Top 10 Craziest Moves from Duelist Kingdom
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Duelist Kingdom is notorious for its wonky rules. This is attributed to the fact that the manga was written prior to the card game having a defined rule set, and the characters have no qualms with making the most of this Dungeon and Dragons-esque approach to the game. In this video, I’ll count down what I felt were the 10 craziest instances of these rules, or lack thereof.
Yugi has mastered the skill of "don't call a judge, trust me I know this ruling"
With his memories wiped apparently
@ 1:49
To be fair, Mystical Elf has the Book of Secret Arts, meaning she learned how to transfer her attack points to Blue Eyes, and her retrained artwork references this moment, despite her effect being completely different.
Looking back on it now. Kaiba really is the reason why Duel Monsters became what it is. Pegasus had zero control over how this shit worked lol.
Kaiba introduced the concept of tribute summoning and that changed everything. But I wish we knew who started the other gimmicks like synchro, XYZ, Link, etc.
There was a video about monster development a while back involving theories about ritual into normal into fusion research that hypothesized Kaiba developed these new techniques. Sadly I can't find it.
Kaiba made synchros
Kaiba Corp later made xyz
Links are alien technology
Pendulum are from yugi
But only synchro and xyz are in the same timeline
Pendulum shares a timeline with links
Yugioh Is a multi timeline series
The fact Konami made cards based on moments in the anime, like Attack the Moon and Detonating Kuriboh, just makes me chuckle
I love it when they do that and really hope they keep it up! Cause I'd love to see them make a card to reference when Yugi fused Blue/Eyes Ultimate with Mammoth Graveyard!
@@PolarBearBaker I'd love to see that being made
#3 - in the manga Kaiba explains the effect of when the mammoth graveyard fuses with blue eyes so technically it wasn’t yugi making up rules
2:50 i think what the writers were going for with the "shadow of eyes " was as a callback to mai's original duel with joey where mai sprayed her cards with perfume
Yugi’s infinite loop against Strings is my favorite move in the entire series. It exemplifies the concept of using all the cards on the board to your advantage and turn your opponent’s cards against them.
Loved that duel, as well as the one with the masked ghouls. They showed how much Kaiba respects his rival and how in the original at least his character is complex and multi dimensional.
He did help Yugi a lot, but in his own way.
Dark Magician Girl would never let her master live that down if she knew. "You got so antsy for bird ladies you broke the defence? LMAO."
Fun fact: Some cards created for these specific weird rules.
Machine immune to magic stuff: Rare Metalmorp
Mystical elf chant: Mystical Elf - White Lightning
Attacking the moon: ''attack the moon'' literally
Kuriboh negating Thousand eyes by exploding: Detonating Kuriboh
Monsters need to move before attack inside labyrinth: Labyrinth wall shadow
Thank you. I could not remember the name of that BEWD Mystical Elf combo.
Yugi used super poly before it existed by merging his mammoth into BEUD through the magic of the Living Arrow.
and yet he still ended up LOSING that Duel anyways.
@@veghesther3204only because Kaiba threatened to kill himself if he lost.
@Stonerman135 yup true kaiba basically played the "im a dick card" by tossing his life into the mix
@@Stonerman135
A wins a win yugi
I think the appropriate way to make this play into a card can go like this:
A retrained version of Mammoth Graveyard where you discard 1 Spell card to equip it to your opp's Monster; that monster's eff is negated, and it loses 1200ATK each EP.
or
A QuickPlay Spell that you equip a DARK Zombie monster from your hand to your opp's monster, then the same eff mentioned above applies.
To this day I feel like because where the life points were the pharaoh would have won with catapult turtles effect ALONE Panic had less than 1000 life points left. So it wasn’t an illegal play that lead to a win it was a DND style flex
So, what you're saying is, it was a "How do you want to do this?" moment.
@@digifreak90 exactly that everything else besides battle city was duelist kingdom bs
This is some next level thing. I’ll make sure make up effects when I have a winning move in any game from now on.
@@nostalgiacollectible789 that was basically the old Bandai game. Look up the old pre Konami rules sometime
Magic-Resistant Armor
Normal spell card
For the rest of the duel, all Machine-type monsters gain the following effects:
- They are unaffected by the effects of spell cards and spellcaster - type monsters
- If they battle a spellcaster - type monster, they cannot be destroyed by that battle, and their controller takes no damage from that battle.
Shining Evolution is the most blatantly illegal move ever. Literally change a card in your hand for a custom card.
Dark Sage seems to be what Solomon intended to do with the Time Wizard before Joey came into it.
I never thought about that.
Wait, I thought he could baby dragon from yogi
And I was wrong on that and yeah, mannersh makes a lot of sense
The Living Arrow card was basically a "This does whatever i need to win the duel" card.
#4 - What truly irks me about this moment is when they adapted it into a card...it only targets _opposing_ cards. You STILL can't attack the moon like Yugi did whatsoever.
They've revamped so many of Yugi's cards to make their own archetypes (black luster, Gaia/Curse of Dragon, Dark magician, exodia, chimera, etc) I'm amazed there hasn't been an archetype for that mammoth graveyard play. I would love it
really bonkers but im not gonna lie, i like this off the walls logic that some obscure or complicated resolve some cards have in the tcg.
I like how some of this shenanigans got turned into real cards, but I'm still waiting for a Castle of Dark Illusion retrain where if it is destroyed it blows your whole field.
the top 4 were so wild lmaoooo ill just always remember as a kid when yugi said "ATTACK THE MOON" my reaction being "you can do that??"
you touched on it with makyu but Weevil's great moth poison itself was shenanigans. It lowers your opponents monster's attack,,, in real time? Like the attack reduction relies entirely on how quickly your opponent can draw a card and announce their attack.
I always loved the half tcg half dnd rules of duelist kingdom and it seems a shame that konami had not implemented those rules in the game or in an alternative format
I'm curious. Where did the Paradox brothers put Labyrinth Wall, monster zone or Field zone? Cause if monster zone then couldn't Black Skull Dragon just attack the Labyrinth Wall?
Also, Yugi's explanation in the dub for why Blue-Eyes Ultimate started decaying was because Mammoth Graveyard is an undead monster meaning it can't properly fuse with Blue-Eyes Ultimate.
The thing is that Mammoth Graveyard’s typing as a card is actually as a Dinosaur, not a Zombie monster, so even by the rules of the game, it’s not undead.
Two more honorable mentions from later seasons:
In his duel against Rare Hunter yugi used summoned skulls electricity attack to charge his alpha magnet warrior with 2500 atk.
In his duel against Dartz yugi defeated divine serpent (which had infinite atk) by placing two of his legendary knights on the serpent's head and made them attack each other to create an infinit loop of power only to make the third knight deal the fatal blow.
That 'Attack The Moon' segment confused me a little bit since it was a slightly illegal play, given that Mystic Moon is an equip spell that can only equip to beast-warrior types, yet he used it on Silver Fang which is a beast type and when Silver Fang got deep-sixed the moon should have gone with it
I think starting from 5Ds all the characters played according to the game Rules. For example Yusei discarding Level Eater to summon QuickDraw Synchron and then using effect to Level Eater to summon itself from graveyard by reducing QuickDraw level to 4
I appriciate the consistancy with summoned skulls electric based attacks working with water.
I'm not surprised because there was basically barely any official rules for the game at the time due to season zero not having any actual rules.
So if you want to summon Blue Eyes White Dragon you can do it without the tribute rules.
I always loved the labyrinth duel concept, I wish they would've adapted it into a game.
Duelist Of The Roses was kinda like that and that's one of the reasons I enjoyed that game.
i really loved these. Made the series more fun
I actually really like the Labyrinth Wall and used to play a "homebrew" version of it when I was 10 with my friends all the time. I wish they'd made a real version of that instead of Dungeon Dice Monsters.
Who wants to play a ttrpg style duel with these kinds of rules and the labyrinth set up?
Also, I feel another moment was when Kaiba vs Yugi at Duelist Kingdom. Kaiba used Monster Reborn to revive one of the Blue-Eyes heads at full 3000 power???
This is actually why I thought the first season was the best. It was so fun and unique to see the weird logic of the game. The game being more normal in later seasons made duels felt more drab.
Shoutout to my personal favorite rule break during the Clash in the Coliseum. Yugi tells Kaiba that his Flute of Summoning Dragon also lets him summon Red Eyes from his hand. Also love literally any time Defusion is used as a quick play spell 😂
To me the only WTF moment that make sense is Dark Sage, knowing Yugi have both Dark Magician AND Time Wizard in his deck, this combo isn't less logic than Thousand Dragon compare to Red Eyes
Tea' winning vs Crump because Yugi had a nearby Dark Magician. That bothered me despite the fact that I wanted the Big 5 to lose.
Also Yugi vs the Exodia rare hunter. He did something with Alpha and Summoned Skull with "static electricity" to win in one turn, when he should've come up short of lethal by 100 LP.
While I do agree with many of your choices, I think there's one that was a bit harsh. #1 Labyrinth Wall. To me, that was pretty bad, but not as bad as Mammoth Graveyard or Infinite Kuribohs. I mean, I would love to have a maze-like field. If anything, it deserved the #3 spot.
Like with Attack the Moon I really wanna see these early season shenanigan moves turned into real life cards
Here's another one from the Yugi/Mako duel: Yugi equips Feral Imp with Horn of the Unicorn, giving it an electric-based attack. He goes to attack Fiend Kraken as it's underwater, but Mako played Jellyfish, which had an "effect" to absorb and nullify all electric-based attacks.
Joey/Bonz duel: Call of the Haunted "revives" all fallen monsters and makes them Zombies, and gives them battle protection where if they "die", they immediately revive with 10% more power.
Yugi/Pegasus VHS duel and Kaiba/Pegasus duel: Dragon Piper didn't destroy Dragon Capture Jar, instead it allowed Pegasus to control whatever Dragon was sealed away. Additionally, Dragon Capture Jar was a monster with 100/200 ATK/DEF and gained the DEF of whatever Dragon it sealed away, and Dragon Piper was DARK to work with Crush Card Virus.
Yugi/Pegasus duel: Mystic Box was able to swap Dark Magician, who was currently absorbed by Relinquished, with Jigen Bakudan. Similarly to another comment, Jigen Bakudan's effect triggered in real time, not turn progression.
Labyrinth wall stun goes crazy 💯
Love it. They were all so wacky and I never would've guessed watching the first time. Something silly was gonna happen and the music was gonna get hype.
To this day Mystical Elf and Celtic Guardian remind me of Link and Zelda. 😂
“Attack the moon!” Oh my god I lost it LOL
I like how this video basically disproves the idea that yugi was the only one to pull nonsemse out of his ass in duelist kingdom.
From the type system that only ever effected joey, harpies using their finine whiles mid combat
It’s not nonsense, though…
The Duelist Kingdom rules were the rules Takahashi had in place for the manga before the TCG even took off with its own rules and the rules as we know today.
There were elemental weaknesses and field power bonuses in the initial stages of Yugioh as it transitioned away from the Magic The Gathering influences.
If you think about it, unlike Pokemon or One Piece, Yugioh plays nothing like Magic due to the absence of the mana system.
@@cbgg1585 "rules" is too concrete a word for the loose system of the game. It played more like a d&d campaign where the GM always answered.
"Dope. Go for it" to declarations like, "I attack the moon!"
lol
Duelist Kingdom makes more sense when you think of it as DnD with cards instead of Dice and Character Sheets. With the machnes they are dueling with serving as the Game Master.
I also always assumed this was the closest to how the duels in Ancient Times worked. With the monsters and spells being real tangible things, you could be more creative. We saw glimpses of this with the Shadow RPG at the end of the series, especially with Mahad vs Bandit Bakura.
All that being said I still prefer it when the duels follow irl rules.
Also, yes, I am aware the main reason that Duelist Kingdom is like that is because they hadn't ironed out the irl rules yet. Same reason Forbidden Memories is weird too.
Bandit Keith's is the most 'that kid' kind of move. Can't really explain why something works just 'magic immune armor'
This is why duelist Kingdom was perfectly crazy
It was basically D&D
If you can make it sound good/roll a 20, it works
Dark sage's effect: take any one spell card from your deck and add it to your hand.
Thats busted AF, no wonder his summoning conditions are so ridiculous.
I really love it when they take crazy/wacky moments from the anime and turn them into cards. Like with Attack The Moon, Mystical Elf's chatting to raise attack, and when Weevil's moth had poison to weaken Yugi's monsters. So I'm really hoping they keep that up! 🤞
#8 - Yugi was just lucky that elf wasn't sapphic.
1- king of yamimakai Attack the reaper of the card because... The trap card of Yugi bright, so the light absorb the darkness Attack!?
Wasn't the darkness to absorb light!? (Dark hole) 😅
The one of kaiba specifically changed and refined the rules just to keep stuff like the living arrow trick from happening again
The funny thing is Yugi does things like combining Mammoth GY with Blue EyesUlt and attacking his moon , which at the time were not how the game worked irl.
Yet the simulations still do these things and act accordingly haha.
Like even if Kaiba believed what Yugi said about Mammoth decaying Blue Eyes and he manually deceased the points.. the hologram still showed it decaying haha.
Iron is a historic weakness of magical creatures
Screw the Rules, I have Money
-Seth Kaiba
Just started video, expecting #1 destroy the moon
Notice the Attribut Type matchup issue almost exclusively affects Joey? Yugi destroyed Labyrinth Tank with Dark Magician for example.
2:40 when the flock of bird lesbians meet a straight woman for the first time the rejection causes emotional damage
Mind you the lyabarinth duel I think lead to one of the greatest yugioh games in duelist of the roses
Duelist Kingdom was based around RPGs, which makes a lot of stuff make more sense.
In the greek dub, Yugi said that because Dark Magician was equipped with Book Of Secret Arts he spent the thousand year period studying the arts which made him wiser and more powerful
I love the DnD style shenanigans personally lol
1:17 Also the there's two contractions, Gilta the Dark Knight and Labyrinth Tank. Labyrinth Tank was taken out in the duel it appeared in by Dark Magician, a spellcaster but Gilta a warrior monster can't take out a machine with the same point difference of 100 points. If Joey's deck was more spell and Spellcaster heavy I'd get it but also if that typing rule were true shouldn't Barrel Dragon been able to resist the effects of Time Wizard?
Ngl I would love to play ood school yugioh using the Duelist Kingdom DND rules
It's not just the rules that weren't fleshed out... it was the card effects as well.
So blame Konami for not making Mystical Elf an effect monster or for making Catapult Turtle so different.
And it actually might be possible to get the "Infinite Kuribohs" as a functional effect... ehh, sorta. My working idea involves creating 'Kuriboh counters' to do the work since counters aren't limited by monster zones.
No need, Konami JUST printed a kuriboh hand trap referencing its effect cancellation on thousand eyes restrict. It’s a kuriboh quick effect equip from hand
@@sean1oo1 I'm aware... but I was thinking more in terms of the "infinitely regenerating wall of Kuribohs" that was Yugi's primary use of the combo.
0:20
Maybe you should make some sort of "anti-magic machine" deck? I know you did a Bandit Keith video before, but machines designed to counter and eradicate spellcasters is a cool concept
Pretty sure there was a battle of spellcaster monster vs machine in a previous duel where the immunity did not apply
Decaying blue eyes is so cool ngl
I cant stop laughing to all of these but mostly because of mystical elf chanting 😂
I always wondered how the hologram projectors in duelist kingdom knew how to bullshit correctly. Like how would it know to project thousands of kuribohs when yugi uses multiply? Are they voice activated?
Some of these random effects are used in the GBA games. Mammoth graveyard lowers their attacks and battle ox destroys all fire types on boards. Maybe even some other hidden effects I’m not aware of atm. So I think there is more to these random rules than just the show. I think some stuff was spoken about behind closed doors.
iirc during battle city, did weevil summoned too many tokens that it exceeded the 5 monster rule?
The zombie combo with call of the haunted was also kinda sick
Labyrinth wall plays like dungeon dices rules
Still waiting for a retrained of Mystical Elf WITH that effect as well as her stats being boosted with Book of Secret Arts
kaiba's move on the castle was a crazy one
I think the reason why magic doesn't work on machines is because of they are not sentient. Just a thought.
Duelist Kingdom arc was just Dungeons and Dragons but with cards. You could do pretty much anything but it had to be a justifiable action. Players were just making everything up along the way.
At least the Pegasus one isn't a cheat just creative use of shadow magic
Why did summoned skull have electric powers anyway?
Yo there’s no way you can’t tell me that the creators had no idea how to actually play this game until gx at the least 😂
Yugi's shenanigans in the ultimate dragon fusion and the kuriboh multiply was so bad it made him want to kill himself.
Well I think you said it yourself in the beginning. Speaking of the first entry. The machine type monsters are resistant to magic because it’s a dnd inspiration. (I would assume in this case.) In dnd Golems (machines essentially in dnd) are immune to magic. So it does kind of make sense. Especially since Dungeon Dice Monsters has its own thing similar to dnd.
In folklore iron is magic resistant
In one of the old yugioh games the magical mist actually interacts with a limb of exodia for some reason 😂
Duelist Kingdom didn’t require duelists to have Extra deck monsters.
Always good when the creator of the game watching the match is like… da f****? 😂😂
8:50 Is that GENGAR on the Multiply Spell Card??
May I introduce you to Season 0?
I also noticed with the mystic elf giving atk to blue eyes is also inconsistent with the cards themselves. You can see blue eyes gaining 1100 atk, but mystic elf only has 800 atk. Where is that extra 300 coming from?
Mystical Elf was equipped with Book of Secret Arts. I think the implication is that's where she learned the spell she was chanting to begin with.
Attacking the moon is always number 1 to me!
He definitely shouldn't have beat panik.
Yugi summoning ritual monsters was kind of crazy. He just used the ritual spells and didn’t have the right monster cards in his hand. This is especially funny a few episodes later when Yugi duels Bandit Keith. Keith uses a ritual spell, and Yugi says that he needs the right monster. This was before the Battle City rules, so Yugi indirectly said that he cheated in Duelist Kingdom.
I might be wrong about this. But I'm pretty sure he draws the Magician of black chaos. Little Yugi plays the black illusion ritual facedown before he passes out.
@@roggie839 Even if that is true, there’s still the time Yugi summoned Black Luster Soldier during his duel against Mai.
Was battle city for me when Joe
Tere is guy on yt that explained the rulles in Duelist Kingdom. It is perfect :)
Parasite paracide not affecting Gearfried has to be on any list for Battle City
It's Better explained by Solomon in The Japanese version that paracite becomes an equip card for any monster it changes to an insect gearfried can't have an equip card attached to it so it's unable to be changed
It's sort of works similarly in the real game only it just blows up any card you try to attach to it
@@Goldfire345 that’s fair. Removing it from the dub makes it very “because why not?”
It’s like the writers just pulled this stuff out of their asses.
it's weird that the only references in the TCG to this arc was were all yugi related
corosive scale
attack the moon
and that mystical elf card that supposed to be with blue eyes
forgot now fighting flame swordsman possibly being a reference to yugi's duel ith bakura
Technically the early video games had the monster effective/super effective alignment
You mean Sacred Cards and Reshef? Those are post-Battle City. The type effectiveness there is based on early manga rules.