Was Mizar About To Defeat Kite? [Dragon Strife]

[@zeospark9715]

I always loved their dynamic being both Galaxy Eyes users and despite being enemies, they have a lot of respect for each other. It's still crazy how Kite legit dies at the end of the duel despite winning it but Mizar fortunately honored his last wish by giving that numbered card to Yuma

[@KuriKuKu]

@@zeospark9715 i always thought it was interesting how right after that, Mizar almost FTK'd don thousand if the guy wasn't cheating with his numeron power

[@thegreatscribbles960]

And ftk himself ​@@KuriKuKu

[@DranzerG3]

@@KuriKuKu Actually fun fact in the anime, Numeron Network's efffect is pretty different. This is it's effect; "During your opponent's draw phase, if you control no cards: you can activate this card from your hand. One per turn, during either player's turn, if you control no other cards: you can activate the effect of 1 "Numeron" card from your deck, then send that card to the graveyard." And looking at the animation for Don Thousand's duel against Mizar, then Yuma & Nasch, Don Thousand had 5 cards in his hand before his second turn started. Which means, yes it's a stupid effect, but technically he didn't cheat. I did love the mystery behind it when he first pulled that trick on Mizar, but lookig back on it, it shouldn't have worked. Mizar played Dragon King's Demise to deal damage to both players equal to the total atk of the tributed dragons, however Don Thousand switched Mizar's spell to Card of the Dragon King which tribute's Mizar's dragons and deals only to Mizar damage equal to their total atk, but he gets to draw a card for each dragon tributed. However the MASSIVE problem with this is that to activate either of these cards, you need to tribute monsters to do so. Which means, Don Thousand forcing the activation of Card of the Dragon King is actually wrong. Even if Don Thousand could ignore activation requirements, Mizar has no more dragons on his field to tribute. Mizar still would've lost the duel, but the way he loss doesn't make any technical sense. And if you're thinking the anime's rules are different, no cause in Jack's duel against Dragan when Dragan made Scar Red Nova Dragon lose 2k atk & unaffected by Jack's spells & traps, Jack used Burning Reborn and tributed Red Nova as part of the cost to activate it, getting around it's immunity. So the same rules should apply to the Don vs Mizar duel. Heck this even happened in Atticus vs Fubuki's duel with burst breath

[@goudacheese7491]

Like how Mazar refused to use the lighthouse to make things fair

[@Blue-y5m8q]

Q​@@KuriKuKu

[@lordofcrows]

19:35 ,,Watch this Mizar, I'm going to perform a SHINING DRAW" ,,Oh shit, what crazy combo is he going to finish me off with?" ,,Set one pass" ,,HUH?"

[@idosarts_and_krafts]

"TF YOU MEAN SET ONE PASS?!?" "WHAT?! ARE WE PLAYING FOSSILS NOW KAITO?!"

[@CD-Gaming]

Usually when I set one, it's backrow and my opponent starts sweating, fearing it might be Magic Cylinder!

[@idosarts_and_krafts]

@@CD-Gaming either that or mirror force

[@CD-Gaming]

@@idosarts_and_krafts I'm well-known for Magic Cylinder at my locals! I've won more Duels than is funny with it, both in real life and digitally!

[@DranzerG3]

@@idosarts_and_krafts Or reckless Greed and you top deck into battle fader and Hitnotama to deal the last points of damage!

[@aliesterus1.023]

24:14 This is also a fun little reference to how the speed of light works. For those not in the know, most animals perceive information based on light bouncing off of an object and into our eyeballs. However, light has its own speed limit, so while up close it looks instantaneous, at vast distances, say, millions of billions of miles away, by the time we see something, it has already happened x amount of times in the past. If this were a typical Shounen anime instead of a card game, Neo Tachyon Dragon would be trying to reverse time on Optimus Prime Dragon beginning to punch it in the face, but Optimus Prime Dragon has already thrown the punch two millenia ago, and Neo Tachyon Dragon is only reacting to the image of it happening and only just feeling it now.

[@LetsRUMBLEAQ3D]

Funny thing that you forgot to think about including, in terms of speed between a "tachyon" particle and a "photon" particle, a tachyon is technically faster.

[@aliesterus1.023]

@@LetsRUMBLEAQ3D I kinda didn't feel like it, but yes, the basis for why Tachyon Dragon is able to rewind time is in fact once you can travel faster than light, you are theoretically capable of time travel.

[@EclipseBullet]

Funny thing, THis is how I understand Kaito's "Time Stop" powers. Instead of actually Time Stopping, I strongly believe that he can accelerate himself and the opponent to the speed of photons, this being the reason that time looks like it has stopped for them.

[@themoonlitduelist7395]

@@EclipseBullet I do want to say no, just because o the card photon time stop being called photon retardation and retard actually mean to slow or be slow, so how would one be fast if one was slow ? LOL

[@qingakabenji9876]

An example of the whole 'light having it's own speed limit' thing, well, look no further than our own sun Say that the sun 'blinked' for a moment, while it may seem like it happened instantly, it actually happened 8 minutes ago

[@frozenquasar1309]

Was Z-Arc About to Beat everyone Was Ai About to Beat Playmaker Was Revolver/Varis About to Beat Playmaker

[@harlemparsons2197]

Z-Arc wasn't winning the train-duel, Ai says himself that he intentionally let Playmaker win, so yes he could have won, Varis got screwed, he definitely could have won their 4th duel

[@Deathmare235]

@@harlemparsons2197so the ai one doesn’t really count since ai was never serious

[@harlemparsons2197]

@@Deathmare235 Yes

[@NoOne-ks8tu]

ZARC could just pull effects out of his ass so he had it coming when Rey screwed the rules 😂😂😂

[@CreaturesOfTheMarsh]

@@harlemparsons2197Actually, I don’t know that it’s true (Ai being able to beat Playmaker), at least if you look at the game state at the end of the duel. Maybe he could have earlier, but not on the last turn. Dark Templar’s anime affect only summons to its Link Arrows, and it was in a Main Monster Zone. He could have destroyed Decode by crashing, but then Playmaker’s turn is anyone’s guess, and he does have crazy one-card combos. If it was IRL effect, then yes, but Templar is actually worse in the anime

[@דודשמלה-ת7ר]

MISPLAY If kite would have activate overlay booster effect on prime photon dragon before he was banish, he would have deal 1000 more damage (because it had 2 matarials) meaning kite would had won the duel (because after the attack mizar had 700 LP)

[@memeking7273]

Finally someone said it. I was looking for this comment to

[@AliasXynx]

Exactly I was looking too for this exact comment. Could have won turn 3.

[@mystery8820]

But winning alone isn't the game plan, destroying Tachyon with Dragluon was an attempt to restore Mizar's memories.

[@mayborneflower]

And here I thought the win con was to not set Galaxy Shockwave until Prime got removed, which would still be a Draguluon win.

[@ReederMG]

Bingo! Came to make the same comment. And he even took a minute to point out this card going to the graveyard and still forgot it would've won the duel quicker.

[@Modie]

Gonna be honest, I still wait for one of these videos to be a Duelist Kingdom video where the whole gag is that you make up monster and card effects as you go (like they do in the show). "Well, you see, Yugi could have used his Celtic Guardian in this situation because as we all know, as an elven warrior, he is able to hide in the woods, so I am going to say misplay Yugi". Maybe as an April 1st video.

[@Woodenfan]

That'd be funny.

[@michaelkarimian7538]

This comment made my day! ROFL 😂😂😂😂

[@pierreauburtin2218]

I up this idea. Really hope he is going to see your comment.

[@mariothane8754]

“I’d say sending your monster to split the moon in half was a decent move. No misplay.”

[@tsovinar2287]

Dying on the moon and still hunting the win is an astronomical Kite W

[@Deathmare235]

Bro’s biggest fear is beating mizael, not a big of a feat as you think

[@tarikkash4282]

A zexal video eh?

[@Rhythm_Haruka46]

NOT THE PUN WITH ASTRONOMICAL 😂

[@Diamondr11Blue]

@Rhythm_Haruka46 considering his peers are astrophysicists its correct !

[@rainbowdragon168]

Kaito and Mizar’s duel on the moon is one of my favourite duels from the Zexal anime. I legit cried when Kaito died because of his damaged suit and how Mizar acknowledges him as the True Galaxy Eyes Master or something along those lines

[@danielcurren2119]

Zexal was dark. There’s no shadow realm censoring the legit bloodbath the barians, Dr. Faker and don thousand commit. Don even turned all of earth into his field spell to find the numeric code. That pretty much eliminated all living things on earth except astral, Yuma, Tori and shark. There was an astral world guardian who sacrificed himself to negate the field spell. Season 1 really tricks you into how dark season two onwards really gets and that includes attempted galaxy level genocide. Yeeesh

[@DranzerG3]

It is easily one of the best duels in the series because unlike a lot of duels in Yugioh, there's a sense of honor & respect between the two duelist. Only 1, ONE of them can be the stronger Galaxy Eyes duelist, and they have to settle that. Fun fact about Kite & Mizar's first duel btw, Kite should've won that duel. You see Kite on his last turn was able to get out Phonton Thrasher & Photon Circle, both lvl 4. Then he used Up Shift to make them all lvl 8, to summon Neo Galaxy Eyes and attack for 2k damage. However, Kite has this one monster that was really helpful when the zexal era cards came out irl. Starleige Paladynamo. It's effect in the anime is to detatch one material and negate an Xyz's monster's effect, and lower it's atk to 0, Plus if he's ever destroyed, Kite gets to draw a card. If Kite had just overlayed into this bad boy, and he's got a Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon with 2k atk, he'd have just enough atk to win the duel there, Mizar had no spells or traps on the field, and only 2 cards in hand, one of which being Monster Reborn

[@okagron]

@@danielcurren2119 Being dark is not something unique to Zexal, GX season 3 and a lot of 5Ds are pretty dark. Honestly, Zexal getting more dark in season 2 was probably a response to the criticism season 1 got of being a little too much child oriented. Like i said above, 5Ds was pretty dark from the get go (the first season alone tackles some pretty serious topics like social inequality and all the problems it brings), so for Zexal to bring a somewhat childish tone was seen by a lot of people as a bad decision.

[@danielcurren2119]

@@okagron oh yeah, that’s true. I remember in 5D’s everything was dark related to the satellite or the dark signers, Mek lords and possible apocalypse by relying too heavily on synchros

[@superanimeniac]

my favourite remains yuma vs nasch. Shark's final speech to Yuma about how 'understanding each other doesn't immediately mean there won't be conflict' is so powerful, and his final move was so moving.

[@VanishEclipse4867]

Bit of a note with the Illumiknight card. Kaito doesn't really play Numbers Monsters in Zexal II since he's no longer hunting for them and they don't fit into his deck normally. Most of the Numbers are in Yuma's possession at this point has all of them aside from the ones Shark has. So a large majority of Kaito's Extra Deck monsters are Photon XYZ monsters that pair with Galaxy Eyes. Mizael could have other Rank 8 XYZ monsters to work with his mainly level 8 dragon deck however that itself is an unknown since Barians have mainly ever brought out their signature Numbers monsters. Fun fact, Kaito summoned Numbers 46: Etheral Dragon Dragluon is through the guidance of Dragluon himself. Because it has to do with the Barian Emperors being connected to the Seven Legendary Numbers which 46 is one of them. It turns out the Over Hundred Numbers namely from 101 to 107 is a curse placed on the Seven Blessed by Don Thousand who had been eyeing the Seven of them and setting up events that lead to their eventual demise. The Seven Emperors before being cursed were the original wielders of the Seven Legendary Numbers. Astral explains it during Yuma's final duel against Alit but destroying an Over Hundred Numbers with their Legendary Numbers counterpart in this case destroying Numbers 107 with Mizael's original Numbers card namely Numbers 46 Dragluon himself, it unveils to them the truth to their downfall tying them to Don Thousand. In hindsight aside from freeing Alit and Gilag who were under Don Thousand's control it didn't do much of anything else aside from showing them how Don Thousand had turned them into the Barian Emperors.

[@jaernihiltheus7817]

My headcanon is that mizar had number 87: draglubion, since it's the dark counterpart to dragluon (and mizar plays chaos dragons, so the card is more or less designed for him after the fact). Reason why he wouldn't use it would be because it's basically designed for numeron dragon and he doesn't have that one, and he can't summon it with the seventh one as that only works with barian numbers... So he'd have had to rank it up into something worth playing by using barian's force and he didn't draw it or any monsters to go into a rank 8 naturally in the second duel.

[@CD-Gaming]

*Xyz! XYZ is its own monster, a Fusion no less!

[@mystery8820]

And for some reason, despite doing so with Mizael and Vector, they're still itching to fight and even without Don Thousand, Vector is still an unhinged clown and tyrant.

[@VanishEclipse4867]

@@mystery8820 Mizael knowing his life was manipulated by Don Thousand doesn't mean anything to him and his pride as a Galaxy-Eyes master. Then in the case for Vector, even though he was manipulated he was fully aware of his actions and the damage was already done. That's what I mean by it didn't do much of anything and Nasch wasn't cursed by Don Thousand either but was instead lead down that dark path and became a Barian Emperor by normal means.

[@RustyHarmonica]

Oddly enough, even though "Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon" is Don Thousand's curse lay upon to control Mizar and is not officially part of the "100- Number" series, Numeron Dragon still recognizes it as part of its prophecy to awaken through a battle between two Galaxy-Eyes users.

[@KngHrts2]

I love their duel on the moon (God, Zexal is weird), because it's one of the few times we see a duelist assess their opponent's decks, when Kite presumes that he and Mizar have almost identical spells and traps.

[@vanguardplays3418]

a breakdown of one of my favourite duels in the entire series

[@GaioSamurai]

I feel like Zexal was so built around perfect counters and Destiny/Golden Draw that it's hard to really find a duel where the alternative plays would matter. Great analysis, as always, Sam. I can't wait to see the analysis of Yuma dominating Vector that cut this duel short. Lol

[@Kris_King]

They actually had a duel before these two. It technically started as Mizael vs Yuma and Astral, but Yuma took to much damage from the Sphere Field so Kite took over. That one also ended in a no result, but imo Mizael had the advantage at the end of that one.

[@melvinshine9841]

Yeah, Mizael was very likely going to win that one had it continued.

[@arenbuffaloe6578]

​@melvinshine9841 Yeah, like Mizar was about to drop NEO TACHYON on Kite's face at the end of that duel, on his own turn before the Battle Phase. Kite even surviving to his next turn from that is all but impossible.

[@bladersmosh]

Since you covered the Kite vs Mizeal Sargasso duel, will you consider doing the Yuma vs Vector duel in the distant future. That’s a fan favourite Zexal duel which tests the friendship and betrayal between Yuma and Astral’s bond and show off just how amazing a villian and troll Vector is. I love him.

[@FluffalKyurem]

I wanna see the Dumon vs. Shark Sargasso duel.

[@captianblitz]

I would love to see Yuma V Vector becuase Yuma actually misplays on the turn the Dark Zexal stuff happens. He had Giant Hunter in his hand, a card which would have prevented the infinite loop.

[@Lucario1121]

I never knew so many people loved Vector, is It because he's one of those "Joker insane" kind of villains ?

[@misterOrca4]

Joker Insane

[@richardhuang7158]

It’s kind of infamous for being the episode where Yuma “cheats”. Tbh even though it was a great episode narratively, the entire duel was mostly shenanigans so not a great one to analyze.

[@vendettaduck1288]

22:19 i would also like to add that in yugioh if an effect results in a not round number you round up meaning that eventually when you get to less than 1 attack point when halving it goes back to 1 meaning that this effect would always kill if it didnt have a cutoff.

[@giovanniorellana2200]

Another Zexal Duel Analysis! Those are rare!

[@bladersmosh]

@ZoneHeart-00 I agree. Some of them might be harder for Sam to analyse. However, if he does, I’m sure Zexal duels like Yuma vs Nasch, Yuma vs Vector, Nasch vs IV, Yuma vs Tron, Yuma, Shark and Kite vs Dr. Faker etc could get very high views.

[@zexalbrony4799]

@@bladersmosh And don't forget Yuma and Nasch vs Don Thousand. The Duels against Number 99 could also be interesting. He could even do April Fools videos on those 2v1 Duels where Yuma and his friends fought those Duelists Mr. Heatland sent against them, the ones that cheated causing Yuma and his friends to all start with 2000 LP and they get 8000.

[@RustyHarmonica]

Personally, I prefer the later season's analysis from 5D onward than GX or DM because it is less shenanigan, shorter duel time, and less misplay on both sides so it feels smooth to watch.

[@fluttershyamy]

👍

[@AnnoyingLittlePerson]

Genuinely one of the most bingeable series on YT Also, would love to see Shay vs Sora. That duel with everything going on with Declan interfering with the field spell, Sora having to keep up his cover as well as that final unknown action card that Sora picked up I think would be a very interesting duel to analyze.

[@sasir2013]

that final action card didn't really matter. If it was something to negate effect damage, he still loses next turn by a normal attack. If it wasn't, he loses to the effect damage. Even if, SOMEHOW he dodges both things, he has no cards in his hand, and any special summoned monster will have 0 atk against revolution falcon. So yeah, at that point he had already lost.

[@cameraredeye3115]

​@@sasir2013 Basically, Shay was winning that duel no matter what.

[@kingcrimson4504]

-won the duel of the century -says actually you're better -dies -refuse to elaborate

[@Rhythm_Haruka46]

Great Summary of the ending of that duel. (also no one is better than Kite so idk why he said that, ig because Mizar could survive the duel? Maybe because Mizar finally understood not all humans are that bad?) BUT that duel... It's so godamn good.

[@Rar-u2f]

@@Rhythm_Haruka46 He explains it, it's in reference to Mizael's closer bond with dragons, while Kaito feels he just used them, but Galaxy Eyes guided him Basically he wins because of Galaxy Eyes' power but Mizael is a better dragon user

[@HenshinFanatic]

He gets better, thank you Numeron Code.

[@jaydenkavege6046]

25:30 what makes this even more funny is that jinking earlier in the series says that Mizar is a dragon user bigot, so his focus on only dragons is part of what cost him this duel

[@craftergamer9058]

3:00 Kite didn’t have Illumiknight anymore at this point in the show.

[@Animestar21]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he handed all his numbers to Yuma and Astral Though Yuma could've given it back to him prior to entering Sargasso

[@Avghistorian77]

@@Animestar21 He lost his numbers to Tron/Vetrix after their duel, then Yuma got them from Tron/Vetrix

[@Animestar21]

@@Avghistorian77 right, I forgot

[@Akachi-in6zf]

Thank you so much for covering something other than the first Yugioh series’ duels! I’ve really wanted to see a Zexal or Vrains duel breakdown for a while now.

[@mylesfromreality6376]

22:00 Fun fact. If I'm not mistaken, if a monster with an odd number of attack points has its ATK halved, the total ATK is rounded up to the nearest whole number. Thus, if an ATK value of 125 is halved, the new atk value would be 63. The same logic applies to life points.

[@SpecsTube]

Kite dieing after defeating Mizar in the moon duel is a rare Yugioh moment that always makes me cry. Kite will always be my favourite Yugioh character of all time. 9:04 That “Galaxy Rebirth” looks suspiciously like Tachyon Refresh LOL 17:49 Hold up, so what if Kite did use Overlay Booster’s effect here - Prime Photon would’ve gained 1000 extra ATK, which would win himself the duel here, right?

[@Someone-lg6di]

Then dragluion never destroys neo tacheon and mizar never gains back his memories

[@TheJoethud22]

@@Someone-lg6diand if he never got his memories back he would have taken the number 100 monster and left kite for dead. Siding with don thousand and dooming the whole cast

[@HandletheOJO]

This duel was one of the main reasons I loved yugioh zexal so much. I saw this duel when it aired and loved it so much. Thank you for finally covering it

[@danielestrada5103]

9:05 Hey @TGSAnime when describing Kite's hand you accidentally showed Tachyon Refresh instead of Galaxy Rebirth in his hand.

[@Rhythm_Haruka46]

NOT TACHYON REFRESH LOL 😂

[@darc0099]

FINALLY a Zexal duel!!! TGS can you please also analyze Kite VS Vetrix since it’s the only one Kite lost

[@roninwarriorsfan]

he's done 2 others thogh

[@kaiser9109]

​@@roninwarriorsfanhe means that it's been a long time since the last one

[@tarikkash4282]

ZEXAL! YEAH!

[@lulukomadori9651]

@@kaiser9109 yeah cause he keep doing battle city/classic

[@Lucario1121]

Fun fact, Dumon there, the lesser known Barian of the three of them that dueled Shark, has the same VA as Yusaku in the dub.

[@waylonhastings]

As someone who never watched this generation of Yu Gi Oh, you do an incredible job of explaining the complex card effects and how they're used in these duels. Not just word choice, but your pace and diction make it easier to follow along. Thank you sir! 🤙💯

[@Unknown-xr1iz]

The battle of only using your ace and keeping them alive vs playing around your ace so they have advantage

[@meanbeanmachine]

22:35 I never thought I'd see the day when Zeno's Paradox was relevant in a duel analysis.

[@KuriKuKu]

"Mizar, Sargasso is collapsing, we have to leave" "No I still haven't finished this duel" my guy, you could have but you chose to watch how Yuma vs vector was going 🫠

[@Cardlimits]

Vector is very distracting.

[@CD-Gaming]

"OOOOOOHHH, REALLY!? Am I jus too much of a distraction for you!? Do you need a quiet corner for your little Duel with your little Dragon friend over there!?" (Had to!)

[@samurexatlas7373]

7:30 No actually, as Barian's Force ANIME works after the CARD is activated, so by milling it he missed that beneficial effect. Kite could detach Mizael's materials and gain 500 for each, 2 at this point so 4500. If that set is Xyz Double Back, Kite wins. Also, nothing for Durbe vs Shark? Rude

[@hugodimension]

25:20 actually yes. The seventh one has a minor detail on it's text. The summon of the base number and the chaos xyz change surprisingly are two separated actions. So when C107 recovered it, misael could use it again and summoned normal 107 back from the gy.

[@littledyu-gi-oh3580]

21:40 It is actually perfectly legal to half any number value and if the halved number would end in ,5 you get the next biggest whole number (for example if you halve 25 you get 13 instead of 12,5) AND you are allowed to halve 1 and still having 1 left. Go check it out if you want, that's how it works. What that means is that no matter how many life points Kite had Mizael would be able to keep attacking with half the atk until the point he would reach 1 atk point and keep attacking for 1 life point each time, attacking an infinite number of times. That is why the restriction of 500 atk is there 😅

[@roninwarriorsfan]

you know, that analogy about the lp and damage reminds me of the Tortoise and Achillies paradox where Achillies will never be able to catch up to the tortoise if he lets it get ahead of him

[@Yojimbo16]

I think I heard about that from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

[@adaurysantos]

@@Yojimbo16 Yeah baby DIO had that as his stand ability

[@Yojimbo16]

@@adaurysantos That's the one

[@kaloyanivanov9938]

Fun fact in Yu-Gi-Oh when you get to 0.5 for example it is always rounded to the higher number if possible so if it got to 1 atk and he cut it in half it would still be 1 atk there is a deck that abuses this rounding mechanic called dinomorphia and if anyone asks it is impossible for anything to be different than .5 but if it was less than .5 it will round to the lower

[@aBagofFrags]

When Kite first attacked Neo Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon with Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon, couldn't he have activated the Overlay Booster in his graveyard, boosting #62 by an additional 1000 ATK points, winning him the game? Mizar only had 700 life points left after the attack shown in the video.

[@GalaxiaKnight666]

@22:50 You pretty much described Zeno's Paradox straight on. Quick summary: An object moving half the distance to its destination every time it moves comes infinitesimally close to reaching that destination without ever actually arriving. While an anime card like Tachyon Cannon having that 500 ATK point restriction does make sense to keep the show moving, man it would have been such a cool thing to see if Kite's LP had been bolstered to a point where Mizar could attack Kite indefinitely without ever ending the duel, as it certainly wouldn't have changed the outcome of the Duel. Can't see an honorable duelist like Mizar going to time on the moon lol.

[@myau9912]

It's not a very popular duel, but Yugi vs Gansley in the Virtual World arc had one of the most blatant "I could win this turn, but I'm just not going to for no reason." moments in the entire series. Wouldn't mind seeing that commented on.

[@kingkuriboh9519]

At 16:39 if Kite used overlay booster in the grave, wouldn't Number 62 gain 1000 attack? If so, then Kite could've won back then since Mizar only had 700 life left after his normal attack.

[@ncr_ranger96]

He wanted to use Dragluon to destroy Neo Tachyon to restore Mizar's memories. But from a purely practical standpoint, you are correct.

[@mayborneflower]

I just realized that Kaito would’ve completely had the duel much sooner and probably lived to the finale if he simply refrained from setting Galaxy Shockwave until after Tachyon Chaos Hole was used on Galaxy-Eyes Prime. A clash of two monsters with identical ATK was gonna be unlikely early on even with the mirrored stats of the Galaxy-Eyes monsters both sides wielded but Double Dragon Descent would’ve forced such a contingency and allowed Galaxy Shockwave to go live. Assuming I didn’t mess up my understanding of their cards, this would’ve let Kaito deal an easy 1500 damage and dunk on C107 while Mizeal had 700 LP and no way out.

[@dely9999]

The thing that i most liked about this duel was Neo Tachyon effect on the Anime... is fricking insane and broken XD

[@DarkSaber22]

9:05 The hardest summon animation given to a non-XYZ monster for the series lmao it goes so hard

[@mj1mj3]

FINALLY! I've been waiting looking forward to the day he finally runs out of DM/GX duels

[@wanderingram7207]

Haven't really watched Yu-Gi-Oh beyond 5D but still enjoy watching these duel breakdown videos.

[@khalilsotall]

Don’t even need to watch. No one can beat my glorious king kito

[@VivosaurACE]

One day we'll get a rush duel analysis... Really enjoy these, and I know a lot people like these characters though so I'm glad their finally getting it!

[@Ryo-kun]

Rush Duel tends to be short so there aren't much to discuss. I do think Luke's last turn vs Swirly is worth an analysis.

[@SenpaiYGO]

See now, what we need is a breakdown of their final duel. Easily in the top ten for greatest duels of all time. The fact it doesn’t have a single main protag in it either. I’d pair it up with duels like Revolver vs Soulburner. Epic duels between other cast members with either big stakes or big emotional payoffs. However, that one has the best of both worlds. The summoning of the last Galaxy Eyes Kaito could play… And it was a number no less. Let’s keep in mind, Kaito never lost to Yuma either. But even before that, each of these duels between these two were just fantastic. Incredible. Right, I’ll shut up now. Good day, Duelists! Cheers to you by the way TCG. Quite enjoy the content! - Ren Senpai

[@driphamilton3138]

this is my fav series of yours and why i subbed, pls do these more often!

[@littlekuribohimposte]

Mizar continually attacking was shenanigans. He knew he didn't have game. But Kite was dying, so Mizar decided to try winning, not by dropping his life points, but by actually killing him with his monster.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

I might be wrong(I haven't watched it in a long time) , but iirc, he doesn't know he's DYING(i mean he dies because of lack of oxygen due to damage to the suit), just that he is hurt because of the real damage due to barian power. Also, he just kept attacking because he wanted to do the most damage, and he knew he could negate his cannons effect. Making Kites LP a candle in the wind against a storm...

[@dp101]

@@drakeredgrave6747 Well, the part where he was dying in general was separate from both those factors, from the very start Kaito was in a lot of pain due to using photon transformation too much over the course of the series, which apparently puts a strain on his body. Mizael might have been trying to exploit that instead. Either way it doesn't change whether Mizael would have attacked tbh, either he's trying to lower his life points to increase his chance of victory later or he's trying to kill him for real, even if he doesn't have game on the spot there's no reason *not* to attack, he's under the impression he's winning on his next turn anyway.

[@goudacheese7491]

​@@dp101I don't think he would try to exploit it to win, unless he suddenly changed, he wants to win fair and square.

[@drakeredgrave6747]

@@dp101 I'm pretty sure this wrong, while it DID strain his body that was during the faker arc. Here, what happened was that during his duel with Heartland, something happened that damaged his eyes, leaving him almost blind

[@ak47dragunov]

Maximizing damage to your opponent's LP is a perfectly legitimate strategy

[@toastywozzy]

18:30 its not just this dual, it is all of zexal. So many crazily perfect situational cards being played for the turn

[@beybladeking99999]

Thank you so much for doing this duel analysis, I love this duel so much and it’s one that I was honestly curious if it could have gone differently, so this is going to be interesting to see

[@serpentsfist]

The way you described tachyon cannons attack division oddly enough perfectly explains how gojos infinity works in jjk

[@lordrao1793]

I like the reference to Satoru Gojo’s Infinity technique as you were explaining Tachyon Cannon’s effect. Nice 👍🏾

[@BritishGrumpyCat]

I love the Galaxy Eyes archtype

[@nomad8690]

Oooh, so that's where the artwork of Saga of the Dragon Emperors came from. 24:35

[@neworldvicotories]

glad to see more duels from other series than DM

[@masterripper5409]

YES!!! I was hoping you’d analyze more Zexal duels.

[@CrushedLvl]

Also keep in mind that at this point all of Kite's numbers are now in the possession of Yuma after the Duel Carnival.

[@anthonythomas305]

Yes!!! Another Zexal Duel Analysis and it's one of my favorite duels of all-time A battle between two Galaxy-Eyes users was epic! Kite and Mizar are two of my favorite characters in Yugioh Zexal and not to mention their duels were a stuff of legends ✨️✨️✨️ Kite's death really shocked me and bring me into tears after his final duel in the moon. It was truly heartbreaking 😥😥😥😥

[@TheJaredPunch]

That fight on the moon was a long time coming, and it did NOT disappoint!

[@ryantavakoliyan948]

Just pointing this out, neo-photon dragon would have negated sargasso's effects when it was summoned in their first duel so there should have been no more burn damage

[@Crimson_Dragon01]

I'd like to see if Team 5D's (or least Yusei) could have legitimately beat Team Unicorn (or Jean) without the anime shenanigans at the end. They could have just made the ending to have Jean doubt himself because of Yusei's determined look in his eyes and his unpredictability which would have legitimized the way it ended, but I would like to know if Team 5D's could have won at any other point.

[@derpyderp1991]

I like that both kite and mizar use the card effects exactly how they supposed to be used

[@DeboriBros]

Amazing analysis, interesting to hear it all again and see how their hand was and how they worked it. I think a cool duel to look into would be Yuri and Yugo's duel. Specifically what would happen if Aster (Edo) and Kite (Kaito) never interrupted the duel. Cause we assume Yugo would win, especially due to a card's effect, but when testing it out on EDOpro, it didn't seem to work as intended. So maybe there is a ruling we don't know, or the system is not right?

[@sasir2013]

which card doesn't work as intended?

[@DeboriBros]

@@sasir2013 Speedroid Shuriken Hurricane I believe is what it's called. When using it, we assume that when Clear Wing attacks Starve Venom, when Starve Venom does, will kill Clear Wing and deal it's ATK as damage, but the card is supposed to reflect all effect damage you take while having a Speedroid or something? Which we tried with the experiment. I wish I could show what I mean.

[@sasir2013]

@@DeboriBros but starve venom is a board wipe, there wouldn't be any speedroid under your control

[@DeboriBros]

@@sasir2013 In the anime, I think it still destroys Special Summoned monsters only? I might have to check, but I was sure it was the case.

[@sasir2013]

@@DeboriBros wait, but did yugo had a normal summoned speedroid at the time?

[@JEAFlashSword]

7:07 "brand new super saiyan 2 transformation" 🤣🤣

[@doctormarvel2148]

These are the kinds of obscure but epic duels we need more of.

[@destinycoordinator77]

Besides the hyper-specific counter cards, something that this analysis also showed is that Zexal really liked cards that treat one monster as multiple materials for an Xyz Summon, or a spell that itself treated as a material.

[@burnum]

It feels like this was timing with the end of the recent Duel Links event.

[@SteelPokeNinja]

22:50 This is actually infinite, as that’s how asymptotes work: If you keep repeatedly dividing a number, it will just get smaller and smaller, approaching but never reaching 0.

[@firewolf950tfwgaming7]

22:54 I say it’s not shenanigans, but not for the weird life point thing. Given that Yugioh ruling goes that any half payment rounds up, that means that if there were no cutoff and Mizar got Neo Tachyon down to 1 attack point, then he would be able to continuously attack because the 1 attack point would round back up to 1 and he would just keep attacking indefinitely.

[@c.c.anubis]

Not sure if anyone commented, but when it comes halving stats, it will round up to the highest number, so technically, Mizar's card would guarantee an OTK if it could attack for less than 500, as once you reach 1 ATK point, you halve it, it rounds back to 1, and you keep attacking a few hundred/thousand times with 1 ATK, basically, as many times as needed, until you win, and the opponent can't really do anything to save themselves, so yea, the cut off point is legit to prevent unstoppable OTKs.

[@GordonFan]

10:16 I know it is semantics in this case but technically Mizar's opening hand didn't have "Rank-Up-Magic -The Seventh One" like I know it is his opening draw but it is certainly obvious it is the card he drew with the rest as his opening hand but still would have been something to note as in this case you can tell a difference between his opening hand and his opening draw as depending if a card was his opening draw or opening hand it would be an amazing start or a horrible thing to see. 25:17 So here is why I mentioned it was important to note it as an opening draw. I do think it might be possible he had other ones between 101 and 107 to where he had other targets but if this is the case having it include the draw distinction like the normal card it would explain why it always was used immediately after drawing so if it is just in their hand it is unusable but if it is the draw then it is a good powerful draw. If we/you don't want the "You must draw it" restriction then the "You can only use once per duel" would fit as all points that card was only used once per duel even if they had it and just didn't really have other assumable targets. Also as it is Mizar I do feel even with other targets that he would only use Number 107 as a target and as you mentioned he never would have been able to get the other 102-106s even if we say he had them and then maybe had it transferred to Shark(I forget if shark used 102-107) like Kite did with Numeron Dragon with maybe the rest of his extra deck as well to Yuma.

[@mjdragon12]

Thanks for the video man! If i can give a suggestion: the Graduation Match of Jaiden vs Crowler from GX season 4

[@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 Gosibora 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: Sorra vs Shay 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!

[@ncr_ranger96]

The obvious change for the Big Five duel is to have Jinzo as deck master at all times. Every trap Yugi and Joey every played would have been a non-issue.

[@tylerrusnak7736]

I was hoping you'd break down this duel as its a good one! Shows just how far Zexal came.

[@Mernom]

9:02 a small mistake with Kite's hand here.

[@megamanfan220x]

As a dinomorphia player, i can confidently say this: You can not have a point total (Atk / Def / LP) with a decimal. It will always round up to the closest whole number. If (when) I use my dinomorpha cards to the point where I am down to 1 LP...I can still activate effects since it would "half" my life to .50 but because of game rules it keeps it at 1 LP. (No I did not have Stealthbergia on the field, and this was tested in master duel as well as EDOpro)

[@RunicSigils]

Playing it in software doesn't matter because there can always be errors, even if it's official. But yes, this is just a rule. The limit on the card is to prevent an OTK that would happen 1LP at a time, eventually. No matter how many your opponent has when you start. Not just an OTK, but an incredibly boring OTK.

[@andrejv.2834]

​@@RunicSigilsloops like this aren't an issue in the tcg though since, as long as the gane state is actually moving, you can just declare that you're performing the loop X times and skip the actual steps

[@elemomnialpha]

21:59 personally I also wouldn't call shenanigans because of it just NOT being a opt effect is also just shenanigans so it needed something to balance it

[@GaioSamurai]

Loving the new office, Sam. You might want to add some sound absorption, cause it's echoing a bit when you're more excited. Anyway, time to "jump into the duel"

[@cameraredeye3115]

Next up should be Vector vs. Nash (the duel right before Don Thousand obtains his true power).

[@briarbarfield5809]

I love the zexal duels. I'm hoping one day you'll do Yuma and shark vs don thousand. One of my favorite duels of all time

[@michaelkarimian7538]

I’ll be honest I stopped watching Yugioh after GX, mainly because of how crazy the game evolved over time. However even with that even though the new rules go over my head, I can’t emphasize enough how much these videos make the duels easier to take in. No matter what era of Yugioh we’re in these videos are always a treat. Here’s a few future suggestions: Atem and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra Atem and Joey vs The Big 5 Kaiba vs Alister (both rounds if possible) Jaden vs Aster Phoenix (round 2) Aster Phoenix vs Adrian Gecko Jaden vs Darkness (season 4) Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand These videos mean so much thanks again! 😇😇😇

[@LucarioGam3r]

I honestly think we need more Yu-Gi-Oh Zexel duels to be analysed, one example is Yuma and Astrel vs Number 96 or the duel where Yuma fights to get Astrel back(I forgot the opponent’s name).

[@bladersmosh]

Next to Vector (the best YGO villian IMO), Mizeal is my favourite of the Barian Emperors. He’s a villian but one with honour and respect. Refusing to use Sargasso’s Lighthouse is proof of that as he wants equal footing with his opponent. Plus, his rivalry with Kite is awesome.

[@anthonythomas305]

Absolutely agree!! Mizael is one of my favorite Barian Emperors as well

[@Trigger99X]

Honestly Alito is my fav barian and the duel between him and Yuma (before the brain control on him) is my favorite in the franchise Was really how I think duelist should be in a battle. Nothing else matters but the joy of a good battle between rivals

[@LikoandSprigatitoYT]

Not sure if this would work but: If the cards in Kite's hand were different in Duel 2, Kite could of boosted his odds of winning on Turn 3. For this scenario, the monsters in Kite's hand, Photon Thrasher & Overlay Booster, remain the same, but with a slight difference in the other cards in his cards. These other cards would be Star Changer, Triangle Evolution, Negate Attack & Galaxy Storm Here's the scenario: Start off by playing like the actual duel by summoning both Monsters to the field (this being Photon Thrasher & Overlay Booster respectively) use Star Changer's effect to decrease Overlay Booster's Level by 1, you now have 2 LVL 4 monsters on the field, XYZ summon Starleige. Set Negate Attack and end your turn. Mizar makes his moves as normal, until the Battle Phase. Neo Tachyon would attack Starleige, activate Negate Attack ending Mizar's Attack. Your turn comes again, you draw. Use Starleige's effect to bring Galaxy Eyes out by detaching it's Overlays, use Triangle Evolution to bring Neo Photon onto the field, Neo Photon negates other face-up effects on the field, apart from it's own. Attack Tachyon Dragon and use Neo Photon's Effect to snatch Mizar's Overlays and increase Neo Photon's ATK by 1500. Use Overlay Booster from earlier to further increase Neo Photon's ATK by 500. Now the battle is Tachyon at 4500 and Neo Photon at 8000, the effects go through and Mizar takes 3500 damage, leaving him on the brink of game.

[@yukiakira3435]

honestly i kinda get bored of DM/GX Analysis thanks for this one bro😊

[@toreeg1]

2:59 He could have summoned another Delta Wing for Delta Wing's effect "When this card is normal summoned, you can special summon 1 "Photon Delta Wing" from your Deck." From there he could have just gone into Illumiknight or he could have at least summoned another Delta Wing for extra defense next turn. Misplay Kite.

[@TeniirETA]

Im sure delta wing effect is't like that in the anime....

[@cameraredeye3115]

Kite didn't have Illumiknight anymore. And even if he did, it wouldn't help.

[@markblower8516]

I’d love to see more Zexal duels, specifically I’d love to see an Anna Kaboom duel analysis in the future, or if any support for that deck has come out in recent times

[@13KuriMaster]

Actually, a detail about that atk halving thing.... once you get to partial points, they round up (so, paying half of 125 would leave you with 63... not 62.5) and as some videos on KZbin had shown, you can still make the cost of paying half, even if your at 1 (typically shown with paying LP) in which case you lose nothing because it rounds back up to 1. As such, if that spell didn't have a cut off point, it could be used to keep on attacking for 1 damage, 8000 times..... yeah, it needed a cut off point.

[@jackryan8736]

I think Kaito/Kite did briefly hint that "Galaxy Shockwave" could be used on OG "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" when "Neo Tachyon" was on the field, even though there was a 1500 ATK point difference at the time, so maybe it could work if a "Galaxy-Eyes" had less ATK too, maybe? Please correct me if I misremembered that. The Moon duel is one of my favourite duels of Zexal, with Nash/Shark vs. Quattro from the same season being a very close second to it for me, so it's nice seeing the duel analysed. 🙂Keep up the amazing work.

[@kaisuzugamori9606]

I love your channel I seriously would say you have the best yugioh series ever I am a big fan of all your content.

[@robmus7146]

If i remember correctly, there was even a third one. When mizar started the duel against yuma and kite continued it before it got interrupted

[@Justcallmeaqua420]

Before rhe Sargasso incident

[@robmus7146]

@@Justcallmeaqua420 exactly. Shouldn't that count?

[@Shantae1188]

@@robmus7146Well, Kite jumps into the duel to take over very briefly when Yuma is on the back foot after witnessing the reveal of an Over 100 Number. Also, the reason that duel gets interrupted is because the Barian Sphere Field they were dueling in wasn’t spacious enough to bring out Number C107 in the first place

[@robmus7146]

@@Shantae1188 well maybe in that case it may be considered something similar to the duel between noah and kaiba first and noah and yugi later

[@Justcallmeaqua420]

The Duel ended before much could have been done by Kite after he summomed his Galaxy Eyes though

[@jerelljefferson8790]

This was definitely one of favorite duels in zexal.

[@RhyperiorRanger]

Finally some sweet sweet ZEXAL content. Such an underrated series

[@massimoblasutta8153]

7:10 "Yuma claps Vector with his brand new Super Sayan 2 transformation". He looks like a mix between a Zodiac knight and a super sayan fr.

[@B-radPT]

Love 2 see zexal duels, my favourite Yugioh anime series Plus galaxy eyes monsters are very fun to play

[@supremekingd775]

In the Sargasso dimension duel, even if Mizar played Neutrino Dousing and ranked up Number 107 into a Chaos Number he can’t resolve the effects of Barian’s force because it’s still Kite’s turn. If Kite still wanted to go on the offensive against Neo Tachyon he would’ve failed even with Neo Galaxy Eyes’ abilities. I believe that Mizar didn’t want to lose his dragon again to Neo Galaxy Eyes because that’s what happened in the first duel in the Barian sphere field so he was prepared for Kite’s dragon in this duel.

[@contaparaosmigos2013]

Another interesting duel in Zexal, for me, is Quattro vs Nasch. You could analise

[@digunder14]

i guess in the anime, opening with it in your hand is not a brick 10:28 cuz irl at least you have to draw "rank up magic the 7th one" as part of your normal draw, only then can you activate it