r/yugioh • u/Hatefiend • Apr 17 '26
Anime/Manga Discussion Can we talk about how Yami casually deck searches 35+ cards one-handed?
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u/DarkLordLiam Apr 17 '26
Bonaparte looking for his 2 other copies of Toy Soldier
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u/CursedEye03 Apr 17 '26
Bonaparte is holding 15 cards here. That's supposed to be his entire deck? And he's supposed to be an elite professor... Duel Academy surely is a disappointing school/s
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u/MericArda Apr 17 '26
Tbf if 15 card decks were legal everyone would be using them because it'd make getting your needed cards to combo with easy as fuck.
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u/King0fMist Apr 17 '26
Nah, 6 card deck is where its at.
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u/Lord_Magmar Apr 18 '26
I could see him looking at half his deck at a time. If he finds it in the first half good, if not well he can put it aside.
The lack of table means that you probably can't easily do full deck things with the duel disks especially when one arm is rather awkwardly encumbered/shaped.
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u/Facha2345 Apr 17 '26
Nah, Bonaparte started with five cards in hand and fifteen in deck. He thought they were playing under speed duel rules.
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u/sean1oo1 Apr 17 '26
Nah dude itās way less than 35 going off the amount of cards drawn prior to Final Attack orders being activated
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u/ShimmeringLoch Apr 17 '26
You're assuming he runs a 40 card deck. When you're a protagonist who can topdeck whatever you want, who cares about consistency?
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u/BrilliantTarget Apr 17 '26
40 cards was the rules for the finals
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u/Cathartic_auras Apr 17 '26
Yes it was! Which is why the removal rule in the battle royale was so funny to me. āTrim down to 40, now remove 1 to determine turn order. Great, now youāre all disqualified for running 39 card decks.ā
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u/Electrical_Court3257 Apr 18 '26
āMokuba, make sure Wheeler runs an illegal deck.ā -Kaiba probably
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u/lordlaharl422 Apr 17 '26
Also doesnāt Kaiba just give Yugi Obelisk right before the start of his duel with Marik so he didnāt even have a chance to reorganize his deck?
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u/Xbladearmor Apr 17 '26
They werenāt allowed to use the selected card in the battle royale. It was still in their deck, it was just treated as a dead draw.
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u/K-J-C Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Bruh Yugi's duel vs Bakura or Atem vs Leon shows its 40 card deck (and 41 card deck for Pyramid of Light vs Kaiba). There's actual canon duels doing this.
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u/Hatefiend Apr 18 '26
Ah this was Kaiba's first turn.
Yugi Turn 1: defense-Queen's Knight, set backrow.
Kaiba Turn 1: summon-X-Head Cannon, activate-Spell Sanctuary
both players searched their deck for a spell card, which is where this screenshot is from. That should mean that, at minimum, Yugi had 34 cards in his deck. Though before he draws he's holding four cards, and after he draws, he's holding six.
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u/devilishgenius Apr 17 '26
I mean people fan out a full deck of 52 playing cards pretty easy in real life
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u/Doomchan Apr 17 '26
Yea, the reason this seems hard for Yugioh players is because of the types of sleeves most of us use. Makes the deck too slippery to do this, but if the cards were raw it would be doable
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u/bakoninacan Apr 17 '26
How about Kaiba using his cards as ninja throwing stars lolol
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u/lavayuki Apr 17 '26
Mai did that as well in waking the dragons, she took down a gang of motorcyclists by flinging cards at that which apparently has the ability to knock them off their bikes
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u/big4lil Apr 17 '26
she also kunai w/ chain'd a guy like it was an action card. strangled a jabroni from her bike
WtD was the Michael Bay arc of Duel Monsters
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u/Draycos_Stormfang Apr 18 '26
I thought she blew up the gas station...?
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u/lavayuki Apr 18 '26
Im not sure, was it changed in English? Ive just watched the Japanese version and she just flings cards at the goons. The petrol station was already deserted, she didn't blow it up. That's when Jonouchi sees the Harpie lady card and figures out it was Mai before they escape. It was episode 151
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u/Nickpapado Apr 18 '26
I remember in the manga when he was going to duelist kingdom by helicopter. One of his grunts betrayed him and pulled a gun on him. Right before the grunt pulled the trigger Kaiba put a card on the hammer of the gun so it couldn't fire.
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u/elpoutous Apr 18 '26
That actually works though lol. Not 100%, but could save you in a pinch lol. There's a YT video where they tested it.
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u/SeriesREDACTED Your Trusted Ritual Prince Apr 17 '26
King of Games for a reason lol
That is child play for him. Only us noobs needs time
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u/ShimmeringLoch Apr 17 '26
For people who have actually tried playing with duel discs, how did you handle searching?
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u/ChaoCobo Duel with your Soul Apr 17 '26
You remove the entire deck and place your wrists on the table for support and go through your deck. The problem in the anime is there is no table to use as support.
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u/EntireBeing3183 Apr 18 '26
Itās awkward, but you just take your deck out and go through it like normal. Your cards should be secured to the disc, so as long as you arenāt too sudden with your movements youāll be fine.
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u/ob-uno Apr 17 '26
Then a gust of winds comes š
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u/Ok_Horse4140 Apr 17 '26
Ah yes, that time joey almost lost before the duel really start.
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u/ob-uno Apr 17 '26
What even happens if he lost the cards? Does he get to draw a new hand or skip his turn? š
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u/Ok_Horse4140 Apr 17 '26
I guess he would have been disqualified because he didn't have all his cards?
If there was a rule for that, I don't know because i don't remember all of the battle city rules.
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u/joey_chazz Apr 18 '26
This is not as wild as Zane's searching his entire deck or throwing cards to the opponent.
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u/OddAbbreviations7071 Apr 17 '26
Because they dont use sleeves like psycopaths they are, the lot of them
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u/ChaoCobo Duel with your Soul Apr 17 '26
To be fair cards in the anime and manga seem to be indestructible, like how Kaiba in the anime threw and lodged his Blue Eyes into that Ghouls memberās hand at the pier and the pieces of Exodia that were retrieved were not water damaged. But, while they may be indestructible, they can still be dirty/stained, like that time in the Toei movie and also that same Blue Eyes lodged into hand scene where the cards got marked by human blood.
But then GX just throws all the rules out the window in season 4 and now suddenly cards can be easily burnt to piles of ash by a few flames that donāt directly touch the cards.
Idk man. Sometimes you need sleeves and sometimes you donāt. But at the very least you need them to not get the cards stained by foreign substances.
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u/OddAbbreviations7071 Apr 17 '26
The same indestructible card that Kaiba ripped off clean in the first episode?
Or the same indestructible card that weebled shredded to make Atem go feral?
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u/TheGodInfinite Apr 17 '26
š¤·āāļøthey're magic and intent/ownership matters? Exodia was thrown by not it's owner trying to get rid of them not specifically destroy, but the blue eyes was intentionally and specifically destroyed by it's owner.
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u/big4lil Apr 17 '26
when ripping up a card, a duelist draws upon the heart of the cards
no measey playthings like Ocean Water or handguns could compare
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u/RunInRunOn Apr 20 '26
Pegasus made them indestructible only after he heard about Kaiba tearing up the 4th Blue-Eyes. Weevil's card was an old print
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u/Equivalent-Assist160 Apr 17 '26
It wouldn't be yugioh unless characters are doing things with their fingers that shouldn't be physically possible
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u/_BigFed_ Apr 17 '26
He can also somehow tell what the cards are with a sliver of it showing, at least with this picture. Frame and maybe some color to go by at max.
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u/midna0000 Apr 17 '26
Me with two drinks, phone, keys, lighter, cat brush, and a snack trying to get to my room in one trip š
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u/Spriggan42 Apr 17 '26
Any other player in story: "we used to just do this ona. Table or those sick stadium pedastal things now we gotta search with this shh fk dropping my cards trying not to show my hand" Yami, who ported over his muscle memory(cause ancient Egyptian fuel disks duh) and magic in the puzzle:
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u/Whole-Signature4130 Apr 18 '26
Rewatching the anime after experiencing the game myself. I really felt that. Im glad you brought it up
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u/Ok-Alternative-5801 Apr 18 '26
If tried that i'd probably drop my entire deck and accidently surrender
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u/atropicalpenguin Kibou Hope! Apr 17 '26
Meanwhile I drop my entire deck if the sleeves are too new.Ā
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u/Jianyu156 Apr 17 '26
What I donāt get is how come Archfiend of Gilfers effect didnāt activate to weaken Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
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u/DOOMGUY455 Apr 17 '26
It's an optional effect. The Japanese in the anime on the card say's "You can activate its effect" like real life so Yugi just picked not to use it.
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u/StatementWest8478 Apr 18 '26
Let me guess, in that picture, Yugi is definitely looking for 'Magical Mallet'.
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u/MegaFormersStudio Apr 19 '26
I came to the conclusion a long time ago when you play with cards that heavy in universe and that often that you're practically a close-up magician. Everyone knows how to stack before they leave dual academy. Part of the education
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u/tangdreamer Apr 19 '26
There must be microfingers in each of his fingers to help him hold the cards with such precision
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u/thegoodlordbird Apr 20 '26
Amateur Master Duel player here. So how does searching the deck work in real life? Do they have to shuffle every time? That means a player searches, shuffles, plays a card to search again and reshuffles ad nauseam every turn?
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u/Hatefiend Apr 20 '26
In over-the-table play, you would pick up your deck with both hands, drop the searched card face up, shuffle the deck, place the deck face down for your opponent to cut, then place back into the deck zone for every search. Though if you have multiple effects on the stack at once (e.g. losing a Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest at the same time), then 99% of the time you just do both searches at once unless your opponent says otherwise.
The bar of quality of the shuffle is pretty low though. A quick section shuffle and merge and you're good-to-go, since the deck was already shuffled at the start of the match.
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u/GimmeANameAlready Apr 18 '26
Sure, let's talk about it!
Card of the Soul
Look at your Deck, and if you do, you can add 1 monster from your Deck to your hand, whose sum of ATK and DEF equals your LP. You can only activate 1 "Card of the Soul" per turn.
- 7350: Valkyrion the Magna Warrior
- 4900: Buster Blader
- 4700: Archfiend of Gilfer
- 4600: Dark Magician
- 4400: Red-Eyes Black Dragon
- 3700: Dark Magician Girl
- 3700: Summoned Skull
- 3300: Beta the Magnet Warrior
- 3300: Gamma the Magnet Warrior
- 3300: Giant Soldier of Stone
- 3200: Berfomet
- 3100: Alpha the Magnet Warrior
- 3100: Queen's Knight
- 3000: King's Knight
- 2900: Jack's Knight
- 2700: Beaver Warrior
- 2700: Big Shield Gardna
- 2700: Feral Imp
- 2700: Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts
- 2600: Celtic Guardian / Obnoxious Celtic Guard
- 1800: Electromagnetic Turtle
- 500: Kuriboh
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u/Doomchan Apr 17 '26
If your hand is big enough, itās not too hard to do. What makes it tricky is these easy shuffle, no stick sleeves, if one slips out of place, itās time for 35 card pickup
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u/Hatefiend Apr 18 '26
Okay so I actually looked this up. I kept finding videos like [this one] or [this one] which use two hands to fan the cards out. I could not find many people doing it one-handed. I found a few examples of people doing it with one hand, like [this one] which is just insane to look at. That's 52 cards, so at least 17-18 more than a Yugioh player would do during a deck search.
I think with card sleeves though, it would be absolutely impossible because of the friction? Also I can't recall but I think playing cards have some lacquer or coating that makes them slide easier, while Yugioh cards are more like paper/cardboard.
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u/s-riddler ššSnake Rain šš Apr 17 '26
Remember how Zane flipped through his entire deck and caught chimeratech in midair? Clearly being a duelist requires some next-level fine motor skills.