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Remember to shake your opponent's hand before each Match and say your name. It is important to have good manners in a Duel, just like in the rest of life.

If you are winning a Duel, be nice to your opponent. Nobody likes it when they lose a Duel and their opponent is mean to them too. Think of how you feel when you lose a Duel. Maybe your opponent would like some tips from you on how to improve his/her Deck.

Remember to be polite to your opponents, and everybody will have more fun Dueling. And you will make more friends, too!

"Penguin Soldier" is another example of a card that can have multiple uses. The obvious use of this monster's Flip Effect is to return monsters on your opponent's side of the field to the hand, so that they cannot attack you. A different way to use it is to return your own monsters. For example, after you attack with "Spear Dragon" it changes to Defense Position, and its DEF is 0. If you Flip Summon "Penguin Soldier" in your Main Phase 2 after "Spear Dragon" has attacked, you can choose to return the "Spear Dragon" to your hand. This way you can Summon it again next turn and attack again and your opponent does not get the chance to destroy it!

Now that you see how cards can have multiple uses, go through the rest of your collection and try to identify all the different uses for all your cards!

"Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer" is a great monster to have in your Side Deck. His 1800 ATK is large, but it is his effects that can really hurt some of your opponents. If your opponent is playing with monsters like "Dark Necrofear" that require monsters to be removed from the Graveyard to be Summoned, "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer"'s continuous effect will put a stop to that.

He is also strong if your opponent is playing a Deck that likes to have a supply of monsters in the Graveyard, like a Zombie-Type Deck. Attack with "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer" and when he inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points, you can remove from play up to 2 monsters from your opponent's Graveyard each time. This will leave your opponent with no monsters in the Graveyard to Special Summon.

Every type of Deck has a weakness, and when you are selecting cards for your Side Deck, you will want to choose ones that help to protect that weakness. For example, if you are playing with Normal Monsters that have high ATK values, you may be vulnerable to a Deck that uses low ATK Effect Monsters, such as "Dream Clown", to control the field.

Having "King Tiger Wanghu" in your Side Deck could protect you from this by destroying all monsters with 1400 ATK or less that your opponent Normal or Special Summons.

Suppose you have 3 monsters, one with 1800 ATK, one with 1750 ATK. Why not remove the lower ATK monsters and just put in 3 monsters with 1800 ATK? Then you will have a stronger Deck.

Do not just look at the ATK and DEF numbers, though. Be sure and read the card effects. And look at Attributes and Types too. If you have an EARTH Deck, an EARTH monster with 1700 ATK might be better for your Deck than a FIRE monster with 1850 ATK.

A good Duelist knows the best monsters to put in a Deck, and how to use those monsters most effectively. ATK, DEF, Level, Type, Attribute, and effects are all important things to think about when choosing monsters for your Deck.

Dark Revelation volume 2 continues collecting some of the best boosters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, but when you open a booster pack and see a card, you should consider how it can be used with the cards you already have. There are powerful combos to be found when combining both volumes of Dark Revelation.

"Guardian Angel Joan" is a powerful Fairy-Type monster with an effect that increases your Life Points when she destroys a monster as a result of battle. The effect of "Arsenal Summoner" from Dark Revelation volume 1 lets you search your Deck for "Guardian Angel Joan" and add her to your hand. Then you can use the Equip Spell Card "Cestus of Dagla" to increase your Fairy's ATK by 500 points, and has an effect to further increase your Life Points by an amount equal to the Battle Damage that the equipped monster deals to the opponent.

Try to save some cards for later. If you run out of cards, you will have to rely on the 1 card you draw every turn being the card that you need. You will not have any room for error.

Sometimes it is wiser to wait and not play as forcefully at the start of the Duel, just so that you have cards later on. If your opponent has used all of his/her cards and has nothing left, then you will have the card advantage and be in a better position.

For example, if you have "Fissure" in your hand, but you can destroy your opponent's monster with an attack, you might want to attack the monster and destroy it, and save your "Fissure" for later to use on a monster you cannot destroy in battle.

"Dark Jeroid" may not look like a very strong monster with an ATK of 1200, but its effect reduces the ATK of a monster by 800 when it is Normal Summoned or Special Summoned.

This means that "Dark Jeroid" could really destroy a monster with ATK 2000 or less in battle.

But if it is Summoned when there is no other monster on the field, it decreases its own ATK. Be careful.

Most Decks have about half monsters and about half Spell and Trap Cards. Whether you have more Spell Cards or more Trap Cards is not important, as long as the Spell Cards and Trap Cards combined are about half of your Deck.

Remember that some cards count as multiple categories. "Jam Breeding Machine" is a Spell Card but creates monsters for you, so you might want to count it as a Monster Card.

It is okay to go a little higher in some Decks, depending on your strategy. Many Decks run at 55% Spell and Trap Cards, or 55% Monster Cards, and that's fine if it works for you.

The best Decks are around 40 or 50 cards. If you have a Deck that is a lot bigger than that, and can not find a way to make it smaller, here is a trick you can use.

First, pick the 5 most important cards in your Deck. The cards that you have to keep.

Then take the rest of the cards. Look at the first 2 cards. Pick 1 to keep in your Deck, and put the other card back in your collection. Then look at the next 2 cards, keep 1 for the Deck, and put the other in your collection. Keep doing this with all the cards.

This will cut your Deck size in half. If it is still too big, do this again. It it is too small, then put in enough cards from your collection to bring it up to 40 cards. Now you have a lean and mean Deck!

If you set up a strong defense by having a powerful monster on the field, be careful not to create a hole in your defense.

If you have "Giant Soldier of Stone" on the field (DEF 2000), then your opponent needs a monster with higher than ATK 2000 to damage you. Unless your opponent has a card that can attack your Life Points directly (like a Toon Monster), they will not be able to inflict Battle Damage to your Life Points.

But if you then Summon a weaker monster this creates an opening for your opponent to attack you. He/she can get at your Life Points by attacking through the weaker monster. Even if you Set the monster in Defense Position, your opponent can damage you by using an effect like "Fairy Meteor Crush". So be careful not to put holes in your defense!

"Vampire Lord" is a Monster Card that can help you in depleting your opponent's Deck. Whenever "Vampire Lord" inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, you get to choose 1 type of card (Monster, Spell, or Trap) and your opponent must take 1 card of those cards out of his Deck and send it to their Graveyard.

To get the most out of this effect you should choose the same card type every time "Vampire Lord" inflicts Battle Damage. For example, if you continue to choose Trap Cards, you will not have to worry as much about your opponent Setting any new Trap Cards. This will help you deplete your opponent's Deck.

"Chaos Greed" is powerful because it lets you draw 2 extra cards, and you can have 3 copies of it in your Deck. The more cards in your hand, the more choices you have, but to activate "Chaos Greed" your Graveyard must be empty and at least 4 of your cards need to be removed from play.

If you are already using effects that require you to remove from play cards in your Graveyard, you will quickly meet this requirement. To get any remaining cards out of your Graveyard, use "Recycle" to put them on the bottom of your Deck.

"Dimension Distortion" is another good Spell Card that fits this theme. When your Graveyard is empty, you can Special Summon a monster of yours that has been removed from play!

Do not give your opponent too much information. Telling your opponent what your Deck does or what cards you play with just lets your opponent have an easier time winning the Match.

Just like on the cartoon, bragging about your Deck or telling your opponent what cards you have can hurt you in the end.

Wait until after the Duel is over before discussing cards and strategies. There's plenty of time after the Duel to talk.

Also, if you are watching other players Duel, do not talk about what cards they have in their hands or face-down on the field. Let them play the Duel and then talk about it afterwards.

When "Dark Flare Knight" is destroyed as a result of battle you can search your Deck for "Mirage Knight" and Special Summon it.

"Dark Flare Knight" is a Fusion Monster that has another Fusion Monster as one of its Fusion-Material Monsters. This makes it very hard to Fusion Summon it to the field. Luckily "Dark Flare Knight" is only a Level 6 monster, allowing you to Special Summon it with "Magical Scientist". Now you can easily get to your "Mirage Knight".

Effect Damage is a way to decrease your opponent's Life Points without having battles.

"Secret Barrel" is one of the best cards for dealing Effect Damage. It inflicts 200 points of damage for every card in your opponent's hand and on his/her side of the field!

You can increase the amount of damage by using "Ojama Trio", which Special Summons 3 "Ojama Tokens" to your opponent's side of the field. This will be an additional 600 points of damage for "Secret Barrel".

Equip Spell Cards can only be equipped to face-up monsters. Even if the Equip Spell Card increases the DEF of the monster, like "Horn of Light", you cannot equip it to a face-down monster. You need to wait until the monster is face-up on the field.

Equip Spell Cards only have their effect as long as they remain face-up on the field. If an Equip Spell Card is destroyed or is removed from the field in another way, then its effects disappear.

Usually, if a monster equipped with an Equip Spell Card is destroyed, returned to your hand, shuffled into your Deck, sent to the Graveyard, turned into an Equip Spell Card (by "Relinquished"), flipped face-down, or anything else so that it is no longer a face-up Monster Card on the field, all Equip Spell Cards equipped to it are destroyed.

One of the easiest ways to build an Exodia Deck is to focus on cards that allow you to draw from your Deck.

Keep the Deck at around 40 cards. Try to add cards that allow you to draw additional cards.

Look at other cards to try and figure out combos that will let you draw more cards. The more cards you draw, the better you chance of getting all 5 Exodia pieces. But watch out for card effects that will force you to discard!

There are two Field Spell Cards in Dark Revelation that are important to specific theme Decks. These cards are "Necrovalley" for Gravekeeper Decks and "Pandemonium" for Archfiend Decks.

When playing Field Spell Cards like these, it is smart to use cards like "Terraforming" or "An Owl of Luck" because they let you search out the Field Spell Cards you want from your Deck and add them to your hand or place them on top of your Deck.

Monsters that have high ATK will sometimes have a low DEF. Take advantage of this weakness with "Block Attack". This card will put their monster into Defense Position, so it will be easier to defeat.

Attack the monster with "Airknight Parshath" and you will still do piercing Battle Damage to your opponent, and get to draw a card.

The reason that Flip Effect monsters are so good is that they serve two uses. First, they have a cool Spell or Trap-like effect. But at the same time, they count as a monster.

This gives Flip Monsters a two-for-one effect. Even though you are getting their Flip Effect, they still will stop one of your opponent's attacks when attacked and flipped face-up.

If a Flip Effect monster is not destroyed by an attack, you can Tribute it during a following turn for a Tribute Summon of a high-level monster. If it is not attacked, you can Flip Summon it next turn, get its Flip Effect, and Tribute it that same turn.

"Dark Paladin" states that it can only be Special Summoned by a Fusion Summon.

This means that you cannot use cards such as "Metamorphosis" to Special Summon it.

Most players Set monsters in Defense Position to protect their Life Points, but you can take away this advantage with the Trap Card "Meteorain".

"Meteorain" makes it so that for all your attacking monsters this turn, if their ATK is higher than the DEF of the monster they are battling with, the difference (ATK minus DEF) is inflicted as Battle Damage to your opponent's Life Points.

A Gravekeeper Deck is stronger if you play with "Necrovalley".

It is a Field Spell Card that increases the ATK and DEF of every Gravekeeper monster by 500 points.

Besides this amazing bonus, it also negates any card effect that affects a card(s) in the Graveyard, and prevents both players from removing cards in the Graveyard from play.