Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 131

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 131

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Series
Series	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Number	131
Season	3
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 3)
Previous	"Clash in the Coliseum - Part 2"
Next	"Clash in the Coliseum - Part 4"

Featured Duel: Yami Yugi vs. Seto Kaiba

Duel continues from previous episode.

Turn 10: Kaiba

• Seto Kaiba has just managed to summon "Obelisk the Tormentor" to the field.
  • "Slifer the Sky Dragon's" effect activates, reducing Obelisk’s ATK by 2000 ("Obelisk the Tormentor": 4000 → 2000 ATK / 4000 DEF).
• Sets two cards("Command Silencer" and "Life Shaver").
• Since card effects only work one turn on Egyptian God Cards, Obelisk's ATK returns to normal at the end of the turn ("Obelisk the Tormentor": 2000 → 4000 ATK / 4000 DEF).

Turn 11: Yami Yugi

• Yami Yugi draws ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 2000 → 3000 ATK / 2000 → 3000 DEF).
• Activates his set Spell Card "Pot of Greed" to draw two cards ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 3000 → 5000 ATK / 3000 → 5000 DEF).
• "Slifer the Sky Dragon" attacks "Obelisk the Tormentor", but Seto activates "Command Silencer", negating the attack and allowing him to draw a card.
• Sets two cards ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 5000 → 3000 ATK / 5000 → 3000 DEF).

Turn 12: Kaiba

• Kaiba draws.
  • Yugi Muto activates his set Spell Card "Card Destruction", forcing both players to discard their hands and draw the same amount of cards they discarded.
  • Yugi activates Trap Card "Disgraceful Charity", allowing both players to add all cards discarded this turn back to their hands ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 3000 → 6000 ATK / 3000 → 6000 DEF).
• Seto activates Quick-Play Spell Card "Thirst for Compensation" from his hand, Special Summoning two monsters from his hand in face-up Defense Position. He selects "Blade Knight" (1600 ATK / 1000 DEF) and "Sword of Soul" (0 ATK / 1900 DEF).
  • "Slifer the Sky Dragon's" effect activates, which would destroy both of them, but Seto activates Quick-Play Spell Card "Card Guard" from his hand, discarding one card ("Kaiser Sea Horse") to prevent "Sword of Soul" and "Blade Knight" from being destroyed until the end of the turn.
• Activates "Obelisk the Tormentor's" effect, Tributing "Blade Knight" and "Sword of Soul" to destroy all of Yugi's monsters and inflict 4000 damage to his Life Points ("Slifer the Sky Dragon's" special effect makes it immune (presumably because Slifer is unaffected by targeting effects, and Obelisk would be "targeting" Slifer because it's the only monster Yugi has on the field. However it's not made clear), but Yugi will still take damage)
  

  Obelisk attacks Yugi
  , but Yugi discards "Kuriboh" from his hand to negate the Damage inflicted to him ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 6000 → 5000 ATK / 6000 → 5000 DEF)
• Sets a card.

Turn 13: Yami Yugi

• Yami Yugi draws ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 5000 → 6000 ATK / 5000 → 6000 DEF).
• "Slifer the Sky Dragon" attacks "Obelisk the Tormentor",
  

  Slifer attacks Obelisk
  but Seto activates Trap Card "Power Balance", forcing Yugi to discard half the cards in his hand and allowing Seto to draw the same number of cards Yugi discarded. Since Yugi is holding 6 cards, he discards 3(the three cards were "Collected Power", "Electromagnetic Turtle", and "Chain Destruction") ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 6000 → 3000 ATK / 6000 → 3000 DEF); Seto draws 3 cards. Yugi's hand now contains "Magical Hats", "Spell Textbook", and "Necromancy".
  • Yugi activates Spell Card "Necromancy" from his hand ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 3000 → 2000 ATK / 3000 → 2000 DEF), Special Summoning "Blade Knight" (1600 ATK / 1000 DEF), "Sword of Soul" (0 ATK / 1900 DEF), "Kaiser Sea Horse" (1700 ATK / 1650 DEF) and "X-Head Cannon" (1800 ATK / 1500 DEF) from Seto's Graveyard to Seto's side of the field in Defense Position(NOTE: normally, "X-Head Cannon" was previously removed from the game to Special Summon "XYZ-Dragon Cannon", so it could not be targeted by "Necromancy").
  • "Slifer the Sky Dragon's" effect activates, reducing all of Seto's newly summoned monsters' ATK by 2000 ("Blade Knight": 1600 → 0 ATK / 1000 DEF) ("Sword of Soul": 0 → 0 ATK / 1900 DEF) ("Kaiser Sea Horse": 1700 → 0 ATK / 1650 DEF) ("X-Head Cannon": 1800 → 0 ATK / 1500 DEF). Because of Slifer's other effect (If a monster has its ATK decreased by this effect to 0, that monster is destroyed), they are all destroyed.
  • Due to "Necromancy's" second effect, Seto's monsters lose 600 ATK for each "Necromancy"-summoned monster that was destroyed until the End Phase. All four monsters summoned via "Necromancy" were destroyed, so "Obelisk" loses 2400 ATK ("Obelisk the Tormentor": 4000 → 1600 ATK / 4000 DEF).
  • Since "Sword of Soul" was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, its effect activates, allowing Seto to increase Obelisk's ATK by 1000 until the End Phase ("Obelisk the Tormentor": 1600 → 2600 ATK / 4000 DEF).
  • Yugi activates the effect of "Electromagnetic Turtle" from his Graveyard (he discarded it previously due to Seto's "Power Balance" effect), immediately ending the Battle Phase which saves "Slifer the Sky Dragon" from being destroyed.
• Sets a card("Spell Textbook") ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 2000 → 1000 ATK / 2000 → 1000 DEF).
• Since card effects only work one turn on Egyptian God Cards, Obelisk's ATK returns to normal at the end of the turn ("Obelisk the Tormentor": 2600 → 4000 ATK / 4000 DEF).

Turn 14: Kaiba

• Kaiba draws.
• "Obelisk the Tormentor" attacks "Slifer the Sky Dragon", but Yugi activates Quick-Play Spell Card "Spell Textbook", discarding all cards in his hand ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 1000 → 0 ATK / 1000 → 0 DEF) and drawing a card. If that card is a Spell Card Yugi can activate it. Yugi draws Spell Card "Card of Sanctity". Since the latter is a Spell Card, Yugi activates its effect immediately as per the effect of "Spell Textbook", allowing both players to draw until they're holding six cards ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 0 → 6000 ATK / 0 → 6000 DEF).
  • Seto activates Trap Card "Life Shaver", forcing Yugi to discard one card from his hand for each turn that "Life Shaver" was on the field. Since "Life Shaver" was on the field for two turns, Yugi is forced to discard two cards from his hand ("Slifer the Sky Dragon": 6000 → 4000 ATK / 6000 → 4000 DEF).

Duel continues next episode.

Differences in adaptations

• A close up of Joey's chest is removed in the dub.
• A long shot of the duel ring is also removed.
• When Kaiba activates Obelisk The Tormentor's effect, cut from the English version is Kaiba ordering him to attack whilst shouting 'Go to hell by the hand of God'
• Spell Textbook's 5 pointed stars have been given extra points in the English version.

Errors

• In the dub, when Kaiba sets two cards, one of them is shown to be "Life Shaver" when it was actually "Command Silencer".
• In the dub, when Kaiba activates "Card Guard", he says that he discards two cards from his hand so that it can protect both of his monsters. As he is saying this, he is seen holding one card in his hand. Had he discarded two cards, his hand would be empty.
• In the dub, when Yugi discards the last card in his hand when he activates "Spell Textbook" and "Slifer"'s ATK drops to 0, Kaiba says "Now that Slifer's attack points are zero, you'll lose the duel." Since, Yugi had 3000 Life Points and "Obelisk" has 4000 ATK points, the damage would have wiped out his Life Points even before discarding the card. Also, Yugi had already stated that the effect of "Spell Textbook" was to let him draw another card so even if it hadn't been "Card of Sanctity", "Slifer"'s ATK would not have remained at 0.

Trivia

• Yugi using "Kuriboh" to protect himself from "Obelisk"'s damage is referenced in episode 19 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX when Dimitri (who is copying Yugi and using his Deck) uses "Kuriboh"'s effect as well and mentions "his" memories of Battle City. "Kuriboh" mirrors this by emerging from the Duel Disk the same way he does here, but has a different expression on his face due to the wrong person bringing them up.

Featured cards

The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Flashbacks
Main Deck Monster Cards Normal Monsters Battle Steer Blue-Eyes White Dragon x2 Dark Magician Gaia The Fierce Knight Saggi the Dark Clown Torike Magic Cards Mystic Box Polymerization (Alternate version in the dubs) The Eye of Truth Trap Cards Ancient Lamp Fusion Deck Fusion Monsters Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (silhouette)