#berfomet

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Big-Winged Berfomet

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Yugi's Battle City Monsters: The Beast-King and the Demon, or: Winged Mythical Beast Chimera

We'll start off our proper Battle City Monster Card coverage with the two monsters we see Dark Yugi use in the first fight of the arc, against the Exodia-wielding Rare Hunter. These are, of course, the same two that can fuse together to form "Winged Mythical Beast Chimera" (or "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast")!

Make way for the king! It's "Mythical Beast King Gazelle"!

The 幻獣 in this card's Japanese name, 「幻獣王ガゼル」, confused me the first time I was checking name translations in my project. I wasn't sure just what to make of the idea of a 'phantom/mythical beast'. After referencing various languages resources (jisho and weblio really helped me out here!), I learned that another equivalent for 幻獣 would be 'cryptid', which greatly cleared things up!

(In fact, I was strongly considering calling my version of this card "Cryptid King Gazelle" at one point, which is a name that would definitely fit on the top of a card better...but I think 'mythical beast' is the intent here, all things considered.)

A neat thing about Yugi's Battle City deck is that most of the monster types present in it all reflect the monster types he had back in Duelist Kingdom. Warriors, Knights, Demons, Magic-Users, Dragons...and, as we see here, Beasts! The only thing is, there are slightly less monsters in the Battle City deck's original lineup than there are in the Duelist Kingdom lineup, so some types, like Beast, go under-represented here.

Fun fact: in Yu-Gi-Oh! R, this monster's attribute is said to be Wood, an attribute exclusive to the manga continuity and one that's pretty rare for a monster to have. I'm not 100% sure this is also the case in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga; but the author of that series, Akira Ito, was an assistant for the main series who worked closely with original author Kazuki Takahashi on both works, so it's possible he got this information from Takahashi himself.

New deck, new demons! "Baphomet" breaks free like a bat outta hell!

Naturally, Konami international censored this name as "Berfomet" to avoid any demonic accusations by certain watchdog groups of the '00s. Of course, this card still bears many demonic traits regardless, so I can only guess those groups weren't paying too much attention, thankfully!

Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that this illustration contains a coloring error. For whatever reason, there are many monsters in the Battle City arc that frequently have coloring issues in the 2016 color version of the manga. "Baphomet" is one, but this group also includes "Magnet Warrior α", "Dark Demon Gilfer", and even some versions of "Black Magician Girl"!

In this case, the art I used as the source for my "Baphomet" card's illustration was the biggest possible art piece I could use. All the others were very tiny in comparison. It's another case where sometimes, you have to make a tradeoff, and I prioritized image resolution over these small errors.

I suspect this monster has the flying ability, thanks to its wings. (In fact, the only monster that ever kills it is "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", which also has the flying ability.) Furthermore, since its fused form, "Winged Mythical Beast Chimera", also has wings (that it likely inherited from this card!), I suspect it can fly as well.

Of course, we never see too much of "Baphomet" OR "Winged Mythical Beast Chimera" in this arc, so we'll never be able to tell any of that for sure.

A promising start, with a few fun monsters! But tomorrow we've got a real titan of a card. Thanks for reading, and see you then!

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Mythical Beasts / Phantom Beasts Archetype

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Best Level Five Fiend - Round 1 Match 4

choose your favorite

Berfomet

Big-Winged Berfomet

Voting ended onFeb 23

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Smash or Pass: Berfomet

Smash

Pass

Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

Card text: When this card is Normal or Flip Summoned: You can add 1 "Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts" from your Deck to your hand.

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ADBK: Berfomet

Epithet: The Devilish Enforcer

Voice Actor: Tom Kenny

Tribe: The Highlands, The Kindred

Biography: A steadfast loyalist of the deposed king Summoned Skull, he became fast friends with most of The Kindred right away due to his surprisingly amicable nature. He also shared much of the Kindred's mutual disdain for malicious creatures as per his far-off worship of the isolated Exodia the Forbidden One.

So much so that when Zorc created Exodia Necross to try and decimate everything in the Duelscape outside his empire, Berfomet called it a false idol and led an army to not only destroy the dark armor of Necross, but destroy the being completely.

He did so with the help of the Fairy Kingdom's Forgiving Maiden and Saint Joan, as they wanted to exorcise this piece of Exodia before it could destroy all they held dear.

He soon met the Mythical Beast Gazelle, and upon meeting Boudica of the Highlands, Berfomet chose to join Gazelle, Firewing Pegasus and Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast as part of her Highlands entourage. These days, he can be found arm-wrestling Judge Man and Gamma the Magnet Warrior.

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