Was Bonz About To Defeat Bakura? [Shadow Of A Duel]

[@TheAggroQueen]

11:51 Yes, Bonz COULD attack with his mammoth if he brought it back with Premature Burial. This case happened in Battle City's first duel. Against the Exodia hunter, Yugi uses Monster Reborn to bring back Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast (who'd been Tributed for Summoned Skull earlier) and uses it to destroy the Exodia head on the field.

[@TGSAnime]

Brilliant Info thanks! That means Bonz had two potential comebacks!

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Anime writers are garbage Never defend bad writing

[@tarikkash4282]

@@TGSAnime Nice Video man!

[@The_SafeKeeper]

@TGSAnime No, it was always going to be impossible as Bonz suffered from Side Character syndrome (SCS). It’s fatal to Yu-Gi-Oh! characters.

[@Amitlu]

The anime was never consistent about Reborn stopping attacks or not. (The manga wasnt either to be fair) It suddenly mattered when Gods were being revived.

[@ParkournPrankster]

Funny enough, I could see Bonz in an alternate universe hanging out with Weevil and Rex as the "Loser Trio".

[@alakazamlover4908]

would that mean Bonz would join the orcalious gang?

[@JR_Donofrio]

Does the multiverse exist in anime?

[@burnum]

@@JR_Donofrio Starting with Arc V, it does. Before that, it's a theory at most.

[@burnum]

I can kind of see that happening, considering how they sort of mellowed out after Battle City.

[@SCH292]

Lol. In my "fantasy remake" idea about Bonz. He's just there to make we the viewers,"Omg. Why is this ugly fool still around? Bro. We know he's a zombie duelist. So what. Get rid of him?". When he shows up his deck will be different and upgraded. Just think of Bonz's upgrade deck as similar to the Zombie Madness structure deck in the later seasons. Yes he's also with Weevil and Rex. The loser Trio. Yes he also join the Dartz and after the KC Grand Championship he will be out of the show. Bonz's deck in order by seasons. 1. Duelist Kingdom. Mostly zombie vanilla monsters, the monsters that appeared in the show, equip cards and so on. Pretty much a "playground deck" that we had as kids we build our "zombie deck" on EBT Foodstamp. 2. Battle City. A few vanilla 1600 to 1800 level 4 beaters, a few effect monsters such as Fear from the Dark, Wandering Mummy, Pyramid Turtle and Fushion Richie as his main boss monster(Yes. That crappy monster). A Spell cards such as Book of Life, Foolish Burial, Pot of Greed or so and a few traps but nothing special. 3. We skip to season 4. Dartz aka the Shadow. Now his deck is more focus on getting Despair from the Dark out. Has zombies like Regenerating Mummy that special summon if they are milled out from hand. 4. Now we go to season 5 but only up to the KC Grand Champion ship. Now his deck is all about Vampire Lord, getting the Lord out asap, Vampire Lady, Pyramid zombie, spirit reaper and has Vampire Genesis. Pretty much Zombie Madness structure deck combo. Anyway sorry for the long comment. I feel like if minor characters like Bonz, Weevil, Rex, Tea...hell man..even Tristan or as such were given more screen time and duel once in every season or so we are likely to see what type of deck they will play or switch too.

[@Maxzane-e4j]

The whole bit with the fight analysis had me laughing ngl.

[@Lucario1121]

What's even funnier is that Bakura did all that with just one arm

[@alcatrazvongola]

Don't sleep on Zygor. He managed to defeat Joey as he's been in a lot of fights. Joey sadly got nerfed for the DM era. I can't see him beating Trudge, though. Bro took down Joey and Tristan at the same time.

[@Maximusls2400]

HILARIOUS LOLOLOL

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@alcatrazvongola Zygor did sucker Punch Joey though,

[@LucianDevine]

Same! I loved it!

[@mylesfromreality6376]

I don't think Bonz could have won even if he summoned Crass Clown in face-up defense mode and assuming the four unknown cards in Bakura's hand were useless. Bakura could just attack over Crass Clown with The Earl of Demise and set Spiritualistic Medium so it could be used as a quick-play spell. On Bonz's turn, he would probably summon Armored Zombie and attack over The Earl of Demise with The Great Mammoth of Goldfine, then attack directly with Armored Zombie. But when Bonz attacks with The Great Mammoth of Goldfine, Bakura would just activate his face-down Spiritualist Medium and discard the four cards, inflicting both the 1800 battle damage and possibly the 300 effect damage if he had activated Skull Invitation. Bonz would probably activate Nightmare's Steel Cage and end his turn. Bakura would then draw Ectoplasm and win.

[@TGSAnime]

Great Catch!!

[@nickschoenherr2238]

That's what I thought as well

[@khiarieverett9658]

It can also be set. I don’t know the anime version but the effect is when it’s changed from defense to attack

[@nickschoenherr2238]

@@khiarieverett9658 in real life it has to be frome face up Defense to attack i believe don't know about anime effect

[@RodimusMinor1987]

Well said.

[@trevorrose3769]

This is oddly my favorite duel in the entire duel monsters series and I think what I love about it is that secretly throughout the duel, it has been held in the shadow realm and it kills off Bonz and his friends which makes it a super dark ending to the duel

[@eriktheos6022]

that, and the sounds and music really fitted the duel

[@RodimusMinor1987]

I enjoyed this duel too, seeing Bakura clap bones was cool, sadly I wish we saw Bakura win more duels, but he always seemed to duel Yugi so he had to lose

[@byronsenior6499]

It's kinda sad, they really didn't deserve their fate.

[@Lucario1121]

I love this episode mostly cause all this happened cause Marik was like "Hey Bakura do you think you can find a duel disk and win 6 locator cards by the end of the day, I kinda need you in the finals" and Bakura was like "K, I'll be back in a few hours"

[@jessedellross3245]

I love how even the dub doesn’t hide the fact yami Bakura straight up killed those 3

[@DaitylSword]

Technically Bakura says “until I decide to let you out” but considering they aren’t shown in the final episodes where basically everyone is shown off. So yeah even with 4kids censorship he still killed them

[@aerodynamiccow3597]

At least Bonz came back in Duel Links

[@Asaylum117]

The original Yu-Gi-Oh anime was pretty dark all things considered. Yeah, the english dub does dumb censorship, but at the very least it wasn't as bad as compared to things like One Piece or other 4Kids dubbing.

[@NitroNEXT]

@@aerodynamiccow3597 Duel Links is meant to be a simulation though, like the Matrix

[@aerodynamiccow3597]

@NitroNEXT The world is a simulation, but not exactly the people (lore-wise) It's essentially an expanded version of The VRAINS or that digital world from season 2 nobody wants to remember

[@quicobrujo3951]

2:25 How dare you stop there?!?!? Here I was taking notes...!

[@VillainBoss24]

It’s the only duel the main antagonist of the series ever wins

[@Xhalonick]

He was only the "main antagonist" in the final season.

[@camharkness]

I mean, he didn't duel much.

[@archangelsupreme4963]

Cause he’s wiping the floor with low level one shot antagonists. It’s always a trope that the badder villain mops the floor with scrub baddies.

[@anonluxor470]

Unless you count pegasus

[@FarisO7]

Are we counting other YuGiOh shows? Because AI does exist

[@TheBlockerNator]

I love this duel. It feels like a halloween episode. From the mood lighting, the the horror inspired monsters on both sides, the ending, and the fact it's a graveyard

[@RodimusMinor1987]

He should have waited until October 31st

[@tarikkash4282]

@@RodimusMinor1987 Bakura is a great villain, but a very bad duelist! And we thought Mai was bad!

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@tarikkash4282 He is a good duelist, he just loses to stronger ones

[@tarikkash4282]

@@RodimusMinor1987 AND THE PLOT!

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@tarikkash4282 Bakura could never beat plot armour

[@ljnkrabby]

2:47: There was a video in 2016 (that no longer exists) which re-created this Duel in YGOPRO. In it, Bakura's 4 mysterious cards were Puppet Master, Sangan, Souls of the Forgotten, and 1 Spirit Message card.

[@yzer9975]

This duel has the same energy as Ron Burgundy saying "Brick KILLED a guy!" Also I love that Duel Links gave him a bit of a redemption arc, giving him a chance to make a new friend as well as helping him overcome his skeletal appearance.

[@Meowmixery]

Haven't played many yugioh games but heard duel links was pretty fun ^-^ my last one I beat.. Was Troubadour

[@kevinmo1]

Does duel links explain how he survived getting sent to hell? I somehow doubt escaping hell is something you can just waive off

[@Zeronigel332]

This event was so long ago I still find it funny he didn’t go to hell but became a recluse because he found people scary and didn’t want to scare people

[@RichardthePWNman]

@@kevinmo1IIRC after his duel with Bakura he “woke up” in Duel Links. A lot of dead characters have the same explanation in Duel Links.

[@idkwut2callmyself561]

@@kevinmo1 Duel Links is neuron network, connected to peoples' memories. so he was revived digitally because someone (prob Bakura) rembered his existance

[@parkerdolson2157]

2:01 gotta love a fight review before a duel lol

[@bladersmosh]

I guess you could say Bonz didn’t stand a “ghost of a chance” against Bakura.

[@tarikkash4282]

YEP!

[@VillainBoss24]

@@bladersmoshI mean watching the video I would say he did

[@pedro15305]

That's literally a joke he made in the video why would you comment this

[@anthonythomas305]

Haha, nice one 👍🏾

[@Modie]

@@VillainBoss24 Not really though. Just attacking the clown and setting the spell would most likely mean Bakura wins. Bonz could only get out by using Nightmare Steelcage on a board where he has the stronger monster which would be an insane play for him.

[@roggie839]

Poor Bonz was sent to the shadow realm never to be seen again 😂

[@RodimusMinor1987]

Good,

[@tarikkash4282]

You mean the purple realm!

[@MrDirtyVisage]

Except in Duel Links lol

[@ISAAC607]

His story in DL is cute, no way he is still in hell in the dub at least haha

[@joshfarmer8408]

It makes me sad that this was the only on screen duel Bakura ever won

[@JJPJZ]

At least he beat Pegasus in the Ancient Egyptian laser beams duel 😅

[@RodimusMinor1987]

He was going to beat Kaiba apparently

[@solidzack]

Yeah, despite Marik being a much worse duelist, he won most of his duels, because he played dirty and by different rules (as in his win condition is not to deplete the opponents life points, but to destroy them physically and mentally, leaving them unable to continue the duel). Whereas Yami Bakura played fair and square, but kept battling the main characters and could not pierce through their plot armor.

[@CD-Gaming]

Considering he played Table-Top RPGs NOT Duel Monsters... was even a Games Master at them no less...

[@cameraredeye3115]

​@@solidzack He also had infinite lives up until the final season.

[@DropsofJupiterReal]

I have a theory why they summon their Fusion Materials, the old ruling for Poly says the materials need to be on the field, and you can't fuse from the hand it wasn't until a different printing of Poly where you can use hand or field. So I think they use the old ruling for Poly before its first errata.

[@snowboundwhale6860]

This lines up with how DK Fusion was consistently depicted as combining monsters that were presently on the field, and how fusion material monsters would never reappear in a duel post-fusion during that arc. Battle City changed the rules a lot but it was still written directly following and would still be figuring out the details, so summoning fusion materials could be seen as a vestigial habit.

[@DropsofJupiterReal]

@@snowboundwhale6860 True, I forgot when the first errata for Poly was lol.

[@relicdad88]

​@@DropsofJupiterRealI remember this nobody ever used 2 use poly cuz it was so bad back in the day I think it changed when gx came out I remember catching a episode and I was like wait how is fusion monster attacking immediately they changed it either 04 or 05 I would assume nobody ever played fusions it jus wasn't worth the effort getting everything you needed for jus a vanilla monster basically. Dark paladin was ok but that was best option and had 2 jump through hoops 2 try n bring it out.

[@roncerjani9063]

Kaiba polyed 3 Blue Eyes in Duelist Kingdom, with 2 of them being from the hand iirc.

[@DropsofJupiterReal]

@@roncerjani9063 Oh huh, that's my bad then if that's the case.

[@GuyInHisOwnWorld]

The ending to this duel was always pretty depressing. Even though they were jerks, They were still children and were around the age of the main cast, so around 14 ~ 16 years old....and they got brutally killed and sent to Hell.

[@byronsenior6499]

And until he brought it up here, I had no idea Bonz had a disorder. I thought it was just typical goofy anime design. Dude just lived to suffer.

[@TheRedMage01]

@@byronsenior6499 Yeah it was said in Episode 17 but only in the Japanese Release

[@Lobomaru02]

Yeah... They didn't deserve that. They were assholes, yeah. But they were ultimately just in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the bad luck of running into Bakura. Mugging The Monster. Plain and simple.

[@MrEffectfilms]

12:15 If my understanding is correct then yes, Bonz would indeed be able to attack since the ruling is "Fusion Summoned monsters cannot attack to the turn they are summoned" since using Premature Burial would mean that's a Special Summon then it would be able to attack.

[@MysticEle]

Correct, Kaiba only locked it to their initial summon, not any subsequent ones.

[@alexisdipoalo9443]

Your wording only applies to the fusion summon. So a special summon would be able to attack.

[@MrEffectfilms]

@@alexisdipoalo9443 Exactly. I'm surprised more duelist's didn't take advantage of that by purposefully sending Fusion monsters to the graveyard and then reviving them with Monster Reborn or something.

[@Vanitas42]

i think the wording here still confuses. it’s when a fusion monster is specifically fusion summoned. since Premature is just a generic Special summon and his mammoth was properly already fusion summoned, it’s both a valid target AND he could attack the moment it hit the field since it wasn’t a fusion summon.

[@Vanitas42]

@@MrEffectfilmsthat’s where the rules prevent that. any extra deck monsters (in this case, just fusion monsters) must have been properly summoned first before they can be affected by things like Reborn or Premature. you can dump them straight from the extra deck to GY to get any sent to gy affects or banish from gy effects, but you couldn’t special summon them from the gy unless they were first properly summoned. So dumping a fusion monster directly to the gy and then reviving it doesn’t work.

[@jcplays5831]

This is honestly one of my more beloved duels simple because of how spooky it is. Occult vs zombie in a graveyard with that thick black shading is quite freaky and might’ve given me nightmares when I was a kid if I watch it back then

[@BPTK162]

Just for fun, what Bakura had in his hand: I’m gonna say Dark Necrofear (which never had its summoning conditions fulfilled), Puppet Master (which was useless here), Spiritualism (which could’ve been used but Bakura didn’t mind Skull Invitation; also he used it in the manga version of this Duel), and then a rando Spirit Message.

[@nautgamingnautgaming9949]

You were 2 for 4 which isn't bad Puppet master n a spirit message were correct both bricks He had souls of the forgotten 900 att 200 def N sangan which I have no clue why he got rid of that A big missplay

[@homebredpacman9715]

It's definitely funny how Bonz and his group were just sacrificial lambs so Bakura could get in to the tournament finals. Also hilarious to think these guys thought they were GOOD enough to get to that level. Like think about it, it's pretty much hinted at (at least from what I recall in the dub) that their collection of Locator Cards was through this method of just scaring people so they never dueled. So what would happen if they got to the finals and Bonz went up against ANY of the other finalists? Maybe he would have gone up against Ra and not Mai. Also I think the other two guys were IN the Tournament as well as I remember seeing Seeker, the Exodia Rare Hunter, scrolling through duelists and both Sid and Zigore are listed as participants it seems (extra fun fact, according to the Rare Hunter data base the most likely Rarest Card for each is Bonz with Call of the Haunted, Sid with Firewing Pegasus, and Zigore with Twin Headed Thunder Dragon) but they only managed to gather 4 locator cards? What were they going to do since the deadline for entry was so close? I guess probably mug other guys and hope they wouldn't get caught.

[@RodimusMinor1987]

Also another thing, in the episode where we saw all the BS competitors we saw Sid and Zygor also had rarest cards but they didn't have Duel disks, so basically Kaiba let those 2 in, even in DK they had Gloves with Star Chips, so either they also won duels or they beat people up and took Star Ships

[@byronsenior6499]

You have to wonder how they got in. Kaiba was only allowing the best of the best in.

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@homebredpacman9715 I'm pretty sure that stealing locator cards is illegal 🤔

[@MobiusLeader007]

Their plan was very similar to what they did back in Duelist Kingdom, where they would ambush people for their Star Chips. Tho back then they did still duel for Star Chips, since Bandit Keith was coaching them and giving them rare cards to boost their decks (Keith at the time was the American dueling champion.) Without Keith, maybe they felt they weren't good enough to win their locator cards in time, so they decided to skip the dueling process and just steal them.

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@MobiusLeader007 Stealing locator cards is against the rules of battle city

[@RedDragonForce2]

@ 5:55 Actually, the FIRST printing of this card did NOT require both GYs to have targets. It was a later errata that changed it to require a target in BOTH GYs.

[@MarioMastar]

i wish modern cards got errata'd to balance themselves more, like they did Goyo guardian and as recently as Firewall Dragon (though there's no way they would ban a main protag's ace monster). I think retrains just set a bad precident that if a card is bad or is broken, we have to wait for them to print an entirely new card wtih the fixed effect so we can literally NEVER play the old card again. SO many archetypes are literally unplayable in the modern TCG because their important monster was banned instead of errata'd to only work with thier own archetype, just to be abused by another archetype that didn't need the help but ended up pulling off FTKs, and what do they ban? Not the abusive archetype that's already good, but the weaker archetype that NEEDED the help and can't get it. Even worse is how these cards are banned, and then here comes an archetype with a card that literally does waht the banned card does AND more without any weakness and is super easy to summon. Like "Oh I can't use this card anymore cause it lets you cheat 2 monsters from the graveyard, but here comes Tearlaments cheating TEN cards WITH TEMPO!" Thankfully Duel links is balanced better....and actually playable.

[@byronsenior6499]

Thing is errataing the card kinda strips it off its pride. The most infamous example being Chaos Emperor Dragon. Like it's almost more insulting to do that than a retrain. “Here’s your card back, we just took away everything you like about it.”

[@Modie]

I think you missed an important point here and it's not the question what his other cards were. As you mentioned before, set spell cards act as quick play cards. So even if Bonz played perfectly and got his fusion monster and his clown on the field (while keeping Premature Burial in his hand), it wouldn't have mattered. Bakura attacks the clown and sets his spell face down. Next turn if Bonz tries to attack over Bakura's monster, he just activates his Spiritualistic Medium card. Even if Bonz had not activated his Skull invitation trap card, that would leave him with less than 1000 life points, so Bakura would win with Ectoplasma that he draws. The only way out for Bonz is that he smells that this is a card that can kill his mammoth, so he doesn't attack AND he plays Nightmare Steelcage. However, playing Nightmare Steelcage in this situation would be weird. So no matter how I view it, Bonz had no chance.

[@Gnowimaster]

Question! Maybe I forgot something but if Bonz did play the clown in defence mode and Bakura would destroy it with his Earl... then Bonz wouldn't loose his lifepoints like he did because of the Attackposition Mammoth or not? Then again he would loose the points when he would attack with his Mammoth and Bakura would use the Spiritualistic Medium to protect his Earl, right?

[@DarknessDpa]

Ahh but you yourself are forgetting that there was a way that Bonz didn't need to activate Premature Burial who has a LP cost to activate which in that case Bonz would have enough LPs to survive the Echtoplasm Blast.

[@Modie]

@@Gnowimaster Yes, that was the idea, he would lose the life points once he attacked. Which is why his only way out is to not attack and play Nightmare Steelcage. Though, I guess there is a second way out. He attacks, loses life points, but since he didn't play Premature Burial yet, he would survive Ectoplasma. But that would require him to know that this was the card Bakura drew and not an actual monster.

[@Modie]

@@DarknessDpa Yes, I noticed, but if he doesn't play Premature Burial, then he can only win if he knows that Bakura draws Ectoplasma. Because from his point of view, Bakura currently has the stronger monster, so he either needs to play Premature Burial to get a stronger monster on the field or he plays Nightmare Steelcage. In which case, he can't attack either, so if Bakura draws a monster, he wins. The only way for him to win is to expect Extoplasma, because then he can play a monster in defense mode, let Bakura attack the next turn, since he won't draw a monster and then play Premature Burial. But again, now we are assuming that Bonz not only knows Bakura's deck, but what he draws when.

[@moselzag5451]

​@@Modie Premature would be able to act as a Quick-Play, so realistically Bonz would set it and only use it if Steel Cage was dodged somehow. A field wiper like Heavy Storm wouldn't matter, but if Bakura drew MST then flipping Premature would save him. So, Bonz attacks, spell is activated to boost Bakuras monster, Bonz activates Steel Cage and sets Premature. Bakura draws Ectoplasmer, and likely won't activate it as it wouldn't be game and would leave him with nothing. He'd probably set it. Then it's entirely speculation, but Bonz could've absolutely gotten further in, and possibly won if he drew a single life point booster or Monster Reborn.

[@finaldarkfire]

Definitely one of those duels where the misplays are fairly well-justified by the narrative, ie; Bonz was always pretty clearly a fairly middling duelist given his showing in Duelist Kingdom and Bakura is clearly just playing with his food XD Also regarding the 'What if Bonz won?' musings, it's worth noting that it's pretty explicitly stated that Change of Heart of Bakura's rarest card, since that's the card Yugi won from him in the BC Semi-Finals, so Bonz would most likely get it from Bakura here. Which rather amusingly would mean that Bonz winning might not actually cause much of a difference in the long run, as Yugi would then presumably still get the Change of Heart from Bonz after trouncing him in the Semis XD

[@JustSomeMexicanwithaMustache]

I never thought I would hear "Clap Bonz" in a video, but here we are.

[@anonluxor470]

Imagine if they brought back bonz as actual zombie later in the series

[@giovanniorellana2200]

Oh, and whoever loses this duel, goes to Hell, I mean the Shadow Realm 😆

[@NebulaDark]

"Purple realm"

[@shfhsvomvolakis2318]

the Shadow Realm is tecnicaly hell with other name if you realy think about it

[@tedcomet3121]

6:24 they reference it in ArcV that the anime version of Polymerization requires the fusion materials to be both in the hand or both on the field

[@Yojimbo16]

Which episode of Arc-V was that?

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

I'm pretty sure Jaden was able to fuse his monsters on the field with ones in the hand, though...

[@Eric6761]

​@@Insert_Bland_Name_Hereyou're correct

[@ghostflame9211]

1:46 - i actually had to double check the calendar that it wasnt april fools with how this video started lol

[@buddyzilla4557]

9:40 -Half true. We had not seen someone try to escape their own duel but we had been given an idea of what shadow magic does to preserve a duel or even plot. When Yugi Dueled Pegasus, he made the duel a shadow duel with only Yugi and himself contained. Joey (I think) tried to enter the purple sphere but found he could not and even Pacman telepirted ot the other side of the bridge when trying to run right through it. A shadow duel is contained in a pocket dimention that can't be entered or existed by physical means for the duration of rhe duel. Only spiritual energy was able to break through and this was possibly partially due to the powers of the Puzzle. The puzzle is its own pocket dimention that was immune to the adverse affects of the shadow duel (why Yugi's should was not tkaing severe damage while inside during their mind shuffle). It is possible this acted as a doorway, allowing the spirit energy of the focused friends into the duel space through it. As far as I'm aware, this is not confirmed and we don't see something simailr except with Mai and Joey when she faced Merik but that may have bee. For another reason I'm about to talk about. We will later form this Bones episode see Merik use his shadow powers to essentially create a shadow tournament situation. The Blimp can not reach out to anyone yhrough its communications and seems incapable of straying from its set pathway while the tournament does this as a result of Merik's power. One explaintion is that this made Joey and Yugi able to interfere in the duel but Mai was not fully capable of recognizing him at all times because the rules of the shadow duel itself were still somewhat in effect. Another ecplaintion is that they were all part of the shadow duel like Bones sidekicks were here. I think the best explaintion is a mix. The others down face a penalty because they aren't part of Mai's duel but can see and interfere to an extent because the shadow duel is contained withing the shadow tourney spell. They ARE participants in the shadow tournament. Even Mai and Tristin are spectators to it on the blimp. Yami Bakura is a nasty ass bastard with a piece of Zorcs soul and thus some of his power. He would havevno problem physically or ethically including all the jackassed who tried to jump him in on the shadow duel even though only one was playing. Basically he did not tell them all their chips were riding on Bones' one hand. To anyone else walking through the area, a larger shadow barrier was likely visible and just like Joey trying to get in. The same think happened with this escape attempt. This actually makes me wonder about the dangers og the blimp..would someone falling just pass back to the blimp again because of the shadow barrier keeping it encapsulated from the outside world? There are a couple tense moments that may not have been so much if this was the case in hindsight.

[@soundwavedoesthings]

A fight analysis is something I wouldn't expect from this channel, but more power to you

[@meganmartin3373]

Might be worth noting, back in Bonz's first onscreen duel, against Joey in Duelist Kingdom, he actually moved to summon The Snake Hair on his first turn there too, and only didn't because Kieth was backseating him for the whole duel. Maybe The Snake Hair is just, like, Bonz's favorite monster, or something? Like how Jaden always tries to summon Flame Wingman at the first opportunity.

[@michaelnally2841]

Which this duel maybe why Bonz has to cheat and/or have someone backseat duel for him

[@BrenTenkage]

When it comes to what Bakura started with, I don't think they were bricks, remember Bakura's main motif is using the graveyard to trigger effects or bring back monsters or even use them as removing material. I think if the duel continued further he'd bring out like a monster that rises from the grave by discarding a card or something Edit: You also forgot something important, bakura doesn't just duel to win, he duels to break his opponent, remember he did that whole "do you know the legend of this cemetary" routine before summoning headless knight, having him come back from the dead, and basically did a whole performance to rattle bonz and throw him off Its why I believe he does a lot of his moves, its to throw his opponent off and then when he comes back it rattles em

[@mystery8820]

Bakura can get away with "misplaying" if his intent is to make his foes afraid.

[@MoGhadas]

This duel seemed like the most "game, set, match" duel in the entire series. I'm surprised that Bonz actually had a chance to win. TGS with another banger!

[@byronsenior6499]

Well, Siegfried stomped Rex and Weevil in one turn.

[@animefanatic787]

Bonz 100% was hitting way above his weight class here

[@byronsenior6499]

Bakura was the one to seek him out knowing this.

[@Cloud-dt6xb]

But it made for a great showcase of just how freaking scary Bakura is in comparison.

[@animefanatic787]

@@Cloud-dt6xb very true

[@animefanatic787]

@@byronsenior6499 and bonz accepted

[@donaldbruce7559]

My favorite videos from you are OG season videos. Love the duel break downs. Completely fills my yugioh nostalgia!

[@jordandelosreyes5656]

This being Bakura’s only win on stage is pretty interesting with only 1 short duel you can tell this guy means business

[@Dragonatrix]

Shame he never wins on-screen ever again

[@Eric6761]

​@@Dragonatrixhis only close win against Kaiba but that's debatable at best

[@roncerjani9063]

​@@Eric6761He was making up tablet effects left and right in that Duel.

[@Eric6761]

@@roncerjani9063 making up tablet effects? What that means?

[@roncerjani9063]

@@Eric6761 At the end when he said that reviving Blue-Eyes made diabound gain ATK equal to his and making it the strongest monster on the field. I don't remember the duel quite well but I remember him giving his cards some weird effects near the end

[@ivanbluecool]

Bon is the poor man's weevil and rex.

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

Bonz at least had a style to him. Sure, weaksauce duelist and underutilized character, but Zombie type specialist has a panache that honestly deserved more love.

[@RetroIsaac]

​@BR4IN1N4J4R it sucks that Bonz got buried by the MULTIPLE other spooky and horror themed duelists like Panic, that one clown guy, Strings, and even Bakura, i find him a lot more endearing and wish he at least joined weevil and rex for the oricalcos arc stuff 😭

[@roncerjani9063]

@@RetroIsaac Who would he want to beat though? Weevil wanted Yugi and Rex wanted Joey. What rival should they give to him?

[@uhggbbhg]

This duel always made bakaru seem so intimidating to me. The way he won so easily and banishing them to the shadow realm after.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

10:23 Strangely, in the English Dubbed version of this duel, Bonz refers to the card he sets as a Magic Card.

[@ivanhunter6492]

Bonz put up a good fight but ultimately he didn't deserve to be dragged to hell

[@RedDragonForce2]

@ 12:48 Actually, Bakura could set that Spell card facedown, attack Crass Clown for zero damage, and have a defensive play for Goldfine’s attack next turn. Bakura had an alternate play to deal with both monsters.

[@RejectedHeroesMedia]

Looks like bonez didn’t stand…..A GHOST OF A CHANCE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@REALmikegordan]

Two things about Battle City that needs to be addressed: First up, for a Fusion Summon, all Fusion materials must be on the field. Second up, duelists can only set one card per turn, which is why Bakura doesn't set Headless Knight. That, and Bakura's playing psychological warfare with Bonz and company in order to throw them off their game. Edit: Another thing to note, following your suggestion, Bakura still would have won, but a whole turn earlier. 'Cause the only way this would work is if Bonz had the foresight not to set and activate his trap card, and he left Armored Zombie in attack mode. Bakura, in this instance, probably would still activate his spell to power up his Earl of Demise in order to deal a whoppin' 2500 LP. If Bonz already activated his trap, it'd also deal an additional 300 LP, which would have lost Bonz the duel either way. And even if Bonze showed a bit of restraint, there's no reason to suggest that Bakura would have activated that spell card straight away as opposed to summoning other monsters in order to get over Bonz's field. It's very likely Bakura hand consisted mostly of monster cards if he saw fit to discard his entire hand, and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Bakura decided to play something as comparably strong as, say, Headless Knight or Baron of the Fiend Sword to deal with Crass Clown. Edit 2: Also note, whether or not anyone can enter or exit the battleground for a shadow game is all up to the person initiating it. Which is why Serenity and Odion were able to enter the site of Yami Marik's duels against Joey and Yami Yugi respectively. The person initiating the Shadow Duel determines the rules of the game.

[@MarcusRalphson]

no, only one seems to need to be on the field. kaiba fused with blue eyes in hand loads

[@REALmikegordan]

@@MarcusRalphson Off the top of my head: 1. Yugi vs. Kaiba 2 2. Duel Monster World against F.H.D. 3. Kaiba vs. Duel CPU 4. Yugi vs. Noah 5. Yugi vs. Kaiba 6. Yugi & Kaiba vs. Dartz 7. Memory World arc against Zorc The first two instances involved the prototype Duel Disc, which essentially treats cards on the field and in the hand as one and the same, with only one main monster out at a time (with exceptions). The rules regarding fusion summoning had been changed to better reflect the real world by the time of Yugi & Kaiba vs. Dartz, so in total, Blue-Eyes Ultimate only saw the field 3 times while Battle City rules were still in effect. The only time this rule was broken was the duel between Yugi and Noah, which has rules built off of those set in Battle City, but given its status as a filler arc, those rules were not borrowed whole-sale. In the other two instances where Blue-Eyes Ultimate hit the field during Battle City, all three Blue-Eyes had to be on the field.

[@rickyl3819]

​@@REALmikegordan You're right about Blue-Eyes being on the field when it gets fused, but wrong about the materials all needing to be on the field. In fact, NONE of the materials need to be on the field, as we see near the end of the Battle City Finals. In the final turn of Kaiba's duel against Joey, he discards a Thunder Dragon from his hand to add two more Thunder Dragons to his hand. Then, without summoning either of them to the field, he activates Polymerization to fuse them together to make Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon. He then activates Quick Attack to attack the same turn, winning the Duel.

[@REALmikegordan]

@@rickyl3819 Filler duel. Never happened in the manga.

[@anthonynguyen1289]

@@REALmikegordanthe anime is not the same as the manga. There’s loads of differences between the two not even counting the filler seasons which are questionable if they could be considered filler as they have real world counterparts. The final duel between Yugi and Atem, Kaiba is not present in the manga. This change in the anime is pretty major as Kaiba shouldn’t know that the Pharaoh is gone or that Yugi is a good duelist worth respecting. Dark Side of Dimensions follows the manga which is why Kaiba is different in his approach to Yugi. Also Kaiba being the manga/Dark side version wouldn’t really be softened up to the point to make the events of GX. The various seasons and how drastic the difference between anime and manga should have already told you they are not the same story just like Pokemon or any other manga based on children’s games like Beyblade.

[@Desolateinfinity]

I remember this was the first episode released as a fan dub that was supposed to be truer to the original Japanese. And it was the only episode ever completed.

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

My take on the question "Can Great Mammoth attack the turn it's revived?" is yes, it can. The rule seems to only apply when summoned through Polymerization. Remember Serenity's St. Joan and Kaiba's XYZ Dragon Cannon could attack the turn they were summoned, and neither were brought out via Poly. So imma say Battle City rules allow Fusion monsters to attack the turn they're revived.

[@Amitlu]

I guess that explains how they excused Perfect Machine King attacking on his first turn too. Though it really shouldn't work that way. But I suppose the writers were tired of making up quick-attack-like cards. XYZ Dragon Cannon seems to be a special case regardless. Kaiba used it more like a union monster in that duel.

[@RodimusMinor1987]

Another perfect example of it can is Atem vs Seeker, Atem revived Chimera with Monster Reborn and had it attack and destroy the final Exodia head that Seeker had summoned into defense mode to protect himself.

[@jamesturner6979]

For Halloween could you do the Alice vs Jaden duel from GX? Even aside from the infamous missing scene debacle, it's one of the best filler episodes IMO and has a really underrated duel in it. :)

[@anthonythomas305]

Agreed. I want to see that Also, Alice is such a cutie pie 🖤🖤🖤

[@byronsenior6499]

Missing scene?

[@genyakozlov1316]

​@@byronsenior6499 In the sponsor portion of previous episode's next time preview, there is a scene of Bastion sitting at his computer, seeing an 'Alice in Despairland' card on his screen, and getting attacked by it. In the episode proper neither the scene nor the card appear, although we know where it would have gone, as Bastion heads out to investigate Alice in the yellow dorm, and later Jaden finds him unconscious in the forest. It would have gone between those two scenes. As a bonus fact, in Transformers Super God Masterforce one episode preview shows the Decepticon leader Black Zarak attacking Disneyland, where everyone is wearing Mickey ears, yet it's also not in the actual episode, probably due to fear of copyright strikes from Disney. I wish cut scenes from anime were released like cut scenes from movies. Clearly there is some completed animation which goes straight into garbage due to episode rewrites.

[@help_im_trapped_in_a_square]

I like Alice vs Jaden so I approve. I wish they released her deck

[@anthonythomas305]

@@help_im_trapped_in_a_square Agreed. I wish her deck was released in OCG

[@TheGreatSalsaMan]

Poor Bonz didn’t deserve his fate…can’t imagine whats worse dying, guaranteed hell, trapped in the shadow realm…

[@MarioMastar]

Especailly since he was a victim of bullying and like pointed out, wasn't really harming anyone as much as just pulling halloween pranks. Plus he's just a child. Though after seeing the Season 0 manga.... what Bonz went through is probably not nearly as bad as what Kaiba was trying to do to Yugi and his friends .... and they're all like 14.

[@byronsenior6499]

I mean he did commit theft here stealing their duel stuff. But this is still too cruel and sad a fate.

[@Yojimbo16]

7:08, this always bugged me in Yugioh where someone would use their Normal Summon only to immediately use it for a Fusion Summon. If Jaden had done this in his duel with Chazz in the 2nd episode, he would have absolutely lost the duel.

[@haiphuc8049]

1:50 The duel begin and Zygor go first He Normal summon himself and then activate his effect which allow him discard his opponent entire hand then special summon "Sid" or "Bonz" Bakura respond by activate the trap card counter which allow him to negate Zygor effect and destroy it Then the second effect of Zygor activate, if this card is destroyed by battle or an opponent card effect, special summon "Sid" and "Bonz" directly from the hand and/or Deck Then on a new chain Sid and Bonz on summon effect activate their effect but since Zygor is not on the field, their effect cannot resolve

[@jamieholmes4751]

Medusa and dragon makes mammoth And I thought Johnny Steps’ Fusion was bizarre lol 😂😂

[@jacksoncorvus]

"We won't know unless we... Jump into the duel." This is quickly becoming one of my favorite lines in all of KZbin. Right up there with "Starting the streeaam" and "Hello Internet..."

[@filipvadas7602]

The fact that this is the only onscreen Duel Bakura ever wins and its against a side character that *really* didn't deserve the fate he got is kind of wild.

[@shadexvii3975]

4:11 I think it’s worth noting the scene in which he summons headless knight. He’s playing mind games and trying to scare them into thinking there really are evil spirits/undead here, since it was the tactic they used to get their locator cards. He therefore did it more to mind game than anything else

[@roninwarriorsfan]

"Pyramid Head! Stop humping Nemesis!"

[@pablodelgado7919]

I knew i should've have it muted

[@firepuppies4086]

"I don't like this guy" "yeah, he sounds like Bandit Keith!"

[@DigiWarriorCallum]

The hauntingly evil looks on Bakura's face, plus the intense black shadowing in many scenes made this very memorable, outcome aside. But yeah, Bonz' fate was a bit too cruel.

[@bladersmosh]

When you have Takahiro Kogami animating episodes of Yugioh, you’re bound to get great quality animation.

[@Eric6761]

I would have understood if it was Keith but Bonz didn't deserved being dragged to hell

[@truckercowboyed2638]

How old is bonz, poor kid

[@tarikkash4282]

@@Eric6761 The anime doesn't explain Keith's fate, but with him being American, it wouldn't surprise me if he went back to America and later died a horrible death!

[@tarikkash4282]

@@bladersmosh What about Kenichi Hara?

[@Zmon3595]

The whole Melee fight analysis was actually super funny and enjoyable definitely do it again in the future with future Duels if the opportunity arises.

[@easportslegend]

0:10 bruh you did not have say that, don’t do bones like like dat😂😂😂 he tried 😢

[@UltimateD755]

He was too weak

[@easportslegend]

@@UltimateD755 But still though, I feel for bones. I even created a zombie base decked to show how clever he could have been made if the creators would have put some thought into it.

[@UltimateD755]

@@easportslegend Zombies are strong but bonez was a kid dueling a insane duelist, bones had no experience

[@UltimateD755]

@@easportslegend bakura is merciless he fights til the death like marik and dartz but I do believe he should of gave bonz mercy as he’s just a teen a kid

[@MsShadowrunner]

So I want to try doing a play by play of the most optimal plays that I can see with each player playing like real people. I will consider Mystery cards as bricks to make it simpler. I'm also going to put each players LP before there turns start. 4000LP. Bakura's turn, set Headless Knight in face down defence, set Shallow Grave and ends his turn. 4000LP. Bonz's turn, Summon Zombie Warrior, attack face down, takes 200 points of damage, sets Skull Invitation and ends his turn. 4000LP. Bakura's turn, tribute summon Earl Of Demise, activate Shallow Grave to summon Headless Knight back into defence, Attack with the Earl, Bonz takes 500 points of damage and ends his turn. 3300LP. Bonz's turn, activate Polimerization to summon Great Mammoth Of Goldfire in attack, set Crass Clown and ends his turn. 4000LP. Bakura's turn, activate Spiritualistic Medium targeting Earl, discards 4 cards for medium, switches Headless Knight into attack, attacks Mammoth with Earl dealing 1800 points of damage, attacks face down with Knight and ends his turn. 1500LP. Bonz's turn, Activate Premature Burial at the cost of 800 LP brining back Mammoth, attacks with Mammoth into Earl dealing 200 points of damage and ends his turn. 3800LP. Bakura's turn, switches Knight into defence and ends his turn. 700LP. Bonz's turn, ???. At this point it was all up to speculation as the dual didn't last any longer. With the way this version of the dual went, I can still see Bonz losing as Bakura just needs to hold out until he draws Monster Reborn (if he has it in his deck) and then he has won with Earl and Ectoplasm.

[@Superbox647-o5q]

I think I have an theory why bonz summon dragon zombie instead of using polymerization fusion I think is because bonz probably not completely familiar with the battle rules so he probably through he it was like duelist kingdom

[@Sonadourge]

I really liked the actual fight analysis. It was really cool to hear the commentating and analysis of something that wasn't a duel so it was quite interesting. In terms of duel monsters duels, I would like to see the final Yugi vs Bakura duel since it is the final non ceremonial duel of the series and basically the final antagonist duel. I also just remembered that there were Kaiba vs Pegasus duels including in the pyramid of light which had really high stakes with saving mokuba. I never really thought about it much, but I'd love to see an analysis video on it

[@tyguy46]

Just watched the bakura vs malik breakdown . Excellent timing

[@GavsEvans123]

Worth bearing in mind, Bonz had Bandit Keith coaching him through his duel with Joey. This time, Bonz can't rely on anyone else to help him strategize, hence the misplays. Although Sid and Zygor are there, we never see them duel, so it's possible they're the bad guy equivalents of Tea and Tristan and couldn't help Bonz play better, only offering moral support or muscle.

[@SUPERVEGETTO92]

Am I the only one who feels bad for Bonz? Dude wasnt even that bad compared to most antagonists, and he was just a dumb teenager who happened to meet up with a pure evil spirit that loves creepy things, gets sent to the Shadow Realm and not a single person even finds out about it.

[@michaelkarimian7538]

You’re not alone, as I to feel bad for Bonz. Yes he didn’t make the best friends, but because of his glandular problem and constant bullying he chose a dark path. Ultimately though, he was practically harmless and certainly didn’t deserve to be killed like this. He was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Luckily (very much later) Atem would avenge them by destroying Zorc (though he didn’t have them in mind at the time LOL) PS I heard some people say that Kazuki Takahashi clarified that Bonz and his gang were brought back later, but the reason we never see them after this is because Takahashi forgot about them. Haven’t found the source of this information yet, so yet to be confirmed.

[@utilisateur9369]

​@@michaelkarimian7538 thanks ! My inner child can now relax after knowing bonz and his firends are still alive

[@ViroVeteruscy]

If Bonz had summoned Crass Clown along with Great Mammoth of Goldfine, it'd depend on if he played it face-up or face-down as often players in the anime/manga played monsters face-up such as when Kaiba played Dragon Seeker face-up. If Crass Clown was played, Bakura could have killed it in battle forcing Bonz to attack Earl of Demise during his turn (drawing Nightmare Steel Cage) with Great Mammoth of Goldfine. Doing so, Bakura would activate Spiritualistic Medium as a Quick-Play and get the same result (if he doesn't bother playing any other card). This would then depend on if Bonz plays Nightmare Steel Cage, which would prevent both players from attacking for 2 turns, or revive Great Mammoth of Goldfine had he saved Premature Burial to try to attack again (assuming Premature Burial can play as a Quick-Play as sometimes cards randomly do that in the series, if not, then it wouldn't matter as Earl of Demise would still have 4000 ATK for the turn).

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

Poor Zombie Boy…

[@tarikkash4282]

He should've released this video on Halloween!

[@mystery8820]

Brains brains brains... (Yeah, he deserved better)

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

@@mystery8820 Zombie Boy deserved to avoid the Shadow Realm. After all, his performance of the American national anthem of was something to behold… IN AMERICA!

[@mystery8820]

@@Nameless-ln5mr Brains brains brains brains braaiiiins Brains brains brains brains braiiiiiins (O say can you see By the dawn's early light)

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

@@mystery8820 (sigh) Zombie Boy always had such a way with words…

[@kingmagikarp97]

0:21 doesn't matter if it's the shadow realm or hell, I personally don't know which would be worse specially with those three going there while still alive, but this is a great scene and I do enjoy watching this duel and I love Bakura lol

[@velvetbutterfly]

It depends on if he refers to actual hell or Yomi. If you believe Dante, hell isn't the worst and even has a way to escape for some.

[@jtwatts7990]

Before even watching this video I can already tell you, Bonz really didn’t have a Ghost of a Chance 😂

[@josephcrickmore53019]

Well I am here again to request my favorite duel (at least in my top 5 cause I also want Yuma vs Nash to be covered too) but I want you to cover the duel of Yusei and Kalin vs Lotten. Man I love this duel for everything it has. Finally seeing the subbed version and realizing it has an ending (something the dub cut out), the way the duel is set up and how unfair it is, and the time Lotten threatened children with violence to make Kalin surrender and then proceeds to blow up the town. I just really want you to cover this duel someday. Also it has my favorite Infernity cards ever and I wish they got printed (especially now cause Konami doesn't care about powercreep), such as Zero and Death Gunman.

[@floricel_112]

Ah brains....

[@WilliamReginaldLucas]

I love that they at least gave Bakura one of his own episodes during Battle City. This may be the only card game he ever wins but we really do see how powerful he really is just as a general occult antagonist.

[@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD]

It sucks to sucks bonz died wanted to see more of him Sam with make after battle city

[@tarikkash4282]

I wonder why Sam never covers Duels from Season 1!

[@roncerjani9063]

​@@tarikkash4282Rules are very whacky there. What's he going to critique when Yugi can make up bullshits to explain everything

[@tarikkash4282]

@@roncerjani9063 He should at least cover Yugi vs Pegasus!

[@warligerdan9492]

2:27 No, no! Keep going with the fight analysis! It's absolutely hilarious! Thank you for the content and have a wonderful day.

[@jessespencer7972]

Bonz had no chance in hell of winning

[@mycloverpiecesmycloverpiec3521]

Some could say that he didn't stand a ghost of chance

[@cliffturbo2146]

@@mycloverpiecesmycloverpiec3521 And that's without a *Shadow* of a doubt.

[@VillainBoss24]

@@jessespencer7972 turns out he very much had a chance of winning

[@tarikkash4282]

@@cliffturbo2146 FUNT FACT: Bonz and Syrus from GX have the same VA in the sub! Masami Suzuki!

[@SMittal9279]

Actually, after watching the video, he could have won

[@lordofninjas1]

Good choice of duel to cover for the Halloween season. I was going to mention that Bonz wouldn't have been able to summon Armored Zombie that first turn because of how it was initially summoned in the Anime by Bonz, but then you mention him just Normal Summoning Dragon Zombie without going through that process (Dragon Zombie, Clown Zombie, and Armored Zombie were all summoned the same way in the Anime initially), so that disproved that idea. Also, while we never see them duel, based on what we see from Seeker's computer it's shown that one of Bonz's companions has Firewing Pegasus as his rarest card and the other has Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon as his rarest card, it might be interesting to try and reverse engineer decks for them based on that little knowledge and the cards available up to the point in the Anime we see in this duel.

[@TheRyman7]

I actually love these videos, I’ve watched all of them and crave more haha! Keep it up mate xx

[@2111darkboy]

2:31 awww inwas quite enjoying the explanation ngl

[@titopro9284]

He should do more of these😂

[@CruikshankSCP_VT]

Great video Sam!! Hope you are gonna do more of the Vrains duels like Playmaker & Revolver’s 4 duels

[@davidhaycraft8636]

I feel like you're intro would be a great April fools gag

[@gzzhyt]

Marik is the if contact of argument 0:00

[@jeremiahbelgrave2356]

Before the duel begins the fight begins and segul goes first😂😂😂that was hilarious

[@Hero1922]

This episode inspired an idea you might be interested in exploring When you mention a bit of "what if Bonz had won" A what if series for the finals of the tournaments or other relevant duels where the opponents are swapped For example Duelist Kingdom Could Joey have beaten Mai in the first quarter final match? Could Yugi have defeated Bandit Keith? It's mostly speculation based on their plays from other duels around that time but could be interesting Just a casual thought I had, as always I love your work and this was a great video

[@jasonlock884]

Love it. Absolutely love it. I love you duel analysis videos. Here are a couple of other suggestions though for future videos DM: Yugi and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra Yugi and Joey vs The Big Five Kaiba Vs Gozaburo Kaiba vs Alister Yugi Muto vs Yami Bakura Dawn Of The Dual GX: Jaden vs Chazz Princeton when he was representing North Academy Jaden vs Lyman Banner Jaden vs Aster REMATCH Jaden vs Sartorius Hassleberry vs Jim Jaden vs Viper Jaden and Jessie vs Yasuke Jaden vs Nightshroud 5D’S: Yusei vs Kalin REMATCH Jack vs Carly Yusei, Jack, and Crow vs Rex Goodwin Leo and Luna vs Lester Team 5D’S vs Team Ragnorok Jack, Leo, and Luna vs Aporia Yusei vs Z-ONE Zexal: Yuma vs Vetrix Yuma vs Eliphas Nash Vs Vector Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand Yuma vs Nash Arc V: Jack vs Sergei Yuya vs Jack Yusho vs Yuri Yuya vs Declan If anyone else also has suggestions, I would (and I’m sure Sam would) love to know them!

[@mr.pastaman]

These videos are super cool simply because it shows the power of writing. When you think about it, any duel in the series that gets a whole game off makes it pretty clear that if the writing wanted, either character could definitely win. Makes for nice "What If?s" like these. Since you have to have some semblance of suspense the opposition has to have something at least somewhat decent and we often see both players hands, so now we have this and I love it. It's kinda the anime way of how the games' story works where after you finish a duel you can swap and play the antag of the duel's deck. It really shows you how close some of these duels can go. 😊 Also quick edit: If Bonz did win and Bakura's prize card was DB, would he get the whole set? Or just the trap? 🧐

[@UndeniableBlack]

Love these videos. Wish there were 100 more duels to analyze

[@BadMann3rs]

The intro joke bit felt like a "how to beat" KZbin video 😂😂

[@Stan_man]

Now that i have watch each and every duel analysis (after finding your channel that is), there are few duels i would like to request, just how good/crazy they are. Jaden vs Dr. Eisenstein. Jaden vs Bob Banter Chazz vs Reginald Van Howell III Yusei and Kalin vs Lawton. Team 5'ds vs Team Taiyo.

[@alster724]

4:38 Bonz: Looks like your knight lost more than its head

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

This duel only shows yet again what of a pushover Bakura was.

[@averageguy1469]

Since the duels are chosen at random he might have not dueled Yugi. He might have dueled Ishizu or Joey.

[@JosephHk743]

I don’t know why I like coming back to this duel in particular and watch it. Probably because of the atmosphere once the duel started. 13:14 Ectoplasmer is a Continuous Spell and not a Field Spell. Not sure why he played it like that since Arcana played Ectoplasmer correctly, but it didn’t really matter in the end. If it wasn’t for the Battle City Fusion Monster rules where all of them have summoning sickness, then Bonz would’ve made things slightly harder for Yami Bakura to beat over Bonz’s Mammoth. Also, yes the premature burial play could’ve been saved for reviving the Mammoth if Bonz just fusion summoned earlier and then attack over the Earl of Demise. Then again, Bakura’s Fiend deck was later revealed to be running Dark Necrofear in his duel with Yugi. I like to speculate that if Earl of Demise went down, Bakura would’ve brought out Dark Necrofear after waiting at least 1 more turn (ideally with one more fiend in the grave added to make 3), boost up in some manner, and then attack to gain back the advantage. Bakura Wouldn’t even need to call on Dark Sanctuary and Destiny Board at that point either. Good video!

[@LucosPlays]

Huh you brought an interesting thing about Bonz's situation. 1:51 - 2:29 Sam you're a complete goofball although i would've loved a full breakthrough of those strats😂😂😂 also loved hearing Melee's Big Blue again. Bonz was a victim of the plot so that's the answer of all misplays. 6:45 Can i ask how in the blue hell can Dragon Zombie and Snake Hair make a mammoth? Would've made more sense to make Graveyard Mammoth and another zombie. 10:00 Now i picture Mario 64's infinite stairs music in loop. 11:12 Let's be real everyone who duels Yami Bakura gets infected with his lack of brain cells at the time of a duel (also i can't get enough of the Mii channel music for those moments) but well Bonz actually would've won if he just waited out his snake hair and THEN used premature burial for his Mammoth...at least this duel wasn't a misplay fest like Marik vs Bakura later. Great vid Sam also a few words in memorial of Bonz...*ehem* Brains Brains Brains Brains...Brains Brains Brains.

[@alcatrazvongola]

Once Bakura dispelled Zygor's Evil Mask Equip card, the fight was already over.

[@parkerdolson2157]

2:38 damn i kinda wanted to see the whole fight review lol 😂

[@christopherbouska6779]

Covering matches like this is why this is one of the best channels on KZbin

[@averageguy1469]

But we have seen someone try to enter a shadow duel and pretty much the same thing happened.

[@gzzhyt]

When my hands are black Duel island

[@Looknook1]

I always enjoy the duels that have actual misplays from the duelists. Much more interesting than one person just drawing better/having better cards.

[@herohut725]

11:17 This reminds me of something I wanted to do a while back. Write a story of the tournaments where the opposing players won.