Who Cheats The Most In The Yu-Gi-Oh Anime?

ever wondered who is the king of cheats? time to find out.

[Corrupted]

I love the implications that there once was a pharaoh just making up rules when playing a game and everyone around him was just like "dont say anything, just let him do his thing"

[RamzaBeoulves]

*Yugi combos random cards together for 2 minutes*
"And all of this happens in his opponent's turn by the way"
That was some fantastic foreshadowing for the modern Yugioh TCG experience

[LumaSloth]

*Yugi* is the card game equivalent of: _"The ball is mine. So you either play by my rules or I'm taking it home"_ *kid*

[ihackedmyself]

17:22 I love the inclusion of yugis friendship speech here, as it implied the friendship speech was cheating lmao

[sojackedup]

Fun fact: if you actually look into the mellinium items, specifically, the puzzle... his power is quite literally pulling the card he needs. In other words his power is magically stacking the deck.

Every time yugi DRAWS he's cheatimg.

[utmostkibbles]

To be fair, Lightforce Sword's "choose 1 random card" really just translates to "one card in your opponent's hand without looking at it". Choosing the one that Kaiba is holding up over his head saying, "THIS IS MY GOD CARD" seems valid.

[tpsplatinum]

About Battle City; In the manga, it's explained in the Battle City ruleset that regular spells can be activated as if they were quickplay, so any instance of that isn't technically cheating.

[laytonjr]

A rule in season 1 that isn't ever stated in the manga or in the anime (but that is always verified) is that when a monster dies by card effect, its owner loses half of its attack as life points. This removes several "cheat points"
I wonder if Yugi cheats more than his "villains" opponents, because they often pull some bullshit (especially Pegasus and Marik)

[publiusii]

Mako duel was the meme amongst my friend group when we played. Anytime someone ran an effect wrong one of us would yell "I'm going to attack THE MOON"

[screeechbud]

Yugi says "there are no bad in my grandfather's deck" then proceeds to stack his deck for like 200 episodes.

[renzowesz]

corrections, 1:in the battle city spell cards are used are quick play card without been an quickd play card because of the battle city rules, the rule 19 and 20 " rule 19 : spell cards can be used as quick play during your battle phase and rule 20 set spell card can be used as if they are quick plays"

2: yugi uses dark magic curtain and flute of summoning dragon too because of the other rule "rule 25:type specific effects may effect both sides of the field"

3:kaiba uses xyz dragon cannon to summon obelisk because of the other rule "fusion monster sacraficed count are many monster used for their fusion summon", so xyz dragon cannon count are 3 monster sacraficed.

[mahmoud]

You cant judge cheating in the first season of YugioH as there were no set rules. For example you gave Kaiba points for summoning a monster outside the swords of revealing lights, yet Panic did that as well. In season 2, since that is when the rules were finally implemented, thats when you can start seeing who’s cheating or not.

[riczz]

Yugi just sliding a card during Weevil's turn had me dying lmao

[liefschneider]

With the number of times Yugi uses Magical Hats, and Spell Binding Circle the exact same way every time. I'd probably would have just given it a bye and assumed that is just how the card works

[twa]

You just gave Yugi an extra 30 points for legal anime effects and moves.

[adamhenry]

The Millenium Puzzle's power is to cheat. It has the power to rearrange the deck to suit the user. As long as you have a card that can save you, it will show up. It might even make new ones, since he draws cards we've never seen or heard of up to that point on a regular basis.

[StickgeneralArmy]

In fairness:

•Everything before battle city was assumed to be operating off Loose D&D-Type rules, IE make shit up and roll with it. That’s why a lot of people in Duelist Kingdom did crazy shit, particularly the whole darkness castle light swords debacle. Everyone was cheating and that was kinda the point. Battle City, on the other hand, finalized all the rules and made them an actual *thing* in-world, hence we should only really be judging past then.

[AKImeru]

I feel that if a card works repeately and consistently in one way in the anime, does it really count as cheating and not just how that card works?

[lssjgaming]

The weird thing about Time Wizard is that in the manga it is a spell card and in the anime it acts as such, but uses the real life card's effect monster design

[ZorotheGallade]

I remember that in the YGO "Pilot" (Back when the anime was simply dubbed the King of Games) Yugi and Kaiba were basically playing Calvinball augmented by Egyptian curses. To the point Kaiba ends it by literally smashing apart the battlefield with his last card to force the game into a draw.