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The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is a collectible card game based on Duel Monsters which appears as the main plot device in the popular Japanese manga Yu-Gi-Oh!
, and the two Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, which are Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! series and NAS's Yu-Gi-Oh! series (known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Asia). In its fictional contexts, the game is sometimes referred to as Magic and Wizards or M&W in the original Japanese manga.

The card game is known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: Official Card Game (sometimes shortened as "OCG") in Asian countries where Konami releases the game. The game is known as the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game in countries where Upper Deck Entertainment distributes the game. It is inspired by the game in the manga and anime series, however the rules are adhered to more strictly and are comparatively more consistent and balanced than the game represented in its fictional contexts.

Each player is allotted a certain number of life points (Both players usually start with 8000 Life Points), and the main objective of the game is to reduce an opponent's life points to zero, or win by alternate means. Like many other trading card games, Duel Monsters is a game mainly for two players to compete head-to-head.

There are also video games based on the card game, with minor differences between it and the collectible card game, and the video games generally give away copies of rare and/or powerful cards (usually three of them) with the game.

Editions

In Japan, there are two editions of the game: the earlier Carddas version, and the better-known Konami version, the latter of which being the one played worldwide. Some cards are exclusive to the Konami version, and some cards are exclusive to the Bandai edition.

Only three boosters had been released for the Carddas version before the license of the card game was sold to Konami later. The game was popular, although it used a simplified and modified version of the gaming rules used in the manga, and is less faithful to the manga compared with Konami's versions of the game. In the Carddas version, some of the cards were not re-released to Japanese audiences after the Bandai edition ended distribution. This included cards that did nothing more than describe characters from Toei's anime series. Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto), Dark Yugi (Yami Yugi), Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler), Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor), Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner), Miho Nosaka (Melody in the English Dungeon Dice Monsters video game), Seto Kaiba, and Shadi were on the cards.

Game play

When the game first appears in the manga, both players are described as wizards summoning powerful creatures.

Cards

Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards are divided into three categories: Monster Cards, Spell Cards (Magic Cards), and Trap Cards.

Monster Cards

Monster Cards are the basic cards a player uses to attack the opponent, or defend from the opponent's attack. Monster Cards can be divided into four categories:

Normal Monster Cards — Identified by its background color yellow. These are the most basic type of Monster Cards.
Fusion Monster Cards — Identified by its background color violet. These are monsters summoned by combining two or more monsters using the Spell Card "Polymerization", "Fusion Gate", "Power Bond", "Miracle Fusion", or "Dragon's Mirror". This type of monsters is not put into the main deck. Instead, they are put into a special pile called the "Fusion Deck".
Ritual Monster Cards — Identified by its background color blue. When these monsters are in a player's hand, they can only be summoned by using their own unique Ritual Spell Cards to offer monsters which fulfill certain conditions as Tributes.
Effect Monster Cards — Identified by its background color orange. These are monsters with special abilities (effects). Some Fusion monsters and Ritual Monsters also have effects (such as Reaper of the Nightmare and Relinquished, and they can be treated as Effect Monsters as well (specifically, Fusion/Effect and Ritual/Effect).

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