General Discussion

@Volrenjai

I haven't been to a tournament either, but hopefully I'll get to go someday. Even just a local one would be fun. If you have social issues then maybe bring friends along or family who you feel comfortable with? :o

The deck that I had was given to me by a tournament player known as Tina Valenti, can't remember her last name. My ex was a personal friend and she liked me so she gave me her deck.

Deck building is like chicken soup for my soul!

I've been (trying to) build a custom archetype lol. It's kinda stupid, and my art isn't that great, but i'm trying my best lol here's a few cards from it. It's probably broken as heck lol [img]https://i.imgur.com/FisQGN9.jpg[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/CvgMMN4.jpg[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/F7KQjm5.jpg[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/lSyQzJZ.jpg[/img]

[quote name="Yugi" date="2018-12-09 17:00:53" ] [img]https://scontent-sjc3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/7a7e6f414f18a471166dcc148688b555/5C9FC159/t51.2885-15/e35/c19.0.921.921/s320x320/45289431_2221270684786601_6898353489018093568_n.jpg[/img][img]https://i.redd.it/xmulu1f6urt11.jpg[/img] same energy [/quote] [img]https://i.imgur.com/TzJwnUi.png[/img] game theory: Yugi is pikachu

@suesue @Yugi @Eiira @PharaohAtem @NigiriFan @Gamer When I eventually do, I will most likely be bringing along the friends that taught me Yu-Gi-Oh! We have had our own little tournaments (it's hard to do them now with everyone at a different college) but the last time we did I had accidentally forgotten my deck two hours away so I inevitably didn't play well. T^T Yo guys there was one of the last episodes of the Battle City arc that posed a question I wanted to ask: Whose tomb did the Ishtars [i]really[/i] guard? Hear me out here, Clan Ishtar supposedly (according to the English anime) guarded Pharaoh Atem's tomb. Now if that were true, wouldn't they have placed the millenium puzzle inside Atem's tomb? If not, where in the world did they put it? His mortuary temple? Heck if it really was Atem's tomb the Ishtars guarded wouldn't they just put his stuff like a little Tutankhamun except without the coffin? Realistically it would make for a small tomb - Atem didn't even reign very long. I don't think this one is a nitpick as much as the Ishtars' names and the ridiculous premise that ppl could live underground for generations, I am literally asking about a major plot point here - How in the world would archeologists have found Atem's puzzle box (initiating the entire rest of the story with Atem and Yugi) if his tomb is supposedly guarded by a bunch of Tombkeepers? This would have to mean that the puzzle was buried elsewhere from the tomb. The best I can come up with is that they put his puzzle in a mortuary temple. [img]http://i68.tinypic.com/5obfv4.jpg[/img] See the causeway that ends in a building in front of the sphynx? That is Pharaoh Khafre's mortuary temple (the one in front of the third pyramid to the left is Pharaoh Menkaure's. I'm unsure which one is the mortuary temple for the great pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu) They would bring him food and other things there as they thought he still needed them in the afterlife. [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Hatshetsup-temple-1by7.jpg[/img] The one above belongs to Pharaoh Hatshepshut - one of the most powerful women the world has ever seen. While not directly connected to her tomb, the causeway points in its direction. It is theorized that the original plan was to dig a tunnel from her mortuary temple to her tomb, which would have been a massive undertaking. Also if we look at season 0 and count it, the room the puzzle was in was pretty small for the resting place of a pharaoh - furthering my theory that he was put in his mortuary temple. Will find pictures in the future if I can. On a side note, this series really downplays how freaked out the Ancient Egyptians really would be if a pharaoh completely lost his body. Like hello??? What do they think mummies are for??? I cannot stress how important it was to them that one's body was preserved.

I told @YarnDrawcia about the whole ‘grandpa dies in BBT’ thing and I don’t think she took it well Anyways [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/2918908b63dcd165f5430a1fd3dbbd92/tumblr_o1guyrXCCw1uah31vo1_500.png[/img]

@Volrenjal

Things I would like to point out before we continue the discussion of Atem's tomb.

1. Atem died young. His more glorious tomb would have been taken by someone else who succeeded the throne, which was Priest Seto who he put on the throne after him. If we go by historical evidence of previous Pharaohs and such. So he was moved into another area. Instead of the Ishtars protecting Atem's tomb, it may have actually been Priest Seto's in more of a trick for possible looters and those who wanted to release the evil that is the Millennium Puzzle.

2. His name was the way to seal off Zorc and was erased out of history. Erasing a Egyptian Pharaoh's name is considered a great taboo, not to mention if you take someone's name out you erase them out of existence as the Ancient Egyptians believed, but this was what Atem wanted. Even though it would mean he would never be able to return to the duat (Ancient Egyptian underworld) and made to wonder purgatory.

3. His body was either put under another name, nameless or buried somewhere in secret. If Atem wished for his name to be erased, his body too would be considered 'erased' as well. There are many Egyptian mummies who had their gold, names and even sarcophagus taken away from them leaving only their wrappings if they were lucky. It is not uncommon even for previous Pharoahs to have their stuff stripped from them by the Pharaohs who took the throne after them, as seen with King Tut and his family.

4. Pharaoh Hatshetsut's mortuary temple or the Deir el-Bahari houses multiple mortuary tombs. Hers just happens to be the grandest.

I have a habit of posting cursed yugioh images wherever I go.

@Volrenjai

That is a real shame. ;-; 2 hours....

Also interesting!

@suesue @Yugi @Eiira @PharaohAtem @NigiriFan Wow, that entire post is golden, Atem. Like seriously, that is literally the kind of discussion I had hoped to spark! Do you think they might have simply made a humble shrine to hide the puzzle in? I said earlier that the room in which they discovered the puzzle was not very large, so maybe they totally did a switcheroo to protect it. [img]https://pm1.narvii.com/6357/17737441eb6ab9b7fe89d77d38d42ab6d5925cfb_hq.jpg[/img] @Gamer My friend loaned me his lunalights deck, but that's not a good deck to be given like two days to learn XD. The problem is that their strategy can be so creative that when I played my poor friend was in that awkward spot of seeing the out, but unable to help me T^T. Like their effects are usually pretty straightforward, but it's the kind of deck that all those effects synergize really well... so stacked on top of each other it's kind of wild for me.

@Volrenjal

Thank you for thinking so! I enjoy talking about anything Ancient Egyptian and just figuring out the lore to YGO. xD

I would like to think, at least from what we've seen of where the puzzle resided in, it was semi-decorated as a tomb, but never had the sarcophagus or even a body. All it had was the pieces of the puzzle in a box. There were of course traps (tho historically there weren't actual traps in tombs).

It could also be based on King Tut's tomb which was extremely small for a Pharaoh's tomb and was quickly done just to put him in, even the reliefs in his tomb weren't fully finished (his original tomb was taken by the Pharaoh who took over after him). Since Atem is based on King Tut (so says Kazuki), it could be surmised that he based even his tomb on Tut tho exaggerated it a bit more to give it more suspense and grandeur.

I believe it was a definite switcharoo considering that having all seven Millennium items would release Zorc into the world again, which was what Atem didn't want. Even having his name taken out of everything was even a big no-no to Ancient Egyptians, but had to be done in order to protect the world. This was most likely carried out by Priest Seto who was extremely faithful to Atem.