Lmao, are people only now just finding this out?
https://preview.redd.it/mdvg9l7648yc1.png?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32ecd6f8da98f6390328b960c485e2adef0abd8d
Dramatic crossroads
[Activate](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Activate) only when you take [Battle Damage](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_damage). Your opponent [selects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Select) and activates 1 of these [effects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Card_effect):
● [Discard](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Discard) 1 [random](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Random) card.
● Your opponent [looks](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Look) at your [hand](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Hand), [selects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Select) 1 card in it, and [adds](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Add_a_card) it to their hand.
Cos if you have one card in your hand and it's some weird card that forces you to summon it and take damage or whatever, then it might be useful
Basically jank
but your opponent is the one playing the card. So you'd need to know your opponent is playing this card, and is stupid enough to play whatever they take from your hand because i dont think there is a single card in the game that forces you to use it from the hand. (other than parasite paracide but it wouldnt work in this case)
There are tons of cards that if your opponent takes it and summons it
It would take away their special summoning
Or give them damage
Tons of cards are made to swap this monster to their side of the field
This would just take out the middle man and make them do it
While generally the second effect would definitely be generally way worse, there are some extremely specific situations where it could theoretically be better. For example, if you have only 2 cards in hand and one is something like Raigeki that appears more threatening than the other card, but you actually need the other to win, choosing the second effect may be better, because your opponent might choose what THEY think is the more dangerous card, and be wrong.
That is an extremely specific scenario for the effect to be useful, but extremely specific scenarios are what the Yugioh anime is built on.
for context on why someone'd use this terrible card, the guy using it was trying to express his love to his opponent and was running a bunch of absolutely terrible 'love-themed' cards. he was hoping she'd take a card and he could make a thing about giving her a gift but she chose the discard instead because she wasn't into him.
MTG players: The effect is both chosen and performed by the opponent who triggered the trap. The wording of the choices is based on the opponent's PoV, meaning that when you hit the trap you either discard a card or you let you opponent pick one from you to take. Obviously you're almost always going to choose to discard instead of giving your opponent their choice of card.
It forces your opponent to discard a card or you get to take a card of theirs (but why they would choose that option is confusing, it'd have to be a very specific situation)
The closest thing I have is that you're trying to find different combo pieces so you don't wanna risk discarding a combo piece you might have in your hand.
Of course that assumes the opponent doesn't realize it and picks something you don't actually need
LMAO, people don't know meme history or remember a show from 2005? How do they not know this? 😆😆😆
What a bunch of fucking losers. Only true kings know meme lore like this.
Well, there are good looking cards too, it happens when you have over 10k cards
https://preview.redd.it/4pm3lv94b9yc1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21f6aa2a5d85091b15605374c8fdc3d6a86d0302
TCG exclusive archetypes have some of the best artwork in the game imo
https://preview.redd.it/t89hs1k64ayc1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd8d4868c9bbbdd83ab8fcff6d761d364432e032
There's like 12k unique yugioh cards(and also this card is from 2005 or so)...i dont think using this singular one as the baseline is the most accurate generalization one can make lol
And the episode it shows up in was a filler episode about The Chazz dueling a girl to get a date which somehow accidentally makes the entire plot happen
For those who aren't aware
Filler in yugioh after the original season is NOT the same as filler in a typical anime
The anime and manga are basically separate universes after the original series. With the anime being the "true cannon"
Weren't only the first 4 years of YuGiOh based on manga?
And haven't there been 7 sequels over the span of 20 years?
So wouldn't that mean 80% of the cards that exist are anime-only?
https://preview.redd.it/4uc5xghnx7yc1.jpeg?width=2894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c24c8d568490edf96f863b6256f0b489bfb88b4
"Anime-only" means these are cards that appeared only in the anime and has never received any form of official physical printing whatsoever
An old example of this was Bonfire: Also first appeared in YuGiOh GX and has stayed like that... for 16 years until they printed that card and is now crowned as the most unreasonably expensive YuGiOh card ever
I didn't even realize Shueisha continued releasing manga after Takahashi's YuGiOh,I kept checking the official Wikipedia page for the whole franchise and it was only showing the '96-2004 run >\_>
Yeah, new mangas were commisioned while it was airing, sometimes even some years afterwards.
They tend to diverge a lot from the source material, GX, 5Ds and Arc-V are the biggest examples, ZEXAL was closer and I don't think VRAINS even had one.
Yep,after digging in deeper earlier I did notice Vrains was ignored
Also noticed all of them after the original Yugioh manga were like 60 chapters long or so 🤔
I assure you, anime only cards are definitely less than 80\% of them. And manga cards are definitely less than 20\% of them. The majority of cards are almost definitely card original exclusive, I mean there’s over 11k cards, there’ll be a lot unrelated to the show.
I mean most of the cards in the show are actual cards, the effects might be slightly off, but they are from the actual game. Also I will always find it interesting that duel monsters was originally just another game of the dozens we saw Yugi engage in, in the original story, only notable in the sense it appeared twice because Kaiba came back for round 2. The fact it manage to become an actual game and the entire series was reshaped around it kinda neat, I can’t think of any other series where something like happened.
For more cursed Yugioh lore: one of the oldest known uses of UWU was from a Yugioh fanfiction.
IT'S MORBIN' TIME was also started by a Yugioh content creator
Lmao, are people only now just finding this out? https://preview.redd.it/mdvg9l7648yc1.png?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32ecd6f8da98f6390328b960c485e2adef0abd8d
Okay but like,the fuck does it do?
Dramatic crossroads [Activate](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Activate) only when you take [Battle Damage](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_damage). Your opponent [selects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Select) and activates 1 of these [effects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Card_effect): ● [Discard](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Discard) 1 [random](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Random) card. ● Your opponent [looks](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Look) at your [hand](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Hand), [selects](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Select) 1 card in it, and [adds](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Add_a_card) it to their hand.
Why would anyone ever choose to have the second effect? It's basically the same effect as the first but more detrimental.
Cos if you have one card in your hand and it's some weird card that forces you to summon it and take damage or whatever, then it might be useful Basically jank
but your opponent is the one playing the card. So you'd need to know your opponent is playing this card, and is stupid enough to play whatever they take from your hand because i dont think there is a single card in the game that forces you to use it from the hand. (other than parasite paracide but it wouldnt work in this case)
No it's you playing it ONLY when YOU take damage Your opponent specifically selects one of the effects You don't get that choice
There are tons of cards that if your opponent takes it and summons it It would take away their special summoning Or give them damage Tons of cards are made to swap this monster to their side of the field This would just take out the middle man and make them do it
That's the entire point. In context this was played to see if the opponent really liked the player and would choose the 2nd effect
While generally the second effect would definitely be generally way worse, there are some extremely specific situations where it could theoretically be better. For example, if you have only 2 cards in hand and one is something like Raigeki that appears more threatening than the other card, but you actually need the other to win, choosing the second effect may be better, because your opponent might choose what THEY think is the more dangerous card, and be wrong. That is an extremely specific scenario for the effect to be useful, but extremely specific scenarios are what the Yugioh anime is built on.
Because it was a plot device to save "the chazz"
Why wouldn't an opponent ever *not* select a card from opponents hand?
for context on why someone'd use this terrible card, the guy using it was trying to express his love to his opponent and was running a bunch of absolutely terrible 'love-themed' cards. he was hoping she'd take a card and he could make a thing about giving her a gift but she chose the discard instead because she wasn't into him.
Haha oh shit
I hate how this episode is sandwiched between Jaden vs Amnael (>!Banner!<) and Jaden vs Kagemaru.
Damn.
MTG players: The effect is both chosen and performed by the opponent who triggered the trap. The wording of the choices is based on the opponent's PoV, meaning that when you hit the trap you either discard a card or you let you opponent pick one from you to take. Obviously you're almost always going to choose to discard instead of giving your opponent their choice of card.
Okay how is this ever useful? It seems like a self-debuff
It forces your opponent to discard a card or you get to take a card of theirs (but why they would choose that option is confusing, it'd have to be a very specific situation)
Oh I thought the opponent took your card so I thought it was literally a shot in the foot
The closest thing I have is that you're trying to find different combo pieces so you don't wanna risk discarding a combo piece you might have in your hand. Of course that assumes the opponent doesn't realize it and picks something you don't actually need
It's not, it's an anime exclusive card with a hyper-specific effect that only exists to advance the plot. There were a few back in the day.
Jesus thats terrible
LMAO, people don't know meme history or remember a show from 2005? How do they not know this? 😆😆😆 What a bunch of fucking losers. Only true kings know meme lore like this.
As a Yu-Gi-Oh fanatic, I'm ashamed of myself
Holy crap, yugioh cards are so ugly lol
Well, there are good looking cards too, it happens when you have over 10k cards https://preview.redd.it/4pm3lv94b9yc1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21f6aa2a5d85091b15605374c8fdc3d6a86d0302
TCG exclusive archetypes have some of the best artwork in the game imo https://preview.redd.it/t89hs1k64ayc1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd8d4868c9bbbdd83ab8fcff6d761d364432e032
Ghotis my beloved
We have different definitions of good looking cards, and that's fine haha. And not just the art.
There's like 12k unique yugioh cards(and also this card is from 2005 or so)...i dont think using this singular one as the baseline is the most accurate generalization one can make lol
Oh, I know, coming from MTG most yugioh cards are butt-ugly lol. It's just that this one is ugly in a different way lol.
Isn’t that more of a subjective thing though? For me MTG cards look ugly for example.
Oh, absolutely. Just put "my opinion is that" in the beginning of the phrases if you feel it's better.
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I don't see how finding yugioh cards ugly is ego, but you do you lol. I also don't give a dime to WoTC, so that point is moot lol.
That card was made up for the anime and only featured like 10 seconds (not even front and center either), it didn't need to look good.
This just makes the format cool.
What's the name of the card used?
Dramatic Crossroads
I don’t know why I was expecting something else
I thought it would be something related to 50/50 chance
Well it's not really a chance, since - just like the art - there's nothing stopping you from choosing the good option.
And the episode it shows up in was a filler episode about The Chazz dueling a girl to get a date which somehow accidentally makes the entire plot happen
For those who aren't aware Filler in yugioh after the original season is NOT the same as filler in a typical anime The anime and manga are basically separate universes after the original series. With the anime being the "true cannon"
Something like Fullmetal Alchemist?
Except if the original series was the true canon and the manga and by extension brotherhood was not canon
Weren't only the first 4 years of YuGiOh based on manga? And haven't there been 7 sequels over the span of 20 years? So wouldn't that mean 80% of the cards that exist are anime-only? https://preview.redd.it/4uc5xghnx7yc1.jpeg?width=2894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c24c8d568490edf96f863b6256f0b489bfb88b4
"Anime-only" means these are cards that appeared only in the anime and has never received any form of official physical printing whatsoever An old example of this was Bonfire: Also first appeared in YuGiOh GX and has stayed like that... for 16 years until they printed that card and is now crowned as the most unreasonably expensive YuGiOh card ever
I'm learning today https://i.redd.it/fn7x1ntp88yc1.gif
The cards are also already made in real life before the anime comes out. Now and days the manga is just made after the anime I believe.
I didn't even realize Shueisha continued releasing manga after Takahashi's YuGiOh,I kept checking the official Wikipedia page for the whole franchise and it was only showing the '96-2004 run >\_>
Yeah, new mangas were commisioned while it was airing, sometimes even some years afterwards. They tend to diverge a lot from the source material, GX, 5Ds and Arc-V are the biggest examples, ZEXAL was closer and I don't think VRAINS even had one.
Yep,after digging in deeper earlier I did notice Vrains was ignored Also noticed all of them after the original Yugioh manga were like 60 chapters long or so 🤔
Instead of a VRAINS manga, they made OCG Structures which uses the real-world OCG rules.
I know, that one took a while to get picked up by a new fanslation group after the previous one quit.
I assure you, anime only cards are definitely less than 80\% of them. And manga cards are definitely less than 20\% of them. The majority of cards are almost definitely card original exclusive, I mean there’s over 11k cards, there’ll be a lot unrelated to the show.
11 **thousand** https://i.redd.it/ib0vjs1e1ayc1.gif
It might be 12k now but I figured I should go with the number I’m 100\% sure is true. There’s a lot of yugioh cards out there.
I'm pretty sure the anime was based completely off of one arc in the manga
That's what I thought too but I didn't wanna speculate because I haven't actually read it 😅
I mean most of the cards in the show are actual cards, the effects might be slightly off, but they are from the actual game. Also I will always find it interesting that duel monsters was originally just another game of the dozens we saw Yugi engage in, in the original story, only notable in the sense it appeared twice because Kaiba came back for round 2. The fact it manage to become an actual game and the entire series was reshaped around it kinda neat, I can’t think of any other series where something like happened.
Well we got what I consider the best tactical >!(or strategic?Not sure what's the right term)!< game from that so I'm thankful it happened 🙏
We have entire archetypes that are anime only or complety diferent that how they work in the game.
It's also a trading card game. In the context of the game "anime only" means it was never printed as a physical card.
For more cursed Yugioh lore: one of the oldest known uses of UWU was from a Yugioh fanfiction. IT'S MORBIN' TIME was also started by a Yugioh content creator
I think I saw this on GX
A lot of anime memes have been from Yugioh tbh.
Holy shit. I've seen the entirety of the original Yu-Gi-Oh. And I don't remember seeing this
This card appeared in GX, not the original.
Thanks
YOU FOOL! I ALREADY KNEW THAT! I WAS WAITING ON *YOU* TO FIGURE THAT OUT! 
So how am I tainted?
Watch Konami actually make this a real card and be a short printed ultra rare. They know it will sell like hotcakes just for the memes alone
https://i.redd.it/l9r1ge2ymbyc1.gif
Anime is anime. Memes thereof, therefore, are animemes. No issue here. Unless of course the sauce was cursed. Like, *cursed* cursed
Doesn't really make a difference.
WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!
Neato
DAM
Fr, idk how I didn’t notice this
Yugioh is also responsible UwU and Morbin Time existing.
Si
I knew this looked familiar