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As the manga proved to be a smash hit, two companies ([[Namco Bandai|Bandai]] and Konami) wrestle the rights to adopt the future franchise empire, each with [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_Bandai's_Official_Card_Game their own takes] [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Collector's_cards on the game]. The latter won the rights, and was approached to produce a real version of the game called '''''Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game''''' (OCG for short), which was released in 1999. The OCG made considerable changes to the rules originally established by Takahashi, and so the then-ongoing manga and the [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|later animé produced by Nihon Ad System]] were revised to more closely reflect the rules set by the OCG.
''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' is essentially a game with different names and administration structures in different territories. The aforementioned ''Official Card Game'' has been handled by Konami since the beginning; it administers Asian territories, which include, but not limited to, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and the rest of Southeast Asia. The other administration setup, the '''''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' ''Trading Card Game''''' (TCG for short), administers the rest of the world, but mainly Europe and the Americas. The TCG was originally manufactured and distributed by Upper Deck Entertainment, at Konami's own behest. However, in 2008, UDE lost the license amid some allegations of wrongdoing, and now the TCG is administered by Konami as well. The game is roughly 99% identical on each side of the Pacific - the only differences are that there are some cards that debut on one administration, but not the other, for a good while. Konami also alters some card artworks for the TCG to prevent incidents with [[Moral Guardians]], although they seem to have lightened more with this in later years, and even released some of the old "lost arts" as special promotions.
Some of the core gameplay elements are as follows:
*[[Awesome McCoolname]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Super-Nimble_Mega_Hamster Super-Nimble Mega Hamster].
** [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Red-Eyes_Darkness_Metal_Dragon Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon]
*[[Awesome Yet Practical]]: As a rule of thumb, if a deck had ever dipped into the tournament scene and succeeded, then it automatically becomes a valid example by default. As for individual cards:
**[[Awesome Yet Practical]]https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Beast_King_Barbaros Beast King Barbaros], a 3000 ATK monster that can wipe out all opposing cards if you tributeTribute summonSummon it with three tributes instead of the normal two. What makes it awesomely ''practical'' is that it can also be summonedSummoned from the hand at 1900 ATK (the standard ATK ofmargin afor "very strong Level 4 monstermonsters") with no tributesTribute, so it's never useless in the hand if you have no tributeTribute fodder, unlike virtually everymany other high-levelLevel monstermonsters. Its ATK will also "reset" to 3000 if its effect on the field is negated (ase.g. ifwith by[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Skill_Drain "Skill Drain,"]) so you could potentially drop a 3000 ATK monster on the field with no tributes--''very''Tributes. practicalBetter yet, instead of Skill Drain, equip it with the [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Axe_of_Fools Axe of Fools], so in addition to giving it 1000 ATK, it will also negate the effect, and thus giving you a 4000 ATK monster with only two cards.
**Better yet, instead of skill drain, equip it with the card "Axe of Fools". In addition to giving it 1000 ATK, it will also negate the effect just like skill drain, giving you a 4000 ATK monster with only two cards.
** [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Thunder_King_Rai-Oh Thunder King Rai-Oh ]. It can Tribute itself to negate a Special Summon , shutting down XYZs and Synchros, disallows player to add cards from their Decks to their hands outside of drawing, shutting down searchers like Sangan, and it has 1900 attackATK, enough to run over mostalmost anything that hasnaren't beenboss Special Summoned, and when those ones come out, re-read its first effectmonsters. It's also a level 4, has no summonSummon restrictions, and is Light attributeLIGHT-Attribute to support decks that needutilize them including(such as Chaos , and is unlimited). ▼**The [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|Elemental Heroes]] now have fusion monsters for every Attribute save [[Infinity+1 Element|Divine]]. This means that, combined with Super Polymerization (which lets you fuse using your opponents' cards as material), you can steal just about any monster your opponent can throw at you, save for those who are explicitly protected from particular selection.
**The [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/HERO HERO] super-archetype had become this in later years of the game, thanks to them being given cross-archetype supports between all the different HEROs. Depending on the build, they can play aggro, lockdown, control, or even good ol' Fusion beatdown. On the competitive side, they even had their time in the spotlight from the late 2000's to mid 2010's, with [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Elemental_HERO_Stratos Elemental HERO Stratos], [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO_Diamond_Dude Destiny HERO Diamond Dude] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Masked_HERO_Dark_Law Masked HERO Dark Law] being famous monster names in the card game's metagame history.
**A lot of top tier decks operate on this trope. In fact, the "awesome" strategies they use can be categorized further as boring-type awesome and purely awesome. Boring-type awesome are usually a deck that uses same, consistent and effective set of strategy and gameplans to win the game (notably Six Samurai which does nothing but play Shi En, Kizan rush, protect Shi En, win game), while the latter plays depend on the card in your hand, and the condition of the field to bring the best result (Plants Synchro, which is, basically, put together a set of card that works well together to create a chain of game winning plays).
*[[Badass Adorable]]: Several fairy typeFairy cards. For example, the Labyrinth Of Nightmare set gives ussee [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dancing_Fairy Dancing Fairy.] Take a good long look at that picture and then move[[Cute onBruiser|move down to its stats ]]. ▼▲**Thunder King Rai-Oh. It can Tribute itself to negate a Special Summon, shutting down XYZs and Synchros, disallows player to add cards from their Decks to their hands outside of drawing, shutting down searchers like Sangan, and has 1900 attack, enough to run over most anything that hasn't been Special Summoned, and when those ones come out, re-read its first effect. It's also a level 4, has no summon restrictions, is Light attribute to support decks that need them including Chaos, and is unlimited.
▲*[[Badass Adorable]]: Several fairy type cards. For example, the Labyrinth Of Nightmare set gives us [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dancing_Fairy Dancing Fairy.] Take a good long look at that picture and then move on down to its stats.
*[[Badass Grandpa]]: For example, [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Grandmaster_of_the_Six_Samurai Grandmaster of the Six Samurai].
*[[Badass Normal]]: Literally with Normal monsters like [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Alexandrite_Dragon Alexandrite Dragon] and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gene-Warped_Warwolf Gene-Warped Warwolf] for breaking the "Level 1-4 or lower monsters with 2000 ATK or more getting a negative effect" rule, and of course we can't forget to mention [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Blue-Eyes_White_Dragon these] [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Red-Eyes_Black_Dragon three] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031013640/http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dark_Magician guys], the former being this game's best example for having the highest ATK of all Normal monstersMonsters.
*[[Barrier Warrior]]:
**Big Shield Gardna, Mid Shield Gardna, Shield Warrior… Okay, pretty much anything with the word "shield" in its name. Millennium Shield is a Warrior-type… and a literal shield.
**The [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Superheavy_Samurai Superheavy Samurai] takes Total Defense Shogun to its logical extreme, being ''[[Up to Eleven|an entire archetype]]'' of monsters that are able to attack in Defense Position
**Some monsters cannot be targeted for attacks if there is a certain other monster on the field, or keep the opponent from attacking monsters of certain types (Solar Flare Dragon, Marauding Captain, Morphtronic Magnen) while it's on the field. Getting two or more of the specific card(s) can block nearly all potential attacks.
*[[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: All the rules only ever reference two players, but slight modifications have been made (primarily thanks to the Tag Force games) to allow any2 numbervs of2 players, including teams,games typically called "Tag Duels".
*[[Big Damn Heroes]]:
**Some cards have effects that emulate this trope. For example, [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gorz_the_Emissary_of_Darkness Gorz the Emissary of Darkness] is Special Summoned when you take damage while having nothing on your field, and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Starlight_Road Starlight Road] negates the destruction of two or more cards and Special Summons a Stardust Dragon from you Extra Deck. Not surprisingly, both cards were part of the [[Metagame]] during their heyday for that exact reason.
*[[Black Magician Girl]]: [[Trope Namer]], known in English as the [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dark_Magician_Girl Dark Magician Girl].
*[[Black Knight]]:
**The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO Destiny HEROes] and their manga counterpart [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vision_HERO Vision HEROes].
** Also [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Black_Luster_Soldier Black Luster Soldier] and [httphttps://yugipedia.com/wiki/Black_Luster_Soldier_-_Envoy_of_the_Beginning(archetype) Blackrelated Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginningcards].
*[[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Frequent on the early cards, many of which seem to have been translated by [[They Just Didn't Care|people who had absolutely]] ''[[They Just Didn't Care|no]]'' [[They Just Didn't Care|idea what they were doing.]] Among the most obvious examples is "[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dunames_Dark_Witch Dunames Dark Witch]," which is a ''[[Non-Indicative Name|LightLIGHT-Attribute Fairy.]]'' Its original Japanese name is actually "Dynamis Valkyria". The factSeeing that a[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dark_Witch cardanother namedsimilar "Valkyrie"card] becamegot "Darkthe Witch"same intreatment, theit's USeasy suggeststo see the originsroot of this mistake;. allThey theseem sameto have noticed this later, itand [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dark_Valkyria similarly-named cards] [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Magician'ss_Valkyria noin lessthe unforgivable,future] especiallygot sincethe proper translation (except [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dark_Contract_with_the_Witch "Dark Valkyria"Contract andwith "Magicianthe Witch], but that's Valkyria"most camelikely outbecause init's Englishsupposed withoutto anypay homage to the suchearly mistakestranslation).
* [[Blow You Away]]:
* [[Blow You Away]]: A vast number of cards that deal with destroying other Spell or Trap cards happen to be named after wind effects, like [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mystical_Space_Typhoon "Mystical Space Typhoon"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Heavy_Storm "Heavy Storm"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dust_Tornado "Dust Tornado"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Wild_Tornado "Wild Tornado"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Twister "Twister"], and so on.
**AsA vast number of cards that deal with destroying other Spell or Trap cards happen to be named after wind effects, like [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mystical_Space_Typhoon "Mystical Space Typhoon"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Heavy_Storm "Heavy Storm"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dust_Tornado "Dust Tornado"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Wild_Tornado "Wild Tornado"], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Twister "Twister"], and so on, as are two of the most popular "bounce" cards, [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Giant_Trunade Giant Trunade] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101002954/http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Raiza_the_Storm_Monarch Raiza the Storm Monarch].
**There are archetypes that has this theme, examples are the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/HarpiesHarpie Harpies] and the more recent [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gusto Gusto].
*[[Boring but Practical]]:
*[[Boring but Practical]]:*Normal monstersMonsters, at least in generalthe early days of the game. They have no effects but often have good combat stats, and there's a lot of support for them, including lots of ways to summonSummon them from the Graveyard., so Decksdecks based around them focus on brute force rather than anything fancy. However, as the game shifts more and more toward Effect Monsters, Normal Monster beatdown decks got left in the dust, and later decks that utilize Normal Monsters tend to use them as parts of specific engines rather than focus on them specifically.
**Gadgets for a long time plays on this. The goal of the deck is to make the game as simple as possible by playing one -for -one destruction cardcards, and withusing the help of gadgetsGadgets' self -replenishing effect gain advantage and win effortlessly. Such deck can be really boring to play with (or against) but itscan be really effective when played correctly.
**Ironically, see the [[Awesome but Impractical]] entry. Read Machina Force there ? Sure, summoning it is downright hard to the point of pointless, but nobody said you cant discard it for Machina Fortress revival effect. As a bonus, since its a Machina, some Machina support can work with it, creating some sorts of synergy.
*[[Bottomless Pits]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Bottomless_Trap_Hole Bottomless Trap Hole], especially since it's one of the most used cards in the game.
*[[Bowdlerize]]: In Japan, the Fairy type is actually Angel type (Tenshi-zoku).
**WhatIn weJapan, knowthe asFairy-Type Fiends,is actually the JapaneseAngel-Type know(Tenshi-zoku) asand the Fiend-Type is actually the DemonsDemon-Type (Akuma-zoku).
**WhatThe weArchfiends know as Archfiends,are theknown Japanesein knowJapan as Daemons (Dēmon).
**Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time brought us the Sin archetype, known internationally as Malefic monsters. "Sin" was written in English on the Japanese cards, with furigana as a pronunciation guide; further, there is no explicit "Si" sound in Japanese, and "Shi" is a usual stand-in, so the furigana guide was written as "Shin" - [[Word of God]] takes this as an intentional pun between "Sin" and "Shin", a Kanji denoting truth"Truth". The pun was unfortunately [[Lost in Translation]]. ▼**What we know as Zombies, the Japanese know as Undead - but the katakana got messed up, resulting in "Undeat" (Undeat-zoku).
▲**Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time brought us the Sin archetype, known internationally as Malefic monsters. "Sin" was written in English on the Japanese cards, with furigana as a pronunciation guide; further, there is no explicit "Si" sound in Japanese, and "Shi" is a usual stand-in, so the furigana guide was written as "Shin" - [[Word of God]] takes this as an intentional pun between "Sin" and "Shin", a Kanji denoting truth. The pun was [[Lost in Translation]].
**Many cards in the OCG that portray nudity, religion, guns, blood, [[Big Breasts, Big Deal|bustiness]], etc. were modified in the TCG release. Modified cards are listed [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/List_of_modified_cards here].
**Generally, if you see a card with "Des" as part of the name (Except for Dark Ruler Ha Des), chances are that it was "Death" in the OGCOCG.
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*[[Bullet Seed]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Seed_Cannon Seed Cannon] gains counters every time a Plant is summoned (and plants are fairly good at swarming); sending the card to the graveyard damages the opponent the more counters are on it.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Goblin_Attack_Force Goblin Attack Force] and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Goblin_of_Greed Goblin of Greed] in the art of some of the other cards and the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojamas Ojamas].
*[[Buffy-Speak]]: There's a card named [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Interplanetarypurplythorny_Dragon Interplanetarypurplythorny Dragon].
*[[Captain Ersatz]]:
*[[Captain Ersatz]]: *Does [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Battlestorm Battlestorm] [[F-Zero|look familiar]]?
**There are not [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Zombyra_the_Dark one], but [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Elemental_HERO_Necroshade two] for [[Spawn]]. The first one is an indirect example, because it's based on a fictional superhero comic from the manga, that was based on Spawn. The second one was directly based on Spawn himself.
*[[Cast from Hit Points|Cast From Life Points]]: Many cards require a sacrifice of life points to activate.
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