TOP 10: Yu-Gi-Oh! Spin-Off Dueling Styles

Throughout the life of the Yu-gi-oh series there have been a few derivative versions of the traditional Yu-gi-oh

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style. This is where the normal grieving style we all know is thrown out the window instead of some. really strange and wacky variants now, before we begin, it's important to understand the meaning of the rule changes in

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-off duels by first knowing what the baseline of yu-gi-oh is and what that bass line is, well, it's the master rule, duel master. The Yu-gi-oh rule is where both you and your opponent have 8,000 starting life points. You both have a starting deck of between 40 and 60 cards made up of spells and monster traps, and you start a duel by drawing five cards as an opening. hand, you then proceed to use those cards to damage each other's life points, you continue this until one of you runs out of life points, the one left standing is declared the winner.

It's worth noting that as of this video we're on master rule 4, which means The field is currently made up of two bonus monster zones, five main monster zones, five spell trap zones, and the final two zones are of pendulum. We also have a field zone, a main deck zone, a graveyard zone and an extra deck zone, and speaking of extra deck, we have I might also mention that we have five additional deck card variations, the pendulum and the link of Fusion Synchro Duel Styles at number 10, we have the concentration duel which first appeared in episode 116 of Yugioh 5ds.

A concentration duel is a combination between the rules of the Yu-gi-oh card game along with the mechanics of the real-world card game. I don't know how normal concentration is played, basically it is a game that tests a person's memory and look, it is played by spreading a full deck of cards on a table, each player takes turns turning over two cards with the aim of getting an equal pair if it is a match, they put the cards away and play again. The winner is the player with the most cards at the end of the game. Concentration duel.

However, they are essentially all the normal rules and zones of the standard

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mechanics. However, each player's main deck is. They are spread out in front of them face down, they have no hand, but three times per turn they can randomly choose one of their face down cards and declare an action with it, you can only use one of each of the action types per turn. which are to summon a monster to activate a spell or activate a trap after one of these actions has been declared, the card is turned over if it is of said card type and can be used at that time, then the card is played However, if the revealed card is the wrong type or the timing is incorrect, the player will have to return the card to its original position and both that card and the action type will be unavailable for the rest of the turn.

Honestly, I would have never thought that these two card games could have been combined, however, the result is interesting. Having the Yu-gi-oh game with an extra layer of memory testing could be a real challenge for many people, since Yu-gi-oh already relies on both players having to do it. They remember a lot about their own decks along with what their opponents have in their deck as well, adding an extra level of randomness to the game could result in some really unique dueling

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, as Stallis could risk looking at random cards in his layout to builds. the pieces for a powerful combo later in the duel, this would of course be at the cost of your opponent first getting a monster that deals considerable early damage.

I also like to imagine the feeling of risking a decisive spell when you're in a pinch and by pure chance you get the card you need, it's an interesting idea in the premise, however for this list I also want to judge the derived dueling

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and how possible they could be carried over to the real world with concentration dueling, I imagine that 90 of the time the duelists are probably just going to block the door will become a back and forth until someone gets a monster first and then I imagine the Player who got the monster first will probably leave after that since he knows most of them. of his cards face down, so I think that would make it almost impossible for the other player to recover.

I also suppose that the rules could be abused by simply making a deck entirely of monster cards, as this would guarantee you one summon each. revolves around risk, so you would have to create some additional rules, like you must have a minimum of 10 spells and monster traps of each type and then you can spend an additional 10 months on xeno10 additional spells or whatever you want the rest of them, I guess that might make it a little more balanced, regardless. I think it's a fun premise and you could absolutely play it at home right now, so why don't you go play it right now and tell me if it's really as unbalanced as I think it would be, let me know at number nine, we've sealed the duels of booster pack drafts that first appeared in episode 46 of Yugioh Dual Monsters.

Interestingly this variation of stalemate has become quite common in the real world, we can see a great example of this in the anime when joey duels do devlin in this dueling style a player does not use their own personal decks but rather You are given five unopened packs to create a deck from. The idea is to choose the best cards you were lucky enough to. roll to create a deck of 20, 30 or 40 cars depending on the tournament rules. The real beauty of this format is that everyone is equal as all participants use cards from the same card pool, meaning that new yu-gi -oh players or players who simply don't have the budget to purchase the More expensive meta cards can finally be on equal footing with those that can, so now with pay to win out of the way, all that's left is luck and one's own ability to build the most efficient deck to use in a duel now.

In terms of innovation, it may seem like this type of duel is almost exactly like a normal duel, aside from the way you build the deck, however, there are actually some unique variations to the rules for You may not know this one. duel style according to Konami's official sealed package rules. If you are lucky enough to draw more than three cards of the same card, then you are more than welcome to play all the copies you drew in your main game. deck, so for example, let's say you drew five barbarian beast kings, then you can play all 5 in the deck and also there are no additional deck limits, so if you draw more than 15 additional deck monsters, feel free to use them all and it is a curious fact. of your leftover cards that don't make it into your main deck actually become part of your side deck which, like the extra deck, has no size limits, so yes, my friend, I think this style of dueling is perfect at number nine.

Anyone can enjoy it and it creates an equality between the two duelists. I'm hesitant to put it higher on the list since at the end of the day it's pretty much the traditional dueling style, so it loses points in terms of innovation. From personal experience of playing in a draft duel tournament, I think it's a lot of fun and I would highly recommend it because it's really good and number eight, we have action duels that first appeared in New York. Five episodes one, now action duels. I'll admit it. Everyone, if you are someone who likes the comfort of playing Yu-gi-oh in a chair, this is not for you.

Action duels are essentially where you're bored in a giant arena with a bunch of climbable surfaces, ramps, and environmental elements popping up. Thanks to the help of Solid Vision, Solid Vision allows augmented reality to become physically tangible and not only for the environment but also for the monsters, this means that duelists can run, climb surfaces and even ride their own monsters in a duel. . I like the idea. This, for many reasons, creates a more visually appealing duel as duelists run around dodging attacks and making death-defying jumps to acquire the action duel-exclusive cards known as action cards.

Yes, the reason you need to run and parkour everywhere is because at the same time the environment is generated, so are a bunch of action cards that are scattered all over the arena. Action cards come in a few varieties, but they are essentially divided between spells that benefit the player and traps that give them detrimental effects. Because of this, it's always important to be careful when grabbing one because you never know if it will be good or bad, but if all hope is lost and incoming attack spells, say the end of your duel, then you'll be risking an action card for possibly a instant. dodge that's a no-brainer one of the biggest benefits of this type of duel is that if you were an entertainment dualist competing in these types of events all the time you would be in such good shape since not only would you have to play test with your deck before a tournament, you would probably also be given a personal trainer by any company that sponsors you, meaning that you would look absolutely perfect while dueling and you would have to be one to gain the physical advantage over your opponents that you want to be. able to run towards the action card before your opponent can do parkour and yu-gi-oh is a future I never knew I wanted until I saw it, however how realistic would the action duel be?

Well, let's go over each of the mechanics, let's go to the action cards. yeah, you can implement them, get some guy to spread the cards out in a big room or something, or even better, just place them like a confetti cannon on the ceiling, shoot them all over the grappling hook, if they land face up then you get an advantage tactics because you know what they are, they fall face down, it's a risk reward scenario, you may have to adjust the rules a little so that you can only pick up, say, one action card per turn and possibly only have one action card action at a time, plus People can spend too much time running around collecting cards, so a better review of this might be an order because you don't want people running around too much and not dueling, so how about the realism in terms of solid vision?

Well, unfortunately. I don't think we'll ever be riding on top of our monsters, in fact, just think of all the things people would do when they could give real mass to Yu-gi-oh cards, oh no, oh no, however, the idea of ​​a parkour inspired. arena with a confetti cannon on the roof that shoots a bunch of cards onto the field. I like it, it sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, but if it means I get to play yu-gi-oh parkour, then I'll happily sign and disclose. waiver where if I lose my teeth I can't sue, yeah, absolutely at number seven, we have the maze duel that first appears in episode 19 of Duel Monsters.

The Labyrinth Duel only appeared once in the series, it happened in Dulles' kingdom at the behest of Paradox. brothers, the gate started out like any other, however, after the labyrinth war was played, the field changed completely, the normal dueling rules were still in effect, however, the field was now a 9x9 grid interspersed with walls that formed a maze in this style of dueling against a monster. you now need to move to get within one square of the opponent's monster in order to attack. Your move count is determined by the level of your monsters, so a level 1 monster will only be able to move one space, while a level 12 can move.

Anywhere between 1 and 12 spaces depending on the anime, the way to win is to reduce your opponent's life points to zero by attacking the monsters or reach one of the two doors at the ends and solve the puzzle to defeat the brothers. Paradoxes, however, guess what has actually been attempted to bring this type of grief to life in the real world. The Yu-gi-oh manga tried this in a rather strange way in Yu-gi-oh Duelist volume 4. I had a printout of the rules. field and monsters and in that version it was quite different from the anime, it was also exclusively for two players and the grid was now 16 by 11.

In it, instead of drawing cards, each player chooses seven monsters that add up to 20 stars. In total, they then place the seven monsters at the starting points of the field, the game plays out just as it does in the anime and both players take turns moving around the maze to get close enough to fight three monsters. Turn-moving monsters cannot pass spaces occupied by an opponent's monster, although they can with friendly ones. After each move of a monster is made, it is placed in an attacking position or in a position. defensive. The battle works the same as in normal games. gi-oh too, except for onegigantic difference and that is that if two or more monsters face an opponent's monster, the player can attack with all of them together by joining all their attack values ​​and that total sum is their attack value, a winner is declared. when someone destroys all of their opponent's monsters I generally really like the idea and strategy behind this style of dueling.

It combines the tactics of chess and Yu-gi-oh together, being able to move monsters around the board and position them so that you have, say. free hulking monsters going to town on a what could create some moments of absolute comedy in a duel, but to say that the rules as they are could be carried over to the real world, it possibly seems like a game mode that could get boring pretty quickly, however, with some revisions to the mechanics, perhaps a larger board size will make it a little larger. How about we let players use their own decks and keep hit points at 8,000 like in the anime and allow spells and traps to be set like in?

Random locations on the board maybe placed like little magnets under the board where you decide to place them. I don't know, there are a few different ways to do this. I think you might have a winner here but for now the maze duel is at number seven at number six we have battle royale duels that first appear in a few different yu-gi-oh series now when I say battle royale I'm legitimately talking about the same guy who has taken the world by storm now things like fortnite apex legends tetris 99 everyone has no idea the original real battle royale was maximilian pegasus duelist kingdom pegasus set battle royale tournament It was set up so 40 Skilled duelists were left loose on an island and forced to duel for 40 hours straight until only one remained, you would collect star tokens as proof of duel victories and as long as the island didn't get smaller. constantly with a ring of death, instead we got that when the last people were left in the tournament, the battle royal moved to a castle for the finale, where it became a traditional tournament and I thought that was a great idea, in fact, There have been a few more modern versions of these things like the Kyber City Battle that took place over an entire city.

The Yu-gi-oh gx gen x tournament that was another battle royale I think, and in Yugioh 5 there was a real battle royale tournament in that augmented reality. type of space with all the different environments and things that were amazing, the question then is in terms of implementation in the real world, the normal dollar mechanics are in effect here, so that's pretty much taken care of, however, the sheer scale of Battle Royales probably wouldn't be feasible. I mean, unless Konami fans are doing an event where they hire an entire island and just leave a hundred dollars loose until there's only one left, that could be cool, Hunger Games meets Yu-gi-oh , either, the biggest role block, however, is the lack of real world. duel discs, so the question is how do we face them on foot?

Well, there are two solutions to this one: create a yu-gi-oh battle royale video game where duelists parachute in and duel on an increasingly closed battlefield. You could do a lot of things with this, you could have like an ancient Egyptian area, you could have a battle city, a type of city, you could even implement another type of battle royale where, if two people duel, a third player can enter. at the cost of their life points and you can keep doing it with as many duelists as possible, so I don't know if there are some ideas there or even better create a fully digital dual disk which, interestingly, I've been talking about in some of my recent videos , so yeah, one arm assembled all the Konami digital duel discs, the ball is in your court now at number five, we have quick duels that first appeared in episode two of Yugioh of Reigns.

Quick fun fact about how you get Reigns the first yu. -gi-oh series not having a single duel in its first episode is crazy in the yu-gi-oh vrain series there is a new type of duel where people would duel in virtual reality and duel with boards of surfing on which they would surf with data. storms using the speed duel format What is the speed duel format? Well, it's basically a revised ruleset created to make dueling faster. The differences between a speed duel and a normal duel is that both players start with four cards instead of five. Main phase two is. gone completely, both players have only three main monster zones and three spell trap zones, plus the extra monster zones are aligned slightly differently and a new type of mechanic known as abilities has been added.

A skill grants the player a unique ability that they can use in a duel if certain criteria are met. Unfortunately, if we wanted to make dueling on a surfboard a reality, it might be a bit difficult, although now dueling in VR is very possible. In fact, I really hope we see a polished VR game at some point in the future, since that's the most realistic way we could have normal duels like they do on the show and it would be awesome, right? If you want to surf a little like we all do. I'd be all for that, that could work, beating surfboard card games in terms of speed dueling rulesets.

We actually have two real-world variations, this is the mobile and PC game known as Yu-gi-oh dual links. which uses dual speed format for its gameplay, the other is a real-world speed duel collectible card game with new card fields and mechanics. What I like about speed duels is that not only are the mechanics simplified for the speed duel card pool. that you can use has returned to a much simpler time with dual link gameplay returning to the era of timing and speed of dual tcg returning to the era of dual monsters, it's honestly very refreshing to be able to play a more Yu game. slow paced -gi-oh where you actually have a back and forth with your opponents and people don't just do all these massive combos and you don't see your turn for half an hour, honestly I really hope they can. keep the format in the fusion and ritual era for real world play and maybe just innovate on the abilities instead of the upcoming additional summoning mechanics;

However, we all know that this probably won't be the case since Reinas' Yukio has already had it all. the summoning mechanic appears apart from the pendulum, although interestingly to summarize, speed duels are a new alternative to the traditional Yu-gi-oh collectible card game and when virtual reality duels become something that will be truly incredible and Number four we have the deck master duels. He first appeared in episode 99 of Yugioh Dual Monsters. Deadmaster duels first appeared in the virtual world arc of the anime. This style of dueling was almost identical to normal dueling, however, each gate list at the beginning of the duel chose a card in their main or extra deck to act on. as its deckmaster, the chosen monster remains next to the duelist's side that is not actually classified as on the field until the duelist decides to special summon it.

What makes deck masters unique is that they have a mechanic that allows them to have their own unique abilities that they can use in a duel, in fact, wait a minute, this sounds familiar, this is just a quick duel, except with a monster instead of an ability, so the question is why is the deckmaster dueling higher up the list to speed up the duel if they are essentially the same? Well, first, the deckmaster duel uses the dual master field. , so we get five spaces and everything, so that's actually a plus, plus choosing a monster to represent your ace that's next to you, I think it's like a reflection of sort of how you see yourself or I just don't know, that shows your personality, right?

However, the real reason I like deck masters is because they can jump into the duel at any time, since when you're in a pinch you can. Special Summon as I imagine as a Quick Play Spell Card, it is a Quick Play Special Summon and you can use this at any time during the duel, however it is not without risk as if the deck master is destroyed, then the owner of the monster loses the duel now, this really creates a risk and reward scenario. Do you swim in your master deck at the beginning of the duel to gain an advantage at the risk of its destruction and an instant loss or do you wait until your life points are depleted? at a critical risk and then you send your debt master to keep you in the door, what's also interesting is that the anime also expands on this mechanic as if a deck master is credited with summoning another monster or used as fusion material for a newer monster, then the new monster becomes the new master of the deck and this opens up a ton of combos and abilities.

Now I don't remember if deck masters can also use their abilities while on the field, but if that's the case, do you use your debt master's ability? Add it to the field attack. Tribute your new debt master to someone, a newer debt master, and then you use that debt master's ability again, so I don't know, it opens up a lot of new abilities in a couple. Examples of some debt master abilities we've seen in the anime include a fool mage who has the Circle of Souls ability, which during your turn you can reveal one card from the top of your deck for each monster in your graveyard and then add one of them. in your hand is quite powerful the dragon lord has the ability once per turn you can pay 500 life points to normally summon a dragon type monster in addition to your normal summon or set and we have a dark wizard whose ability is double magic during your turn You can now pay 1000 life points to activate the spell effect twice, of course this has already been adapted to the real world in terms of speed, however you can bring deckmaster duels to the real world quite easily, since be it in a video game.

Guess or you could just as easily make it another style derived from a real world card game, simply create a new deckmaster zone and give each monster card its own unique deckmaster ability which you can discover by checking online, Let's say it saves you reprinting. all the cards anyway or wait for a little idea a day later, maybe master speed dueling with rules because that wouldn't make it speed up properly, but you still know what I'm talking about and create some abilities that are speed cards real monsters that behave like deck masters, it's perfect, can the army take my idea?

Send me money and that also relates to speedrun, so instead of adding new Sony mechanics to speed everything up in the stores neat and number three, we have the makeup stuff as you go, duel style first. appearing in episode 4 of Yugioh Dual Monsters. In the first few episodes of Yu-gi-oh, specifically everything that happened in the duelist kingdom, a lot of shenanigans occurred, in fact, you could probably make a top 10 of them and it would become your most viewed video, however, If we're fair, the reason there were so many deviations in the Yu-gi-oh rules is because Dawley's kingdom was established before the actual Yu-gi-oh rules existed, so it was quite different.

Back then, for example, each player had 2000 life points to initiate direct attacks, they were not allowed to end a turn without monsters on the field, and failure to summon one would result in an instant loss. Monsters destroyed by card effects would deal effect damage equal to half. that one also attacked the owner and only one monster was allowed to declare an attack per turn, however on the plus side you didn't need a tribute for high level monsters, that's cool now, that's not the reason why I like this kind of thing. However, the biggest appeal of dueling is that if you can explain how you did something with enough confidence, you can get away with almost anything, as long as you have the imagination to chat about the world of nonsense, you will succeed in the kingdom of Dulles, inventing things like Duel is exemplified a lot in the anime, but the best one for now, I will say, is Yugi vs Panic.

Yugi is losing this duel. He's been downtrodden, but he gets the idea to use his turtle catapult to launch his monsters into a panic. castle of dark illusions to destroy the floating rings of him because why not? So the castle after its floatation rings are destroyed doesn't fall right away. This trick panics making you think that haha ​​Yugi, you failed, however obviously the reason it didn't fall was because The revealing light swords were holding thecastle in the sky while it was active, so when its effect ended, it would fall on all the panic monsters below and skewer them because the castle had a pointy base and you might wonder why the monsters. below just move out of the way if we're going realism, well it's obvious isn't it because panic activated another card and trapped them all inside so they couldn't escape?

Obviously, now there are some other duelist realm duels I could talk about. For example, I know Yugi and Mako's duel, let's not open that kind of worm. Now, the stone soldier will destroy the moon. No, so yeah, I think this form of dueling would be pretty fun. Yu-gi-oh meets dungeons and dragons basically by the rules. in the window and dual using our imagination in number two, we have the turbo duel that first appears in episode 1 of yugioh 5ds. turbo duels. It baffles me that this hasn't become a real world thing yet, check out the yu-gi-oh comments. section the demand is clearly there people were really sad when the speed duel was announced and it turned out it wasn't the dual turbos literally as soon as the team is ready to buy everyone will flock to the dmv to request a motorcycle license. so they can have a d wheel to duel.

I don't even know why I need to explain this. They are motorcycle card games that make it happen. Konami and finally at number one we have dungeon dice monsters that first appear in Yu-gi-oh Duel. Monsters episode 47 aka dragon dice and dungeons in japanese, which i guess would make it the first to use the abbreviation ddd in yu-gi-oh. This derived dueling style is basically yukio if it were in the form of a board. game rather than a card game, it was created by Duke Devlin in the anime to be a completely different dueling style than classic dueling style, for example in dungeon dice monsters, both players take turns drawing the dice , so it's like a duel of monsters. you use those dice to summon holographic monsters to the fields, so it's like duel monsters and both players get three heart points and when they run out the game ends, it's like duel monsters.

Yugioh Bridge jokes aside, the game was a real unique treat to watch and dub the anime, we were able to learn the mechanics of the game through Yugi, since it was his first time playing, we learned that when it all started, Both players would choose 15 dice to serve as a deck from a pool of hundreds of dice. each of the dice was color coded according to the type of monster they contained inside white were spell casters blue were warriors yellow were undead green were beasts and red were dragons there was also a special black dye that It had some unique abilities specifically it had the ability to create a vortex that could teleport a monster from one side of the board to another if two of them were used on the field as well as the unique colors of the dye.

It would also have unique crests on each one. of the faces, depending on what you got, you were able to instantly use one of the crests you got or accumulate these resources in your bank. The different faces were summon movement, magic attack, defense and trap in this game. has quite a few layers so there's quite a bit to explain, poor Yugi when you do everything devlin, he had to learn it all on the fly to summon a monster in the dungeon monster dice when you roll at the start of your turn outside of the Free Dice that spears, two of the three must obtain a summoning crest and both must be of the same level.

If you accomplish this, you can summon a monster directly to the field. Higher level monsters were more difficult to summon. Since they had fewer summoning crests on their sides, making them harder to roll, the big overall plan of the game is to summon your monsters to build a path to your opponent's heart points to be in range to attack them, I mean, there are a lot more rules. and unique things about dungeon dice monsters like traps, effects, abilities and stuff, but the reason I like dungeon dice monsters is because it really feels like a derivative of the yu-game. gi-oh that fits into the world law because it has real dual monster monsters and also uses many of the mechanics that you use in normal duels, so it's not too difficult to get familiar with the game, besides the black tint with red crest super weird that can create portals and do all sorts of things that I'm not too sure about, it's one of my favorite things about this as it happens randomly and even if you get one of the black dyes like that emote, you still have to throw the correct roll.

In order to take advantage of it, two real-world versions of this game have actually been attempted, one being the 2001 Yu-gi-oh Dungeon Dice Monsters video game for the Game Boy Advance. It's a really cool game that I would love. see an updated modern version, the other incarnation is the real world dungeon dice monsters which I would have bought for this video but it costs over £200 on Amazon but it's still cool, comes with a physical board, dice figures of colors and paths oh it's so cool I really wish I had experienced it before it became a collector's item so Konami could you give me a modern remake of dungeon dice monsters with a bigger board more figures and more monsters?

I don't know what the company's name is, but the company that created the Dark Souls board game makes board games for fans. I think they can do this please, so yeah, what do you think about making a 2019 version of Dungeon Dice Monsters or whatever? Year are you watching this? Do you think any of the other

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-off matchups should have been higher on the list? Are there any I missed? Let me know in the comments section below.