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

[@Chelaxim]

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

[@ArunaUtd]

Only real men use Watapon!

[@fun2building]

Fucking same My mom got Pyramid of Light though

[@giraton1]

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

[@P4brotagonist]

Same. God damn i was seething over it

[@r.heffner-hoe4983]

😂

[@xy394]

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

[@InvaderWeezle]

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

[@nmr7203]

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

[@ASavageEye]

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

[@intuitivelymagician2076]

I know 😂

[@robertfoxworthy5503]

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

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

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

[@wakkaseta8351]

He flipped the table with extra steps.

[@soranora4597]

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

[@fangslore9988]

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

[@ASavageEye]

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

[@fangslore9988]

@@ASavageEye thats why its reprint was ironic

[@Christopher-tz3mr]

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

[@shazilla4]

lol how despressing

[@White_Night_Demon]

Damn I wanted some too

[@KameWeeb]

I'd have lost my shit, knowing I was leaving with a bunch of cards like that.

[@15jchilders]

🧢

[@havoc697]

My friend had a similar experience, her cousin worked at the local cinema in town and gave her and her friends she saw the film with like 5 promos each because no one was seeing the film

[@gligarguy4010]

Anyone else think Rare Metal Dragon looks like a Rhyhorn?

[@whadafish9440]

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

[@BlueKnight931]

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

[@SamehiroKuronashi]

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

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

It do look like Rhyhorn dragon version

[@JasonFisherTX94]

Yeah just a little

[@ITyler33I]

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

[@Dzeeff]

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

[@Bigparr43]

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

[@ASavageEye]

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

[@TheLordofMetroids]

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

[@TheLordofMetroids]

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

[@bmcoyne88]

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

[@Meguro-Masaki]

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

[@SOM-v4o]

I bet seeing the egyption card summons would've been something else to see in the theaters.

[@matthewzarate8851]

Wow!

[@Meguro-Masaki]

@@SOM-v4o Little 10 year old me was awestruck tbh, I remember Sphinx Telea being horrifying too 😂😂

[@SOM-v4o]

@Meguro-Masaki her and her scream was morw terrifying in theaters I bet.

[@Yardnoc3103]

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

[@nsiderultimaseth]

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

[@mateusrp1994]

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

[@catsorafgc]

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

[@hermitxIII]

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

[@vparsa87]

It’s called reborn tengu.

[@lesterwilliamsjr649]

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

[@Merilirem]

Ikr? We need retrains of all these!

[@emred4653]

she was so hot

[@jonathan-6958]

And arousing too (dont ask plz😅)

[@zanir2387]

​@jonathan-6958 🤨

[@autobotstarscream765]

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

[@cdgames69]

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

[@trevorsamuels8392]

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

[@cdgames69]

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

[@cdgames69]

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

[@zerocalvin]

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

[@cdgames69]

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

[@kyuubimakai009]

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

[@lucaslennan3356]

Lmao

[@Rogue_Wulf]

Same, the card is actually really good its crazy lmao

[@1stCallipostle]

That sounds incredibly slow but go off

[@fapuloes]

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

[@Jason0binladen]

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

[@solarlunar64]

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

[@nmr7203]

How did they get 3 Blue Eyes out

[@isuckatgaming3527]

​@@nmr7203 Screw the rules they have money

[@ryanhoule4415]

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

[@TYSniper]

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

[@solarlunar64]

@@nmr7203 they cheated lol

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

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

[@deancombs4075]

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

[@satyayana1399]

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

[@thedepressedguydoesstuff]

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

[@___________0Z0X]

That was a pretty “DARK” fact!

[@rikflare7970]

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

[@darkdragon7210]

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

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

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

[@darkdragon7210]

I didn't know that. Pretty cool!

[@White_Night_Demon]

They should have added that as the effect: "Its ATK is the total value of all ATK of all monsters in both players graveyard."

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

@@White_Night_Demon Theinen‘s effect only used one GY in the movie. Kaiba and Anubis shared the same GY.

[@White_Night_Demon]

@@PrimeroJinJusuke Oh I see, so to get him to one hit win the game after summoning him would be to force both players graveyard in one pile, either theirs or mine, right?

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

@@White_Night_Demon Not really. Considering that Kaiba‘s GY plus the two Sphinxes were enough, you don’t need your opponent‘s GY at all. After all, the 31,500 ATK boost came from a singular GY. And in today‘s YGO, filling your GY in one turn is very easy, especially with Link Monsters.

[@TheMightyGiantDad]

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

[@VixYW]

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

[@defender2222]

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

[@Jason0binladen]

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

[@SelfReassuringTitle]

Next duelist pack is LIGHT attribute so fingers crossed

[@Merilirem]

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

[@dayvonlouis5187]

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

[@alphawolf7417]

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

[@lvli044]

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

[@VamYGO]

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

[@caramelp3137]

Decklist?

[@partymantis3421]

@@caramelp3137 google'ing " tethys watapon FTK "brings up some good guides on it

[@adamellis6044]

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

[@LionWithAGun]

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

[@babysinclairfan]

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

[@SowaraAkther1]

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

[@Haj_Otter]

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

[@amadeus7447]

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

[@AuntSteve]

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

[@Sepharuma]

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

[@matasa7463]

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

[@Kwevin6659]

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

[@crh1985]

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

[@analoghabits9217]

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

[@Guns_RedRoses]

I got like 10 cards when the guy at the counter wasn't looking. There was a box full of them, and got all cards and some duplicates.

[@JJSquirtle]

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

[@robertdaniels-lane7321]

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

[@kennethlenore2332]

Facts 😂😂

[@desertsniper23]

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

[@UltimateD755]

Gagaga is my buddy

[@lokithehero2309]

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

[@cutecombo8496]

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

[@JJMomoida]

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

[@NerdXlife]

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

[@PorkShark]

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

[@NexXxu]

I love how the description of the Pyramid of Light anime counter part is sooo specific *All God Cards on the field are removed from the play.* LOL

[@masterfreelance99]

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

[@Merilirem]

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

[@DBasedAlex]

Blue eyes shining dragon predating blue eyes ultimate dragon by TWO YEARS must be one of the biggest Mandela effects in yugioh history

[@FullMetalSnorlax]

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

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

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

[@Bomberman204]

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

[@darkside7802]

I miss childhood. The dog shit cards. Not knowing how to collar correctly. The old “school yard rules”. Man. The wonder we had as kids. Dude I depressed myself so hard. I’m always severely depressed though. This is just another, albeit small reason.

[@manynukes11]

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

[@Alico_Reborn]

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

[@ThePageofRage]

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

[@masterjoda999]

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

[@ComicKathy]

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

[@extrapip]

I got a Watapon. I was a bit sad and my mom saw so she asked the dude if I could get another one and he gave me like 10 more packs 😢I still got all the cards 😊

[@Shiptoast0]

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

[@luisaguilar849]

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

[@Zusk0]

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

[@Jason0binladen]

Sorcerer of dark magic is totally better than jinzo, it's got 3200 atk opposed to 2400 atk but both monsters are terrible by today's standards because you can tribute them for a kaiju or raa sphere mode, quintet magician just out classes them in every way, there are other ways to negate spells/traps too like denko sekka

[@travisohaver42090]

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

[@Snowmanx52]

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

[@Tirgo69]

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

[@Shiptoast0]

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

[@JPMitchell31721]

I still have a bunch of these unopened from when I worked at the theater when this came out. Are they worth anything?

[@Kaiskindacracked]

Loved the sphinx cards as a kid

[@nosfonader8792]

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

[@Gkiss3955]

Watapon is the best card

[@IsmaelRDeMelo]

I use Blue Eyes Shinning Dragon . It's my favorite dragon from Kaiba

[@Hoixon]

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

[@funnySIMON99]

I had Sphinx Teleia ! I loved the movie as a child so Teleia was one of my most precious cards in my collection. You've just hit right in the nostalgia !

[@El_Bellota]

Fan brick decks disagree.

[@jashubissachar4484]

😂😂😂 why can't my fan anime deck be any good lol😂😂😂

[@Flame6302]

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

[@floodinmon14]

Well, with these 11 cards being discussed, I think there are finally at least 40. Enough for a Why Nobody Plays Structure Deck. I feel like making it in Master Duel and trying to climb the ladder with it.

[@dizasteroid7]

Who hurt you??

[@bobowon5450]

I still run the blue eyes shining dragon in my deck. I don't care if its mediocre, i love it

[@Hyper_Drud]

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

[@Sammechu]

"Pay half of your Life Points. Special summon as many monsters as possible from your banishment. During the end phase, banish all monsters that were Special Summoned by this effect."

[@GreyKyle]

I’m confused, there was a card to fill out with the dvd where you had to send like $2 and then they would send you every promo card why did no one else do this?

[@AloneTheorist]

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

[@Shea_Fresh]

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

[@19TheFallen]

I remember a theater near where I live having half a box of them left when the time came to pull the movie from their listings. A box that was slated to be disposed of or given away. (From what they told me, legally they couldn't sell them, seeing as they were given to them as promotionals for the movie.) I'd never had a chance to see the movie, due to the times it played, and the distance I would have had to travel, so, upon learning they were giving them away, I talked to one of the employees about them. They promptly handed me eight packs. (The max they were allowed to give away by their managers.) I got two Blue-Eyes Shining Dragons, a Pyramid of Light, two Sorcerers of Dark Magic and three Watapon.

[@pretends2know]

7:29 There's a second drawback to Theinen the Great Sphix you didn't mention. Theinen summons "WHEN" Andro and Teleia are both destroyed, not "IF." This means that summoning Theinen can miss timing, so if you MST your own Pyramid of Light, then I chain my own MST and destroy it instead, because their destruction didn't resolve last on the chain, no Theinen is summoned.

[@Insanity_Crow]

I saw this movie with my Uncle when I was visiting in Florida. Especially back then, where we were there were barely any kids around. When the person at the ticket counter saw an actual kid we got like a stack of card packs since the theater had received way more than they needed.

[@LunaticKD1991]

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

[@EmeraldDragoon]

Yknow, the thing i like most about early yugioh, is how nearly EVERYONE seemed to have the same playground/friend experience with it lol

[@snowboundwhale6860]

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

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

As with promo cards of any kind in any game there are two important things: 1) are they allowed 2) are they viable In most cases promo cards simply aren't allowed in tournament play. And in cases that they are allowed, they are often extremely niche and only work in the very context they are displayed. Which can't be expected to happen in actual play.

[@CasualYugiStuff]

I always loved the art on Rare Metal Dragon 💎

[@BryceDixonDev]

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

[@TheForeverRanger]

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

[@shayoko6]

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

[@matifloresta]

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

[@SmilePecoSmile]

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

[@thenomad7548]

I play sorcerer of dark magic all the time. I use diabellstar, fluerdilis, apprentice magician, magicians navigation, a wild monster appears, and many more...i shut down centurion, labyrinth decks, trap burn decks, kashtira decks by combo this csrd with antispell fragrance and secret village of the spellcasters. Best part is you can pick which trap cards to shut doen so you can still activate yours!!

[@Videosaurus_Wrex]

I had a defense rock themed deck that was all about flipping cards up, there was some good non-movie sphinxs that I used so i threw in the movie sphinxs to surprise what the opponent was expecting, but I never used pyramid of light, I had enough power level special summons that the odd tribute wasn't a painful cost

[@dirtman6000]

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

[@cmrobbins88]

Sorcerer of Dark Magic feels a lot easier now. With all the Dark Magician support you can easily get it out like with Eternal Soul, Ebon High Magician, Magician Navigation, etc. It’s pretty comforting to have to prevent Trap Cards from activating.

[@nosrin1988]

Back around 2010 I had moved out to Arizona, and I came across a grocery store that had a lot of these in their vending machine for a dollar. Now I had started playing yugioh in 2004 so those cards were a bit nostalgic for me. I knew they were bad cards but well, I ended up spending like 100 bucks on that vending machine. lol I bought every single one they had and kept going back until they ran out of stock! XD lol

[@BIankPage]

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

[@Mr.Qwayzar]

....okay I admit it, I built a Melffy Sphinx deck in master duel that used the movie Sphinx cards...it worked and I made like 2 videos on em a long time ago

[@SomaCruz500]

Have actually pulled off the Inferno Tempest/Return from the Different Dimension combo twice. Casual play with friends. Used the combo in my Kaiba deck, which is currently in Battle City configuration, and ooooooo buddy. It was a battle city/movie deck at that point. I unironically run Shining, because I love my weird Cyber-BlueEyes.

[@TheTIGSY]

not that it would make it any good, but if you used pyramid of light, brought the two cards onto the field and then played a card that negated all trap cards, and destroyed your own POL would you then keep the sphinx given the effects of POL were negated? (or even negate your traps first given the POL just needs to exist not actually do anything inorder to allow you to summon)

[@francisco3992]

I had this combo: -activate pyramid -summon both sphynxes -sacrifice both sphynxes to summon a monster (2800 attack) that when summoned revive 2 beast cards in your graveyard to your hand, choose the just sacrified sphinxes. -both sphinxes were "destroyed at the same time" to summon 2800 monster so I can special summon third big sphynx -summon again the first 2 sphinxes Was this combo legal/correct?

[@Billy-ot8mk]

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

[@NexXxu]

12:34 Return from the different dimension is a meme about Kaiba misinterpreted the card In the movie Kaiba wants the “perfect win” and if Anubis never interrupted the duel, Kaiba would use the Return form the different dimension to summon the Egyptian Gods and defeat Yugi, BUT if you read the card it says “Special Summon as many of YOUR removed from play monsters” so, Kaiba would summon, Peten The Dark Clown…yes, i want to believe this happened in an alternate timeline.