Yu - Gi - Oh ! - Duel 046 The Evil Dragon Cards ( Part 1 ) is the forty sixth chapter of the Yu - Gi - Oh ! manga . This chapter was originally printed in the " Weekly Shōnen Jump " magazine in Japanese . Its first English release was in the Shonen Jump magazine . It has been reprinted in volume 6 of the tankōbon and volume 4 of the bunkoban . Summary . Kame Game . At Kame Game , Sugoroku shows Yugi , Jonouchi and Anzu a dogs and jackals game . He says that it is an ancient Egyptian game where players race their pieces around a board shaped like a frog . Jonouchi says that " Ancient Egypt " sounds familiar and is intrigued that they had board games back then . Sugoroku states that the history of games goes back 5000 years . The store ' s bell rings and a customer enters carrying a box and pot bound together in some rope . The customer greets Yugi , who recognizes him as Imori from his class . Yugi thinks to himself , he has not spoken much to Imori before , but now that he is coming to the family shop , this may be a chance to make friends with him . Having heard Yugi ' s family run a game store , Imori says that there is something he would like them to take a look at and puts the pot and box on the counter . Yugi and Jonouchi are both puzzled by what it is , but Sugoroku is surprised as he recognizes it . Imori explains that his grandfather , who was a game collector picked it up in Manchuria during World War II and recently Imori found it lying around in their shed and thought Sugoroku might know what it is . Yugi does not think it looks like a game and Jonouchi comments that it is more like an urn . Jonouchi asks if he can open it and Imori says to go ahead , he has not done so himself yet . However Sugoroku yells at Jonouchi not to . Sugoroku apologizes for shouting , but insists that the seal must not be broken . He explains that this is ancient Chinese game called Dragon Cards . He has heard rumors of it , but this is the first time that he has seen it . Sugoroku tells them that it is written that the Dragon Cards were used by a master as a final test for students in China . Anzu has heard of people rearranging furniture in light of feng shui . Sugoroku explains that feng shui is a form of magic that uses the energies of nature . It has been gradually systemized since China ' s Golden Age four thousand years ago . Anzu asks why the Dragon Cards were sealed away . Sugoroku asks if they they have heard of the concept of in Chinese philosophy ; Yin means shadow and yang means light . They represent how everything in the world is a balance of light and dark . He says that currently the Dragon Cards are yin and the seal holding them is yang , creating a balance . If the seal was to be broken the yin and yang would clash creating a warped power . Yugi is astonished and Jonouchi is freaked out . Sugoroku asks Imori to promise he will not break the seal . Anzu is amazed and slightly urged to break the seal . Jonouchi calls her stupid , commenting that she will get cursed . Yugi looks at the sealed - up cards anxiously and wonders what kind of game Dragon Cards was . Imori takes it back and smirks thinking " power of the shadows " ( " power of darkness " in the Japanese version ) . Pool . A few days later , Yugi and Jonouchi leap into the swimming pool at school . One of the students complains that Jonouchi is chasing them underwater . Meanwhile Imori sits against a fence watching . Afterwards Yugi and Jonouchi return to the changing room . Jonouchi celebrates how summer was made for the pool ; " Good for the body ! Good for the heart ! And easy on the eyes ! " . As Yugi goes to collect his clothes , he finds that the Millennium Puzzle is gone . He finds a note saying : Jonouchi asks what is wrong , but Yugi says it is nothing . Room C . Set - up . Yugi races to Room C , where he finds Imori sitting alone at a desk . On the desk is an object hidden under a piece of cloth . Other than him , the room was devoid of people . Imori holds up the Millennium Puzzle , which he was now wearing around his neck . Yugi says that this is not funny and demands the puzzle back . Imori explains that he has been interested in Yugi for a while ; Not a weird way , but rather that he looks up to him . Clutching onto the Millennium Puzzle he says that Yugi used to be bullied by everyone , but one day he got the Millennium Puzzle and gained the powers of darkness , and asked Yugi if that was right . Yugi is surprised but does not say anything . Imori tells Yugi that his own grandfather left him all sorts of books on games and Ancient Egypt . At first , he did not think that there was a connection , but then he found the secret of the Millennium Puzzle . It was written in the book : Imori had sworn to himself that he would defeat Yugi and take his place as the guardian of darkness . Saying that Yugi must defeat him in this Shadow Game in order to get back the Millennium Puzzle , he pulls the cloth off the object on the table , revealing it to be the Dragon Cards . Yugi tries stopping him , but Imori removes the seal from the box and pot , laughing that he is releasing the shadow power . After visiting Yugi ' s family shop , Imori says that he did some research on the Dragon Cards in a text about Ancient China . According to the text , once the seal on the Dragon Cards is broken , a Shadow Game must be played or the people of that land will suffer eternal disaster . There is only one way to replace the seal , Imori explains ; The loser of the Shadow Game must offer their soul to the soul - eating jar to calm the wrath of the cards . He opens the box containing the cards and tells Yugi not to try backing out , as he cannot escape the Dragon Cards . Rules . Yugi sits at the table and Imori explains the rules : The deck is placed in the center of the table . According to feng shui , chi develops in mountains and flows into the earth . That is called Dragon ' s Breath . In this case , the deck acts like the mountains and the table acts like the earth . There is power flowing around the deck . These are the five elements of evil held in balance . Imori says that each player draws six cards one after the other . Each card depicts a dragon of one of the five elements and has a level from one to five . There are three copies of each card , making a total of 75 cards . If a player collects three copies of the same card , they can summon its dragon . The players collect the strongest Dragon Cards they can and Summon two dragons each . The player who defeats their opponent ' s dragons wins . Game . Yugi and Imori draw their six cards to start the game . Without the Millennium Puzzle , Yugi has to believe in himself for this game . Imori titters , thinking to himself ; He has this game studied thoroughly and knows all the ways to win , while Yugi is just his plain old self without the Millennium Puzzle . Imori goes first and draws a level 4 water dragon . Since he already has another level 4 water dragon in his hand , he just needs one more to be able to summon the water dragon , Shui Long . He then discards a level 1 metal dragon that he does not need . He thinks to himself that like in other card games , you can read your opponent ' s hand by the cards they throw away . Yugi starts his turn . He draws a level 5 fire dragon and discards a level 1 dragon . As the game progresses , Imori smirks having figure out what element Yugi is collecting . Finally Yugi assembles two dragons and plays them . Imori also plays two dragons . Mists starts to rise from the cards and the dragons are summoned . Imori has two water dragons , Shui Long of levels 3 and 4 . Yugi has a level 5 fire dragon , Huo Long and a metal dragon , Jin Long . Fire is weak against water and metal strengthens water , so Yugi is immediately put at a disadvantage and the two Shui Longs use their Flood Attack to defeat Yugi ' s dragons . Since Yugi lost , Imori laughs that he must now suffer a Penalty Game and give his soul to the dragons . Shui Long sticks its arm into Yugi ' s torso , pulls out his soul in the form of a sphere and dissolves back into the pot , taking the soul with it . Imori laughs that Yugi ' s soul was is sucked into the soul - eating jar . ( In the Japanese version , he calls the jar the " Xing Zhen Hu " . ) Yugi ' s soulless body flops onto the table , but manages to touch the Millennium Puzzle with one hand as Imori celebrates . The puzzle activates and Yugi switches to Dark Yugi , who says just in time . He takes back the puzzle and says next time he will stake his other soul . Anime adaption . Episode 18 , of the Toei anime is based on this chapter and the next . Differences included :