Whenever Yugi summons Slifer, the duel often starts revolving around adding more cards in his hand to make Slifer stronger. Imagine if on top of that, there is also a chance that he draws Exodia while drawing more cards.
@-AirKat- in the other universe that happened in, that would be the sickest moment in yugioh, would've had the sickest card art and the effect would be very mediocre at the time of release
I like to imagine this scenario goes with: Weevil: “Yo, can I see those cards?” Yugi: “Sure thing” Weevil: (looking) “Yeah these are pretty cool” (Long silence, the cacophonous sound of the universe forcibly rewriting itself) Weevil: “Mkay, here you go.”
Fast forward to the Awaken The Dragon Arc train battle, Weevil actually does have the card with Yugi's soul trapped in it, then just hands it over to Atem.
@@kylepessell1350 I get the feeling that if Weevil wasn't a little brat, he'd just end up as a fan-boy. He'd geek out every time he sees Yugi, and he'd make an interesting recurring villain. He'd never be evil, just on the wrong side for the wrong reasons. Perhaps he's constantly lured in with things like "you could have a deck just as strong as Yugi's!" and then he meets Yugi, duels him while geeking out, loses, then Yugi has to tell him 'You know those guys who helped you get a strong deck? Yeah, they're evil".
The annoying thing is Weevil was one of the only characters with a proper deck with an archetype. And as this guy pointed out the writer's absolutely screwed him in his second duel with Yugi.
@@brawl8well, technically it wouldn't be revenge. I wish Atem had the ones Joey was able to grabbed into his deck in the actual arc so that it'd be as fitting as possible.
Honestly having little Yugi pulling out Exodia against Yami having all three God Cards on the field would have been WILD and a really fascinating thematic wrap up to the series. Still really sad that Exodia wasn't able to really do much past the first episode.
they had to get rid of it, it's not exactly an entertaining comeback when yugi's heart of the card keeps getting him narrow comeback wins cause he drew the fifth piece.
Despite that, I like that they incorporated Exodia in other ways such as Antagonists utilizing them in different ways like the Rare Hunter, Gozaburo and Amon.
My favorite call back to Exodia is in GX with Exodius. It really felt like Adrian Gecko was the first good duelist (besides obviously OG Yugi) to master Exodia. Kinda wish Exodius got a retrain that worked a little similar to the anime, feel like it wouldn’t be that busted now.
Also, Kaiba's reaction "nobody's ever been able to call him" implies that there are multiple copies of Exodia, so it's insane that Yugi never bothered to rebuild his grandpa's deck by replacing the Exodia cards.
Last time when Yugi had Exodia, direct attacks never existed in any duel monsters. But when Kaiba's tournament changed the rules, direct attacks do exists. So a duelist with Exodia also have weakness based on what was shown what happened to Seeker the rare hunter. His only weakness is he is wide open for direct attacks. Seeker was able to draw Exodia successfully because Joey did not know he had Exodia. Yugi on the other hand figured out Seeker had Exodia based on his behaviors so when Yugi saw that behavior, he most likely knew that was his previous self. So if Seeker were playing duel monster using duelist kingdom rules, then Seeker would of had a field advantage because his opponent cannot use direct attacks and must wait for him to put a monster down on the field no matter what. Yugi had already had a chance to win that Exodia cards from that rare hunter but he chose Red Eyes Black Dragon instead.
@@hp2546 Direct attacks were apparently allowed in DK rules if you couldn't at least place 1 monster on the field in defense. But I agree DK rules allow exodia to prosper.
Well, they ARE incredibly rare, most duelists never even get a chance to see even 1 piece.... it's entirely possible that he might have been trying to get replacements of the Exodia cards ever since Duelists Kingdom, but was never able to recomplete the set (he couldn't have taken Seeker's they were all fake), and then just never added the ones he got back into his deck because they are pretty much useless without all 5 pieces.
This reminds me of that one parody video with a simmilar title. The whole thing was just a compilation of all Yugi's battles except each time his starting hand was 5 pieces of exodia and then immiedietaly cut to the exodia animation with the theme and the scene of his enemy losing. I remember the duel with Pegasus when he uses his power to check Yugi's hand and the exodia theme just starts playing while Pegasus is holding his head and yelling xd
I'm kinda glad yugi didn't have exodia. We might not have seen Black Luster Soldier, Magician of Black Chaos, or The Dark Sage in the finals if that was the case
@@Practicalinvestments Yeah, Joey did recover two pieces. I guess for the other three pieces that didn't get saved where the ones after Weevil's LP hit zero and went full MONSTA CARDO on him.
It is clear that when Yugi loses Exodia, he won't end up like Seeker the rare hunter. I mean Exodia was a field advantage during that time because direct attacks did not exist. When Kaiba created his tournament, rules did change where direct attacks are common. If Yugi's opponent knows he have Exodia, then they will create a goal of attacking Yugi before he had a chance to draw them or if they see an opening for a direct attack, they would of cashed in. So having Yugi with no Exodia helped him focus more on Dark Magician because if he still had Exodia, he may not have room to sacrifice 2 monsters to summon Dark Magician. I mean what was seen with Seeker is he could not even make room to sacrifice 2 monsters to summon Red Eyes Black Dragon. Or what if Yugi's opponent had card destruction in his/her deck. Any of them would of force Yugi to discard every hand including his Exodia piece and draw a new cards. Exodia is only weak when it is not summoned.
You can really tell Exodia was designed for that one duel (second in the manga) where Kabuki Takahashi brought Magic & Wizards back by popular demand, but at the time he would have been writing that duel (Spring 1997), the idea that the card game would become the main fixture of the manga was still nowhere on his or his editor's radar. So making an auto win-condition without having to grapple with its presence for future duels is what happened. I think it's very telling that Exodia is neither seen nor mentioned in the video tape duel with Pegasus (published in December 1997/January 1998), not even one piece; I'd be willing to bet Takahashi and his editor remembered or were reminded of Exodia around that time, and Weevil/Haga was created not just as another nasty piece of work villain-of-the-week like so many to that point, but as a plot point to get it outta here so actual drama and tension, and changing cards, could be winged from Yugi's future duels. Of course, the real reason we hardly ever see Exodia again is aptly demonstrated by the Rare Hunter duel - it's not exciting to watch when the desk is designed around it. It's telling that when we DO get a dedicated Exodia deck again in Season 3 of GX, its two duels involve all manner of convoluted anime-only tech cards to restrict hand size and dump hands playing off the "he's one card away!" tension in a different manner than real life. And neither duel wins that way - Aster blocks it with a hand-size-to-four trap and we get a new Exodia boss monster instead that wins in the first, and in the second, we flip between going for Exodia to a backup strategy when it's hard countered, to back to Exodia, only for Yubel to win via the Grinder Golem/tribute for Yubel/attack and bounce the damage to opponent before the final piece could be drawn.
One minor correction: We see during the berserker soul scene that Yami has to immediately discards any monster card draw through the berserker soul effect, so Exodias effect would not come into play.
God, Yugi beating Weevil with 2 win conditions (Getting all 5 pieces of Exodia as Weevil's LP hit 0) would be quite hilarious. We need a fanmande remake of that duel now.
Having Exodia represent Solomon, the way Blue Eyes represents Kaiba and Dark Magician represents Yugi, makes me feel kinda torn on the subject of what would've happened if he hadn't lost it. On the one hand, losing it basically speedran that entire character arc you talked about where Yugi had to learn to grow on his own as a duelist and develop his own strategies - notably, before losing Exodia it's "my grandpa's deck" but after losing it it becomes "my deck." On the other hand, I would really have loved to see some interaction between Exodia and the EGCs; we even see in the Millennium World arc that Exodia is Siamun's ka, ans was once a fearsome and legendary protector of the land. The anime probably would've pulled out some kind of logic for Exodia not working against the EGCs, maybe that hierarchy system they mentioned with Ra being above the other 2. I dunno, there's a lot of symbolism there, it would be neat to've had it unpacked.
Idk I felt like it was unpacked enough I read the manga and read the anime and as a little dumb kid I understood that, it was very beautiful and some thing are better not said ya know
Idk but the last season shows exoida being stronger than the gods individually but if gods combine they are stronger so in my opinion one god card exodia wins but with all 3 exodia doesn't
If the Exodia cards are still in Yugi’s deck during Duelist Kingdom. It could improve the shock factor if during the Pegasus duel Yugi drew 4 of the 5 pieces and then Pegasus counters with a card like the way yugi beat the Exodia rare hunter to show that Pegasus is a threat.
@@misterOrca4that’s not in character for either of them though. Either he’d take the entire set or none of it. But just one piece to stop him building the entire engine? Nah
Honestly I like the idea that in the Waking the Dragons arc, Yugi restrains from using Exodia... and then Leviathan comes out. Kaiba gets an idea. He plays Card of Sanctity to get himself, Joey and Yugi to draw six cards from their deck. Yugi immediately realizes what he means... and plays EXODIA.
In regards to Battle City: Ishizu implies that the Egyptian Gods can stop Exodia somehow In regards to the Berserker Soul Scene: Yugi has to discard the card he draws for that card's effect (i:e he can't keep the cards), so Exodia wouldn't obliterate Weevil
I don’t think that statement of the gods being more powerful than Exodia was meant to be taken in that sense. Perhaps the gods abilities and their lack of Exodia’s weakness is why they were considered better than Exodia. A single monster that has high attack stats and immunity to almost every card effect I think is much more reliable than an instant win 5 card monster whose pieces are basically bricks individually. I mean Exodia doesn’t beat over anything or inflict battle damage, you just declare victory upon drawing all the pieces. Exodia obliterating the opponent’s field was just for spectacles sake.
I would love to see Yugi vs Bakura in Battle City with Exodia instead of Slifer as the win condition. We would lose that summoning animation, but it would be an awesome foreshadowing of Exodia vs Zorc, also Destiny Board vs Exodia matchup, both players racing against time. If you wanna do more of these, maybe what would happen if Jesse/Johan and Jaden/Judai have never met? It completely removes the Jesse-Yubel vs Zane duel, Jaden going back to the monster dimension to save Jesse who vanished after the Marcel-Yubel duel, Jaden becoming the Supreme King, original cast getting put aside because Jesse was now Jaden's boyfriend (it isn't canon but I will die on this hill) and Jesse helping Jaden in season 4 with his depression, suicidal thoughts, Fujiwara duel and purging Darkness out of him.
If he still had Exodia, we probably wouldn't have gotten the craziness of things like attacking the moon or making a castle collapse on the opponent's field.
Kaiba specifically changed the rules for Battle city in case there were another exodia. Which is how yugi was able to direct attack win vs the rare hunter with the fake exodia copies.
@@MickDouble You mean proxy’s right. Copy doesn’t necessarily mean fake or illegal. I mean the real world is full of legalized copies. Odion’s Winged Dragon of Ra was a proxy card.
@@robertmiller3529 I don't know how accurate the sub is, but the sub I have of the episodes says the cards are counterfeit. It seems accurate to me however, as that information is what leads Kaiba to conclude it must be Exodia, a conclusion that makes far more sense with counterfeit cards than with marked cards. Also, the word counterfeit is twice more used the next episode, first after Seeker plays the head and later before Yugi tears up the cards, making it seem less likely to be an error (and furthermore, it wouldn't be in-character for Yugi to tear up cards just because they're marked, as he believes in cards having a soul. Counterfeit cards however are a different story).
I absolutely love this “What-If” scenario! I do agree that it would be more repetitive if every duel just came down to getting Exodia’s pieces as quickly as possible. But, I think writers would definitely be able to integrate a plot-point of Yami’s reliance on Exodia. In fact, said reliance on drawing the 5 pieces could have been the very thing that cost Yami his duel with Rapheal. This could have consequently triggered a character arc where he becomes a more violent Duelist, angry with himself while grieving the loss of Yugi to the Seal of Orichalcos. However, he would be gradually calmed down by his friends, decide to practice not using Exodia-never even drawing a single piece when he did-and understand how he can make things right again.
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I feel like what you said about BC applies to DK too. I have to imagine if Yugi had Exodia, almost every opponent that was close to losing via Exodia would be using more hand destruction cards to keep up the tension. I can totally see Pegasus playing Delinquent Duo.
Hadn't Yugi lost Exodia in the beginning of the series, we would have always known what those 2 or 3 'mysterious cards that have never been used, never been revealed in the duel' really were. 😉
I would have loved to see yugi give each of his friends a piece of exodia to represent how they are at their strongest when they are together... FRIENDSHIP!
During Duelist Kingdom it had become public knowledge that Yugi lost Exodia. If he didn't then it's likely that Pegasus would have expected Exodia in Yugi's deck and would have prepared for it, even if it meant creating brand new cards just for that duel.
Examples could of been more like get the card destruction. So imagine if Pegasus used his Millennium Eye to see like 2 or 3 pieces of Exodia, then Pegasus could of already used card destruction so that all cards including his Exodia pieces would have to be discarded then both players must draw like 5 new cards. Exodia is weak when not summoned.
A think another great twist would have been Yugi letting Joey keep the 2 pieces he recovered from the ocean, as at least a token of appreciation for him risking his life. Then fast forward to Joey facing Yugi to claim his Red-Eyes back. Turns out Joey has secretly been collecting the remaining 3 pieces of Exodia and adds them all to his deck. Then, with the insane luck Joey has, he draws them to instantly win. Would be an unique symbol of their friendship while also returning Red-Eyes to Joey.
What if Jaden didn’t bump into Yugi at the start of GX? What if the Golden Key didn’t react in Yuma’s duel vs Shark? What if Yuya’s pendant didn’t react in the duel against the Sledgehammer? Just a few What If’s I’ve thought that could be interesting to look at.
@@donny451 honestly, it wouldnt have changed the story much even if he didn't steal Stardust since he only used Stardust when Yusei came along to find him.
@@mairelbaz3962 Stealing Stardust was half the reason Yusei was seeking him out. Yusei undoubtedly would have gone to the city anyway and maybe would have sought Jack out to confront him over stealing their D-Wheel, but he probably wouldn't have dueled him that night they partially summoned the Crimson Dragon for the first time.
Aw man, I was hoping you would point out a scenario I've been thinking about recently. If Yugi/Atem had Exodia when Dartz pulled out Divine Serpent Geh. Because technically while Geh is on the field Dartz can't lose, but with Exodia in Yugi's hand he automatically wins. Seeing Exodia break out of the Spellbinding Circle, the three Legendary Knights on the field maybe Dark Magician Girl as he obliterates Geh and Dartz? That would have been amazing! A full circle since the gods weren't around to be of any help.
Exodia ain't obliterating anything. Geh's effect takes priority. Dartz cannot lose no matter what. The only way to win is to remove Geh. I should know because I've tested this on Edopro.
I actually think that Exodia would not necessarily be the be-all win condition for Yugi's deck in Duelist Kingdom like you said, precisely for the ruling that he needed to play monsters each turn. Considering that he has a large amount of Spells & Traps in his deck for that era, there's gonna likely be a chance where he'll have no cards on the field, and the only monsters he can play being those Forbidden Limbs. That scenario you described at 5:59 would be surprising at first sure, but both Pegasus & Yugi would quickly surmise that while he _could_ draw the head for an early win, he could also brick into a Magical Hats or Living Arrow without any other monsters remaining on his field, which considering Pegasus' Toon Beatdown strategy was very likely! And without any graveyard-to-hand recovery, the moment one of them hits the field turns his five instant-win cards into some of his weakest monsters - I don't even think the Head could take out more than, what, Toon Alligator?
Running a deck of only monsters including Exodia would force hand destruction from his opponent, because he either has fodder to avoid losing or he wins.
The Exodia strategy failing against Pegasus would lead Yugi to play them on the field. Meaning we are guaranteed to get comedy gold moments like Toon Left Leg.
@@pn2294 I agree, it was Yugi who inherited the deck to begin with. Although I do wonder if Yugi would actually play those cards. Atem couldn't take that risk, so he'd prepare for the possibility regardless (meaning just owning the cards would benefit Yugi)
What if Marik merged the deck of his first Rare Hunter with Strings so that Exodia and Slyther was in the same deck. Imagine the last scene where Strings was caught in an infinite loop until his cards run out and triumphantly brought out the 5 Exodia pieces? Well, that's an alternate history episode of Yu-Gi-Oh-No! 🤣
Tbh it would be better without slifer and he could just stall with his revival jam until he drew exodia I think this would be a good exodia deck more than it is for slifer as revival jam would counter exodia decks weakness as not always having monsters to protect their lp
In the final duel of Atem vs Little Yugi, I don't think the Exodia pieces would be Atem's to use as even in the past Yugi's grandpa's Ancient Egyptian self had them. Therefore I think they'd be for Little Yugi's use in this scenario where Weevil wasn't able to toss them off the ship.
I like to think that the Seeker at the beginning of Battle City was there showcase how the game has evolved and how Exodia just doesn't cut it anymore. Sort of like in DBZ, Frieza was such a huge problem. Then in the next arc, he gets ass wobbled by Trunks in a matter of seconds with little effort
You know this would be a pretty interesting alternative universe to where if yugi still held on to exodia. In Duelist Kingdom he can still stomp a bunch of characters but by the time we would get to Battle City and the waking the dragon's arc he would have to change up his strategies to fit the situation a lot more so he wouldn't be having trouble summoning exodia. And it could lead into more character development for yugi and atem. This was a pretty interesting video idea and I hope to see more what if's!
That would be a really cool character arc Atem counting on exodia too much maybe with a duel with Joey being controlled by Marik could have him realize that counting on Exodia is not a good idea since he is dueling on borrowed time.
I think there's one thing that is missing from the Duelist Kingdom discussion: yes, you could stall out the duel by simply setting one and passing until you draw Exodia, but every time you set a monster you lose a card from your hand. Let's say Yugi had 3 pieces of Exodia and 2 other monsters in his hand, let's assume they are Curse of Dragon and Summoned Skull. If he wanted to go for the Exodia gameplan, he'd have to set either Curse or Skull on the field, losing him a card from his hand. Next turn, he draws up to 5 again, hitting another monster, so far so good. However, when he eventually draws another piece of Exodia, he has to hold onto it, effectively limiting his available handsize to 1 monster. Problematic, but still not impossible to come back from, you still have a monster you can set and he's probably drawing another one next turn. But what if, when his effective handsize is 1, he hits a spell/trap (Or the BLS ritual)? The only way out would be to set a piece of Exodia to avoid an instant loss, which throws the instant win right out the window. I'd argue it wouldn't be a clean sweep for Yugi, as the Exodia bricks would clog up his hand and there's a non-zero chance that he'd have an hand with no summonable monsters besides Exodia pieces. Of course cards like Pot of Greed could replenish his hand and the "luck boost" provided by the Puzzle could help him, but from a deckbuilding standpoint it would be a Joey Wheeler level gamble.
Yugi getting god draws would counter it, yes, but also the fact that Summoned Skull also would likely last far longer than a single turn. Duelists like Mai and Rex don't even have a card chunky enough to get over it. Even Kaiba would only have 3 monsters in his deck able to take out SS. Recall, Kaiba, the world champion, was running Hitotsu-me Giant.
@@SquallLionhart409 Yes, putting SS into attack and going on the offensive would wipe out most of the "boss monsters" in other people's decks if they didn't have some sort of card to get over 2500 ATK. The point is that, if that strategy is so successful to the point of being able to beat over anything, why even clog up your deck with bricks that have even the slightest potential of losing you the duel? At that point using those five deckslots for beefy monsters/a couple of spells and traps might be more advantageous.
@@FastEFrostVideogame Because players in the anime didn't run 3 copies of the top meta cards? BEWD was limited to ~4~ copies. In the entire world. You might draw in to SS or DM, but you might also draw in to Giant Soldier of Stone or Mystical Elf. In the former case, having Exodia is insurance in case your opponent draws an out, in the latter playing defense is your only option. Here's a dumb question, if a player had 40 monster cards and you DIDN'T have Stop Defense in your deck, would you automatically lose the instant you play your first Pot of Greed (or if you draw first?). Season 1 rules were jank.
My thought is exodia would be treated like a god card, his most powerful ace, but wouldnt be something he always relied upon but Id believe he would over rely upon them for a while, which would be a fun plot point. Exodia would be a bigger problem for the end of the series when yugi and atem duels. Though yeah like you said Exodia would become less and less commonly used in the other seasons of the first series.
Drawing exodia vs Dartz would have been hype and really funny. Imagine Dartz gloating about his infinite attack serpent. Kaiba uses his virus cannon+crush card virus combo. But he uses it on Yugi instead of Dartz. Dartz goes from gloating to confusion, like mental whiplash. Dartz: Why would you DO that? Now his deck only has 6 cards left in it! Yugi smirks and activates his facedown 'cards of sanctity' drawing all 5 pieces of exodia and 1 random monster that was left over.
Exodia, despite having small appearances in the anime, it made such an impact and it is one of the most iconic cards in the game. I still feel like he was underused and it is understandable considering the power he has.
Thinking about it, Exodia would have done decently with Slifer because rather than being dead cards they would have powered it up. They still would have been a hindrance outside of that, of course, but once he got it onto the field (and he would have, don't doubt), they would have worked together rather well.
It would have been so cool and amazing to see Yugi beat Atem with Exodia in their final duel, ending the series with the very first boss card we saw in the anime and seeing little Yugi win with his Grandpa’s cards instead of Atem being the one to use it :)
Hindsight is 1000, but if Maximum Monsters from Rush had been a main game concept, Exodia probably could have been more a reoccurring part of yugi’s deck. But it probably wouldnt be as iconic.
I’m pretty sure exodia is the inspiration of maximum monsters, it’ll be funny if they make exodia in rush duel and it’s maximum atk points are infinite
@@sonicgen20 it’s the unique summoning mechanic in rush duel, essentially it’s 3 separate monsters summoned to the field simultaneously to act as 1 monster
My headcanon is that Exodia is a lost 4th Egyptian god card. His story is similar to that of the God Osiris in which he is cut up into pieces and then put back together. I like to think that he was cut into the 5 pieces ultimately making him lose his God status and his dragon taking up the same spot instead.
would've been an interesting alternate end to Waking the Dragons arc. Dartz: "Tremble before my divine serpent with infinite attack power!" Yugi: "lol" (draws final Exodia piece) "lmao"
Wanted to see Toon exodia made by Pegasus to use Yugi's exodia cards to his advantage Now normal way wouldn't work but some other mechanic to use them for toon exodia peices
If Yugi have Exodia throughout the series, I can see him use it in Duelist Kingdom where it occasionally wins him duels. In battle city tho, I think he would drop the exodia entirely from his deck not because it become bricky but because everyone have plans around it since he would have been famous by then. Let's say his first duel in battle city was against a nameless nobody. The nameless nobody tech in some cards that will hinder Exodia which turns the otherwise easy victory for yugi into a uphill battle. Yugi was barely managed to squeak a win but the duel made him realised that he have been relying on Exodia way too much and it almost cause him to lose. Yugi laid the Exodia to rest in his card pile and probably comment something like "The game have hundred cards and many way to win. Exodia have done well but now is the time for me to explore what else the game have to offer me."
Well said because if you compared that to Seeker the rare hunter, when he started winning easy victory, he became a disadvantage. That is why in the beginning, the rare hunter always say do not reveal my strategy. The rare hunter knows that he will be at a disadvantage because in Battle City, he cannot depend on Duelist Kingdom rules. In Duelist Kingdom, direct attacks do not exist. In Battle City, direct attacks exists. Seeker must of knew about it but still choose to depend on Exodia anyways. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yS1zUksrtGY.html. This person who did the what if only created a version of Yugi losing his ability to keep his heart of his cards beliefs but the way how you explained it proves that Yugi will still keep his heart of the cards beliefs. After all, it is never Yugi's style to go for a fast victory or doing 1 shot victory. If Yugi deals with underleveled opponents, he would of just let them live and give them a chance to quit. Just like we don't see Yugi playing an Egyptian god card against Leon, Vivian, Noah etc. Yugi does not aim for a powerful cards on his 1st turn. Yugi never rushes to win. So you would of done the truthful statement on what if Yugi never loses his Exodia because we all know Yugi is not going to abandon his heart of the cards belief just because he still owns Exodia right.
Considering your title has ‘What if…’ in it, how do you feel about making other Yugioh themed Marvel style What If…? vids? I’ve got some more if interested. 1. What if Joey beat Marik? (An obvious one) 2. What if Zero Reverse never happened? 3. What if Crow was a Dark Signer (the writers original plan) 4. What if Kaiba never became Kaiba? (As in if Gozaburo never adopted him and Mokuba) 5. What if Kaiba died? (If he killed himself at Duelist Kingdom) 6. What if Lightning Lied? (Was what Lightning showed Ai after his death was a true reality like it believed to be true or was it a cunning manipulation tactic to drive Ai to his death. 7. What if Duel Monsters never existed? 8. What if Atem never left? 9. What if there was an undiscovered Ritual Dimension? 10. What if Bakura won? What do think? These are just some on the top of my head. This could be a regular series like your duel analysis vids.
Imagine Yugi playing for the entire series a super stally deck with draw, search and stax. A whole episode taking place in which he plays swords of revealing light and countering opponents spells. Next episode its revealed: he plays three copies of swords of revealing light xS
I think the fact that Exodia appears so little is what makes it such a cool card(s), only once in season 1, once in season 2 and then only in Atem's memories where Exodia goes toe to toe with Zorc, which is one of my favourite Yugioh moments ever. And I guess Exodia also technically appears in Gosabura Kaiba's Deck, but that's only to make Exodia Necros.
I dig that theory of yours, especially agains Weevil, I ha*e that runt lmao, but I also think it would be awesome if Atem won the final duel with Exodia against Yugi and stayed, but this time in his own body, finding his own path and then maybe helping out other duelists in the future like Jaden a bit more, Yusei,...since he has to stay for another 5000 years anyways, he could aid the newcomers. It would also be interesting to me to see him synchro summon or xyz summon or link summon a monster, and which monster would he syncro, xyz or link summon too. There are so many plot possibilities and twists with him staying, because no one would actually expect him to win, everyone would think he must lose for the plot's sake. And then we get hit with a plot twist of him staying.
I want an archetype based around Exodia now. Like a proper archetype, not just related cards but something you can build around. The fun catch (at least in my opinion) could be that it doesn't get you Exodia, it uses those five cards specifically as a resource. Maybe certain cards require you have a specific part in hand, others can exchange parts for other ones or bring one back from the graveyard. Could be Sealers of the Forbidden One?
Maybe Offering to the Forbidden one? Sacrifice 5 cards in your hand or field (has to be monster cards) but if you can do so then you can draw 4 new cards and one piece of your choosing for Exodia. seems like a good start to the Exodia Archetype
Dartz would think he had Atem on the ropes after causing him to discard four Exodia pieces. Atem then would draw the fifth piece (the head), fuse it with Timaeus and it’s effect would add all pieces from his graveyard to his hand. Winning him the duel.
@@Wanderer2331No, that’s sounds too over powered. How about this, Forbidden Timeaus Unleashed. Attack 2800 Defense 3200. During your main phase you can add a Forbidden one monster from your deck or gy to your hand. Gains 1000 attack for each Forbidden one monster in your hand. When your opponent activates a card effect that would destroy a card/‘s you can discard a Forbidden one monster from your hand, negate the effect and destroy it.
I don't know if it's still on RU-vid, but Lonely's Archives made an edit where Yugi still has Exodia and wins every single duel with his opening hand, and it's pretty hilarious
In the final duel Yugi vs Atem, it was revealed that Atem can "will" whatever card he wants on top of the deck. Ok. Now Imagine this. Atem puts exodia in his deck. He shuffles his deck. Yugi cuts it afterward. Everyone else watching around just so there are no shenanigans. Yugi knows exodia is in Atem's deck because he made his deck to counter exodia and the gods. Now. What is stopping Atem from willing exodia to be his opening hand?
Honestly I don't think Atem would run Exodia at all in his duel against Yugi. This could theoretically be his final duel, and his first duel against his partner. I can't see Atem WANTING to win that way, especially with his opening hand. It wouldn't be any fun to go out on. And if he doesn't win in his first turn, any discarding effects from Yugi can mean 4 bricks in his deck/hand, making his deck a lot weaker. The point of that duel is to test Yugi's ability to succeed Atem. Running an instant-win strategy could deprive Yugi of his ability to prove anything. I feel like he'd want to test the full extent of Yugi's abilities and see what counterplays he could come up with.
@@kyuubinaruto17 Maybe there was a card that "somehow" prevents losing to exodia in the opening hand that never got revealed because it never happened in the anime. And Yugi would definitely add it to his deck and draw it in his opening hand just for plot reasons.
@@kyuubinaruto17 That last duel is suppose to be an all or nothing, no holds barred,max cheese that both players would have to give their all to win duel for the magic to work right and that would include one of them using the 5 most power cards in the game
@@edwarddeguzman3258 Using Exodia would be an insult to the other player. The cards are pure bricks until you assemble the full set. With the skill level both possess having up to 4 dead cards in hand would just lead to a swift defeat. Plus a simple discard makes the whole set worthless and ENSURES they remain bricks.
I think it would have been interesting if Yugi returned the exodia cards back to Solomon instead of the ancient deck he used against Joey. He used a deck that completely supports exodia. This would Joey a nice little moment beating the deck that lost his red-eyes. Also, I love your videos, I would love to see you do the Gaia archetype
If you plan on doing any more What ifs, here is one scenario that might not be a long one but would be interesting to see played out: What if Odion disobeyed Marik? What I mean by that is what if Odion decided that it was unnecessary and potencially dangerous to use fake Ra, thus he dissregards his masters orders and attacks Joey with Mystical Beast of Serket and wins the duel.
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I honestly don't think he would use it as often though; remember he had Exodia in his intial duel against Pegasus, but he couldn't draw it for some reason.
Would've been awesome if, in the Duelist Kingdom, Yugi would win without Exodia in his first match, win in a pinch in the 2nd and 3rd with Exodia, become reliant then suddenly get nearly destroyed by the brothers because Labyrinth rules wouldn't allow you to stall, the brothers would try to bomb rush him with their labyrinth monsters then Joey would be the one to save his sorry ass. Then at the duel against Pegasus, while Pegasus is pretending to be frightened by the ticking time bomb that is Exodia, he activates card destruction, then Yugi pulls out a "This was my actual game plan!!!" and beats Pegasus with a Ludicrous DnD style combo.
Really cool video! I loved it! I believe Atem has been willing cards at the top of his deck since season 1 though, although he maybe wasn't aware of it until his last duel. That's how he did pull out Exodia against Kaiba in the 1st episode and how he made Jonouchi pull the Time Wizard card against Mai.
"What if Yugi didn't lose his Exodia cards" there was a funny video about this axrsully, where Yugi basically draws all pieces of Exodia in every duel he has turn one, where his theme music starts playing
Regarding stalling in Duelist Kingdom, the fact that Duke Devlin was able to get hold of a Fairy Meteor Crush before duelling Joey suggests that cards with piercing existed at that point (even if FMC was the only card which gives it, it would still give duelists a way of damaging an opponent who's turtling unless the monsters they play have high defence). Lifeforce Sword was bought before Battle City too but even if that wasn't available before Duelist Kingdom, Morphing Jar definitely existed and that would be a major problem for Exodia users if its flip effect triggered at the right time.
I have an alternate take on the final duel that could completely change the emotional dynamic of things. The entire duel proceeds exactly how it went originally, up until the penultimate turn. Atem attacks with Dark Magician, Yugi plays Spell Textbook, and subsequently draw-plays Card of Sanctity. Yugi draws his cards, and reveals his Silent Magician's effect when Atem draws his cards.Atem still plays his Magician's Unite to keep himself in the game despite Silent Magician destroying Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl. However, it would be at this moment where Atem flips the scripts. It is after the damage step concludes that Atem has either tears in his eye, or a look of disappointment, or something to cause emotional turmoil. He concedes the "true" victory to Yugi for all the comebacks and counters he'd come up with, but claims the physical victory. Since this is the anime and this play/draw was mid-battle, it would be after his Magicians are destroyed that Atem reveals that Yugi's Card of Sanctity play allowed him to draw the five Exodia cards (plus Magicians Unite). Just imagine the reactions from Yugi and the on-screen spectators.
3:46 that may be true but it also states that if you are unable to summon a monster for any reason you lose. It's why Kaiba lost to Pegasus. After Pegasus used Kaiba's own crush card/deck destruction virus against him, the only play he was able to make was to use monster reborn to revive the only monster he had that wasn't affected, Saggi the Dark Clown.
I fully agree that this is an interesting what if with the seed of some comedy gold. You mentioned the "duelist kingdom" arc. not just would the instant panic attack from pegasus seeing Yugi already have a few Exodia peices be hilarious but having pegasus also maybe pulling hus hair everytime Yugi draws a card from strees add to it. Possibly have some inner monoluge from pegasus about how Yugi taking his time drawing every card "is going to shave years of life off of me. i swear we have already passed a decade". And yeah the comedy gold of what is obiusly supposed to be an arcs BBEG be instantly deleted by Yugi pulling Exodia from the get go would indeed be iconic
I imagine that if Yugi has Exodia from Battle City onwards, instead of using Exodia as a separate deck, we’d see a bunch of cards that blend Yugi’s regular strategy with stalling or drawing. He runs a bunch more kuriboh’s and Big Shield Gardnas, he has cards that let him draw if Dark Magician’s on the field, etc. Also, the anime specifically says the Egyptian Gods are stronger than Exodia, so I can imagine a scene proving this where Yugioh gets the five pieces while Obelisk is on the field, but Exodia just kind of fades away, and we get a monologue explaining that each Egyptian God can negate Exodia’s win con.
The thing is, from what we know about ‘that’ rare hunter from Battle City, more than one set of Exodia existed - at least four sets as Yugi had one set, and ‘that’ rare hunter had a play set of all Exodia pieces. It’s entirely possible it’s a Blue Eyes situation, where there’s only four in existence, BUT if that’s not the case, there’s no reason why Yugi couldn’t just replace them with another set of Exodia once Weevil tossed them That said, a Yu-Gi-Oh! Timeline where Yugi builds a deck around Exodia (Magical Library, Upstart Goblin etc) and uses his immense luck to troll everyone constantly would be amazing
Honestly, this was my very thought during the past weeks while rewatching Yugioh once again. But for now, let's dive into this video! Also, I'm new around here and stumbled upon your channel due to one of your Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Analysis videos "Was Joey about to defeat Marik". Loving your content and the way you put a lot of effort, knowledge and thoughts into this series! Keep it up!
Imagine if Yugi zero-turn killed Pegasus by drawing all 5 pieces of Exodia in his opening hand. Pegasus would be all "I'll go first", and Yugi would be like "No, Pegasus, I've already won."
i rewatched duel monsters a while ago, and it took you mentioning it for me to remember that DM definitely did have solutions to exodia running around. Delinquent Duo can get rid of a piece, The Forceful Sentry can send one back to the deck, and if he were willing to play a spellcaster, White Magical Hat also exists and can potentially get rid of a piece. plus, needle Worm, if he's lucky, might mill a piece, and its even thematic. there are definitely other cards, this is just off the top of my head.
The Berserker Soul scene would have been a fun show of Yami having put something like Exodia Necross in his deck, as I think you have to send the monsters drawn to the grave (with the irl card anyway). So Yami draws each piece of Exodia, explaining to Weevil that he doesn't even need the might of the forbidden one to squash a bug like him.
5:55 Someone please animate/abridge this. Considering everything that Pegasus just did to everyone else before that point, watching him be in fear of "the inevitable" throughout the entire duel would've been SATISFYING. Making less of a tragedy that Yugi lost Exodia and more a shame he couldn't use it against him.
I think it would have been SO amazing if in the ceremonial duel Yugi actually used Exodia and won. We have him building his deck and he actually turns down Kaiba's offer to use all of his cards, but instead we have Solomon there as well, and he takes Yugi aside that night and is like "I spent all of this time collecting the pieces of Exodia to finish my old deck, and I know this is the most important duel of your life, so I want to give them to you to use in this game". It would have given yugi more of a connection with his grandpa, and actually having Yugi be the one to draw what he needs at the end of the duel instead of Atem, who might have had all 3 god cards on the board at that point and been in a completely undefeatable board would have been a nice way to close the duel instead of...making up a new ruling for cards to cheese the win for Yugi. Plus having Atem's first win be with the power of Exodia and his last duel end with him being beaten by Exodia would be a nice bookend. Yugi could then give Exodia back to his grandpa and be like "This is the power that banished my other half. I never want to use it again." and then he goes on to revamp his old strategies that he used with Atem into the DSoD deck we see in that movie. Or even better he decides that after that event he is retiring, and decides to start developing other games himself (which would fuel Kaiba's anger more for the movie as well).
And with duelist Kingdom. Even if Yugi doesn't/can't draw all five pieces. Each one is at least able to act as a body on the field to keep him alive another turn
That face when kaiba sees exodia looks like is pure nightmare like his face looks like it's been dried out kinda like dead man last semblance of horror manga
For the berserker soul scene, it could have been a good introduction to the exodia divine incarnate, as it gets massive when you have exodia pieces in the GY
Two things: The first was when you mentioned that all Yugi has to do is keep stalling with monsters until he draws all 5 pieces. But in order for that to work, his opponent can't have any upper hand otherwise Yugi would certainly lose, because either he keeps drawing regular monsters or Exodia pieces, if he's drawing monsters he won't get to Exodia, and if he's drawing pieces he won't win, since he needs them in his hand he can't summon them to keep the duel going, and he's going to eventually run out of monsters to defend himself. The second was Pegasus. He knows Yugi has Exodia so all he has to do is either have Card Destruction in his deck or come up with a one of a kind card that stops Exodia.
I think what would happen after pegasus was that the anime would introduce graveyard effects sooner since hand/deck destruction would be meta against yugi and yugi would counter with graveyard effects
way to keep it special that I would have used is that the duels leading up to Pegasus would have played out the exact same way with Exodia being closest during the fake Kaiba and real Kaiba duels each time being 1 piece away and then to make it a big dramatic thing he draws all 5 against Pegasus right as he is about to defeat Yugi in an ultimate culmination of getting his grandfather back and his friends being there for him resulting in a truly emotional scene then having Yugi remove the pieces from his deck during Battle City to make room for the God Cards to be the most powerful cards in the story such as they are the only cards that can stop can actually stop Exodia's effect (because anime reasons) forcing Yugi to have to rely on his deck without Exodia and the cards he wins along the way through the tournament
I kinda wish we got a joke series of Yugi having Exodia in his deck and learning to use the Pharaos powers right away to just top deck it every duel, imagine him smirking vs pegasus as pegasus takes a peak into his hand seeing all 5 exodia pieces as Yugi is about to reveal his opening hand. (I know there's been made some joke short videos of something like this) but yeah just a whole speedrun series where yugi opens exodia every single duel. Alternatively just a meme version of him doing insane emotional damage every duel with exodia with a few occurrences of opening hand exodias for hilarious effect. (obviously it would be condenses the entire first season down to like maybe 12-36 episodes of just duels.) Just all the in duel trash talk would be gold if Yugi finished all duels in a few turns or less with Exodia XD
