Found this interesting video on youtube...

cant really understand it. but from what i saw, it looked like he used a cheat device to see the opponent's hand. and that the opponent doesn't really have base ritual cards? so it must be impossible to win base ritual cards.

This is very interesting to me. Is it a coincidence that Nitemare's hand was full of cards that are some of his rare drops? It would have been nice to see him actually win the duel so we could see what card was dropped.

Back when I did emulator tests, it also puzzled me how the opponent played the cards in their hand. I determined the cards he had in his hand by writing down what card in his hand he played every turn. After seeing this, I can see why I was so puzzled -- they morph the cards in their hand.

I think that someone should try to get their hands on this code and mess with it to see if there is any correspondence with the cards shown in the opponent's hand with the card they drop.

I wonder if the same thing happens when the COM's face down trap is activated.

^I think that the cards shown in his video are related to the card that drops. Nitemare's ATK and DEF factors are where they should be with that BEUD deck he has. When you S-TEC him, his monsters get pretty weak (in the 1800 ATK/DEF range), which averages out to about 2300, which is usually about his ATK/DEF factor.

quote Karimyo

But one thing still puzzles me. If the first card is the card that is morphed then why do the NPCs sometimes do not play the first card?

That puzzled me too, I wonder if some testing might give us an answer though.

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Take Low Meadow Mage for example, he will almost always start off with Sogen, still, it's not always the first card on his hand. Maybe the COM changes the most useless card into something useful, or maybe he has more than 3 Sogen's, and always start with one.

quote Duncan Idaho

quote helltoast

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Take Low Meadow Mage for example, he will almost always start off with Sogen, still, it's not always the first card on his hand. Maybe the COM changes the most useless card into something useful, or maybe he has more than 3 Sogen's, and always start with one.

no Helltoast, the COM follows the 3 limit card rule.

Then this 'trick' probably changes the most useless card, I think, because, IIRC, he doesn't always pick the first card on his hand.