The BEST episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Every episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters!
Follows the adventures of high school student Yugi, who has a magical secret that comes to life when he plays his favorite card game: 'Duel Monsters.
#1 - Merger Of The Big Five (Part 3 of 3)
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/2/2002
The Big Five go from strength to strength as they continue to take full advantage of all five of their Deck Masters. But even with only one Deck Master each, and seriously depleted Life Points, Yugi and Joey refuse to give up all hope of winning just yet and set about proving that the Big Five aren't the only ones capable of combining their powers.
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#2 - Merger Of The Big Five (Part 2 of 3)
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/25/2002
As Johnson takes the stand for the Big Five, Yugi and Joey begin to realise just how much power the Big Five has with five Deck Masters at their disposal. However the two friends are not finished yet, and although things may not be going their way they too have powerful decks and Deck Masters at their disposal.
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#3 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 2 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/9/2003
As Joey and Valon's duel continues, Yami Yugi and the others are intercepted by a bunch of Orichalcos Soldiers. Timaeus and Critias easily defeat them, and after the battle, Kaiba and Mokuba take their leave. Kaiba does hint at how to find Joey, and Rebecca begins hacking into KaibaCorp's mainfraim so they can find Joey. Back at the duel, Valon finally plays The Seal of Orichalcos, along with the magic card Full Armor Gravitation, which helps him build another suit of armor. With each Armor moster having its own unique special ability, the duel looks grim for Joey. The the tide seems to turn when he draws his Claw of Hermos card...
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#4 - The Mystery Duelist (Part 1 of 2)
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2001
When a mysterious fortune teller steals Yugi's Puzzle, he follows him to a warehouse where Yugi must duel the mysterious figure to win back his Puzzle. But as the duel begins, Yugi recognises his opponent's voice and eventually identifies him as Bandit Keith. However Keith has changed since Yugi last saw him and is now under the control of the mysterious figure. And with Keith's new-found masters comes a new style of playing, one that even Yugi might not be able to beat.
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#5 - The Final Duel (3)
Season 5 - Episode 39 - Aired 9/22/2004
Yugi is successful in defeating the Egyptian Gods. However, Atem is not worried at all. Atem admits that he knew that Yugi would defeat the Egyptian Gods. Now the real duel begins between Yugi and Atem. Now, Yugi must face his most trusted creature, the Dark Magician, if he wants to help Atem. (Note: When this aired in the U.S, the ending said "To Be Concluded" instead of "To Be Continued", thus signifying the end of the series.)
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Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2004
As the tournament begins, the first two duels are announced as Joey Wheeler vs. Apdnarg Otum and Leon Wilson vs. Dr. Richard Goat. Leon and Goat both arrive at their designated duel area on time, and so does Apdnarg, but Joey doesn't realize he has to be at his duel area, and because of that, must race against time to find Apdnarg in the Amazon Cruise zone. When Joey and the other eventually get there, the two start their duel. However, Yugi, Tea, and Tristan are too preoccupied by how much Apdnarg looks like Yugi's grandpa. Professor Hawkins appears behind them to fill them in. Solomon had called him to tell him that he would be participating in Kaiba's new tournament. As the duel begins, Apdnarg begins pummeling Joey with a very well-thought out strategy, while Joey attempts to improvise everything. Apdnarg soon plays his Stone Giant and his Ancient City, which special summons two Stone Giant tokens. In addition, he claims that the worst is yet to come...
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#7 - A New Evil (Part 2 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2003
The seal of Orichalcos is still in effect and it is hindering Yugi each turn. However, he finds a way to destroy his opponents' ""endless"" ranks of monsters, and has Dark Magician Girl eradicate the rest of his life points. The man's soul is sealed in Orichalcos as a result. The strange bikers (Rafael, Valon, and Alister) steal the God cards, but give back Rex and Weevil's soul cards. Later that day, Yugi and his friends meet Rebecca again, who tells them that her grandfather wants to see them about something...
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#8 - Burying The Past (Part 1 of 2)
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/27/2002
Having escaped from the Virtual World in Mokuba's body, Noah sets about to shut down the system once and for all, destroying the minds of his father and everybody else in the Virtual World at the same time. Yugi and the others, meanwhile, continue to search for an exit from their virtual prison, but Kaiba is more interested with defeating his step-father once and for all. However a duel between the two relatives soon proves to be a lot more challenging than Seto could have ever expected.
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#9 - Noah's Final Threat (Part 2 of 2)
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/13/2002
The attack went through, but Yami activated the trap card Nutrient Z, which gave him 4000 more life points if the damage done to him was greater than 2000 before the attack. Now Yami now has 1800 life points. However, since Yami lost 2300 life points, Noah gains them, setting him at 8200. He then chains with a Quickplay Magic card from his hand: Sebek's blessing, which lets him gain the damage done to Yami, setting his lifepoints at 10,500. But then the turn ends and the Yamata Dragon returns to his hand, setting off the Spring, which makes Noah's life points 11,000. Yami plays Alpha the Magnet Warrior in attack mode and attacks directly, making Noah's life points 9600. Noa then turns Tristan to stone. He explains that one person will be turned to stone during the end of each of Yami's turns. Noa draws and plays Inaba White Rabbit which can attack directly, setting Yami at 1100. He ends his turn, recalls the Spirit monster, and gains 700 life points from Shinato and 500 life points fro
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#10 - Noah's Final Threat (Part 1 of 2)
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/6/2002
Noah, bonded to Shinato, and Yami start their match, with Yami shuffling in the rest of Kaiba's deck into his own and Noah adding in some new cards to his deck. However, the match must start as if it were Kaiba making his next move. This means that in addition to having the life point totals as they were before with Noa at 7400 and Kaiba at 400, Yami cannot start with any cards in his hand and must rely on the cards he draws. He also must keep Kaiba's Deck Master, which is useless to Yami since most of his monsters are Dark Monsters. Tristan points out that if Yami does not draw a monster card on his first turn, he is finished, as Noah's monster Shinato (with an attack of 3300) is on the field. Yami draws, gets Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts and promptly puts it in face-up defense mode. Noah draws but doesn't get a monster that he can play, so he attacks Gazelle with Shinato. However, Shinato's effect is that if it destroys a monster in defense mode, it cuts Yami's life points in
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#11 - A Duel With Destiny (Part 1 of 2)
Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/5/2002
In the fourth duel of the Battle City finals, Kaiba's mystery opponent is Ishizu. With the power of her Millennium Necklace, Ishizu can see the future, including every card Kaiba is planning to play. Once again Kaiba must duel an opponent who knows his moves even before he does.
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#13 - Mime Control (Part 1 of 3)
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/24/2001
Marik is making his way to Battle City by boat, and is planing his ultimate strike on Yugi. He takes control of Strings - The Silent One and forces him to duel. At first the duel is going neither way. However, Marik is about to pull out his trump card, the Egyptian God card, Slifer the Sky Dragon.
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#14 - The Master of Magicians (Part 2 of 3)
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/26/2001
Yugi continues his duel against Arkana. However, Yugi can not seem to overcome Arkana's own Dark Magician, not to mention his ectoplasmer cards. Will he be able to beat Arkana?. Meanwhile, Grandpa, Tea, Joey, and Tristan comb the city trying to find Yugi.
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#15 - The Master Of Magicians (Part 1 of 3)
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/19/2001
The magician duelist Arkana transports Yugi to the world's most lethal dueling arena where the cost of losing is banishment to the Shadow Realm. Yugi must win this duel or he'll lose much more than his Dark Magician.
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#16 - Steppin' Out
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/2001
The spirit of the Millennium Puzzle realizes that his memories of ancient Egypt have faded, but Tea is going to help him uncover the mysteries of his past. Tea and the Pharaoh hang out and head to an arcade. At the arcade, Tea beats Johnny Steps at a dance machine and he demands a re-match. However, Yugi decides to duel him instead and if he wins, Tea has to date him.
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Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/24/2004
Zigfried does not seem content with just his brother's victory in this duel. To ensure things go that way, the card he gave to Leon, The Golden Castle of Stromburg, an illegal card, has been modified to force the duelist's monsters to battle and cause Yugi's own creatures to self-destruct while Leon's remain untouched. In addition, to make things worse, Yugi has to put half his deck in the graveyard to keep it going, much to his distaste. Add to the fact that so long as the card does remain active, Kaiba's computer mainframe will be infected with an unstoppable virus, and you have a recipe for the ultimate disaster. Even Leon isn't happy with the arrangement, especially since it's cheating. However, Leon's pleas fall on Zigfried's deaf ears as he controls the duel from the balcony. However, Yugi promises that he'll help Leon destroy the castle somehow. But how can he destroy a card that can't be affected by traps and spells?
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Season 5 - Episode 36 - Aired 9/1/2004
Atem and the others return to present-day Egypt. Atem has set his mind to sealing the seven Millennium Items with himself. Someone must be able to defeat Atem in a duel to do so. Although Kaiba and Joey both volunteer, it will be Yugi that will take the honor. The duel will take place tomorrow, and both Pharaoh Atem and Yugi construct the best deck possible to each of their abilities.
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Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/17/2004
With Kaiba's hacker trouble out of the way, it is time for the promised event: Yugi, the King of Games vs. Leon. However, things do not seem as peaceful as they are supposed to be. As Leon progresses up the stairs to the final duel of the event, Zigfried catches his eye and hands him a card with a picture of a golden castle on it, saying it will prove useful. Taking it, Leon begins his awaited duel. However, during the duel, one of Kaiba's men comes up and gives Kaiba some news that unsettles everyone present: Leon and Zigfried are brothers! However, Leon is dueling to help his brother fulfill their mission: destroy Kaiba Corp and advertise their own company.
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Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/2004
The final four duelists have been chosen: Zigfried Lloyd, Leon Wilson, Rebecca Hawkins, and Balfry Ginger. As Yugi and the others prepare to cheer Rebecca on in her next duel against Leon, Professor Hawkins appears and informs the group that Yugi's grandpa has disappeared! Arthur heads off to cheer Rebecca on while Yugi and the rest while Yugi and the others go searching for Solomon. They eventually find a map that they think will lead them to him, but Duke suspects a trap. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Leon begin their duel. Rebecca tries to start the same strategy she used against Vivian, but Leon turns out to be too good an opponent to be trapped by that as he foils her attempts to get her strategy started. Then he begins playing many fairy tale monsters against Rebecca. Rebecca is surprised that Leon would have a deck like this, and even more surprised that she is being defeated by it. Meanwhile, Zigfried wins his duel against Balfry Ginger, meaning he gets to be in the finals. Finally, Yugi and the others arrive at the Chinese restaurant where they think Yugi's grandpa is being held.
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#21 - A New Evil (Part 1 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2003
A man with a strange-looking duel disk challenges Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor to a duel where they have to bet their souls. Yugi is ready to go to the museum alone but Joey Tea and Tristan follow him. Yugi takes the 3 God Cards and holds them up. A light shows from the Millennium Puzzle symbol on the tablet. There is someone performing a dark ritual on the tablet so Yugi fails recovering his memories. Suddenly everyone hears a noise and they walk outside. There are Duel Monsters flying around the city. Everyone thinks its Kaiba Corp. but Kaiba it too busy to be spoken to. Everyone is watching TV at Yugi's house. Then Grampa yells. They go out and he is lying on the ground and the God cards are STOLEN. Joey runs outside and sees Obelisk in the sky. When the others run out, Slifer and Ra appear too. 3 men on motorcycles appear and challenge Yugi, calling him Pharaoh, to follow them. When he arrives at the duel's location, a man jumps down to duel Yugi. As they duel, the three men fro
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#22 - Battle For The Bronze (Part 3 of 3)
Season 3 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/17/2002
Joey tries to use his Baby Dragon/Time Wizard to bring out his Thousand Dragon and weaken Kaiba's Blue Eyes White but it doesn't work and he loses. Meanwhile Yugi decides not to tell Tea about her being possessed by Marik's good side. Despite his loss to Kaiba Joey points out he won't give up and after they leave Isuzu asks Kaiba to support Yugi which Kaiba refuses to do she lets him know that his past self may have been the Pharaohs rival but he was also a close friend who helped the Pharaoh long ago by assisting in sealing up the darkness. Mokuba remembers Seto's previous duels against Yugi and Joey and realizes how much he has changed and expresses how much he misses the old Seto and manages to convince him to help Yugi in some. Kaiba having figured out that one card he has if played correctly can defeat the Wing Dragon of Ra so just before Yugi's duel against Marik begins Kaiba passes the card to Yugi.
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#23 - Clash In The Coliseum (Part 5 of 6)
Season 3 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/19/2002
Joey, still unconscious from his duel with Marik, dreams that he is in a Duel Monsters tournament, but loses a duel, but he remembers an important lesson taught to him by Yugi. Yugi's duel with Kaiba continues and Kaiba is able to use his Lord Of Dragons and Flute Of Summoning Dragons to call out all three Blue Eyes White Dragons. As all three dragons attack, Yugi is reminded by Joey of the advice that he once gave Joey: ""Consider all of your options"". Yugi uses the effect of Flute Of Summoning Dragons to summon Joey's Red Eyes Black Dragon, but will that be enough to stop Kaiba's assault?
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#24 - Brothers In Arms (Part 3 of 3)
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/2002
Kaiba is shocked to see Mokuba standing there... on someone else's side. Noah tells Kaiba that Mokuba thinks Noah is his real brother and that Kaiba is the enemy. Mokuba says that any enemy of his ""brother"" is an enemy of his. Seto ends his turn, definately not willing to risk losing Mokuba for the attack. Yugi calls out for Kaiba to keep fighting, and that to remember when he fought Joey under similar circumstances. Kaiba doesn't want to accept Yugi's help, but realizes that there is one card to prove his and Mokuba's relationship. Noah activates the next day's effect, causing the ice to vanish and the modern world to appear. He activates Dark Hole, getting rid of all the monsters, except Different Dimension Dragon, of course, who must stay. He then plays Gradius, and equips it with Cyclone Laser and and the Modifyer, allowing every attack made by the monster to be 100 points higher than the defense of the other monster, meaning each turn, Kaiba will lose 100 life points. He is attack
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#25 - Settling the Score (Part 1 of 2)
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/28/2002
While Yugi and the others try to figure out how to get Tristan's body back from Nezbitt, and also work out what the deal is with the strange robot monkey that is following them around, Kaiba has more important things to consider when Mokuba is kidnapped. After the rescue attempt fails, Kaiba is confronted by Leichter, the fifth and final member of the Big Five, whose Deck Master may prove to be the most powerful yet.
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