How to play the Duel Monsters game.
Each player begins with 8000 Life Points.

Life Points decreases as a rusult of damage calculation after battle.

You win a duel if you reduce your opponents's Life Points  to 0. If your opponet reduces
your Life Points to  0, YOU LOSE!!!!!!!

If you and your opponents both reach 0 Life Points at the same time, the Duel is declared a DRAW.

If either player's Deck runs out of cards during a Duel, the first player unable to draw a card
is declared the LOSER. Bearing this in mind, a good duelist should make every card count.


If at anytime  during the Duel you hold the following cards in your hand, you instantly win the Duel:

*Right Leg of the Forbidden One
*Left Leg of the Forbidden One
*Right arm of the Forbidden One
*Left Arm of the Forbidden One
*Exodia the Forbidden One


Preparing Your Deck
This Starter Deck contains all the cards you'll need to challenge an opponent to a Duel.
Following you'll find the basic rules for preparing your Deck:

The Deck used for dueling should contain minimumof 40 cards.Aside from this minimum limit,
your Deck can contain as many cards as you like.

In addition to your sdueling Deck, you can also have 15 additional cards in a separate pile know as the
Side Deck. The Side Deck  allows you to modify your Deck to better suit your strategy during the Match.

Between Duels, you can exchange any cards from your Side Deck with any card in your Deck- as long as you end up with the number of cards that your Deck began the Match with.

The Side Deck you create must contain exactly 15 cards at the beginning of the Match. In other words,
if you don't have enough cards to create 15 card Side Deck, Cannot use one at all. NOTE: This Starter Deck contains 50 cards, so you will need 5 more cards to create a Side Deck.

In any Match, The Deck and Side Deck combined cannot contain more then 3 copied of the same
card, Also, be aware of Forbidden and Limited Cards Gameplay.

In accordance with the Office Rules, a Duel is conducted in the following manner:


Both players shuffle their respective Decks and hand them to their opponent to shuffle
{thisis called Cutting the Deck}. The Decks are then returned to their owners and placed face-down
in their respective Deck Zones on the Duel Field.


When using Fusion Monster Card{s},place the cards{s} face down on the Fusion Deck
Zone of the Duel Field. A Field Deck is card or a group of cards consisting only of Fusion
Monsters Formed by fusing 2 or more monsters during a Duel{Fusion Monsters}.
NOTE:The cards of the Fusion Decks are NOT contedon the 40 cards minimum limit of the Deck.


Show  your opponent  that your Side Deck contains exactly 15 cards{the cards may be
counted face down}. When your Side Deck cards are exchanged with those in your Deck,
count the cards of your Side Deck with your opponent once again to verify that the Deck
still contains the same number of cards.


For the first Duel in a Match, decide who starts first with a coin toss. For subsequent
Duels in the Match, the loser of the previous Duel decides who starts first.

Finally, each player draws 5 cards from the top of their respective Decks. Once both
players have 5 cards in their hand , the  Duel begins, Following the rules in Phases of
Gameplay.Before you learn how a Yu-Gi-Oh! turn proceeds, it is important to fully understand
the Duel Field and game cards.Understanding how each type of cards work will help you plan
strategies to ensure that you will emerge from the match victorious!!!!!!!!!!

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