'''[[Victory conditions''' condition]]s (勝利条件 {{Ruby|勝|しょう}}{{Ruby|利|り}}{{Ruby|条|じょう}}{{Ruby|件|けん}} ''Shōri Jōken'') refer to the various ways a player can win a [[Duel]] or [[Match]].

* Your opponent's [[Life PointsLP]] are reduced to 0.* Your opponent is required to [[draw a card]], but has no does not have enough cards left in their [[Main Deck]](referred to as a "[[Deck out]]").A player can also win a Duel if their opponent [[surrender]]s, or is issued a [[Game Loss]] penalty in a tournament. In addition, most tournament Duels are timed; if time runs out and the Duel has not ended, the player with more Life Points wins. If Life Points are tied, the Duel will continue until the first change in Life Points happens ("sudden death").

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 [[DRAW]]. If one of these victory conditions is met while an effect is still resolving (i.e. "[[Ring of Destruction]]" or "[[Flowerbot]]"), the Duel ends immediately without resolving the 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 [[Match]] 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 Match or receiving a [[Match Loss]] penalty, or by time running out when the player has won a one Duel while the opponent has not.(If time runs out and both players have won an equal number of Duels, the current Duel is decided by LP or by "sudden death" if applicable.)

* "[[Exodia the Forbidden One]]": If your hand contains this card along with "[[Left Arm of the Forbidden One]]", "[[Right Arm of the Forbidden One]]", "[[Left Leg of the Forbidden One]]" and "[[Right Leg of the Forbidden One]]", you win the {{main|Duel. All five of these cards are currently [[Limited]].winner}}* "[[Destiny Board]]": This card can place 1 "[[Spirit Message]]" card from your hand or Deck to Since the field at the end of each of your opponent's turns. If this card places "[[Spirit Message "I"]]", "[[Spirit Message "N"]]", "[[Spirit Message "A"]]" and "[[Spirit Message "L"]]" all on your side beginning of the field in that order through its effectgame, you win the Duel. (In the manga, the "Spirit Messages" were not separate there have existed cards with [[Spell Cardcondition]]s but rather simply spectral forms that appeared above this card. In addition, it required "[[Dark Necrofear]]" provide alternate ways to be in the Graveyard to activate its effect.)* "[[Last Turn]]": When you activate this card by having 1000 or fewer Life Points, you choose one monster you control, and all other cards on the field and in both players' [[hand]]s are sent to the Graveyard. Your opponent then [[Special Summon]]s a monster from their Deck. A special Battle Phase occurs in which the two monsters battle and Battle Damage is ignored. The player whose monster remains alone on the field at the [[End Phase]] of this turn wins the Duel. This card is currently [[Forbidden]].* "[[Final Countdown]]": This card requires a [[cost]] of 2000 Life Points to [[activate]]. 20 turns after its activation, you win the Duel. This card is currently [[Limited]] in the ''[[TCG]]'' only.* "[[Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes]]": This card gains a [[Hyper-Venom Counter]] each time it inflicts [[battle damage]] to your opponent. If this card has three Hyper-Venom Counters on it, you win the Duel. (In the anime, this card allowed you to win the Duel three turns after it inflicted Battle Damage to without making your opponent, with no [[Counter]]'s involved.)* "[[Exodius the Ultimate Forbidden Lord]]": This card sends 1 monster from your [[hand]] LP 0 or making them [[Main Deck|Deck]] to the [[Graveyard]] each time it [[attackout]]s. If five different "[[Forbidden One]]" monsters are in your Graveyard that were sent there by this card's effect, you win The first and arguably the Duel.* "[[The Creator God most famous of Light, Horakhty]]": The only way to Summon this card these is by Tributing monsters whose original names are "[[Slifer Exodia the Sky Dragon]]", "[[Obelisk the Tormentor]]" and "[[The Winged Dragon of Ra]]" (meaning that you cannot use cards like "[[Phantom of ChaosForbidden One]]" to copy any card names). If this card is Summoned, you win the Duel. The Summon of "Horakhty" cannot be negated, so cards like "[[Solemn Warning]]", etc. cannot stop it.* "[[Number 88: Gimmick Puppet of Leo]]": This card can gain There are currently a [[Destiny Counter]] once per turn by detaching one total of its three [[Xyz Material]]s, but in order to do so, you must have no fifteen Duel winner cards in your the ''[[Spell & Trap Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card ZoneGame|OCG]] and must skip that turn's Battle Phase. If this card has three Destiny Counters on it, you win the Duel. (In the anime, this card could detach one of its Xyz Materials once per turn with no restrictions, and it allowed its controller to win the Duel if it detached all of its Xyz Materials by its own effect, with no [[Counter]]s involved.)* "[[Number C88: Gimmick Puppet Disaster Leo]]": Once per turn, this card can detach an Xyz Material to inflict 1000 damage to the opponent. During your [[End Phase]], if this card has no Xyz Materials while the opponent has 2000 ' or fewer Life Points, you wins the Duel. (In the anime, the damage was 4000 instead of 1000, and it allowed its controller to win the Duel if it had no Xyz Materials at the end of a turn, with no requirement on the opponent's Life Points.)* "[[Jackpot 7]]": This card [[banish]]es itself when sent to the Graveyard by your opponent's card effect. When three "Jackpot 7" are banished by this effect, you win the Duel.* "[[Relay Soul]]": You can [[Special Summon]] a monster from your hand, but if it [[Leave the field|leaves the field]], your opponent Wins the Duel.* "[[Creator of Miracles]]": By shouting "[[ZEXAL Field]]Yu-Gi-Oh!", this card allows a "[[Number C39]]" monster you control to attack [[direct attackTrading Card Game|directly]] for one turn. If you have previously activated the effects of "[[Winning Formula]]" and "[[Creator of HopeTCG]]" during that Duel, and if it successfully inflicts [[battle damage]] that turn, you win the Duel. "Creator of Miracles", "Winning Formula", and "Creator of Hope" are all [[Illegal]] to use in official Duels.* "[[Number Ci1000: Numerronius Numerronia]]": At the end of the opponent's turn, if they did not declare an attack, you win the Duel. This card also possesses an effect that allows it to negate an opponent's attack by [[detach]]ing an [[Xyz Material]]. This is an anime-only card.* "[[Draw Reset Battle]]": This card negates an opponent's attack and then has both players draw 1 card. Whoever has (not used their drawn card by the End Phase loses the Duel. (Presumably, if neither player uses their drawn card, the Duel would end in a all of which are [[Drawlegal]], although this was not stated directly.for tournament play) This is an anime-only card. 

If a A [[series]] of [[Monster Card|monsters]], known as Match winner winners, share the condition that if one successfully attacks your opponent [[Direct attack|directly]] and makes their Life Points LP 0 by the [[battle damage]] it inflicted (sometimes with additional conditions requiredrequirements), then you win the entire Match instead of just the Duel. All Match winners printed are [[Illegalillegal]]to use in official Duels, except for "[[Victory Dragon]]", which is instead currently [[Forbidden]]. ===In the anime===In the 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>, [[Jaden Yuki]] against [[Harrington Rosewood]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|15|ref}}</ref>, and [[Adrian Gecko]] against [[Aster Phoenix]]<ref>{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|145|ref}}</ref>. Other Duelists such as [[Yami Bakura]], Seto Kaiba, [[Dartz]], Harrington Rosewood, [[Thelonious Viper]], [[Yubel (character)|Yubel]] (through [[Marcel Bonaparte]]), [[Quattro]], [[Don Thousand]], and [[Nash]] have attempted to win using an alternate victory condition, albeit unsuccessfully.

These cards have effects that remove or replace the standard victory conditions. Currently, none of the cards in this category no such effects exist in the ''[[TCG]]'' or ''[[OCG]]''.*"[[Divine Serpent Geh (anime)|Divine Serpent Geh]]": While In the anime, while you control this face-up card, you cannot lose the Duel. This is an anime-only card.*"[[Zero Gate of the VoidRelay Soul (anime)|Relay Soul]]": When successfully activatedIn the anime, this card 's effect allows you to Special Summon a monster from your hand when your LP become 0, and makes destroying a particular that monster on the field the your opponent's only victory condition, replacing all others. (This presumably means that if the monster should leave the field without being destroyed, then the opponent will have no way to win card has a different effect in the ''TCG''/''OCG''; see "Duel, although such a possibility has never been explicitly mentionedwinners" above.) "Zero Gate of the Void" is a manga-only card.*"[[Deuce]]": While this card is face-up on the field, neither player can lose the Duel if their Life Points LP become 0. Instead, a player wins the Duel if they damage their opponent twice in a row. This is an anime-only card.*"[[Infernity Zero]]": While you control this face-up card, you do not lose the Duel if your Life Points LP become 0. This card exists only in the anime and in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force 5]]'' and series of video games from ''[[Tag Force 65]]''onward.* "[[Zero Gate of the Void]]": Similar to "[[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 manga-only card.

*"[[Yata-Garasu]]": 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 their hand, then the opponent will is programmed to automatically surrender the Duel at the start of their next turn, because of as a reference to the [[Yata-Garasu Lockdown|lock effect of "Yata-Garasu"]]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 "Yata-Garasu" had no cards left in their Deck and would have lost via deck out had the opponent not surrendered).* In most video games where the player has to duel under timed conditions, a player will lose if they run out of time (regardless of LP).* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel]]'', a player may also unexpectedly lose if they have been reported prior to the duel. In such cases, the result screen displays "No winner in # turns". ==Trivia==* Prior to March 20, 2015 in the ''[[TCG]]'', it was the rule that a Duel could not end in the middle of resolving a card effect. For example:** If a player [[activate]]d "[[Berserker Soul]]" and [[excavate]]d a Monster Card, lowering the opponent's LP to 0 as a result, that player would still be required to keep excavating cards until they excavated a non-Monster Card or excavated a total of 8 Monster Cards, before the opponent would 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 "[[Dark World Dealings]]", but cannot declare victory until after they discard). This change was presumably made in response to the then-new [[erratum]] of "[[Card Errata:Ring of Destruction|Ring of Destruction]]" in the ''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}}

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