I. Forbidden Cards
You cannot use these cards in your Deck or Side Deck:

BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER - ENVOY OF THE BEGINNING
BUTTERFLY DAGGER - ELMA
CALL OF THE HAUNTED
CHANGE OF HEART
CHAOS EMPEROR DRAGON - ENVOY OF THE END
CHAOS SORCERER
CONFISCATION
CYBER JAR
CYBER-STEIN
DARK HOLE
DARK MAGICIAN OF CHAOS
DELINQUENT DUO
DESTINY HERO – DISK COMMANDER
DIMENSION FUSION
EXCHANGE OF THE SPIRIT
FIBER JAR
GRACEFUL CHARITY
HARPIE'S FEATHER DUSTER
IMPERIAL ORDER
LAST TURN
LAST WILL
MAGICAL SCIENTIST
MAGICIAN OF FAITH
MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR
METAMORPHOSIS
MIRAGE OF NIGHTMARE
PAINFUL CHOICE
POT OF GREED
PREMATURE BURIAL
RAIGEKI
RING OF DESTRUCTION
SINISTER SERPENT
SNATCH STEAL
THE FORCEFUL SENTRY
THOUSAND-EYES RESTRICT
TIME SEAL
TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS
TSUKUYOMI
VICTORY DRAGON
WITCH OF THE BLACK FOREST
YATA-GARASU

NEW! - Dark Magician of Chaos, Destiny Hero - Disk Commander, Premature Burial

II. Limited Cards
You can ONLY use one of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

ADVANCED RITUAL ART
BRAIN CONTROL
BREAKER THE MAGICAL WARRIOR
CARD DESTRUCTION
CARD TROOPER
CEASEFIRE
CRUSH CARD VIRUS
CYBER DRAGON
D. D. WARRIOR LADY
ELEMENTAL HERO STRATOS
EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE
FISSURE
FUTURE FUSION
GIANT TRUNADE
GOLD SARCOPHAGUS
GRAVITY BIND
GREEN BABOON, DEFENDER OF THE FOREST
HEAVY STORM
LEFT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEVEL LIMIT - AREA B
LIMITER REMOVAL
MAGIC CYLINDER
MARSHMALLON
MEGAMORPH
MIND CRUSH
MIRROR FORCE
MONSTER REBORN
MONSTER GATE
MORPHING JAR
MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON
NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE
NIGHT ASSAILANT
OJAMA TRIO
OVERLOAD FUSION
RAIZA THE STORM MONARCH
REASONING
RETURN FROM THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION
RIGHT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
RIGHT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
SANGAN
SCAPEGOAT
SMASHING GROUND
SNIPE HUNTER
SPIRIT REAPER
SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT
THE TRANSMIGRATION PROPHECY
TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE
TRAP DUSTSHOOT
TREEBORN FROG
TWIN-HEADED BEHEMOTH
ULTIMATE OFFERING
UNITED WE STAND
WALL OF REVEALING LIGHT

NEW! - Breaker the Magical Warrior, Cyber Dragon, Monster Gate, Reasoning

III. Semi-Limited Cards
You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

BOOK OF MOON
CARD OF SAFE RETURN
CHAIN STRIKE
DARK ARMED DRAGON
FOOLISH BURIAL
JUDGMENT DRAGON
MAGICAL STONE EXCAVATION
MANTICORE OF DARKNESS
MASK OF DARKNESS
NECROFACE
NOBLEMAN OF CROSSOUT
PHANTOM OF CHAOS
RESCUE CAT

NEW! - Card of Safe Return, Chain Strike, Dark Armed Dragon, Judgment Dragon, Nobleman of Crossout, Phantom of Chaos, Rescue Cat

THE FOLLOWING ARE NO LONGER LIMITED - Allure of Darkness, Destiny Hero – Malicious, Light and Darkness Dragon, Mage Power, Reinforcement of the Army, Royal Decree

According to Upperdeck Entertainment

Alright lately I've been seeing alot of rulings topics, and it is creating a bit of spam. so I created this topic to give us more control and so you can find if your question has allready been answered.

Just a few rules first up.

1. If you want to ask a ruling do it here, if i see a ruling thread elsewhere it will be deleted.

2. If u have multiple questions as them in the same post.

Example:

1. can wobaku be activated when jinzo is on the field.
2. can a trap card be activated the turn you set it.

3. When answering make sure you explain your answer. Don't just go no and leave it at that.

4. Make it clear which question your answering.

5. If a question has been answered DO NOT GIVE THE ANSWER AGAIN.

6. If the answer is wrong, your post will be deleted as to not give the wrong rulings.

7. Try not to ask the same question twice.

8. If you break any of the rules, Smods and Administrators reserve the right to warn you.

Mods and Smods I would greatly appreciate your help in helping me maintain this.

Overall this is to help you people.

Mickey: Re-Edited for grammer. I'm crap at grammer myself but atleast can people put "I" not "i" etc all time makes people's post seem alot tidyer.

I will go ahead and note that this thread is Locked and any reply from a moderator or administrator other than Mickey will be deleted. If another moderator or a forum administrator needs to discourage these type of topics, I ask that they delete this one and post a general rule to not post these again.


This topic will be my civil attempt to give general help to newer players or those who just can't figure out what's wrong with their Deck. I'll update this thread as I find time to jot down a few notes. This will be extremely small at first, but I'm hoping to grow it into a fairly comprehensive guide.



General Gameplay Rules:

1. Do NOT follow the Anime. They do a LOT of things that are not according to the rules.

2. Go through the Flash demo at Upper Deck Entertainment's Learn to Play section. This should teach you the very basics of the game.

3. Download the Version 5.0 Rulebook from that link. It's in PDF format, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat to view it.

4. You cannot activate Spell Cards during your opponent's turn. The only exception is a Quick-Play Spell Card that you have had Set on the field for at least one turn.

5. All monsters with 5 or more Level Stars need you to Tribute (send to the Graveyard from your field) at least one Monster. Level 5 and 6 monsters require 1 Tribute, while any Monster with 7 or more Level Stars requires 2 Tributes.

6. There are two official formats for Yu-Gi-Oh: Traditional Format and Advanced Format. The two formats' lists can be found at Upper Deck Entertainment's Forbidden/Limited Card Lists page. These lists show you what's Forbidden (0 of the card in the Deck and Side Deck combined), Limited (1 of the card in the Deck and Side Deck combined), and Semi-Limited (2 of the card in the Deck and Side Deck combined). It's generally an understood that all players, casual or tournament-level, play by at least the Traditional Format list.


General Deck Building "Rules:"

1. Keep your Deck as close to 40 cards as possible. This way you have a higher chance of drawing what you need. Stall Decks (those Decks that keep an opponent from attacking you) will need more so you don't loose to the "Deck Out" rule (if you can't draw a card because your Deck has 0 cards left, you loose the Duel), while "Instant Win" Decks (decks based around getting Exodia into your hand, getting the Last Turn + Jowgen the Spiritualist combo set up) will need almost exactly 40.

2. If you find a card that can be really helpful for your Deck, run multiples of them. If you only have 1 copy of a card in a 40-card Deck, you generally have a 2.5% chance of drawing it. If you have 2 copies, though, you're up to a 5% chance.

3. If you find a few cards that essentially do the same thing and they're useful in your Deck, run multiples of both. For example, let's say you want to easily negate Traps. There are 3 Trap Cards that negate other Trap Cards easily: Royal Decree, Seven Tools of the Bandit, and Solemn Judgment. If you only put in 1 of these with 3 copies of it, you have roughly a 7.5% chance of drawing it. However, if you put in 2 copies of each of those 3, you now have a 15% chance of drawing a Trap-negating Trap.

4. Use Pot of Greed, a Spell Card found as a Common in the first 4 English Structure Decks. For one card from your hand, you get to draw 2 cards. This also has the side effect of reducing your remaining Deck size by 2 cards, which is extremely helpful if you're playing an Exodia-based deck.

5. If your Deck is based on a specific theme (FIRE Attribute, Spellcaster-Type, Level 3 Monsters with 1700 or more ATK), try to refrain from using cards that do not fit the theme. For example, if you're building a Spellcaster-Type deck, why would you put in a Cyber Harpie Lady, a Winged-Beast-Type monster? On the same token, make sure you use cards that fit your theme. For example, if you use Dark Magician you might want to use Skilled Dark Magician since he's also a Spellcster-Type with a strong ATK for a monster that's not Summoned with a Tribute(s).

6a. If your Deck is "Tribute heavy" (it uses a lot of Level 5 or higher Monsters), consider using ways of keeping your Monsters on the field so you can Tribute them. For example, Spirit Reaper cannot be destroyed as a result of Battle, so you can Set him and you'll more than likely be able to use him as a Tribute for Jinzo.

6b. If you don't like using Monsters, try using Spells and Traps. Messenger of Peace is a great card for this. It's a Continuous Spell Card that keeps all monsters with 1500 ATK or more from declaring an attack, but during your Standby Phase you need to pay 100 Life Points to keep it on the field or it's destroyed. So let's say you're playing with some strong "No Tribute" monsters (Normal and Effect Monsters with 4 or fewer Stars), but your opponent always one-ups you with a stronger monster. Play your strong, No Tribute monster, attack [if you want], then in Main Phase 2 activate Messenger of Peace. Then within a few turns you should have enough Tributes for your Gilford the Lightning. Just remember to not pay for Messenger of Peace on the Standby Phase of the turn in which you want to Summon your Tribute monster or else it's all for nothing.


More to come later.

Which monster do u think is stronger? Cyber End Dragon or Cyber Dark Dragon?

Besides I am a Japanese at the start.

The environment in foreign countries wanted to know it.

What kind of decks are popular?
I want you to teach it if you understand the contents of the deck.

In addition, I want you to show the sites where a deck used in a meeting appears in.

Thanking you in advance.

Elemental Heroes/Neo Spacians, Destiny Heroes, and now the Evil Heroes have taken the trading card game by storm. What do you think of the new anti-heroes? I just bought a few of them, except for Malicious Edge, yesterday. When they are received, I'll add them to my E-Hero Deck, as an element of surprise... and see how they work. I'm hoping that they will release an evil version of Shining Flare Wingman soon. For now.. it's up to my Inferno Wing and she isn't too bad....

hi! what card do you think is the funniest. like, what looks like the designers found a card and slapped a random picture on? i'd go with Fusion Dragun. it looks like the guys at ygo hq ran out of ideas and found a glue stick waiting to be used.

Ok. What do people think the most pointless useless card is?

I think it would be something like succubus knight, but there are just loads of cards that see pointless. What are peoples views on this, did the deliberately design cards to be useless? why?

Which one of the God card are the most powerful?

The topic is easy. Which one do you think is best and why?



Hamon Lord of Striking Thunder

Raviel Lord of Phantasms

Uria Lord of Searing flames

OK....there has been a lot of talk about Zane's Duelist pack hitting shelves this month. Many of the gripes being about how it will flood the market with Cyberdarks, Chimeras, and other rare, powerful cards. So i am asking the world of YGOL what they think about this release. Is it a good idea to have cards like these accessable to everyone? Or will it continue to create cookie cutter decks that ruin the game for good?

Apperently the TCG TAEV cards are different from the OCG TAEV cards, and there'll be more cards namely 10 never released in Japan nor in the USA...
Could anybody confirm this pls??

Self explanatory title. i want to see the most powerful combos people can think of. i can't think of any real combo at the moment.

With all the Monarch decks in play, and the OCG release of a (Monarch??) Structure Deck 14th, which hopefully will (not ) be released here in TCG, i think it's time to vote which Monarch is the 'better' one.
Of course this does not mean that the other ones are BAD but they've become less effective in this format's Ban List...

So folks, !! VOTE !!

Which set of monsters do you like the best. The last two come from the next booster. BTW, does anyone know whether or not the gemini's need tributes for 5+?

2007 Collector Tins -
These tins were announced in Summer and are set to be released in 2 "waves" as the 2006 tins were.
Did anyone announced?? And does anybody have more information please...

I already found out that 3/3 (First Wave) Promo cards are:
- CT04-EN001 Crystal Beast Sapphire Pegesus
- CT04-EN002 Elemental Hero Grand Neos
- CT04-EN003 Destny Hero Plasma

3/3 (Second Wave) are:
- CT04-EN004 Volcanic Doomfire
- CT04-EN005 Rainbow Dragon
- CT04-EN006 Elemental Hero Plasma Vice

Why do u think Konami will never release the Seal of Orichalcos to the public?

Do you think card trooper should/will be limited or banned on the new list? Personally, I would like to see pot of greed and graceful charity to come back to the limited list since only certain decks have received any draw support (i.e. d-hero, crystal, and e-hero decks). I think that snatch will hit the list again. I would like to see exchange come back mostly since I don't know why it was banned in the first place (please tell me if you can).

I was browsing numerous YGO forums when I came to notice each had the same topic on what MAY actually be the Sept. 1st ban list. Each had this same list:

I. Forbidden Cards

You cannot use these cards in your Deck or Side Deck:

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
Butterfly Dagger - Elma
Change of Heart
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Choas Sorceror
Confiscation
Cyber Jar
Cyber-Stein
Dark Hole
Delinquent Duo
Exchange of the Spirit
Fiber Jar
Graceful Charity
Harpie's Feather Duster
Imperial Order
Last Turn
Last Will
Magicial Scientist
Makyura the Destructor
Metamorphosis
Mirage of Nightmare
Monster Reborn
Painful Choise
Pot of Greed
Raigeki
Ring of Destruction
Sinister Serpant
Snatch Steal
The Forceful Sentry
Thousand-Eyes Restrict
Time Seal
Tribe-Infecting Virus
Tsukuyomi
Victory Dragon
Witch of the Black Forest
Yata-Garasu

NEW! – Confiscation, Metamorphosis, Ring of Destruction, Snatch Steal

II. Limited Cards

You can only use one of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

Book of Moon
Brain Control
Breaker the Magical Warrior
Call of the Haunted
Card Destruction
Card Trooper
Ceasfire
Chain Strike
Crush Card Virus
D. D. Warrior Lady
Dark Magician of Chaos
Destiny Hero – Disk Commander
Dimensional Fusion
Elemental Hero Stratos
Exodia the Forbidden One
Fissure
Future Fusion
Giant Trunade
Gravity Bind
Heavy Storm
Left Arm of the Forbidden One
Left Leg of the Forbidden One
Level Limit - Area B
Limiter Removal
Mage Power
Magic Cylinder
Magician of Faith
Megamorph
Mind Crush
Mirror Force
Morphing Jar
Mystical Space Typhoon
Neo-Spacian Grand Mole
Night Assailant
Overload Fusion
Premature Burial
Right Arm of the Forbidden One
Right Leg of the Forbidden One
Sangan
Scapegoat
Smashing Ground
Snipe Hunter
Spirit Reaper
Swords of Revealing Light
The Transmigration Prophecy
Torrential Tribute
Trap Dustshoot
Treeborn Frog
Twin-Headed Behemoth
Ultimate Offering
United we Stand
Wall of Revealing Light

NEW! – Brain Control, Breaker the Magical Warrior, Card Trooper, Destiny Hero – Disk Commander, Fissure, Magician of Faith, Megamorph, Smashing Ground, Snipe Hunter, The Transmigration Prophecy, Trap Dustshoot, Wall of Revealing Light

III. Semi-Limited Cards

You can only use two of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:

Apprentice Magician
Creature Swap
Destiny Hero – Malicious
Green Gadget
Jinzo
Manticore of Darkness
Mask of Darkness
Nobleman of Crossout
Pot of Avarice
Reckless Greed
Red Gadget
Reinforcements of the Army
Royal Decree
Yellow Gadget


NEW! – Destiny Hero – Malicious, Green Gadget, Jinzo, Nobleman of Crossout, Pot of Avarice, Red Gadget, Royal Decree, Yellow Gadget

NEW! - The following cards are no longer Limited: D.D. Assailant, Deck Devastation Virus, Good Goblin Housekeeping, Protector of the Sanctuary

All I can say is time will tell. Hopefully the ban list will be posted soon so we can determine whether or not this is the OFFICIAL ban list. I recommend that nobody should adjust there decks just yet, I believe we can see something by the 20th.

So, I got bored today and thought, “Hey…what if I made some puzzles like in the video games?” and then it hit me, I can open a topic and come up with a puzzle every week to let people try and solve them! Basically the rules are as follows:

1) You have ONE turn to win the duel.
2) You cannot use any resources except what I specifically tell you that you have available.
3) Do not post a solution unless you are POSITIVE it works.
4) If you do post, and it is not a solution, make sure it has a reason such as, but not limited to:
a. Asking a card’s effect.
b. Getting a hint. (which will be placed into a “spoilers” box)
c. Asking for specific card rulings which DIRECTLY affect the puzzle.
5) Have Fun! These puzzles are meant to bend your ideas on how the card game works! Make sure to view over ALL your options first!
6) ALWAYS assume the opponent has no hand unless I TELL you what they have.

Ok, so to start this up, here is the FIRST puzzle, which will be by far the easiest:

WATERY GRAVES

Opponents Field:
Face-Up attack Mermaid Knight: Black Pendant x3 equipped, Ride of Silence-Kay’est
Face-Up attack The Legendary Fisherman
Face-Up Gravity Bind

Field Card: A Legendary Ocean (permanent, it cannot be removed from the field for this puzzle)

Your Field:
Face-Down defense Heavy Mech Support Platform

Your Hand:
Tribute to the Doomed, Jinzo, Premature Burial, Heavy Storm, Giant Trunade, Cyber Dragon

Life Points:
You: 1400
Opponent: 4500


Can YOU win the duel in one turn? Good Luck!

The Dark Magician vs the Blue-Eyes White Dragon....who would win in battle against each other? And forget about how powerful they are (i.e. forget that the Blue-Eyes White Dragon has 3000 attack power and the Dark Magician has 2500 attack power).....Well who would win?

I personally think the Dark Magician would win...cuz, he seems like a power magician in general and I think that the Blue-Eyes White Dragon would have a bit of trouble trying to blast him to pieces....pulse, the Dark Magician could do spells on the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and wipe him out easily....

What about you? Who do you think would win?

When I look at some of the Top 8 decks for Shonen Jump I wonder how on earth those that run Diamond Dude Rush themes are able to get their hands on cards like 3 Destiny Draw, 3 Card Troopers, 3 Malicious, and some use Stratos. I see they got them using one of these methods:

1. Bought them from shops, internet, etc. (find that hard to believe, look at the prices for each but you never know)
2. Bought booster packs for them.
3. Traded.

All 3 ways seem hard to believe as the chances to get them in packs is very slim, to buy them for those prices is way out of proportion and to find the cards to trade for them is never easy.

Getting to the point, the Zane pack is coming out soon and am thinking of how I should get my hands on a few Hell Dragon and Cyberdark Dragon cards without wasting money. The price I have seen for them is $20 or $30 so all the opinons and input on the smartest and cheapest way of getting them would be appreciated.

Ok. This will vary according to whether ur a boy or a girl, but my vote goes with Elemental Hero Valkyrie from SOD.

Of course the DMG is super sexy, and some of the naughty versions on ebay are very nice...

So at the risk of sounding very sad, which card turns you on the most?

I can't believe it... Is this really happening?! o.o;
These cards, previously only available in Japanese, are FINALLY comming to us! They sure did make us wait a bit too long for this. >.<
Some of you might already know about this, but I just found out and it's a big deal to me.. o.o
Check it out: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/tbi...pg?t=1181258681

Dark Magic Curtains and Marshmallon in English! Finally x3

Elemental Hero Super Conduecter

Fusion
Light
Warrior

"E-Heo Sparkman" + "E-Hero Bubbleman"
While this card is face-up on the field all WATER monsters are removed from play. This card gains 100 ATK and DEF points for each WATER monster removed from play.
ATK/2500 DEF/1900