Speed Duel
Speed Duel (スピードデュエル Supīdo Dyueru) is a beginner format that is used in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game. It is easy to experience and recommended for players to remember the basics on how to play the game. This concept was first introduced in the "Duel Terminal" system under a different ruling system. It was later used as the main gameplay of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Saikyo Card Battle and Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links. There is a format exclusive to the Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS anime, for a Duel taking place in the Data Storm in LINK VRAINS.[1]
Rules
These are the current Speed Duel rules for the TCG and OCG.[2][3]
- Each player begins the Duel with 4000 LP.
- Each player begins the Duel with 4 cards in the starting hand.
- In the TCG, the Main Deck size is 20 to 30 cards. In the OCG, the Main Deck size is 20 cards.
- Extra Deck size is up to 5 cards.
- In the TCG only, each player has a Skill Card.
- Each player has 3 Main Monster Zones, 3 Spell & Trap Zones, and 1 Field Zone.
- In the TCG, there are no Extra Monster Zones. In the OCG, there are 2 Extra Monster Zones aligned in front of the leftmost and rightmost Main Monster Zones.
- There is no Main Phase 2.
- Like a normal Duel, the first player does not draw on their first turn, the hand size limit is 6, both players can have an active Field Spell Card and there can only be 3 cards with the same name in both the Main Deck and the Extra Deck.
Legal cards
In the TCG, only cards marked with the "Speed Duel" logo are legal in the Speed Duel format. The Speed Duel logo will either appear in the background of the card's text box or as text between the card image and text box.
The following sets contain cards that can be used in Speed Duels (listed in order of release):
- Speed Duel Starter Decks: Destiny Masters
- Speed Duel Starter Decks: Duelists of Tomorrow
- Speed Duel: Arena of Lost Souls
- Speed Duel: Arena of Lost Souls Launch Event participation card
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Day April 2019 promotional card
- Speed Duel Tournament Pack 1
- Speed Duel: Attack from the Deep
Speed Duel in video games
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Saikyo Card Battle: The game uses the previous OCG Speed Duel rules (there are no Extra Monster Zones and each player has 2 Pendulum Zones).
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links: The game uses the same Speed Duel rules as the TCG.
Sample Decks
From Structure Deck: Yugi Muto[4][5]
From Structure Deck: Seto Kaiba[4][5]
Gallery
Speed Duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Saikyo Card Battle
Speed Duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links
Speed Duel in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
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References
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS episode 2: "Seize the Wind!"
- ↑ "Speed Dueling: A New Way to Play the Physical TCG". Konami. October 2, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ "Speed Duel" (PDF) (in Japanese). Konami. March 24, 2018. pp. 31–34. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b c "How to Speed Duel" (in Korean). Konami. Archived from the original on June 28, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2018. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
|1=(help) - ↑ a b c "How to Speed Duel" (in Japanese). Konami. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
