Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses Gameplay

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GameplayEdit

In the intro, Simon McMooran states that the dueling rules differ from the ones that are in the present time and that they are under the "Perfect Rule."

The main focus of the Perfect Rule is the deck leader system. Any deck you build needs to be assigned a Deck Leader. Your deck leader is essentially the "avatar" of your deck - as it represents you playing the cards on the field. Like Monster cards, Deck Leaders are allowed one move each turn - allowing it to move one space (or two, if it has the Increased Movement bonus). However, unlike monsters, your deck leader can never order an attack. Each turn you are also allowed to play one card within a surrounding tile of your deck leader - provided there is no enemy units occupying the tile. Also, just like the Deck Leader representing you playing the cards, it also represents you when you take a direct hit - any hit on the deck leader will LP damage to you as if it was a direct hit. This also means it is possible to be hit directly even if you have monster cards out on the field.

Deck Leaders can be any monster card you have obtained, that has been levelled at least once with the ranking system. If you have ranked up a card that can not be obtained, it will retain its abilities, but can not be used as the deck leader. There are a total of 12 ranks for deck leaders - as they rank up, they gain leader abilities. Leader abilities change depending on the type of monster cards, and are often used to compliment the type of monster. Stronger monster types such as dragons gain the ability to reduce the summoning cost of their own high powered, high levelled monsters, whereas weaker decks such as the low powered fairy deck relies on a much stronger set of abilities that harm enemy creatures whilst buffing and protecting their own. In addition to these abilities, there are also hidden abilities which are important in the game such as the hidden card find, and extra slots in the slot machine, however these abilities are not listed and have no effect on duels themselves.

Card MovementEdit

This perfect rule involves several changes, the biggest being the addition of a 7x7 grid of tiles for each play field, as opposed to the standard 5 slots for monster cards and 5 slots for spells/traps - however the rule is carried over that only 5 of your monsters and up to 5 of your spell/trap cards can be present on the field at any given time. Each duelists' deck leaders start out on opposing sides, and as well as cards that are played themselves, are only allowed one move per turn. This move can either involve flipping the card face up (if not already flipped), changing its position to attack/defense, or physically moving to another tile - either a tile adjacent to its current space. Cards are unable to change position (atk/def) and move a tile in the same turn, however cards can be flipped face up manually prior to moving, as part of its move. If the monster (including deckleader) has a movespeed advantage (via terrain or effect), can move up to two units away from its current position. This allows movement to a diagonal tile in one turn, or simply moving two units horizontal/vertically. No monsters can ever move more than two tiles per turn.

SpellboundEdit

Under certain circumstances, cards can become Spellbound. When this happens, the card cannot be moved and its battle position cannot be changed. Spellbound cards can be identified by the icon in their display, as well as the card's inverted colors. Near the "Sb" icon is the duration of the Spellbound, which is the number of turns remaining until the Spellbinding runs off. The number of turns is counted starting at the card owner's next turn after the card was Spellbound. Some effects can Spellbind the card forever, which is known as Eternal Spellbinding, and is indicated by the "∞" icon.

Cards can be Spellbound by two conditions. The first is by card effects (e.g., "Phantom Dewan", "Gravity Bind") and the Deck Leader Ability Spellbind Specific Enemy Type. The second is known as Attribute Spellbinding, which occurs after two monsters of certain Attributes battle, and follows this order:

• LIGHT is Spellbound by DARK
• DARK is Spellbound by WIND
• WIND is Spellbound by EARTH
• EARTH is Spellbound by FIRE
• FIRE is Spellbound by WATER
• WATER is Spellbound by LIGHT

Deck LeaderEdit

Main article: Deck Leader

TerrainEdit

Main article: Terrain

Each space in the game's grid is occupied by a certain Terrain. Monsters of certain Types can gain a Terrain Bonus on specific Terrains, which increases their ATK/DEF by 500 and allows them to move up to 2 spaces while face-up. In other cases, monsters may lose 500 ATK/DEF, but their movement is not decreased. The types of Terrain are:

• NORMAL: No Types are impacted
• MEADOW: Advantage for WARRIOR and BEAST-WARRIOR monsters, disadvantage for SPELLCASTER monsters
• FOREST: Advantage for PLANT, BEAST, BEAST-WARRIOR, INSECT, and PYRO monsters, disadvantage for FIEND monsters
• WASTELAND: Advantage for ROCK, DINOSAUR, ZOMBIE, and MACHINE monsters, disadvantage for AQUA, PLANT, SEA SERPENT, and FISH monster
• MOUNTAIN: Advantage for FAIRY, DRAGON, THUNDER, and WINGED BEAST monsters, disadvantage for ZOMBIE type monsters
• SEA: Advantage for AQUA, THUNDER, FISH, and SEA SERPENT monsters, disadvantage for PYRO and MACHINE monsters
• DARK: Advantage for SPELLCASTER, FIEND, and ZOMBIE monsters, disadvantage for FAIRY monsters
• TOON: Advantage for Comic-type monsters, disadvantage for all other monsters
• CRUSH: Advantage for IMMORTAL monsters. Monsters from other Types with 1500 or more ATK are destroyed when they pass through this space
• LABYRINTH: Cards cannot be moved or placed into this Terrain, except those with a Movement Effect that allows them to move in this square (e.g., "Labyrinth Tank", "Wall Shadow"). Cards are allowed to leave if they are currently in a LABYRINTH square, and they can attack cards that are in a LABYRINTH square, although if you destroy the monster on the LABYRINTH terrain, your monster will be returned to the last square it was on before attacking

The REPTILE type is the only one to not have an advantage or a disadvantage in any field (with the exception of TOON Terrain, which deficits any non-supported card)

Deck CostEdit

Each card has a Deck Cost which can be used to indicate the overall power of the card. Your deck's Deck Cost (DC) is the total of all forty cards in your deck, not including the deck leader. During the Campaign Mode, you cannot duel someone if you have a higher total Deck Cost than your opponent. This was put into the game to prevent players from completely dominating their opponent, however Deck Cost can not accurately represent the power of a deck; only give a general indication of how many powerful or weaker cards it contains - this is more apparent when fighting enemies that have deck costs of over a thousand.

Monsters follow a general rule of thumb when it comes to deck cost - Attack + Defense x 0.01. For instance; Red-Eyes B. Dragon has an attack of 2400 and a defense of 2000; a total of 4400 points, which when multiplied by 0.01 give the card its deck cost. All monsters are intended to have this exact equation with the exception of a few cards (that were presumably mistakes). If the card has an effect, regardless of the effect; 5 deck cost is added on to the monster for every effect type the monster has (for example, Jirai Gumo gains +10 due to having two effects). This allows you to save deck cost points by adding weak monsters with strong effects to your deck.

Immortal-type monsters appear to be an exception to the normal formula, as they each have 5 added to what their DC would be with the standard equation. This is likely to balance their innate power compared to normal monsters.

Spells and traps are more arbitrary as they do not follow any strict rules, but are generally tiered in terms of power. For instance; all basic equip cards are 10 deck cost (some such as Megamorph and Invigoration being 15 perhaps due to balance reasons), all terrain cards are 30 deck cost, and the most powerful spells are tiered at 40 deck cost (Tremendous Fire; Solomon's Lawbook), 50 deck cost (Monster Reborn, Dragon Capture Jar, Copycat), 60 deck cost (Graverobber, Magic Drain), and 80 deck cost (Royal Decree, Mirror Force, Just Desserts), with the two highest deck cost cards in the game (Riryoku and Mirror Force) capping at 99 deck cost.

On the contrary, cards with niche effects such as Cursebreaker (which can be used for either harm or good) or cards that are only situationally useful such as Monster Recovery or Call Of The Haunted, usually have very low deck costs, as unlike more powerful cards, they are not useful in every situation. These cards (especially Cursebreaker; which is a very good counter to most enemies in the game) are a fantastic way to keep deck costs low to fight weaker opponents, or allow you to also add stronger monsters to your deck without inflating the deck cost too much. The quickest, most simple way to reduce deck cost is to omit your stronger monsters and replace them with copies of Fake Trap (due to them being common) - or any low deck cost card you have that's more useful - temporarily.

All Ritual cards are 5 deck cost.

Destiny DrawEdit

A Destiny Draw may occur while Dueling, when a player is in a poor situation regarding cards and Life Points. They are then given a powerful card, that is not included in their Deck. This includes, but is not limited to; Raigeki, Mirror Force, Dian Keto the Cure Master, as well as others including Woodland Sprite and Arsenal Bug. Due to the nature of these cards effects, the Destiny Draw system will attempt to give you the most helpful card at the given time - ie; giving you an arsenal bug when your deck leader is an insect, or giving you Dian Keto The Cure Master when on critically low life points. Your deck leader's rank also effects the Destiny Draw system, as the higher your rank is, the more likely you are to be given a destiny draw at any time.

3D MonstersEdit

The Duelists of the Roses shows the monster itself hovering above the card when it is face up on the field. When monster battles are set to "Display" in the options menu (which you can bring up at any time during a Duel) when two monsters come into contact the screen switches to a detailed arena representing the current field terrain with the two monsters on either side of the arena. After a few moments the two monsters battle and the winner then roars or dances its approval over the victory of the battle.

SlotsEdit

Main article: Slots

After a successful victory, the player will be prompted with a slot machine, which contains cards that were in the opponent's Graveyard at the end of the Duel. By hitting these cards in the Slots, they will be awarded to the player.

PasswordsEdit

See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses cards and Password § Unusable The Duelists of the Roses passwords

The Duelists of the Roses uses unique eight-character alphanumeric passwords for cards; these passwords have never been used by other media. All 854 playable cards in the game have a password, but 120 of these are marked as unusable.

Only 34 passwords are known to have been officially published, the remaining 820 passwords were discovered by data mining in 2017.

Three cards (#042: "Fairy's Gift", #058: "Exodia the Forbidden One", and #814: "Goblin Fan") can only be obtained by using their password. Eleven more cards can additionally be temporarily obtained by stealing them from the AI opponent. All fourteen of these cards are among those whose passwords were officially distributed.

Officially published passwords

Card		Password	Source		Password-only?
001	"Seiyaryu"	2H4D85J7	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	Stealable
019	"Meteor Dragon"	86985631	1999-12-09	Forbidden Memories credits	No
042	"Fairy's Gift"	NVE7A3EZ	2001-09-06	Awarded on completion of the Red Rose Chapter in The Duelists of the Roses	Yes
043	"Magician of Faith"	GME1S3UM	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	Stealable
057	"Left Arm of the Forbidden One"	A5CF6HSH	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	Stealable
058	"Exodia the Forbidden One"	37689434	1999-12-09	Forbidden Memories credits	Yes
146	"Swordstalker"	AH0PSHEB	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
149	"Greenkappa"	YBJMCD6Z		Official Konami website	No
152	"Tactical Warrior"	054TC727	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	No
191	"Swordsman from a Foreign Land"	CZ81UVGR	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
291	"Birdface"	N54T4TY5	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
348	"Dragon Seeker"	81EZCH8B	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	No
372	"Mystical Capture Chain"	N1NDJMQ3		Official Konami website	No
458	"Serpentine Princess"	UMQ3WZUZ	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
478	"Aqua Dragon"	JXCB6FU7	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	Stealable
502	"Barrel Dragon"	GTJXSBJ7	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	No
506	"Blast Sphere"	CZN5GD2X	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	No
510	"Robotic Knight"	S5S7NKNH	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
567	"Beastking of the Swamps"	QXNTQPAX		Official Konami website	No
655	"Ancient Tree of Enlightenment"	EKJHQ109	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	No
670	"Fairy King Truesdale"	YF07QVEZ	2001-09-21	V Jump November 2001	No
674	"Slate Warrior"	73153736	1999-12-09	Forbidden Memories credits	No
687	"Mimicat"	69YDQM85	2001-10-21	V Jump December 2001	Stealable
699	"Dark Hole"	UMJ10MQB		Official Konami website	No
702	"Harpie's Feather Duster"	8HJHQPNP		Official Konami website	No
732	"Change of Heart"	SBYDQM8B	2001-10-06	Weekly Shōnen Jump 2001 #45	Stealable
750	"Earthshaker"	Y34PN1SV	2001-09-06	Awarded on completion of the White Rose Chapter of The Duelists of the Roses	Stealable
758	"Elf's Light"	E5G3NRAD		Official Konami website	No
765	"Horn of the Unicorn"	S14FGKQ1		Official Konami website	No
794	"Crush Card"	SRA7L5YR	2001-10-06	Weekly Shōnen Jump 2001 #45	Stealable
806	"Gravity Bind"	0HNFG9WX	2001-10-06	Weekly Shōnen Jump 2001 #45	Stealable
814	"Goblin Fan"	92886423	1999-12-09	Forbidden Memories credits	Yes
825	"Royal Decree"	8TETQHE1	2001-10-06	Weekly Shōnen Jump 2001 #45	Stealable
829	"Mirror Wall"	53297534	1999-12-09	Forbidden Memories credits	Stealable

ReincarnationEdit

Main article: Reincarnation

Cards can also be obtained by Reincarnation. After 5 Duels, a Reincarnation message will appear at the bottom of the player's Card Chest, which allows them to take one of their owned cards and exchange it for 3 new ones of similar Deck Cost.

See alsoEdit

• List of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses cards