by letting someone else duel for him during most series and obtaining all the credit for the duels the pharaoh won. Truth be told, he wouldn't be the duelist he is today, if it had not been for Atem.

[@zacharycannaday6075]

Ángel Macias Yes yugi would not be the same without atem guiding him. The whole reason atem is alive is because of yugi though (not only because he built the puzzle but also because he saved him from that fire in season 2) so letting him be king of games would be a fair trade

[@angelmacias1293]

Zachary Cannaday completing the puzzle was part of the prophecy, because Yugi is Atem's modern reincarnation. He was destined to solve the puzzle. And he personally did it because he wanted the puzzle to grant him a wish. Yugi had no idea he was helping out free the spirit of his former self. And being the reincarnation of the pharaoh means that if Atem hadn't existed, then Yugi wouldn't have existed in his time as the person he is. But that's besides the point. And yes, Yugi is very brave and noble. That's why I like him. But if hadn't saved Atem in the fire, then he would have never been able to save the world from villains such as Marik or Bakura during Battle City. And even before that, the pharaoh had helped Yugi out plenty of times, not only him but also his friends and family, whether if it was in a duel or not. Yugi has helped Atem a lot, but Atem has repaid him by helping him back plenty of times. I'm also including Season 0 into this. So I say they're even in those aspects, that's of course, not including the fact that Yugi had gained the title King of Games through duels that the pharaoh won up until the very end.

[@deflepperdrocks12954]

Regarding why Yugi even had Dark Sage, you have to remember that Yugi is the one who gave Joey Time Wizard, assumedly from his own deck, so Yugi nailing a Time Roulette and powering up his Dark Magician would have been a viable strategy for him before giving Time Wizard away

[@rayden54]

More than that, it fills in what would've been plot hole otherwise. Why else would Yugi even have Time Wizard with him on Pegasus's boat if he didn't have a card that would work with it? At that point Joey didn't even have baby dragon.

[@Vailjnovelist]

Dark Sage (the "aged" Dark Magician) is actually one of the most difficult monsters to summon in the entire game

[@WraithReaper09]

Correct me if I'm wrong, (It's been a while since I watched it) but wasn't Yugi the one who gave Joey the Time Wizard from his deck in the first place?

[@razkable]

Yep to make his baby dragon work..yugi felt bad for Joey so he gave him hi in their world rare time wizard to make his deck tougher...which was a big moment ....yugi clealry had the dark sage card in his deck to use with his time wizard so either way his strategy would work..even if it fails to age the opponent his card aged but that plays into his strategy so basically their is no risk ....genius..

[@lpfan4491]

its also a strong plotpoint for another reason.he actually planned to use the time wizard for himself,but he gave it away because they are friends,making one card in his own deck completely unplayable except in this duel

[@dipolopolis7261]

but why?

[@kichiroumitsurugi4363]

Foreshadowing...maybe...

[@dragonlordofchaos]

When some of my friends were over and we were playing together, one of my friends actually opened with Exodia. We were all floored when this happened, save for the friend who actually pulled it because they weren’t really into the game all that much so we had to quickly explain just how hard and next to impossible that was to do. Still we got a kick out of it. Now I’ve been playing this game for many years and I on occasion use an Exodia deck, and that has been the only time I’ve ever seen it happen myself. Even I haven’t opened with Exodia.

[@davidvasquez08]

Did you guys shuffle your decks?

[@dragonlordofchaos]

David Vasquez Yes we did. Another reason we were all stunned by it. Though I guess you could say it wasn’t exactly their opening hand. They were going second, and when they drew their sixth card, it was the last Exodia piece. So kind of their opening hand, and kind of not. Really just how you look at it.

[@davidvasquez08]

Dragon Lord I never thought that would happen

[@dragonlordofchaos]

David Vasquez Same but man was it cool to witness.

[@kazota.]

Your friend listened to the heart of the cards

[@nexusshark]

It actually does make sense for Yugi to have Dark Sage in his Deck, because Time Wizard was originally HIS card, before he gave it to Joey.

[@omarbenkhaled285]

"you can't cheat when you didn't read the rules in the first place" - yami yugi

[@granmastersword]

8:37 Tecnically is not a shenanigan, more like 4Kid's fault. It's exactly like Joy's shenanigan of summoning Flame Swordman, a fusion monster, like it was a normal one. In the original anime, that card was actually a spell card. It was later turned into a trap card and because of that, assuming that change was made before 4Kid started to dub the episode, they turned it into a trap card

[@fafnir242]

Thank you! Someone said it.

[@helioskitty9328]

It's worth pointing out that several of these "rules breaks" are going off of things that didn't really work the same way back then. For example, Time Wizard actually aging cards (including his own Baby Dragon) instead of necessarily destroying them, or the fact that many cards weren't actually, well, cards. That last bit is important. Fusion didn't work the way it does now in the real game. Fusion cards weren't even real! You didn't have separate cards to represent a fusion, you just combined the cards' traits using a system that wasn't really explained in the anime but got decent lip service in the manga. It was assumed that any cards of compatible attributes could fuse, not just ones with a pre-existing Fusion card.

[@StarFighters76]

Seeing as Pegasus was cheating during his duel with Yugi, it's only fitting Yugi returned the favor. Turnabout is fair play.

[@Dracon350]

except it's not? what if i brought a pair of glasses and told you nothing, we start dueling, and then halfway through the duel i go, "oh yeah, by the way, these glasses let me see the cards you have". ancient artifacts from Egypt aren't gonna suddenly invalidate the rules. in any case, season 1 had literally _no_ fucking rules. kaiba summoned his blue eyes dragons without tributes, yugi did a lot of shit from 'attacking the moon' to summoning an infinite amount of monsters. certain monsters had some added effects depending on their type, like how machine monsters were apparently immune to magic. in the end though, all i have to say to all these complaints is that it's the show. they have to make this shit work somehow. they had no actual ground rules for the card game in season 1 because they didn't need to have them because no one in real life was playing the game. it wouldn't be until a year after the anime's official release until they released the card game itself and had to give it rules. that's why cards in the anime differ from their real life counterparts. all these, "YUGI CHEATED" complaints are invalidated by the fact that there were no rules outside of, "reduce your opponent's life points to 0" in the original season. he couldn't cheat if there were no rules, and it honestly provided for some cool scenes that we would never get in future seasons due to rules being set in stone, like when yugi locked in PaniK's monsters due to Chaos Shield and took them all down with PaniK's own castle. that was the shit, and while i do prefer GX over the original series due to being able to follow everything since there are actual rules now, the original series is always a great re-watch due to all the wacky shit that happened.

[@CookiesAreNoice]

@@Dracon350 YAS ! THANK YOU

[@if7723]

@@Dracon350 I mean, if you did the thing with the glasses you'd probably get a table flip right there and then from most players.

[@kazdan3]

Dracon I’m not reading that

[@durin-trueking9464]

@@Dracon350 Actually pegasus's "powers" were tantamount to having a person behind your opponent relaying you not only the cards they were holding but also what they're going to be doing with them....in either case in EVERY game this is called cheating and is grounds for immediate dismissal.

[@LilGian1]

A lot of shenanigans would happen against Mai Valentine. He would do things like make her Harpie ladies super old with time wizard. And let’s not forget her duel with Merik. She summoned the wing dragon of ra and was going to win but then Merik did a shenanigan to say she needs to read Egyptian to use it. Mai was done wrong ! She truly dueled well and deserved many wins in the franchise. Even against Yugi in battle city he used shenanigans to beat her mirror wall!

[@ilikepie219]

Non of these are as bad as the first episode of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-v. The main character is losing, so what does he do? HE CHANGES THE CARDS IN HIS HAND MID BATTLE AND CREATES A NEW SUMMOMIN METHOD RGHT THEN AND THERE. Gosh that still makes me mad

[@AlphaOfCyber]

It is very much the truth that his cards changed mid battle but it was Zarc that created pendulum summoning when he split apart, not Yuya. And I might add that this happened before Yuya was even born.

[@Safersephiroth777]

They do discuss that. They say that since the Dueling Disk doesn't show an error, the method is valid. Plus after that other people are able to Pendulum too.

[@jayexero3488]

Hell yeah.😂😂😂

[@cathedral1375]

is that how pendulums were born ?

[@llc2344]

If you want to talk Arc-V hacks, then look no further than Revolution Falcon. Also, he didn't create it midbattle. He had the cards, he's had them long before this battle. Zarc created Pendulums. Then Declan made more (Although he somehow didn't know the effect of the cards he created himself)

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

let's be real is this Yugis fault for making shit up or none of these other professional duelists not knowing the rules

[@MsFluffy99]

D Birt point

[@DareFlipz]

well when you think about it. the "duel monsters" the pharaoh is used to has no spells/traps you have to just summon monsters and make them more powerful with your own strength so maybe they "screw the rules" because the pharaoh isn't used to spells and traps so he has to make shit up like 5,000 years ago. And maybe the other duelists don't stop him because they also don't know if you can do that. So the pharaoh just keeps doing it because nobody has told him he can't do that.

[@nakofan]

the first season was a mess altogether. they tried to make like an rpg with cards where everything could affect anything and not actually follow the game flow

[@meanbeanmachine]

How could they be at fault? There isn't any text on the cards. I have a pet theory that KaibaCorp got so rich primarily from AI, and then used the technology to make the dueling systems do whatever the players declared it should do.

[@nakofan]

Greg Fitzgerald so many cards and ruilings rather went by voice commands XD

[@UglyDucklingButEpic]

Enemy: Hah i direct attack you with my 928293839 attack monster! Yugi: Actually my hair makes it so you take the same damage as me, but you take the damage first, and you must attack me

[@obinoscopekenobi9450]

Lol underrated af

[@smudged4090]

SCREW THE RULES I HAVE AWESOME HAIR

[@commentstealer4460]

Lmfao

[@nykyrianyoung2965]

@@smudged4090 lol

[@nykyrianyoung2965]

Screw the rules he has money and Amazon hair

[@e-heromanny4348]

#1 should be when Atem was facing Yugi in the last episodes and he was literally manipulating fate to get the best top decks every turn

[@HHmz-rp8ht]

he stacked the deck :3

[@e-heromanny4348]

I like my explanation better LoL

[@tomtinker8220]

what about trap cards affecting the god cards?

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

Technically the trap was aiming at the attack, not the literal gods themselves.

[@tomtinker8220]

FireWolf950FTW Gaming i still have my doubts as it was said the god cards are not supposed to be affected by magic and trap cards.

[@fluffybacon]

I don't really agree with the "cheating" parts of season 1. The game in S1 had no real rules and was supposed to be something similar to a logical combat game like dungeons and dragons.

[@juliuscasar7202]

It was supposed to be a tortue manga...

[@MarvelGeekify]

The Duel VS Kaiba for the Battle City semi-finals. Where he just summons Red Eyes from his hand via the effect of *Kaiba's* Flute of Summoning Dragon. What the hell Yugi?

[@ZERO_42069]

MarvelGeekify that shit pissed me off lol

[@SHADOMEGA7569]

Wow battle city be like "your card gives you an advantage? It also works its effect on me as well"

[@Mitjitsu]

What about against Marik? He gets attacked by Ra, and then plays Monster Reborn (a spell card) during Marik's turn and is able to summon Sliffer in defence mode and somehow get targeted instead of Obelisk. Marik then plays a spell card to use the same attack and then Yugi sacrifices Obelisk avoiding Ra's attack.

[@laytonjr6601]

@@Mitjitsu Monster Reborn is an instant spell card in the anime, you can see both Yugi and his opponent (I forgot his name) using Monster Reborn at the same time to revive their Dark Magician

[@Mitjitsu]

@@laytonjr6601 Doesn't make sense you can summon it and have an attack redirected to you. That would allow you to trigger all kinds of broken destroyed in battle effects.

[@Aibadenshi]

To be fair. The original Yugi-oh was make more of a RPG style game instead of the modernize Yugi-oh even finalize. So most of the early BS is because the writer was writing a different game instead.

[@AKiwiBird]

You gotta love Yugis smug face as he’s like “holdup, imma jus attack my spell card real quick”.

[@ceyferprime2472]

The reason yugi could draw almost all of Exodia in his first turn is the ability of the millennium puzzle which gives him an insane luck boost making him pratically always either get the card he needs or the card he wants

[@scottnomore9489]

Trying to teach someone the TCG when they've only seen Duelist Kingdom arc is nearly impossible

[@pcprincipal220]

I was playing with my friend about a week ago that has only seen that and a little bit of battle City he was convinced that he could play monster reborn anytime no matter the phase or whose turn it was he ended up rage quitting because I would not let him do it during my turn

[@cvmaniac7286]

@@pcprincipal220 Either i never knew this as a kid or it's a new thing, but i was playing Master Duel a while back and my deck had Monster Reborn in it. I knew the card could revive a monster but was very confused when the game allowed me to snag a monster from the opponent's graveyard to use.

[@sonic123532651615321]

Im just typing this here so my teacher thinks Im doing work on my ipad

[@eddy07932]

Mister L lol

[@naivnaib]

Mister L dayuam is every school having ipads these days?

[@philhayes3781]

Lol

[@TheDarkNeos]

Mister L Stupid 😒.

[@Cobaltkatt]

Heart of the cards=cheating with sleight of hand

[@Dr.Barber]

Heart of the Cards = Cheating with ancient egyptian artifacts and the literal power of the gods.

[@BlueSparxLPs]

If I remember correctly, "Heart of the Cards" was actually debunked in-show, with the explanation that Atem was able to literally will his deck to allow him to draw any card, as an ability of the Millennium Puzzle.

[@animeguardianxx]

It was, yes, Ishizu said that....in the...I wanna say 3rd to last episode? Might have been the second to last.

[@housegarden1378]

Always thought it was just corny stuff. So it actually had a meaning. Been on a small yugioh binge after watching a guy get robbed of his cards with a brick.

[@kanekiken5018]

Matthew Duffield yep

[@ChaosNew]

Im gonna roll with the idea that Yugi's millennium puzzle gives him the power to alter the game itself as long as a makes kind of sense, the chanting thing, the moon one, the three head stuff, even if not actually in game stuff, they made sense for those moments in the anime. 🤣

[@Masterduel012]

This deserve a part 2 but about GX Shenanigans !!! Good video, really fun.

[@GaryJojo]

As abridged Atem would say: "King of games bitch"

[@danielvess945]

screw the rules yugis the protagonist

[@danielvess945]

he also used catapult turtle to destroy mirror wall against mai in the duelist kingdom semi finals

[@marquisealexander1371]

Seto: Screw the rules, I have money! Yugi: Screw the rules, I am the protagonist!

[@yahiaelshobokshy5955]

I mean... I know dark sage was summoned incorrectly but so was thousand dragon

[@spartanq7781]

He covers that in his video about Joey's luck.

[@Kenshin73747]

@@spartanq7781 dark sage would murder thousand dragon anyhow

[@ttvnewton5982]

Yea

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Yahia Elshobokshy Joey has a lot of Fusion monsters in his main deck, though. Well, Flame Swordsman and Giltia, at least.

[@ALittleMessi]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Joey's deck wouldn't even be usable if they had established rules

[@theguythatlies505]

They should make a card called “THE HEART OF THE CARDS” card effect Win the bloody game screw the rules i have friends i mean money

[@HandleBeTaken]

I think for an accurate video, you should be looking at shenanigans after episode 62, when Battle City starts and the actual rules come into play. Before this they didn't have any actual rules, so I can understand why they had these shenanigans. Although the duel with Panic also has been an odd one XD

[@hubertuslubbertsen9650]

Not only that but anime cards always have had different effect then their real world counterparts. If they wouldn't, some decks would be too op

[@TieJote]

So much this. This video is pure bullshit itself, because how you know that the Anime is not in fact right?

[@CRFIDJ9K]

It's also said within the anime that the 'rules will be different, and will not follow what people already know about the game' ... like... seriously...

[@Safersephiroth777]

Yeah until then everything went. After that almost everything went as in the real game.

[@crabsupreme]

what do you mean there were no rules. people didn't just duel each other and make shit up the whole time. this card game is like football to these people.

[@couchpotato7909]

My first thought when I saw Dark Sage was that Yugi planned that. He gave Joey time wizard just for that moment which I found really hilarious

[@motokuchoma]

Yugi's chance of drawing Exodia was ~1/200 since he played 11 turns, drawing a card on each turn, with a starting hand of 5.

[@matthewschlotterbeck8819]

Technically, the Dark Magic Curtain does work that way only because of the Battle City Rules!! XD And those were all crazy XD

[@ermacmacro7136]

Matthew Schlotterbeck Actually, the anime effect of Dark Magic Curtain (for whatever DUMBASS reason) does allow the other player to use it to summon their own spellcaster

[@On1yGreen]

Yami yugi: I play with honor Also yami:SCREW THE RULES

[@robrick9361]

Duelist Kingdom still makes more sense than Missing the Timing or Inherit Summons or Unmet Special Summoning Conditions disallowing Monster Reborn.

[@fasdfdsdfs]

Kaiba/Anyone: That's against the rules isn't it? Yugi/Yami/Pharaoh: Screw the rules I'm the protaganist.

[@jchaney229]

The real bs moment was when he gave Joey time wizard. He knew if they fought Joey would go for that combo and he would most likely have Dark Magician.... He set Joey up #thatAINTrightYuGi

[@anondabomb]

Wasn’t time magician the only reason Joey won most of those duels... Yugi did Joey a solid by giving him a trump card and gift, you say it was a curse and jerk move... think on that.

[@jchaney229]

@@anondabomb ok something for you to think about. Maybe Yugi figured Joey could beat everyone with and make it to the finals. All while boosting Joey's confidence in using the card. All part of Yugi's evil masterplan bro 😅

[@kendrajade6688]

I mean, that Dark Magician thing is probably just why Yugi had Time Wizard in his deck in the first place.

[@if7723]

@@PTGamingCorps I mean, Joey could have seen the meta and taken it OUT of his deck.

[@KaseyC.]

Dang, someone knows how their friend plays and built their deck around countering it? They must be evil.

[@kobebargo4250]

Yugi used the thing called "logic"

[@Fallen-Saint]

GOT EM

[@Solqueen86]

Only when he is winning

[@davidbare2886]

In a children's card game? Never

[@AliceTheNeko]

"logic"? I think you mean """""""""""""""""""""""logic"""""""""""""""""""""""

[@GXrst64tlc]

No, it common sense. Its so rare in anime its a super power.

[@Ragness10]

Season 1: "If you can logic it, you can do it."

[@homefront1999]

I always just imagine that one of the Duelers pulls out a gun in the middle of a fight and just cap Yugi

[@qty1315]

Didn't that happen to Kaiba in the Japanese version and was censored in the western version? Still, I like how in the anime Keith just said "Fuck this," and just beat up some players to get their star things so that he could get into the final rounds in the tournament. Also, I like how in the battle city arc lots of characters cheated, and Yugi would create strategies based on them cheating. Like the one where he expected the guy to cheat a dark magician at the top of his deck so it would be the first card he drew, so that he could use a card that sent every card in his hand to the graveyard. Funnily enough, the guy he fought with Exodia stacked his deck mostly with Exodia cards. I like how Yugi expected this, came up with a strategy to get him to play a piece of Exodia on the field, then used a card which made his opponent's incredibly cheap deck useless. My only issue is that the card Yugi used is very situational. There's literally no other type of deck or situation where the card could be used, so why would he even have it at all?

[@player3productions502]

Do you not remember that Player Killer (PaniK) tried to set I'm ablaze when he lost?

[@player3productions502]

@@qty1315 Card destruction isn't useless against, say, a dickhead who has more than one Blue eyes white dragon.

[@qty1315]

@@player3productions502 Unless the guy has monster reborn.

[@Realperson16]

"Screw the rules i have money!" Kaiba in yugioh abridged Edit: jesus 140 likes?! When did that happen?

[@sithlordbeerus503]

Screw the rules I have a magic necklace

[@Realperson16]

Screw the rules i have doom virus dragon!!

[@No-oj4ir]

Screw the screws, I want money Top 10 fanmade anime remixes

[@barlim406]

screw the rules i have green hair

[@orbitnova]

Screw The Education, I Have Money

[@stanrutherford4870]

"Use the heart of the cards, Yugi... Let go, Yugi... Yugi, trust me!" "Yami, that sounds a lot like the forc-" "*NO, IT'S THE HEART OF THE CARDS!*"

[@dustindiaz9493]

Well you can defend some of those, the dark sage one has logic because time magician was originally his, he had to have it for dark sage to work