Fans ofYu - Gi - Oh!are well cognisant of what it meant for Kaiba to get ahold of the Blue - Eyes White Dragon wag in the first episode of the serial , since he already had the only three other Blue - Eyes White Dragon cards in being , and he could n’t countenance anyone possess the means to beat him in a duel . However , as important as it was to the regularYu - Gi - Oh!antagonist , it was even more so to Yugi – for more reasons than one .

The Blue - Eyes White Dragon bill is arguably the issue one most iconic matter aboutYu - Gi - Oh!as a serial publication . Sure , the real - world lineup game and classical characters are recognisable to this day , but even people who do n’t watch or playtheYu - Gb - Oh!card gameknow about the Blue - Eyes White Dragon , even if they do n’t fully sympathise what it is or why it is a big deal in the anime . As excuse in the series ’ first episode , the Blue - Eyes White Dragon is perhaps the firm individual placard a dueller can draw from their deck . Not only is it insanely powerful , but it is also unbelievably rare . As previously stated , there are only four Blue - Eyes White Dragon cards in existence withinthe world ofYu - Gi - Oh ! , and at the starting line of the anime , Kaiba had three of them .

Yu-Gi-Oh!’s Kaiba Didn’t Understand Blue-Eyes White Dragon’s True Significance

InYu - Gi - Oh!episode 1 ( written by Junki Takegami , Masashi Sogo , and Shin Yoshida , and engineer by Kunihisa Sugishima ) , Kaiba – who , at this point , was a world champion duelist – followed Yugi and his friends to the game store go by Yugi ’s gramps , Solomon Muto . Yugi play his friends to the shop to show them the super rare calling card Solomon had in his possession : the Blue - Eyes White Dragon . When Kaiba saw this , he instantly challenged Solomon to a affaire d’honneur for it , and when Solomon refused , Kaiba draw the erstwhile humans ’s hand . The affaire d’honneur that followed was so vivid , it sent Solomon to the infirmary . Not only that , but Solomon also lose his Blue - Eyes White Dragon card as a answer , at which point Kaiba right away tore the card to pieces so that it could never be used against him again .

This scene was heart - wrench , especially believe how much the Blue - Eyes White Dragon card meant to Solomon – and , by extension , Yugi . Solomon was given that card by his pricy friend , Arthur Hawkins , when the two were dig in Egypt . On that trip , Solomon find and brought back Yugi ’s iconic Millennium Puzzle along with the Blue - Eyes White Dragon card Arthur gave him . So , not only did the Blue - Eyes White Dragon accompany the most important and powerful artefact inYu - Gb - Oh!history into the hands of the series ’ champion , but it also carried pregnant mawkish economic value for the fibre in question . Matched with the card ’s obvious stats and real - world popularity , it ’s clear that the Blue - Eyes White Dragon card is far more particular than fan think back , and that ’s primarily due to the importance it had in Yugi ’s animation .

While it was immensely important for Kaiba to obtain the Blue - Eyes White Dragon card , so it could never be used against him , the poster only held grandness in his judgment in the most superficial manner . To Yugi , that card is fundamentally the beginning of everything – both in an in - world and meta sense – which proves thatYu - Gi - Oh ! ’s Blue - Eyes White Dragon is more crucial to Yugi than Kaiba , despite Kaiba ’s initial obsession with get it .

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