Card Appearances:Spellbinding Circle

Yu-Gi-Oh!

 * In the Anime, this card had an additional effect of reducing the targeted monster's ATK by 700, like Shadow Spell does in the TCG and OCG. During the Duelist Kingdom arc, it could sometimes redirect attacks to this monster.


 * This card first appeared in Yugi's duel with Ghost Kaiba. It was activated when Ghost Kaiba attacked the second Hat token with "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". After this card was activated, it targeted "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and decreased its ATK by 700. Yugi then released his "Dark Magician" from the hat it was hiding in and destroyed the weakened "Blue-Eyes".


 * It next appeared in Yugi's duel with Panik. Panik used the effect of "Reaper of the Cards on this set card and destroy it, assuming it was "Swords of Revealing Light", but it then turned out to be this card. Yugi then flipped this card and due to the effect of "Reaper of the Cards", its effect activates, immobilizing "Reaper of the Cards" and decreasing its ATK by 700. The light from this card caused Panik's next attack (caused by his "King of Yamimakai") to hit "Reaper of the Cards" instead, destroying it.


 * This card was used again in Yugi and Joey's duel against the Paradox Brothers. Yugi had hidden this card in one of the hat tokens that were still active. When "Suijin" attacked the entire maze, the hat that hid this card was attacked, allowing Yugi to activate this card. This then immobilized "Gate Guardian", weakened it, and prevented it from using its effects. This allowed Yugi's "Summoned Skull" to destroy "Suijin". Para freed "Gate Guardian" by destroying this card with his "Remove Trap".


 * This card was set face-down in Yugi and Mai's duel, but it was not activated as Mai destroyed it with "Harpie's Feather Duster" before Yugi could activate.


 * In episode 33, this card appears when Yami Yugi explains to Joey that Duel Monsters is about the balance between Monsters and Spell and Trap Cards.


 * This card was seen again in Yugi and Joey's duel. Yugi sets this in one of the Hat tokens that was still on the field. When "B. Skull Dragon" destroyed that token, this card was then revealed and it then attached to "B. Skull Dragon" weakening it. Yugi then destroyed "B. Skull Dragon" with "Dark Magician" equipped with "Book of Secret Arts".


 * This card was used again in Yugi and Pegasus' duel. Yugi activated this when "Ryu-Ran" attacked his "Summoned Skull" who was in Defense Position, stopping the attack and weakening "Ryu-Ran" by 700 ATK. Yugi then tried to attack "Ryu-Ran" with "Summoned Skull", but Pegasus used "Trap Displacement" to switch the target of this card to "Summoned Skull", stopping its attack and weakening it by 700 ATK instead of "Ryu-Ran". "Ryu-Ran" then destroyed "Summoned Skull" since it was the one now weakened by this card.


 * In episode 53, this card appears on a poster that Yugi and Téa read when they find a game store that was selling Duel Monster cards.


 * This card was used again in Yugi's duel with Strings. Yugi used this card on Strings' turn when Strings had "Slifer" attack "Dark Magician Girl", weakening "Slifer the Sky Dragon". Yugi then used "Magic Cylinder" to redirect "Slifer"'s attack on "Dark Magician Girl" back at it. However Strings used "Jam Defender" and "Revival Jam" to save "Slifer" and nullify the damage that he would have taken. Because Egyptian Gods are affected by cards effects for only one turn, this card was destroyed once the turn was over.


 * This card was used once more when Yugi had to duel a Marik-possessed Joey. When Joey attacked "Kuriboh" with "Alligator's Sword", Yugi activated this card to save his "Kuriboh" and immobilize "Alligator's Sword" while also reducing the latter's ATK by 700. Later this card was destroyed when "Alligator's Sword" was destroyed by "Red-Eyes B. Dragon".


 * In episode 85, this card can be seen when Yugi is rebuilding his Deck.


 * In episode 97, two copies of this card appear in Kaiba's thoughts when he learns that most Trap Cards don't work on the Egyptian God Cards and that Spell Cards affect them for only one turn.


 * In episode 99, this card appears when Yami Yugi was building his Virtual World Deck before his Duel with Gansley. This card is one of the few shown cards that Yami Yugi selects.


 * In episode 129, this card is seen in a flashback Yugi has when he remembers the last time he used "Exchange" and how the latter card helped him save Joey from Marik's mind control.


 * This card was used again in Yugi and Kaiba's third duel. When one of Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes" was about to destroy "Red-Eyes", Yugi activated this card to weaken the said "Blue-Eyes", allowing "Red-Eyes" to counterattack and destroy the weakened "Blue-Eyes".
 * During the above-mentioned Duel, this card can be seen when Kaiba was thinking about Yugi's two set cards and how he was going to prevent Yugi from using them against his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".


 * In episode 140, this card appears in a flashback that Yami Yugi has when he remembers his Duel with Strings as well as "Revival Jam" which caused a great amount of problems for him in that Duel.


 * Also, the image is slightly different in the Japanese anime from the English dub and TCG versions.


 * This card was used quite frequently by Yugi Muto.


 * This card can be seen when Serenity Wheeler is building her Virtual World deck during episode 106, though she does not select it.


 * This card was briefly seen when Seto Kaiba was building his Virtual World deck before his duel with Leichter, though he did not select it.


 * Aknadin used a spell to trap the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that resembled this card in episode 214.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

 * In episode 7, this card was shown in a flashback Syrus Truesdale had when he remembers Zane Truesdale scolding him on trying to use "Power Bond" recklessly. This card was set face-down by a bully who was dueling Syrus when he was younger, but he did not play it. Before Syrus could play "Power Bond", Zane called the duel off and gave a rare card to the bully to insure that he will not tell anyone about this duel and that he will stop bullying his brother. The bully noticed how rare and powerful the card Zane gave to him was and accepted Zane's offer. After the bully left Zane revealed to Syrus that the set card the bully had was this card. Zane explained to Syrus that if he had played "Power Bond", the bully would have activated this card to immobilize his Fusion Monster which would have caused him to take damage from the effect of "Power Bond" on the End Phase which would have caused Syrus to lose the duel.

Video Games

 * Figaro uses this in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia


 * Figaro uses this in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus.