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I'm setting this topic up for when I finish the assessment, so this will be locked until then. I'll have some random notes up for now.
Battle City (Viz Manga)
• Arkana (Pandora) doesn’t know Dark Magician Girl exists, despite being a self-proclaimed master of magic/magicians.
• When effect cards are destroyed, their effects are negated as well even if the destroying card’s text doesn’t say “negate” (e.g., Yugi used De-Spell on Arkana’s Thousand Knives).
• Joey claims without Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Time Wizard is his only rare card.
• Joey and Seeker’s duel isn’t played with Super Expert Rules, thus when Joey forgets the rules on his first turn against Espa Roba, it makes sense.
• Rex doesn’t damage Espa Roba at all in their off-screen duel.
• Pillroach (lvl4/1200/1400) is considered a “common” card.
• Yugi states there are “thousands” of Duel Monsters cards.
• Grandpa Moto claims there were “hundreds” of different strategies Weevil could use with an Insect deck. (Weevil vs Joey)
• Weevil’s Insect Queen is considered a “legendary rare card” by Grandpa Moto. (Weevil vs Joey)
• The Duel Disk only has 5 placement areas for Monsters, Spells, and Traps combined, unlike in the anime where the Duel Disk has 5 Monster Card zones and 5 zones for Spells and Traps underneath.
• According to Kaiba, KaibaCorp’s satellite system is equipped with the same ground surveillance system as the United States military.
• Strings (“Doll”) apparently went mad years prior to Battle City when he killed his parents and locked away his consciousness out of guilt.
• Fusion Summoned and Ritual Summoned monsters can’t attack on the turn they were summoned in general, unlike the anime where that was only a Battle City rule. (Strings vs Yugi)
• A good example of why you should go by what the players say and the actions of the cards over what the card text says is Revival Jam. The card states it can be revived on the player’s next Standby Phase, yet it clearly revives immediately after it’s destroyed with no wait time in between. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Slifer the Sky Dragon counts as a Dragon-Type monster due to Buster Blader gaining power when it’s on the field. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Magic Cylinder requires a Spellcaster in order to use. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Magic Cylinder is a Spell Card, unlike the anime and OCG/TCG where it’s a Trap Card.
• According to Kaiba, Slifer’s second-mouth ability is strong enough to wipe out “almost any” 4-star monster in the game. (Strings vs Yugi)
• During his duel with Mako (Ryota), Joey considers Giltia the D. Knight his “trump card.”
• There seems to still be remnants of the RPG system from earlier in the manga, as Mako’s Flying Fish is unaffected by Joey’s Chasm of Spikes because it can fly.
o Amphibian Beast is said to be a rare monster that can attack on land and underwater.
o Umi causes the playing field to be covered in water, making Joey’s Fairy Box sink to the bottom and showing where his monster is by the bubbles coming to the surface.
o Joey’s land-based monsters can’t attack Mako directly because of Umi.
o Joey can’t see two cards Mako plays because the ocean is obscuring them.
• Fortress Whale is a vanilla 7-star monster, so it doesn’t require a companion summoning card like in the anime.
• Giant Trunade is a “high-level” Spell Card. (Mako vs Joey)
• Kaiba and Yugi are coerced into dueling Umbra and Lumis by Lumis attaching a “chastity belt” to Kaiba’s Duel Disk, forcing him to come retrieve the key.
• Summoning a monster with over 2000 ATK points in the first turn is considered impressive. (Masks vs Yugi & Kaiba)
• Using Monster Reborn to revive a monster from the grave is considered a tactic of an “advanced player.” (Masks vs Yugi & Kaiba)
• Along with burn cards like Hinotama and Sparks, cards like Raigeki are banned. I don’t think this includes Mirror Force because Mako used Torrential Tribute, which acts similarly. It must refer to cards that require no effort to use, so to speak, while at least Trap Cards have to be triggered to activate. Known banned cards:
o Hinotama
o Sparks
o Meteor of Destruction
o Raigeki
• Playing a monster with 1200 ATK points in Attack Mode is seen as bait, not a legitimate move. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Dark Necrofear is considered a “first-class” monster. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Kaiba considers Bakura “formidable” once his “terrifying combo” is setup, and Joey says his Occult Deck is “perfect” and “there’s no way to beat it.” (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Players are only allowed 5 minutes to think per turn. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Yugi admits his duel with Bakura was hard and he legitimately would have lost on the last turn if the Spirit of the Ring hadn’t returned to save Bakura from Slifer’s strike, as Yugi outright says he would rather have lost than kill his friend.
• Temple of the Kings allows Odion to “play two Trap Cards per turn” instead of one.
• Even Yugi has no idea what a Trap-Monster is when Odion mentions it.
• God Cards can only be wielded by those with a connection to the Millennium Items, and the Gods choose who wields them (e.g., The Winged Dragon of Ra required the user to be “chosen” and be able to read the hieratic text on the card that was only visible in the light generated by Ra).
• Pegasus couldn’t decode the hidden powers of Ra so he literally transcribed the text written on the stones when producing the card.
• Yami Marik considers Ishizu to have a “tough deck” that defeated regular Marik, and only he can defeat it.
• Fearful Earthbound is considered a “powerful Trap,” although in the manga it’s a Continuous Spell Card, so I’m not sure why Bakura calls it a Trap Card. What’s even weirder is that Yami Marik destroys it with Trap Jammer. I assume it was an error on Viz’s part to label it a Continuous Spell.
• The God Cards have 3 things in common:
o They all require 3 sacrifices to Normal Summon.
o Most Trap Cards have no effect on them (e.g., Yami Marik states a God Card’s attack won’t trigger a Trap Card).
o Spell Cards are only effective for one turn.
• Special Summoning a monster is considered unusual, and monsters must wait one turn before attacking when they’re summoned this way. Since Spells only work on Gods for one turn, using Monster Reborn on them is basically useless, but Ra’s ability to attack on the turn it’s summoned gets around this and is one of the reasons it’s so deadly.
• Malevolent Catastrophe is one of the deadliest Trap Cards in the game. (Yami Marik vs Joey)
• Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is called the strongest monster in existence going by attack points. (Yugi vs Kaiba)
• Kaiba deemed Yugi’s had a mere 3% chance of beating Yami Marik despite possessing two God Cards. With the addition of Fiend’s Sanctuary, that chance only went up to 20%.
• Dark Spell Regeneration is called a terrifying card by Kaiba. (Yami Marik vs Yugi)
Battle City (Viz Manga)
• Arkana (Pandora) doesn’t know Dark Magician Girl exists, despite being a self-proclaimed master of magic/magicians.
• When effect cards are destroyed, their effects are negated as well even if the destroying card’s text doesn’t say “negate” (e.g., Yugi used De-Spell on Arkana’s Thousand Knives).
• Joey claims without Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Time Wizard is his only rare card.
• Joey and Seeker’s duel isn’t played with Super Expert Rules, thus when Joey forgets the rules on his first turn against Espa Roba, it makes sense.
• Rex doesn’t damage Espa Roba at all in their off-screen duel.
• Pillroach (lvl4/1200/1400) is considered a “common” card.
• Yugi states there are “thousands” of Duel Monsters cards.
• Grandpa Moto claims there were “hundreds” of different strategies Weevil could use with an Insect deck. (Weevil vs Joey)
• Weevil’s Insect Queen is considered a “legendary rare card” by Grandpa Moto. (Weevil vs Joey)
• The Duel Disk only has 5 placement areas for Monsters, Spells, and Traps combined, unlike in the anime where the Duel Disk has 5 Monster Card zones and 5 zones for Spells and Traps underneath.
• According to Kaiba, KaibaCorp’s satellite system is equipped with the same ground surveillance system as the United States military.
• Strings (“Doll”) apparently went mad years prior to Battle City when he killed his parents and locked away his consciousness out of guilt.
• Fusion Summoned and Ritual Summoned monsters can’t attack on the turn they were summoned in general, unlike the anime where that was only a Battle City rule. (Strings vs Yugi)
• A good example of why you should go by what the players say and the actions of the cards over what the card text says is Revival Jam. The card states it can be revived on the player’s next Standby Phase, yet it clearly revives immediately after it’s destroyed with no wait time in between. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Slifer the Sky Dragon counts as a Dragon-Type monster due to Buster Blader gaining power when it’s on the field. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Magic Cylinder requires a Spellcaster in order to use. (Strings vs Yugi)
• Magic Cylinder is a Spell Card, unlike the anime and OCG/TCG where it’s a Trap Card.
• According to Kaiba, Slifer’s second-mouth ability is strong enough to wipe out “almost any” 4-star monster in the game. (Strings vs Yugi)
• During his duel with Mako (Ryota), Joey considers Giltia the D. Knight his “trump card.”
• There seems to still be remnants of the RPG system from earlier in the manga, as Mako’s Flying Fish is unaffected by Joey’s Chasm of Spikes because it can fly.
o Amphibian Beast is said to be a rare monster that can attack on land and underwater.
o Umi causes the playing field to be covered in water, making Joey’s Fairy Box sink to the bottom and showing where his monster is by the bubbles coming to the surface.
o Joey’s land-based monsters can’t attack Mako directly because of Umi.
o Joey can’t see two cards Mako plays because the ocean is obscuring them.
• Fortress Whale is a vanilla 7-star monster, so it doesn’t require a companion summoning card like in the anime.
• Giant Trunade is a “high-level” Spell Card. (Mako vs Joey)
• Kaiba and Yugi are coerced into dueling Umbra and Lumis by Lumis attaching a “chastity belt” to Kaiba’s Duel Disk, forcing him to come retrieve the key.
• Summoning a monster with over 2000 ATK points in the first turn is considered impressive. (Masks vs Yugi & Kaiba)
• Using Monster Reborn to revive a monster from the grave is considered a tactic of an “advanced player.” (Masks vs Yugi & Kaiba)
• Along with burn cards like Hinotama and Sparks, cards like Raigeki are banned. I don’t think this includes Mirror Force because Mako used Torrential Tribute, which acts similarly. It must refer to cards that require no effort to use, so to speak, while at least Trap Cards have to be triggered to activate. Known banned cards:
o Hinotama
o Sparks
o Meteor of Destruction
o Raigeki
• Playing a monster with 1200 ATK points in Attack Mode is seen as bait, not a legitimate move. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Dark Necrofear is considered a “first-class” monster. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Kaiba considers Bakura “formidable” once his “terrifying combo” is setup, and Joey says his Occult Deck is “perfect” and “there’s no way to beat it.” (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Players are only allowed 5 minutes to think per turn. (Yugi vs Bakura)
• Yugi admits his duel with Bakura was hard and he legitimately would have lost on the last turn if the Spirit of the Ring hadn’t returned to save Bakura from Slifer’s strike, as Yugi outright says he would rather have lost than kill his friend.
• Temple of the Kings allows Odion to “play two Trap Cards per turn” instead of one.
• Even Yugi has no idea what a Trap-Monster is when Odion mentions it.
• God Cards can only be wielded by those with a connection to the Millennium Items, and the Gods choose who wields them (e.g., The Winged Dragon of Ra required the user to be “chosen” and be able to read the hieratic text on the card that was only visible in the light generated by Ra).
• Pegasus couldn’t decode the hidden powers of Ra so he literally transcribed the text written on the stones when producing the card.
• Yami Marik considers Ishizu to have a “tough deck” that defeated regular Marik, and only he can defeat it.
• Fearful Earthbound is considered a “powerful Trap,” although in the manga it’s a Continuous Spell Card, so I’m not sure why Bakura calls it a Trap Card. What’s even weirder is that Yami Marik destroys it with Trap Jammer. I assume it was an error on Viz’s part to label it a Continuous Spell.
• The God Cards have 3 things in common:
o They all require 3 sacrifices to Normal Summon.
o Most Trap Cards have no effect on them (e.g., Yami Marik states a God Card’s attack won’t trigger a Trap Card).
o Spell Cards are only effective for one turn.
• Special Summoning a monster is considered unusual, and monsters must wait one turn before attacking when they’re summoned this way. Since Spells only work on Gods for one turn, using Monster Reborn on them is basically useless, but Ra’s ability to attack on the turn it’s summoned gets around this and is one of the reasons it’s so deadly.
• Malevolent Catastrophe is one of the deadliest Trap Cards in the game. (Yami Marik vs Joey)
• Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon is called the strongest monster in existence going by attack points. (Yugi vs Kaiba)
• Kaiba deemed Yugi’s had a mere 3% chance of beating Yami Marik despite possessing two God Cards. With the addition of Fiend’s Sanctuary, that chance only went up to 20%.
• Dark Spell Regeneration is called a terrifying card by Kaiba. (Yami Marik vs Yugi)
