World Championship 2019 Special: Yugi vs. Kaiba

Yugi vs. Kaiba was a scripted Duel that took place during the second day of the World Championship 2019 in Berlin, Germany on August 11, 2019 on August 21, 2016. Dan Green and Eric Stuart reprised their roles as Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem and Seto Kaiba, respectively

Featured Duel: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem vs. Seto Kaiba
Turn 1: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Cards of Consonance", discarding "The White Stone of Ancients" to draw 2 cards. He then activates "Dragon Shrine", sending from his Deck "Luster Dragon ", activating its second effect to then send "The White Stone of Legend" to the Graveyard. This activates the effect of "The White Stone of Legend", letting Kaiba add 1 "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Deck to his hand. Kaiba activates "Trade-In", discarding "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to draw 2 cards. Kaiba Normal Summons "Kaibaman" in Attack Position (200/700). Kaiba activates its effect, Tributing it to Special Summon "Blue-Eyes White Dragon from his hand in Attack Position (3000/2500). Kaiba activates "Silver's Cry", Special Summoning his first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from the Graveyard. Kaiba sets 1 card and ends his turn; during the End Phase, the effect of "The White Stone of Ancients" activates, Special Summoning a third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Deck in Attack Position.

Turn 2: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

Yugi activates "Pot of Greed", drawing 2 cards. As 1 of the cards drawn was "Watapon", Yugi activates its effect to Special Summon it in Attack Position (200/300). He Tributes it to Normal Summon "Dark Magician Girl" in Attack Position (2000/1700). Yugi activates "Sage's Stone", Special Summoning "Dark Magician" from his Deck in Attack Position (2500/2100). Yugi sets ("Chaos Scepter Blast")1 card and then activates "Dark Burning Magic", destroying all cards on Kaiba's side of the field. Yugi attacks directly with Dark Magician but Kaiba activates the effect of "Goddess of Sweet Revenge", discarding it to destroy all cards on Yugi's side of the field and then Special Summon "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" (?/?) in Attack Position. The effect of "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" activates, gain ATK equal to the ATK of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (ATK: ? → 3000). Yugi activates the effect of "Chaos Scepter Blast", Special Summoning "Dark Magician of Chaos" from his Deck in Attack Position (2800/2600). Yugi activates its effect, adding "Pot of Greed" from his Graveyard to his hand and immediately activates it, drawing 2 cards. Yugi set 1 card.

Turn 3: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Card of Demise", drawing 5 cards. Kaiba activates the effect of "The White Stone of Ancients", banishing it to add "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Graveyard to his hand. Kaiba reveals it to Special Summon "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon" via its own effect. Kaiba activates its second effect to destroy "Dark Magician of Chaos", letting Yugi Special Summon "Palladium Oracle Mana" from his hand via its effect in Attack Position (2000/1700). Its effect activates, preventing Spellcaster-Type monsters of Level 7 or higher from being destroyed by card effects, making "Dark Magician of Chaos" unaffected by the effect of "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon. Kaiba Normal Summons "The King of D." in Attack Position (1200/1100). Its effects activate; it is treated as "Lord of D." and discarding "Return of the Dragon Lords" to add "Dragon Revival Rhapsody" from his Deck to his hand and immediately activates it to Special Summon 2 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" from his Graveyard in Attack Position. Its effect also negates all Battle Damage to Yugi this turn. "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks "Dark Magicuan of Chaos" but Yugi activates "Mirror Force" to destroy all of Kaiba's Attack Position monsters. Kaiba banishes "Return of the Dragon Lords" to prevent his Dragon-Type monsters from being destroyed while "The King of D." is destroyed. "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician of chaos"; its effect banishes itself. "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Palladium Oracle Mana". the effect of "Palladium Oracle Mana" activates, Special Summoning "Dark Magician Girl" from Yugi's Graveyard in Defense Position. The second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician Girl". Kaiba sets 2 cards.

Turn 4: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

Yugi activates "Dark Magic Veil" paying 1000 LP (Yugi LP: 4000 → 3000) to Special Summon "Dark Magician" from the Graveyard in Attack Position. Yugi then activates "Bond Between Teacher and Student" to Special Summon "Dark Magician Girl" from the Graveyard in Attack Position and set "Dark Burning Attack" from his Deck to his side of the field. Yugi immediately activates it, destroy all enemy monsters. The effect of "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" activates, destroying all of Yugi's monsters. Yugi activates "Card of Sanctity", letting Yugi draw 6 cards and Kaiba 5 cards. Yugi draws "Palladium Oracle Mahad", activating its effect to Special Summon it in Attack Position (2500/2100). Yugi activates "Chaos Form", banishing "Dark Magician" to Ritual Summon "Magician of Chaos" in Attck Position (2500/2100). He then activates "Upstart Goblin. Yugi chains this to activate the effect "Magician of Chaos" to destroy Kaiba's left set card. Kaiba activates "Ring of Destruction" to target "Magician of Chaos". Yugi activates the effect of "Palladium Oracle Mana", Special Summoning it in Attack Position. Its effect activates, preventing Spellcaster-Type monsters of Level 7 or higher from being destroyed by card effects, making "Magician of Chaos" unaffected by the effect of "Ring of Destruction". The effect of "Upstart Goblin" resolves, giving Kaiba 1000 LP (Kaiba LP: 4000 → 5000) and letting Yugi draw 1 card. "Palladium Oracle Mana" attacks directly but Kaiba activates "Negate Attack", negating the attack and ending the Battle Phase.

Turn 5: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Forbidden Chalice", negating the effects of "Palladium Oracle Mana" and it gains 400 ATK for this turn (ATK: 2000 → 2400). Kaiba activates "Dragon's Mirror", banishing "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon" and 2 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" from his Graveyard to [[Fusion Summon "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon" in Attack Position (4500/3800). Kaiba activates the effect of "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon" destroying all 3 of Yugi's monsters but cannot attack this turn. Yugi activates the effect of "Palladium Oracle Mahad", Special Summoning "Magician of Chaos" from his Graveyard in Defense Position. Yugi activates the effect of "Palladium Oracle Mana", Special Summoning "Dark Magician Girl" from his Graveyard in Defense Position. Yugi activates the effect of "Magician of Chaos" to Special Summon from his hand "Magician of Black Chaos MAX" in Defense Position (2800/2600). Kaiba banishes "The King of D." and "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" to Special Summon "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End" in Attack Position (3000/2500). Kaiba pays 2000 LP (Kaiba LP: 5000 → 3000) to activate "Dimension Fusion", letting Kaiba Special Summon his banished "Deep-Eyes White Dragon", "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon", and 2 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons", all in Attack Position while Yugi Special Summons his banished "Dark Magician" and "Dark Magician of Chaos", both in Defense Position. The effect of "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" activates, copying the ATK of "Luster Dragon #2" in Kaiba's Graveyard (? → 2400). The effect of "Dark Magician of Chaos" activates, letting Yugi add from his Graveyard to his hand "Card of Sanctity". "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Magician of Chaos". "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End" attacks and destroys "Magician of Black Chaos MAX". "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon" attacks and "Dark Magician of Chaos". "Dark Magician of Chaos" is banished via its effect. The first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys "Dark Magician and the second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon attacks and destroys "Dark Magician Girl". Kaiba sets 2 cards.

Turn 6: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

Yugi sets 3 cards and activates "Card of Sancity", letting Yugi draw 6 cards and Kaiba draw 5 cards. Yugi activates "Pot of Desires", banishing the top 10 cards in his Deck and then draws 2 cars. Yugi activates "Ledger of Legerdemain", banishing the top 3 cards in his Deck. Yugi activates "Polymerization", send from his hand to the Graveyard "Crystal Seer", "Old Vindictive Magician", "Apprentice Illusion Magician", "Mystical Elf", and "Droll & Lock Birda" to Fusion Summon "Quintet Magician" in Attack Position (4500/4500). The effect of "Quintet Magician" activates, destroying all of Kaiba's cards on his side of the field. Kaiba chains this to "Gift of The Mystical Elf, gaining 2100 LP (Kaiba LP: 3000 → 5100) and "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon" is unaffected by the effect of "Quintet Magician". Kaiba activates the effect of "Deep-Eyes White Dragon" to destroy "Quintet Magician", but its effect makes it unaffected. Yugi Summons "destroyed in battle. Sangan attacks directly. (Kaiba LP: 5100 → 4100). Yugi sets 1 card.

Turn 7: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Pot of Greed", drawing 2 cards. Kaiba activates "Swing of Memories", Special Summoning "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Graveyard in Attack Position. Kaiba activates the effect of "Neo Kaiser Glider" discard it and "Kaiser Vorse Raider" to Special Summon his second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Graveyard in Attack Position and reduce the ATK of "Sangan" by 500 (ATK: 1000 → 500). Kaiba activates "Polymerization" sending the 2 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" on the field and the third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in his hand to the Graveyard to Fusion Summon "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" in Attack Position (4500/3800). "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" attacks "Sangan but Yugi activates "Magic Cylinder" to negate the attack and inflict damage to Kaiba equal to the ATK of "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon". Kaiba chains it to "De-Fusion" return "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" to the Extra Deck to make "Magic Cylinder" invalid and Special Summon the 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" from Kaiba's Graveyard, all in Attack Position. Kaiba's first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks "Sangan", but Yugi activates "Magical Hats", concealing "Sangan" between 4 "Hat Tokens" in Defense Position (0/0). Kaiba's first "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys the most left Hat Token. Kaiba's second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys the middle Hat Token. The third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" attacks and destroys the left Hat Token, which concealed "Sangan". The effect of "Sangan" activates, letting Yugi add from his Deck to his hand "Kuribandit". The final Hat Token is destroyed. Kaiba sets 1 card.

Turn 8: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

Yugi Normal Summons "Kuribandit" in Attack Position (1000/700). Yugi activates its effect, Tributing it to reveal the top 5 cards in his Deck ("Overdone Burial", "Diffusion Wave-Motion", "Magic Formula", "Electromagnetic Turtle", and "Clear Kuriboh"). The effect of "Kuribandit" makes Yugi discard "Electromagnetic Turtle" and "Clear Kuriboh" while the rest are added to Yugi's hand. Yugi discards "Sorcerer of Dark Magic" to activate "Overdone Burial", Special Summoning from his Graveyard "Magician of Chaos" in Attack Position. Yugi equips "Magic Formula" to "Magician of Chaos" gaining 700 ATK (ATK: 2500 → 3200). Yugi pays 1000 LP to activate "Diffusion Wave-Motion (Yugi LP: 3000 → 2000) to and target "Magician of Chaos", letting it attack all enemy monsters once each and negate their effects. "Magician of Chaos" attacks and destroys "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" (Kaiba LP: 4100 → 3900). "Magician of Chaos" attacks and destroys the second "Blue-Eyes White Dragon (Kaiba LP: 3900 → 3700). "Magician of Chaos" attacks and destroys the third "Blue-Eyes White Dragon (Kaiba LP: 3700 → 3500). "Magician of Chaos" attacks and destroys the set monster, Giant Germ (1000/100) and the effect of "Diffusion Wave-Motion" negates its effect. This allows Kaiba to activate "Crush Card Virus". For the remainder of the duel, all monsters in Yugi's hand and on the field with 1500 or more ATK are destroyed. "Magician of Chaos" is destroyed and the effect of "Magic Forumla" activates, giving Yugi 1000 LP (Yugi LP: 2000 → 3000).

Turn 9: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Pot of Extravagance" banishing "Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon", "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", "XY-Dragon Cannon", "XYZ-Dragon Cannon", "XZ-Tank Cannon", and "YZ-Dragon Tank" to draw 2 cards but cannot perform any other draw this turn. Kaiba activates "Chaos Form", banishing a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his Graveyard to Ritual Summon "Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" in Attack Position (4000/0). "Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" attacks directly, but Yugi activates the effect of "Clear Kuriboh", banishing it to draw 1 card. Yugi activates the effect of "Kuriboh", discarding it to reduce the Battle Damage of "Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon" to 0.

Turn 10: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

Yugi activates "Draw of Fate", let him select 3 cards in his Deck and place them on top in any order, then draw 1 card. Turn 11: Seto Kaiba

Kaiba activates "Monster Reborn" to Special Summon "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon" in Attack Position. "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon" attacks directly, but Yugi activates the effect of "Electromagnetic Turtle", banishing it from his Graveyard to end the Battle Phase.

Turn 10: Yugi Muto/Pharaoh Atem

The second effect of "Ledger of Legerdemain" activates, adding its 3 banished cards to Yugi's hand. Yugi activates "Burial from a Different Dimension", returning the banished "The White Stone of Ancients", a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", and "The King of D." to Kaiba's Graveyard. Yugi activates "Soul Release", using it to banish "Giant Germ" from Kaiba's Graveyard, along with "Mystical Elf", "Droll & Lock Bird", "Kuriboh", and "Old Vindictive Magician" from his Graveyard. Yugi discards "Dark Magic Twin Burst" to activate "Double Spell", activating Kaiba's "Dimension Fusion" on his side of the field and paying 2000 LP (Yugi's LP: 3000 → 1000). Yugi Special Summons "Clear Kuriboh" (0/0), "Electromagnetic Turtle" (0/1800), "Mystical Elf" (800/2000), "Droll & Lock Bird (0/0)" and "Kuriboh" (300/200), all in Defense Position while Kaiba Special Summons "Giant Germ" in Attack Position. Yugi Tributes all 5 monsters to Special Summon Exodia, the Legendary Defender" (?/?). Its first effect activates, gaining the respective ATK and DEF of the monsters Tributed to Summon it (?/? → 1100/4000) Its second effect activates, destroying "Giant Germ" to give Yugi an automatic win.

Featured cards
Cards in italics debuted here prior to an anime or manga appearance. Cards in bold are cards to never have been used by the character any canon.