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Millennium Necklace
Millennium Necklace

The Millennium Necklace (can also be pronounced "Millennium Torque" in the Japanese, which is the specific type of necklace it is) was originally owned by the priestess, Isis, in Ancient Egypt, and became one of the two Items owned by the guardians of the Pharaoh's tomb throughout history, eventually coming to be owned by Marik's sister, Ishizu Ishtar, who is the reincarnation of the priestess Isis. The necklace allows its user to see through time, offering glimpses of the past and near future - futures whose outcomes can only be altered through the use of other Millennium Items. Using it to foresee her victory against Seto Kaiba in the Battle City tournament, Ishizu handed the necklace over to Yugi when her vision failed to come true, knowing that the necklace would no longer respond to her.

millenium rod

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Millennium Rod
Millennium Rod
The Millennium Rod in Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.
The Millennium Rod in Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.

The Millennium Rod is often referred to as the "scepter" in the Japanese version. This item grants the holder the power of bending the wills of others through mind control, and also lets its user telepathically communicate with his/her servants. There is also a sharp sword concealed in the bottom of the rod, although this was only used in the Japanese Anime. A victory duel is not required to use this ability. During Marik's childhood, he was possessed by his dark side (Yami Marik), who used the Millennium Rod to kill his father (in the English version it is said that Marik's father was banished to the Shadow Realm). In Kaiba's duel with Ishizu, the Millennium Rod showed Kaiba a vision of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, causing him to summon it instead of attacking with Obelisk the Tormentor (which would have caused him to lose the duel). This is because it was originally owned by the Egyptian priest Seto, of whom Kaiba is a reincarnation. After Marik's defeat at Battle City he gave the Millenium Rod to Yugi.

The Rod contains a hidden blade, which appears when the bottom of the Rod is slid off. This is removed in some of the dubbed animes. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, the Rod is shaped and colored slightly different.

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Millennium Key
Millennium Key

The Millennium Key's primary unique ability is its power to unlock the doors of a person's soul, giving the user access to the "Room of the Soul," where their thoughts can be observed, or the "room" can even be "redecorated," allowing the user to alter a person's personality. Additionally, it can make the user, and others, invisible, and may or may not allow them to sense any disruption of the Sennen Items' mystical energies that would be cause by an Item being taken from its rightful owner. The owner of this item may also force images, scenes, or visions into the minds of others and may or may not give the holder the ability to communicate telepathically with others, depending on the circumstances in a given situation.It is in the shape of an ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life, and is the only Millennium Item without an eye. After it was made The Millennium Key was given to Solomon Muto's Egyptian alter ego,Shimon, but later it was passed on to Shada. 5000 years later, when yugi solves the Millennium Puzzle, it's in the hands of Shadi, along with the Millennium Scale.

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Millennium Scale

The Millennium Scale is a Millennium Item that can weigh a person's heart against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth. If a person lies while being interrogated by the owner of the scale, or is revealed to be truly evil, the side opposite of the feather will lower, as if weighted down by the person's sins, and if the side without the feather drops to the bottom, and the person's soul with be sucked into the depths of the Shadow Realm (in Series 1 and in the Manga, that person's soul is instead eaten by Ammit, causing death), where it shall remain until the soul realizes its wrongs and changes its outlook on life to a less sinful outlook. During this time of waiting, the soul will encounter The Reaper of Cards. The Reaper will show them flashbacks of their past, their present, and visions of what is yet to come. If the souls refuse to change, they will be doomed to dwell in the shadows forever until they become nothing more than mere shadows themselves, seen and heard from no more. In a duel, this item also contains the power of fusion, which means that while a person has this item with them in a duel and they chose to use fusion monsters, Polymerization is no longer required. As another dueling contribution, the holder of this item may Normal Summon level 5 monsters without tributes.

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Millennium Ring

The Millennium Ring was the item held by Mahado in the past and Ryou Bakura in the present. Its powers are to guide the owner to where ever he seeks, acting as a sort of compass. Like the Millennium Puzzle it had a soul sealed inside of it, in this case a fragment of the soul of Zorc Necrophades. (who had also lost his memories) Its demonstrated abilities include sealing souls away and being able to divine the location of other Millennium Items. The Ring also has an unexplained bond with its owner, as shown when Bakura mysteriously regained the Ring after Tristan threw it off a cliff into the forest in Duelist Kingdom.

Mahad had the Millennium Ring before Thief Bakura. Alexander the Great later had it while he conquered parts of the world. In the present day at the start of the anime Ryo Bakura had it, he later lost it to Yami Marik. After Yugi defeated Marik, Marik Ishtar gave the Ring to Yugi. When Rex and Weevil mistakenly took Yugi's Millennium Items in an attempt to steal his Egyptian God Cards, Yami Bakura took it back from them.

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Millennium Puzzle

Millenium Puzzle

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Millenium Puzzle

Appears in (Anime)

* Yu-Gi-Oh!
* Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters)
* Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) GX

Appears in (Manga)

* Yu-Gi-Oh!
* Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist
* Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World

The Millennium Puzzle is the Millennium Item owned by Yugi Muto. It was given to Yugi by his grandfather. The puzzle, once completed, resembles an upside-down pyramid with an eye on the front. It has a ring on top, allowing it to be worn around the owner's neck.

The puzzle once contained the soul of the Pharaoh, Atem. It is extremely complex and difficult to solve, having taken Yugi at least eight years to successfully assemble it. Once he finally managed to do so, the puzzle released the power of the Shadow Games, split his soul in two halves, and then infused the soul of the Pharaoh it contained into Yugi's body.

In addition to holding the soul of Atem, the puzzle is able to fulfill one wish of the person who had solved it and heighten its owner's chance of success in a game, judging by their skill as well as the importance of the game at hand. The hieroglyphics enscribed on the puzzle say, "The one who solves me shall gain the powers and knowledge of darkness..."

In the manga, Yugi (as Dark Yugi) describes the power of the puzzle as "the power of unity", comparing a puzzle's pieces forming a whole to friends coming together. Yugi frequently credits the Millennium Puzzle with bringing him friendship with Joey.

In the Japanese version, Yugi originally used the phrase "Something that can be seen, yet cannot be seen" to describe the Millennium Puzzle before it was completed, since even though you can see the pieces, you can't see the whole puzzle since it isn't complete. This riddle has been asked many times over the course of the series, with different characters providing different answers.

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The Millenium Eye
The Millenium Eye

With the Millennium Eye, a duelist can read the minds of others as well as see through their eyes, allowing the holder to know what is in their opponents hand at all times no matter what. The holder of the Millennium Item has the ability to seal the souls of his/her duel-defeated victims. The souls remain trapped until the soul stealer is defeated in a duel and the souls are avenged.

The Eye's first owner was Akhenaden. Later, during Maximillon Pegasus' venture to Egypt, his left eye was gouged out by Shadi and replaced with the Eye. According to Shadi, because nothing bad happened to Pegasus, he was the Eye's chosen owner for that time. Pegasus then wore the eye for the rest of his life (normally hidden under his hair) until Yami Bakura won it from him in a Shadow Game. It was later given to Seto Kaiba after his duel with Yami Bakura as a lure to get him to travel to where the Pharaoh Atem resided. After returning from the memory world Kaiba gave the eye to Atem.

winged dragon of ra

===The Winged Dragon of Ra===
[[Image:Winged Dragon of Ra.jpg|right|150px|thumb|The Winged Dragon of Ra]]
The Winged Dragon of Ra is the final and strongest of the God cards. It is the key card of [[Marik Ishtar]] during the Battle City arc of the series, and is described as being so powerful even the other two God cards combined cannot defeat it. To contain this power, an extra level of protection exists on the card; besides the above mentioned qualification of possessing a Millennium Item, a special text on the card referred to as the "[[Hieratic]] Text" (古代神官文字, ヒエラティックテキスト) prevents anyone who does not recite this text from using it. The text is described in the series as a secret code known only to the highest ranking members of the Pharaoh's court.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #92. January 05, 2008. Atem's version of the chant is: "Almighty protector of the sun, sky / I beg of thee, please heed my cry, / Transform thyself from orb of light, and bring me victory in this fight, / I beg of thee, grace our humble game, / But first I shall call out thy name, Winged Dragon of Ra!"

In the quarter-finals of Battle City, Marik has his servant and adopted brother [[Ghouls (Yu-Gi-Oh!)#Rishid Ishtar|Rishid]] use a counterfeit copy of the card to impersonate him, but when Rishid loses, Marik reveals himself before being consumed by his evil alter-personality.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #89. January 05, 2008. Marik uses the card in his duels with [[Mai Kujaku]] (Mai Valentine in the English version) and [[Katsuya Jonouchi]] (Joey Weeler in the English version) during the finals as well as against [[Ryo Bakura]] in an unofficial duel, exploiting Ra's various powers during the duels to easily claim victory. During his duel with Yugi, Marik's evil side merges with Ra using one of its powers, and Yugi takes the chance to destroy Marik's evil side by destroying Ra and him together. Afterwards, a reformed Marik surrenders and hands the card to Yugi.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #142. January 05, 2008.

Ra makes sporadic appearances after the Battle City arc. It is used in season four of the anime to battle the Leviathan, and in the final season it battles Bakura's Diabound. Unlike Slifer and Obelisk, it is able to destroy Diabound, but Bakura [[time travel|reverses time]] to prevent Ra's summoning and avoid defeat. In the anime, it also takes part in the final battle between Atem and Yugi, although Atem does not use the full extent of its power in the battle. It is not used in Atem's final duel against Yugi in the manga. Ra appears in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]], when a counterfeit version of the card is stolen from [[Maximillion Pegasus]] by a rogue card designer, '''Frantz'''. By using a card of his own design, '''Mound of the Bound Creator''', Frantz is able to enslave Ra and avoid having to fulfill any of the requirements to using it. He is defeated in a duel by [[Jaden Yuki]], and the card is returned.

When summoned by sacrificing three monsters, Ra's attack and defense points become the combined attack and defense points of the sacrificed monsters.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #92. January 05, 2008. Ra also has several additional powers; its owner can sacrifice a number of life points to increase Ra's attack points by the same amount,''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #97. January 05, 2008. and sacrifice other monster(s) to increase Ra's attack points by the sacrificed card(s) attack. Ra's final effect is to turn into a [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]] by paying 1000 life points, causing immunity to destruction and the ability to instantly destroy all monsters on the opponent's field - basically identical to the effect of the card 'Raigeki'. Unless the owner keeps paying the additional 1000 during each of his/her following turns, '[[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]] mode' only lasts until the end of the turn it is activated in.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Episode #139. January 05, 2008. However, the exact manner in which any of these powers activates varies from duel to duel in the series{{fn|2}}, and because Ra's card text is written in the unreadable Hieratic Text, its true effects cannot be determined.

The first version of the God Cards was released by [[Ubisoft]] as a privilege for those who made a pre-order of the Japanese [[Game Boy Color]] game ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelist'' released on December 7, 2000. The second set was released by [[Konami]] on April 17, 2003 as special pack-in cards in the [[Game Boy Advance]] game ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters International — Worldwide Edition'', the Japanese version of the English-language ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel]]''.

Unlike previous versions, the third version of the God Cards was not released simultaneously. ''The Winged Dragon of Ra'' was included as a limited edition card in the ''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny'' game for [[Xbox]], released March 23, 2004. ''[[Slifer the Sky Dragon]]'' was released as a special pack-in card for the [[ani-manga]] of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: The Pyramid of Light]]'', published November 23, 2004 by [[VIZ Media]]. ''[[Obelisk the Tormentor (card)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]'', finally, was released as a free gift to subscribers of [[Weekly Shonen Jump#United States Shonen Jump|United States ''Shonen Jump'']] in May 2005.

Obtaining the God Cards once demanded high prices on the [[secondary market]]. This was prior to their current widespread availability. During this time, countless counterfeit copies were made and distributed primarily throughout [[Iraq]], causing widespread warning articles on the internet and in card price guides on how to avoid paying for counterfeits and ensuring authenticity.

slifer the sky dragon

===Slifer the Sky Dragon===
[[Image:Slifer.sk.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]
Slifer the Sky Dragon is the second God card revealed. It was one of the two God cards owned by Marik, who gives it to one of his mind slaves in an attempt to defeat Yugi. Yugi defeats the slave, however, and claims Slifer as his prize. Although reluctant to use Slifer due to its vast power, Yugi places it in his deck during the finals of the tournament due to the threat presented by Kaiba and Marik's own God cards.

Slifer makes sporadic appearances after the Battle City arc. It is used in season four of the anime to battle the Leviathan, and in the final season it battles Bakura's Diabound, but Bakura is able to weaken and destroy it by having a brainwashed priest attack the stone tablet housing Slifer's spirit. During Atem's final duel with Yugi, Slifer is Atem's final summoned monster before the duel ends.

Slifer's attack and defense scores are equal to the number of cards in its owner's hand times 1000.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #66. January 05, 2008. Whenever the opponent summons a monster when Slifer is on the field, Slifer's 'second mouth' can lower the Summoned monster's attack by 2000; if the attack consequently becomes zero the monster is instantly destroyed.

This English dub adaptiation of the card has the name "Slifer", which comes from Roger Slifer, the co-producer of 4kids. The original name of the card in Japan is "Osiris".

Slifer made a brief cameo appearance along with [[Yugi]] in [[Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo]]

===Obelisk the Tormentor===
Obelisk the Tormentor is the first of the cards to appear in the anime. Obelisk is the only card Marik could not acquire, and his sister Ishizu gives the card to [[Seto Kaiba]] in the hopes he will use the card in his upcoming tournament and lure Marik out of hiding to claim it during the preliminaries, but loses to [[Yugi Mutou]] in the semi-finals and thus hands the card to him. Yugi goes on to use Obelisk against Marik in the tournament finals.

Obelisk makes sporadic appearances after the Battle City arc. It is used by Gurimo in season four of the anime, and takes part in the battle against the Leviathan. It is used to battle [[Ryo Bakura|Bakura]]'s ''Diabound'' in the final season; it defeats Diabound in the manga, while it is a draw in the anime against the power of the [[List of notable Yu-Gi-Oh! cards#Blue-Eyes White Dragon|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] that Diabound had absorbed. In the manga, it is the only God card that Atem uses in his duel with Yugi (in the anime, he uses all three Gods).

Obelisk's attack and defense scores are 4000, and its effect allows a player to offer two monsters as sacrifices in order to destroy all the monsters on the foes field.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #68. January 05, 2008.. When used by Seto Kaiba, Obelisk was used multiple times to achieve a victory in a single turn by this effect, as in the anime and manga a duelist only has four thousand life points at the start of the game. It is also shown that Obelisk is able to achieve an infinite attack strength for a single turn if two monsters are sacrificed as a tribute. in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light]]'' Yugi Sacrificed Ra and Slifer to use this effect., and a single time in the canon series which was then explained as "a miracle of Obelisk's anger" and not confirmed as an actual effect.''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Episode #141. January 05, 2008.

In the anime [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]] the most elite dorm is Obelisk Blue, despite [[The Winged Dragon of Ra]] being the most powerful. This could be because [[Seto Kaiba]] is the owner and founder of [[Duel Academy]].

exodia the forbidden one

===Exodia===
[[Image:Exodia Necross.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Exodia Necross]]
Also known by its full title "Exodia the Forbidden One" (and at one time, the Great Defender of Egypt), Exodia is commonly perceived in the anime and manga as being among the strongest of all Duel Monsters. Although Exodia is typically shown as being summoned and attacking in the anime, its actual effect activates in the hand: players who gather all five Exodia parts in their hand can declare an automatic victory, regardless of Life Points. Exodia is split into a head, and four limbs (two arms and two legs). The story of why and how it was split and sealed is revealed in the final season, when its original master Shimon fragmented it because it was too powerful. However, when '''Zorc''' attacked the palace, Shimon released the beast to do battle with him. Although the two traded blows with near-equal power, Exodia lost because it was summoned by Shimon's energy, and thus when Shimon could no longer power it, Exodia was destroyed.

Exodia has a counterpart called '''Exodia Necross''', a ghostly, necromantic version of it. Used by [[Gozaburo Kaiba]] against his stepson Seto Kaiba,Episode 120. {{cite web | title=yu-jyo.net | url=http://www.yu-jyo.net/003/120.html}} this version of Exodia is powered by the five limbs being in the Graveyard and can only be summoned by the effect of the Spell Card '''Contract with Exodia''', and as long as all five parts remain, it cannot be destroyed in any way. Gozaburo uses the monster with the intent of dealing Kaiba an ironic defeat (the actual Exodia being the first monster to defeat Kaiba), but Kaiba overcomes Exodia Necross and claims victory by using the Trap Card Soul Demolition and unleashing the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Later in the GX anime, the character [[Adrian Gecko]] plays an Exodia deck featuring another counterpart called '''Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord''', which is summoned by the effects of '''Ultimate Unsealing Ritualistic Technique''' ('''Ritual of the Ultimate Forbidden Lord''' in the English anime). Each time it attacks, it sends an Exodia part to the graveyard, and when all five limbs are sent, its controller wins the duel. Adrian acquires Exodia by sacrificing his love ''Echo'' to Exodia's spirit, but he is defeated in a duel to [[Martin Empire#Yubel|Yubel]] and loses Exodia's power. The real life card functions a bit differently; it has no corresponding spell card that summons it (you instead summon it by returning all monsters in the Graveyard to your deck) and when it attacks, you can send any normal monster to the grave from your deck, not just Exodia parts. In addition, Exodius looks like a more heavily-armored version of Exodia. Also, Exodia is one of the few monsters with an Egyptian appearance.