Editing Hand

[[File:Hand.png|thumb| A screen shot from [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters]] to know what your hand looks like when holding cards. The number of cards a player can have in their hand during the [[End Phase]] without [[discard]]ing cards is six.]]

The '''Hand''' refers to the cards each player holds that have not yet been played, but that they have [[Draw a card|drawn]] during the [[Draw Phase]] or via [[card effects]]. It's called so since the cards are generally held in the physical hands of a player. From your hand, you are able to [[Normal Summon]] or [[Set]] the [[Monster Cards]], Set [[Trap Cards]] in your Hand, and Set or [[activate]] [[Spell Cards]].

During your Draw Phase after you [[draw a card]] it is added to your hand. The ''[[hand size limit]]'' is six, so during your [[End Phase]] if you have more than six cards in your hand, you must [[discard]] cards until you have six cards left. "[[Hieroglyph Lithograph]]" extends the hand limit to seven cards, while "[[Infinite Cards]]" removes this limit for both players. There is also no minimum hand size limit, and a hand of zero is still considered a hand.

Certain cards can interact with cards in either yours, your opponents, or both sets of hands. "[[Spirit Reaper]]" can discard 1 card from your hand as part of it's effect, and "[[Exchange]]" allows you to swap one card from your hand with one card in your opponent's hand. Some cards such as "[[Raigeki Break]]" require you to have at least one card in your hand to [[pay]] the [[Costs|cost]] of activation.

==See also==
* [[Hand size limit]]

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-{{for|the archetype|""Hand"" (archetype)}}
+[[File:Hand.png|thumb| A screen shot from [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters]] to know what your hand looks like when holding cards. The number of cards a player can have in their hand during the [[End Phase]] without [[discard]]ing cards is six.]]
-[[File:Hand.png|thumb|right|300px|A hand of cards in the anime]]
-A player's '''hand''' (Japanese: {{Ruby|手|て}}{{ruby|札|ふだ}} ''Tefuda'') refers to the cards each player holds that have not yet been played. Cards that are drawn are placed in the hand, although cards can be [[add a card|added]] to the hand in other ways. As the name suggests, such cards are generally held in a player's physical hand.
+The '''Hand''' refers to the cards each player holds that have not yet been played, but that they have [[Draw a card|drawn]] during the [[Draw Phase]] or via [[card effects]]. It's called so since the cards are generally held in the physical hands of a player. From your hand, you are able to [[Normal Summon]] or [[Set]] the [[Monster Cards]], Set [[Trap Cards]] in your Hand, and Set or [[activate]] [[Spell Cards]].
-From your hand, among other things: [[Monster Card]]s can be [[Normal Summon]]ed/[[Normal Set|Set]], [[Pendulum Monster]]s can be [[activate]]d in the [[Pendulum Zone]], [[Spell Card]]s can be activated, Spell/[[Trap Card]]s (except [[Field Spell Card]]s) can be [[Set]] in the [[Spell & Trap Zone]], and Field Spell Cards can be Set in the [[Field Zone]].
+During your Draw Phase after you [[draw a card]] it is added to your hand. The ''[[hand size limit]]'' is six, so during your [[End Phase]] if you have more than six cards in your hand, you must [[discard]] cards until you have six cards left. "[[Hieroglyph Lithograph]]" extends the hand limit to seven cards, while "[[Infinite Cards]]" removes this limit for both players. There is also no minimum hand size limit, and a hand of zero is still considered a hand.
-During your [[End Phase]], you must [[discard]] cards until you meet the [[hand size limit]] (normally six, but it can be changed by card effects).
+Certain cards can interact with cards in either yours, your opponents, or both sets of hands. "[[Spirit Reaper]]" can discard 1 card from your hand as part of it's effect, and "[[Exchange]]" allows you to swap one card from your hand with one card in your opponent's hand. Some cards such as "[[Raigeki Break]]" require you to have at least one card in your hand to [[pay]] the [[Costs|cost]] of activation.
-Certain [[card effect]]s can interact with cards in players' hands. For example, "[[Spirit Reaper]]" can [[discard]] 1 card from the opponent's hand as part of its effect, and "[[Exchange]]" allows you to swap one card from your hand with one card in your opponent's hand. Many card effects have [[cost]]s that require discarding a card(s) from your hand, such as "[[Raigeki Break]]", and you cannot activate such effects unless you have enough cards in your hand to [[pay]] the cost.
-==In other languages==
-{{In other languages
-| fr_name   = main
-| de_name   = Hand
-| it_name   = mano
-| pt_name   = mão
-| es_name   = mano
-| ja_name   = {{Ruby|手|て}}{{ruby|札|ふだ}}
-| ja_romaji = Tefuda
-| zh_name   = 手牌
-| zh_pinyin = Shǒupái
-| ko_name   = 패
-| ko_rr     = Pae
-}}
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