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1d4chan>Amalvi: A small comment about how yugipedia has the meta plot translated

2023-05-09T13:14:56Z

A small comment about how yugipedia has the meta plot translated

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	Usually forming in the Duel Terminal Storyline but also shifting into other characters.		Usually forming in the Duel Terminal Storyline but also shifting into other characters.
	the Metaplot of Yugioh while usually interesting is often ecstatic and while often interesting winds up being hard to compact without a Konami made meta-books.		the Metaplot of Yugioh while usually interesting is often ecstatic and while often interesting winds up being hard to compact without a Konami made meta-books.
	Particular ones include the story of Gagagigo setting from Dark Revelation all the way to Abyss Rising and Memory of the Adversary.		Particular ones include the story of Gagagigo setting from Dark Revelation all the way to Abyss Rising and Memory of the Adversary. For most gaijins, the convenient way to read these stories is through the yugipedia, which has the card storylines translated from the aforementioned meta books.

	==Archetype==		==Archetype==

1d4chan>Rocko1345: /* Archetype */

2023-01-23T16:06:23Z

Archetype

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	* '''Altergeist''' -		* '''Altergeist''' -

	* '''Ancient Gear''' -		* '''Ancient Gear''' - Ancient Clockwork automatons beat your face in.

	* '''Arcana Force''' - A series of cards based on the Major Arcana of [[Tarot]] decks. Unfortunately, all of there coin flip effects that at best give you a meh monster at best and backfire horribly on you at worst. Many Years later Konomi surprisingly gave Arcana Force a card for searching coin flip cards. It didn't help the archetype as a whole but made the turn skipping shenanigans of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure\|The World]], their best card, more consistent for gimmick decks.		* '''Arcana Force''' - A series of cards based on the Major Arcana of [[Tarot]] decks. Unfortunately, all of there coin flip effects that at best give you a meh monster at best and backfire horribly on you at worst. Many Years later Konomi surprisingly gave Arcana Force a card for searching coin flip cards. It didn't help the archetype as a whole but made the turn skipping shenanigans of [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure\|The World]], their best card, more consistent for gimmick decks.
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	* '''Blue-Eyes''' - Based on the famous [[Blue Eyes White Dragon\|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] used by Seto Kaiba in the first series, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon itself has the distinction of being the most powerful main deck Normal Monster in the game at 3000/2500. With its plentiful support a well-built Blue-Eyes deck can [[meme\|summon a bunch of monsters in one turn]] and lay a massive smackdown through regular monsters and powerful Rank-8 Xyz monsters and do it well enough to win high level tournaments. This archetype is very old, so it includes a lot of awesome but impractical cards such as "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon". Its normally impractical ace monster "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", is and has been a popular monster to cheat out of the extra deck. With its light scales and disintegrating breath the Blue-Eyes is based on [[Bahamut]] from [[D&D]].		* '''Blue-Eyes''' - Based on the famous [[Blue Eyes White Dragon\|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] used by Seto Kaiba in the first series, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon itself has the distinction of being the most powerful main deck Normal Monster in the game at 3000/2500. With its plentiful support a well-built Blue-Eyes deck can [[meme\|summon a bunch of monsters in one turn]] and lay a massive smackdown through regular monsters and powerful Rank-8 Xyz monsters and do it well enough to win high level tournaments. This archetype is very old, so it includes a lot of awesome but impractical cards such as "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon". Its normally impractical ace monster "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", is and has been a popular monster to cheat out of the extra deck. With its light scales and disintegrating breath the Blue-Eyes is based on [[Bahamut]] from [[D&D]].

	* '''Bujin''' -		* '''Bujin''' - Living stone & glass creatures based on Japanese Mythology (and the main characters of Yugioh GX).

	* '''Burning Abyss''' - Taking its inspiration from the Inferno part of Dante's Divine Comedy, the Burning Abyss archetype is based around swarming the field, then summoning its Xyz, Synchro, Fusion and Ritual boss monsters. On their own the Burning Abyss monsters (called Malebranches) are not very strong: except for the boss monsters they are all Level 3 and top at 1700 ATK and 2000 DEF. On top of that, if you control a non-Burning Abyss monster all of them go to the graveyard, and if you don't have a spell or trap card on the field you can special summon them. The Malebranches have a variety of effects to help them not immediately crumble come your opponent's battle phase.		* '''Burning Abyss''' - Taking its inspiration from the Inferno part of Dante's Divine Comedy, the Burning Abyss archetype is based around swarming the field, then summoning its Xyz, Synchro, Fusion and Ritual boss monsters. On their own the Burning Abyss monsters (called Malebranches) are not very strong: except for the boss monsters they are all Level 3 and top at 1700 ATK and 2000 DEF. On top of that, if you control a non-Burning Abyss monster all of them go to the graveyard, and if you don't have a spell or trap card on the field you can special summon them. The Malebranches have a variety of effects to help them not immediately crumble come your opponent's battle phase.
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	* '''Ice Barrier''' - A shit archetype which spawned two broken cards that aren't even used in it. They have no well-defined strategy at all (the nearest they get is some passable walls) but they have Synchro Monsters (Brionac and Trishula) that can be used in other decks and have superb effects: Brionac allowed the player to repeatedly bounce their own cards back to the hand and reuse on-activation effects, which was so broken they had to issue an erratum, and Trishula removes 1 card each from the hand, field, and Graveyard when summoned. Memed by "Forcing Konami explains what Ice Barrier do", They had surprisingly won a Structure deck poll, even beating out the more popular Cyber Dragons. Second wave Ice Barrier, while not Spetecluarly powerful does elevate the archetype from a grab bag of cards to a proper deck with combos. Most Still have situation Stun effects but you can now make boards of them to hinder your opponent and then summon your strong synchros to attack for game.		* '''Ice Barrier''' - A shit archetype which spawned two broken cards that aren't even used in it. They have no well-defined strategy at all (the nearest they get is some passable walls) but they have Synchro Monsters (Brionac and Trishula) that can be used in other decks and have superb effects: Brionac allowed the player to repeatedly bounce their own cards back to the hand and reuse on-activation effects, which was so broken they had to issue an erratum, and Trishula removes 1 card each from the hand, field, and Graveyard when summoned. Memed by "Forcing Konami explains what Ice Barrier do", They had surprisingly won a Structure deck poll, even beating out the more popular Cyber Dragons. Second wave Ice Barrier, while not Spetecluarly powerful does elevate the archetype from a grab bag of cards to a proper deck with combos. Most Still have situation Stun effects but you can now make boards of them to hinder your opponent and then summon your strong synchros to attack for game.

	* '''Infernity''' -		* '''Infernity''' - HAAAANNNDLESS COMBO!!! Wild West (with a few medieval-themed monsters for some reason) fiends that are based around having no cards in your hand for relatively powerful effects.

	* '''Infinitrack''' - ''Mightly machines, big and mighty machines, working for you, doing mighty things!~''		* '''Infinitrack''' - ''Mightly machines, big and mighty machines, working for you, doing mighty things!~'' Giant fucking construction machines, apart of the Earth Machine family, based around XYZ summoning.

	* '''Invoked''' - A very small Archetype with a single main deck monster, Aleister the Invoker, that on normal summon searched it's archetypal fusion spell. All of the deck's Fusion monsters just need Aleister and a single monster of a certain attribute to summon. This combined with it's potent field spell made the Archetype a widely played package in many decks and spawned the [[Meme\|"Normal summon Aleister' meme]].		* '''Invoked''' - A very small Archetype with a single main deck monster, Aleister the Invoker, that on normal summon searched it's archetypal fusion spell. All of the deck's Fusion monsters just need Aleister and a single monster of a certain attribute to summon. This combined with it's potent field spell made the Archetype a widely played package in many decks and spawned the [[Meme\|"Normal summon Aleister' meme]].

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2023-01-20T02:06:47Z

Archetype

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	* '''Infernity''' -		* '''Infernity''' -

			* '''Infinitrack''' - ''Mightly machines, big and mighty machines, working for you, doing mighty things!~''

	* '''Invoked''' - A very small Archetype with a single main deck monster, Aleister the Invoker, that on normal summon searched it's archetypal fusion spell. All of the deck's Fusion monsters just need Aleister and a single monster of a certain attribute to summon. This combined with it's potent field spell made the Archetype a widely played package in many decks and spawned the [[Meme\|"Normal summon Aleister' meme]].		* '''Invoked''' - A very small Archetype with a single main deck monster, Aleister the Invoker, that on normal summon searched it's archetypal fusion spell. All of the deck's Fusion monsters just need Aleister and a single monster of a certain attribute to summon. This combined with it's potent field spell made the Archetype a widely played package in many decks and spawned the [[Meme\|"Normal summon Aleister' meme]].
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	* '''Kaiju''' - GOJIRA! Yes, of course Godzilla and Friends were adapted into the game. Their gimmick is twofold: you can summon one to your opponent's side of the field to make it easier to summon one of your own (because Kaiju do love to battle one another, and because this is done by tributing one of their pre-existing monsters), and their non-Monster cards generate Kaiju Counters which can be spent for a variety of potent effects. Their roster includes expies of Godizlla, Mothra, Gamera, Gigan, Kumonga, Ghidorah and Mecha Godzilla, and strangely enough Dark Lugiel from Ultraman as well. Of course none of this matters since people only play Gamera, the weakest in terms of attack, to get rid of the opponent's monsters easily. Opinions are sharply divided on if such a card is healthy for the game or not, debating on if it's a good way to avoid "unbreakable boards" of monsters immune to all other removal that plagued some prior formats.		* '''Kaiju''' - GOJIRA! Yes, of course Godzilla and Friends were adapted into the game. Their gimmick is twofold: you can summon one to your opponent's side of the field to make it easier to summon one of your own (because Kaiju do love to battle one another, and because this is done by tributing one of their pre-existing monsters), and their non-Monster cards generate Kaiju Counters which can be spent for a variety of potent effects. Their roster includes expies of Godizlla, Mothra, Gamera, Gigan, Kumonga, Ghidorah and Mecha Godzilla, and strangely enough Dark Lugiel from Ultraman as well. Of course none of this matters since people only play Gamera, the weakest in terms of attack, to get rid of the opponent's monsters easily. Opinions are sharply divided on if such a card is healthy for the game or not, debating on if it's a good way to avoid "unbreakable boards" of monsters immune to all other removal that plagued some prior formats.

	* '''Koa'ki Meiru''' - A bunch of monsters of varying types and ~~apperances~~ that have a shared dependence on ''The Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru'' or on a monster of the same type. They have a variety of useful effects but ~~there~~ dependence on using certain cards as fuel for their effects makes them unsustainable in most decks with certain exceptions like Adamancipator.		* '''Koa'ki Meiru''' - A bunch of monsters of varying types and appearances that have a shared dependence on ''The Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru'' or on a monster of the same type. They have a variety of useful effects but their dependence on using certain cards as fuel for their effects makes them unsustainable in most decks with certain exceptions like Adamancipator.

			* '''Karakuri''' - Named for, and designed after the mechanical Japanese puppets of the same name, Karakuri is another member of the three archetypes-wide Earth Machine (Including Infinitrack, MOTHERFUCKING TRAINS, and some monsters of the Machina archetype) family, focused on Synchro summoning. The major hitch with Karakuri is that when they are selected for an attack by the opponent, they change from ATK position to DEF position. However, they possess a variety of effects that make this not as bad as it seems and in some situations highly desirable since it can activate the effects of some of your other Karakuri monsters and spells.

	* '''Kozmo''' - You know what's neat? The Wizard of Oz. You know what's also neat? [[Star Wars]]. So what happens when you slap those two together? You get the Kozmo archetype. Oh yes. Luke Skywalker is now [[promotions\|a smokin' hot redhead]], R2-D2, C-3PO and Chewbacca are the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion, Ben Kenobi has been replaced by a rather attractive Good Witch of the North and even the Darth Vader and Darth Maul of the set (The Wicked Witches of the West and East respectively) are pretty. You'd think "Oh [[Japan]]" at this, but the archetype was actually created on the TCG side. The archetype consists of two kinds of cards: the "pilots" are used to summon the second type, the spaceships. Summoning the spaceships is as easy as banishing the pilot in order to get a spaceship on the field. In turn, a spaceship that's in the graveyard can be banished to summon a pilot from the deck. This means that it's ridiculously easy to get extremely powerful cards on the field, and aimed destruction is easily avoided. There was even a very easy one-turn kill available that lead to several Kozmo cards being Limited.		* '''Kozmo''' - You know what's neat? The Wizard of Oz. You know what's also neat? [[Star Wars]]. So what happens when you slap those two together? You get the Kozmo archetype. Oh yes. Luke Skywalker is now [[promotions\|a smokin' hot redhead]], R2-D2, C-3PO and Chewbacca are the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion, Ben Kenobi has been replaced by a rather attractive Good Witch of the North and even the Darth Vader and Darth Maul of the set (The Wicked Witches of the West and East respectively) are pretty. You'd think "Oh [[Japan]]" at this, but the archetype was actually created on the TCG side. The archetype consists of two kinds of cards: the "pilots" are used to summon the second type, the spaceships. Summoning the spaceships is as easy as banishing the pilot in order to get a spaceship on the field. In turn, a spaceship that's in the graveyard can be banished to summon a pilot from the deck. This means that it's ridiculously easy to get extremely powerful cards on the field, and aimed destruction is easily avoided. There was even a very easy one-turn kill available that lead to several Kozmo cards being Limited.

79.184.122.1: Added information about the Mischen Impossible incident (May or may not be too much)

2022-12-10T10:40:40Z

Added information about the Mischen Impossible incident (May or may not be too much)

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	Yu-Gi-Oh is rather similar to [[Magic the Gathering]] in terms of play; in fact, it was introduced in the manga as a sort of Magic clone that was one of many featured games (it's even called ''Magic and Wizards''), from which point its popularity took off and changed the manga's entire focus as the game was fleshed out and became something more relatively unique. You can guess how much a [[Skub\|point of contention]] this is for the respective fanbases.		Yu-Gi-Oh is rather similar to [[Magic the Gathering]] in terms of play; in fact, it was introduced in the manga as a sort of Magic clone that was one of many featured games (it's even called ''Magic and Wizards''), from which point its popularity took off and changed the manga's entire focus as the game was fleshed out and became something more relatively unique. You can guess how much a [[Skub\|point of contention]] this is for the respective fanbases.

	Each player starts with a 40-60 card deck plus a 0-15 card extra deck (both of these ''used'' to have no maximum, but ~~someone~~ actually took a ~~2000+~~ card deck to a tournament) and tries to take his opponent's 8000 life points down to 0. If you are playing a best 2 out of 3 match, you can also use a side deck of up to 15 cards. It also is possible to win by making the opponent run out of main deck cards, as they also lose if they must draw but have no cards left. There also are a small number of cards that allow you to win automatically by meeting a difficult condition, such as the Exodia cards, which make you win if you have all 5 of them in your hand, or Final Countdown, which makes you win in 20 turns. Players take turns to play creatures and spells, attack the opponent's creatures and deal with some of the most badass cards brought to play.		Each player starts with a 40-60 card deck plus a 0-15 card extra deck (both of these ''used'' to have no maximum, but two german guys called Mike Schwei and Tobias Heiner actually took a 2222 card deck called "Mischen Impossible" (trans. Shuffle Impossible, due to being a pain in the ass (to the point of being given game losses for taking too long) to shuffle) to a tournament) and tries to take his opponent's 8000 life points down to 0. If you are playing a best 2 out of 3 match, you can also use a side deck of up to 15 cards. It also is possible to win by making the opponent run out of main deck cards, as they also lose if they must draw but have no cards left. There also are a small number of cards that allow you to win automatically by meeting a difficult condition, such as the Exodia cards, which make you win if you have all 5 of them in your hand, or Final Countdown, which makes you win in 20 turns. Players take turns to play creatures and spells, attack the opponent's creatures and deal with some of the most badass cards brought to play.

	The number of cards you can have in play is currently limited as follows: you can have five monsters (and one which you summon from the extra deck!), five spells/traps and one field spell in play at the same time. If you have five monsters you cannot summon additional ones without sacrificing others; you also can't play spell/trap cards if you already have five of them active, but you can play a field card if you already have one (in which case, the former field gets destroyed).		The number of cards you can have in play is currently limited as follows: you can have five monsters (and one which you summon from the extra deck!), five spells/traps and one field spell in play at the same time. If you have five monsters you cannot summon additional ones without sacrificing others; you also can't play spell/trap cards if you already have five of them active, but you can play a field card if you already have one (in which case, the former field gets destroyed).

91.89.19.254: /* How to Play */

2022-11-21T17:00:56Z

How to Play

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	Note that 8000 is a really fucking huge number of life points to keep track of: you might want to bring a notebook, calculator or app along to keep track of your life points. The manga and anime starts with 2000 instead (later 4000 due to power creep).		Note that 8000 is a really fucking huge number of life points to keep track of: you might want to bring a notebook, calculator or app along to keep track of your life points. The manga and anime starts with 2000 instead (later 4000 due to power creep).

	Notable compared other TCG's, Yu-Gi-Oh lacks a 'cost' mechanic the way Magic has with lands, [[Pokemon]] has energy, or Hearthstone has with mana. The limiting factor for powerful monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh are (generally) that they need other monsters to be 'spent' to bring them out, either on the field or with the aid of a spell card, you need to expend some monster to bring out a bigger one, and you can normally only normal summon once per turn.		Notable compared other TCG's, Yu-Gi-Oh lacks a 'cost' mechanic the way Magic has with lands, [[Pokemon]] has energy, or Hearthstone has with mana. The limiting factor for powerful monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh are (generally) that they need other monsters to be 'spent' to bring them out, either on the field or with the aid of a spell card, you need to expend some monster to bring out a bigger one, and you can normally only normal summon once per turn. This generally makes the game really fast-paced, as winning combos only take two turns of setup at most.

	===The makeup of a card===		===The makeup of a card===

188.27.252.235: /* Simulators */

2022-05-23T17:55:12Z

Simulators

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	Unfortunately with Konami's move to focusing on pachinko, they stopped making many games at all, including Yu-Gi-Oh ones, and so we only have Duel Links, which is unfortunately a mobile game and thus a relatively stripped-down experience and (far more pressing) is riddled with microtransactions. Years after this move to pachinko, Konami walked this stance back in September of 2019 in wake of anti-addiction laws that would cripple pachinko stating "high-end console games are the most important" and they were working on "multi-device titles for [...] Yu-Gi-Oh".		Unfortunately with Konami's move to focusing on pachinko, they stopped making many games at all, including Yu-Gi-Oh ones, and so we only have Duel Links, which is unfortunately a mobile game and thus a relatively stripped-down experience and (far more pressing) is riddled with microtransactions. Years after this move to pachinko, Konami walked this stance back in September of 2019 in wake of anti-addiction laws that would cripple pachinko stating "high-end console games are the most important" and they were working on "multi-device titles for [...] Yu-Gi-Oh".

	There are a few fan-made simulators so if you want to play with all the thousands of cards unlocked from the start you can do that. Duelingbook is an browser-based manual simulator, while EDOpro and YGOPRO and downloaded automatic ones. (So it moves the cards for you, if you're too lazy to do that.) There's also YGOPRO2 which is the most flashy one. YGO Omega is currently the favorite of people who have Discord (online play requires it) due to being insanely customizable (you can play all popular duel types, use every set of Master Rules and even mix and match rules from any of them) while still having animated effects.		There are a few fan-made simulators so if you want to play for free with all the thousands of cards unlocked from the start you can do that. Duelingbook is an browser-based manual simulator, while EDOpro and YGOPRO and downloaded automatic ones. (So it moves the cards for you, if you're too lazy to do that.) There's also YGOPRO2 which is the most flashy one. YGO Omega is currently the favorite of people who have Discord (online play requires it) due to being insanely customizable (you can play all popular duel types, use every set of Master Rules and even mix and match rules from any of them) while still having animated effects.

	==The Anime/Manga==		==The Anime/Manga==

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Simulators

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	Unfortunately with Konami's move to focusing on pachinko, they stopped making many games at all, including Yu-Gi-Oh ones, and so we only have Duel Links, which is unfortunately a mobile game and thus a relatively stripped-down experience and (far more pressing) is riddled with microtransactions. Years after this move to pachinko, Konami walked this stance back in September of 2019 in wake of anti-addiction laws that would cripple pachinko stating "high-end console games are the most important" and they were working on "multi-device titles for [...] Yu-Gi-Oh".		Unfortunately with Konami's move to focusing on pachinko, they stopped making many games at all, including Yu-Gi-Oh ones, and so we only have Duel Links, which is unfortunately a mobile game and thus a relatively stripped-down experience and (far more pressing) is riddled with microtransactions. Years after this move to pachinko, Konami walked this stance back in September of 2019 in wake of anti-addiction laws that would cripple pachinko stating "high-end console games are the most important" and they were working on "multi-device titles for [...] Yu-Gi-Oh".

	There~~'s two main~~ fan-made simulators ~~for players~~ to ~~use without having to buy expensive cardboard~~. Duelingbook is an browser-based manual simulator, while EDOpro ~~is a~~ downloaded automatic ~~one~~. (So it moves the cards for you, if you're too lazy to do that.)		There are a few fan-made simulators so if you want to play with all the thousands of cards unlocked from the start you can do that. Duelingbook is an browser-based manual simulator, while EDOpro and YGOPRO and downloaded automatic ones. (So it moves the cards for you, if you're too lazy to do that.) There's also YGOPRO2 which is the most flashy one. YGO Omega is currently the favorite of people who have Discord (online play requires it) due to being insanely customizable (you can play all popular duel types, use every set of Master Rules and even mix and match rules from any of them) while still having animated effects.

	==The Anime/Manga==		==The Anime/Manga==

188.27.252.235: /* The Turn */

2022-05-23T17:36:12Z

The Turn

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	*The turn starts with a '''Begin of Turn''' phase where some things can happen depending on the cards in play, but most of the time this turn is just filler.		*The turn starts with a '''Begin of Turn''' phase where some things can happen depending on the cards in play, but most of the time this turn is just filler.
	*The '''Draw Phase''' allows you to draw 1 card from your deck. Again, some abilities might be triggered in this phase, but it's not all that flashy.		*The '''Draw Phase''' allows you to draw 1 card from your deck. Again, some abilities might be triggered in this phase, but it's not all that flashy.
	*The '''Standby Phase''' the phase that happens between the Draw and Main Phase. Nothing really happens here, but ~~some~~ abilities use this as part of their trigger requirements.		*The '''Standby Phase''' the phase that happens between the Draw and Main Phase. Nothing really happens here, but many abilities use this as part of their trigger requirements.
	*The '''First Main Phase''' is where it all happens: you can play 1 monster and as many magic/trap cards as you like. Monsters can either be '''Summoned''' or '''Set'''. Summoning means they are placed in a face-up upright position; this makes their Attack stat the number used in the combat phase. If a monster is set it is placed in a face-down position turned 90 degrees to the right; this makes their Defense stat the number used in combat. You can only summon one monster normally, although card effects may allow you to conduct a "special summon" which is basically the same except that they are almost always summoned face-up and they don't take up your normal summon		*The '''First Main Phase''' is where it all happens: you can play 1 monster and as many magic/trap cards as you like. Monsters can either be '''Summoned''' or '''Set'''. Summoning means they are placed in a face-up upright position; this makes their Attack stat the number used in the combat phase. If a monster is set it is placed in a face-down position turned 90 degrees to the right; this makes their Defense stat the number used in combat. You can only summon one monster normally, although card effects may allow you to conduct a "special summon" which is basically the same except that they are almost always summoned face-up and they don't take up your normal summon
	*The '''Battle Phase''' has four sub phases. Again it has a Start and End step in which some effects trigger, but most of the time they're just there to look pretty. The big part of this is the Battle and Damage steps: you choose one of your monsters and attack one of your opponent's monsters. You then compare your monster's Attack to the other monster's opposing stat. If it is in Attack Position you compare the two Attack scores: the monster with the lowest Attack is destroyed and its controller loses life equal to the difference in Attack. If the scores are equal both monsters are destroyed. If the monster is in Defense Position you compare your Attack to the other's Defense: if yours is lower or equal then you lose life (but not your monster) equal to the difference (obviously you can't lose zero life), if yours is higher the other monster is destroyed but the opponent does not lose life. If the scores are equal nothing happens. If you attack a face-down monster this way then it flips up: either to reveal a weak monster that your opponent put down to stall for time, an effect monster that does something beneficial when flipped or destroyed, or a large blocker that might deal you damage. All monsters you control may attack only once (Unless an effect says otherwise), one by one; you are allowed to attack the same monster several times.		*The '''Battle Phase''' has four sub phases. Again it has a Start and End step in which some effects trigger, but most of the time they're just there to look pretty. The big part of this is the Battle and Damage steps: you choose one of your monsters and attack one of your opponent's monsters. You then compare your monster's Attack to the other monster's opposing stat. If it is in Attack Position you compare the two Attack scores: the monster with the lowest Attack is destroyed and its controller loses life equal to the difference in Attack. If the scores are equal both monsters are destroyed. If the monster is in Defense Position you compare your Attack to the other's Defense: if yours is lower or equal then you lose life (but not your monster) equal to the difference (obviously you can't lose zero life), if yours is higher the other monster is destroyed but the opponent does not lose life. If the scores are equal nothing happens. If you attack a face-down monster this way then it flips up: either to reveal a weak monster that your opponent put down to stall for time, an effect monster that does something beneficial when flipped or destroyed, or a large blocker that might deal you damage. All monsters you control may attack only once (Unless an effect says otherwise), one by one; you are allowed to attack the same monster several times.