Yugi Muto is the main character who appears in the story Yu-Gi-Oh. He is described as a fairly innocent young man, fortunately he has friends who can be trusted. Not only that, inside Yugi Muto there is also another figure named Atem who is a legendary Pharaoh.
He awakens after Yugi successfully completes the Millennium Puzzle. He and Yugi often exchange personalities, especially during a duel. They were an excellent duelist and he often won duels against his powerful enemies.
Well, this time we will review the list of cards that Yugi/Atem is a mainstay of in a duel. Without further ado, let's get straight to it together!
10. Swords of Revealing Lights
Not all cards are the strongest in Yu-Gi-Oh! it's a monster card. To become the Duel King, players must have the right combination of monster cards, traps, and spells. This Swords of Revealing Lights card is one of the most appropriate cards to be included in the deck.
Although this card does not have an attack or destroyer effect on the opponent's card, it has a supporting effect that benefits the player. This card can prevent your opponent from attacking for three rounds. Not only that, when this card is activated, all of the closed opponent's cards will be exposed so that players can avoid threats from the opponent's cards as well as develop the right strategy.
9. Buster Blader
This card can be categorized as a special card because Yugi and Atem themselves rarely use it. However, when the opponent they face is Seto Kaiba, this card can be very valuable. With a total attack of 2600 threats, Buster Blader is a big threat to opponents who use Dragon decks.
Buster Blader's basic attack will increase by 500 points for every Dragon-type monster that is on the opponent's side, be it on the field or in the opponent's grave. With such abilities, Buster Blader becomes a serious curse because the amount of attack power can increase drastically and compete with monsters with a higher level than him.
8. Dark Sage
This card includes a Yugi card which is quite special because it is able to violate the rules of the duel game. Dark Sage is arguably a little stronger than Dark Magician. However, what makes this card special is its effect ability which allows Yugi and Atem to use spell cards on their turn and on their opponent's. This allows these cards to change the rules of the game.
Outside of the anime, this card even allows the owner to carry a spell card from the deck to the hand and allows the player to activate it directly in order to win the game. However, to summon Dark Sage to the arena, the requirements needed are quite complicated. Players must use Dark Magician, Time Wizard, and coin flip in the arena.
7. Brain Control
Perhaps, one of the interesting strategies to try in a duel is the strategy of stealing the opponent's monsters. However, these cards are often prohibited from being used in card games in the real world. Unfortunately, that's not the case in the anime world. Yugi often uses this spell card for his own benefit.
Simply put, this card can control one of the opposing monsters in a turn and players are free to use it at will, whether it's to attack the opponent or use it for sacrifice. This card is more or less similar to the Change of Heart card effect.
6. Summoned Skull
This card includes a Yugi card which is arguably strong, but unfortunately this card rarely gets honor when compared to other cards in the Yugi deck. Summoned Skull has a total attack of 2500 and is equivalent to the Dark Magician card that Yugi relies on.
Not only that, Yugi also needs a little sacrifice to summon this card. Because of that, this one Fiend monster should be able to be used to its full potential in a duel. However, this monster most likely has fewer support cards compared to Dark Magicians so Yugi prefers to use Dark Magicians in duels.
5. Dark Paladin
One of the other monsters that still has a relationship with Dark Magician is the Dark Paladin which is a great combination of two powerful cards. To summon a Dark Paladin, players must perform a Fusion Summon between a Dark Magician and a Buster Blader. The existence of this card is very troublesome for the enemy because of the special effects it has.
Dark Paladin is able to negate effects and even destroy spell cards by removing one card from the hand. The second effect of this card is Buster Blader's innate dragonslayer ability. For each dragon card that is in the field and the opponent's grave will increase the Dark Paladin's attack power by 500 points. Therefore, if you are facing a Dragon-type deck, you can be sure that this card will win the duel in the blink of an eye.
4. Exodia, The Forbidden One
This card is very special because this card does not only consist of one card, but consists of five cards that can win the game automatically. The Exodia card set was owned by Yugi and Atem in the first episodes of the anime series. However, Yugi lost this card while on his way to the Duelist Kingdom.
Although this card is very scary, it feels very difficult to summon this card to the arena because it requires great strategy. However, when this card is successfully summoned to the arena, there is not a single monster card, spell, and trap that can stop Exodia's attack which immediately ends the game.
3. Monsters Reborn
Monster Reborn may be considered as one of the legendary cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! story. This card has the effect of resurrecting monsters that have been sent to the grave automatically without the need for any sacrifices. This allows players to summon high-level monsters easily.
In the story, Yugi once used this card in his duel against Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine Bakura, and several other duelists. With this card in Yugi's hand, he is able to change the flow of the game and deal a crushing blow to the opponent. Therefore, Monster Reborn is a spell card that greatly benefits players.
2. Slifer the Sky Dragon
Slifer the Sky Dragon is one of God's mythological cards that is very powerful and has an all-powerful ability that only a few cards can match. This monster is quite special because the total attack and defense of this monster depends on the number of cards in hand. This monster gets 1000 points for each card in the player's hand.
After this monster is activated, this monster has an effect that can weaken every monster card that is summoned to the field by 2000 points. The effect will automatically destroy weak monsters whose attacks are equal to or even less than 2000 points. Therefore, this card is very strong and rare.
1. Dark Magician
Yugi's best card in first place, of course, is the Dark Magician who always helps Yugi in winning duel matches. This card with a total attack of 2500 and defense of 2100 is Yugi's card that is very valuable and multifunctional. However, this monster's true strength lies not in its stats but rather, the potential hidden within.
Dark Magician is very flexible and has great synergy with other cards that can support and enhance his abilities. To summon him to the arena, Yugi had to sacrifice several powerful monsters.
In addition, Dark Magicians can also team up with other Yugi monsters and create new, more powerful monsters, such as the Dark Sage and Dark Paladin described earlier. That's why, Dark Magician deserves this position