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- It seems unlikely that everyone already has cards suited for Rush Duels unless Yuga designed rush duels around the cards already circulating. This would also explain just how stiff duels were if the cards reached the point to need an entirely new format to work properly. This is only reinforced when you discovered that Otes, the one that inspired rush duels and schemed to make them a thing in the first place, is a Goha official that actually designed cards (including Yuga's ace, again, the card that pushed him to create rush duels), making even more likely that the cards were already pushing in that direction.
- It's later revealed that Yuga's update to create Rush Duels also sent a pulse through the Goha network, and Neiru's update to create Maximum's did the same and even caused the discarded prototype duel disks to be able to change their ID cards into Maximum cards. Thus, when Yuga created Rush Duels in the first place, the system also updated all existing cards to be compatible as well.
- This would also explain Yuga's view that master duels were boring, and Otes' view to a stagnant dueling world, since Goha Duels are more like the duels during the original Duel Monsters era or even worse considering the fact there are no continuous Spell/Trap cards and additional summoning methods, Card effects can only be activated on the field with certain requirements and the stronger cards are limited to only 1 per deck due to being classified as Legend Cards.
- Roa's major motivation is his status as The Unchosen One, wishing he'd received Sevens Road Magician (And thus the ability to become King of Duels) instead of Yuga. Appropriately, his ace monster has 2500 ATK like the previous protagonists instead of 3000 ATK like the previous rivals.
- On the subject of Seven Roads Magician, its 2100 ATK matches Dark Magician's DEF. Symbolising how Yuga is forced into defense mode to protect his new format from Goha.
- Yuga and Luke's respective Ace Monsters have a lot of things in common with their original inspirations, the Dark Magician and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, especially when you consider their modern playstyles. Sevens Road Magician may not be as strong as other monsters but it has the potential to overcome them through the various use of supporting cards, much like how Dark Magician has many tricks up his sleeve to steer the direction of the battle in his favor. Multistrike Dragon Dragias follows the Blue-Eyes White Dragon philosophy of the path of least resistance. It is often the strongest monster on the field and thus its supporting cards makes sure it stays that way.
- Nail is big on 'Providence'. One definition is 'timely preparation for future eventualities' - his deck is all about filtering his hand to get the cards he needs.
- Magnum Over Road abilities makes perfect sense when you consider Yuga's philosophy in creating Rush Duels. He was tired by the "strict" duels he saw, so of course, he would have an ace focusing on a simple strategy, just hitting your opponent very hard with a huge attack, and protection from traps to avoid stalling. Magnum Over Road also gets its attack boost from facing a big creature and having fewer hit points than your opponent: considering Yuga created Rush Duel to always allow a comeback, it's only natural his trump card would turn a pinch into a power-up.
- Aside from having more attributes to power-up Sevens Road Magician, another reason why Yuga has various other non-Spellcaster type monsters in his deck could be because he doesn't want his deck to become strict and rigid like Goha Duels, which causes him to continue adding and switching cards and strategies to make the game more interesting for himself and his opponent.
- This can also be shown with Romin adding three of the Sports Dragon cards Luke loaned her during her duel with Yuka, where they compliment her play style despite not being part of her archetype, as well as Asana adding in her club’s ace monsters and modifying her deck to place more emphasis on cards that support Level 7+ monsters.
- Many of Yuga's new monsters also tend to be level Seven. His number motif versus the Goha Six. For the more critical of Yuga it also can be seen as Yuga adding an additional step (or sacrifice) for only so much gain power and effect wise.
- This is also why Nail appears to hit a wall upon his subsequent returns. As a boy of data and facts, Nail ends up being very rigid, while he may switch out some cards, they all serve to bring out Yggdrago. Even when others are switching to Fusion Monsters, Nail insists on using his Maximum Monster which by now, most of his opponents know how to get around it.
- Why did Yuga lose to Luke in the battle royal team tournament? Because from the perspective of Luke King Luke Kings, YugaNail with R can be seen as antagonistic. The first duel was between a blackmailer and his former victim, the second duel was an uphil battle between a lone warrior standing against a near undefeatable opponent, and the last duel was between rivals with the winner being the one with a greater desire to achieve victory and his goal.
- It's worth pointing out that two of the members of YugaNail with R are former arc villains, adding to the theme. And the fact that Luke King Luke Kings doesn't have Maximum Summoning puts them even more in the position of an underdog protagonist in the fight. They also start the finals with less points, and narratively is the main character that starts with a disadvantage.
- Yuka's Baseball deck and the monsters based on Yuma's monsters, combined with a baseball setting, may be a reference to Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episode 81. Additionally, Yuma's main archetype of cards are based on Onomatopoeia sound effects in manga, frequently involving striking things, which may further explain the baseball themed deck.
- As noted above, in the rush duel tournament Yuga's team was framed in an antagonistic manner, leading to Luke's victory. In the final duel of the Goha siblings' arc, however, the situation is exactly reversed, with Yuga fighting with his usual companions against Luke, who sides with a Goha executive and wields a summoning method precluded to everyone on the other team. Even better, in both cases Nail is given a special permit (although it is more of an order in the second case) and duels in the penultimate battle.
- During Yuga and Luke’s duel near the end of the Team Battle Royal Arc, they both use an old card that perfectly reflects their character’s: Luke used Pot of Greed, which lets him draw two cards for no cost, reflecting his huge ego and desire to be the best either blinding him to the real problems the characters are facing, or directly contribute to them. Yuga used Graceful Charity, which lets him draw three cards, but then has to discard two for the cost, reflecting his selfless nature to make dueling enjoyable and making sacrifices to help others. This is further exemplified during the Goha Siblings Arc, where Luke sided with Yuo without any hesitation under the belief he was the sixth sibling, while Yuga, after defeating The☆Lukeman, negotiates with Yuo to reinstate his siblings as president in exchange for him working for Goha.
- Yuo's hobby is using puppets and combing his monsters with Imaginary Actor to create cyborgs. He was defeated by Luke, who was being puppeted by The☆Lukeman, a cybernetic being.
- After its introduction in Season 2, Maximum Summoning had fallen out of focus in favor of Fusion Summoning. But this makes sense in context considering the circumstances. Maximum Monsters require a complete card overwrite onto 3 duelist ID cards, something that is difficult to get a hold of. It’s implied they also have to be recharged every once in a while or else they revert back to the ID cards. Because of this only a small handful of characters have Maximum Monsters. The Fusion card on the other hand is a bit more accessible after the arc it was introduced in. A big part of the second arc of Season 2 is showing off Fusion Monsters from major characters, most notably Luke, Romin, and Gakuto since they didn't have access to Maximum Monsters. As such, Maximum Monsters are pushed aside not because of the new summoning method, but because the Fusion card is easier to get.
- Given Goha's theme numbering, it is little wonder the arc where Yuga and co are working at Goha is the sixth arc of the series.
- Yuga Goha being being beaten by Luke using Yuga's deck notes how he is a dark reflection of both of them. Like Yuga he uses a multi-attribute deck to support his Dark ace monsters, spreads chaos, and has quite a lot of similarities to Yuga in name and appearance. Like Luke he became who he is from exposure to adult duel centers, has inexplicable powers connected to an object, and comes from a powerful family while generally going by a different name. However all of these are dark reflections of the two: He uses his other cards to power up Gunleon and Caliguleon much more callously than Yuga powers Seven Roads Magician, his chaos isn't the sort that revitalizes oppressive order but destruction and loss, and those who had thought Yuga was the lost Goha sibling would very much have preferred Yuga to the terrifying and ruthless Yuga Goha, while Luke got his dueling skills from his exposure to adult dueling versus Yuga getting his ruthlessness from it, Luke's 'Luke Devil' ability is not used to make people lose their memories or to hurt those around him in general, nor does his ability to create cards from nowhere or no-sell mind control, and while Luke chooses to go by Luke Yuga Goha became Swirly because he lost his memories and was stuck that way. Both Yuga and Luke were labeled as the sixth sibling at one point, further linking the two to Yuga Goha.
- Luke defeating him in particular brings to mind his duels with Yuga the good guy: Both Yuga's rely a lot on their graveyards, and Luke is well aware of that. He had already incorporated cards that can counter that to his own deck (Road Crusher for example), and thus he had the mindset to find a way to recreate that ability with Yuga's cards.
- When you think to a certain parody of the original series, Otes's plan is to put children back into a children's card game.
- Why does Sevens Road Magician gain ATK based on the number of different attributes in the graveyard? Because the in-universe fairy tale character the card is based on goes around destroying the 6 elements of Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Light, and Darkness as part of his journey.
- Mimi Atachi is very unsettling in concept wrapped up in Japanese to Western Values Dissonance. First of all she basically has the same condition of Baby Doll from Batman: The Animated Series. She doesn't physically age past a very young point in human life. Mimi is constantly mistaken for a child by others, to the point she has issues getting into bars. This is played for comedy, unlike what happened with Baby Doll who was played for tragedy. On top of that, she has a child. This raises quite a few questions, in particular who married the eternal Elementary Student and had a child with her.
- Marriage is not a prerequisite for pregnancy and childbirth. While nearly every society in the history of Earth discriminated against unwed mothers, it has never been a biological necessity. So the question is who slept with her and impregnated her with Yoshio.
- The President Drone proves capable of a full Villain Override on the president. While Mimi was off-balance with a horrible headache afterwards, how badly did it affect the previous elderly president? And since the Goha Staff don't actually know who the president is, how many times has the President Drone swapped out a fresh president without anyone noticing?
- How the hell is Maximum Summoning a thing when Yuga didn’t even intend for it to be part of the Rush Duel format? He programmed it himself, so there is no way there could be any in-game summoning method he doesn’t know about. Also, how is the play that Neiru pulled legal in any sense of the word? Near the climax of the Birth of Rush Duel arc, Roa said that Yuga should be disqualified for having a card that no one else had. And that card still follows average Duel Monsters rules! Meanwhile, Neiru is using cards that use a method of summoning that no one knows about, which definitely means that no one else even owns a maximum card at all. There is no way Yggdrago should be a legal card in the context of the show, and Neiru should have been disqualified the moment he drew the card.
- Yuga isn't the only one that can change the rules. Neiru had access to the relic (when he had a conversation with Otes), plus he's extremely high level in Goha. So he added his own rules to the game. And because he is a high-level member of Goha, he can declare any of the cards he makes to be legal as well.
- Confirmed in Episode 24 that Nail had implemented a new summoning method in a vacant area in the programming that was left by Yuga to install new rules later down the line.
- That is downright hacking and still shouldn’t be legal. If someone were to hack Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links and add Pendulum Summoning without Konami's consent, they would get a HARD ban. Also, why does the word of Goha have any more weight than that of Yuga, the creator of Rush Duels?! That would be like if Upper Deck was the company that made the ban list for the real-life card game!
- It doesn't, Nail did not modify Yuga's work, he noticed an opening that Yuga deliberately left for others to fill. It's not hacking, but more like winning a contest by being the only one participating. Also, Yuga merely created a new format with its rules, but the cards and legality are still made and determined by Goha (which is also how it work in real life: if you developed a format and Konami adopted, they would still make the cards for it and any ban list would require their approval to be official, this is actually how the commander format in Magic works). Also, when you look at it more carefully, while Yuga created the format it was only implemented and made legal by Otes' shenanigans, and Otes himself is a Goha official.
- And how did Maximum Summoning get past Goha in the first place? Surely something like a -tron deck centered around Maximum Summoning would make the meta boring, similar to the PePe deck in the master duel format proper. There is no way that the tops of hexagon would approve of something that could break the game.
- All sorts of answers for that: they have other decks with similar effectiveness to roll out, few people will want to play that deck style, Mr. Goha finds it amusing and doesn't want it to stop just yet, hard to say at the moment.
- It doesn't get past Goha, though, Nail is Goha. The episode that introduced Maximum Summoning actually had the tops of hexagon trying to remove him and utterly failing, so they can't stop him, and he actually planned the summoning method around a deck that could easily get it through constant filtering (although we don't know how many Maximum Cards are allowed in a deck), so that's not the question. Mr. Goha is the only one who could do anything about it, but he seems to be just having fun so far. Also, likely Rule of Cool and the different way card availability works in the anime are why Maximum will keep being a thing.
