The duel did happen in the manga, but there are few things to consider: 1)Bakura could have played the DB, but in the manga, it required Dark Necrofear to be on the grave, which would be a pain to do. 2)Bakura planned to send Ra to the grave, instead of summoning it himself, not knowing it's other abilities. With this, he used Dark Designator to send Ra to Marik's hand and then Multiple Destruction to send Ra to the grave. Then he summoned Puppet Master to special summon the 3 monsters to attack Marik in the next turn and go for game, however Marik draws his own Monster Reborn, summons Ra and uses it's ability to give 3999 attack points to (he didn't lose a single lp in the manga) it and finishes off Bakura. We don't know what cards were on Marik's hand, but let's just assume his hand was all bricks and he had to summon Ra to win
Honestly having finally read the manga within the last couple months it's wild how differently some of these duels go. The differences in card mechanics and rulings really plays into how weird some plays seem to be in the anime. Also relevant to this duel; anime Bakura and manga Bakura are kinda wildly different characters for no real reason. In the manga he's incredibly conniving and utilitarian, which helps him with being more threatening, while the anime just makes him into kind of a goober until the final season where they finally realized he needs to be competent in order to be an effective threat.
That might be why, it must of been a headache to transfer Destiny Bond in the anime while trying to be manga accurate when they both basically have very different effects.
@@Lucario1121it's pretty amazing how smoothly the anime managed to adapt the bakura-yugi-duel considering how much his card-effects were changed in the ocg, I'm still really impressed. in the manga Destiny Board is a single card that requires Dark Necrofear in the graveyard, and originally Dark Necrofear itself released the haunting spirit to the field. So when the anime adapted it they not only created Dark Sanctuary to replicate Necrofear's original effect, they also gave it the ability to extend spell and trap zones so that when yugi revives necrofear he still locks down bakura's destiny board combo, just in a different way.
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At least in the manga using destiny board would've been more difficult since, at that point, it could only be played after Dark Nexrofear gets sent to the graveyard.
@@animeguykurosaki1There’s a possibility that Marik could’ve beaten the destiny board since he had malevolent catastrophe. Even then it was proven by the end of the series that Bakura was a better duelist than Marik,(probably top 4 in the verse)
@@animeguykurosaki1 And even if that wasn't the case, he still would have lost in the Manga even if he did go for the most effective Destiny Board play as the Duel ends on Turn 6 so he would have only had four letters out by then.
@@blitz4779 In the Manga, which both this duel and the first Yugi duel are based off of, Dark Necrofear can only be summoned when three fiend monsters in ATTACK POSITION get sent to the graveyard. Destiny Board Cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear has been summoned and is sent to the graveyard from the field. This counts for most of those misplays
@@nicholasargiros1331 saw this noted in other comment threads. Definitely seems like they knew what to do with the manga version, even if it was very lucky marik drew into monster reborn to get Ra back
Bakura was a boring Villain. Only Beat peagus because Yugi beat him and weaked him. Loss to Yami marik when marik help they were the same person you think his cards be same. Only zork was scary. The anime would be twice a good if they copied the manga by each release eing 2 weeks or more people.
This duel happened in the manga, but only lasted six turns. Bakura added Ra to Marik's hand with Dark Designator, then made him discard it with Multiple Destruction before doing his Puppet Master play. On his next turn, Marik drew Monster Reborn and revived Ra to defeat Bakura.
Well least that makes more since then getting a huge wall on ur side of the field n tributing it for something that can't attack till next turn lol knowing monster reborn is in opponents hand. Yea I nvr understood this duel and knowing he had destiny board in his hand from jump lol jus crazy should've played it once remove trap was used man.
Boost this comment up to roast on the anime for adding filler content to duels to make them last longer. One of the few duels I can remember being improved from the manga is the final one, Atem vs Yugi. The anime gets Yugi beating the Egyptian God cards through his own strength, while the manga has Atem leave out Ra and seemingly only using Obolisk. When Atem discards Swift Gaia in the anime, he discarded Slifer in the manga for the jumpscare with Monster Reborn. But by Yugi killing it in the anime, it better shows the theme of how the dead should move on from the world rather than linger in it.
The biggest misplay that occurs throughout all Mariks duels is that people keep trying to deal with the Winged Dragon of Ra and/or use it against him. Bakura and Mai were more focused on using Ra rather than using their own strategies to win.
Half the time they could just be like "okay beat him before he gets it on the table", or like in Mai's case, steal it from him *and not use it at all*. Just brick it away. Beat him with your normal strategy after removing his one mega-ultra-chicken card from play. Or like in this video we just saw, Bakura could've easily beaten YaMarik by just doing his own thing, using exchange to just steal Ra and stop it from ever entering the field.
18:00- “One Turn Kill” is the true name of the Instant Attack or point to point transfer in the Japanese version. It’s suppose to symbolized that with this effect, the Wing Dragon Of Ra has the power to basically wipe you out in one turn. The name instant Attack in the English dub was probably just 4kids trying to avoid saying the word Kill, so the name was changed. This is also why the name of the episode is called “One Turn Kill.” It’s about explaining this secret ability of Ra I guess. Hope this helps.
Yami Marik: *Summons Ra to his field.* Good Marik: Don't worry mate, it's got 0 atk points. Bakura: Yeah, we can still wi- Yami Marik: *Starts chanting Ancient Egyptian.* Good Marik & Bakura: 👁👄👁
Fun fact: In the manga, Destiny Board requires Dark Necrofear to be in the Graveyard to work. While we're on the subject, Dark Necrofear's summon in the manga requires three fiend monsters to be destroyed in attack mode within (I think) 5 turns, which explains Bakura's duel with Yugi a little better.
I recently watched Sam's video on the Bakura vs Yugi Duel, and IF I remember correctly, the reason why Bakura didn't activate it back then, until a bit later on, is similar to why he didn't activate it now, he needed Dark Sanctuary on the field, which can be only activated once Dark Necrofear leaves the field, and since, Bakura struggled to even get 3 fiends in the graveyard, it'd make sense, also, except for Ra, Marik didn't have a monster to beat over Necrofear, which would've been too late in the Duel to use the field spell then Destiny board, so technically, the move he made in the Anime Duel (Manga Duel slightly different but would've worked also) was the better of the 2
@@varisrevolver4061 Manga Necrofear in addition to having the summoning requirement OP mentioned has a continuous effect in the GY which is the possession ghost that becomes the "spirit of the sanctuary" from Dark Sanctuary's effect, and Manga Destiny Board requires Dark Necrofear in GY to apply it's effects because she's the one using the ouiji board. Notably there are no "Spirit Message" cards either in this version, they're more akin to a gamestate or counters applied to Destiny Board similar to the manga/anime Great Moth line, so Bakura wouldn't need to consider bricking on them. The anime versions DB requires Sanctuary, and Sanctuary requires Necrofear in grave to apply; They basically offloaded part of Dark Necrofear's effects into Dark Sanctuary as a new middleman and rejigged it all a bit to work out roughly the same. Then irl Destiny Board comes along with no activation/ effect requirements but everything pops if any of it pops which creates yet another disconnect between the cards in game vs in the story.
@@varisrevolver4061No, maybe you're letting yourself be influenced by the knowledge of the manga. In the anime, Bakura needed Necrofear in the GY to be able to play Dark Sanctuary. He could have played Destiny Board the whole time, and Sam himself called it a misplay not playing the Destiny Board earlier. Board could be played without Dark Sanctuary, but it would occupy Bakuras spell/trap zones. Dark Sanctuary not only alleviate that problem, but also keeps Yami Yugi from attacking him along with Dark Door Long story short, Dark Necrofear in the GY wasn't needed for the Board but for the Sanctuary. And Sanctuary wasn't needed for the Board, but it just facilitated its win con very much
@@roncerjani9063 Haven't read the manga, but, yeah, maybe in the anime it needs Dark Sanctuary on the field (Or at least upon activation, but it doesn't need to remain on the field to stay), at this rate I'm guessing
@@varisrevolver4061 From what I got from the anime, Dark Sanctuary doesn't have anything to do with Destiny Board. It does however allow spells/traps to be played in the monster zones once the S/T Zones are all occupied which is a huge boost to this strategy though. That might have forced Bakura to reconsider the use of Destiny Board in this Duel.
Bakura:Okay he knows my strategy. I'll just play a new startegy. Good Marik:Good idea. There's no way he'll be able to handle you now. *Bad Marik then proceeds to handle it throughout the entire duelI* Bakura:....I've realized I've nade a huge mistake. Good Marik:Well it can't get worse Bad Marik:*merges with Ra and makes it even stronger* Bakura:....any more comments from the peanut gallery? Good Marik:...use the Celt- Bakura:I swear to Zorc I will make sure to haunt your ass for this!
Bakura being the greater-scope villain meant that he was doomed to only ever win against unimportant characters like Bonz. He was already plotting for the final series as early as Duelist Kingdom, but Kazuki Takahashi must of realised that if he suddenly allowed Bakura to duel and beat main characters like Joey, Marik or Kaiba, there'd be no justifiable reason for Yugi and Atem to continue overlooking his schemes. All Yu-Gi-Oh! villains lose in the end. The problem is that Bakura being introduced so early on in the story meant that he wasn't allowed to come across as much of a threat until it was much too late.
Honestly it's a bit better in the manga. Bakura actually plays in an attempt to go for the kill instead of having this really stupid plan of taking Ra for himself and winning that way. In fact Dark Designator's purpose in the manga is to force Ra into Marik's hand so he can force it to the grave via discard. The whole Monster Reborn play still happens, via Marik drawing his own copy, but the whole thing honestly makes a whole lot more sense.
Seriously. If Yami Marik’s opponents didn’t consistently misplay so hard, he’d have lost every duel he fought. IIRC, both Joey and Mai could’ve won - Joey could’ve won earlier in the duel (but even at the end had enough damage on board to win, had he not collapsed), and Mai had would’ve won if she just attacked with her harpies, instead of holding out for Ra. Yami Marik never really “won” any of his duels out of skill, he seemed to win them out of mind and torture games, as well as being hard-carried by misplays.
I find it genuinely hillarious that, if Bakura hadn't tried so hard to mill through Yami Marik's deck, Yami Marik would have literally never have drawn the Winged Dragon of Ra throughout the ENTIRE Duel.
This duel did happen in the manga, it’s the same as the anime right up to Multiple Destruction. Instead, Bakura used Dark Designator first then Multiple Destruction to send Ra to the graveyard, before summoning Puppet Master reviving Dark Necrofear and Headless Knight (discarded by Multiple Destruction) and Gelnia and preparing to just attack next turn and roll over Marik with battle damage…right up until Marik Monster Reborn’s Ra and uses Point-To-Point transfer to increase its attack to 3999 (Marik had his 4000 LP left while Bakura had 1900 LP, close enough to the anime), and then attacks Bakura and his 3 monsters. So it starts and ends the same way, but it’s a whole lot shorter due to no Bog Spirit and also due to Bakura actually not knowing Ra’s effects and thus not attempting to use it.
I guess it would have to be, also it could have been to more evenly distribute the duel between the 2 episodes, because the first episode ends the turn when Bakura summons Puppet Master, so in the manga next turn Bakura gets defeated, so maybe they wanted to put more content in or something, instead of just starting the episode with Bakura getting cooked and dying, or to explain more of what Ra can do. Most likely it’s just for filling time, putting in more ‘content’ instead of getting to the filler arc.
@@thattruegamernerdKeep in mind that anime tends to extend to duel also becouse of showing new cards to audience.We saw several cards that are not used in the manga duel (Ha des,Bog Spirit,Goblin Zombie,etc...) Longer the duel-more time to introduce new cards
True the anime does allow them to show off more cards and strategies than is possible in the manga, due to the longer length and the difference in medium, it does make for a more interesting experience. It is also interesting to note differences in these duels between the original version and the adaptation, to see difference in scripting and characterisation even in a short duel like this.
Long duels and dragged out content means your either incompetent or you have no clue what you're doing. A duel should be one episode as standard. Dragging it out is what we call sandbagging where nothing happens and exist to fill up time
True for a duel like this it only needs one episode, if it was something like the Noah duel, sure give that multiple episodes since it was constant just duelling and also lasted 40 turns, or like an equivalent final duel of an arc or season, but this was a 5 turn duel stretched to 10 that was dragged to 2 episodes, a quarter the length of the Noah duel and lasted about half as long. The filler sure is wild sometimes, especially when it’s not even filler
This should have been the point where Diabound was introduced as the alternate boss monster of Bakura, instead of it popping up out of nowhere in the final arc and being treated like it was always part of the story.
Manga authors often don't think that far ahead. Takahashi when writing the final arc probably decided that Bakura's existing slate of monsters wasn't good enough, and with Zorc being reserved for the finale, Bakura needed a new boss monster to compete with the Pharaoh. The anime couldn't put it in either. This episode was released in February 2002, while the chapter where Diabound first appeared wasn't published until November 2002.
It would've been cool to see, especially if Bakura had a moment of considering if he can find a way to have it destroy Ra by battle, only to be forced to abandon the idea. We know from the Millennium World arc that it'd go on to steal the abilities of other monsters that it defeats in shadow games so it'd be fitting for him to at least think about shooting for that angle.
@@doctorecho3007 Diabound Kernel appeared in the duel between Bakura and Kaiba, which was an anime exclusive duel that was used to bring Kaiba into the Egypt arc. Diabound never appears as a card in the manga. During Bakura's duel against Yugi in the tomb, he uses Necro monsters like in Battle City.
I'll admit one of my favorite lines is when Yami Marik says "Let's make this a Shadow game!" and Yami Bakura goes "That is an EXCELLENT idea!" and they both just walk off knowing they turned a card game into Russian roulette. XD
The main issue is that players in the anime often over-think their strategies when they're faced with someone who is apparently prepared for their strategies. A better example of what to actually do in this situation (for both sides) is Jaden vs. Bastion, when Bastion just turns off Polymerization with Cursed Seal. We know that between Wroughtweiler and Fusion Recovery, Jaden's deck is super reliant on Polymerization, and that the likelihood of playing more than one Fusion Gate is low since he doesn't often side deck and he has little reason to with all the ways to recycle Polymerization he has. Plus, Miracle Fusion hadn't been released yet, so another thing to justify why he couldn't play around it.
It's really hard to write a convincing duel in fairness because the writers know exactly what cards everyone will draw and how the battle will go, so they have to fake a lot of things like surprise (they don't know what the cards do and aren't allowed to read the card effects or see them). It's also why they have a ton of very niche counter cards, apparently can only play with one particular archetype, only ever draw about half their deck over the series (there's no way they're playing with 60 cards consistenly) and the fact that the duels often last 2 episodes despite most IRL duels lasting like 3-5 minutes. Granted they do spend a LOT of time taunting each other but these are still like 20 minute duels. That said.... I DO love when you have what I dub an "anime duel" irl. Something really thrilling about both players stopping thier win condition and lots of back and forth with good trap timing and summon prediction to lead to a gripping "it's only over when the last life point is lost" duels. Those ones that make me really sweat and go "Okay....do I use the effect now? No...lemme wait... Okay NOW! ... YES! HAHA YES! I stopped opp's combo! Whew wow if I didn't time that PERFECTLY I would've lost." You'd be surprised at how many times "Heart of the cards" literally won me a tight duel.
@@MarioMastar That being said, there's also a glorious feeling of seeing an anime duel you feel it could happen without plot contrivance, just normal cards they normally play, and there's a notable back-and-fort. My favorite example of this is the graduation duel between Zane and Jaden, where there's only 3 overly niche card used there(Cyber Kirin, Elemental Burst and final fusion), and only one minor misplay for each duelist that is easy to justify as "Fearing MST" and "Playing around Waboku". It's what I consider the best anime duel for a good reason, despite how Jaden's friends were like "Why is he playing so cautiously and not like himself for fun? (Because he's against an OTK deck, you dahm bi***** )"
On the topic of people setting spells/traps before doing stuff like Card of Sanctity. Its a result of being chained to the source material after having done a bunch of random changes in various duels. Manga effect of Royal Temple (Aka Temple of the Kings) is "Normally, you can only Set 1 Spell and 1 Trap Card per turn, but as long as "Royal Temple" is on the field, its owner may place 2 Trap Cards on the field.". Its one of those rules that got kind of overlooked alot, especially in the anime.
@PBJA89 They overnerfed a lot of cards from this era....and then printed ridiculous cards like Tears and such that do all that crazy stuff AND more. People are seriously questioning if Pot of Greed really is as broken when at best it's a "win more" card in the modern game. THey really need to make a lot of modern cards archetype specific and stop ruining archetypes that NEED help by banning the one card that makes them viable.
I absolutely love that while this duel in the Shadow Realm is going on Yugi and Atem are acting like they're in a whodunit lol. You'd think SOMEONE would've heard the duel. Also this duel has one of the COLDEST lines in all anime "Don't you realize that *_I AM_* the darkness?" God Bakura is a grade A villain.
@zombieslayer2016 yeah that's kind of a bummer. The personality and voice acting more than make up for it though. I kinda wish we had seen him in the waking the dragons arc. Could you IMAGINE the amount of harassment Atem would get from him over losing Yugi? Remember he had a piece of his soul in the Puzzle as a contingency. He'd never shut up about the Pharaoh not respecting Yugi.
@@TheRibottoStudios not wrong but the inherent problem with that that was a filler Arc and as far as I remember the anime never actually acknowledged the filler once it was over anyways
If I remember correctly. In the manga you could only activate one spell, set one spell, and set one trap card per turn. This is never mentioned in the anime. This is also the reason Odion in his duel against Joey plays a card that in the anime doesn't seem to do much, but in the manga it let him set two spell or trap cards per turn.
I like this duel not because of dueling skill but because of storytelling the fact that Marik is desperate to stop his dark half Yami marik toying with both bakura knowing that bakura wouldn't be able to use Ra by trolling him and Yami bakura knowing that he needs all the millennium items decides to protect Yugi (I could be wrong)
18:06. Well to parapharase the YuGiOh Wiki's page on One Turn Kill. "A One Turn Kill (OTK) is achieved when a player wins a Duel in the space of a single turn. In one turn, all of the opponent's Life Points, which is normally assumed to be no less than 8000 (Or 4000 since we're using Anime rules), must be depleted, or an alternate victory condition must be fulfilled." So no, this doesn't count as an OTK.
Oh boy this duel. While an extremely rare villain vs villain fight, boy it was a heavy misplay duel for both, especially Bakura. Bakura would totally had complete control of the duel as had he would have used destiny board (yami marik only had 1 trap removal wasted), Yami Marik is totally in defense throughout the duel. Also Despite Ra had no Atk, it still had a beefy 3450 defense, Yami Marik had no way in getting over that, yet he tributes it and it bit him in the butt. He should have kept RA and instead summon dark necrofear and used premature burial to summon earl of demise and tribute that for dark ruler. Bakura had a very beefy line up and Yami Marik had no way to counter since he used vengeful bog spirit, it affects him as well. Also had bakura set monster reborn, he would have used it to summon a 4th monster on the field. He had it won. Boy what a f**k up for Bakura.
This duel was a prime example of Bakura throwing everything after getting rid of remove trap... 16:17 man Bakura is a dunce without a doubt that was a good way to just get yourself kicked while you're down. 17:56 Huh interesting detail. 18:09 We can't but that was an Overkill. Hopefully we'll get the Lumis/Umbra were going to defeat Yugi/Kaiba episode someday but man this was frustrating but was worth it because of your meltdown at Bakura's stupidest play in the duel. Great vid Sam
@@BmanTheChamp both - if duelists face-off more than once, Sam _normally_ does all their matches in order; the exception being that when he covered Judai vs Edo R2, he didn't cover R3. Edit: probably should've said if characters duel 'exactly twice' (and the duels aren't too long) because he hasn't covered Yusei vs Kiryu R2 & R3, Yusei vs Jack R3 & R4 or Judai vs Ryo R3. Which is weird because he covered all 3 Yuma/Astral vs Kaito duels in one episode lmao.
Check out the manga version of the duel, it differs quite a bit. For example, Bakura never tries to get Ra to his hand and summon it, rather he just thinks that sending it to the graveyard is enough. Also the duel is shorter and Bakura doesn't have time to use Destiny Board (He still doesn't want to use Destiny Board and Dark Necrofear due to Marik knowing how they work).
As for the Destiny Board argument you mentioned. Assuming the anime was trying to be faithful to manga effects of it, then Destiny Board can only be activated once Dark Necrofear is in the GY as its Dark Necrofear's hand that spells it out. Fun fact thats actually why in Duel Links Bakura can't activate that skill till Dark Necrofear is gone.
And let's not forget how obtuse Dark Necrofear's summon restriction is in the Manga. There was no way Marik was going to just walk into Bakura's win condition so it makes sense that Bakura didn't even try to use Destiny Board
There is a manga rule that only one spell and one trap may be placed on the field each turn and for some reason the battle city arc seems to keep this rule without ever explaining it. This is the reason so many combos feature one spell and one trap.
Can we also talk about how Kaiba- SETO KAIBA, figured out all the secrets behind Ra's effects, including its hidden effects during this same episode while Yami Bakura *COUGH* Zorc Necrophades *COUGH* who is an entity of darkness and supposed to be extremely intelligent didn't assume "MAYBE RA HAS OTHER EFFECTS" but no. NO. Yami Bakura is the worse villain duelist in any Yugioh series. Vector, the guy who trolls, has more impressing ways of winning! The problem with Yami Bakura is his overconfidence and not a good duelist. The only time that he felt like a threat was of course Season 5 but the damage has been done.
I was under the impression that other than an instinct to obtain the Millennium Items, Bakura also lost much of his memory, which is what he did with the piece of himself hidden in the Puzzle.
@@Nemo12417 Well that piece of him that he put inside the Millennium Puzzle was the start of Season 2 so that would make less sense because it seems both halves of Yami Bakura were aware of the other's actions if you really think about it, especially with Season 5 with the Shadow RPG. That means it makes EVEN less sense. I would say my only theory why he doesn't know more than he should being Zorc is since Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, Zorc wasn't aware of their "effects" since you know Ancient Egypt but like you would still assume being this powerful entity of darkness, he would have been more careful and not tribute Ra. It's even more confusing.
People hate Zexal despite the fact that it really just makes some changes to the story of DM and actually fixes some of the terrible mistakes it had. Vector really is just better Bakura when it comes to being possessed by an evil deity.
Now this was a treat! To think all Bakura had to do to win was play ONE SIMPLE CARD!!!!!!!! Excellent job analyzing the duel! Never can get enough of this series. Here’s a few suggestions for future duels: Atem and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra Kaiba vs Alister (both rounds if possible) Jaden vs Aster Phoenix (round 2) Aster Phoenix vs Adrian Gecko Jaden vs Darkness (Season 4) Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand Excited for the next one! Always worth the wait for these videos. 😇😇😇
Bakura, so what do you want from me Well, first answer me this how strong are your duelling skills They're extremely strong Excellent Bakura rarely wins except Bonz, and I think that he was going to defeat Kaiba
This is both my favorite and least favorite duel. The fact that they put the ultimate antagonist against the arc antagonist this early is insane to me. Would've been an insane twist to see Bakura become the rightful owner of the Winged Dragon of Ra for the remainder of the Duel Monsters series (not to mention, that he has displayed quick ways to summon out an appropriate number of tributes with puppet master). Moreover, can we talk about the implications of Bakura WINNING here like he could have? What would the rest of the series have looked like? Would he have looked like the hero of this arc to the rest of the cast? Would he have kept Good Marik, Good Bakura, and Evil Bakura all sharing the same body and knowledge for the remainder of the Duel Monsters era?
In the manga this duel makes more sense, The Bakura's main strategy here is use Dark Designator to add Ra and then discard him with Multiple Destruction
12:53 Missplay here: MARIK DIDN'T Needed to tell anything to Bakura... because bakura knows Ancient Egyptian... and every secret of Ra is put on the card... ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN... so missplay for Master Takahashi
Yami Bakura played using garbage monsters & risked paying life points and sending weak monsters in ATK hoping his opponent would take the bait in order to reach the conditions of Dark Necrofear etc.
The Final Battle City Finals Duel Analysis Video. For Future ones, could you do these? DM: Joey's Battle City Duels. Yami Yugi vs Strings, Mind controlled Joey vs Yugi. Kaiba vs Alister Joey vs Zigfried, Yami Yugi vs Leon Von Schroder GX: Jaden vs. Aster Part 2, Jaden vs. Chazz, either School Duel or Society of Light. Jaden vs Amnael, Aster vs Satorius, Jaden vs Satorius, Jaden and Aster vs Sabrina, Aster vs Adrian and my personal favorite Syus and Hassleberry vs Frost and Thunder. 5DS: Leo and Luna vs. Devack, Yusei, Jack and Crow vs. Goodwin, Yusei vs. Kalin Part 2, 5DS VS either Team Unicorn, Team Taiyo, Team Ragnarok or Team New World, Yusei vs. Z-ONE and Yusei Jack the final duel. Zexal: Yuma vs Shark first duel or either the World Duel Carnival. Yuma vs Tron, Yuma, Shark and Kite vs Dr. Faker, Nasch vs Vector, Kite vs Mizar, Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand and Yuma vs Nasch. Arc-V: Yuya and Shay vs the Tyler Sisters. I've broken down in my head and with the cards Yuya had at the time in the anime, he could've won on the second turn. Yuya vs. Sylvio, Paradise City Tournament, Shay vs. Sora Paradise City Tournament, Shay vs. Crow Friendship Cup, Yuya vs Crow Friendship Cup and finally, Everyone vs Z-ARC. Vrains. Playmaker vs Revolver, 2nd and fourth duel. Playmaker vs Bohman each duel. Revolver vs Lightning. Soulburner vs Revolver. And Playmaker vs AI.
and forgetting Marik took his Monster Reborn. At least he admitted how stupid he was in doing that. XD Unlike Marik in the beginning going "TRAP?" like he forgot Bakura JUST set a trap card and even admitted it was a trap.
I hate the fact so much that the only reason why Marik came so far in the series, is because they made all his opponents, Mai, Bakura and Joey missplay like there is no tomorrow, and I hate it so much, you could argue that in Joey´s case, Marik was actually playing mind games with him, and in Mai´s case he used his shadow magic to mess with her head. (I recall that he was way more on the wining side in the manga, but I cant remember it fully. But still, Marik would have lost all his duels, simply for the fact that he in Mai´s, Joey´s and Yugi´s case, PLAYED with his food. Its so horrible, why just not make him a better duelist, and for the record, Bakura is my biggest issue over all, as you pointed out, there was NO way he should have lost, since he could either have just use Destiny Board OR just use his strong monsters to get over his small ones..... I am so mad at this decisions....
Reminds me of how Mizar lost badly to Don Thousand in Zexal because he didn't know how Numeron Network worked and happened to have a card similar to the dragon card he wanted to play in his deck which lead to his confusion. Though at least that duel was lightning quick so we didn't have to dwell on Mizar being sacrifical fodder. but the writing at least does get better starting with 5Ds as the misplays are far less common or reflect real life dueling circumstances and not just "Oh by the way, the plot says you need to lose this duel." like Duel Monsters and GX does a lot.
Excellent Review of one of my favorite duels (The argument of the duel at least, not the duel itself). Also, I believe there is a moment where Bakura draws the A card and has it in his hand while playing exchange. I see a scenario where Marik, seeing Bakura has destiny board on the field, he would have taken it. You could say Bakura wouldn't play exchange in that scenario but seeing all the other Bakura's missplays in this duel... well, it's hard to tell.
I'd love to see a video about what you consider to be the best and the worst written duel(s) in all of the ones you've covered. I'm pretty sure this duel right here would be a good contender for the worst spot lol
On the not setting Destiny Board: In the manga (and presumably Anime), it's Dark Necrofear that moves the planchette from beyond the grave. Meaning you need to have Dark Necrofear in the GY to activate it.
This is the first duel I saw way back in the day. That "I just summoned Ra, but I'll switch him into defence mode" bit really screwed with me as a kid. There are so many rules arguments I had with by brother that I look back on and cringe because of this episode. Glad you covered this one, and I'm even more glad now that I relized how FUBAR this duel was from the jump.
That's how I feel about the actual game sometimes. Master Duel/TCG is only so long because the combos last forever, Duel links has faster pace but it's starting to catch up to the TCG where it's very unlikely duels will last past the 3rd turn, but when they do..... those are some of the most fun duels cause we both stopped each other's win condition but are in kind of a stale mate and now have to see who misplays first. It's so gripping. I tend to call those "Anime duels" because those trap cards you hear all the "top players" claim you should never use cause it's so niche end up coming in clutch and you actually see lifepoints go down to the hundreds and every drawn card potentially being your last. Just rare sadly that you have a really good duel like that.
Here’s the duals I think would be cool if you would cover: DM: Yugi and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra Yugi and Joey vs The Big Five Yugi Muto vs Yami Bakura Dawn Of The Dual GX: Jaden vs Chazz Princeton when he was representing North Academy Jaden vs Lyman Banner Jaden vs Aster REMATCH Jaden vs Sartorius Jaden vs Viper Jaden and Jessie vs Yasuke Jaden vs Nightshroud 5D’S: Jack vs Carly Yusei, Jack, and Crow vs Rex Goodwin Team 5D’S vs Team Ragnorok Yusei vs Z-ONE Zexal: Yuma vs Vetrix Kite vs Mizar Yuma vs Eliphas Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand Yuma vs Nash Arc V: Sorra vs Shay Jack vs Sergei Yuya vs Jack Yuya vs Declan
If Marik hadn't taken over Lumis and ended the duel, Yugi would have been eliminated due to burn damage on his next turn, because both cards that would have inflicted damage to him belonged to Lumis.
@@TheRibottoStudios Yeah, I never liked when duels are only more frustrating because of outside shenanigans that have nothing to do with the duel. It's a card game with set in stone effects, so you're either going to out strategize your opponent or you're going to lose. Sure sometimes skills like Destiny/Shining draw do play a part which is fine, but it's never gonna be like "Oh you have a monster I can tribute to get out my boss monster and win the duel? Well too bad because if I tribute your monster, I'll look like a scrub and I'm not going to look like a scrub. Instead I'm going to summon my own monster and tribute my own on the next turn!" So much for not looking like a scrub......
@MarioMastar it wasn't so much shenanigans that pissed me off. More so it was iirc that kaiba was playing hard and fast to win to get to Mokuba. I get it, but he almost steamrolled right over Yugi too. Putting his life points AND LIFE ITSELF in needles danger.
I recently watched your video on the Bakura vs Yugi Duel, and IF I remember correctly, the reason why Bakura didn't activate it back then, until a bit later on, is similar to why he didn't activate it now, he needed Dark Sanctuary on the field, which can be only activated once Dark Necrofear leaves the field, and since, Bakura struggled to even get 3 fiends in the graveyard, it'd make sense, also, except for Ra, Marik didn't have a monster to beat over Necrofear, which would've been too late in the Duel to use the field spell then Destiny board, so technically, the move he made in the Anime Duel (Manga Duel slightly different but would've worked also) was the better of the 2
So that thing of Bakura leading people in to attacking by putting his weak monsters in Attack Mode is silly for two reasons; First, as you mentioned, the only time someone DOESN'T attack a defense position monster is when they can CLEARLY see the DEF Points are higher and, funny enough, a good bit of Bakura's low level monsters had beefy defense points so it's a bit counter intuitive for him to play them. BUT that brings me to the main point, the line of "They might be hesitant to attack Defense Position monsters" would only really work if they played Monsters face down, ironically an earlier duel with Yami Bakura and Yami Yugi in Duelist Kingdom HEAVILY emphasized this as YB kept playing face down monsters with either flip effects (Morphing Jar and Man-Eater Bug), or Negative effects such as Electric Lizard. But CURRENT Bakura doesn't have any monsters like that or at least doesn't show any in the Battle City Duels as I recall. Him baiting people in to attacking by placing faceup monsters would MAYBE be less weird if Face Down monsters were more prevalent at the time. And to the second point, this was the EXACT tactic style he used against Yugi in their Battle City duel of baiting the opponent in to attacking his monsters to set up for larger plays later, and if he had to throw out his Destiny Board strategy because "He knows of my Occult Deck"....why would THIS strategy be fine and dandy when Evil Marik knows what Good Marik knows? The more you think on it the less sense it makes.
Honestly me and a friend rewatched this duel last year, and like with you it frustrated me to no end and made me laugh too at just how many misplays and mistakes were made by both sides (especially Bakura) in this Duel. The Card of Sanctity and not playing Pot of Greed from Marik, and the not setting or using Destiny Board from Bakura (although admittedly I did overlook the Destiny Board in Bakura's hand on his first turn, somehow, until seeing this clip. I don't know how I overlooked that though).
This duel would have been way more interesting if bakura played destiny board on his first movebecause marik would also be trying to defeat bakura way faster because he has his destiny board out
Love your channel bro! Sometimes watching your channel lifts my mood. Like sometimes I be wanting to throw the towel in but then your channel uplifts me.
It’s a shame that these two demonic entities have to play a card game that they both suck at in order to decide who can be the main villain of the arc, reminder that Marik literally has a dagger with him at all times 😂
I think it has to go with Yami Bakura simply being a terrible duelist. His strategy relies on his own power to instill fear into his opponents in order to cause them to stumble and fall into Bakuras traps. When people such as Yami Marik duel him..he loses on this strategy since Marik doesnt fear Bakuras power. Essentially...Bakura is akin to a bully who only targets people he considers to be weaker than himself. Such as was the case when he dueled Yugi when he was split from Atem. I suppose in the beginning Bakura was following Mariks lead on strategy and when he decided to ignore marik it was far too late as his own decks strategy was dusted since his win condition was in the graveyard. I think another anime thing to think about would be this...With the battle between himself and Atem in the past...would Ra even have obeyed Bakuras call to attack if he had retained all of his attack points. One would think that as deities...Ra would have knowledge that Bakura is Zorc...an ancient adversary that he battled against in the past. Even though he holds a millennium item...would that have even mattered? We even see something like this ahead in time in GX where he was compelled by a field spell to obey the duelist and when Jaden obtained control over Ra...Ra obeyed his command to attack without the field spell. I think this is a trait that is only attributed to Ra...he chooses who can command him. Whereas Slifer and Obelisk dont appear to have this trait. Him obeying Mariks will via the millennium rod does poke allot of holes in this theory...however...marik wasnt an ancient villain he fought against. Another question comes to mind. Just where did the Egyptian Gods come from? In the final arc its shown that monsters are spiritual manifestations of humans. With the god cards tablets being shown in these temples and also one of the high priests being able to crack one of their tablets which weakened them in real time. Since the ability to seal monsters into tablets appears to have started after the millenium items were created...were the gods sealed after? Or was it when the millenium spellbook was created detailing the method to craft the items in the first place? Either way...theres too many plot holes to even derive an answer as to the origin of the god cards.
In the Manga, which both this duel and the first Yugi duel are based off of, Dark Necrofear can only be summoned when three fiend monsters in ATTACK POSITION get sent to the graveyard. Destiny Board Cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear has been summoned and is sent to the graveyard from the field.
Since this duel happen in the manga it couldn't be change so much in the anime, so here is why in the manga they didn't do this: 2:18 It needs Dark Necrofear in the GY to be resolve and have its effects, so been set could get the chance to get destroy, so that is a reason he did't set it. 12:57 In manga Dark Necrofear can be special summon by banishing 3 fiends that were destroy in attack in the last 5 turn, so he could't be summon since marik haven't destroy that many monster in attack position. 11:19 and like my first point since Dark Necrofear wasn't in the graveyard he couldn't have won by Destiny Boards effect. I know that manga and anime have different effect that they could't alter most plays in this duels since this is how happen mostly in the manga.
yami bakura actually had a very solid strategy. in the manga Bakura had no intention of using the winged dragon of ra. his play was to seal Ra in the graveyard. but ofc yami Marik who has the power of plot armor came up with BS moves.
I know this would take a ton of time and effort but videos ranking all of the duels for each Yu-Gi-Oh series would be pretty cool. That being said love these duel breakdowns. How I found your channel and they are awesome. Looking forward to the next vid. Keep up the good work
15:56 Exactly. You know your opponents are going to set traps for your plays, but you must press on to advance the game state. So just spring the traps, and waste his resources.
I love how on the one hand this was one of the those big nostalgia duels that you loved watching as a youngin and so you didn’t care about the misplays you were like “oh this duel is awesome but if you were a duel analyst like our dear bud here, you’d be like “no what- cmon, why, WHY!”
1. Bakura basically screwed himself over trying to beat Marik at his own game. He had so many ways to win but threw away basically all of them. A quick note tho, Bakura really couldn't use Destiny Board in the anime until Necrofear was in the GY. Which can only be summoned by banishin Fiends that were destroyed while in Atk position in the last 5 turns. So the setup to make his win condition happen would have taken almost as long as the Duel itself. But that doesn't remove that he had a near indestructible God Card on his side of the Field in defense. He could have just SAT on it and won through attrition 2. All jokes aside, Bakura's "I AM the Darkness!" Was actually a really *cold* line. The fact that he was completely unphased by *literally dying* really sells that Yami Bakura was something more than just an evil Bakura. I just WISH they had shown some actual FEAR on Yami Marik throughout the Duel. As psychotic as he is, he does care about his own continued existence so reacting to someone even crazier than he is would have been cool.
@@varisrevolver4061 DM overall suffers from lack of focus, poor pace with too many duels stretching more than 4 episodes, tons of filler, messy duels, poorly explained rules and effects and, specially, terrible villains.
@@sasir2013 That's the thing about DM, it's either too long of duels for duels that aren't important (or are important but are like 6 episodes long), or some duels that are slightly important, that are over quickly (Kaiba vc Alistar
@@varisrevolver4061Zexal has tons of similarities with DM and yet it does things soo much better yet people hate it. It's like they don't want a good show and are content with nostalgia that they grew up with. 5DS is still my favorite though but Zexal is super close and I only watched Zexal in dub
A major theme in the anime is "big boss monsters aren't as good as just attacking directly" and this duel is a big example Also i chose to believe the card marik drew on the last turn was his own monster reborn
Honestly Bakura throwing his strat out the window feels on point: Marik plays dirty head games all the time. He toys and plays with his opponents and uses outside knowledge for leverage. He rarely slips his own hand while keeping his opponents in the zone of discomfort. These misplays all seem fine and in keeping with Marik's design of dueling style.... But it doesn't excuse Bakura. He played like he was nervous, unsure, or dare I say; scared. He has always played recklessly with shadow games probably because at the end of the day he is the darkness manifest. No shadow game can truly defeat him for long. But he acted like he was unsure this duel how best to proceed. He played reckless as usual, but he also had no head in the game. Could be Marik talking to him constantly, but this was a real mess. In a villain vs villain arc, you never want either villain to look weak, but in this case they made Bakura look like a clown. Not the strongest writing here as simple story telling could have made all this make sense.
Yeah, I do play cautiously when I see a face down and go "That could be like Mirror force.... nad if I attack and get my board wiped, I will lose, better just pass this turn until i can get rid of it" only to find out it was some Blue medicine (any card that isn't some battle based board wipe). So I don't blame him for being cautious. BUT that said.... what else was he going to do with the card in his hand? Set it and forget it, if it gets blown then he has an alt win condition planned. It's not like timing a negate on the right monster to stop a combo where if you mess up, they end up on a monster that is immune to targetting. You only play cautiously IF a misplay will cost you the duel, but Destiny board was his call and good deck building would mean "I will play another win condition in case this one fails." So yeah Bakura was an idiot. His logic was sound, but just for the wrong situation.
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Sam: He could have won this turn.
Marik: it isn't about winning bro, it’s about sending a message
And what is the message? I don't know how to play?
You mean the ones that Bakura failed to utilize?
@@monkey_blu everything burns
@@monkey_bluDamn! Hit ‘em with the Seereax special roast?
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The duel did happen in the manga, but there are few things to consider:
1)Bakura could have played the DB, but in the manga, it required Dark Necrofear to be on the grave, which would be a pain to do.
2)Bakura planned to send Ra to the grave, instead of summoning it himself, not knowing it's other abilities. With this, he used Dark Designator to send Ra to Marik's hand and then Multiple Destruction to send Ra to the grave. Then he summoned Puppet Master to special summon the 3 monsters to attack Marik in the next turn and go for game, however Marik draws his own Monster Reborn, summons Ra and uses it's ability to give 3999 attack points to (he didn't lose a single lp in the manga) it and finishes off Bakura. We don't know what cards were on Marik's hand, but let's just assume his hand was all bricks and he had to summon Ra to win
This honestly seems so much better than the myriad of misplays.
Honestly having finally read the manga within the last couple months it's wild how differently some of these duels go. The differences in card mechanics and rulings really plays into how weird some plays seem to be in the anime.
Also relevant to this duel; anime Bakura and manga Bakura are kinda wildly different characters for no real reason. In the manga he's incredibly conniving and utilitarian, which helps him with being more threatening, while the anime just makes him into kind of a goober until the final season where they finally realized he needs to be competent in order to be an effective threat.
That might be why, it must of been a headache to transfer Destiny Bond in the anime while trying to be manga accurate when they both basically have very different effects.
@@Lucario1121it's pretty amazing how smoothly the anime managed to adapt the bakura-yugi-duel considering how much his card-effects were changed in the ocg, I'm still really impressed. in the manga Destiny Board is a single card that requires Dark Necrofear in the graveyard, and originally Dark Necrofear itself released the haunting spirit to the field. So when the anime adapted it they not only created Dark Sanctuary to replicate Necrofear's original effect, they also gave it the ability to extend spell and trap zones so that when yugi revives necrofear he still locks down bakura's destiny board combo, just in a different way.
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In both the anime and Manga both these duels went very differently but had the same conclusion, if Bakura didn’t listen to Marik he would’ve won
At least in the manga using destiny board would've been more difficult since, at that point, it could only be played after Dark Nexrofear gets sent to the graveyard.
@@animeguykurosaki1There’s a possibility that Marik could’ve beaten the destiny board since he had malevolent catastrophe. Even then it was proven by the end of the series that Bakura was a better duelist than Marik,(probably top 4 in the verse)
The only one that Yami Marik can defeat withot penalty games shenanigans, is Marik
@@andresantoniovalencia1257 Yep he literally lost to himself.
@@animeguykurosaki1 And even if that wasn't the case, he still would have lost in the Manga even if he did go for the most effective Destiny Board play as the Duel ends on Turn 6 so he would have only had four letters out by then.
The lack of oxygen on top of that blimp must have affected marik and bakuras brains
Indeed, their brains definitely was not braining in that duel
Bakura especially with him not using destiny board in the back
@@blitz4779 In the Manga, which both this duel and the first Yugi duel are based off of, Dark Necrofear can only be summoned when three fiend monsters in ATTACK POSITION get sent to the graveyard.
Destiny Board Cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear has been summoned and is sent to the graveyard from the field.
This counts for most of those misplays
@@nicholasargiros1331 saw this noted in other comment threads. Definitely seems like they knew what to do with the manga version, even if it was very lucky marik drew into monster reborn to get Ra back
Bakura was a boring Villain. Only Beat peagus because Yugi beat him and weaked him. Loss to Yami marik when marik help they were the same person you think his cards be same. Only zork was scary. The anime would be twice a good if they copied the manga by each release eing 2 weeks or more people.
Ah Bakura aka the final villain of DM Yu-Gi-Oh and never wins a major duel
He did win his duel against Bonz in Battle City and that was the only one time he won in DM
@@anthonythomas305 Bakura's a great villian, just a bad duelist!
Most of them don’t. They only ever win against scrubs.
@@tarikkash4282 So true
He beat Pegasus at that laser duel in the anime if that counts lol
This duel happened in the manga, but only lasted six turns. Bakura added Ra to Marik's hand with Dark Designator, then made him discard it with Multiple Destruction before doing his Puppet Master play. On his next turn, Marik drew Monster Reborn and revived Ra to defeat Bakura.
Well least that makes more since then getting a huge wall on ur side of the field n tributing it for something that can't attack till next turn lol knowing monster reborn is in opponents hand. Yea I nvr understood this duel and knowing he had destiny board in his hand from jump lol jus crazy should've played it once remove trap was used man.
@@relicdad88also in the manga Destiny Board requires Dark Necrofear to be in the graveyard.
There are duels the manga does better, and duels the anime does better, this one clearly shows the manga did it way better, less turns or not
Boost this comment up to roast on the anime for adding filler content to duels to make them last longer.
One of the few duels I can remember being improved from the manga is the final one, Atem vs Yugi. The anime gets Yugi beating the Egyptian God cards through his own strength, while the manga has Atem leave out Ra and seemingly only using Obolisk. When Atem discards Swift Gaia in the anime, he discarded Slifer in the manga for the jumpscare with Monster Reborn. But by Yugi killing it in the anime, it better shows the theme of how the dead should move on from the world rather than linger in it.
Anime writers are so incompetent. It's why I always advocate for meta players or consulting meta players to write duels.
The biggest misplay that occurs throughout all Mariks duels is that people keep trying to deal with the Winged Dragon of Ra and/or use it against him. Bakura and Mai were more focused on using Ra rather than using their own strategies to win.
Half the time they could just be like "okay beat him before he gets it on the table", or like in Mai's case, steal it from him *and not use it at all*. Just brick it away. Beat him with your normal strategy after removing his one mega-ultra-chicken card from play. Or like in this video we just saw, Bakura could've easily beaten YaMarik by just doing his own thing, using exchange to just steal Ra and stop it from ever entering the field.
@@ElhvirVery well argued! 👏
They see the golden chicken and they are like “ohhhh pretty must use it” just like the ring from the lord of the rings.
18:00- “One Turn Kill” is the true name of the Instant Attack or point to point transfer in the Japanese version. It’s suppose to symbolized that with this effect, the Wing Dragon Of Ra has the power to basically wipe you out in one turn.
The name instant Attack in the English dub was probably just 4kids trying to avoid saying the word Kill, so the name was changed. This is also why the name of the episode is called “One Turn Kill.” It’s about explaining this secret ability of Ra I guess. Hope this helps.
Watching the original episode in Japanese was awesome.
Evil Marik: *One... Turn... Kill.* [Theme song played]
"Don't you realize that i AM the Darkness?" has to be one of the chillest lines
The Darkness doesn't know how to duel.
Xehanort: 🫤
@@TheKpa11Ansem was Darkness within Darkness
coldest line in anime
@@kanekikingstorm2113
And now those dark whatever’s in Union are darky darkness
Yami Marik: *Summons Ra to his field.*
Good Marik: Don't worry mate, it's got 0 atk points.
Bakura: Yeah, we can still wi-
Yami Marik: *Starts chanting Ancient Egyptian.*
Good Marik & Bakura: 👁👄👁
Bakura: marik!
Good marik: yes?
Bakura: I want a divorce!
Good marik: understandable
The playground days all over again. XD
@@patrickzalatoris3206Bakura and Good Marik is basically Penguin and Riddler on Gotham.
Fun fact: In the manga, Destiny Board requires Dark Necrofear to be in the Graveyard to work. While we're on the subject, Dark Necrofear's summon in the manga requires three fiend monsters to be destroyed in attack mode within (I think) 5 turns, which explains Bakura's duel with Yugi a little better.
I recently watched Sam's video on the Bakura vs Yugi Duel, and IF I remember correctly, the reason why Bakura didn't activate it back then, until a bit later on, is similar to why he didn't activate it now, he needed Dark Sanctuary on the field, which can be only activated once Dark Necrofear leaves the field, and since, Bakura struggled to even get 3 fiends in the graveyard, it'd make sense, also, except for Ra, Marik didn't have a monster to beat over Necrofear, which would've been too late in the Duel to use the field spell then Destiny board, so technically, the move he made in the Anime Duel (Manga Duel slightly different but would've worked also) was the better of the 2
@@varisrevolver4061 Manga Necrofear in addition to having the summoning requirement OP mentioned has a continuous effect in the GY which is the possession ghost that becomes the "spirit of the sanctuary" from Dark Sanctuary's effect, and Manga Destiny Board requires Dark Necrofear in GY to apply it's effects because she's the one using the ouiji board. Notably there are no "Spirit Message" cards either in this version, they're more akin to a gamestate or counters applied to Destiny Board similar to the manga/anime Great Moth line, so Bakura wouldn't need to consider bricking on them.
The anime versions DB requires Sanctuary, and Sanctuary requires Necrofear in grave to apply; They basically offloaded part of Dark Necrofear's effects into Dark Sanctuary as a new middleman and rejigged it all a bit to work out roughly the same.
Then irl Destiny Board comes along with no activation/ effect requirements but everything pops if any of it pops which creates yet another disconnect between the cards in game vs in the story.
@@varisrevolver4061No, maybe you're letting yourself be influenced by the knowledge of the manga. In the anime, Bakura needed Necrofear in the GY to be able to play Dark Sanctuary. He could have played Destiny Board the whole time, and Sam himself called it a misplay not playing the Destiny Board earlier. Board could be played without Dark Sanctuary, but it would occupy Bakuras spell/trap zones. Dark Sanctuary not only alleviate that problem, but also keeps Yami Yugi from attacking him along with Dark Door
Long story short, Dark Necrofear in the GY wasn't needed for the Board but for the Sanctuary. And Sanctuary wasn't needed for the Board, but it just facilitated its win con very much
@@roncerjani9063 Haven't read the manga, but, yeah, maybe in the anime it needs Dark Sanctuary on the field (Or at least upon activation, but it doesn't need to remain on the field to stay), at this rate I'm guessing
@@varisrevolver4061 From what I got from the anime, Dark Sanctuary doesn't have anything to do with Destiny Board. It does however allow spells/traps to be played in the monster zones once the S/T Zones are all occupied which is a huge boost to this strategy though. That might have forced Bakura to reconsider the use of Destiny Board in this Duel.
Bakura:Okay he knows my strategy. I'll just play a new startegy.
Good Marik:Good idea. There's no way he'll be able to handle you now.
*Bad Marik then proceeds to handle it throughout the entire duelI*
Bakura:....I've realized I've nade a huge mistake.
Good Marik:Well it can't get worse
Bad Marik:*merges with Ra and makes it even stronger*
Bakura:....any more comments from the peanut gallery?
Good Marik:...use the Celt-
Bakura:I swear to Zorc I will make sure to haunt your ass for this!
~Do, do, do... do...~
@@DragoSonicMile 🎵Do, do, do, do~🎵
When the night, has come.
@@creepyasgramdpa9916 And the land is dark.
@@DarthUmbris626 and the moo-(ooh)-oon, is the only light we’ll see.
This is probably the worst bakura duel in the entire series. Why can't they do my boy some justice
Bakura being the greater-scope villain meant that he was doomed to only ever win against unimportant characters like Bonz. He was already plotting for the final series as early as Duelist Kingdom, but Kazuki Takahashi must of realised that if he suddenly allowed Bakura to duel and beat main characters like Joey, Marik or Kaiba, there'd be no justifiable reason for Yugi and Atem to continue overlooking his schemes.
All Yu-Gi-Oh! villains lose in the end. The problem is that Bakura being introduced so early on in the story meant that he wasn't allowed to come across as much of a threat until it was much too late.
Honestly it's a bit better in the manga. Bakura actually plays in an attempt to go for the kill instead of having this really stupid plan of taking Ra for himself and winning that way. In fact Dark Designator's purpose in the manga is to force Ra into Marik's hand so he can force it to the grave via discard. The whole Monster Reborn play still happens, via Marik drawing his own copy, but the whole thing honestly makes a whole lot more sense.
@@The_SafeKeeper
Bakura actually beated Joe in the manga so yeah
He was going to beat Kaiba
@Nello_angelo
Bakura duelled Joey, I would have liked to have seen that in the anime
The only misplay Yami Bakura did was stole Joey's creepy chin
Well Takahiro Kagami DID animate the second part of this duel!
And not setting Monster Reborn
"Yeah I knew that..." - Joey taking over for a few frames. XD
Yami Marik's greatest strength, the ability to enforce consistent, massive misplays in his opponent.
Seriously. If Yami Marik’s opponents didn’t consistently misplay so hard, he’d have lost every duel he fought.
IIRC, both Joey and Mai could’ve won - Joey could’ve won earlier in the duel (but even at the end had enough damage on board to win, had he not collapsed), and Mai had would’ve won if she just attacked with her harpies, instead of holding out for Ra.
Yami Marik never really “won” any of his duels out of skill, he seemed to win them out of mind and torture games, as well as being hard-carried by misplays.
@@PGW85Productions Yami Mario?
@@JustInPassing3 I missed that. Autocorrect is a pain. I’ve fixed it now, thank you for pointing it out.
Look at Joey. If Joey had summoned Jinzo immediately after drawing him, Marik would have been in trouble
@@RodimusMinor1987 Joey NEVER had a chance to summon Jinzo. Plasma Eel prevents its targets from being used as a tribute.
Marik forgot what Pot of Greed does.
I dont think anyone has ever said it to him in a duel, thats probably why
I can see why penguin0 calls yugioh the best bad show!
@@simplyskrypt3914Didn't the doll he was possessing use it? Yes and he was the first one to use it in the anime.
I thought no one knew whatt Pot of Greed does?
I don't even know what that card does. How's the main villain supposed to know?
Yugi vs Arcana? The Duel of the Dark Magicians and the debut of fan favorite Dark Magician Girl
This must be Done.
Fan favourite of every teenage boy
Too many shenanigans in that duel.
You mean his girlfriend?
When u see the original Japanese after growing up on the American dub … it goes hard
I find it genuinely hillarious that, if Bakura hadn't tried so hard to mill through Yami Marik's deck, Yami Marik would have literally never have drawn the Winged Dragon of Ra throughout the ENTIRE Duel.
That's the Marik effect. He always lets his opponents find his god card for him and just plays assuming it will come whenever it feels like. 😂
Marik had Pot of Greed and Card of Sanctity though. By using these Cards (better) he maybe could have drawn Ra.
@@pauldennis1009 He did draw it first turn against Yugi, and drew it on his own against Joey.
@wilkobadberg5272 yeah, but those cards were ALSO relatively deep in his deck and he only go them cause, again, Bakura milled a bunch of cards
This duel did happen in the manga, it’s the same as the anime right up to Multiple Destruction. Instead, Bakura used Dark Designator first then Multiple Destruction to send Ra to the graveyard, before summoning Puppet Master reviving Dark Necrofear and Headless Knight (discarded by Multiple Destruction) and Gelnia and preparing to just attack next turn and roll over Marik with battle damage…right up until Marik Monster Reborn’s Ra and uses Point-To-Point transfer to increase its attack to 3999 (Marik had his 4000 LP left while Bakura had 1900 LP, close enough to the anime), and then attacks Bakura and his 3 monsters. So it starts and ends the same way, but it’s a whole lot shorter due to no Bog Spirit and also due to Bakura actually not knowing Ra’s effects and thus not attempting to use it.
I guess it would have to be, also it could have been to more evenly distribute the duel between the 2 episodes, because the first episode ends the turn when Bakura summons Puppet Master, so in the manga next turn Bakura gets defeated, so maybe they wanted to put more content in or something, instead of just starting the episode with Bakura getting cooked and dying, or to explain more of what Ra can do. Most likely it’s just for filling time, putting in more ‘content’ instead of getting to the filler arc.
@@thattruegamernerdKeep in mind that anime tends to extend to duel also becouse of showing new cards to audience.We saw several cards that are not used in the manga duel (Ha des,Bog Spirit,Goblin Zombie,etc...) Longer the duel-more time to introduce new cards
True the anime does allow them to show off more cards and strategies than is possible in the manga, due to the longer length and the difference in medium, it does make for a more interesting experience. It is also interesting to note differences in these duels between the original version and the adaptation, to see difference in scripting and characterisation even in a short duel like this.
Long duels and dragged out content means your either incompetent or you have no clue what you're doing.
A duel should be one episode as standard.
Dragging it out is what we call sandbagging where nothing happens and exist to fill up time
True for a duel like this it only needs one episode, if it was something like the Noah duel, sure give that multiple episodes since it was constant just duelling and also lasted 40 turns, or like an equivalent final duel of an arc or season, but this was a 5 turn duel stretched to 10 that was dragged to 2 episodes, a quarter the length of the Noah duel and lasted about half as long. The filler sure is wild sometimes, especially when it’s not even filler
This should have been the point where Diabound was introduced as the alternate boss monster of Bakura, instead of it popping up out of nowhere in the final arc and being treated like it was always part of the story.
That always confused me so much, like, it's a card that is so important to the plot. Why does he only have it now
Manga authors often don't think that far ahead. Takahashi when writing the final arc probably decided that Bakura's existing slate of monsters wasn't good enough, and with Zorc being reserved for the finale, Bakura needed a new boss monster to compete with the Pharaoh.
The anime couldn't put it in either. This episode was released in February 2002, while the chapter where Diabound first appeared wasn't published until November 2002.
It would've been cool to see, especially if Bakura had a moment of considering if he can find a way to have it destroy Ra by battle, only to be forced to abandon the idea. We know from the Millennium World arc that it'd go on to steal the abilities of other monsters that it defeats in shadow games so it'd be fitting for him to at least think about shooting for that angle.
If I remember correctly, this is the duel in the Manga that Diabound Kernal was first summoned, but it’s been a hot minute so probably not.
@@doctorecho3007 Diabound Kernel appeared in the duel between Bakura and Kaiba, which was an anime exclusive duel that was used to bring Kaiba into the Egypt arc. Diabound never appears as a card in the manga. During Bakura's duel against Yugi in the tomb, he uses Necro monsters like in Battle City.
Honestly seeing Villains face off against one another is so refreshing. Kinda reminds me of Edge and Randy Orton
I'll admit one of my favorite lines is when Yami Marik says "Let's make this a Shadow game!" and Yami Bakura goes "That is an EXCELLENT idea!" and they both just walk off knowing they turned a card game into Russian roulette. XD
The main issue is that players in the anime often over-think their strategies when they're faced with someone who is apparently prepared for their strategies.
A better example of what to actually do in this situation (for both sides) is Jaden vs. Bastion, when Bastion just turns off Polymerization with Cursed Seal. We know that between Wroughtweiler and Fusion Recovery, Jaden's deck is super reliant on Polymerization, and that the likelihood of playing more than one Fusion Gate is low since he doesn't often side deck and he has little reason to with all the ways to recycle Polymerization he has. Plus, Miracle Fusion hadn't been released yet, so another thing to justify why he couldn't play around it.
It's really hard to write a convincing duel in fairness because the writers know exactly what cards everyone will draw and how the battle will go, so they have to fake a lot of things like surprise (they don't know what the cards do and aren't allowed to read the card effects or see them). It's also why they have a ton of very niche counter cards, apparently can only play with one particular archetype, only ever draw about half their deck over the series (there's no way they're playing with 60 cards consistenly) and the fact that the duels often last 2 episodes despite most IRL duels lasting like 3-5 minutes. Granted they do spend a LOT of time taunting each other but these are still like 20 minute duels.
That said.... I DO love when you have what I dub an "anime duel" irl. Something really thrilling about both players stopping thier win condition and lots of back and forth with good trap timing and summon prediction to lead to a gripping "it's only over when the last life point is lost" duels. Those ones that make me really sweat and go "Okay....do I use the effect now? No...lemme wait... Okay NOW! ... YES! HAHA YES! I stopped opp's combo! Whew wow if I didn't time that PERFECTLY I would've lost." You'd be surprised at how many times "Heart of the cards" literally won me a tight duel.
That's a duel analysis that I would like to see was Bastion about to defeat Jaden
@@MarioMastar That being said, there's also a glorious feeling of seeing an anime duel you feel it could happen without plot contrivance, just normal cards they normally play, and there's a notable back-and-fort.
My favorite example of this is the graduation duel between Zane and Jaden, where there's only 3 overly niche card used there(Cyber Kirin, Elemental Burst and final fusion), and only one minor misplay for each duelist that is easy to justify as "Fearing MST" and "Playing around Waboku". It's what I consider the best anime duel for a good reason, despite how Jaden's friends were like "Why is he playing so cautiously and not like himself for fun? (Because he's against an OTK deck, you dahm bi***** )"
On the topic of people setting spells/traps before doing stuff like Card of Sanctity. Its a result of being chained to the source material after having done a bunch of random changes in various duels. Manga effect of Royal Temple (Aka Temple of the Kings) is "Normally, you can only Set 1 Spell and 1 Trap Card per turn, but as long as "Royal Temple" is on the field, its owner may place 2 Trap Cards on the field.". Its one of those rules that got kind of overlooked alot, especially in the anime.
@PBJA89 They overnerfed a lot of cards from this era....and then printed ridiculous cards like Tears and such that do all that crazy stuff AND more. People are seriously questioning if Pot of Greed really is as broken when at best it's a "win more" card in the modern game. THey really need to make a lot of modern cards archetype specific and stop ruining archetypes that NEED help by banning the one card that makes them viable.
@@MarioMastar Genericness, especially in the Extra Deck options is killing yugioh
I absolutely love that while this duel in the Shadow Realm is going on Yugi and Atem are acting like they're in a whodunit lol. You'd think SOMEONE would've heard the duel. Also this duel has one of the COLDEST lines in all anime "Don't you realize that *_I AM_* the darkness?" God Bakura is a grade A villain.
That was more Zorc than Bakura
@@Yokai_Yuri Bakura is part Zorc soooo still counts imo
sucks that he just straight up never wins
@zombieslayer2016 yeah that's kind of a bummer. The personality and voice acting more than make up for it though. I kinda wish we had seen him in the waking the dragons arc. Could you IMAGINE the amount of harassment Atem would get from him over losing Yugi? Remember he had a piece of his soul in the Puzzle as a contingency. He'd never shut up about the Pharaoh not respecting Yugi.
@@TheRibottoStudios not wrong but the inherent problem with that that was a filler Arc and as far as I remember the anime never actually acknowledged the filler once it was over anyways
If I remember correctly. In the manga you could only activate one spell, set one spell, and set one trap card per turn. This is never mentioned in the anime. This is also the reason Odion in his duel against Joey plays a card that in the anime doesn't seem to do much, but in the manga it let him set two spell or trap cards per turn.
Melvin: If you're done fighting with your girlfriend, we have a card game to finish.
Florence: He's not my girlfriend!
Marik: You tell him, honey!
It might be full of misplays but the cool factor of 2 badass antagonists duking it out was priceless.
I like this duel not because of dueling skill but because of storytelling the fact that Marik is desperate to stop his dark half Yami marik toying with both bakura knowing that bakura wouldn't be able to use Ra by trolling him and Yami bakura knowing that he needs all the millennium items decides to protect Yugi (I could be wrong)
19:09 Well I'm sure we'll 'NNEEVVEERR' see evil Bakura again.
18:06. Well to parapharase the YuGiOh Wiki's page on One Turn Kill.
"A One Turn Kill (OTK) is achieved when a player wins a Duel in the space of a single turn. In one turn, all of the opponent's Life Points, which is normally assumed to be no less than 8000 (Or 4000 since we're using Anime rules), must be depleted, or an alternate victory condition must be fulfilled."
So no, this doesn't count as an OTK.
Oh boy this duel. While an extremely rare villain vs villain fight, boy it was a heavy misplay duel for both, especially Bakura. Bakura would totally had complete control of the duel as had he would have used destiny board (yami marik only had 1 trap removal wasted), Yami Marik is totally in defense throughout the duel. Also Despite Ra had no Atk, it still had a beefy 3450 defense, Yami Marik had no way in getting over that, yet he tributes it and it bit him in the butt. He should have kept RA and instead summon dark necrofear and used premature burial to summon earl of demise and tribute that for dark ruler. Bakura had a very beefy line up and Yami Marik had no way to counter since he used vengeful bog spirit, it affects him as well. Also had bakura set monster reborn, he would have used it to summon a 4th monster on the field. He had it won. Boy what a f**k up for Bakura.
No no, you misunderstand. Bakura was the biggest fuck-up of them all.
@PBJA89 I chalked that up to Ra having an extra effect that’s never elaborated upon.
This duel was a prime example of Bakura throwing everything after getting rid of remove trap...
16:17 man Bakura is a dunce without a doubt that was a good way to just get yourself kicked while you're down.
17:56 Huh interesting detail.
18:09 We can't but that was an Overkill.
Hopefully we'll get the Lumis/Umbra were going to defeat Yugi/Kaiba episode someday but man this was frustrating but was worth it because of your meltdown at Bakura's stupidest play in the duel.
Great vid Sam
Was Bakura About To Defeat Yugi in the Millennium World Arc?
One day, that'll arrive. I've been waiting for that duel analysis.
@@ColeMeCrazy Im waiting for "Was Alister about to defeat Kaiba"
@@neilyoungboy
That too as well! Forgot about that one. I'm pretty sure he can cover both duels.
@@neilyoungboyWhich one? They dueled twice.
@@BmanTheChamp both - if duelists face-off more than once, Sam _normally_ does all their matches in order; the exception being that when he covered Judai vs Edo R2, he didn't cover R3.
Edit: probably should've said if characters duel 'exactly twice' (and the duels aren't too long) because he hasn't covered Yusei vs Kiryu R2 & R3, Yusei vs Jack R3 & R4 or Judai vs Ryo R3. Which is weird because he covered all 3 Yuma/Astral vs Kaito duels in one episode lmao.
Check out the manga version of the duel, it differs quite a bit. For example, Bakura never tries to get Ra to his hand and summon it, rather he just thinks that sending it to the graveyard is enough. Also the duel is shorter and Bakura doesn't have time to use Destiny Board (He still doesn't want to use Destiny Board and Dark Necrofear due to Marik knowing how they work).
As for the Destiny Board argument you mentioned. Assuming the anime was trying to be faithful to manga effects of it, then Destiny Board can only be activated once Dark Necrofear is in the GY as its Dark Necrofear's hand that spells it out. Fun fact thats actually why in Duel Links Bakura can't activate that skill till Dark Necrofear is gone.
And let's not forget how obtuse Dark Necrofear's summon restriction is in the Manga. There was no way Marik was going to just walk into Bakura's win condition so it makes sense that Bakura didn't even try to use Destiny Board
I like that Bakura channels his inner Joey at 16:58
There is a manga rule that only one spell and one trap may be placed on the field each turn and for some reason the battle city arc seems to keep this rule without ever explaining it. This is the reason so many combos feature one spell and one trap.
Can we also talk about how Kaiba- SETO KAIBA, figured out all the secrets behind Ra's effects, including its hidden effects during this same episode while Yami Bakura *COUGH* Zorc Necrophades *COUGH* who is an entity of darkness and supposed to be extremely intelligent didn't assume "MAYBE RA HAS OTHER EFFECTS" but no. NO. Yami Bakura is the worse villain duelist in any Yugioh series. Vector, the guy who trolls, has more impressing ways of winning! The problem with Yami Bakura is his overconfidence and not a good duelist. The only time that he felt like a threat was of course Season 5 but the damage has been done.
I was under the impression that other than an instinct to obtain the Millennium Items, Bakura also lost much of his memory, which is what he did with the piece of himself hidden in the Puzzle.
@@Nemo12417 Well that piece of him that he put inside the Millennium Puzzle was the start of Season 2 so that would make less sense because it seems both halves of Yami Bakura were aware of the other's actions if you really think about it, especially with Season 5 with the Shadow RPG.
That means it makes EVEN less sense. I would say my only theory why he doesn't know more than he should being Zorc is since Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, Zorc wasn't aware of their "effects" since you know Ancient Egypt but like you would still assume being this powerful entity of darkness, he would have been more careful and not tribute Ra. It's even more confusing.
People hate Zexal despite the fact that it really just makes some changes to the story of DM and actually fixes some of the terrible mistakes it had. Vector really is just better Bakura when it comes to being possessed by an evil deity.
@@Honest_Mids_Masher And a better duelist who's had some bad luck... mainly against Yuma.
Melvin To Florence: Before We Begin I Have Just One Question…… COULD I GET A HUG?!?!?
I'm not going to hug you!
@@roninwarriorsfan Maybe we should hug him Bakura I mean he seems like a great guy.
@@NebulaDark Bakura I Mean He Seems Like An Ok Guy
NO HUG!
MARIK IM NOT BLOODY HUGGING HIM
The mysterious card Melvin drew was probably another Mega Ultra Chicken
Good God...Most Waited series of video of all time...
Can i suggest the 2 vs 1 Match between Yusei and Kalin Vs Lawton?
Now this was a treat! To think all Bakura had to do to win was play ONE SIMPLE CARD!!!!!!!! Excellent job analyzing the duel! Never can get enough of this series. Here’s a few suggestions for future duels:
Atem and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra
Kaiba vs Alister (both rounds if possible)
Jaden vs Aster Phoenix (round 2)
Aster Phoenix vs Adrian Gecko
Jaden vs Darkness (Season 4)
Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand
Excited for the next one! Always worth the wait for these videos. 😇😇😇
My name is marik "I don't care"
What if I told you I had exclusive knowledge of certain secrets?
@@StoicForce "I don't care"
@@Championoko Once I possess what I desire, the Millenium Rod will mean absolutely nothing to me!
@@StoicForce "I don't care"
Bakura, so what do you want from me
Well, first answer me this how strong are your duelling skills
They're extremely strong
Excellent
Bakura rarely wins except Bonz, and I think that he was going to defeat Kaiba
Not gonna lie, when I’m fairly confident I’m about to win a duel, I sometimes think to myself: ‘It’s my turn and the final turn of the duel!’ 😂
Also me when I watch replays on Master Duel
I really love hearing TGS say "And the Penultimate/Final turn of the duel" He really has that catchphrase on Lock!
This is both my favorite and least favorite duel. The fact that they put the ultimate antagonist against the arc antagonist this early is insane to me. Would've been an insane twist to see Bakura become the rightful owner of the Winged Dragon of Ra for the remainder of the Duel Monsters series (not to mention, that he has displayed quick ways to summon out an appropriate number of tributes with puppet master).
Moreover, can we talk about the implications of Bakura WINNING here like he could have? What would the rest of the series have looked like? Would he have looked like the hero of this arc to the rest of the cast? Would he have kept Good Marik, Good Bakura, and Evil Bakura all sharing the same body and knowledge for the remainder of the Duel Monsters era?
In the manga this duel makes more sense, The Bakura's main strategy here is use Dark Designator to add Ra and then discard him with Multiple Destruction
12:53 Missplay here: MARIK DIDN'T Needed to tell anything to Bakura... because bakura knows Ancient Egyptian... and every secret of Ra is put on the card... ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN... so missplay for Master Takahashi
Marik forgot what Pot of Greed did, hence he didn't activate it
Yami Bakura played using garbage monsters & risked paying life points and sending weak monsters in ATK hoping his opponent would take the bait in order to reach the conditions of Dark Necrofear etc.
He had to, he needed DN in the gy for Dark Sanctuary to activate, for Destiny board to start (check the Yugi vs Bakura Duel video)
The Final Battle City Finals Duel Analysis Video. For Future ones, could you do these?
DM: Joey's Battle City Duels. Yami Yugi vs Strings, Mind controlled Joey vs Yugi. Kaiba vs Alister Joey vs Zigfried, Yami Yugi vs Leon Von Schroder
GX: Jaden vs. Aster Part 2, Jaden vs. Chazz, either School Duel or Society of Light. Jaden vs Amnael, Aster vs Satorius, Jaden vs Satorius, Jaden and Aster vs Sabrina, Aster vs Adrian and my personal favorite Syus and Hassleberry vs Frost and Thunder.
5DS: Leo and Luna vs. Devack, Yusei, Jack and Crow vs. Goodwin, Yusei vs. Kalin Part 2, 5DS VS either Team Unicorn, Team Taiyo, Team Ragnarok or Team New World, Yusei vs. Z-ONE and Yusei Jack the final duel.
Zexal: Yuma vs Shark first duel or either the World Duel Carnival. Yuma vs Tron, Yuma, Shark and Kite vs Dr. Faker, Nasch vs Vector, Kite vs Mizar, Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand and Yuma vs Nasch.
Arc-V: Yuya and Shay vs the Tyler Sisters. I've broken down in my head and with the cards Yuya had at the time in the anime, he could've won on the second turn. Yuya vs. Sylvio, Paradise City Tournament, Shay vs. Sora Paradise City Tournament, Shay vs. Crow Friendship Cup, Yuya vs Crow Friendship Cup and finally, Everyone vs Z-ARC.
Vrains. Playmaker vs Revolver, 2nd and fourth duel. Playmaker vs Bohman each duel. Revolver vs Lightning. Soulburner vs Revolver. And Playmaker vs AI.
The Villain vs Villain.
This was a unique duel for certain.
Getting rid of an unaffected 3450 defense points Ra was such a stupid mistake tbh
and forgetting Marik took his Monster Reborn. At least he admitted how stupid he was in doing that. XD Unlike Marik in the beginning going "TRAP?" like he forgot Bakura JUST set a trap card and even admitted it was a trap.
I hate the fact so much that the only reason why Marik came so far in the series, is because they made all his opponents, Mai, Bakura and Joey missplay like there is no tomorrow, and I hate it so much, you could argue that in Joey´s case, Marik was actually playing mind games with him, and in Mai´s case he used his shadow magic to mess with her head. (I recall that he was way more on the wining side in the manga, but I cant remember it fully. But still, Marik would have lost all his duels, simply for the fact that he in Mai´s, Joey´s and Yugi´s case, PLAYED with his food. Its so horrible, why just not make him a better duelist, and for the record, Bakura is my biggest issue over all, as you pointed out, there was NO way he should have lost, since he could either have just use Destiny Board OR just use his strong monsters to get over his small ones..... I am so mad at this decisions....
Reminds me of how Mizar lost badly to Don Thousand in Zexal because he didn't know how Numeron Network worked and happened to have a card similar to the dragon card he wanted to play in his deck which lead to his confusion. Though at least that duel was lightning quick so we didn't have to dwell on Mizar being sacrifical fodder. but the writing at least does get better starting with 5Ds as the misplays are far less common or reflect real life dueling circumstances and not just "Oh by the way, the plot says you need to lose this duel." like Duel Monsters and GX does a lot.
Excellent Review of one of my favorite duels (The argument of the duel at least, not the duel itself). Also, I believe there is a moment where Bakura draws the A card and has it in his hand while playing exchange. I see a scenario where Marik, seeing Bakura has destiny board on the field, he would have taken it. You could say Bakura wouldn't play exchange in that scenario but seeing all the other Bakura's missplays in this duel... well, it's hard to tell.
I'd love to see a video about what you consider to be the best and the worst written duel(s) in all of the ones you've covered.
I'm pretty sure this duel right here would be a good contender for the worst spot lol
On the not setting Destiny Board:
In the manga (and presumably Anime), it's Dark Necrofear that moves the planchette from beyond the grave. Meaning you need to have Dark Necrofear in the GY to activate it.
1:05 sounds like a Bakura duel alright.
This is the first duel I saw way back in the day. That "I just summoned Ra, but I'll switch him into defence mode" bit really screwed with me as a kid. There are so many rules arguments I had with by brother that I look back on and cringe because of this episode. Glad you covered this one, and I'm even more glad now that I relized how FUBAR this duel was from the jump.
I remeber how short this duel was, with many things that could have been done for it to be longer, wished it lasted a bit more then a few short turns.
That's how I feel about the actual game sometimes. Master Duel/TCG is only so long because the combos last forever, Duel links has faster pace but it's starting to catch up to the TCG where it's very unlikely duels will last past the 3rd turn, but when they do..... those are some of the most fun duels cause we both stopped each other's win condition but are in kind of a stale mate and now have to see who misplays first. It's so gripping. I tend to call those "Anime duels" because those trap cards you hear all the "top players" claim you should never use cause it's so niche end up coming in clutch and you actually see lifepoints go down to the hundreds and every drawn card potentially being your last. Just rare sadly that you have a really good duel like that.
Here’s the duals I think would be cool if you would cover:
DM: Yugi and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra
Yugi and Joey vs The Big Five
Yugi Muto vs Yami Bakura Dawn Of The Dual
GX: Jaden vs Chazz Princeton when he was representing North Academy
Jaden vs Lyman Banner
Jaden vs Aster REMATCH
Jaden vs Sartorius
Jaden vs Viper
Jaden and Jessie vs Yasuke
Jaden vs Nightshroud
5D’S: Jack vs Carly
Yusei, Jack, and Crow vs Rex Goodwin
Team 5D’S vs Team Ragnorok
Yusei vs Z-ONE
Zexal: Yuma vs Vetrix
Kite vs Mizar
Yuma vs Eliphas
Yuma and Nash vs Don Thousand
Yuma vs Nash
Arc V: Sorra vs Shay
Jack vs Sergei
Yuya vs Jack
Yuya vs Declan
Still waiting for Yugi and Kaiba vs Lumis and Umbra 😭😭😭
If Marik hadn't taken over Lumis and ended the duel, Yugi would have been eliminated due to burn damage on his next turn, because both cards that would have inflicted damage to him belonged to Lumis.
Kaiba pissed me tf off during that duel so much. I get it, you don't work with anyone BUT COME ON BRO.
@@TheRibottoStudios Yeah, I never liked when duels are only more frustrating because of outside shenanigans that have nothing to do with the duel. It's a card game with set in stone effects, so you're either going to out strategize your opponent or you're going to lose. Sure sometimes skills like Destiny/Shining draw do play a part which is fine, but it's never gonna be like "Oh you have a monster I can tribute to get out my boss monster and win the duel? Well too bad because if I tribute your monster, I'll look like a scrub and I'm not going to look like a scrub. Instead I'm going to summon my own monster and tribute my own on the next turn!" So much for not looking like a scrub......
@MarioMastar it wasn't so much shenanigans that pissed me off. More so it was iirc that kaiba was playing hard and fast to win to get to Mokuba. I get it, but he almost steamrolled right over Yugi too. Putting his life points AND LIFE ITSELF in needles danger.
I recently watched your video on the Bakura vs Yugi Duel, and IF I remember correctly, the reason why Bakura didn't activate it back then, until a bit later on, is similar to why he didn't activate it now, he needed Dark Sanctuary on the field, which can be only activated once Dark Necrofear leaves the field, and since, Bakura struggled to even get 3 fiends in the graveyard, it'd make sense, also, except for Ra, Marik didn't have a monster to beat over Necrofear, which would've been too late in the Duel to use the field spell then Destiny board, so technically, the move he made in the Anime Duel (Manga Duel slightly different but would've worked also) was the better of the 2
Funny how I just resaw Bakura vs Yugi and thought about this one, and here it is
Magic
So that thing of Bakura leading people in to attacking by putting his weak monsters in Attack Mode is silly for two reasons;
First, as you mentioned, the only time someone DOESN'T attack a defense position monster is when they can CLEARLY see the DEF Points are higher and, funny enough, a good bit of Bakura's low level monsters had beefy defense points so it's a bit counter intuitive for him to play them. BUT that brings me to the main point, the line of "They might be hesitant to attack Defense Position monsters" would only really work if they played Monsters face down, ironically an earlier duel with Yami Bakura and Yami Yugi in Duelist Kingdom HEAVILY emphasized this as YB kept playing face down monsters with either flip effects (Morphing Jar and Man-Eater Bug), or Negative effects such as Electric Lizard. But CURRENT Bakura doesn't have any monsters like that or at least doesn't show any in the Battle City Duels as I recall. Him baiting people in to attacking by placing faceup monsters would MAYBE be less weird if Face Down monsters were more prevalent at the time.
And to the second point, this was the EXACT tactic style he used against Yugi in their Battle City duel of baiting the opponent in to attacking his monsters to set up for larger plays later, and if he had to throw out his Destiny Board strategy because "He knows of my Occult Deck"....why would THIS strategy be fine and dandy when Evil Marik knows what Good Marik knows? The more you think on it the less sense it makes.
Can we talk about how Mai and Bakura made the same problem. Relying on Ra, not understanding what it does.
Honestly me and a friend rewatched this duel last year, and like with you it frustrated me to no end and made me laugh too at just how many misplays and mistakes were made by both sides (especially Bakura) in this Duel. The Card of Sanctity and not playing Pot of Greed from Marik, and the not setting or using Destiny Board from Bakura (although admittedly I did overlook the Destiny Board in Bakura's hand on his first turn, somehow, until seeing this clip. I don't know how I overlooked that though).
This duel would have been way more interesting if bakura played destiny board on his first movebecause marik would also be trying to defeat bakura way faster because he has his destiny board out
Love your channel bro! Sometimes watching your channel lifts my mood. Like sometimes I be wanting to throw the towel in but then your channel uplifts me.
Bakura made several huge misplays. Even in the opening play.
Now i've got this image of Bakura attempting to join a real life tournament.
"What do you mean our decklists are public?!"
It’s a shame that these two demonic entities have to play a card game that they both suck at in order to decide who can be the main villain of the arc, reminder that Marik literally has a dagger with him at all times 😂
17:18 i’m going to say the mysterious card in Yami Marik’s hand was either Revival Jam or Holding Arms
I think it has to go with Yami Bakura simply being a terrible duelist. His strategy relies on his own power to instill fear into his opponents in order to cause them to stumble and fall into Bakuras traps. When people such as Yami Marik duel him..he loses on this strategy since Marik doesnt fear Bakuras power. Essentially...Bakura is akin to a bully who only targets people he considers to be weaker than himself. Such as was the case when he dueled Yugi when he was split from Atem. I suppose in the beginning Bakura was following Mariks lead on strategy and when he decided to ignore marik it was far too late as his own decks strategy was dusted since his win condition was in the graveyard.
I think another anime thing to think about would be this...With the battle between himself and Atem in the past...would Ra even have obeyed Bakuras call to attack if he had retained all of his attack points. One would think that as deities...Ra would have knowledge that Bakura is Zorc...an ancient adversary that he battled against in the past. Even though he holds a millennium item...would that have even mattered? We even see something like this ahead in time in GX where he was compelled by a field spell to obey the duelist and when Jaden obtained control over Ra...Ra obeyed his command to attack without the field spell. I think this is a trait that is only attributed to Ra...he chooses who can command him. Whereas Slifer and Obelisk dont appear to have this trait. Him obeying Mariks will via the millennium rod does poke allot of holes in this theory...however...marik wasnt an ancient villain he fought against.
Another question comes to mind. Just where did the Egyptian Gods come from? In the final arc its shown that monsters are spiritual manifestations of humans. With the god cards tablets being shown in these temples and also one of the high priests being able to crack one of their tablets which weakened them in real time. Since the ability to seal monsters into tablets appears to have started after the millenium items were created...were the gods sealed after? Or was it when the millenium spellbook was created detailing the method to craft the items in the first place? Either way...theres too many plot holes to even derive an answer as to the origin of the god cards.
In the Manga, which both this duel and the first Yugi duel are based off of, Dark Necrofear can only be summoned when three fiend monsters in ATTACK POSITION get sent to the graveyard.
Destiny Board Cannot be activated unless Dark Necrofear has been summoned and is sent to the graveyard from the field.
Since this duel happen in the manga it couldn't be change so much in the anime, so here is why in the manga they didn't do this:
2:18 It needs Dark Necrofear in the GY to be resolve and have its effects, so been set could get the chance to get destroy, so that is a reason he did't set it.
12:57 In manga Dark Necrofear can be special summon by banishing 3 fiends that were destroy in attack in the last 5 turn, so he could't be summon since marik haven't destroy that many monster in attack position.
11:19 and like my first point since Dark Necrofear wasn't in the graveyard he couldn't have won by Destiny Boards effect.
I know that manga and anime have different effect that they could't alter most plays in this duels since this is how happen mostly in the manga.
16:56 Bakura pouts about being lectured and then makes the iconic meme Joey face...The writers know they made him play like a dumbass.
The mysterious card was Mushroom man, the whole duel was nothing but silly, so why not it be Mushroom man
I decided it was Watapon. Marik just pretends it isn't there as deck filler.
Hey, it could be Shapesnatch!
The best Halloween themed duel ever, ghosts ghouls and zombies vs fiends and golden chicken wings
Bakura should've tried that table top game he used in the manga to beat Marik instead
I was just thinking about this duel last night and here you are posting it today
Even though Bakura never could win any duel he still had that aura 💯
Yeah that Florence
yami bakura actually had a very solid strategy. in the manga Bakura had no intention of using the winged dragon of ra. his play was to seal Ra in the graveyard. but ofc yami Marik who has the power of plot armor came up with BS moves.
Thank you so much for making this video
I LOVE THESE VIDEOS! Please keep making these breakdowns lol
Pegasus vs. Crowler and Bonaparte!!!!!
I know this would take a ton of time and effort but videos ranking all of the duels for each Yu-Gi-Oh series would be pretty cool. That being said love these duel breakdowns. How I found your channel and they are awesome. Looking forward to the next vid. Keep up the good work
so Marik would actualy have lost nearly all, if not even all of his duels x3 not just the Jonouchi one... what a scary antagonist.
This is the most hilarious video I have seen from you about a duel with so many misplays and f the rules hahahah
My guess for all the misplays lack of oxygen.
15:56 Exactly. You know your opponents are going to set traps for your plays, but you must press on to advance the game state. So just spring the traps, and waste his resources.
Man, the manga is somehow more and less kind to bakura. He doesn't misplay in the manga, but he just gets destroyed much faster.
I'd recommend reading it, at least the parts that involve what happens in the anime for contexts' sake
I love how on the one hand this was one of the those big nostalgia duels that you loved watching as a youngin and so you didn’t care about the misplays you were like “oh this duel is awesome but if you were a duel analyst like our dear bud here, you’d be like “no what- cmon, why, WHY!”
1. Bakura basically screwed himself over trying to beat Marik at his own game. He had so many ways to win but threw away basically all of them.
A quick note tho, Bakura really couldn't use Destiny Board in the anime until Necrofear was in the GY. Which can only be summoned by banishin Fiends that were destroyed while in Atk position in the last 5 turns. So the setup to make his win condition happen would have taken almost as long as the Duel itself.
But that doesn't remove that he had a near indestructible God Card on his side of the Field in defense. He could have just SAT on it and won through attrition
2. All jokes aside, Bakura's "I AM the Darkness!" Was actually a really *cold* line. The fact that he was completely unphased by *literally dying* really sells that Yami Bakura was something more than just an evil Bakura.
I just WISH they had shown some actual FEAR on Yami Marik throughout the Duel. As psychotic as he is, he does care about his own continued existence so reacting to someone even crazier than he is would have been cool.
Marik got more scared of Joey of all people before Bakura. It really just doesn't make him look good as a final villain
What about an analysis on the first 2 Yuga & Nail duels. It be fun to see a Rush Duel covered here.
It's funny that DM had villains who were so bad at dueling that when two of them dueled, it gave us one of the worst duels in the franchise
Oh, I find Duel Monsters to be overrated, it's not that good, and honestly, Zexal is better, I have joy watching Zexal
@@varisrevolver4061 DM overall suffers from lack of focus, poor pace with too many duels stretching more than 4 episodes, tons of filler, messy duels, poorly explained rules and effects and, specially, terrible villains.
@@sasir2013 That's the thing about DM, it's either too long of duels for duels that aren't important (or are important but are like 6 episodes long), or some duels that are slightly important, that are over quickly (Kaiba vc Alistar
@@varisrevolver4061Zexal has tons of similarities with DM and yet it does things soo much better yet people hate it. It's like they don't want a good show and are content with nostalgia that they grew up with. 5DS is still my favorite though but Zexal is super close and I only watched Zexal in dub
A major theme in the anime is "big boss monsters aren't as good as just attacking directly" and this duel is a big example
Also i chose to believe the card marik drew on the last turn was his own monster reborn
I think the reason bakura could tell when ra was in mariks hand was because bakura was zorc so maybe he could sense his worst enemies, the gods
Honestly Bakura throwing his strat out the window feels on point: Marik plays dirty head games all the time. He toys and plays with his opponents and uses outside knowledge for leverage. He rarely slips his own hand while keeping his opponents in the zone of discomfort.
These misplays all seem fine and in keeping with Marik's design of dueling style....
But it doesn't excuse Bakura. He played like he was nervous, unsure, or dare I say; scared. He has always played recklessly with shadow games probably because at the end of the day he is the darkness manifest. No shadow game can truly defeat him for long. But he acted like he was unsure this duel how best to proceed. He played reckless as usual, but he also had no head in the game. Could be Marik talking to him constantly, but this was a real mess. In a villain vs villain arc, you never want either villain to look weak, but in this case they made Bakura look like a clown. Not the strongest writing here as simple story telling could have made all this make sense.
Yeah, I do play cautiously when I see a face down and go "That could be like Mirror force.... nad if I attack and get my board wiped, I will lose, better just pass this turn until i can get rid of it" only to find out it was some Blue medicine (any card that isn't some battle based board wipe). So I don't blame him for being cautious. BUT that said.... what else was he going to do with the card in his hand? Set it and forget it, if it gets blown then he has an alt win condition planned. It's not like timing a negate on the right monster to stop a combo where if you mess up, they end up on a monster that is immune to targetting. You only play cautiously IF a misplay will cost you the duel, but Destiny board was his call and good deck building would mean "I will play another win condition in case this one fails." So yeah Bakura was an idiot. His logic was sound, but just for the wrong situation.
Finally! I was waiting for you to analyze this duel! Thank You! You should also analyze the duel between Yami Yugi/Yugi vs Joey/Marik!
The summoning scene of Ra with Bakura in front is mega ultra badass. 🙃