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The events of Battle City have just concluded, and Yugi now owns all three Egyptian God Cards. Seto Kaiba longs to finally defeat him, and he has a plan. He suspects that since Maximillian Pegasus created the Egyptian God Cards, he would have also created a way to beat them. Just in case.

Kaiba heads off to Pegasus' retirement castle, and challenges him to a duel. If Pegasus wins, he gets Kaiba's Blue-Eyes White Dragons, but if Kaiba wins, Pegasus hands over the card that can beat the Egyptian Gods. Kaiba wins, and Pegasus fullfills his wager, giving two cards to Kaiba. However, Pegasus only created one card, so where did the other one come from?

Meanwhile, Yugi, Téa and Grandpa, seeking refuge from a mob of duelists wanting to face Yugi for the Egyptian Gods, stumble into Domino Museum, where they discover a new attraction on display. It's called the Pyramid of Light, and it looks a little like the Millennium Puzzle. Once Grandpa reads an enscryption on the side of a sarcophagus, also part of the exhibit, Yugi has a strange vision about Kaiba. They wake up to find the pyramid stolen, the sarcophagus empty, and Mokuba standing outside. Mokuba says that Kaiba wants Yugi to bring his duel disk to the KaibaCorp. Duel Dome immediately.

Yugi does so, transforming into the Pharaoh on the way, and finds Kaiba ready to duel. He seals all the exits, forcing Yugi to duel him, but not before Joey and Tristan find their way in to watch.

The duel goes on for what seems like an eternity, and Yugi is starting to suspect that there are dark forces at work - especially when Kaiba activates a trap card called the Pyramid of Light, which not also bares a striking resemblance to the pyramid in the museum, but also prevents Yugi from summoning any Egyptian Gods! Before long, Kaiba has his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field, but to Yugi's surprise, he sacrifices it to summon a monster known as the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, which is even stronger!

Kaiba could win the duel there and then, but he wants to humiliate Yugi by wiping him out with his own Egyptian Gods! Pyramid of Light removed the gods from play, and he wants to play Return from the Different Dimension to get them under his control. Of course, to do that, he needs to destroy the Pyramid of Light first, otherwise it would just destroy the gods again! Kaiba commands his Shining Dragon to use its "Shining Nova" effect, which allows it to sacrifice itself to destroy anything on the field - and he aims it at the Pyramid of Light. Suddenly, a ghostly voice calls out, "This I cannot allow!", and the Pyramid stays exactly where it is. Then, a man rises up from behind Kaiba, throws him aside, and takes over the duel himself. And he has the Pyramid of Light around his neck.

It's Anubis, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, whom the Pharaoh destroyed 5000 years ago. But now he's back with his secret weapon - Theinen the Great Sphinx! On top of this, Téa, Joey, Tristan and Yugi are trapped inside the Millennium Puzzle, leaving the Pharaoh to duel all alone. Putting all his faith into the cards, Yugi draws the Double Spell card, which allows him to discard his Diffusion Wave Motion to activate Monster Reborn from the graveyard. He uses it to revive Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and uses it to destroy the Pyramid of Light, after it was weakened by Yugi inside the Millennium Puzzle. With the Pyramid of Light gone, so was the Great Sphinx, and Anubis is seemingly defeated. But, a giant Jackal arises from the remains of the Pyramid.

Kaiba and Yugi join forces, putting all their strength into the Shining Dragon card, and using Shining Nova to destroy Anubis once and for all. On top of it all, Pegasus was back to help them, and gets them out of the explosion in time.

10 years later, a boy named Jaden Yuki arrives at the repaired Duel Dome...

 

MISTAKES AND THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

REVERSE OF REVERSE

If you look carefully in the movie, you will notice that some of the cards that are shown are actually shown back to front. An example of this would be King's Knight, played by Yugi. Whilst the card is mostly covered by Yugi's fingers, the parts you can see are a back to front "K" on the right, and a reversed Attribute on the left. The same goes for an injection fairy lily card, who's attack and defence points appear on the wrong side.

A SNEAK PREVIEW

Before the duel with Yugi and Kaiba, there is a short scene when Kaiba remembers him using a duel simulation programme to simulate their duel. By playing this scene in slow motion, you can watch the duel with Yugi and Kaiba on the computer screen, exactly accurate to the life points, attack, defence, monster names, card zones used, and the size of the deck.

TRANSLATION

Some cards that are currently unique to the animated series have strange effects in the movie. This is probably due to the fact that it was translated straight from the Japanese cartoon. An example of this is Attack Guidence Armour, which has been shown before in the animated series. It's effect was clearly not English-written. This is what it says which can be read by pausing the movie.

Direct an attack towards the monster that is equipped with the cursed armour." Yeah, that's really specific!

NEW CARDS, NEW FONT

Some of the cards that are in the movie have not been released in the English card game, only the japanese. Examples are Toon-Gemini Elf, and Magician's Valkyria. The text font on those cards are different to that of real cards, surely more effort could have been made for that!