Chazz's brothers are back and announce that they made a deal with Seto Kaiba. If they can defeat a Duel Academy student, Kaiba will give the academy to them. They've selected Chazz as their opponent and give him a condition that his monsters must have 500 or less attack points.
Tropes:
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- In the Japanese version, Slade and Jagger merely want ownership of Duel Academy. In the dub, they were planning to demolish the academy if they won.
- In the Japanese version, Jagger addresses Slade respectfully and asks if he's all right, and its implied they made amends with Chazz, if the undubbed season 4 is any indication, with Chazz wanting to repay his brothers. In the dub, Jagger calls Slade an idiot for losing, showing they're no better to each other than they are to Chazz.
- Batman Gambit: Chazz gets Slade to let him add Thunder Crash (which was crucial to his victory) to his hand by drawing it and 4 monsters with Painful Choice. Had Chazz been competing against a duelist with literally any experience, they likely would have known a Spell card would have been more useful than a 0 attack point monster and not let him keep that one.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Slade and Jagger, which is lampshaded by Kaiba in the dub after Chase defeats Slade.Kaiba: Of course he won. Did you really think I would give Duel Academy to [Slade and Jagger]? They have a lot to learn about world domination...
- Cherry Tapping: Chazz defeats Slade using several 0-attack point monsters. Note that the caveat for the duel is that Chazz had to use monsters of 500 or less-attack point monsters. He didn't need to beat Slade using monsters with 0 attack points — he just did it because he could.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In the dub, Jaden sings some lyrics from the theme song.Jaden: Hanging out with the crew in the school yard, finding trouble, never looking too hard...
- Didn't Think This Through: Slade and Jagger try to teach their brother a lesson for losing to Jaden in the School Duel by having Slade duel Chazz using the very same deck he suggested Chazz use back then and giving Chazz a handicap, just to prove a point. What he seems to be forgetting is that he's an amateur duelist while Chazz, loss to Jaden and Bastion aside, is far more experienced and is only in Slifer Red right now because he briefly dropped out of Duel Academy but came back later, meaning he still has the level of skill of an Obelisk Blue student. Cue Chazz successfully handing his brother his rear on a silver platter.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: The 500-or-less attack point handicap is this for Chazz. Even disregarding all the level-grinding Chazz has been undergoing since the start of the series, he is still a vastly more experienced and skilled duelist than his older brother, who has never dueled before in his life. That, on top of his own deck of powerful and rare cards, means that in a normal duel Chazz would still outclass Slade by a fair margin regardless of how powerful Slade's deck is. The handicap is to give Slade a fighting chance against Chazz and level the playing field.
- Exact Words: Slade and Jagger try to handicap Chazz by limiting him to monsters who have 500 or less Attack Points. But that only applies to the printed value. They never considered the possibility of Chazz boosting his monsters' attack points well above 500, as he does with the effect of Chaos Necromancer (who gains 300 Attack Points for every card in its controller's Graveyard) to make it powerful enough to finish Slade off.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Chazz uses his Thunder Crash spell:Ojama Black: Seems Chazz deals 300 points of damage for every monster on his field that he decides to destroy.
Ojama Yellow and Green: Did he say "destroy"?!
All three: No, boss, say it ain't so! - Foreshadowing: Kaiba in the original and Jaden in the dub both note that Chazz can defeat Slade easily since the latter is an amateur. Later on, this is how Chazz defeats Slade despite the latter having a supposedly superior deck — Slade made an amateur move by allowing Chazz to keep a powerful spell card that ends up being key to his victory.
- Get Out!: Kaiba ends his meeting with Slade and Jagger like this in the flashback, accepting the terms of their duel with Chazz before telling them to leave.
- Handicapped Badass: Slade and Jagger handicap Chazz with a restriction that his monsters have 500 attack points or less. In the Japanese version, Kaiba says he considers this a fair handicap for one of his students dueling an amateur opponent.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Slade gives Chazz Thunder Crash via Painful Choice, which Chazz uses to defeat him that turn.
- I See Them, Too: In the Japanese version, this is the episode (specifically, the scene when the spirits of the abandoned cards surprise the boys in the woods) where Judai learns Manjoume can see monster spirits like he can.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Slade's deck is composed of rare and powerful dragon cards.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Chazz summons all three of the Ojama brothers, he gives one to Slade, stating that for all the faults the three Ojamas have they taught him something important: good brothers support each other, and since Slade isn't a good brother, that means Chazz doesn't feel bad about beating him.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: In-universe. Chazz takes his brothers' condition and goes a step further using monsters with 0 original attack points.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Kaiba by forcing one of his students to deal with a handicap of no more than 500 attack points. Sure, it makes Chazz become a better strategist, but it was still a very risky gambit.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Slade may have a deck of extremely powerful, rare cards, but this is literally his first duel. He loses because he doesn't even try to anticipate Chazz's strategy.
- Weak, but Skilled: Chazz deliberately fills his deck with 0 attack monsters, but most of which come with abilities or support cards.
- Your Door Was Open: Chazz is making renovations to his room, so when Jaden and Syrus come by, they don't knock, to his fury, because... the door isn't there.
