is yugi that good? (if u can & want to answer)

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Yeah Kaiba even purposefully failed to destroy one of the duo's monsters to bait the other one to lose his trust in him. It doesn't seem like Kaiba and Yugi worked well together until after Kaiba lost at the quarterfinals of Battle City and became less obsessed with beating Yugi.
 

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ye i think yugi used magic-book or something as bait for kaiba to waste his card on i think, which he did i think
 

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Kaiba was arrogant and thought Yugi wouldn't anticipate literally the most obvious thing Kaiba would do with three Blue-Eyes to win, fuse them and attack with a massive 4500 ATK beatstick. Which is weird since Yugi already used De-Fusion in a couple of his duels, including with the Umbra and Lumis duo.
 

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I don't think he anticipated De-Fusion, but he did anticipate that Yugi had that Spell Textbook planted along with the Spellbinding Circle earlier in the duel. If adding those 500 ATK points to the 3400 Paladin would have from one dragon being on the field still makes it significantly weaker than BEUD, Kaiba would just not use Absorb Spell since it's not worth trading off another card. Kaiba's used plenty of cards that put the opponents cards on the field to the graveyard or make them discard from their decks, he might change his strategy if Dark Paladin poses zero threat even with its 500 ATK boost from BEUD's presence. Kaiba said that he observed all of Yugi's duels from the past, so he knows Yugi has stuff like Mirror Force in store, he even summoned Mirror Force Dragon in the Doma filler. It's perfectly reasonable to think that Kaiba might prepare for Yugi having face down traps, especially since Fake Kaiba used a counter to Mirror Force with Negate Attack before.

Also, Yugi only activated De-Fusion after Kaiba used Double Spell, expecting a spell counter card like De-Spell or Magic Jammer. If he knew Kaiba didn't have a counter to non-equip spells he'd just have used De-Fusion right away, and then strengthened Paladin further with Spell Textbook, giving it 5400 ATK. Meaning that Yugi definitely anticipated a counter to the first spell he'd use, and only used De-Fusion once he realized Kaiba was out of face-down cards. If Kaiba knows Dark Paladin is only 3900 ATK even with the equip spell, then he has little reason to fear the equip spell so he might use something else as Yugi feared.
But, even with the REBD on the field, the Dark Palladin was still weaker than the Ultimate Dragon (2900 ATK + 500 ATK from the Magic Fromula + 500 ATK from the BEUD + 500 ATK from the REBD = 4400 ATK), yet Kaiba did trade off Absorb Spell for another card.
 

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But, even with the REBD on the field, the Dark Palladin was still weaker than the Ultimate Dragon (2900 ATK + 500 ATK from the Magic Fromula + 500 ATK from the BEUD + 500 ATK from the REBD = 4400 ATK), yet Kaiba did trade off Absorb Spell for another card.
Because Yugi's second face-down spell could've then powered it up by a higher amount than the mere 100 point difference between BEUD and Paladin. Kaiba was arrogantly assuming Yugi wouldn't see through his Polymerization strategy, and anticipated that Yugi would simply try to buff up his Dark Paladin to a higher ATK than Ultimate Dragon (or weaken Ultimate Dragon to an ATK lower than 3900 or 4400).
 
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