Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V - Episode 003

"Trade Bait: Part 1" known as "Dark Town - The Stolen Pendulum Summon!!" is the third episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime. It first aired in Japan on April 20, 2014 and on TeleToon August 7, 2015.

Yuya Sakaki vs. Gong Strong
Duel already in progress.

Yuya's turn Yuya places and  in his Pendulum Zones. Yuya Pendulum Summons, and  from his hand in Attack Position. As the Duel was meant as a means for Yuya to figure out Pendulum Summoning, it ends here.

Yuya Sakaki vs. Silvio
At the start of the Duel, the Field Spell Card "Dark Town's Prison Tower" is activated, as per the rules of an Action Duel. It will allow the players to use Action Cards, but they may only have one in their hand at a time.

Turn 1: Yuya Yuya Normal Summons.

Turn 2: Silvio Silvio draws. Yuya finds and activates an Action Card, but it turns out to be the Trap Card "Break Shot", whose effect reduces the ATK of "Whip Snake" by 900 ("Whip Snake": 1700 → 800/900). "Lightning Board" attacks "Whip Snake". Yuya finds another Action Card, but it again turns out to be a Trap Card, "Jump Shot", which lowers the ATK of "Whip Snake" by 400 ("Whip Snake": 800 → 400/900). The attack continues and "Whip Snake" is destroyed (Yuya: 4000 → 3000 LP).

Turn 3: Yuya Yuya draws.

Turn 4: Silvio Silvio draws "Tribute Trade" and subsequently activates it, letting him Tribute a monster to add a monster from his Deck to his hand that is one Level higher than the Tributed monster. He Tributes the Level 4 "Lightning Board" to add the Level 5 "Stargazer Magician". Silvio's hand contains "Breakthrough Skill", "Power Darts Shooter", "Rocket Darts Shooter", "Ultimate Darts Shooter", "Timegazer Magician" and "Stargazer Magician". Silvio places and  in his Pendulum Zones. Silvio Pendulum Summons, and , all from his hand in Attack Position.

Featured cards
The following cards appeared in this episode. Cards in italics debuted here.

Trivia
Yuya made a reference to Stars Wars "Its a Trap", a famous internet meme.

Difference in Adaptation

 * In the dub, Yuya took 247 tries to master Pendulum Summoning, which is 44 lower than 291 tries in the Japanese version.
 * In the dub, Yuya sleep talks throughout the Math lesson scene (until woken up by the teacher) while in the Japanese version, he only mutters "Pendulum" at the start of that scene.

Mistakes

 * In the dub, Gong's scarf is missing and his tears are chopped off in one shot.
 * Coincidently, this shot has Japanese text digitally painted out.


 * In the dub, a second "Block Spider" replaced "The Six Samurai - Yariza" in the shot before Yuya says "No card is worthless", when in the previous and next shots, "The Six Samurai - Yariza" was left as-is.