The BEST episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters season 4
Every episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters season 4!
Follows the adventures of high school student Yugi, who has a magical secret that comes to life when he plays his favorite card game: 'Duel Monsters.
#1 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 4 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/23/2003
Valon activates Pheonix Gravitation, allowing him to revive 4 armor monsters to the field and equip them. Valon's victory seems ensured, but Joey turns the tables again and brings back Hermos and combines it with Valon's Big Bang Blow to form Big Bang Dragon Blow. The two armored duelists attack each other, and the outcome looks like a draw. But because of Big Bang Dragon Blow's special ability, Joey destroys all of Valon's armor monsters and reduces his LPs down to 0. Content with his defeat, Valon accepts his punishment. His last words are telling Joey to save Mai. With that, his soul is taken. Mai kneels next to his body and cries, but eventually returns to her evil self again and says he deserved it. Joey denies it and says Valon dueled like a true duelist. He challenges Mai to a duel, saying that's the only way he'll be able to understand her. Meanwhile, Yami Yugi, Tea, and Tristan are still having no luck finding Joey, and Kaiba and Mokuba get ambushed by Orichalcos Soldiers agai
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#2 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 2 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/9/2003
As Joey and Valon's duel continues, Yami Yugi and the others are intercepted by a bunch of Orichalcos Soldiers. Timaeus and Critias easily defeat them, and after the battle, Kaiba and Mokuba take their leave. Kaiba does hint at how to find Joey, and Rebecca begins hacking into KaibaCorp's mainfraim so they can find Joey. Back at the duel, Valon finally plays The Seal of Orichalcos, along with the magic card Full Armor Gravitation, which helps him build another suit of armor. With each Armor moster having its own unique special ability, the duel looks grim for Joey. The the tide seems to turn when he draws his Claw of Hermos card...
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#3 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 1 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/2/2003
With Orichalcos Soldiers appearing all over the world, Yami Yugi and the others become more determined to defeat Dartz before he can destroy the world. But Joey was separated from the group when he followed Valon off to duel with him, and with Mai also hot on their trails. When their duel begins, Joey is surprised that Valon plays nothing but Armor monsters with 0 attack strength, but is also surprised when Valon uses his Big Bang Blow's special ability to destroy his monsters. Valon explains that he only attacks during his duels, and he's been that way all his life. They continue their duel.
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#4 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 3 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/16/2003
Rebecca finally pinpoints Joey's location, and Yami Yugi, Tea, and Tristan run off to find him. At the duel, Joey is able to destroy Valon's entire suit of armor by combining his Claw of Hermos and his Rocket Warrior into Rocket Hermos Cannon. But Valon turns the tide again by cloning the Rocket Hermos Cannon with his Data Brain card and using it on Joey. Valon attacks Joey again, only to activate his trap card and summon the trap monster Aura Armor to Joey's field. Joey then activates Red Eyes Transmigration to turn his Aura Armor into a Lord of the Red armor card. With Valon shaking and amazed of Joey's strength, Mai finally arrives. Joey uses his Lord of the Red's special ability to destroy all of Valon's armor monsters again, which Valon counters by breaking up Joey's Lord of the Red into Red Eyes Black Dragon and Aura Armor. It's all going to come down to one last turn...
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#5 - Fighting For A Friend (Part 5 of 5)
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/1/2003
As Yami Yugi, Tea, and Tristan continue searching and Kaiba and Mokuba fight off swarms of Orichalcos Soldiers, the duel between Joey and Mai continues. Joey again tries to convince Mai that she should stop, but it doesn't work. The duel continues, and Mai continues to have the upper hand. Joey finally draws his Claw of Hermos and uses it to create the Red Eyes Black Dragon sword. Victory seems in his hand, but Mai makes quick work of his sword with her Harpy's Feather Duster. Things look hopeless for Joey as Mai begins her final assult. She is ready to attack his Life Points and end the duel, but she stops. She begins to remember all the good times she and Joey had and all the times Joey protected her from danger. But at that moment, Joey begins to collapse. Mai rushes towards him, but it's too late. As the seal closes in around them, Joey tells Mai that he's glad her soul is safe and pushes her out. As the Seal takes Joey's soul, Mai screams and her Orichalcos shard shatters. Dartz s
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#6 - A New Evil (Part 2 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2003
The seal of Orichalcos is still in effect and it is hindering Yugi each turn. However, he finds a way to destroy his opponents' ""endless"" ranks of monsters, and has Dark Magician Girl eradicate the rest of his life points. The man's soul is sealed in Orichalcos as a result. The strange bikers (Rafael, Valon, and Alister) steal the God cards, but give back Rex and Weevil's soul cards. Later that day, Yugi and his friends meet Rebecca again, who tells them that her grandfather wants to see them about something...
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#7 - A New Evil (Part 1 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2003
A man with a strange-looking duel disk challenges Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor to a duel where they have to bet their souls. Yugi is ready to go to the museum alone but Joey Tea and Tristan follow him. Yugi takes the 3 God Cards and holds them up. A light shows from the Millennium Puzzle symbol on the tablet. There is someone performing a dark ritual on the tablet so Yugi fails recovering his memories. Suddenly everyone hears a noise and they walk outside. There are Duel Monsters flying around the city. Everyone thinks its Kaiba Corp. but Kaiba it too busy to be spoken to. Everyone is watching TV at Yugi's house. Then Grampa yells. They go out and he is lying on the ground and the God cards are STOLEN. Joey runs outside and sees Obelisk in the sky. When the others run out, Slifer and Ra appear too. 3 men on motorcycles appear and challenge Yugi, calling him Pharaoh, to follow them. When he arrives at the duel's location, a man jumps down to duel Yugi. As they duel, the three men fro
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#8 - My Freaky Valentine (Part 3 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/6/2003
Although everyone is confused about Joey getting Hermos, he still wants to play it, hoping to somehow get his and Mai's Life Points down to 0 at the same time. Meanwhile, Duke arrives at main computer for Industrial Illusions and tries to hack into the security program. Back at the duel, Joey plays Hermos in combination with Time Wizard to create a small hammer thingy. Joey uses it, and succeeds in getting all of Mai's monsters off the field, then directly attacks her, sending her LPs down to 1400. Mai is afraid that she's going to lose, but suddenly Harpy's Pet Dragon reappars because of the hammer thingy's effect. Mai tries to attack, but Joey activates Skull Dice to prevent her attack. Mai panics, but suddenly Valon jumps down from the balcony and uses his Orichalcos shard to break the seal and stop the duel. Rafael scolds him, and then vows to make up for it by taking the Pharaoh's soul. He then uses his Orichalcos shard to make Mai, Valon, and himself disappear. At that moment, Du
#9 - On The Wrong Track (Part 3 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/1/2003
With their duels still unresolved, both Yami Yugi and Joey draw their Legendary Dragon cards at similar times and both summon them to the field. However while Joey successfully combines Hermos with his Red-Eyes Black Dragon, Timaeus vanishes as Yami Yugi summons it leaving him stranded with his main hope for victory gone. Nonetheless, Yami Yugi is determined to defeat Weevil and find out where Yugi's soul is being kept, but the pressure of the guilt residing within him seems to be growing stronger by the minute. Joey is able to defeat Rex easily with Hermos's power, but things look bad for Yami Yugi. He eventually wins using his Berzerker Soul magic card, but he's still no closer to finding Yugi's soul. At that moment, the train derails, and Yami Yugi, Tea, and Weevil's souless body go plummeting into a ravine.
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#10 - On The Wrong Track (Part 2 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/24/2003
As the two duels continue, Weevil and Rex reveal how their famous status as Regional Champion and Regional Runner-up plummeted when they were knocked out of Duelist Kingdom at such an early stage. However while Weevil seems to be turning the tides in his favor with the help of an old strategy, Joey also appears to be pulling ahead thanks to the help of an old friend. But with such high stakes on the line victory could still go to any two of the four duelists.
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#11 - Rise Of The Great Beast (Part 2 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 40 - Aired 12/17/2003
Merged together with the Great Levathain, Dartz attacks Yami Yugi. Yami Yugi realises that he overcome the Beast with the power of his friends. Yami Yugi remembers everything that has happened, and manages to make the Great Levathain disappear for good. Yami Yugi sees Dartz on the floor, and it becomes clear that Dartz was under the control of the Orichalcos. Chris and Ironheart appear to help Dartz, and they thank him for his help. As Yugi and the Pharaoh return to the real world and leave Dartz, Ironheart, and Chris, Joey and Kaiba arrive at the helicopter and everyone is forced to leave without Yugi. Meanwhile, Weevil, Rex, Alister, Valon, and Mai all wake up since their souls have returned to their bodies. Weevil and Rex are still determined to get their revenge on Yugi and Joey, Alister still wants to find his brother, and Mai sets off to prove herself as a true duelist so she can face Joey again. Meanwhile, Yugi and Yami Yugi awaken on the shore of an island. The Legendary Dragon
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#12 - A Duel With Dartz (Part 4 of 6)
Season 4 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/19/2003
Because of Orichalcos Tritos, magic and trap cards won't affect Dartz's monsters. Yami Yugi's out of monsters, so Dartz uses his 4 Mirror Knights to attack him. But as Mirror Knight Pegasus attacks him, he calls out to him and tells him to play the card he gave him earlier. It's getting down to the wire, and Kaiba knows that if he can't think of something soon, he'll lose. And with perfect timing, he draws and plays the Fang of Critias card. He combines it with Yami Yugi's Mirror Force and creates Mirror Force Dragon. He attacks Mirror Knight Pegasus and uses the energy reflected by Pegasus's shield to attack all 4 Mirror Knights thanks to Mirror Force Dragon's special ability, much to Yami Yugi' dismay. This means Orichalcos Kyutora is also destroyed, but not before absorbing the damage caused by the attack. But when Orichalcos Kyutora is destroyed, it is replaced by Orichalcos Shunoros, whose attack points are determined by the amount of damage it absorbs as Orichalcos Kyutora. It al
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#13 - A Duel With Dartz (Part 3 of 6)
Season 4 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/12/2003
As the duel continues, Yami Yugi and Kaiba are shocked to see Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Pegasus as the Mirror Knights. While Kaiba refuses to let it affect him, Yami Yugi no longer has the will to attack. Kaiba attempts to destroy the Mirror Knights, but the knights' friendship gets in his way and defend each other. Dartz also summons Orichalcos Malevolence to cause trouble for Kaiba and Yami Yugi. Kaiba is angry that Yami Yugi won't do anything, but Yami Yugi can't bring himself to attack his friends. The duel is put on hold, however, when Rafael appears and attempts to get Dartz to stop. Dartz just laughs and explains to Rafael that he'll never get rid of his darkness. He tells everyone about how he got Rafael, Valon, and Alister to be his pawns. He posed as Gozaburo Kaiba and made Alister believe that it was Kaiba Corperation's fault that his brother was gone. He framed Valon for his first ever crime. He used his powers to sink the ship that Rafael and his family were on the day he was s
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#14 - On The Wrong Track (Part 1 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/24/2003
As everyone boards the train, Yami Yugi remembers how angry Rebecca was because she couldn't go with them. Afterwards, Yami Yugi, Tea, Joey, and Tristan set out on the train with Duke waving goodbye. During the ride, Tea tries to cheer Yami Yugi up, but he just says ""Sorry"" and walks away. In the space between the cars, Yami Yugi just thinks about how he lost Yugi and everything he could have done to prevent it. Back in the passenger car, Tristan notices that everyone else who was just on the car has disappeared. The three of them go searching through the train, but don't find any people. When the find Yami Yugi, they tell him about the situation, and he runs off. As he crosses over to another car, the cable connecting them breaks loose and the car that Tea, Joey, and Tristan are on begins slowing down. Tea quickly jumps to the car Yami Yugi is in, meaning she and Yami Yugi are on the still-moving train and Joey and Tristan are on the slowing car following it. Joey's car comes to a com
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#15 - Deja Duel! (Part 2 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2003
Kaiba and Alister's duel continues, with Alister seeming to get the upper hand. His Gorlag's attack points rise from 1000 to 2500 just on the turn it's summoned due to its special effect and the effect of The Seal of Orichalcos. Then, Alister tells Kaiba about his past, and how his little brother Mikey was captured by enemy troops during a war. Kaiba Corperation was providing the tanks to the army that captured his brother, so Alister wants revenge on the Kaiba family. And it seems he might be able to achieve that by looking at how the duel is going. Alister now has two Blue Eyes White Dragons and his Gorlag on the field, with a combined attack power of 10,000. Just as Kaiba is about to give up, he is transported to the Duel Monsters world. He gains the power of the dragon Critias and comes back to the real world, amazed to find a card with Critias's picture on it. He plays it anyway, and almost wins, but Alister uses a trap card and because of its effect, the duel ends in a tie and Al
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#16 - Flight Of Fear (Part 1 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 8/12/2003
The pilot of the plane turns out to be Alister, who, after trapping him on his own plane, forces Kaiba into a rematch. But as Alister uses his Soldier Deck and activates The Seal of Orichalcos, the auto pilot system fails and Mokuba is forced to try to fly the plane on his own. Meanwhile, Alister uses the power of Orichalcos to show Kaiba visions of the consequences of the weapons provided by the old Kaiba Corp. Kaiba refuses to be affected by Alister's tricks, and is able to destroy his army of Tank monsters. But with the plane about to crash into a mountain and Alister claiming to have a perfect strategy, is there any way Kaiba can come out of this duel alive?
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#17 - Flight Of Fear (Part 2 of 2)
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 8/19/2003
The duel between Kaiba and Alister continues, and Alister summons the powerful Air Fortress Ziggurat, a card based of his brother Mikey's Dynadude action figure and resistant to both magic and trap cards. At the same time, Mokuba manages to navigate the plane above the mountain with some help from Roland and sets the auto pilot back on. Backed into a corner, Kaiba manages to summon his Blue Eyes White Dragon and destroy Alister's Ziggurat. Alister's still confident, because the plane will crash soon, causing the Orichalcos to absorb the souls of Kaiba, Alister, and Mokuba at the same time. Kaiba convinces Alister to give him one more turn to save his brother, and draws the Fang of Critias card, and creates the Blue Eyes Tyrant Dragon with it, wiping out Alister's life points. Before he loses his soul, Alister is able to see the wrong in what he was doing. With some help from the Three Legendary Dragons, Kaiba manages to land the plane safely, right in front of Yami Yugi, Tea, Joey, and
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#18 - A Duel With Dartz (Part 1 of 6)
Season 4 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/29/2003
As Paradius HQ collapses under them, Roland plays the unlikely hero role as he appears in his helicopter and prepares to take everyone away. However, Rafael, still weak from his duel, is too slow to make it and with his last ounce of stregnth, throws Yami Yugi to where the others are waiting and gives him a map to where Dartz is. As Paradius collapses and Rafael appears to be dead, our heros are intercepted by some U.S. Air Force men who explain their situation to Yami Yugi and Kaiba. They refuel their helicopter and everyone flies to Dartz's island for the final confrontation. Dartz is happy to see them, and explains his plan to them. He invites both Yami Yugi and Kaiba to duel him at the same time. Meanwhile, Rafael, having miraculously survived, rescues Mai's body and puts her and Valon's body in a Jeep and promises to save them. Back to the duel, Yami Yugi and Kaiba manage to summon strong monsters, but Dartz summons the Seal of Orichalcos, Orichalcos Gigas, and Orichalcos Kyutora.
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#19 - A Duel With Dartz (Part 2 of 6)
Season 4 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/5/2003
Before the duel continues, Dartz shows them what happened in ancient Atlantis. He explains how the Orichalcos appeared and corrupted the hearts of the humans and turned people into monsters, including his own wife, Iona. Dartz was shown the truth, however, when he encountered an Orichalcos stone and it explained everything to him and gave him the power of the Great Leviathan. His father, Ironheart, and daughter, Chris, tried to stop him by gaining the help of the monsters from the Dominion of the Beasts, but neither side was victorious. Dartz wants to finish the battle he began 10,000 years ago, and explains that due to his Orichalcos Kyutora's ability, his Life Points are safe from Yami Yugi and Kaiba's last attack. He then plays Orichalcos Deuteros, the second level of the Seal. As the duel progresses, things look dim for Yami Yugi and Kaiba, especially when Dartz plays his Mirror Knight Calling card which summons four Mirror Knights to the field. Kaiba destroys Mirror Knight Calling
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Season 4 - Episode 39 - Aired 12/10/2003
Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba continue their battle with the Great Leviathan, but their monsters' attacks have no effect. The monsters are destroyed, and the Leviathan proceeds to absorb the three into itself. However, before Yami Yugi is completely absorbed, he is able to call to all of the absorbed souls to lend him their power. With this, Yami Yugi is able to break them out, and then proceeds to revive the God Cards, Obelisk, Slifer, and Ra. He has them destroy the Great Beast, and as a result the lost souls are restored to their bodies. Joey and Kaiba then leave the area, but before Yugi can he is confronted by Dartz one final time. Yami Yugi realizes that he must finally extinguish the darkness in Dartz once and for all, or the terrible events that have occured will happen again.
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#21 - Grappling With A Guardian (Part 3 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/22/2003
Yami Yugi and Rafael begin to experience visions of Rafael's past thanks to Yami Yugi's Underworld Circle card. The vision shows Rafael and Dartz meeting in a cemetary. Dartz told Rafael to start digging in one of the graves. When he does, he finds a Duel Disk. Guardian Eatos appears, but Dartz tells Rafael to ignore it. Rafael draws and plays The Seal of Orichalcos, and because of that, Eatos disappears and is replaced with Guardian Dreadscythe. Yami Yugi, watching this, believes that Dreadscythe is Rafael's darkness, and if he can destroy Dreadscythe, he can save Rafael. But suddenly, the present Rafael reveals that Dreadscythe can't be destroyed! As long as Rafael has cards in his hand to sacrifice, Guardian Dreadscythe won't leave the field. The duel continues, and because of the Underworld Circle card, Yami Yugi can summon monsters from his graveyard to the field on both his and his opponent's turn. Yami Yugi manages to bring back Timaeus and combines it with his Dark Magician Gir
#22 - Legend Of The Dragons
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/4/2003
After their first encounter with the new evil, Yugi and the others are concerned to learn from Professer Hawkins that their appearance could have some connection to the destruction of the ancient civilisation, Atlantis. With so many thoughts running through his mind, Yugi's sleep is restless as he is drawn to a world of Duel Monsters where he is told of the three Legendary Dragons and unseals the first of them, Timaeus.
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#23 - Paradise Found
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/19/2003
As everyone flies off in Kaiba's chopper, they discuss Kaiba Corperation's takeover. However, Kaiba was able to get a group to Florida early, and has all of the information on the ruins of Atlantis on his computer. After sending the images to Professor Hawkins, the professor says that the images are too low-quality to view properly. So after meeting up with Rebecca, Duke, and the professor, Yami Yugi and Kaiba head to Kaiba Corp's main HQ to analize the data. Meanwhile, Dartz begins the second phase of his plan, and summons Orichalcos Soldiers all over the world. As Yami Yugi and Kaiba enter the KC building, they're greeted by an army of monsters. They eventually make it to the central computer and clean up the images of the ruins. Professor Hawkins is able to translate the data, and Kaiba recognizes the marks on the images as the symbol of Paradius, a huge corperation led by Dartz. Suddenly, the computer explodes and Dartz appears to taunt the Pharaoh and Kaiba. Meanwhile, Rebecca is
#24 - Grappling With A Guardian (Part 2 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/15/2003
With Rafael having played the Seal of Orichalcos and all of his guardian monsters getting power boosts, things don't look good for Yami Yugi. But things go from bad to worse as Rafael summons Guardian Eatos, the monster that defeated him in their last duel. But Yami Yugi turns the tables by summoning Timaeus and fusing him with the Dark Magician to form Amulet Dragon. Using his new monster, he destroys Guardian Eatos. However, a new Guardian takes its place! Rafael explains that when Eatos is sent to the graveyard, a new monster, Guardian Dreadscythe, will appear in its place. Rafael then shocks everyone by sacrificing all of his Guardian monsters in order to power up Dreadscythe. His mind has been completely clouded by the Orichalcos. He destroys Amulet Dragon and pushes Yami Yugi into a corner. Yami Yugi decides that he must free Rafael from the darkness, and plays the magic card Underworld Circle. Darkness covers the field, and now Tristan, Tea, Kaiba, and Mokuba can't see the duel.
#25 - My Freaky Valentine (Part 2 of 3)
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/29/2003
As the duel continues, Joey finally gets serious by summoning Fiend Megacyber to the field and destroying one of Mai's Harpies, sending her Life Points down to 3600. At that point, Mai remembers about when she met Dartz, and agreed to give up her weak side in order to gain the powers of Orichalcos. Still determined to win, Mai continues her assault by summoning Harpy's Pet Dragon. Turn after turn, Joey fights her off but doesn't seem to be making any progress and is just holding off his eventual defeat. Meanwhile, Duke, Weevil, and Rex arrive at Industrial Illusions, and Duke runs off to try to unlock the gates around the building. Back to the duel, Joey is trapped into a corner again. But when he draws again, his deck glows, and he and Yami Yugi are taken to the Dominion of the Beasts, where the last Dragon, Hermos, is waiting to be unsealed. Joey pulls the sword, and he and Yugi are transported back to the duel. Although confused about what just happened, Joey draws the Claw of Hermo