Yugi's signature card is the popular Dark Magician, so not surprisingly, you'll find the Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, as well as support cards in Yugi's pack. It's no surprise that his pack contains a lot of support for Blue Eyes, as well as the XYZ Dragon Cannon archetype. Kaiba is well known for his favorite card, the Blue Eyes White Dragon. There's also Jinzo archetype, warriors, the "Mask" archetype, and Ritual Monsters. This is personally my favorite, as you'll find support for the Red-Eyes Black Dragon archetype. You'll find some Toon cards, zombie monsters, and counters to the Egyptian God Cards. Mai Valentine's main focus is the signature Harpie Lady cards, but you'll find other femme fatale archetypes in here as well.īakura's pack is a bit of a mixed bag. While most of the cards in here are junk, but you will be able to find the Gravekeeper's archetype, Exodia the Forbidden One cards, and some magic and trap cards. Milestone drops are also awarded after every 10 wins against each opponent, up to 100 wins per opponent.Grandpa Muto's pack is the cheapest of the bunch, costing only 200 DP (everyone else is 400 DP). The player receives a card after every win or draw.In this case, the opponent takes battle damage equal to the attacking monster's ATK. If the opponent has no monsters, the turn player can attack the opponent directly.If the attack target's DEF equals the attacker's ATK, neither monster is destroyed and neither Duelist takes battle damage.If the attack target's DEF is lower than the attacker's ATK, the attack target is destroyed and its controller does not take battle damage.If the attack target's DEF is greater than the attacker's ATK, neither monster is destroyed and the attacking monster's controller takes battle damage equal to the difference.If the attack target is in Defense Position:.If the monsters have equal ATK, both monsters are destroyed and neither Duelist takes battle damage.If the monsters have different ATK, the monster with the lowest ATK is destroyed and its controller takes battle damage equal to the difference.If the attack target is in Attack Position:.Attacking works the same as it does in the OCG and TCG. The player always goes first in a Duel, but does not draw a card and cannot attack on the first turn.īattle screen showing " Sangan" attacking " Ancient Jar".The turn player must attack with or switch to Defense Position each monster on their side of the field.Only one card can be played from the hand each turn. If their hand is empty, the Duel ends and the Duelist with higher Life Points wins. The turn player must play one card from their hand.Each Duelist's hand consists of five cards.There is no Deck Cost and no limit to the number of copies of one card which can be in a Deck, but the Deck must contain exactly 40 cards and the player can only have one Deck at a time.Levels, Attributes, and Alignments are not featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, and monsters can be summoned without tributing. " B.eye White Dragon" Monsters only have an ATK, DEF, Type, and description. " Ansatsu" + " Darkfire Dragon" = " Flame Swordsman"). While there are no Fusion Monsters (and thus no Fusion Deck), fusions can be performed by trying to summon a monster from the hand on top of a monster on the field (e.g.There are 315 Normal Monsters (from number 001 to 300, and from 351 to 365) and 50 Spell Cards (from number 301 to 350) in the game these are the only types of cards featured.
The basic rules are based on the mechanics of the manga, not to be confused with the more complex OCG format invented later.
Most of the cards present were invented for the game cards featured from the manga are from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist - Duel 032 and prior. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters features 365 cards, with the last 15 cards being secret. See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards and Gallery of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards