Golden Partners

Black Garden, Field Spell.

Simply put, the ATK of all monsters summoned by both sides in this field was halved. And whenever someone summoned a monster, an 800 ATK "Rose Token" would automatically be generated on the opposing duelist's field.

Its second effect destroyed all Plant Type monsters on your field, then revived Plant Type monsters from the Graveyard whose combined ATK equaled that of the destroyed monsters.

Since this card belonged to the Deck used by Aki Izayoi, the female lead of the third-generation anime 5DS, Kira had assumed it was a card from the next generation.

But on second thought, 5DS was originally set in the future of the same world as Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and many cards from the past were still in use in the future.

And although it was established that the story of 5DS took place several decades after the end of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Ushio, a character who had appeared throughout multiple generations of Yu-Gi-Oh!, showed up in 5DS. Ushio had been a disciplinary committee member at Yugi's school in the early Duel Monsters manga. He had beaten up Joey Wheeler and extorted Yugi Mutou before eventually being punished by the Pharaoh's Shadow Game.

In 5DS, this former upperclassman had become a security officer in the future, specializing in arresting criminals through Riding Duels.

There was already a ten-year gap between Yu-Gi-Oh! DM and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. If there were another several decades before 5DS, then Ushio should have been a frail old man in the twilight of his life. It would have been impossible for him to remain active in the story. Using this character as an anchor point, the gap between the second and third generations could not have been that long.

Besides that, he unexpectedly found several Ice Barrier cards.

Ice Barrier had