Draw a card
Artwork of "Defense Draw", depicting a player drawing
Drawing a card (Japanese: ドロー Dorō) is a method of adding the top card of the player's Main Deck to their hand.
Cards can be drawn in one of two ways:
- For the turn player's normal draw during their Draw Phase. This does not occur on the first turn of the Duel.
- Due to a card effect that specifically uses this term.
It is possible to draw multiple cards at once. For example, "Pot of Greed" and "Guarded Treasure" allow the player to draw 2 cards at once, but each of these effects is only a single draw (for the purposes of cards such as "Solemn Wishes").
Only cards that specifically say that a card is drawn do so. Cards such as "Conscription" and "Reinforcement of the Army" can adds cards from a player's Main Deck to their hand to the Graveyard, but they do not draw cards.
If a player is unable to draw because they do not have enough cards left in their Deck, that player loses the Duel by Deck out.
In other languages
| Language | Name | Romanized |
|---|---|---|
| French | piocher | |
| German | ziehen | |
| Italian | pescare | |
| Portuguese | comprar | |
| Spanish | robar | |
| Japanese | ドロー | Dorō |
| Korean | 드로우 | Deurou |
| Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) | 抽牌 | Chōupái |
