Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
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| English | Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel | ||||||||||
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| Developer | Konami | ||||||||||
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| Japanese | January 19, 2022 | ||||||||||
| North American | January 19, 2022 | ||||||||||
| European | January 19, 2022 | ||||||||||
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]
Contents
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 duelling field, mostly based on a popular and notable cards.
Earning Gems
Ranked Duel
Solo Mode
Events
Cards
The game currently includes 11,721 cards (plus 3 alternate artworks), going up to Photon Hypernova. The card pool is updated monthly, usually (but not always) with cards that have received release in both OCG and TCG. Some popular cards are given Summoning/activation animations.
Older cards that are available in both OCG and TCG but are missing from Master Duel include:
- Cards with unconventional effects: "Bait Doll", "Convulsion of Nature", "Double Spell", "Harmonic Oscillation", "Mooyan Curry", "Question", and "Spirit Elimination".
- 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 loops.
- "Elemental HERO Air Neos" and "Spellbinding Circle".
Starting Deck
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).
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
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Sets
PC System Requirements
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| 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 banlist, at initial release, was a variant of the April 2021 OCG Lists to match the availability of cards at the time.
Banlist changes in this game 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.
Media
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.
