The Egyptian God Cards

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Culex77

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Okay I know that this is mainly a Pokemon forum but I just had to do one of these. The reason I'm doing this thread is because I have recently have been watching the first season of Yu-gi-oh! Then once I got to the Battle City finals (Season 2) I began to question the effects of the three Egyptian God Cards and if these are the real effects. Before I bore you anymore let's get started.

The first thing that was stated is in order to summon any of these monsters you need to tribute three monsters.

Obelisk the Tormentor
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In the anime it states that by tributing two monster's you can destroy all of your opponets monsters and inflict 4000 points of damage to your opponet.

Slifer the Sky Dragon
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When this card was introduced in the anime it had two abillites. The first being that it's attack and defense were the amount of cards in the players hand *1000. The next ability is Slifer can decrease a summoned monster's ATK or DEF by 2000 depending on the monster's position and destroy the monster if either reached 0.

The Winged Dragon of Ra
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Now to the monster who actually has the name of an Egyptian God(Although in different languages Slifer and Obelisk do have names of Egyptian Gods).
First the ATK and DEF of this card are the combined total of the three monsters used to summon it.
Now for the other effects which I got form Yu-gi-oh Wika
Pay all but 1 of your Life Points and Tribute any amount of monsters you control to increase the ATK and DEF of this card by the amount of Life Points paid and the combined sum of the ATK and DEF of all the Tributed monsters. By discarding 1 "De-Fusion" from your hand or sending it to the Graveyard while it is face-down, you gain Life Points equal to the total ATK of this card, and this card’s ATK and DEF both become 0; if you use this effect after you attacked with this card, the attack is negated.
Pay 1000 Life Points. Until the End Phase, any monster that battles with this card is immediately destroyed by this card's effect without applying damage calculation.

This might have bored you but now you know the anime effects of the three Egyptian God Cards. I hope someone from Konami (the makers of the cards) saw this and can tell me if the effects are true.

What are your thoughts on these cards and thier effects.
 
The rules of the actual card game and what they play in the anime are quite different. If you notice, Kaiba never has to sacrifice anything to bring out his Blue Eyes. So while I don't actually know (I'm still watching season 1, haven't seen season 2 since I was little) I would guess the effects are different.

If you found a rule book that was released around when these cards were it would probably say something about it.
 
Your statement on Obelisks effects in the anime is not true. The show NEVER had a double tribute to destory monsters and inflict 4000 damage. That never happened.

As for all the effects, the show has different effects from the real card game. In real life, the god cards have no effects listed, therefore they have no effects at all.
In the show they have lots of powers.


Season 1 had the rule that any monster could be summoned without tribute.
It wasnt until season 2 that the tribute rule came into effect.
 
If you saw the episode in which Kaiba used Obelisk for the first time you would know he did tribute two of his monsters. How else would he have been able to beat the Dueling robot when it had all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field.

Also I just thought of why they don't have the effects on the card. The space to write the effects is limited.
 
New ruling on Oblisk.
You must tribute 3 monters to Normal Summon this card (you cannot Set this card). The Normal Summon of this card cannot be negated. When this card is Normal Summoned, Spells (Magic), Traps or Effect Monters cannot be activated. This card cannot be targeted by the effects of Spells, Traps or Effect Monters. If rhis card is Special Summoned, it is sent to the Graveyard during the End Phase. You can tribute 2 Monsters to destory all montsers your oppentent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activaded.

I hope that this has helped you.
I got this from the Shonen Jump Promo of it.
 
Light Venusaur said:
New ruling on Oblisk.
You must tribute 3 monters to Normal Summon this card (you cannot Set this card). The Normal Summon of this card cannot be negated. When this card is Normal Summoned, Spells (Magic), Traps or Effect Monters cannot be activated. This card cannot be targeted by the effects of Spells, Traps or Effect Monters. If rhis card is Special Summoned, it is sent to the Graveyard during the End Phase. You can tribute 2 Monsters to destory all montsers your oppentent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activaded.

I hope that this has helped you.
I got this from the Shonen Jump Promo of it.
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But that's from the newer Shonen Jump promo. The Obelisk with the blue card? It does absolutely nothing, since no effect is printed on it. They're two completely different cards, there IS no new ruling.
 
^You can't use the older one's anyways....that's why I put the new effect.
 
Light Venusaur is right, here is the new Obelisk
http://www.collectorscache.com/StoreModules/ProductImages/267/ObelisktheTormentorJUMP-EN037.jpg
There is also goint to be a Ra that comes out in Shonen Jump. It does...

"This card cannot be Special Summoned. You must Tribute 3 monsters to Normal Summon this card (You cannot Set this card). The Normal Summon of this card cannot be negated. When this card is Normal Summoned, the effect of Spells, Traps and Effect Monsters other than this card cannot be activated. If this card is Normal Summoned, you can pay Life Points until you have 100 Life Points left. This card gains ATK and DEF equal to the amount paid. Also, you can pay 1000 Life Points to select and destroy 1 monster on the field." According to Yugioh.wikia.com.

I am excited to see what the new Slifer will do.
 
If there are new Egyptian God Cards coming out then are they already out or are they going to come out?

Also the effects of the cards differed from the effects of the cards in the anime.
 
Ice Arceus said:
If there are new Egyptian God Cards coming out then are they already out or are they going to come out?

Also the effects of the cards differed from the effects of the cards in the anime.
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The Obelisk is already out, and Ra will probably be out within a couple of months. I have no idea when Slifer is coming out. The cards differed a lot then the show. I am kind of sad about that, I mean they are effect monsters now. I like the ideas of 3 cards having different color backs than others. It doesn't make them so special anymore IMO.
 
Yeah these card are not legal in the actual card game. They did however make a new version of Obelisk that can be played.
 
Culex77 said:
If you saw the episode in which Kaiba used Obelisk for the first time you would know he did tribute two of his monsters. How else would he have been able to beat the Dueling robot when it had all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field.

Also I just thought of why they don't have the effects on the card. The space to write the effects is limited.
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Wrong.
I saw that episode a few times cause its kinda cool.
The show has a few stupid features every now and then.
Obelisks ability on the show allows the player to tribute 2 monster to give Obelisk Unlimited attack power until the end of the turn. With unlimited attack points, attacking any monster would wipe out your life points.
And also, by that point in the duel, the duel robot had Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon out. Not 3 blue eyes.

But when i made mention of "stupid featurs" I meant that in a similar situation, the duel would be over anyways, so they just made it attack all the monsters just because.
 
The cards did whatever the writers wanted to. Notice how the actual cards never had anything printed on them of importance? I know there's a real Obelisk. That's because the writers didn't do too much to it to make the actual one differ to badly. Slifer, for example, was Yugi's card. Thus, it must have been overpowered to make him win, because we can't let him lose. The writers kept using Deus Ex Machinas in the form of these cards. Thus, the cards have become extremely overpowered and would be terrible to play in an event as they stand. Just my 2 cents.
 
It's been forever since I watched Yu-Gi-Oh, but iirc the cards did have defined abilities and actually adhered to said abilities. In a series filled with deus ex machina(s), that was not one of them.
 
In regards to real life, Obelisk is the only one that can legally be used in any duel, and it has to be the Shonen Jump promo variation. The originals aren't legal for play at all (not the least of which reasons being that they don't have standard card backs). Sure you can play them in video games, but they don't have the same effects that they did in the Battle City arc. (Generally, the effects of the god cards in the Battle City arc generally stayed the same throughout. That isn't to say that Ra didn't get a new ability every 5 episodes, but still...Obelisk and Slifer stayed pretty much the same.)

In summation: They're just collector's items, and if you own one, joy.
 
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