You are declared the Winner when any of the following conditions are met:==Normal win conditions==These are the typical ways to win in the game's mechanics.* Your opponent's [[Life PointsVictory condition]] drop s ({{Ruby|勝|しょう}}{{Ruby|利|り}}{{Ruby|条|じょう}}{{Ruby|件|けん}} ''Shōri Jōken'') refer to 0. * Your opponent runs out of cards in their [[Main Deck]] when he/she is required to draw the various ways a player can win a card, either as part of his/her [[Draw PhaseDuel]], or as part of a card effect, such as [[Morphing JarMatch]]. Note the difference between "draw" and "pick up"; you do not win if your opponent is required to pick up a card from his/her deck and he/she can't comply.* Although in most major tournament and non-tournament duels, they are timed for certain reason(s). So the player with the most Life Points by the end of the time limit wins the duel.

==Special win Standard victory conditions==These cards allow you are the typical ways to win a [[Duel]] in the duel through their effectsgame's mechanics.* Your opponent's [[LP]] are reduced to 0.*Your opponent is required to [[draw a card]], but does not have enough cards left in their [[ExodiaMain Deck]]: If you hold (referred to as a "[[Exodia the Forbidden OneDeck out]]" along with ").A player can also win a Duel if their opponent [[Left Arm of the Forbidden Onesurrender]]s, or is issued a Game Loss penalty in a tournament. In addition, most tournaments are timed. If time runs out and the current Duel has not ended, the player with more LP wins; if LP are tied, the Duel continues until the first change in LP happens (unofficially known as "sudden death"). If both players satisfy a victory condition at the same time, "then the Duel ends in a [[Right Arm of the Forbidden OneDRAW]]", . If one of these victory conditions is met while an effect is still resolving (i.e. "[[Left Leg Ring of the Forbidden OneDestruction]]" and or "[[Right Leg of the Forbidden OneFlowerbot]]" in your hand at once you win ), the duel by Exodia Duel ends immediately without resolving the Forbidden One's rest of that effect.<ref name="Change">[https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=7038 Konami TCG Strategy Site]: Updates: F&L Cards List, PGL2 Card Text, Rules for Winning During a Chain</ref>*A [[Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden LordMatch]]: is typically won by winning two Duels, making them best-of-3 contests. In tournaments, Matches can also be won by the opponent forfeiting the Match or receiving a Match Loss penalty, or by time running out when the player has won one Duel while the opponent has not. (If "Exodia time runs out and both players have won an equal number of Duels, the Forbidden Onecurrent Duel is decided by LP or by ", sudden death"Left Arm if applicable.) ==Alternate victory conditions==If one of these special victory conditions is met while resolving a card effect, victory cannot be declared until after that effect completely resolves and the Forbidden Onevictory condition still remains true.<ref name=", Change"Right Arm />===Duel winners==={{main|Duel winner}}Since the beginning of the Forbidden One"game, there have existed cards with [[condition]]s that provide alternate ways to win a Duel without making your opponent's LP 0 or making them [[Deck out]]. The first and arguably the most famous of these is "Left Leg of [[Exodia the Forbidden One]]" and "Right Leg . There are currently a total of fifteen Duel winner cards in the Forbidden One" ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game|OCG]]'' or ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game|TCG]]'' (not all of which are sent to [[legal]] for tournament play). ===Match winners==={{main|Match winner}}A [[series]] of [[Monster Card|monsters]], known as Match winners, share the condition that if one successfully attacks your opponent [[graveyardDirect attack|directly]] and makes their LP 0 by Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord's effect [[battle damage]] it inflicted (sometimes with additional requirements), then you win the duelentire Match instead of just the Duel. All Match winners printed are [[illegal]] to use in official Duels, except for "[[Victory Dragon]]", which is instead currently [[Forbidden]]. Exodius  ===In the anime===In the Ultimate Forbidden Lord sends monsters from your anime, five duels have been won using an alternate victory condition: [[Yami Yugi]] against [[Seto Kaiba]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|1|ref}}</ref>, [[Seeker]] against [[Joey Wheeler]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|55|ref}}</ref>, [[Noah Kaiba]] against Seto Kaiba<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|116|ref}}</ref>, [[handJaden Yuki]] or against [[Main DeckHarrington Rosewood]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|15|Deckref}}</ref>, and [[Adrian Gecko]] to the graveyard every time it against [[attackAster Phoenix]]s<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|145|ref}}</ref>.*Other Duelists such as [[Yami Bakura]], Seto Kaiba, [[Dartz]], Harrington Rosewood, [[Destiny BoardThelonious Viper]]: If "Destiny Board", "[[Spirit Message "I"Yubel (character)|Yubel]] (through [[Marcel Bonaparte]]"), "[[Spirit Message "N"Quattro]]", "[[Spirit Message "A"Don Thousand]]" , and "[[Spirit Message "L"Nash]]" are all on your side of the fieldhave attempted to win using an alternate victory condition, Destiny Board's albeit unsuccessfully. ==Removing or replacing victory conditions==These cards have effects will let you win the duel provided that you placed them on remove or replace the field standard victory conditions. Currently, no such effects exist in the above order''TCG'' or ''OCG''. Destiny Board's effect allows you to place one of the * "Spirit Message" cards from your [[handDivine Serpent Geh (anime)|Divine Serpent Geh]] or ": In the anime, while you control this face-up card, you cannot lose the Duel.* "[[Main DeckRelay Soul (anime)|deckRelay Soul]] onto ": In the field during each of anime, this card's effect allows you to Special Summon a monster from your hand when your LP become 0, and makes destroying that monster your opponent's turnsonly victory condition, replacing all others. (This card has a different effect in the ''TCG''/''OCG''; see "Duel winners" above.)*"[[Final CountdownDeuce]]": Once Final Countdown While this card is [[activate|activated]]face-up on the field, neither player can lose the Duel if their LP become 0. Instead, you win a player wins the Duel if they damage their opponent twice in twenty turnsa row. It This is an anime-only works if the player that played this card doesn't get beaten within 20 turns of the card's activation. *"[[Last TurnInfernity Zero]]": When While you activate Last Turncontrol this face-up card, you choose one monster on do not lose the Duel if your side of the field, all other cards on LP become 0. This card exists only in the field anime and in the players''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force]]'' series of video games from '' [[handTag Force 5]]'' onward.* "[[Zero Gate of the Void]]s are sent ": Similar to the graveyard. Your opponent "[[Relay Soul]]", this card's effect allows you to Special Summon"[[Void Ogre Dragon]]" if your LP become 0 while your field and hand are empty, and your opponent's only victory condition becomes the destruction of that monster. This is a monster from his/her manga-only card. ==Video game automatic surrender==* "[[Main Deck|DeckYata-Garasu]]. A special Battle Phase occurs ": In most video games, if a player successfully inflicts battle damage to their opponent with "Yata-Garasu" while the opponent controls no cards and has no cards in which their hand, then the two monsters battle (battle damage opponent is ignored). The player whose monster remains alone on programmed to automatically surrender the field Duel at the start of their next turn, as a reference to the [[End PhaseYata-Garasu Lockdown]] strategy.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AezdHXC6nLg&t=3m27s</ref> This forced surrender applies to both human and CPU players, and will occur even if not surrendering would have been beneficial (such as if the controller of this turn wins "Yata-Garasu" had no cards left in their Deck and would have lost via deck out had the Duelopponent not surrendered). This strategy is currently forbidden in * In most video games where the advanced formatplayer has to duel under timed conditions, a player will lose if they run out of time (regardless of LP).*In ''[[Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous SnakesYu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel]]: If Vennominaga '', a player may also unexpectedly lose if they have been reported prior to the duel. In such cases, the Deity of Poisonous Snakes on your side of result screen displays "No winner in # turns". ==Trivia==* Prior to March 20, 2015 in the field has three ''[[Hyper-Venom Counter|Hyper-Venom CountersTCG]] on '', it you win was the duel. Vennominaga rule that a Duel could not end in the Deity middle of Poisonous Snakes gains resolving a card effect. For example:** If a Hyper Venom Counter every time it inflicts player [[activate]]d "[[Berserker Soul]]" and [[Battle Damageexcavate]] d a Monster Card, lowering the opponent's LP to 0 as a result, that player would still be required to your keep excavating cards until they excavated a non-Monster Card or excavated a total of 8 Monster Cards, before the opponentwould actually lose.<ref>[https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=6105 Konami TCG Strategy Site]: Drawing the Pharaoh’s Ire</ref>** On March 20, 2015, the rules were changed for standard victory conditions only, stating that a Duel ends immediately if a player's LP reaches 0 or they are forced to draw a card when there are no cards in their Deck (even while an effect is still resolving). This change does not carry over to alternate victory conditions (i.e. a player draws a fifth "[[Forbidden One]]" monster by the effect of "[[Life PointsDark World Dealings]]", but cannot declare victory until after they discard).*This change was presumably made in response to the then-new [[Match Winnerserratum]]: If a of "[[Match WinnersCard Errata:Ring of Destruction|Match WinnerRing of Destruction]] attacks your opponent directly and makes his/her Life Points 0 by " in the Battle Damage it inflicted, you win the entire Match''TCG''.  ==In other languages=={{In other languages| fr_name = Condition de victoire| de_name = Siegbedingung| it_name = Condizione di Vittoria| pt_name = Condição de Vitória| es_name = Condición de Victoria| ja_name = {{Ruby|勝|しょう}}{{Ruby|利|り}}{{Ruby|条|じょう}}{{Ruby|件|けん}}| ja_romaji = Shōri Jōken| ko_name = 승리 조건| ko_rr = Seungni Jogeon| tc_name = 勝利條件| tc_pinyin = Shènglì Tiáojiàn}} ==References==<references />