"Get ready to face your worst nightmare! When you're defeated, your soul will become a sacrifice, wandering in eternal darkness!"
Marik quickly played another card: "My turn isn't over yet, next is the Continuous Magic Card - The Messenger of Resurrection!
As long as this card appears face-up on the field, whenever a monster is resurrected from the graveyard on both sides of the field, I can draw three cards!
Then I'll set another card face-down, ending my turn!"
It seems Duelist Marik intentionally made a long, nonsensical speech to cover up the fact that he played a Forbidden Card again, but Youyu was not deceived by it, as his focus was completely drawn to that Continuous Magic Card...
...WDNMD, referee, someone here is blatantly breaking the rules!
The actual effect of The Messenger of Resurrection is "When a monster is resurrected from the graveyard, the player draws one card." Yet, even with this nerf, it remains a Forbidden Card locked away for eternity from the Ancient Era.
In the future, this type of card placed in decks that heavily rely on graveyard resources and bring forth a dozen monsters from the grave in one turn can easily empty the entire deck...
Your opponent plays with thirty-plus cards, keeping only a few cards in the deck to prevent a deck out. With such a huge card advantage resource crush, how do you respond?
We don't know if this card in Marik's hand is a fake, as long as it's not fake, after today this card will definitely change its surname to You!
Noticing Youyu's strange gaze, Marik instantly got angry again — you're actually drooling over my cards while dueling me?
The Sky Dragon was one thing, but apparently you want every card here?
I've never seen such a shameless Duelist!
"Set a card face-down, turn ends!" Marik said angrily, raising his voice to remind, "It's your turn!"
Don't zone out, quickly make your move!
Youyu shrugged indifferently: "My turn."
Look at Marik, this kid obviously isn't very capable. Thought about his cards for just a moment and he exploded, not a bit of composure fitting a leader.
No wonder Ghouls are in trouble...
"Being able to defeat Pandora with your skill in Black Magic is enough to prove your level." Marik said coldly, "Let me see your mastery over a top-tier Magician, don't let me down."
Youyu smiled mysteriously.
"Alright, then watch carefully. Activating from the hand, Field Magic - Fusion Gate! With this card on the field, Fusion Summoning can be performed without Fusion Magic!
Fuse Elemental Hero Sparkman and Elemental Hero Clayman from the hand!
Elemental Hero Thunder Giant — Fusion Summon!"
The silhouettes of the two Heroes appeared one after another from the hand, transforming into golden light and rushing into the dark dimensional vortex in the sky. Lightning was released from it, a strong light exploded, and a giant figure clad in golden armor slowly descended from the black clouds, surrounded by animated electricity.
[Elemental Hero Thunder Giant, Attack Power 2400]
Marik: "?"
What about the Black Magician?
Youyu smiled, indicating how about this, never seen it before, right? This is the Black Magician's latest skin, you have to pay to be a premium member above level 3 to get it!
That's right, this time Youyu is playing the Hero Deck. (This time it's really pure Heroes!)
Since it's known that the opponent to battle is the Three Egyptian God, the current Black Magic Deck is not suitable to cope with.
The resistance of the Egyptian God in the animation is really too strong. Although a detailed textual description is never given in the animation, the effects can roughly be deduced from actual performances in various duels.
Egyptian God is basically unaffected by trap effects (unless verbally argued otherwise), unaffected by most monster effects, only receiving Divine Attribute or Level 10 (assumed) effects, but generally only for one turn.
Including Monster Reborn, magic cards have one turn's effect on Egyptian God, and at the end of the turn they lose their effect. This is why every time in the animation when an Egyptian God is revived using Monster Reborn, it goes back to the graveyard at the end stage.
Furthermore, direct destruction or forced removal effects are presumably ineffective against Egyptian God. After all, as the majesty of Egyptian deities reigning at the pinnacle of Duel Monsters, it would be too cheap if a single black hole could settle them...
(Black Hole, Magic Card, destroy all monsters on the field.)
Theoretically speaking, summoning Egyptian God requires three tributes at this age should not be that easy, however, looking over Yu-Gi-Oh's history, regardless if the protagonist or antagonist's ace monster has stringent or complex summoning conditions, there seems to never have been a precedent where someone fails to summon their ace and gets trounced...
So to be safe, Youyu decided to proceed with the duel on the premise that the opponent could summon the Sky Dragon.
Therefore, compared to dealing with Sky Dragon with the almost powerless Black Magic Deck, the strong attack-style Heroes are more suitable for this duel.
Marik sneered: "But Fusion Monsters can't attack on the turn they're summoned."
"I know, but some Heroes aren't bound by such conditions." Youyu said, "Thunder Giant effect activated! Discard a card to the graveyard, destroy a monster on the field with original attack lower than itself!"
Thunder Giant wasn't summoned randomly. Having watched the animation, Youyu knew Marik had a Continuous Trap called "Jam Defender," which could give Revival Jam a taunting effect, forcing the opponent to attack only Revival Jam.
But using Thunder Giant's effect should destroy the tokens on the field, making it impossible for Marik to gather three tributes to summon God in the next turn.
"Thunder Giant!" Youyu discarded a card to the graveyard, "Destroy the Slime Token!"
"Activate the set card!" Marik swiftly operated, "Jam Defender! All attacks from the opponent are absorbed by Revival Jam!"
Just as he had anticipated!
"Muda!" Youyu declared, "This isn't an attack, it's Thunder Giant's monster effect! Destroy it for me...
...!!??"
Youyu was dumbfounded seeing Revival Jam flicker onto the path of Thunder Giant's released lightning and get blown to ashes.
Immediately after, Revival Jam's effect activated, the exploded pieces quickly attracted each other, coalescing to reform into that soft and disgusting mass.
Due to "The Messenger of Resurrection's" effect, Marik drew three cards.
Youyu: "???"
Wait, why can Slime block the monster effect I activated as well?
Tell me this isn't verbally argued?
Then he looked closely at Marik's trap card on the field, it read, all opponent's attacks are absorbed by Revival Jam.
Seems a bit different from the actual card description...
Does this mean effect destruction also counts as "attacks"?
I'm completely dumbfounded...
Youyu even deeply suspected if the guy who printed this card intentionally wrote this vague effect to facilitate verbal arguments.
However, after this chaos he vaguely remembered, the animation seemed to have a similar scene...
...Dark Yugi: "I activate Magic Cylinder, reflecting the attack of Slifer the Sky Dragon and destroying the Sky Dragon!" (animated effect)
Marik: "Traps are ineffective to Gods!"
Yugi: "But Magic Cylinder reflects the God's own attack, so if it's the God's power, it works!" (attempting to argue)
Marik: "Alright, so the Trap Card 'Counter Slime's' effect uses Revival Jam to absorb the attack!"
Yugi: "P! Magic Cylinder is effect destruction, not an attack, Slime can't block the move! Destroy the Sky Dragon for me!"
Marik: "Haha! But you just said Magic Cylinder 'reflected the God's attack,' so it still counts as an attack! Slime, go block it!"
Yugi: "............."
Hmm... so it seems like Yugi also had it quite rough.
Considering this way, Yugi and Marik's scene can't even be called a duel, that's practically a clash of titans...