Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode 052

The Graduation Match, Part 2, known as VS Kaiser (Second Part) - Final Fusion in the Japanese version, is the fifty-second episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime.

Summary
Zane Truesdale expresses his disappointment that his last Duel at Duel Academy had to end this way, and attacks Jaden Yuki's "Elemental Hero Wildedge" with his "Power Bond"-enhanced "Cyber End Dragon". Jaden activates his face-down "Soul Union", which adds the attack of the "Elemental Hero Bladedge" in his Graveyard to that of "Wildedge". Zane comments that that still isn't enough - Jaden's Life Points will still go from 1900 to zero with this attack. Jaden is flustered, as he has been using his head in this match, yet is still losing. The attack hits, and his Life Points go down to 100. He reveals that the chained his face-down "Emergency Provisions" at the last moment, sending "Soul Union" to the Graveyard to gain 1000 Life Points before the attack hit. He then activates his face-down "Hero Signal" to Special Summon" "Elemental Hero Bubbleman" from his Deck in Defense Position, drawing two cards via its effect. Zane Summons "Cyber Kirin" and immediately Tributes it using its effect. This negates any effect damage he would take during this turn, thus preventing the game-ending damage he'd have taken from "Power Bond".

Zane again reminds Jaden that using his head isn't something that comes naturally to him. Jaden realizes that in doing so, he's exhausted himself. He calls for Ms. Dorothy and asks her to bring him a snack. Zane allows him to take a break, and Dorothy brings out a rice cooker and prepares Jaden a snack, assisted by Sadie. After eating, the Duel continues, with Jaden playing "Pot of Greed" to draw two more cards. He then Summons "Elemental Hero Avian" in Defense Position, before playing "Spy Hero", which allows him to randomly discard two cards from his Deck in order to take a random Spell Card from Zane's Graveyard. It ends up being "Future Fusion", which Jaden immediately plays to fuse the "Elemental Hero Burstinatrix" and "Elemental Hero Clayman" in his Deck to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster". The monster Summoned via "Future Fusion" cannot attack in the turn it is Summoned, so Jaden Sets two cards to end his turn. Zane Summons "Cyber Phoenix", whose effect allows him to negate a card effect that would target a single Machine-type monster on the field as long it remains in Attack Position. Zane attacks with "Cyber End Dragon", but Jaden activates his face-down "De-Fusion". Zane reiterates that "Cyber Phoenix" will negate an effect that targets "Cyber End Dragon", but Jaden splits his own "Rampart Blaster" into "Burstinatrix" and "Clayman" instead. A replay would then occur, but Jaden activates his face-down "Elemental Burst", Tributing the "EARTH"-attribute "Clayman", WIND-attribute "Avian", FIRE-attribute "Burstinatrix" and WATER-attribute "Bubbleman" to destroy all cards Zane controls. As this effect is not targeting a specific monster, "Cyber Phoenix" is unable to negate it, so both of Zane's monsters are destroyed, though the second effect of "Cyber Phoenix" lets him draw a card.

Zane activates "Time Fusion", which requires him to remove a card in his hand from play in order to Special Summon a Fusion Monster from his Graveyard during his next Standby Phase, while Ignoring the Summoning conditions. Jaden simply Sets a card, and Zane begins his next turn. He reveals that the card he removed from play was "Card from a Different Dimension", which returns to his hand and lets both players draw two cards. "Cyber End Dragon" is then Special Summoned via "Time Fusion". However, the monster Summoned with "Time Fusion" cannot attack during the turn in which it was Summoned, so Zane Sets a card to end his turn. Jaden plays "Fusion Recovery", adding "Burstinatrix" and "Polymerization" from his Graveyard to his hand. He Summons the former, and then plays "Miracle Fusion" to remove it and the "Avian" in his Graveyard from play and Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Flame Wingman". He then uses "Polymerization" to fuse that with the "Elemental Hero Sparkman" in his hand to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman", whose attack increases to 4900 due to the seven "Elemental Heroes" in Jaden's Graveyard. He attacks and destroys "Cyber End Dragon", reducing Zane to 1100 Life Points. "Shining Flare Wingman's" effect would then activate to inflict damage equal to his destroyed monster's attack points to Zane, but he plays his face-down "Damage Polarizer", negating the damage and letting both players a draw a card. Both draw the same one - "Battle Fusion". Jaden Sets his copy, and ends his turn.

Zane activates "Power Bond", and declares he'll Summon "Cyber End Dragon" once more, despite not having any copies of "Cyber Dragon" to use as Fusion Material Monsters. He activates the Quick-Play Spell Card "Cybernetic Fusion Support", which lets him pay half of his Life Points to remove Machine-type Fusion Material Monsters in his Graveyard from play to perform a Fusion Summon. "Cyber End Dragon" is Summoned, with its attack doubled via "Power Bond". Zane then activates "Limiter Removal", doubling its attack points again. He attacks "Shining Flare Wingman", but Jaden activates his face-down "Battle Fusion", increasing the attack of "Shining Flare Wingman" by that of "Cyber End Dragon", for a total of 20,900. Zane chains his own "Battle Fusion", increasing "Cyber End Dragon's" attack by that of "Shining Flare Wingman", for a total of 36,900. Zane and Jaden both compliment each other, and Jaden activates "Final Fusion", which deals damage equal to the attack of the monsters currently engaged in battle to the Life Points of both players, meaning they both take 57,800 points of effect damage, thus ending the Duel in a Draw. The gathered crowd all rise and begin to applaud.

Featured Duel
Turn 7: Zane Turn continues from the previous episode.
 * "Cyber End Dragon", whose ATK was doubled to 8000 by "Power Bond", attacks Jaden's "Elemental Hero Wildedge".
 * Jaden activates his face-down cards, the Normal Trap Card "Soul Union" and the Quick-Play Spell Card "Emergency Provisions", with their effects activating in reverse order.
 * "Emergency Provisions" resolves and sends "Soul Union" to the Graveyard, which allows Jaden to gain 1000 Life Points (Jaden: 1900 → 2900 LP).
 * "Soul Union's" effect resolves (since it was sent to the Graveyard without being negated): An "Elemental Hero" monster that Jaden controls gains ATK of an "Elemental Hero" monster in his Graveyard. Jaden targets "Elemental Hero Bladedge" in his Graveyard, while "Elemental Hero Wildedge" gains ATK equal to the ATK of "Bladedge" (2600 → 5200/2300).


 * "Cyber End Dragon" destroys "Wildedge" (Jaden: 2900 → 100 LP).
 * Jaden activates the Normal Trap Card "Hero Signal": As a monster he controlled was destroyed in battle and sent to his Graveyard, he can Special Summon an "Elemental Hero" from his hand or Deck. He targets "Elemental Hero Bubbleman" (800/1200) in Defense Position.
 * Since "Elemental Hero Bubbleman" was summoned while Jaden had no other cards on the field, its effect allows him to draw 2 cards.

Turn 8: Jaden Turn 9: Zane
 * Summons "Cyber Kirin" (300/800) in Attack Position.
 * Tributes "Cyber Kirin"; in doing so, any Effect Damage Zane would take for the rest of the turn becomes 0, so he takes no damage from "Power Bond".
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Pot of Greed": He draws 2 cards.
 * Summons "Elemental Hero Avian" (1000/1000) in Defense Position.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Spy Hero": 2 random cards are sent from Jaden's Deck to the Graveyard, and Jaden adds 1 Spell Card from Zane's Graveyard, targeting "Future Fusion".
 * Activates the Equip Spell Card "Future Fusion": Jaden can access his Deck for Fusion Material Monsters from his Deck, Fusion Summon that Fusion Monster, and equip it with this card, but the monster Fusion Summoned by "Future Fusion" cannot attack this turn. He sends his Elemental Heroes "Burstinatrix" and "Clayman" from his Deck to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster" (2000/2500) in Defense Position.
 * Sets 2 cards.
 * Summons "Cyber Phoenix" (1200/1600) in Attack Position: While in Attack Position, "Cyber Phoenix" can negate the effects of Spells and Traps that specifically target 1 Machine-Type monster that Zane controls.
 * "Cyber End Dragon" attacks "Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster".
 * Jaden activates the Quick-Play Spell Card "De-Fusion": "Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster" is sent to Jaden's Graveyard; in exchange, Elemental Heroes "Burstinatrix" (1200/800) and "Clayman" (800/2000) are both Special Summoned from Jaden's Graveyard in Defense Position.
 * Before a replay can occur, Jaden also activates the Normal Trap Card "Elemental Burst": Since he controls monsters of EARTH ("Elemental Hero Clayman"), WIND ("Elemental Hero Avian"), FIRE ("Elemental Hero Burstinatrix"), and WATER ("Elemental Hero Bubbleman"), he can Tribute them all to destroy all the cards that Zane controls

Turn 10: Jaden Turn 11: Zane Turn 12: Jaden
 * As "Cyber Phoenix" was destroyed, Zane can draw 1 card.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Time Fusion": Zane removes from play a card in his hand; in exchange, he can Special Summon a Fusion Monster from his Graveyard, ignoring the Summoning conditions, during his next Standby Phase, but that Fusion Monster will be unable to attack that turn.
 * Sets a card.
 * Due to the Normal Spell Card "Card from a Different Dimension", as it was removed from play in Zane's last turn (due to "Time Fusion" in his last turn), it returns to his hand during this turn's Standby Phase; in exchange, Zane and Jaden each draw 2 cards.
 * Due to "Time Fusion", "Cyber End Dragon" (4000/2800) is Special Summoned from the Graveyard, but it cannot attack this turn.
 * Sets a card.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Fusion Recovery": Jaden targets 1 "Polymerization" and 1 monster he used for a Fusion Summon (targeting "Elemental Hero Burstinatrix") and return them both from his Graveyard to his hand.
 * Summons "Elemental Hero Burstinatrix" (1200/800) in Attack Position.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Miracle Fusion": Jaden can target, from his side of the field or the Graveyard, Fusion Material Monsters that Fusion Summon an "Elemental Hero" Fusion Monster, and remove them from play to Special Summon that Fusion Monster. He targets Elemental Heroes "Avian" (in his Graveyard) and "Elemental Hero Burstinatrix" (on his side of the field) and Fusion Summons "Elemental Hero Flame Wingman" (2100/1200) in Attack Position.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Polymerization": He sends, to the Graveyard, Elemental Heroes "Sparkman" (from his hand) and "Flame Wingman" (from his side of the field) to Fusion Summon "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman" (2500/2100) in Attack Position.
 * "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman" gains 300 ATK for every "Elemental Hero" in Jaden's Graveyard, and there are 8, giving it 2400 extra ATK (2500 → 4900/2100).
 * "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman" attacks and destroys "Cyber End Dragon" (Zane: 2000 → 1100 LP).
 * Since it destroyed a monster in battle, the effect of "Shining Flare Wingman" inflicts Effect Damage to Zane, equal to the ATK of his destroyed "Cyber End Dragon".
 * However, Zane activates the Counter Trap Card "Damage Polarizer": The effect of "Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman" is negated, and both Jaden and Zane draw 1 card after resolving (They both draw the Quick-Play Spell Card "Battle Fusion").

Turn 13: Zane
 * Sets a card.
 * Activates the Normal Spell Card "Power Bond" and the Quick-Play Spell Card "Cybernetic Fusion Support", with their effects resolving in reverse order
 * Due to "Cybernetic Fusion Support", Zane pays half his Life Points (Zane: 1100 → 550 LP) to remove from play Fusion Material Monsters from his Graveyard (targeting the 3 "Cyber Dragons") when he Fusion Summons a Machine-Type Fusion Monster.
 * Due to "Power Bond", Zane can Fusion Summon "Cyber End Dragon", with its ATK doubled and in Attack Position (4000 → 8000/2800), by substituting the effect of "Cybernetic Fusion Support". During Zane's End Phase, "Power Bond" will inflict damage to Zane, equal to the original ATK of "Cyber End Dragon"


 * Activates the Quick-Play Spell Card "Limiter Removal": The ATK of "Cyber End Dragon" is doubled again (8000 → 16000/2800), but during the End Phase, "Cyber End Dragon" will be destroyed.
 * "Cyber End Dragon" attacks "Shining Flare Wingman"
 * Jaden activates the Quick-Play Spell Card "Battle Fusion": As a monster that Jaden controls is battling a monster that Zane controls, "Shining Flare Wingman" gains ATK equal to the ATK of "Cyber End Dragon" (4900 → 20900/2100).
 * Activates the Quick-Play Spell Card "Battle Fusion": "Cyber End Dragon" gains ATK equal to the ATK of "Shining Flare Wingman" (16000 → 36900/2800).
 * Jaden activates the Normal Trap Card "Final Fusion": As a monster that Jaden controls is battling a monster that Zane controls, both monsters are destroyed, and Zane and Jaden each take Effect Damage equal to the combined ATK of the destroyed monsters (Jaden: 100 → 0 LP) (Zane: 550 → 0 LP).
 * The Duel ends in a Draw.

Errors
After "Card from a Different Dimension" resolves, it is revealed that Jaden draws "Miracle Fusion" and "De-Fusion". However, in the next turn (where he uses all the cards in his hand) "Fusion Recovery", not "De-Fusion", is activated.

Differences in adaptations
In the Japanese version, Judai and Kaiser make references to the latter being "perfect". Just before the Duel ends, Kaiser tells Judai that he will one day surpass him. While Kaiser has reached his limit of "perfection", he states that Judai has "infinite potential".

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