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{{Infobox/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Episodeepisode | series = Yu-Gi-Oh! | season = 5 | image name = Yugioh195.jpg | image size = | image caption = | english en_name = One Step Ahead - Part 2 | kanji ja_name = 戦女神ｖｓ青眼の白龍{{Ruby|戦女神|ワルキューレ}}ｖｓ{{Ruby|青眼の白龍|ブルーアイズ・ホワイトドラゴン}} | romaji romaji_name = Warukyūre Vāsasu Bāsasu Burū Aizu Howaito Doragon | japanese translated ja_trans_name = Walküre vs. Blue-Eyes White Dragon | episode number = 195 | japanese air date ja_air_date = March 10, 2004 | english air date en_air_date = October 1, 2005 | japanese opening ja_opening = [[OVERLAP]] | japanese ending ja_ending = [[EYE'S]] | english opening en_theme = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! theme]] | english ending screenwriter = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! theme]]Yasuyuki Suzuki
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"'''One Step Ahead - Part 2'''", entitled titled "'''Valkyrie Walküre vs. Blue -Eyes White Dragon'''" ({{Ruby|戦女神|ワルキューレ}}ｖｓ{{Ruby|青眼の白龍|ブルーアイズ・ホワイトドラゴン}} ''Warukyūre Bāsasu Burū Aizu Howaito Doragon'') in the Japanese version, is the 195th episode of the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]] television series.
{{Episode summary|[[Seto Kaiba]] pits his "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragons]]" against the [[Valkyrie]]s of [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] (formerly known as "Zigfried Lloyd"), ultimately having to go up against the seemingly invincible "[[Valkyrie Brunhilde (anime)|Valkyrie Brunhilde]]".}}
==Summary==
[[Seto Kaiba]] and [[Zigfried von Schroeder]] continue their Duel. After Seto destroys one of Zigfried's Valkyries with his "[[XYZ-Dragon Cannon (anime)|XYZ-Dragon Cannon]]", Zigfried manages to draw "[[Nibelung's Treasure]]" and equip Seto's Cannon with "[[Nibelung's Ring]]", preventing it from attacking and also destroying Seto's Deck with each passing turn (due to the effect of "[[Nibelung's Ring]]"). Using Zigfried's "[[Fortune Chariot (anime)|Fortune Chariot]]", "[[Valkyrie Zweite (anime)|Valkyrie Zweite]]" attacks Kaiba and whittles down his Life Points.
Zigfried removes Kaiba's first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from play with his three Goddess cards and destroys another with the effect of "Nibelung's Ring", but Kaiba makes a comeback when he summons his second "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]" back from the Graveyard (using "[[Monster Reborn (anime)|Monster Reborn]]").
However, Zigfried believes Kaiba's strategy is in vain, because then, he summons his "[[Valkyrie Brunhilde (anime)|Valkyrie Brunhilde]]" and removes Seto's "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]" from play with "[[Enchanted Sword Nothung]]". On his next turn, Kaiba manages to avoid the effect of "[[Nibelung's Ring]]" with "[[Graceful Charity (anime)|Graceful Charity]]", allowing him to put his third "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]" in the Graveyard so he can remove it (along with "[[Pitch-Dark Dragon (anime)|Pitch-Dark Dragon]]") from play to summon "[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (anime)|Chaos Emperor Dragon]]". Seto's new monster sends every card the players control on the field and in their hand to the Graveyard, inflicting 1500 damage to Zigfried. However, he regains them all when he uses his "[[Magical Alms]]" and "[[Final Light (anime)|Final Light]]" cards.
Seto makes another come-from-behind move when he draws himself a brand-new hand with "[[Card of Demise (anime)|Card of Demise]]". In the end, his three "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]", his "[[Luster Dragon 2 (anime)|Luster Dragon #2]]", and "Chaos Emperor Dragon" are summoned back to the field through "[[Dimension Fusion (anime)|Dimension Fusion]]". Zigfried's "Valkyrie Brunhilde" destroys "Luster Dragon #2" and "Chaos Emperor Dragon", then avoids destruction from Kaiba's first "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]". However, she is eventually destroyed by Kaiba's second "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]", paving the way for his third "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes]]" to attack directly. Kaiba is able to win, but Zigfried declares it isn't over.
Seto has 1100 Life Points remaining and controls "[[XYZ-Dragon Cannon (anime)|XYZ-Dragon Cannon]]" (2800/2600) in Attack Position.
Zigfried has 2500 Life Points remaining and controls "[[Valkyrie Zweite (anime)|Valkyrie Zweite]]" (1600/1600) and "[[Valkyrie Erste (anime)|Valkyrie Erste]]" (1600/1800) in Attack Position, "[[Fortune Chariot (anime)|Fortune Chariot]]" (which is equipped to "Valkyrie Zwiete"), and "[[Nibelung's Ring]]" (which is equipped to "XYZ-Dragon Cannon")
<u>'''Turn 10: Kaiba'''</u><br />
Instead of conducting his normal draw, [[Seto Kaiba|Seto]] is forced to [[draw a card|draw]] two cards via the [[effect]] of "[[Nibelung's Ring]]" ("[[Monster Reborn (anime)|Monster Reborn]]" and "[[Attack Guidance Armor (anime)|Attack Guidance Armor]]"). If one or both of those drawn cards is a [[Monster Card]], Seto must [[discard]] one of them, however neither drawn cards are monster cards. Seto then [[Set]]s a card.
<u>'''Turn 11: Zigfried'''</u><br />
[[Zigfried von Schroeder|Zigfried]] draws. Zigfried [[activate]]s the second [[effect]] of "[[Fortune Chariot (anime)|Fortune Chariot]]" to halve the [[ATK]] of the equipped "[[Valkyrie Zweite (anime)|Valkyrie Zweite]]" ("Valkyrie Zweite": 1600 → 800/1600) and allow it to [[attack]] [[direct attack|directly]] this [[turn]]. "Valkyrie Zweite" attacks directly, but Seto activates his face-down "Attack Guidance Armor" to redirect the attack to "[[Valkyrie Erste (anime)|Valkyrie Erste]]". In response, Zigfried activates his face-down "[[Wotan's Judgment]]" to switch the top card of his [[Deck]] with a [[Spell Card|Magic Card]] from his [[hand]] ("[[Nobleman of Crossout (anime)|Nobleman of Crossout]]"), negate the attack, and end the [[Battle Phase]].<ref group=Notes>The Japanese lore of "[[Wotan's Judgment]]" says that the Deck must be shuffled after the cards are switched. Zigfried is not shown shuffling his Deck after he switches the cards, as he immediately activates his "Goddess" [[Spell Card]]s afterwards. The shuffling occurs offscreen at some point, since Zigfried never draws "[[Nobleman of Crossout (anime)|Nobleman of Crossout]]" again. This is verified after Zigfried [[activate]]s the last card in his hand later in the Duel, "[[Pegasus WingsWing (anime)|Pegasus Wing]]".</ref>
Zigfried's hand is shown to contain "Gryphon's Feather Duster" and "[[Goddess Skuld's Oracle (anime)|Goddess Skuld's Oracle]]" at this point. Zigfried then activates "[[Goddess Urd's Verdict (anime)|Goddess Urd's Verdict]]", "[[Goddess Verdande's Guidance (anime)|Goddess Verdande's Guidance]]", and "Goddess Skuld's Oracle". He activates the effect of "Goddess Skuld's Oracle. Now once a turn, Zigfried can use "Goddess Skuld's Oracle" to look at the top three cards of Seto's Deck and rearrange them to however he wishes. Also once a turn, Zigfried can use "Goddess Verdande's Guidance" to guess the card type of the top card of Kaiba's Deck. If he is correct, Kaiba must set the top card of his Deck face-down on his side of the field. In addition, Zigfried can use the effect of "Goddess Urd's Verdict" once a turn to select one of Kaiba's set cards and guess what that card is. If he is correct, then the set card will be removed from play.
Zigfried activates the effect of "Goddess Skuld's Oracle" to look at the top three cards of Seto's Deck (three "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragons]]"). Zigfried activates the effect of "Goddess Verdande's Guidance" and guesses that the top card of Seto's Deck is a Monster Card. He is correct, so Seto [[Special Summon]]s "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in [[face-down]] [[Defense Position]]. Zigfried then activates the effect of "Goddess Urd's Verdict" and declares that Seto's face-down monster is "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". He is correct, so "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is removed from play. During the End Phase, the effect of "Fortune Chariot" expires ("Valkyrie Zweite": 800 → 1600/1600).
Zigfried draws. He then activates the effect of his "Goddess Skuld's Oracle" to look at the top three cards of Seto's Deck ("[[Shrink (later anime)|Shrink]]", "[[Cave Dragon (anime)|Cave Dragon]]" and "[[Luster Dragon 2 (anime)|Luster Dragon #2]]). Zigfried tells Seto to place "Luster Dragon #2" on top and he does so. Zigfried then activates the effect of "Goddess Verdande's Guidance" and guesses that Seto's top card is a Monster Card. He is correct, so Seto Special Summons "Luster Dragon #2" in face-down Defense Position. Zigfried then activates the effect of "Goddess Urd's Verdict" and declares that Seto's face-down monster is "Luster Dragon #2". He is correct, so "Luster Dragon #2" is removed from play.
Zigfried then activates "[[Gryphon's Feather Duster (anime)|Gryphon's Feather Duster]]" to destroy all Spell and Trap Cards he controls and gain 500 [[Life Points]] for each [[Spell Card|Spell]] and [[Trap Card]] destroyed this way. Three are destroyed (Zigfried 1100 → 2600). He then [[Tribute]]s "Valkyrie Zweite" and "Valkyrie Erste" in order to [[Tribute Summon]] "[[Valkyrie Brunhilde (anime)|Valkyrie Brunhilde]]" (1800/2000) in [[Defense Position]]. Due to the effect of "Valkyrie Brunhilde", it gains 300 ATK for each Dragon-type monster and Warrior-type monster on the field. There is currently one ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 1800 → 2100/2000).
<u>'''Turn 14: Kaiba'''</u><br />
Zigfried draws. He then switches his "Valkyrie Brunhilde" to Attack Position. Zigfried then activates "[[Enchanted Sword Nothung]]", equipping it to "Valkyrie Brunhilde" and increasing its ATK by 400 ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2100 → 2500/1000). The second effect of "Enchanted Sword Nothung" activates, destroying "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and removing it from play ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2500 → 2200/1000). Now if Kaiba attacks "Valkyrie Brunhilde" with a Dragon-Type monster, "Enchanted Sword Nothung" will destroy that monster at the start of the Damage Step without applying Damage Calculation.
Zigfried then activates "[[Pegasus Wing (anime)|Pegasus Wing]]" to halve the ATK of "Valkyrie Brunhilde" ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2200 → 1100/1000) and allow it to attack directly this turn. "Valkyrie Brunhilde" attacks directly, but Seto activates his face-down "Shrink" to halve the ATK of "Valkyrie Brunhilde" ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 1100 → 550/1000). The direct attack continues (Seto 1100 → 550). On Zigfried's End Phase, the effect of "Pegasus Wing" and "Shrink" expire ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 550 → 2200/1000).
<u>'''Turn 16: Kaiba'''</u><br />
Due to the effect of "Nibelung's Ring", Seto draws two cards ("[[Graceful Charity (anime)|Graceful Charity]]" and "[[Emergency Provisions (anime)|Emergency Provisons]]") instead of conducting a normal draw. Seto activates "Graceful Charity" to draw three cards and discard two cards ("Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "[[Cloning (later anime)|Cloning]]"). He then removes from play "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "[[Pitch-Dark Dragon (anime)|Pitch-Dark Dragon]]" from his Graveyard in order to Special Summon "[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (anime)|Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End]]" (3000/2500) from his hand in Attack Position<ref group=Notes>In the [[TCG]]/[[OCG]], "Chaos Emperor Dragon" is actually called "[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End]]".</ref> ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2200 → 2500/2000).
Seto Sets a card and activates "Emergency Provisions" to [[send]] the Set card to the Graveyard and gain 1000 Life Points (Seto 550 → 1550). He then activates the effect of "Chaos Emperor Dragon" to pay 1000 Life Points (Seto 1550 → 550), send all cards in both players' hands and on the field to the Graveyard, and inflict 300 [[effect damage|damage]] to Zigfried for each card sent. Five cards are sent to the Graveyard (Zigfried 2600 → 1100).
Zigfried draws "[[Pot of Greed (anime)|Pot of Greed]]" and subsequently activates it to draw two cards. He then activates "[[Magical Alms]]", which increases Zigfried's Life Points by 1000 upon its activation (Zigfried 1100 → 2100). Now during each player's turn, the turn player must predict how many Spell Cards they will activate for the rest of that turn. Both players will then gain 500 Life Points for each Spell Card predicted. However, should the turn player activate less Spell Cards than they predicted, that player will take 1000 damage for every Spell Card predicted during their End Phase. Zigfried proceeds to use the effect of "Magical Alms" and predicts he will activate <u>one</u> more Spell Card this turn (Zigfried 2100 → 2600; Seto 550 → 1050).
Zigfried then activates "[[Final Light (anime)|Final Light]]" to pay 1000 Life Points (Zigfried 2600 → 1600), Special Summon one [[LIGHT]] monster from his [[Graveyard]], and allow Seto to Special Summon one monster with 2000 or less ATK from his Graveyard. Zigfried Special Summons "Valkyrie Brunhilde" (1800/2000) in Attack Position while Seto Special Summons "Cave Dragon" (2000/100) in Attack Position ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 1800 → 2100/2000). "Valkyrie Brunhilde" attacks and destroys "Cave Dragon" (Seto 1050 → 950) ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2100 → 1800/2000).
<u>'''Turn 18: Kaiba'''</u><br />
"Luster Dragon #2" attacks "Valkyrie Brunhilde". "Valkyrie Brunhilde" destroys "Luster Dragon #2" (Seto 950 → 50) ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 3300 → 3000/2000). "Chaos Emperor Dragon" attacks "Valkyrie Brunhilde", but Zigfried reduces the DEF of "Valkyrie Brunhilde" by 1000 ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 3000/2000 → 1000) to prevent it from being destroyed by battle, so only "Chaos Emperor Dragon" is destroyed ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 3000 → 2700/1000). The first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks "Valkyrie Brunhilde", but Zigfried reduces the DEF of "Valkyrie Brunhilde" by 1000 ("Valkyrie Brunhilde": 2700/1000 → 0) to prevent it from being destroyed by battle (Zigfried 3600 → 3300). The second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Valkyrie Brunhilde" (Zigfried 3300 → 3000). The third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" then attacks directly (Zigfried 3000 → 0).
== Quotes ==
*Cut from the dub is a shot of [[Mokuba Kaiba|Mokuba]] cheering for his brother.
*In the Japanese dub, after Zigfried saw Kaiba has three Blue-Eyes White Dragons at the top of his deck, he thought ahead of how he could win by using the effect of "[[Valkyrie Erste (anime)|Valkyrie Erste]]" to steal Blue-Eyes White Dragon's ATK and unequip Fortune Chariot from "[[Valkyrie Zweite (anime)|Valkyrie Zweite]]" and equip it to Valkyrie Erste to win the duel.
*Cut from the dub is a sequence of first a pan of the field, and then [[Zigfried von Schroeder|Zigfried]] telling [[Seto Kaiba|Kaiba]] laughing about how long he has waited for this day.
*Cut from the dub is a shot showing the insignia of Schroeder Corp in the same flashback.
*In the Japanese dub, when Kaiba draws "[[Graceful Charity (anime)|Graceful Charity]]" and "[[Emergency Provisions (anime)|Emergency Provisons]]", he says he didn't draw a Monster Card. In the US version Zigfried talks Zigfried instead, reminding Kaiba that he must send to the Graveyard any monster he draws.
*After Kaiba plays "Graceful Charity", a shot of Yugi and Yami Yugi is shown, with Yami Yugi saying "What a strange twist, Joey is cheering for Kaiba!" in the dub. In the original, Yami Yugi says that Kaiba's comeback has begun.
*In the dub when Zigfried told Kaiba he couldn't afford to pay 1,000 LP to activate Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End's special ability, he made a wisecrack comeback saying there's nothing he can't afford before proceeding to announce he would set a card. In the original, Kaiba just continued to announce he would set a card in response to Zigfried's remark.
*Cut form from the dub is a shot of a pan of the duel field when Kaiba explains Zigfried that "Chaos Emperor Dragon"'s effect will deal him 300 points of damage for each card that was sent to the Graveyard, and Zigfried's LP gauge showing his LP dropping to 1,100. In the US dub, the Life Point gauge is shown later.
*The woman on "[[Soul Release (anime)|Soul Release]]" is given a dress to wear in the dub.
* In the Japanese version, when Kaiba displays his 3 "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragons]]" they all use the newer [[Card layout|layout]], but later when 1 of them is shown in his hand it uses the old layout. Also, when he summons all three using "Dimension Fusion" at the end, they are all displayed using the old layout again, even though "Chaos Emperor Dragon" and "Luster Dragon 2" are using the new layout. Another thing most people do not notice is when [[Zigfried]] uses "[[Pot of Greed (anime)|Pot of Greed]]", it also has the old layout.
* In the Japanese version, Zigfried's [[Life Points]] go from 3300 to 3000 twice: once when "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" destroys the shield of "[[Valkyrie Brunhilde (anime)|Valkyrie Brunhilde]]", and again when the next Blue-Eyes destroys Brunnhilde. They should have gone from 3600 to 3300 the first time. * In the dub, when listening to one of Kaiba's main workers when talking about kicking Zigfried out, the man says "Should I have Security remove him from the fark?" instead of park.
* When Kaiba activated "[[Emergency Provisions (anime)|Emergency Provisions]]" he was shown with two other cards in his hand when he shouldn't have any other cards in his hand.
* When Kaiba activates "[[Dimension Fusion (anime)|Dimension Fusion]]", he was shown having no cards in his hand when he should have had one.
{{Decklist|Seto Kaiba
|normal monsters =
* [[Luster Dragon 2 (anime)|Luster Dragon #2]]
* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (anime)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] x3
|effect monsters =
* [[Cave Dragon (anime)|Cave Dragon]]
* ''[[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (anime)|Chaos Emperor Dragon- Envoy of the End]]''|union monsters =
* [[Pitch-Dark Dragon (anime)|Pitch-Dark Dragon]]
|fusion monsters =
* [[XYZ-Dragon Cannon (anime)|XYZ-Dragon Cannon]]
|magic =
* [[Absorb Spell (anime)|Absorb Spell]]<ref group=Notes name=hand/>
* [[Card of Demise (anime)|Card of Demise]]
* [[Soul Release (anime)|Soul Release]]
* [[Spell Reproduction (anime)|Spell Reproduction]]
|traps =* [[Attack Guidance Armor (anime)|Attack Guidance Armor]]
* [[Cloning (later anime)|Cloning]]
}}
{{Decklist|Zigfried von Schroeder
|effect monsters =* [[Valkyrie Brunhilde (anime)|Valkyrie Brunhilde]]* [[Valkyrie Erste (anime)|Valkyrie Erste]]* [[Valkyrie Zweite (anime)|Valkyrie Zweite]]|union monsters =* [[Fortune Chariot (anime)|Fortune Chariot]]|magic =
* [[Enchanted Sword Nothung]]
* ''[[Final Light (anime)|Final Light]]''* [[Goddess Skuld's Oracle (anime)|Goddess Skuld's Oracle]]* [[Goddess Urd's Verdict (anime)|Goddess Urd's Verdict]]* [[Goddess Verdande's Guidance (anime)|Goddess Verdande's Guidance]]* ''[[Golden Castle of Stromberg (anime)|Golden Castle of Stromberg]]''<ref group=Notes>This card was dropped by Zigfried after he lost.</ref>
* ''[[Gryphon's Feather Duster (anime)|Gryphon's Feather Duster]]''
* ''[[Magical Alms]]''
* [[Nibelung's Ring]]
* ''[[Nobleman of Crossout (anime)|Nobleman of Crossout]]''<ref group=Notes>This card was in Zigfried's [[hand]].</ref>
* ''[[Pegasus Wing (anime)|Pegasus Wing]]''
* [[Pot of Greed (anime)|Pot of Greed]]
|traps =
* [[Wotan's Judgment]]
}}
{{Decklist|Flashbacks
|effect monsters =* [[Valkyrie Erste (anime)|Valkyrie Erste]]
}}