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1. #1Summoning

   Monsters with 4 levels or lower are able to be "Normal Summoned", which just means you summon a monster without a cost, and doesn't require a spell in order to summon it. (UNLESS THE MONSTER'S EFFECT SAYS OTHERWISE). But Players only get one normal summon per turn. A Special Summon is usually caused by a card effect, like a spell, or monster effect. Special Summons are limitless. When you special summon a monster, you have the option to summon it, face-up, in either the attack position, or the defense position.

   There's two ways to normal summon a monster, the first is by placing the monster card face-up vertically, known as attack position. If you want to normal summon a monster in defense position, first you must set it face-down horizontally, known as defense position (DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FACE-DOWN), and then, next turn, flip it up into attack position. This is called "Flip Summoning", and although it IS technically on the field, it is not considered summoned until it is flip summoned. Attacking face-down monsters also causes it to flip summon, but it remains in defense position.

   Here are other types of summoning that also counts as Special Summoning:

   Ritual Summoning, Fusion Summoning, XYZ Summoning, Synchro Summoning, Link Summoning, and Pendulum Summoning, all count as Special Summoning.

2. #2Life Points

   Each player starts with 8000 Life Points. Whichever player reaches 0 Life Points loses the duel. Life Points can be lost by many means, be it battles between monsters, spell and trap cards, or direct attacks. Life Points can also be regained as well, but only through card effects.

   When a monster is destroyed by battle with another monster, take the higher number from the winning monster and subtract it with the lower number of the defeated monster, and the result is the battle damage taken by the owner of the losing monster. For example, a monster with 1800 ATK defeats a monster with 1000 ATK.

   1800-1000=800 Life Point Damage

3. #3The First Turn

   The player who takes the first turn of the duel CANNOT attack with their monsters until they end their turn. This is a balancing rule to make the game more fair.

4. #4Attacking VS. Defending

   Monsters in Attack Position use Attack Points to determine the outcome, and Defense Position monsters use Defense Points. However, Attack Position monsters DO NOT consider Defense Points during the damage step, even if they're lower than the opposing monster's ATK. The same thing goes for Defense Position monsters, as they DO NOT consider ATK points. Obviously, if you attack a monster with lower numbers than your monster, they get destroyed, but here's the explanation of what happens when they're NOT: If you attack an ATK Position monster with an ATK higher than yours, your monster gets destroyed instead, and you take damage. The same thing happens if you attack a DEF Position monster with DEF points higher than your ATK points; the only difference is, your monster DOESN'T get destroyed, but you still take damage. If you attack an ATK position monster with the SAME ATK as your monster, neither player takes damage, but both monsters get destroyed. The same thing happens when you attack a DEF position monster that has DEF points that match your monster's ATK points; the only difference is both monsters DON'T get destroyed. Oh, and monsters can ONLY attack ONCE per turn, unless a card effect says otherwise, such as a monster's effect, a spell, or some other card effect.

5. #5Extra and Main Deck

   There are two types of decks: Main Decks and Extra Decks

   Main Decks contain Monster, Spell and Trap cards, as well as Ritual and Pendulum Monsters.

   Extra Decks have their own zone, and contain Fusion, XYZ, Synchro, and Link monsters. You're not allowed to draw cards from the Extra Deck, as you're only allows to special summon monsters from the Extra Deck.

6. #6Tribute Summoning

   Monsters with levels over 5 are required to be tribute summoned. To tribute summon a monster, first you must look at the level of the monster, if the monster has 5 or 6 levels, it requires 1 Monster to be tributed. If it has 7 or 8 levels, it requires 2, and Monsters with 9 up to 13 levels require three monsters. You must tribute monsters you control on the monster zone, and nowhere else, regardless if the monster is face up or not. Tribute Summoning is considered a form of normal summoning.

7. #7Ritual Summoning

   Basic as you can get, you summon monsters that have the "Ritual" type by activating the monster's specific ritual spell. The requirements to ritual summon the monster are required to be listed on the spell card. Also, the Ritual Monster HAS to be in your hand to be able to use the ritual spell, UNLESS a specific card effect says otherwise.

8. #8Fusion Summoning

   Monsters with the Fusion Type require specific spells to be able to be summoned (The most popular example of which is Polymerization). To fusion summon a monster, use a fusion spell to do so, and use the monsters required (Certain fusion spells have different requirements to be used)

9. #9XYZ Summoning

   Monsters with the XYZ type require a specific amount of monsters with the same level to be summoned (Sometimes of the same attribute or typing). Monsters must be on the field to be used for XYZ summoning. The monsters used for the materials are stacked onto each other, with the XYZ monster always being put on top of the stack. The monster remains on the field even if you remove materials from the monster to activate the XYZ Monster's effect.

10. #10Synchro Summon

    Monsters with the Synchro type require the materials to add up to the monster's level. It also requires one of the monsters to be a Tuner monster. Monsters must be on the field to be used for Synchro summoning. For example, if you want to synchro summon a synchro monster, the usual requirement is "1 Tuner + 1 Non-Tuner Monster", however, certain synchro monsters will say "1 EARTH Tuner" or "1 Fish Tuner" or "1 Machine Tuner", or it could require 2 Non-tuner monsters. If you wanted to summon a level 8 Synchro monster, but you have a level 2 tuner, and it requires only 1 non tuner monster, you would need a level 6 monster to add up to 8 levels. If you have a level 4 tuner, you would need a level 4 non-tuner monster, so on so forth.

11. #11Link Summoning

    Link monsters are unique, in that they don't have DEF or levels, but instead have Link Ranks, from 1 to 6. To Link Summon, you have to use the required monsters according to the card (Usually multiple of 1 type, for example 2+ Effect Monsters), and you must use enough monsters to match the link rank (2 monsters for a Link Rank 2 monster, 3 monsters for Link Rank 3 monsters, etc.)

12. #12Pendulum Summoning

    Alright, this is a bit complex, so listen up; Pendulum Monsters are a hybrid of Monster and Spell Cards. On the far right and far left areas of the spell zone, are the pendulum zones. Each Pendulum Monster has a Pendulum Rank, one for each side, from 1 to 13 (Which match monster levels). And when two monsters fill in the pendulum zones, you are able to special summon up to the pendulum scale that is set by the two pendulum monsters. For example, if one monster has a pendulum rank of 1 on the left side, and another has a rank of 8 for the right, you're able to special summon monsters from levels 1 to 8, as long as they're in your hand. They are also the only kind of monster with two effects, one for when it's used in the Pendulum Zone, and another for when it's used in the Monster Zone. No, you can't use them both at once, it's either one or the other.

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