This is one of only 2 duels I think in the yugioh anime where it could be classified as a villain vs villain duel. The only other one I can think of is Bakura vs Marik in the original series
@@lloydbagby8355 Spectre (and the Rest of 'Knight of Hanoi') is no longer 'Antagonist' at that point of the story. They're more Anti-Hero since they also want to defeat the main antagonist (Lightning and Windy) and no longer go against Playmaker and his friends.
You maybe technically could count Vector vs Durabe/Merag and/or Nasch to be bad guy duels since they were all dead set on fighting Yuma and the good guy team when Vector went after them
Yubel having a hand destruction at the moment where literally any other card wouldn't have been an out is peak anime duel. Dude was outplayed by Adrian the entire time.
Adrian was nothing more than a cocky arrogant pathetic little punk who was pretending to be something he’s not. Adrian should’ve known that Yubel would have counter measures for his Exodia deck. After what he did to Eco Adrian definitely deserved his defeat.
Adrian is messed up for sure, I think his exodia deck was over powered tho, he literally opens with 4 pieces and his top deck is the 5th... like what?! so undeserved!
Even so, he came closer to defeating Yubel than most of Yubel’s opponents put together, and was actually probably the only one to not only make Yubel sweat, but downright panic as well. Even Yubel’s Hand of Destruction from the Nightmare Shuffle card was pretty much pure luck.
One of my favourite duels! It’s always cool seeing a villain vs villain battle/duel. The whole duel was great, but honestly? The highlight of it in my opinion was Yubel literally summoning herself to the field! It was honestly something I didn’t realize we needed, because we rarely see Yubel in her own physical form, usually either possessing other people, or in her pre-transformed stasis before she recovered her own body. Yubel summoning herself and speaking through her summoning, in her physical form while simultaneously possessing Jesse, that was just a huge flex if I ever seen it from a Yugioh villain 😈 It was also a powerful reminder of how much of a terrifyingly powerful presence Yubel really has 😈 You knew Adrian was screwed after that. But I gotta give Adrian mad props. He might be a megalomaniacal prick, but the man can duel 👑 Adrian is probably the only duelist who not only made Yubel sweat, but genuinely panic. Adrian had backup plans for his backup plans, and if it wasn’t Lady Luck surprisingly favouring Yubel, I’m pretty sure Adrian would’ve won. Yubel literally could’ve ended up setting any other random card from her graveyard, and she had at least half a dozen spells or traps, and if it wasn’t Hand of Destruction, she’d be toast. That was the moment where the literally only thing that saved Yubel the duel was Lady Luck’s favour.
Adrian seriously needs to learn that no matter how much we want to no matter how hard we try we can’t change the past. Adrian will always be haunted by the sins of his past he is beyond redemption and beyond forgiveness if I were Eco I would never ever forgive him. Adrian deserves to live a life in isolation and he deserves to be alone perhaps that will teach him a lesson.
Honestly, this guy Adrian has a totally broken deck. I'm starting to doubt how would someone like Jaden (a better duelist on paper) be able to defeat Exodius. What exactly could he play? This is crazy.
@@xTristan69x He likely stayed in the Duel Monster world. Everyone who was “sent to the stars” wasn’t really dead, including someone who was having heart failure. If “he” was able to return home by the following season, I assume Adrian was free from Yubel’s prison too, but was left in one of the alternate dimensions, where Adrian would preferably stay.
7:24 "And then the throne will be yours, is that it? How wonderful! You'll rule this wretched dimension, and the vermin that live here will call you their king! But you know what I find rather sad? No one will be happy for you after all you destroyed your only friend Echo!"
9:39 - When opponent on DB with undefeated Custom Deck actually meets a person with even more powerful archetype, but it actually plays as a normal power level modern irl Deck and screws it without efforts. Besides that's really well made duel in Yugioh GX
Adrien should have won, Yubel using hand destruction and such was like he sided against an exodia deck, and he still almost lost like twice over. I LOVE This duel
It appeared as if Adrian had a part of Exodia with 200 ATK vs Yubel's 100 LP. Yubel's field was completely empty too. He could've just attacked with a piece of Exodia but was too obsessed with using Exodia's effect that he didn't want to put a piece of it on the field
@@ScarletKuriboh One of the rare cases of the villain having absurd plot armor. Yubel had no clue about Exodios or Fog King, nor Fog Castle, yet they still pulled the out each time.
They are but also they aren't. I mean the Egyptian god cards have narrative purpose and the phantom trio were just a mcguffin, even the effects were radically different and dont truly mirror the god cards except for really basic stuff like raviel symbolizing power like obelisk, hamon symbolizing separation between divine and mortal and uria symbolizing judgement but even that is loose connection.
@ true, if he had a monster to summon. But he was done to one card, which was magical mallet, thus he used Fog Castle’s retrieval effect which also required discarding the hand. And if he had a monster with a burn effect, he could’ve used that to get around the skip battle phase cost of the castle with Yubel down to 100 . But since he didn’t have any in the graveyard, Exodia was pretty much the only option.
Adrian would've lost if Yubel attacked with Armityle to deal 10,000 damage due to the anime effect. Adrian would've lost back then. But instead Yubel decided to use the removal instead which ppl can consider bs, but that's ho goes in anime.
@@velichkanikolova2394in the anime, due to the way the effect is worded, Yubel couldn't have attacked. "Once per turn, if this card is in face-up Attack Position, this card can inflict 10,000 battle damage to 1 monster your opponent controls." The way that is worded given the time frame, it was an effect that "targeted" the monster to apply the effect to, which EUFL couldn't be "targeted" by said effect
Adrian could’ve beaten yubel, on his 2nd turn if he attacked hamon instead of uria he would’ve stopped yubel from summoning armatyle and beat her on his next turn
The fact that Yubel/Jesse had that hand is more disgusting than Zane and Kaiba always having 3 Cyber Dragon/Blue Eyes in their starting hands. Yubel had all 3 sacred beast cards in his hand on top of the exact combo of cards with the 3 spells 3 traps and 3 tokens to summon them all. Does no one shuffle their decks?
They do, but these anime duels are all scripted by a group of writers who don't care too much about how unlikely it is to open with a hand like that. All yugioh series are made to sell the card game. The writers will always prioritize spectacle over logic
I’m honestly surprised he didn’t include the head in his starting hand. If he included the head instead of his spell card, he’d have all 5 parts of Exodia, and he would’ve won before the duel even started.
If I was Adrian, I wouldn't have told him how Exodious endgame effect work because I don't have to explain it to my opponent so they won't get an idea for a counter
It's weird that they never aired the episode during the 4Kids program. Like it cuts straight to Jaden vs Jesse/Yubel a week after the first part of the Adrian duel
That’s weird. Cause I remember watching both the first episode of Yubel and Adrian’s duel, as well as the second episode, when I was a kid and it was on TV while it was airing. It’s been a long time though, so my memory could be a little hazy. After all, Yubel gave a quick recap during the beginning of the Jaden vs Yubel duel.
I’m pretty sure he was free from Yubel’s prison, like Jaden’s friends were once Jaden fused himself and Yubel together. But unlike Jaden’s friends, Adrian was probably left in the Duel Spirit world where Adrian intended to rule.
@@velichkanikolova2394 maybe but once per turn, the new exodia Fusion gains attack points based on LP. Sure Exodus can't be destroyed and is unaffect but Adrian could still take the damage.
Adrian would have won this duel 10 times over with the amount of asspulls Yubel was doing with her cards. Hand Destruction sends 2 cards to the grave, not 4 (plus Yubel would need to have 4 cards in hand as well), and if we ignore the dumb roundabout way Exodius was removed from play, the amount of dumb luck it would take to grab your one copy of Hand Destruction from the Graveyard amongst the 13 other cards already there is just plain obnoxious. At the end of the day there was no way Adrian was winning this game, but at least they could have made it less luck dependent and more a display of raw skill/power
This is GX anime effects instead of real effects, Hand Destruction effects is: - Each player send 4 cards from their hand to the GY and Draws 4 cards. - If a player has less than 4 cards in their hand, they send all the cards in their hand to the Graveyard and draw 1 card for each card they sent this way. - If a player has no cards in their hand, they draw 1 card instead. (GX Anime effects)
Since Grinder Golem in Attack Position, Yubel force Golem to attack her while she in Attack Position, when Grinder Golem attacks, Yubel effects activates, Inflict damage equal of it's ATK, 2nd and 3rd effect of Yubel, she isn't destroyed and she didn't take any battle damage. Since Grinder Golem ATK is 3000 when attack on Yubel and triggers it's effects, Adrian take the same damage from Golem ATK. (Adrian 1800 -> 0)
Adrian won yubel cheated twice yubel summoned the 3rd secret beast when yubel already normal summoned that turn and when yubel used hand destruction a 2nd time to draw a extra card when yubel had zero cards in hand yubel shouldnt have been able to draw there
Summoning Raviel through sacrificing SPECIFICALLY 3 Fiend type monsters is a Special Summon. The card even says so. Just tributing 3 random cards of any sort wouldn’t suffice in summoning Raviel. There’s specific special conditions in summoning Raviel, and it needs to be Fiend type monsters. It counts as a Special Summon. As for the Hand of Destruction, that wasn’t through cheating. Just very, VERY lucky.
All Sacred Beast are cannot be Normal Summoned/Set, they are must Special Summon by following conditions, Yubel play fair and square to Special Summons all 3 Sacred Beasts.
Yubel had 5 cards left from her hand cause Triangle Force spell effects is triggers on her deck. Hand Destruction effects is allowing both Players can discards 4 cards from their hand and draw 4 cards, but if any Players are less 4 cards, they draw with the same numbers of their hand, and if any Players are no card from their hand, draw 1 card instead. (Anime effects)
Am I missing something here or is Adrian stupid? Yubel had an empty field and 100 LP so why didn't he just summon Exodias leg and have it end it? I don't think he'd had his battle phase that turn yet right? Was his obsession with an Exodia victory just that strong?
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This is one of only 2 duels I think in the yugioh anime where it could be classified as a villain vs villain duel. The only other one I can think of is Bakura vs Marik in the original series
Agreed, this is such a cool fight and its memorable for that reason
Dark singer Carly vs sayer Drummon and merga vs vector spector vs lightning he was technically a antabgast
@lloydbagby8355 ah yeah, I forgot about Carly vs Sayer and Vector vs Dumon and Marin. I haven't watched Vrains up to the end of season 1 yet.
@@lloydbagby8355 Spectre (and the Rest of 'Knight of Hanoi') is no longer 'Antagonist' at that point of the story. They're more Anti-Hero since they also want to defeat the main antagonist (Lightning and Windy) and no longer go against Playmaker and his friends.
You maybe technically could count Vector vs Durabe/Merag and/or Nasch to be bad guy duels since they were all dead set on fighting Yuma and the good guy team when Vector went after them
One of the best duels of GX
Agreed, this was peak GX, everyone was opening cracked hands and follow ups were always scary. Adrien vs aster is another great duel
Yubel having a hand destruction at the moment where literally any other card wouldn't have been an out is peak anime duel. Dude was outplayed by Adrian the entire time.
Adiren had exodia on Turn 1, Yubel was like if he is stacking his deck, I will too
And to think that ALL Adrian had to do was not yap about his win condition.
And attack Hamon instead of Uria. It would have been cool to see Adrian (Exodia/Cloudian) vs Jaden (Heroes) as the final duel.
nightmare shuffel was the biggest plot armor in GX
Adrian was nothing more than a cocky arrogant pathetic little punk who was pretending to be something he’s not. Adrian should’ve known that Yubel would have counter measures for his Exodia deck. After what he did to Eco Adrian definitely deserved his defeat.
After all, Yubel gave him The Exodia pieces in the dessert dimension
Adrian is messed up for sure, I think his exodia deck was over powered tho, he literally opens with 4 pieces and his top deck is the 5th... like what?! so undeserved!
Even though eco willingly agreed to it. It was confirmed that he has no darkness in him
Even so, he came closer to defeating Yubel than most of Yubel’s opponents put together, and was actually probably the only one to not only make Yubel sweat, but downright panic as well.
Even Yubel’s Hand of Destruction from the Nightmare Shuffle card was pretty much pure luck.
One of my favourite duels! It’s always cool seeing a villain vs villain battle/duel.
The whole duel was great, but honestly? The highlight of it in my opinion was Yubel literally summoning herself to the field! It was honestly something I didn’t realize we needed, because we rarely see Yubel in her own physical form, usually either possessing other people, or in her pre-transformed stasis before she recovered her own body.
Yubel summoning herself and speaking through her summoning, in her physical form while simultaneously possessing Jesse, that was just a huge flex if I ever seen it from a Yugioh villain 😈 It was also a powerful reminder of how much of a terrifyingly powerful presence Yubel really has 😈 You knew Adrian was screwed after that.
But I gotta give Adrian mad props. He might be a megalomaniacal prick, but the man can duel 👑 Adrian is probably the only duelist who not only made Yubel sweat, but genuinely panic.
Adrian had backup plans for his backup plans, and if it wasn’t Lady Luck surprisingly favouring Yubel, I’m pretty sure Adrian would’ve won.
Yubel literally could’ve ended up setting any other random card from her graveyard, and she had at least half a dozen spells or traps, and if it wasn’t Hand of Destruction, she’d be toast.
That was the moment where the literally only thing that saved Yubel the duel was Lady Luck’s favour.
Adrian seriously needs to learn that no matter how much we want to no matter how hard we try we can’t change the past. Adrian will always be haunted by the sins of his past he is beyond redemption and beyond forgiveness if I were Eco I would never ever forgive him. Adrian deserves to live a life in isolation and he deserves to be alone perhaps that will teach him a lesson.
He's a cursed character!
All that to teach him a lesson?
Frankly, Adrian running an exoida deck means I have no sympathy for him. Well done Yubel
Death to FTK! Adrien literally stacks his deck and yubel has the out
Had to cheat 😂
Even tho Yubel is one of the most toxic decks in the game
@@GojiraFan-in9oothat’s the irony
@@GojiraFan-in9ooMikanos
Really appreciate you editing these duels.
I wish I could change card effects to do whatever I wanted. Must be great being in an anime.
I wish Fog Castle was a real card. I love the idea behind it with Fog King.
Wait Fog Castle is not a real card??
@@captainsmartass3368 his cloud cards never came out in real life
Honestly, this guy Adrian has a totally broken deck. I'm starting to doubt how would someone like Jaden (a better duelist on paper) be able to defeat Exodius. What exactly could he play? This is crazy.
Thats the idea, he's super over powered
Easy, hero's rule 1, which banishes all exodia cards from GY thus lowering Exodius to 0 atk and stopping Exodia from being complte.
Fun fact: Adrian is never found after this
I always wonder what happened to him and echo
He either died or chose to stay in the dimension like bastion
Adrian honestly deserved what he got 💀
@@xTristan69x He likely stayed in the Duel Monster world. Everyone who was “sent to the stars” wasn’t really dead, including someone who was having heart failure.
If “he” was able to return home by the following season, I assume Adrian was free from Yubel’s prison too, but was left in one of the alternate dimensions, where Adrian would preferably stay.
@@jakandratchet9930 Probably the good ones came back
Why does Adrian always draw 4 pieces and the ritual of the ultimate forbidden lord in his opening hand the two duels he has exodia
7:24 "And then the throne will be yours, is that it? How wonderful! You'll rule this wretched dimension, and the vermin that live here will call you their king! But you know what I find rather sad? No one will be happy for you after all you destroyed your only friend Echo!"
This line goes hard.
9:39 - When opponent on DB with undefeated Custom Deck actually meets a person with even more powerful archetype, but it actually plays as a normal power level modern irl Deck and screws it without efforts.
Besides that's really well made duel in Yugioh GX
If he had attacked Hamon instead of uria, he would’ve won
adrian probably wouldve won if he had monster reincarnation instead of feather of phoenix
Adrien should have won, Yubel using hand destruction and such was like he sided against an exodia deck, and he still almost lost like twice over. I LOVE This duel
It appeared as if Adrian had a part of Exodia with 200 ATK vs Yubel's 100 LP. Yubel's field was completely empty too. He could've just attacked with a piece of Exodia but was too obsessed with using Exodia's effect that he didn't want to put a piece of it on the field
@@ScarletKuriboh One of the rare cases of the villain having absurd plot armor. Yubel had no clue about Exodios or Fog King, nor Fog Castle, yet they still pulled the out each time.
@@rodolfogarcia6301 he couldn’t attack because of fog castle eff
Fog Castle skips your BP if you use its retrival effect.@rodolfogarcia6301
So the sacred beasts are basically the Egyptian Gods
Yep! Just slight different and a bit more evil
They are but also they aren't. I mean the Egyptian god cards have narrative purpose and the phantom trio were just a mcguffin, even the effects were radically different and dont truly mirror the god cards except for really basic stuff like raviel symbolizing power like obelisk, hamon symbolizing separation between divine and mortal and uria symbolizing judgement but even that is loose connection.
Degenerative god cards at that
More like rip offs
@@KMDragonSin my opinion excluding obelisk, uria and hamon are better versions of slifer and the winged dragon of ras TCG versions 😂
Oh that's gotta hurt 4 exodia peaces in hand and if he went first he would hsve had the 5th and final peace that's some terrible luck
Thats what he gets for cheating lololol
If adrian summoned his last exodia piece asa monster and attacked directly he would have won. Yubel had 100 lp left
Not exactly. The effect where he used Fog Castle to retrieve the Exodia pieces has a “skip battle phase” cost.
@@T-Wrecks13a whole turn has passed since then, he could’ve just attacked for game but he tunnel visioned on Exodia
@ true, if he had a monster to summon. But he was done to one card, which was magical mallet, thus he used Fog Castle’s retrieval effect which also required discarding the hand. And if he had a monster with a burn effect, he could’ve used that to get around the skip battle phase cost of the castle with Yubel down to 100 . But since he didn’t have any in the graveyard, Exodia was pretty much the only option.
Adrian would've lost if Yubel attacked with Armityle to deal 10,000 damage due to the anime effect. Adrian would've lost back then. But instead Yubel decided to use the removal instead which ppl can consider bs, but that's ho goes in anime.
@@velichkanikolova2394in the anime, due to the way the effect is worded, Yubel couldn't have attacked. "Once per turn, if this card is in face-up Attack Position, this card can inflict 10,000 battle damage to 1 monster your opponent controls." The way that is worded given the time frame, it was an effect that "targeted" the monster to apply the effect to, which EUFL couldn't be "targeted" by said effect
Adrian could’ve beaten yubel, on his 2nd turn if he attacked hamon instead of uria he would’ve stopped yubel from summoning armatyle and beat her on his next turn
The fact that Yubel/Jesse had that hand is more disgusting than Zane and Kaiba always having 3 Cyber Dragon/Blue Eyes in their starting hands. Yubel had all 3 sacred beast cards in his hand on top of the exact combo of cards with the 3 spells 3 traps and 3 tokens to summon them all. Does no one shuffle their decks?
They do, but these anime duels are all scripted by a group of writers who don't care too much about how unlikely it is to open with a hand like that. All yugioh series are made to sell the card game. The writers will always prioritize spectacle over logic
Thank you so much are You uploading jaden vs viper jaden vs the shadow riders ?? Thank you.
I can make that happen!
thanks for the idea
@@ScarletKuriboh not all heroes wear cap thank you 🙏
If Yubel had adding "Fallen Paradise" Field Spell, she can be able to draw 2 cards.
Dude open with 4 exodia's pieces and the top deck is the fifth. Definitely stack his deck for sure
He 100% is but so is Yubel, having Hand destruction both times they were gonna lose
I’m honestly surprised he didn’t include the head in his starting hand. If he included the head instead of his spell card, he’d have all 5 parts of Exodia, and he would’ve won before the duel even started.
If I was Adrian, I wouldn't have told him how Exodious endgame effect work because I don't have to explain it to my opponent so they won't get an idea for a counter
It's weird that they never aired the episode during the 4Kids program. Like it cuts straight to Jaden vs Jesse/Yubel a week after the first part of the Adrian duel
That’s weird. Cause I remember watching both the first episode of Yubel and Adrian’s duel, as well as the second episode, when I was a kid and it was on TV while it was airing.
It’s been a long time though, so my memory could be a little hazy. After all, Yubel gave a quick recap during the beginning of the Jaden vs Yubel duel.
Imagine if he had all the exodia on the first turn
If Adrien plays jar of greed and back up soldier trap, he would have win.
Un alives his girlfriend to get Exodia. Loses first game he plays after. Doesn't get brought back to life. Never so much as mentioned again
whatever terrible fate he got is still too good for him
Kind of a bad look on Adren, he would've won if yubel didnt have specifically hand destruction
I’m pretty sure he was free from Yubel’s prison, like Jaden’s friends were once Jaden fused himself and Yubel together. But unlike Jaden’s friends, Adrian was probably left in the Duel Spirit world where Adrian intended to rule.
Poor Adrian always copping hand destruction
Imagine this though... Solomon moto (with the new exodia support and fusion) vs Adrian, who wins in terms of their exodia decks?
Probably Adrian again, his skills pushed up Yubel more than Zane, + the fact Exodius is very tanky in the anime
@@velichkanikolova2394 maybe but once per turn, the new exodia Fusion gains attack points based on LP. Sure Exodus can't be destroyed and is unaffect but Adrian could still take the damage.
Meanwhile, still waiting for season four English dubbed version official English episodes not fan made
Anyone still plays tagforce
I thought the sacred beasts were sealed in season 1?
They were, but once Yubel teleported Duel Academy to that desert, she broke the Sacred Beasts’ seal and stole the cards
Yubel should've honestly lost this😂😂
If only this didn’t happen 7:01
Adrian would have won this duel 10 times over with the amount of asspulls Yubel was doing with her cards.
Hand Destruction sends 2 cards to the grave, not 4 (plus Yubel would need to have 4 cards in hand as well), and if we ignore the dumb roundabout way Exodius was removed from play, the amount of dumb luck it would take to grab your one copy of Hand Destruction from the Graveyard amongst the 13 other cards already there is just plain obnoxious.
At the end of the day there was no way Adrian was winning this game, but at least they could have made it less luck dependent and more a display of raw skill/power
This is GX anime effects instead of real effects, Hand Destruction effects is:
- Each player send 4 cards from their hand to the GY and Draws 4 cards.
- If a player has less than 4 cards in their hand, they send all the cards in their hand to the Graveyard and draw 1 card for each card they sent this way.
- If a player has no cards in their hand, they draw 1 card instead. (GX Anime effects)
Fax😂😂
Adrian Can't reshuffle that's not right
19:54 What is yubel trying to do?!
Triggering Echo.
@jakandratchet9930 how?
Since Grinder Golem in Attack Position, Yubel force Golem to attack her while she in Attack Position, when Grinder Golem attacks, Yubel effects activates, Inflict damage equal of it's ATK, 2nd and 3rd effect of Yubel, she isn't destroyed and she didn't take any battle damage.
Since Grinder Golem ATK is 3000 when attack on Yubel and triggers it's effects, Adrian take the same damage from Golem ATK.
(Adrian 1800 -> 0)
Who is yubel?? I feel he have something to do with Jaden even i didn’t see all episode he look’s just like jaden
Got no sympathy for Adrian. He was such a user.
Adrian won yubel cheated twice yubel summoned the 3rd secret beast when yubel already normal summoned that turn and when yubel used hand destruction a 2nd time to draw a extra card when yubel had zero cards in hand yubel shouldnt have been able to draw there
Anime card effects.
All the Sacred Beasts are Special Summons not Normal.
Summoning Raviel through sacrificing SPECIFICALLY 3 Fiend type monsters is a Special Summon. The card even says so.
Just tributing 3 random cards of any sort wouldn’t suffice in summoning Raviel. There’s specific special conditions in summoning Raviel, and it needs to be Fiend type monsters. It counts as a Special Summon.
As for the Hand of Destruction, that wasn’t through cheating. Just very, VERY lucky.
All Sacred Beast are cannot be Normal Summoned/Set, they are must Special Summon by following conditions, Yubel play fair and square to Special Summons all 3 Sacred Beasts.
Yubel had 5 cards left from her hand cause Triangle Force spell effects is triggers on her deck.
Hand Destruction effects is allowing both Players can discards 4 cards from their hand and draw 4 cards, but if any Players are less 4 cards, they draw with the same numbers of their hand, and if any Players are no card from their hand, draw 1 card instead. (Anime effects)
Adrian deserved 2 lose. Because of his lust 4 power 4 selfishly of give his friend away 4 Exodia. Power 4 lust is a dangerous of em all.
You do know that echo willingly gave herself to exodia
Am I missing something here or is Adrian stupid? Yubel had an empty field and 100 LP so why didn't he just summon Exodias leg and have it end it? I don't think he'd had his battle phase that turn yet right? Was his obsession with an Exodia victory just that strong?
Technically, since Adrian used the final effect of the Fog Castle field spell - he couldn't go into the Battle Phase that turn.
The dub removed the negative effect of Fog Castle skipping your battle phase when you send it the GY for four cards.
What was the point of Adrian's character?
I feel like yubel cheated. Adrian should’ve won
Nope, she played completely fair. Hell Adrian’s misplay on turn 4 is what cost him the duel
Not cheated. She just got really, REALLY lucky that she was able to use Hand of Destruction, via Nightmare Shuffle.
4 exodia cards om first hand, bullshit level over 9000
Don't forget the fifth piece is in his top deck