Saturn typically represents Wind monsters.Jupiter typically represents Forest creatures, such as Beasts, Beast-Warriors, Insects and Plants.Mars typically represents Fire monsters.Venus typically represents 'Illusory' monsters (most of them are Spellcasters, Fiends or Fairies).Moon typically represents Dark monsters, such as Fiends and Zombies.Sun typically represents Light monsters, such as Fairies.Mercury typically represents Dark Spellcasters and Dark Warriors.Dragon' will use a Light Attack with an attack bonus against the Moon. If the player chooses Sun instead, ' Meteor B.

Dragon to use a Fire Attack and give it an attack bonus against Jupiter (typically plant-type) monsters. Dragon you are given the choice of Sun or Mars. In the 3-D battle sequence the attack the monster uses depends on the guardian star selected. The Guardian Stars selected represent the Attribute and the Type of the monster.The following example is used in the manual: 'when ' Gaia the Dragon Champion' (AP:2600) chooses Mercury and attacks ' Blue-Eyes White Dragon' (AP:3000 and in attack position, with Sun as the alignment), 'Gaia' has his AP increased to 3100, making it possible to defeat ' Blue-Eyes White Dragon'. Mars > Jupiter > Saturn > Uranus > Pluto > Neptune > Mars.Monster Cards must select one of two 'Guardian Stars', which allow a monster to gain five hundred ATK and DEF points if it has chosen a superior alignment against its opposing card these alignments are taken directly from cosmic bodies and are arranged as follows (> means 'is superior to'):.After a fusion, cards can only be played face-up, but you can still select Attack or Defense Position.When any Spell or Trap Card is equipped to a monster that is not compatible, the Spell or Trap Card is discarded and the monster is unaffected.Only two cards can be fused at once, so monsters that require three monsters to create (such as Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon or Gate Guardian) require a Ritual to be used instead. Cards can be 'fused' in the hand without the card ' Polymerization' the player can fuse any amount of his/her cards together and in any order, but the chance of a 'successful' fusion (where a new Monster, Spell or Trap Card is made, or when a monster is strengthened) depends on the cards that the player is fusing and the order of the cards used.After playing this card(s), the player cannot play any more cards from their hand for that turn. This must be either a single card or a fusion/Equipment.

The player must play at least one card after drawing.At the start of each player's turn, he/she draws from his or her Deck until his/her hand consists of five cards if he/she cannot, the player loses the duel.A Main Deck must consist of exactly 40 cards.Īn example of a player going to fuse two monsters.

A Trap Card will activate as soon as its conditions for activation are met.

The player cannot control the activation of his/her Trap Cards (almost akin to 'implied' rules for Trap Cards in the second series anime).

A monster can even be played in face-down Attack Position.

A card can be placed either face-up or face-down, in either Attack or Defense Position.

With the exception of Ritual Summons, you are not required to Tribute monsters to Normal Summon Level 5 or higher monsters (just like in the Duelist Kingdom arc of the anime).

All Monster Cards in this game are Normal Monster Cards.

These differences are also contiguous with the PS2 game Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, but are not the same.

The mechanics of this game differ from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, because this game was produced at the same time as the card game was being adapted from the manga, so the rules used are some one of the original rules considered for the TCG.

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