Difference between revisions of "Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel"

Japanese
Japanese	遊（ゆう）戯（ぎ）王（おう）マスターデュエル
Base	遊戯王マスターデュエル
Furigana	ゆうぎおうマスターデュエル
Rōmaji	Yūgiō Masutā Dyueru

*Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel*
Names
English	Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Japanese
Japanese
Japanese	遊（ゆう）戯（ぎ）王（おう）マスターデュエル
Base	遊戯王マスターデュエル
Furigana	ゆうぎおうマスターデュエル
Rōmaji	Yūgiō Masutā Dyueru
Development
Platform	PlayStation 4; PlayStation 5; Xbox One; Xbox Series X; Nintendo Switch; PC; iOS; Android;
Languages	English; French; German; Italian; Portuguese; Spanish; Japanese; Korean;
Developer	Konami
Release dates
Japanese	January 19, 2022
North American	January 19, 2022
European	January 19, 2022

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is a console, PC, Android, and iOS video game. It was released on consoles and PC on January 19, 2022.^[1]

Features

Cross-play and cross-progression - all systems can play against each other, and can use the same save file for each player.
Solo Mode - learn the card game's mechanics through tutorials and enjoy the storylines of cards.
Events - timed events called Festivals, with special rules and Forbidden/Limited lists.

Gameplay

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is a free-to-play multiplayer game where players can either duel against other players or play a singleplayer mode. Player can obtain cards via spending Gems on pack openings or crafting specific card(s) using Craft Points based on its rarity. The game uses a modified OCG Forbidden & Limited List that will be updated with each updates. Master Duel also features various accessories to personalize player's profile and dueling field, mostly based on a popular and notable cards.

Earning Gems

Ranked Duel

The main gameplay mode of Master Duel, where players from all across the world face off against each other.

Solo Mode

This single-player mode lets the player sample several archetypes of the game, and offers the option of using loaner decks to help new players get a feel of these archetypes.

Events

Time-limited events impose a special deck-building restriction to add some variation to the game, and offer more Gems or special cosmetics as rewards.

DUEL LIVE

A side mode where the player can watch replays of recent matches from either Ranked, Event, or Casual Duels. It's intended to help expose a player to new playstyles or inspire them to build new Decks. There's a daily mission that yields 5 Gems for watching a DUEL LIVE replay.

An update in 14 Jul 2023 expanded on this mode, allowing the player to pick from a selection of replays or enable autoplay for the mode. The selection menu shows the "main cards" for the Decks to give a clue on the matchup.

Proficiency Test

A side mode added on 6 Nov 2023, where players can test themselves by answering questions about card trivia and completing basic tasks in Dueling. Rewards include Legacy Pack tickets and various accessories.

Cards

The game includes 11,994 cards (plus 10 alternate artworks) as of October 10, 2023, going up to Age of Overlord. The card pool is updated at least monthly, usually (but not always) with cards that have received release in both TCG and OCG within the previous year. Some popular cards are given Summoning/activation animations (see below).

A number of older cards that have been available in both the TCG and OCG since before Master Duel's release are still missing. These are:

Cards with unconventional effects: "Bait Doll", "Convulsion of Nature", "Double Spell", "Harmonic Oscillation", "Pole Position", "Question", and "Spirit Elimination".
- "Pole Position" in particular is prone to causing infinite loops.
Cards whose only artwork was drawn by Kazuki Takahashi: "Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon", "Exodia, the Legendary Defender", "Magician of Black Chaos MAX", "Neo Kaiser Glider", "Palladium Oracle Mana", "Red-Eyes Alternative Black Dragon", and "Shiba-Warrior Taro".
"Spellbinding Circle"—as its Japanese artwork prominently features a hexagram that cannot be replaced, due to its Japanese name being "Curse of the Hexagram".
- In Master Duel (as well as recent reprints and other recent video games), other cards featuring a regular hexagram in their artwork (such as the Japanese artworks of "Dark Magician Girl", "Magic Jammer", and "Black Magic Ritual") have had it replaced with a regular pentagram, presumably due to not wanting to associate a symbol commonly used as the Star of David with occult magic^[a] (despite its historical usage as an occult symbol). Cards featuring a unicursal hexagram (such as "The Seal of Orichalcos") have not been modified.
"Elemental HERO Air Neos" and "Mooyan Curry".

Starting Deck

Special animations

The following cards cause the game to play a 2D animation when Summoned (if they are monsters) or a 3D animation when resolved (if they are Spells/Traps). So far, all cards with an alternate artwork in-game have an animation, with every artwork having a different matching one.

Cards with Summon/activation animations

Monster Cards

Tsumuha-Kutsunagi the Lord of Swords

Spell Cards

Trap Cards

Fusion Monsters

Xyz Monsters

Link Monsters

These cards have animations in other miscellaneous situations, e.g. Duel winners play a 2D animation when their victory condition is achieved.

Cards with other animations

Main Deck

Monster Cards

Normal Monsters

Blue-Eyes White Dragon (final attack)
Dark Magician (final attack)
Red-Eyes Black Dragon (final attack)

Effect Monsters

Dark Magician Girl (final attack)
Exodia the Forbidden One (victory condition)
Obelisk the Tormentor (final attack)
Slifer the Sky Dragon (final attack)
The Winged Dragon of Ra (final attack)

Tuner monsters

Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (effect)
Effect Veiler (effect)

Trap Cards

Continuous Traps

Destiny Board (victory condition)

Extra Deck
Xyz Monsters Ghostrick Angel of Mischief (victory condition) Musical Sumo Dice Games (victory condition)

Sets

PC System Requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10 Home (64bit) latest revision	Windows 10 Home (64bit) latest revision
CPU	Intel Core i5-7300U or equivalent	Intel Core i5-9400F or equivalent
Memory	8GB RAM	8GB RAM
Graphics Card	Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 or equivalent	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or equivalent
Screen Resolution	1280 x 720	1920 x 1080
Storage	16GB or higher	16GB or higher
Internet	Broadband Connection	Broadband Connection
Sound Card	On Board	On Board
DirectX	DirectX 11	DirectX 11

Forbidden/Limited list

The game's Forbidden/Limited Lists, at initial release, was a variant of the April 2021 OCG Lists to match the availability of cards at the time.

Banlist changes in the game's Standard format are more frequent than the physical game, and different cards get affected to account for the game's best-of-1 format and staggered card release schedule. For instance, cards can become unbanned to coincide with an expansion that introduces them, and known powerful cards can be preemptively restricted the moment they debut in this game.

Various events feature their own specific Forbidden/Limited Lists which are usually the same as the Standard format but have additional cards restricted to fit the theme of the event (such as all non-Synchro Extra Deck Monsters being Forbidden in the Synchro Festival event).

Media

Notes

↑ Kevin Tewart, who is U.S. head of development for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, has previously expressed his opposition to using a regular hexagram as an occult symbol due to its common usage as the Star of David.^[2]

References

↑ Konami (19 January 2022). "It's Time To Duel! Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL is Available Today On Consoles And PC". Retrieved 19 January 2022.
↑ Tewart, Kevin (2009-05-30). "Cards that need to be released!". Pojo.com Forums. p. 3. Retrieved 11 April 2024. How is portraying the Star of David as some sort of occult symbol "better"?

External links

Official website

[3] Kevin Tewart, who is U.S. head of development for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, has previously expressed his opposition to using a regular hexagram as an occult symbol due to its common usage as the Star of David.^[2]

[1] Konami (19 January 2022). "It's Time To Duel! Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL is Available Today On Consoles And PC". Retrieved 19 January 2022.

[pojo-2] Tewart, Kevin (2009-05-30). "Cards that need to be released!". Pojo.com Forums. p. 3. Retrieved 11 April 2024. How is portraying the Star of David as some sort of occult symbol "better"?

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 == Cards ==
-The game includes 11,994 cards (plus 7 alternate [[artwork]]s) as of October 10, 2023, going up to ''[[Deck Build Pack: Wild Survivors]]''. The card pool is updated at least monthly, usually (but not always) with cards that have received release in both ''[[OCG]]'' and ''[[TCG]]''. Some popular cards are given Summoning/activation animations.
+The game includes 11,994 cards (plus 10 alternate [[artwork]]s) as of October 10, 2023, going up to ''[[Age of Overlord]]''. The card pool is updated at least monthly, usually (but not always) with cards that have received release in both ''[[TCG]]'' and ''[[OCG]]'' within the previous year. Some popular cards are given Summoning/activation animations (see below).
-Older cards that are available in both ''OCG'' and ''TCG'' but are missing from ''Master Duel'' include:
+A number of older cards that have been available in both the ''TCG'' and ''OCG'' since before ''Master Duel''{{'}}s release are still missing. These are:
-* Cards with unconventional effects: "[[Bait Doll]]", "[[Convulsion of Nature]]", "[[Double Spell]]", "[[Harmonic Oscillation]]", "[[Mooyan Curry]]", "[[Question]]", and "[[Spirit Elimination]]".
+* Cards with unconventional effects: "[[Bait Doll]]", "[[Convulsion of Nature]]", "[[Double Spell]]", "[[Harmonic Oscillation]]", "[[Pole Position]]", "[[Question]]", and "[[Spirit Elimination]]".
+** "Pole Position" in particular is prone to causing [[infinite loop]]s.
 * Cards whose only artwork was drawn by [[Kazuki Takahashi]]: "[[Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate Dragon]]", "[[Exodia, the Legendary Defender]]", "[[Magician of Black Chaos MAX]]", "[[Neo Kaiser Glider]]", "[[Palladium Oracle Mana]]", "[[Red-Eyes Alternative Black Dragon]]", and "[[Shiba-Warrior Taro]]".
-* "[[Pole Position]]", as it easily causes [[infinite loop]]s.
+* "[[Spellbinding Circle]]"—as its Japanese artwork prominently features a [[wikipedia:hexagram|hexagram]] that cannot be replaced, due to its Japanese name being "Curse of the Hexagram".
-* "[[Elemental HERO Air Neos]]" and "[[Spellbinding Circle]]".
+** In ''Master Duel'' (as well as recent reprints and other recent video games), other cards featuring a regular hexagram in their artwork (such as the Japanese artworks of "[[Dark Magician Girl]]", "[[Magic Jammer]]", and "[[Black Magic Ritual]]") have had it replaced with a regular [[wikipedia:pentagram|pentagram]], presumably due to not wanting to associate a symbol commonly used as the [[wikipedia:Star of David|Star of David]] with occult magic{{efn|[[Kevin Tewart]], who is U.S. head of development for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, has previously expressed his opposition to using a regular hexagram as an occult symbol due to its common usage as the Star of David.<ref name="pojo">{{cite web |last1=Tewart |first1=Kevin |title=Cards that need to be released! |url=https://www.pojo.biz/board/showthread.php?p=13559881 |website=Pojo.com Forums |access-date=11 April 2024 |page=3 |date=2009-05-30 |quote=How is portraying the Star of David as some sort of occult symbol "better"?}}</ref>}} (despite its historical usage as an occult symbol). Cards featuring a [[wikipedia:unicursal hexagram|unicursal hexagram]] (such as "[[The Seal of Orichalcos]]") have not been modified.
+* "[[Elemental HERO Air Neos]]" and "[[Mooyan Curry]]".
 ===Starting Deck===
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 ===Special animations===
-The following cards cause the game to play a 2D animation when Summoned (if they're monsters) or a 3D animation when resolved (if they're Spells/Traps). So far, all cards with an alternate [[artwork]] in-game have an animation, with every artwork having a different matching one.
+The following cards cause the game to play a 2D animation when Summoned (if they are monsters) or a 3D animation when resolved (if they are Spells/Traps). So far, all cards with an alternate [[artwork]] in-game have an animation, with every artwork having a different matching one.
 {{Decklist|Cards with Summon/activation animations
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 * [[Danger! Nessie! (Master Duel)|Danger! Nessie!]]
 * [[Destiny HERO - Plasma (Master Duel)|Destiny HERO - Plasma]]
+* [[Diabellstar the Black Witch (Master Duel)|Diabellstar the Black Witch]]
 * [[Dinowrestler Pankratops (Master Duel)|Dinowrestler Pankratops]]
 * [[Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted (Master Duel)|Dogmatika Fleurdelis, the Knighted]]
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 * [[Great Shogun Shien (Master Duel)|Great Shogun Shien]]
 * [[Harr, Generaider Boss of Storms (Master Duel)|Harr, Generaider Boss of Storms]]
+* [[Horus the Black Flame Deity (Master Duel)|Horus the Black Flame Deity]]
 * [[Icejade Kosmochlor (Master Duel)|Icejade Kosmochlor]]
 * [[The Iris Swordsoul (Master Duel)|The Iris Swordsoul]]
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 * [[Mekk-Knight Purple Nightfall (Master Duel)|Mekk-Knight Purple Nightfall]]
 * [[Meklord Astro Dragon Triskelion (Master Duel)|Meklord Astro Dragon Triskelion]]
+* [[Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation (Master Duel)|Mementoal Tecuhtlica - Combined Creation]]
 * [[Mermail Abyssmegalo (Master Duel)|Mermail Abyssmegalo]]
 * [[Nibiru, the Primal Being (Master Duel)|Nibiru, the Primal Being]]
+* [[Nightmare Magician (Master Duel)|Nightmare Magician]]
 * [[Obelisk the Tormentor (Master Duel)|Obelisk the Tormentor]]
 * [[Protecting Spirit Loagaeth (Master Duel)|Protecting Spirit Loagaeth]]
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 * [[Rescue-ACE Turbulence (Master Duel)|Rescue-ACE Turbulence]]
 * [[Slifer the Sky Dragon (Master Duel)|Slifer the Sky Dragon]]
+* [[Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon (Master Duel)|Snake-Eyes Flamberge Dragon]]
 * [[Starry Night, Starry Dragon (Master Duel)|Starry Night, Starry Dragon]]
 * [[Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth (Master Duel)|Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth]]
 * [[Therion "King" Regulus (Master Duel)|Therion "King" Regulus]]
+* [[Transcendosaurus Meteorus (Master Duel)|Transcendosaurus Meteorus]]
 * [[U.A. Playmaker (Master Duel)|U.A. Playmaker]]
 * [[Ultimate Conductor Tyranno (Master Duel)|Ultimate Conductor Tyranno]]
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 * [[Zefraath (Master Duel)|Zefraath]]
 |ritual monsters =
+* [[Baelgrill de Nouvelles (Master Duel)|Baelgrill de Nouvelles]]
 * [[Black Luster Soldier - Legendary Swordsman (Master Duel)|Black Luster Soldier - Legendary Swordsman]]
 * [[Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon (Master Duel)|Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon]]
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 * [[Coral Dragon (Master Duel)|Coral Dragon]]
 * [[Crystron Quariongandrax (Master Duel)|Crystron Quariongandrax]]
+* [[Fabled Leviathan (Master Duel)|Fabled Leviathan]]
 * [[Flamvell Uruquizas (Master Duel)|Flamvell Uruquizas]]
 * [[Flower Cardian Moonflowerviewing (Master Duel)|Flower Cardian Moonflowerviewing]]
 * [[Geomathmech Final Sigma (Master Duel)|Geomathmech Final Sigma]]
 * [[Ghoti of the Deep Beyond (Master Duel)|Ghoti of the Deep Beyond]]
+* [[Gold Pride - Star Leon (Master Duel)|Gold Pride - Star Leon]]
 * [[Hi-Speedroid Chanbara (Master Duel)|Hi-Speedroid Chanbara]]
 * [[Hi-Speedroid Clear Wing Rider (Master Duel)|Hi-Speedroid Clear Wing Rider]]
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 * [[Mannadium Prime-Heart (Master Duel)|Mannadium Prime-Heart]]
 * [[Masterflare Hyperion (Master Duel)|Masterflare Hyperion]]
+* [[Naturia Beast (Master Duel)|Naturia Beast]]
 * [[Odin, Father of the Aesir (Master Duel)|Odin, Father of the Aesir]]
 * [[Penguin Brave (Master Duel)|Penguin Brave]]
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 * [[Shooting Quasar Dragon (Master Duel)|Shooting Quasar Dragon]]
 * [[Stardust Dragon (Master Duel)|Stardust Dragon]]
+* [[Superheavy Samurai Brave Masurawo (Master Duel)|Superheavy Samurai Brave Masurawo]]
 * [[Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (Master Duel)|Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying]]
+* [[T.G. Glaive Blaster (Master Duel)|T.G. Glaive Blaster]]
 * [[Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (Master Duel)|Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier]]
 * [[Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon (Master Duel)|Ukiyoe-P.U.N.K. Amazing Dragon]]
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 * [[Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder (Master Duel)|Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder]]
 * [[Evilswarm Ophion (Master Duel)|Evilswarm Ophion]]
+* [[Evolzar Lars (Master Duel)|Evolzar Lars]]
 * [[Exosister Mikailis (Master Duel)|Exosister Mikailis]]
 * [[Expurrely Happiness (Master Duel)|Expurrely Happiness]]
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 * [[S-Force Justify (Master Duel)|S-Force Justify]]
 * [[Salamangreat Heatleo (Master Duel)|Salamangreat Heatleo]]
+* [[Salamangreat Raging Phoenix (Master Duel)|Salamangreat Raging Phoenix]]
 * [[Scareclaw Tri-Heart (Master Duel)|Scareclaw Tri-Heart]]
 * [[Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty (Master Duel)|Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty]]
 * [[Sky Striker Ace - Kagari (Master Duel)|Sky Striker Ace - Kagari]]
+* [[S:P Little Knight (Master Duel)|S:P Little Knight]]
 * [[SPYRAL Double Helix (Master Duel)|SPYRAL Double Helix]]
 * [[Subterror Behemoth Fiendess (Master Duel)|Subterror Behemoth Fiendess]]
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 * [[Gold Sarcophagus (Master Duel)|Gold Sarcophagus]]
 * [[Harpie's Feather Duster (Master Duel)|Harpie's Feather Duster]]
+* [[Heavy Storm (Master Duel)|Heavy Storm]]
 * [[Lightning Storm (Master Duel)|Lightning Storm]]
 * [[Monster Reborn (Master Duel)|Monster Reborn]]
 * [[Raigeki (Master Duel)|Raigeki]]
+* [[Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage! (Master Duel)|Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!]]
 * [[Swords of Revealing Light (Master Duel)|Swords of Revealing Light]]
 * [[Triple Tactics Talent (Master Duel)|Triple Tactics Talent]]
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 ==Forbidden/Limited list==
-{{Main|October 2023 Lists (Master Duel)}}
+{{Main|May 2024 Lists (Master Duel)}}
 The game's Forbidden/Limited Lists, [[January 2022 Lists (Master Duel)|at initial release]], was a variant of [[April 2021 Lists|the April 2021 OCG Lists]] to match the availability of cards at the time.
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 ==Media==
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+==Notes==
+<references group="lower-alpha" />
 ==References==

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Difference between revisions of "Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel"

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Contents

Features

Gameplay

Earning Gems

Ranked Duel

Solo Mode

Events

DUEL LIVE

Proficiency Test

Cards

Starting Deck

Special animations

Sets

PC System Requirements

Forbidden/Limited list

Media

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