Who Let Him Play Yu-Gi-Oh! novel Chapter 272

Chapter 272: Chapter 272: The Path of the King (Bonus)

Thanks to the president’s generosity, getting the legendary Buster Blader deck was a complete surprise.

But after looking at the current cards, Kira soon realized the deck wasn’t complete.

Buster Blader was also one of Yugi Muto’s trump cards back in the day, especially during Battle City, when he first faced the Egyptian Gods and beat Slifer the Sky Dragon. His main card then was the original Buster Blader, and in the semifinals against Kaiba, it was the Buster Blader + Dark Magician fusion that sealed victory.

Of course, the meta back then wasn’t as strict—for example, when facing Slifer:

Yugi: Because you have Slifer on the field, Buster Blader’s ATK increases by 500!

Marik: Wait, Slifer is a Divine Beast, not a Dragon. Buster Blader can’t gain ATK.

Yugi: What’s Slifer’s name?

Marik: Slifer the... Sky Dragon?

Yugi: So you admit Slifer’s a dragon—Buster Blader’s ATK goes up!

Marik:

So, back then, Buster Blader bizarrely gained ATK from Slifer, even though it technically shouldn’t have. But those details aren’t important.

If the Pharaoh says you’re a dragon, are you going to argue?

Bluffing like that is a long tradition in Yu-Gi-Oh! Not just in the anime—even in real life.

Newer players may not know but in early Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships, there was also room for bluffing. In those days, if both players agreed, judges would often ignore incorrect rulings or bluffs.

There were even cases where a player, with enough silver tongue, convinced their opponent that a non-existent OTK combo worked, and if both agreed, the match result stood.

So when the Pharaoh won duels by talking his way into things, it was actually somewhat justified.

As a main card, Buster Blader kept getting support. Gozaburo did deep research to target Kaiba, and used brand new cards not yet known to the public in this duel.

But Kira knew that even so, the deck was incomplete.

He wasn’t surprised, though. The complete Buster Blader deck is a Synchro deck, but that’s impossible in this era.

Same with Kaiba’s Blue-Eyes deck. Without Synchros, it’s incomplete. But that’s a limitation of the era, and not likely to change soon.

Synchro Summoning belongs to 5D’s era. In the anime, it wasn’t just a new summoning method—it marked a whole new era, a leap to a new epoch.

The key was the discovery of a new element called "Planetary Particle," which also enabled the development of perpetual motion machines.

Without Planetary Particle, there can’t be Synchros. You can’t just print cards or research decks to break through—you need a physics breakthrough to usher in the new era of cards.

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"By the way, Kira, you might be interested in this."

Back at KaibaCorp, while picking from the new card inventory, Mokuba suddenly appeared.

Kira took the card Mokuba handed over, and his eyes lit up.

Zaborg the Thunder Monarch.

One of the Monarchs, representing Light. Level 5, 2400 ATK, destroys a card on the field when tribute summoned.

Simple and effective.

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