Seto Kaiba and Ishizu Ishtar's Duel (manga)

Seto Kaiba and Ishizu Ishtar faced each other in the last Duel of the Battle City quarterfinals, in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.

Prior
The Millennium Tauk gave Ishizu the ability to see into the future. She foresaw a turn-by-turn account of her Duel with Kaiba, which resulted in Kaiba's loss was due to his usage of "The God of the Obelisk". As a member of the Egyptian supreme council of antiquities, Ishizu possessed that card. She passed it on to Kaiba, requesting that he use it to acquire the other two God cards and host a tournament, which would attract their thieves. When Kaiba asked what would happen if he refused to return the God cards to her, she replied that she trusted him.

Having the power of foresight, Ishizu knew the quarterfinal ordering in advance and as such did not attend the Ultimate Bingo draws to determine the player match-ups. Since she was not present for the previous quarterfinals, none of the other contestants knew her identity until she emerged to face Kaiba in the last quarterfinal.

Her appearance came as a surprise to other contenders and their companions; Kaiba, whom she had entrusted with "Obelisk", Dark Yugi and Anzu Mazaki, who had met her at the museum, where she influenced Dark Yugi's decision to enter the tournament, her brother Marik and his other self Dark Marik, causing a momentary lapse in Dark Marik's suppression of Marik's ego.

Ishizu warned Kaiba that he was fated to lose the Duel. But Kaiba believed his future to be controlled by the power of the God cards, rather than fate and expected Ishizu to suffer an ironic defeat from the power she had given to him.

Duel
1st turn: Kaiba

Kaiba Summoned "Vorse Raider" and Set "Crush Card".

Anzu asked Dark Yugi if Ishizu's ability to see into the future meant Kaiba could not win. Like Kaiba, Dark Yugi felt if he was in that position, he would not accept defeat, and urged Kaiba to surpass fate.

2nd turn: Ishizu

Ishizu Summoned "Keldo" in Defense Mode.

Ishizu activated "Michizure of Doom", causing both players to show their hands, while their opponent chose two cards to discard. Kaiba was annoyed by having his hand exposed and vowed not to forget this humiliation. Ishizu chose for him to discard "Polymerization" and "Kaiser Glider", which Kaiba felt could have been worse, since neither card was of much use this early in the Duel. He opted not to hold back and make Ishizu discard her best cards, so he chose "Monster Reborn" and "Revival Magic". The final effect of "Michizure of Doom" caused both players to shuffle the remainder of their hand back into their Deck and draw the same number of cards that they had in the beginning.

Dark Marik recognized Ishizu's strategy as one she had used to defeat Marik in a previous Duel. He commended the strategy and thought he was the only one capable of overcoming it.

3rd turn: Kaiba

"Vorse Raider" attacked and destroyed "Keldo".

Cards used
The following cards appeared in this Duel.

Virus Cards are listed under Trap Cards.