Card Trivia:The Seal of Orichalcos

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• The runes around the rim of the seal is Enochian (it spells "Oreichalcos" twice). This language was supposedly from the angels who passed this to John Dee, although skeptics believe it was man-made. Enochian is better known as "the language of the angels."

• The geometric figure, a unicursal hexagram, on the card is the same symbol of modern Thelema.

• In the Japanese anime, the lore on the other Orichalcos cards are also written in Enochian. The lore on "The Seal of Orichalchos" seems to be made of random characters (based on translating the first several runes into letters--any direction...right-left, left-right, up-down, down-up--which do not translate into any known words according to any Enochian dictionary), thus the other lore texts are assumed to be likewise (references to be provided soon). However, since the runes seem to have a pattern of "Up-Up, Down-Down, Left-Right, Left-Right." You could say it is a parody of the Konami Code.

• In the Japanese anime, there is a discrepancy between the number of runes spelling the word "Orichalcos" for the card title (10) and on the Seal of Orichalcos itself (11; the word "Orichalcos" is on the rim twice). The added rune is called "graph" (the added letter is "e"). The spelling of the card title is actually "Orichalcon" and the runes on the seal itself spell "oreichalcos."

• This card previously existed under the Upper Deck Entertainment banner. There are only 15 copies of this version in existence, all in the possession of members of Upper Deck Entertainment's R&D division and one in the hands of someone else, who used them in the Decks they played in the Orichalcos "Duel the Master" side event at previous National Tournaments. The current status of these cards is unknown, as they haven't been used since Konami reclaimed distribution and organization rights.

• Before its confirmed release, this card was among other cards that are rumored to be kept from the everyday person. "Power Balance" is rumored to be one, as is a copy of "The Winged Dragon of Ra" with the Hieratic text in place of the flavor text.

• Just as the Orichalcos’ double-chevron pattern has 6 points to its design, "The Seal of Orichalcos" has 6 sentences of text.

• This card's first effect, the 500 ATK boost, is the only one it shares with its anime counterpart. Its second effect, not being destroyed once per turn, is a reduced version of its anime counterpart's effect to not be destroyed at all. Its third effect, limiting your opponent's choices for attacking your monsters, is a twist on its anime counterpart's effect to prevent the opponent from attacking monsters placed in the Spell & Trap Card Zone by its other effect.
  • Its other effects, which are all downsides or limitations, were likely added to make the card more realistic as it had none in the anime.
  • Not being allowed to summon monsters from the Extra Deck is likely based on the fact that none of the characters in the anime who played it summoned any monsters from their Fusion Deck.
    • This effect, combined with the one to destroy Special Summoned monsters, is also possibly to reflect what happened when this card was played by Yami Yugi, destroying "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" and reverting it to its unfused state.

• This is the only Field Spell Card and non-Monster card that can only be activated "Once Per Duel".
  • This and "March of the Monarchs" are the only cards in the game that prevent the user from Special Summoning from the Extra Deck.
  • So far, this is the only Field Card that destroys its owner's Special Summoned monsters when it activates.

• Some of this card's effects are similar to other cards:
  • The first effect is similar to "Banner of Courage".
  • The third effect is the same as "Pixie Ring".
  • The fourth effect is similar to "Special Hurricane".
  • The fifth effect is similar to "Non-Fusion Area".

• This is the one of only Anime Cards that was released in the TCG first. Usually, a card's TCG release is after the OCG release, save for TCG exclusive cards.