Bakugan Anime: Ability Card Artworks!

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Hey everyone! Pivoting off of #1203217466805846066 , I thought it would be cool to put together a thread of every existing bakugan artwork for Ability Cards! A couple of them are in BakuProject, but there are a lot more that people should see, so I'll just be posting them here! Go ahead and comment your thoughts on them if you wish, but I believe these look really cool!

Starting off is the classic Boosted Dragon (EP 4 Tutorial). Funny enough, they use the same artwork for the TCG Gate Card "Fire Pit", which is neat.

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Dimension 4 (EP 4)

This is a pretty cool one, not sure if that's a Bakugan in the center or a person, but I do like the effect.

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Cut in saber gets 2 tcg cards cause why not

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Higher Quality Cutin Saber with Runo's thumb in the way

Twin Machete (EP 6)

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Water Refrain (EP 8 and 9)

Love the effect of the sinking ability cards

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Nose Slap (EP 10 Tutorial)

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Winds of Fury (EP 11 Tutorial)

Same artwork

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Air Battle (EP 12 Tutorial)

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Melt Flare (EP 16 Tutorial)

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Mega Impact (EP 19 Tutorial)

Same artwork

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Green Nobility Violet Wind (EP 20 Tutorial)

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Pure Light (EP 21 Tutorial)

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Will be back with more at a later date!

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Dive Mirage (EP 22)

Triple Node (EP 22 Tutorial)

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this pic of ravenoid is so cool (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

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Ikr it’s fantastic

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all this thread did is remind me how much I hate them for not just releasing the official artwork for the cards without those dumb borders

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I assume it exists somewhere and we just don’t have our hands on it

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fr like i'd love to see a yugioh esc artbook with the cardarts

somethin like this

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bakugan just hates full art

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They do

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it blows how they made alot of things towards collector's and art appreciator's worst interest (Not releasing every bakugan in every attribute, Not releasing full art/accurate cards)

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It’s such a shame because it’s probably out there somewhere and whoever has it just refuses to release it

Like many other Bakugan documents I would love to get my hands on

coughs

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what are those ?

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it definitely is out there, they reuse so many assets for them to not just have a whole sheet of em probably

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It’s a reference sheet for the battle for Episode 13. It has the exact details of what everyone’s loadouts are, which is the most important thing for me. More of these are confirmed to exist but I haven’t been able to find them anywhere.

If you look through the paper you can faintly see another one under it

If I could get my hands on any pictures or scans of them the majority of my dilemmas surrounding the Bakugan Anime will be solved forever

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How dare you send me down a rabbit hole I don’t have the time for, closest I got to that were these setting materials

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Saurus Glow (EP 23 Tutorial)

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I love how this card is glowing so much that it’s almost impossible to see

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My question is do they ever show the back of the ability cards or is it the same as the gate cards

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i'd assume its the same as the gates

i'll double check tho

yep its the same

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Good to know thanks Poke

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you're welcome

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Remember to add wing burst cause I forgor

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I’ll do it later I’m lazy rn

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Wing Burst (EP 23 Tutorial)

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Thanks

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You're Welcome

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Haos Freeze (EP 25 Tutorial)

noticing a trend in the abuse of fear ripper

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Good

Fear Ripper has never been used by a good guy so that makes sense

Makes me wonder what the Slash Zero artwork looks like

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Dual Gazer (EP 27 Tutorial)

Gazer Exedra (EP 27 Tutorial)

first evolution card

yippie

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ofc Fear Ripper is getting jumped rn

He fr is always getting jumped

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Yes and Yes

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thank you

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shouldn't the doom card be here?

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Not an Ability Card

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It was more like a mechanic card plus it was already explained in the show and by masquerade himself

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What do you think about this? It is 2006 thing

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It’s before the anime started but I do wonder what’s in it

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Noone knows

But propably that's manga

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There was a description of this, I can find it later if I remember

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Okay

Im interested

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Seems to have originated out of a new years exclusive pack

So it’s probably incredibly rare

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Oh I see

Interesting

Now we must find scans of this manga

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Don’t even think the mangaka is online

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D Strike Attack? (EP28 Tutorial)

This one also features 2 other cards

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Il read them im pretty sure one of those is wall burst or Dragonic Enforcement

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ur image is clearer actually

Heres the Fusion ability though

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I assumed it was d-strike since it was a +200

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It is

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it is. The other 2 i meant

but i cant read them ToT

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Oh

Right right

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This should be Blasphemy

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What covering the card?

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So apparently this was actuall Ability Card Art...

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Looks like it was proberly the beginning work for the legendary soldiers of vestoria ability cards

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For a 3D game, it would be good to make the 3D render identical to the 2D reference

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True but I’d assume it would be alot of work to get the pose and lighting right

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It really would

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Grand Impact (EP29 Tutorial)

Correlation between Haos and Darkus (EP30 Tutorial)

Correlation between Pyrus and Subterra (EP30 Tutorial)

Destruction Meteor Storm (EP31 Tutorial)

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I am happy that I know Grand Impact’s full effect now

It’s pretty broken

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i just noticed we forgot correlation of ventus and pyrus

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I didn’t put in any of the correlations or diagonals on purpose

But if you wanna put them here you can

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oh

nah its all good

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Maybe its time i Made the Special Abilities for S1

I could easily replicate the correlation abilities

Once the actuall card is made

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Velocity Fang (EP32 Tutorial)

D Strike Extreme (EP33 Tutorial)

First Fusion ability wow

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Technically Melt Flare is

But Melt Flare seems to have the normal Green background

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oh yeah

Shining Pyrus (EP34 Tutorial)

Big Bang Blaze (EP 34)

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Damn there’s a lot of cards in big bangs artwork

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Sure would be nice if they could show those to us

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Pretty sure on the right side is dimension 4 and I think dive mirage?

Then again I could just be chattin mad shit

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Trident of Doom(EP38 Tutorial)

Ultimate Dragon(EP39 Tutorial)

Exceed(EP39 Tutorial)

Spirit Canyon(EP40 Tutorial)

Auragano Revenge(EP40 Tutorial)

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Saurus, Serp, and Mantris in this artwork

Good representation of what it does

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granted its no different but here it is from ep 42

Frame Fire(EP44 Tutorial)

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and here it is again from ep 44

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The only difference I can notice for the other spirit canon is that the letters are little more readable

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also the lil text part

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Magma Prominence(EP45 Tutorial)

Grand Down(EP46 Tutorial)

Blow Away (EP47 Tutorial)

Venomous Beast Torrent Attack (EP49 Tutorial)

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You wanna know something interesting I just found

In every character specific Ability the Bakugan’s artwork is clear, but for Attribute specific Abilities the Bakugan are shadowed out

Only exception is the Ventus Triple Chain

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wonder what bakugans in magma prominence

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I literally cannot tell

What’s in Blow Away?

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tuskor?

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Oh yeah

I’m stupid

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It's a Subterta Facloneer

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Could it be pyrus since the fire?

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Possibly

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thats a neat detail

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i still cant get over this artwork of ravenoid he looks so cool

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It’s such a shame that these are all of the artworks we have

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And with those this thread is complete

Until the artwork book rises from the ashes of time

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i mean theres no others in episodes right?

no other artworks

besides the many corrolations and diagonal

since we didnt grab em

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I’m assuming that means no more artwork for abilty cards in Baku project unless dev feels like doing custom art work for all the cards

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If you wanna grab the diagonals you can

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Honestly someone making custom art would be awesome

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i mean he also uses screenshots for anthemusa and javelin

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Ugh we need the book

Someone has to find it

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There is an art book ? I could try looking for it

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In theory there is an art book, since the art had to have come from somewhere

No one knows where it could be though

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Best I have found is artwork for the standard abilty cards on deviantart

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Reactivate

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I thought it's a bakugan

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If it is I can’t tell which one

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Maybe it’s a classic design?

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Original version of hynoid maybe?

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i just assume its a b1 design of some sort

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At some point it looks like robotallion, or saurus

maybe manga has more answers?

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Could be siege

I think it’s prob more likely hynoid tho

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Almost kind of Preyas like, it looks like it has webbed hands and feet

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I think it could be Robo

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Unfortunately there isn’t a manga, at least not one that this show is based on

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Open sesame

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wakey wakey

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also the gorem character card too

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50 to subterra

https://tenor.com/view/oh-hell-no-gif-24718703

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but hey 150 to ventus

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Alive

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nuh uh

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Alive again

Sorry I keep bumping this thread when there’s no new artworks I wish we had more

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i mean theres these from our production art hunt from that russian fandom but idk what cards they're

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This card’s name is Fire Breath but from what I can tell it just seems to be a placeholder name with random png artworks

That’s for all of them btw

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I see

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I need this now

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What episode did water Refrain Appeared in bakugan anime Japanese Tutorial?

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dont think it doe

it appears in ep 8 during preyas v saurus

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Thanks but I want to ask you something before I go Where is this site from that actually shows Boosted dragon?

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oh uhh

pretty sure its some old production stuff

so it doesnt have a website

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ok

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Yeah there was no tutorial for this card unfortunately, which would have been really nice since its definition is very vague.

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the only definition is from the BB card series but even thats pretty bland

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For the next my turn is sending me

Good chance that it’s right though

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Does this confirm it only works on other people though?

Anime speaking* not game

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I don’t remember if I’m being honest I think it’s for everyone

I’ll double check tonight

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i dont think so? i could be wrong iirc marucho uses it in ep 9 and runo was still able to use cut in saber

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Maybe it only affects opponents and ignores teammates

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I mean. If it works on the user as well. Just cause it says "another player"

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i wanna assume the "next my turn" is meant to be something like "until its my next turn"

kinda like how destiny bond's effect is in pokemon "When Destiny Bond is used, until the user moves again, if the user faints as the direct result of an attack the attacking Pokémon also faints."

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Pretty much

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Or "Until the end of your next turn, your opponent(s) cannot activate ability cards."

Too much yugioh

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I love these old cards, I used to have some

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Dragonic Enforcement (ep36)

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Meteor Strike Dragon?

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no d-strike already has one.

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Ah

I go by the sub names lol

I hate mobile

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Nice find I can’t believe I missed that one

I had to go back and check lmao

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tbf its in the episode itself so i'd imagine it could be skipped over

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@glacial surge how sure are we that Double Dimension is a different ability in the anime...

There's an irl card right?

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There’s an IRL card of both D4 and DD, that’s a nice find but I’m willing to bet it was an animation error from reusing a cutscene

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I see

I was about to say

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It also wouldn’t make much sense considering the scene and the dialogue

Unless D4 has like some weird stacking effect or whatever

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What i was thinking for a second

Probably an error though

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Anyways Im going over each cards activation requirements right now. Cause I may have come up with a plausible difference for red and green

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ik this is way later but it prob was just a error since iirc in ep2 when masquerade uses both cards its the exact same animation twice

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Double Dimension and Dimension 4 are different abilities with different effects. Dimension 4 affects Attribute Gate Cards, and Double Dimension nullifies an opponents Ability Card. Those 2 ability cards literally live rent free in my head.