Look at "Marshmallon"'s smile! This pink marshmallow has the friendliest demeanor you've ever seen! But don't be fooled. Foes who scrap with this 'lil guy quickly learn it has more of a bite to it than you'd expect!
Quick note: at the end of this arc, Yugi and Dark Yugi build two decks out of Yugi's M&W card collection in preparation for their final duel. It's clearly shown in chapter 338 that all cards involved in this arc belong to Yugi himself, so I'll be covering every card that both characters use in this arc.
This is the first monster we see Yugi summon in this arc. Throughout the manga we see that he prefers to use funny 'lil guys no matter what game he plays. Starting with "Marshmallon", Yugi proves that his latest small fry are some of his most capable monsters yet!
The original Japanese version of this card's text states that "This card can only be attacked by magic and special abilities". The word 'magic' here covers a much wider range of game mechanics than you might think, the same way it does for Kaiba's card "Dragon's Ruler: Lord of Dragons".
Effectively, this card is very similar to that one, except where "Dragon's Ruler: Lord of Dragons" makes all on-field Dragon-type monsters immune to Magic Cards, Trap Cards with magical effects, and magical attacks, "Marshmallon" can instead ONLY be killed by those things, and not by normal attacks (or, apparently, elemental attacks for that matter). In both instances, all of these different aspects are classified under the one phrase 'magic'!
My revision (second image above) brought this card in line with my other fixes regarding Trap Cards with magical effects. Also, in my initial text I originally covered 'Magician attacks' and 'magical attacks' as two distinct things. At the time, I was about 98% sure that the latter category included the former, but just in case I was wrong I wrote them out separately. Since then, I've determined that, yes, all "Magician"'s attacks are magical attacks by default.
In fact, I owe my initial understanding of the manga-exclusive 'magical attack' mechanic to this card, "Destruction Dragon Gandora", and the unreleased card "Magic Barrier". Without them, I never would have figured the full capabilities of Yugi's signature "Black Magician" card!
Don't forget about "Marshmallon"'s favorite accessory! Check out that Magic Card under the jump!
Give a monster the visual equivalent of a marshmallow-induced toothache with these "Marshmallon Glasses"!
In the story, Yugi uses this card to successfully guard himself against one of Dark Bakura's monsters. "Marshmallon" can't be destroyed by any of Dark Bakura's cards, so it's a very effective strategy!
Perhaps too effective, in fact. As it's shown to work in-story, this card seems like it could work without "Marshmallon" itself. Just play this card and then your opponent will have a monster that has no valid attack targets!
I could have written this card to account for that, in the same way that Konami's version did. But this is a sort of grey area of my attempt to be function-accurate. Between the two cards, this pair functions just like it does in the manga, and the manga doesn't write or show anything about the fact that there needs to be a "Marshmallon" on-field for it to work, so in this case adding more to the text risks making it inaccurate. Or, at the very least, risks me stepping outside of the boundaries established by the story. As it is, if there are any other limits attached to this combo we as readers don't know about them, simple as that.
And that's all for the "Marshmallon" cards! They're pretty simple, all things considered.
Tomorrow we continue with a pair of cards used by Dark Yugi!
Anzu: Just be casual. Try some light flirting.
Atem: I can do that.
*later*
Yugi: Nice work, partner. High five!
Yugi: *high fives Atem*
Atem: *intertwines their fingers*
Yugi: What--
Atem: I'm in love with you.
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