Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 176

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Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 176
Names
Series
SeriesYu-Gi-Oh!
Number176
Season4
Chronology
Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes (season 4)
Previous"Grappling with a Guardian - Part 2"
Next"A Duel with Dartz - Part 1"

Rafael's Graveyard

  • This graveyeard is the location where Rafael's family is buried. The tombstones read the names of 'Julian' and 'Sonia', Rafael's little brother & sister lost during a storm during his childhood. When Rafael meets Dartz, the latter tells him to dig the ground with his hands and unearth the remains of his family. He then throws a Chaos Duel Disk into the hole, for Rafael to pick up.
  • Rafael uses the "Seal" for the first time and Eatos is turned into the horrific "Guardian Dreadscythe. Dartz tells him that this Monster has been born out of Rafael's dark heart.

Breaking free

  • The Duel keeps on and Yami uses a combination of Hermos and Guardian Eatos to get rid of the 'immortality' which "Dreadscythe" claims to have.
  • Guided by Eatos, Rafael removes all of his monsters out of his Graveyard through both "Underworld Circle" and "Soul Charge". However by using "Soul Charge", he takes 1500 damage (500 for each monster he resurrected), thereby conceding defeat: however, since he is shown a vision of being reunited with both his Monsters and his family, the 'Dark' on his heart temporarily vanishes, making the Orichalcos fragment shatter and the "Seal" dissolve without claiming Rafael's soul. Since Yami won the duel, he regains his "King of Games" title. Kaiba believes that the title now has meaning to him again and that Yami is a great duelist.
  • However, just as dawn begins to emerge, the whole Paradius Inc. building begins to shake. Something'shappening.

Featured Duel: Rafael vs. Yami Yugi - Part 3

Duel continues from previous episode.

Turn 16: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi has just activated "Underworld Circle" to destroy all monsters on the field. A purplish fog surrounds the Duel Arena transporting Rafael and Yami Yugi to a Graveyard, a vision of Rafael's past. Due to the effect of "Underworld Circle", both Players remove all Monsters in their hand and Deck from play. For the remainder of the Duel, both Players can only Special Summon 1 Monster from their respective Graveyards during each Player's Main Phase 1. Also if a monster is destroyed, it is removed from play instead of being sent to the Graveyard. The second effect of "Guardian Dreadscythe" activates, which 'obligates' Rafael to discard a card and prevent "Guardian Dreadscythe's" destruction. He 'must' also forego using "Underworld Circle's" Effect to Special Summon any other Monsters since "Dreadscythe" was not destroyed by "Underworld Circle". Yami Yugi uses the effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Dark Magician" (2500/2100) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. He then Sets a Card.

Turn 17: Rafael
Rafael draws. Due to the effect of "Guardian Treasure", Rafael draws one extra card. Yami Yugi uses the effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Jack's Knight" from his Graveyard (1900/1000) in Attack Position. "Guardian Dreadscythe" attacks "Dark Magician", but Yami Yugi activates "Zero Gravity" to switch the Battle Positions of all face-up Monsters; "Dark Magician and "Jack's Knight", and "Guardian Dreadscythe" (5500/0) are switched to Defense Position. Rafael activates "Spirit Hunting" to switch "Guardian Dreadscythe" into Attack Position and destroy all Defense Position monsters Yami Yugi controls.

Turn 18: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws. Yami Yugi then uses the effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Dark Magician Girl" (2000/1700) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. He then activates "Altar of Restoration" to remove the top 2 Cards of his Deck from play and add "The Eye of Timaeus" from his Removed From Play Zone to his Hand. Yami Yugi then activates "The Eye of Timaeus" to fuse the latter with "Dark Magician Girl" and Special Summon "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" (2600/1700) in Attack Position.

"Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" then attacks "Guardian Dreadscythe". Yami Yugi then activates "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight's" effect to discard 1 card from his hand and destroy "Guardian Dreadscythe" at the start of the Damage Step without applying Damage Calculation. The second effect of "Guardian Dreadscythe" then activates, which 'obligates' Rafael to discard a Card from his hand and prevent "Guardian Dreadscythe's" Destruction. Yami Yugi then Sets a Card.

Turn 19: Rafael
Rafael draws. Due to the effect of "Guardian Treasure", Rafael draws one extra card. Yami Yugi uses the effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Queen's Knight" (1500/1600) from his Graveyard in Attack Position. Rafael discards "Monster Reborn" in order to activate "Orichalcos Sword of Sealing", equipping it to "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight" and negating its effects. "Guardian Dreadscythe" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight", but Yami Yugi activates "Reduction Barrier" to multiply the damage he would take by 1/10 (Yami 300 → 10).

Turn 20: Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi draws. Yami Yugi then uses the effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Big Shield Gardna" (100/2600) from his Graveyard in Defense Position. He then activates "Pot of Greed" to draw 2 Cards ("Spider Web" and "Claw of Hermos"). Yami Yugi then activates "Spider Web" to add the "Monster Reborn" in Rafael's Graveyard to Yami Yugi's hand. He then activates "Monster Reborn" to Special Summon "Guardian Eatos" (2500/2000) from Rafael's Graveyard to his side of the field in Attack Position ("Guardian Dreadscythe": 5500 → 5000/0). Yami Yugi then activates "Claw of Hermos" to fuse the latter with "Queen's Knight" and form "Goddess Bow". Yami Yugi then equips "Goddess Bow" onto "Guardian Eatos", doubling its ATK ("Guardian Eatos": 2500 → 5000/2000).

"Guardian Eatos" attacks "Guardian Dreadscythe". The second effect of "Guardian Dreadscythe" then activates, which 'obligates' Rafael to discard a card and prevent "Guardian Dreadscythe's" Destruction. Since "Guardian Eatos" battled a monster that had the same ATK as it and it wasn't destroyed due to its effect, Yami activates "Goddess Bow's" second effect to prevent "Eatos" from being destroyed and allow "Eatos" to attack once again this turn. This chain is repeated 6 times, depleting Rafael's hand until he has no more cards in his hand. After Rafael runs out of cards in his hand, "Dreadscythe" is destroyed. After that occurs, Eatos is destroyed since its ATK was equal to the ATK "Guardian Dreadscythe" and the latter was destroyed (Due to the effect of "Underworld Circle", both monsters are removed from play).

Turn 21: Rafael
Rafael draws. Due to the effect of "Guardian Treasure", Rafael draws one extra card. Rafael then uses the Effect of "Underworld Circle" to Special Summon "Guardian Grarl" from his Graveyard (2500 → 3000/1000) in Attack Position. He then activates "Soul Charge" to Special Summon "Guardian Elma" (1300 → 1800/1200), "Guardian Kay'est" (1000 → 1500/1800) and "Backup Gardna" (500 → 1000/2200) from his Graveyard in Attack Position at the cost of not being allowed to use the summoned monsters for attacking this turn. By using this card, Rafael was able to empty his Graveyard of monsters and resurrect his trusted Guardians. However, for every Monster he Summoned this way, Rafael takes 500 Damage. Because he summoned three monsters through the effect of "Soul Charge", Rafael takes 1500 damage (Rafael 1200 → 0). Yami wins.

Trivia

  • After Yami added "The Claw of Hermos" to his deck he should have had 41 cards. Throughout the course of the duel he used all 41 cards excluding if he would have another draw phase or if he would have banished monsters from his deck via "Underworld circle". The math is as follows:
  • He opened with 5 cards and had 10 turns - 15 cards
  • He added 5 cards to his hand with Card of Sanctity to reach 6 and summoned 5 Kuribohs from his deck - 10 Cards
  • He drew 5 cards via "Graceful Charity" and "Pot of Greed" - 5 cards
  • He went through 5 cards from "Kuribandit" - 5 cards
  • He banished 2 cards from "Altar of Restoration", Searched twice from "Dark Magic Curtain" and "King's Knight", and Summoned "Kuribandit" and "Kuribabylon" - 6 Cards
  • The only explanations as to what would have happened had Rafael not surrendered is that Yami would lose because he had no cards in his deck, or that he started with more than 41 before the duel with or without "Underworld Circle" in effect.
  • Therefore the only way Yami would have survived if Rafael continued the duel would be if his deck had more than 41 cards to begin with.
  • There is no proof that he started with more than 41 cards but there is proof he didn't start with less.

Featured cards

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

Notes

  1. ↑ Rafael discarded this card in order to activate "Orichalcos Sword of Sealing".
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