1.1 A note on Spellbinding Hexagram

In both the manga and anime of Yu-Gi-Oh!, during the duel between Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto) and Malik Ishtar's (Marik Ishtar) "mind slave" - the "Pantomime" (パントマイマー; a.k.a. Strings), Yugi used the Trap Card "Spellbinding Hexagram" (六芒星の呪縛, a.k.a. "Spellbinding Circle". Effect(in anime/manga only): a chosen monster on the field cannot attack; its ATK is lowered by 700 points.) to stop Osiris's attack. Although "Hexagram"'s effect was negated after 1 turn, it did affected Osiris. One may then conclude that the ability stated above is wrong. However, this is not true.

In fact, the reason behind this "contradiction" is that the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kazuki Takahashi, somewhat considers "Hexagram" as a Spell Card in the card game. Although the phrase "Trap Card" did appeared on the "Hexagram" card in the manga, and all characters referred to it as a "Trap Card", it was still considered a Spell Card in terms of gameplay. Whether this contradiction is caused by that miswritten phrase, or that Mr. Takahashi forgets about what was indicated on the "Hexagram" card, or even that "Hexagram" is in fact a Spell Card with Trap properties(!) is unknown.

In fact, similar problems have appeared before in Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. In the double duel between Yugi-Jonouchi team and the Paradox Brothers, bigger brother Mei (Mei has the Kanji "迷" on his forehead) a.k.a. Para used "Release Spell" (魔法解除. Effect: negate all Spell effects received from your opponent. Note: the picture on this card is almost the same as that of "De-Spell" (魔法除去), but these two cards have different names and effects.) to destroy Yugi's "Hexagram" card (still indicated as "Trap Card"). However, unlike the previous case, this time the "contradiction" did not appear in the anime, as what was used there was the card "Remove Trap" (effect: destroy 1 face-up Trap Card on the field.) instead.

2 The real God Cards

The God Cards were first released by KonamiKonami Corporation is a leading video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1969 in Osaka, Japan by Kagemasa Kozuki. It is now headquartered in Tokyo. Over the years, Konami has created some of the biggest and most memorable video games as special pack-in Japanese cards in the first version of the Japanese GBC game "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle Record of the Strongest Duelists (最強決闘者戦記) Yugi/ KaibaSeto Kaiba ( Kaiba Seto , in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh and both Yu-Gi-Oh! A Shadow Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known internationally as simply Yu-Gi-Oh anime series, is the main rival of Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto) in the trading card game Magic and Wizards (Du/ JonouchiKatsuya Jonouchi ( Jonouchi Katsuya , known in the English anime and English video games as Joseph "Joey" Wheeler is a fictional character in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh and both Yu-Gi-Oh! A Shadow Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (known internationally as simply Version" in December 2000. They were released again by Konami in March 2003 as special pack-in cards in the Japanese GBA game "Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters International - Worldwide Edition" (Japanese version of another GBA game "Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition - Stairway to the Destined Duel"), this time with both Japanese and English text printed on them.

The real God Cards, regardless of which version, are ILLEGAL in all official tournaments. This is mainly due to the following reasons:

• The background colors on their fronts are different from that of other Monster Cards. In the Duel Monsters card game, Ritual Monster Cards are color-coded blue, Effect Monster Cards are color-coded orange, while Normal Monster Cards are color-coded yellow. The Obelisk card has a blue background, but this "blue" is slightly deeper than that of Ritual Monster Cards; the Osiris card has an orange background, but this "orange" is slightly deeper than that of Effect Monster Cards; the Ra card has a yellow background, but this "yellow" is fresher than that of Normal Monster Cards.
• Their backs are different from that of other cards. In Duel Monsters, all cards have brown edges on their backs. However, for God Cards, the colors of their edges are the same as that of their backgrounds. Also, all real English Version Duel Monsters cards have the YU-GI-OH! TRADING CARD GAME logos in the right bottom corners on their backs. However, God Cards do not have this logo.
• They have the texts "公式デュエルには使用できません" (It cannot be used in official duels) printed in the bottom left corners on their fronts. For this reason, the effects of the God Cards are not written on them (it's just background info in the Card Description boxes), and Konami dosen't even bother to list them on the Forbidden Card List, as they are released simply for collection and trading purposes only.

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