If their hand is empty, the Duel ends and the Duelist with higher Life Points wins. The turn player must play one card from their hand.Each Duelist's hand consists of five cards.There is no Deck Cost and no limit to the number of copies of one card which can be in a Deck, but the Deck must contain exactly 40 cards and the player can only have one Deck at a time.

Levels, Attributes, and Alignments are not featured in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, and monsters can be summoned without tributing. ' B.eye White Dragon' Monsters only have an ATK, DEF, Type, and description. ' Ansatsu' + ' Darkfire Dragon' = ' Flame Swordsman'). While there are no Fusion Monsters (and thus no Fusion Deck), fusions can be performed by trying to summon a monster from the hand on top of a monster on the field (e.g.There are 315 Normal Monsters (from number 001 to 300, and from 351 to 365) and 50 Spell Cards (from number 301 to 350) in the game these are the only types of cards featured.The basic rules are based on the mechanics of the manga, not to be confused with the more complex OCG format invented later. Most of the cards present were invented for the game cards featured from the manga are from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist - Duel 032 and prior. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters features 365 cards, with the last 15 cards being secret. See also: List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards and Gallery of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters cards

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