The True Rules Of The Duelist Kingdom Tournament

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[BrenTenkage]

I always thought of the duelist kingdom simulating an actual battle, like on a tabletop. If you look at it from say dnd perspective a lot of the moves and combos make sense, after all the original game wizard and monsters was a simulation of two wizards summoning monsters and battling.

[schwarzerritter]

The Duelist Kingdom is basically like playing an RPG with a completely stoned gamemaster.
"You attack the moon, which makes the ocean recede and strands all the water monsters? Yeah, sure, why not?"

[Sta_cotto]

GX/Zexal: I use a normal rule set only broken by magic shenanigans.
Arc-V/Vrains/5Ds/Battle City: I have 2 rule sets for specific situations.
Sevens: I use a simplified rule set!
Duelist Kingdom: Wait, you guys have rules?

[lwonka]

That last rule is perfect cause it does feel like the entire Duelist Kingdom Tourney was a D&D style Yugioh game where Yugi out DM'd everyone to become the King Of Games.

[finaldarkfire]

So Yugioh with D&D rules honestly sounds amazing XD Also the idea that Yugi is always rolling crits on a D20 honestly makes perfect sense when you remember that the Millennium Puzzle's power is Probability Manipulation.

[dsalucas]

A lot of Duel Monsters seems to suggest that there's supplementary lore for many of the cards in the game that helps to guide a lot of the creative solutions in this leg of the series. This makes this ruleset great for creative and knowledgeable players like Yugi. He knows that the castle of dark illusions stays in the air due to the power of its flotation ring, that swords of revealing light keeps things in place quite well, and that catapult turtle is a siege weapon. It's not *too* much of a stretch when you look at it in terms like this along with the tabletop-esque setup.

Imagine duel terminal boss monsters under this ruleset, though.

[お兄-hc]

I laughed so hard when one day I discovered Attack the Moon became an actual card. It was just so unexpected to see after opening a box and was a nice throwback to the original Duelist Kingdom arc. Brought back some great memories.

[Robodragonlord]

I think the last two dueling rules should be combined and it just be "Shenanigans are allowed so long as they are logical". 🤣

[rainbowdragon]

There’s one rule I’ve found about someone using Exodia to win: When a player won with Exodia the Forbidden One, a player laid out all 5 cards on the field for the computer system to recognize it as a victory condition.

[linkV]

The dub is based on the US medical system. 3 million barely covered the bandages.

[caswellweird]

One of my favorite bits of “totally real rules that weren’t retconned” in Duelist Kingdom was the rule of Magic. Black Magic beats White Magic, White Magic beats Grey Magic, and Grey Magic beats Black Magic.

In the manga, Yugi’s Dark Magician is unable to defeat Illusionist Magician because it had the type disadvantage.

[NerdishGeekish]

The duelist kingdom ruleset was whatever the hell Pegasus was feeling like that morning.

On a side note, a yu gi oh/ DnD crossover irl sounds like it would be amazing!

[MrDarksol]

You know seeing it as a crossover with D&D, it honestly makes the rules be I guess sensible. I mean anything is possible at that point of the series so I can let it slide. Nice breakdown of the rules!

[dudebladeX]

I kinda liked the D&D aspect of it. On some level, I kinda wanted to know how some of the newer cards would interact with the ruleset. Like… Speed Warrior is really fast, so a slower monster like the Giant Soldier of Stone can't reliably hit it.

[DuskoftheTwilight]

My pet theory is that Duel Monsters in the anime always has some degree of ancient egyptian magic behind it allowing certain crazy things to happen, and Pegasus was deliberately tapping into that for the Duelist Kingdom tournament, which is why so many of the rules are crazy, arbitrary, and specific, as well as why the duelists weren't given a full rulebook going in, so they'd have to intuit things for themselves and unconsciously tap in to that magic.

[bejitto]

Bro you're the only yugi-tuber i kept following thru the years cause you're just a super nice and brillant guy and i see you truly loving the game and his surroundings, keep going man love the content and always will :)

[emre]

the last rule made it much more fun to watch even if it doesnt make sense in today's ygo standards. Could be fun to see more of that stuff in a spinoff

[filipvadas]

0:25 Actually, the events of the series, according to the manga, start in 1996 and end with Dark Side of Dimensions in ~1999

So, really, the prize money during Duelist Kingdom would probably be a bit higher

[JoshuaWebbs]

Joey deck was heavily updated through DM, I always thought Joey pocketed the left over money and slowly purchased cards for his deck.

[WhiteRaven]

If Serenity was getting full-on retina transplants, I could see it being 3 million. But I’m pretty sure her issue was cataracts or glaucoma, and those are significantly cheaper to treat.