Obelisk would defeat Slifer in a battle

Thank you, ethopia, for your response. Now to counter. 1. Power My opponent cites the card Reckless Greed to allow Slifer to destroy Obelisk. However, he doesn't actually explain its effect in this battle. Reckless Greed allows the Slifer duelist to draw 2 cards [1]. This increases Slifer's ATK by 2000. This still doesn't even compare to the infinite ATK that Obelisk's Soul Energy Max grants him. My opponent also claims that a Slifer duelist could use cards to prevent Special Summons. He does not list any, so there's no way to refute how these cards could be countered; as the point is not refutable in its current form, merely an empty statement with no proper evidence, it is worthless. The only card I can think of that fits this description is Jowgen the Spiritualist; however, it is weak, easily destroyed by cards such as Fissure, and would probably be used as a sacrifice to Slifer, allowing the Obelisk duelist the chance to use Call of the Haunted and complete the combo I already mentioned. My opponent finally claims that if Slifer appears on the field before Obelisk, it can wipe out the Obelisk duelist's Life Points. Maybe. However, that wouldn't be a battle between Obelisk the Tormentor and Slifer the Sky Dragon; that would be a Duel between two duelists. Both monsters would have to already be on the field for it to count for this Duel, and once Obelisk is on the field, none of my opponent's strategies would stop Obelisk from utterly destroying Slifer with Soul Energy Max with the instant strategy I described in the last round. Note that if Obelisk managed to be summoned after Slifer, the strategy could still be used on that same turn by substituting a card like Monster Reborn for Call of the Haunted. 2. Battles and Summonings My opponent claims that Yugi "sometimes does not know how to use some cards." He offers no evidence for this, citing no examples, while I have cited misplays made by Kaiba. I'll cite more: In the Battle City Finals [2], Kaiba managed to get Obelisk in his opening hand; however, Yugi expertly forced Kaiba to waste his powerful Soul Exchange Spell card and seal Obelisk away for three turns. Kaiba then severely underestimated Yugi by trying to take Slifer from Yugi's deck with Lullaby of Obedience, only for Yugi to turn the tables on Kaiba by taking Slifer back with Exchange. Yugi was clearly the more silled duelist, able to summon Slifer before Kaiba even though Kaiba topdecked Obelisk while Yugi had Slifer buried in the bottom half of his deck. My opponent cites Kaiba's duel with Ishizu, in which Obelisk would have blown up had he attacked. For one thing, this only shows Kaiba to be even worse of a duelist; he would have lost the Duel had he followed through with his plan, and was saved only by the Millenium Rod, which never aided him when he dueled Yugi [3]. Additionally, Slifer would have fallen in the same way as Obelisk, had Slifer been infected with the Blast instead. My opponent continues to add that Slifer has fewer disadvantages than Obelisk. This is completely and utterly false. The only reason that any Duelist (besides Yugi in Season 3, destroying Obelisk with a card that would have destroyed any of the Egyptian Gods in such a circumstance) has ever defeated an Egyptian God card without a God card of their own was due to Slifer's inability to control its own second mouth. In the first occurence, Yugi locked Slifer into an infinite loop, forcing the Mime to deck own and lose [1:1]. In the second, Yugi was able to easily predict Slifer's attacks and forced Slifer to attack a reflective barrier formed by Magnet Force a total of seven times [4,2:6]. Slifer has problems, not Obelisk. In addition, Slifer is vulnerable to numerous hand-targetting cards such as Life Shaver, Lightforce Sword, and Time Seal, while Obelisk has no comparable weaknesses at all. Finally, my opponent points out how Slifer and Obelisk were "evenly matched" in the Battle City Finals Duel between Yugi and Kaiba. However, this was only in one duel, and Obelisk was handicapped by a weaker Duelist, Kaiba, who failed to use Soul Energy Max in the correct way when necessary. Had Kaiba played his cards right, Obelisk would have destroyed Slifer with an unstoppable force. Additionally, Obelisk did defeat Slifer in that clash, although Slifer simultaneously managed to destroy Obelisk. To conclude, Obelisk still wipes the floor with Slifer. Good luck in your final round, ethopia. 1. http://yugioh.wikia.com... 2. http://yugioh.wikia.com... 3. http://yugioh.wikia.com... 4. http://yugioh.wikia.com...