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** This is practically the Psychic-Type's main gimmick, with frequent payments to either fire off or maintain their effects. To balance this out, a good amount of their support cards involve healing.
** Some cards, like the Archfiend archetype from ''Dark Crisis'', require a life point payment to keep them on the field. A life point payment ''that is not optional''.
* [[Cherry Tapping]]: The "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sparks Sparks]" card does a measly 200 points of damage to the opponent--that's it and cards strictly better than it have been printed since before these bonuses were a thing. Most video game versions of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] reward you with a bonus if you ever manage to finish off the opponent using "Sparks." They give a similar bonus if you manage to finish off the opponent with a Skull Servant, but at least you can give Skull Servant some good equip spell cards to boost its power.
* [[Chess Motifs]]: The first [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Archfiend Archfiend] monsters released in the ''Dark Crisis'' pack. Their top support card is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Checkmate Checkmate].
* [[Collectible Card Game]]
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* [[Combining Mecha]]: The VWXYZ archetype, culminating with the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/VWXYZ-Dragon_Catapult_Cannon Dragon Catapult Cannon], the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Machina_Force Machinas] and the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Valkyrion_the_Magna_Warrior Magnet Warriors], but ''[[Pun|technically]]'' speaking, any Machine-type Fusion monster could be seen as this.
* [[Contest Winner Cameo]]: Quite a few cards are designed by fans.
* [[Continuity Drift]]: Early cards with remove from play effects, such as [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Bazoo_the_Soul_Eater Bazoo the Soul Eater] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Kycoo_the_Ghost_Destroyer Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer], implied that monsters removed from play had their souls destroyed.
* [[The Corruption]]: The new [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz Verz Archetype] is based around monsters corrupted by the Verz virus. This includes the infamous original Duel Terminal monster, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Brionac%2C_Dragon_of_the_Ice_Barrier Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier], which has mutated into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Verz_Bahamut Verz Bahamut].
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Warrior_Dai_Grepher Warrior Dai Grepher] is corrupted into [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Grepher Dark Grepher] and then further into the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Lucius Dark Lucius Archetype]
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: "Toolbox" is a type of deck that specializes on searching monsters with many unique (and sometimes situational) effects directly from the Deck or Graveyard to counter your opponent. For example, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gladiator_Beast Gladiator Beasts] can "[[Fan Nickname|Tag Out]]" after a battle and bring any other Gladiator Beast from the Deck, and Koa'ki Meirus can use [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Urnight some] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Core_Specimen_Lab cards] to get any monster they want, including a trio that literally [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Wall can] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Sandman stop] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Koa%27ki_Meiru_Guardian anything].
* [[Creation Sequence]]: Depicted in [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Terraforming Terraforming].
* [[Crippling Overspecialization]]: Some cards exist simply to counter other, very specific cards and are otherwise worthless. "Anti Raigeki" exists only to counteract "Raigeki", "White Hole" only exists to counteract "Dark Hole", and both "Call of Darkness" and "Call of the Grave" exist only to counter "Monster Reborn". Many of these cards counter now banned cards and are ''entirely'' worthless.
** However, not all specializations are crippling; for example, "G.B. Hunter," designed to lock down a Gladiator Beast deck, still has enough DEF to serve as a desperate defense. Likewise, because "Monster Reborn" was first printed in the OCG on March 27, 1999, and wasn't first Semi-Limited until April 1, 2000, its own specific counters spent a few months in a rather less crippled state.
** The Allies of Justice appear to be an entire archetype based around overspecialization. Their effects almost exclusively revolve around the opponent's monsters being LIGHT-attribute or face-down. If they're not facing something with those criteria, they're in a lot of trouble. Note that the Worms are all LIGHT-attribute monsters with a lot of flip effects, meaning the Allies of Justice were designed to just fight this one enemy and nothing else!
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** Many cards say to destroy the ''card'' under a certain condition, rather than the gameplay element it represents (monster, spell, trap, etc.) Cue many beginner players literally ripping up the card when the conditions are met.
** Many cards require, as a cost, that a player "sends a card to the graveyard" usually from their hand or deck. An interesting side effect of a card called Macro Cosmos that states that cards are removed from play instead of sent to the graveyard, is that cards that specify this can't be used, even if their effect is unrelated to the graveyard. This leads to interesting loopholes.
** As of July 8, 2011, wording is such that '''individual semi-colons and commas''' can dramatically change how a card works. Thankfully ''most'' of the time the impact is purely for how chains work with it.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Cards Infinite Cards]
* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: Once you activate the "Final Countdown" card, your opponent has exactly 10 of their turns (or less thanks to a handful of support cards) to beat you or you win.
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: The theme of the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Overworked Overworked] card.
* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Eye Big Eye], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand-Eyes_Restrict Thousand Eyes Restrict], and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Hundred-Eyes_Dragon Hundred-Eyes Dragon]
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* [[Metaplot]]: There was an attempt to have one for a while, based on the artwork of the [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gagagigo_(series) Gagagigo], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Inpachi Inpachi], Goblin cards, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Royal_Writ_of_Taxation Royal] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Royal_Cards Cards], [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Different_Dimension Different] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Warrior_Lady_of_the_Wasteland Dimension] cards, as well as various monsters appearing in the art of other cards. The lack of flavor text on most cards meant that any story that might have been present was completely lost. More recent cards still reference each other in the artwork, but there doesn't seem to be any attempt to build a coherent plot. A fair chunk of [[Fanfic]] is devoted to spinning a coherent story out of the various references.
** The new Duel Terminal arcade game's card archetypes seem to have this going for them, as evidenced by a few cards both within [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ally_Mind the] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ally_of_Justice_Clausolas Duel] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mist_Valley_Thunder_Lord Terminal] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Elements outside] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Worm_Call it]. <ref>That stuff Mist Valley Thunder Lord is holding? They're the broken pieces of a [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ally_of_Justice_Catastor Catastor].</ref>
** World Chalice and its related archetypes form a very long and very complex story. How long and complex? The very short and abridged version takes six minutes to explain, the full version can take an ''hour''.
* [[Meteor of Doom|Meteor Of]] <s>Doom</s> [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Meteor_of_Destruction Destruction]
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Some decks require a lot of set-up before you can bring out the big offensive guns. One example is the Destiny HEROs, who are almost all defensive monsters that help the player increase their hand and field presence. This is because their two trump card monsters, Plasma and Dogma, require three Tributes to summon (but are so powerful they can really hamstring the opponent once finally out).
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: There's a list on the Trivia page.
* [[Negate Your Own Sacrifice]]: The popular Stardust Dragon can sacrifice itself to prevent some other card on the field from being destroyed, but it can also bring itself back every turn it does this.
* [[Nerf|Nerfed]]: A really big Nerf occurred when Synchro monsters were introduced. The "Fusion Deck" became the "Extra Deck," and instead of having an unlimited number of Fusion monsters in it (barring the "no more than three with the same name" rule) players were now limited to 15 cards (Synchro or Fusion monsters). This is because Synchro monsters are generally unspecific as to how they can be summoned and it would be too game-breaking to allow an unlimited number of them in there, but this was a ''major'' blow to Elemental HERO decks (and only HERO decks), since there are way more than 15 different possible Elemental HERO fusion combinations.
** Since they can't re-write the rules as written on a card once it's been issued, sometimes Konami will limit how many of certain powerful cards you're allowed to have in your deck, sometimes just 2, 1, or none at all. These "limited/forbidden" lists change every six months as new cards are introduced that change the balance of the game.
** Erratas have actually been issued for some particularly notorious cards. Most of these are wording reworks with no rules impact or corrections to errors in translation, as Konami prefers to print worse versions as separate cards, but some cards that are otherwise ''so'' broken they would eternally be banned have had their effects changed. Of particular note is [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Chaos_Emperor_Dragon_-_Envoy_of_the_End Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Makyura_the_Destructor Makyura the Destructor] being two notable ones that would have never left the ban list without it.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Any monster with the word "Death" in its name has it changed to "Des" as a deliberate transliteration, hence "Death Frog" is "Des Frog" (and "Death Koala" is "Des Koala").
* [[New Season, New Name]]: After [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|5D's]] cards began appearing in the game, "5D's" was added to the name of the game in the box logo and in some other places. The same for [[Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]].
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** The GX anime-only [http://yugioh.wikia.com/Doble_Passe Doble Passe] as well, with the bonus of letting you immediately perform a direct attack on your opponent.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: Several ways. Activating Self-Destruct Button is one. Playing Ring of Destruction on a monster whose attack is more than both player's Life Points is another. Flipping a Morphing Jar when both players have less than 5 cards in their deck? [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Indeed.]]
** Attacking a face-down monster with a flip effect causes its effect to activate, even if it would be destroyed. [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Man-Eater_Bug Man-Eater Bug]] is the most iconic.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: The Arcana Force monsters are based on tarot cards, including names and numbers, though not all 22 made the cut. There were also a couple of minor arcana thrown in: Ace of Cups, which randomly may let you or your opponent draw extra cards, and the anime-only Ten of Swords.
* [[That Cloud Looks Like...]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cloudians A bunch of monsters!]
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* [[Theme Naming]]: Many archetypes work this way. Those that don't just have common visual themes.
** Some examples: Dark World monsters have a warped version of a color for a name ("Gren," "Goldd," "Silva," "Broww,"). The [[Starfish Aliens|Worms]] have names beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, from A ("Worm Apocalypse") to Z ("Worm Zero"). Gladiator Beasts all have Roman or Greek themed names.
* [[The Scapegoat]]: [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Scapegoat Scapegoat].
* [[The Virus]]: Ekibyo Drakmord returns to its owners hand (so long as it's not destroyed or the equipped monster is removed from the field), allowing it to spread to other monsters.
** "DNA Surgery" can be seen as this, too, as its effect changes all monsters on the field to a single type (chosen by the cards activator). "DNA Transplant" does the same thing, but with Attribute in place of type.
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