Duel Masters

[Pogiforce-14]

i didn't see a thread for it so I decided to make one for Duel Masters. I happen to be very good at the game, my rarest cards being Scarlet Skyterror, Armored Blaster Valdios, and Ladia Bale the Inspirational. Does anyone else play?

[Mullet]

Duel Masters is the coolest game next to Yu-Gi-Oh and in my opinion is a great game to get into.

[Pogiforce-14]

Totally agree. (Although pokemon is pretty awesome too.) Glad I could finally convince you to join up, Mullet! Welcome! :D

[Latios Master]

What is Dual Masters like? I've seen the cards in the stores but I've never bought them, since I've heard people call it a copy cat of Yu-Gi-Oh. Is it just a card game, or is there a TV show too? My dad owes me $15, so I might use that to buy some cards, but I don't know of what.

[Pogiforce-14]

It is a tv show as well. the show is quite hilarious and does some quite rediculous and unreal things at times, but it's a good watch. The cards are nothing like yugioh however, and those accusing it of such as no different than those of us repsonsible for the decline in Digimon fan base.

WHat you do is take the top five cards from your deck and play them in front of you without looking. These are your shields. These are you're only protection from losing the game. You play cards form your hand as mana. once a card becomes mana, it loses all abilities and powers that card normaly would have. By tapping your mana, you may summon creatures and cast spells. TO summon a creature or cast a spell, you must tap a sufficient number of mana and at least one mana has to be of the same civilization as the card your trying to summon.The mana becomes untapped next turn. The civilization is determined by teh background fo the card. There or five civilaztions: Fire, Dark, Light, Nature, and Water.Each civilization specializes in particular card strengths. Water is mostly draw power and unblockable mosnters (mentioned later). Fire is raw power and double breakers(Also explained later). Nature is mana production, light is excellent defense, and darkness is evil cards that find other ways of taking you down. Monsters that are just summoned get what is called "Summoning sickness". Basically that monster can't attack the turn its summoned.

Once a monster attacks, it becomes tapped. Monsters cannot attack other monsters unless the monster being attacked is tapped. A monster can attack a tapped monster or go for teh opponent's shields. Once your opponent looses all five of his or her shields and is then attacked directly, they lose the game. "Broken" shields get sent to the hand. If the shield is what is called a "Shield-trigger" spell card, trhen when it's broken you have the choice of casting it with no mana cost. Monsters marked with double breaker break two shields when they attack instead of one.

The most common types of monsters are "Blockers" and "Power attackers" When you tapp a blocker while your opponent attacks, your blocker intercepts the attack and the two monsters battle. Like any game, teh monster with the highest attack strength wins. Power attackers gain so much extra strength while they are attacking, but return to their normal strength while they are tapped. All tapped monsters are untapped come teh next turn.

lastly but not least there are evolution creatures. These creatures evolve from creatures of teh same subspecies, which can be found under the creature name. They are summoned like normal monsters and are palced ont eh creature they are evolving from. Unlike normal creatures, these ones do not get summoning sickness and are extremely powerful. A well placed evolution creature can easily change the tide of a game.

That is basically the rules for the game. As you can see, on ly in areas is it like yugioh but it is very different. It has more in comparison to pokemon or magic than yugioh.

[Kenny_C.002]

Basically, it's a combination of Pokemon and Magic:the Gathering. Not a bad game, but I just wished there was a main phase after battle/attack phase...

[Mullet]

What is Dual Masters like? I've seen the cards in the stores but I've never bought them, since I've heard people call it a copy cat of Yu-Gi-Oh. Is it just a card game, or is there a TV show too? My dad owes me $15, so I might use that to buy some cards, but I don't know of what.


With that $15 i suggest you buy Shobu or Kokojuo starter deck. The one recomend the most is the basic two player starter set and combine the cards to make a single. think that you will enjoy Duel Masters as many other people do.

[Kenny_C.002]

As Mullet said, it's not a bad game. I do suggest at least trying it out to see what you like better (if any). also, I noticed that Duel Masters cards are present among YGO cards in all major retail stores in my area (whereas there is only 1 single store, a hobbie store, that housed magic), so it wouldn't be tough to get the cards either. lol

[KLS]

Basically, it's a combination of Pokemon and Magic:the Gathering. Not a bad game, but I just wished there was a main phase after battle/attack phase...
D-M is more like YGO and magic combined

[Pogiforce-14]

Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree. Besides the fact that it's attack points and not hp, it is nothing like yugioh. It's more like pokemon with the evolution creatures. Just like pokemon, they evolve from certain type of monsters.

[Kenny_C.002]

kls, trust me on this one. When there is very little similarities between two TCGs, I know...I hope. lol