Card Trivia:The Seal of Orichalcos
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- This is a cover card of Extra Pack 2012, as well as Legendary Collection 3: Yugi's World and its Mega Pack.
- This seal appears in the artworks of "Orichalcos Deuteros", "Orichalcos Shunoros", "Orichalcos Sword of Sealing", and "Orichalcos Tritos".
- The runes around the outer rim of the seal are the characters written in the Enochian language, spelling out "OREICHALCOS" ("Oreichalcos") twice.
- The geometric figure inside the seal is a unicursal hexagram. In a Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game blog post on Konami's website, it is called a "double-chevron pattern".[1]
- In the original Japanese version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, the text on all "Orichalcos" cards are also written entirely in Enochian runes, except for "Orichalcos Sword of Sealing". Coincidentally, "Orichalos Sword of Sealing" is the only "Orichalcos" card to not be used by Dartz, instead used by Rafael.
- This is the only Field Spell Card that can only be activated once per Duel.
- This is as the first card to prevent the user from Special Summoning from their Extra Deck.
- This is the only card known to have received a printed mock-up.
- This is the first anime-exclusive card to be released a TCG-exclusive card.
- This card previously existed as an Upper Deck Entertainment promotional card. There are only 15 copies of the Upper Deck Entertainment version in existence, all in the possession of members of Upper Deck Entertainment's R&D division, one of which was used in the Decks they played in the Orichalcos "Duel the Master" side event at previous National Tournaments.[citation needed] The current status of these cards is unknown, as they haven't been used since Konami reclaimed distribution and organization rights.
- This card's OCG/TCG effects are based on its effects in the anime. In the above aforementioned blog post on Konami's website, the number of sentences of the text in this card's TCG print of this card matches the number of lines and points in this seal's symbol.[1]
- This card's first effect, 500 ATK increase, is the only effect identical to its anime counterpart.
- This card's second effect preventing it from being destroyed once per turn is based on how Yami Yugi attempted to destroy Gurimo's copy with "Dust Tornado"; while Gurimo claimed the card could not be destroyed at all, since it was never attempted to be destroyed again, Konami asserts that Gurimo was intentionally deceiving Yugi.[2]
- This card's third effect preventing the opponent's monster from targeting the player's monster with the lowest ATK for attacks is based on its anime counterpart's effect to prevent the opponent from attacking monsters placed in the Spell & Trap Zone by its other effect. This effect is identical to that of "Pixie Ring", which Konami pointed out when announcing it.[2]
- This card's fourth and fifth effects, preventing the user from Summoning monsters from the Extra Deck and destroying Special Summoned monsters, is based on what happened when this card was played by Yami Yugi, destroying "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" and reverting it to its unfused state, and the fact that Yugi, Dartz, Rafael, Valon, and Alister did not Fusion Summon after it was activated[3] (notably, Rex Raptor did Fusion Summon "Horned Saurus" while controlling this card in Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 161: "On the Wrong Track - Part 2").
- This card's sixth effect "once per Duel" condition is based on how a Duelist in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime who uses this card once in a Duel will not be able to use it again, as either they will win the Duel and trap their opponent's soul in the card, or they will lose the Duel and their soul along with it (barring DRAWs).[2]
