Yu-Gi-Oh is a deck builder game that involves playing monster/spell cards between two players. Both players have 4000/8000 lifepoints and the first one who can reduce an opponent’s lifepoints to zero wins the game. I'm watching the OG anime right now and it gave me an itch to play this game.

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Gameplay

The game starts by shuffling both decks then each player draws 5 cards. Cards can be monster cards, spell cards and trap cards. Monster cards are your main damage dealers, they have attack and defense points, some can have monster effects that behaves like a spell card. Against an opposing monster card, the one with the highest attack/defense points wins and the player damage is calculated by substracting both monster stats. Spell cards on the other hand have 3 subtypes which is a regular spell card, equipment card and terrain card. A regular spell card can invoke behaviors that affects all cards, including the player and the field. Equipment spell cards can only affect monsters while the terrain cards affect both monsters and the field.

The field consists of 10 cells for each player, 5 monster cells and another 5 spell/traps cells where you can set cards of those types respectively. Additionally, both players have so called graveyard cell and banished cell. The graveyard cell is where you stack the cards that are destroyed in the field. Although the banished cell functions just as the same as a graveyard cell, the difference is that it requires special spell cards or monster effects to be able to sent anything to it, the gist is that anything that goes in the banished cell will never return to the field. Each player are given 4 phases for each round, the draw phase, the main phase, the battle phase and the second main phase before the turn ends.

The first round starts a bit different, both players draw 5 cards then they will flip a coin on who will go first, the first to play can only summon/set monsters an set spell/trap cards and end the turn immediately. Then the player moves to the battle phase. The battle phase is where the player can command the monsters to attack, the monster with highest attack points wins while the losing monster will be sent to the graveyard and the player damage is calculated. After that, the player moves to the second main phase and set spells and traps all over again but cannot summon monster this time before finally ending the turn. And the cycle goes on until a player effectively snucks the lifepoints out of the other player.

I'm stilll learning the ropes on how to play this game because it has a lot of mechanics to account for. I will explain more as time goes by.

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