History TabletopGame / DuelMasters

* EldritchAbomination: Plenty of Darkness creatures are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Supernova_Black_Hole_Thanatos Case in point.]]

* InstantWinCondition: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Ultimate_Galaxy_Universe Ultimate Galaxy Universe]], [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Geki,_Absolute_Ruler_%7EFinal_Flare%7E Ken Geki]], [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Alephtina,_Spiritual_Princess Alephtina, Spiritual Princess]], and [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_J_Eleven Cyber J Eleven]]

* YinYangBomb: Any Light and Darkness creature, naturally. Also, the Mystic Light creatures.

* AngelsDevilsAndSquid: Exceptionally so in that you can build a Deck like this if you mix Light and Darkness Civilizations and use some of the more EldritchAbomination-type Phoenixes.

* Cowboy: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Jolly_the_Johnny Jolly the Johnny]] is undoubtedly one.

* AwesomeButImpractical: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Romanoff_Kaiser_NEX%2C_the_Super_Enlightened Romanoff Kaiser NEX, the Super Enlightened]] requires you to evolve from a creature that evolves from a creature that evolves from a creature. [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Sarutahiko,_the_Great_Hero Sarutahiko, the Great Hero]] makes things much easier, though.

* NoExportForYou: Wizards of the Coast has stopped publishing for Duel Masters after 12 sets, and the following sets can only be bought from Japan.

It spawned a few games for the GBA and for the PS2.

* [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Instant Awesome Just Add]] [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Shinobi Shinobi]]

* GuestFighter: [[MegamanBattleNetwork Bass]] makes an appearance [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Forte,_Brave_Fear_Lord as a promotional card.]]

* NonstandardGameOver: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Bombazar,_Dragon_of_Destiny Bombazar, Dragon of Destiny]], [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Suva,_Emperor_of_the_Gods Suva, Emperor of the Gods]], and [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Gabriella,_Holy_Princess Gabriella, Holy Princess]]

Gameplay-wise, it is quite similar to its [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering, having 5 Civilizations (Fire, Water, Light, Darkness and Nature) with cards that should be played by paying "Mana" from your "Mana Zone". Decks must have a minimum of 40 cards, and a maximum of 4 copies of an individual card. One big difference from Magic is that it does away with Mana-supplying Lands by allowing players to put any card into the Mana Zone for Mana. This gives the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game, at the price of forcing players to make decisions on which card should be used for Mana, and which ones to keep. Another variation is the absence of Life, which is replaced with 5 Shields, and players themselves. Players can only be damaged after all Shields are broken, and landing any amount of damage on a player will result in a OneHitKill. Victory can be obtained via 2 ways: destroy all your opponent's Shields and ultimately, do damage to them, or when the opponent runs out of cards in their deck to draw from.

Based on the cards which appeared on the Anime/DuelMasters anime, [[RecursiveAdaptation which in turn were based on]] the MagicTheGathering cards that appeared on the manga, the Franchise/DuelMasters TCG proved popular enough on its own to compete with TabletopGame/YuGiOh and MagicTheGathering as one of the most played TCG.

Gameplay-wise is quite similar to its [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, for which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the beginning of the match as defense) and any other defense the opponent decides to play, while protecting one-self.

* NoExportForYou: Only Japan gets new releases now.

* HattoriHanzo: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Hanzou,_Menacing_Phantom Hanzou, Menacing Phantom]].

* YagyuJubei: [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Sword_%22Yagyuu%22_Dragon Shadow Sword "Yagyuu" Dragon.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Plenty of Darkness creatures are Eldritch Abominations. [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Supernova_Black_Hole_Thanatos Case in point.]]
** Quite a few of the Phoenixes are EldritchAbominations, strangely enough. Any Phoenix with 'Supernova' in its name will more-than-likely be this.

Gameplay-wise is quite similar to its [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, for which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the begining of the match as defense) and any other defense the opponent decides to play, while protecting one-self.

Gameplay-wise is quite similar to its [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, for which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the begging of the match as defense) and any other defense the opponent decides to play, while protecting one-self.

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Gameplay-wise is quite similar to it's [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, for which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the begging of the match as defense) and any other defense the opponent decides to play, while protecting one-self.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: [[MegamanBattleNetwork Bass]] makes an appearance [[http://duelmasters.wikia.com/wiki/Forte,_Brave_Fear_Lord as a promotional card.]]

Based on the cards which appeared on the Anime/DuelMasters anime, [[RecursiveAdaptation which in turn were based on]] the MagicTheGathering cards that appeared on the manga, the Franchise/DuelMasters TCG proved popular enough on its own to compete with YuGiOh and MagicTheGathering as one of the most played TCG.

Not to be confused with Duel ''[[YuGiOh Monsters]]''

Based on the cards which appeared on the DuelMasters anime, [[RecursiveAdaptation which in turn were based on]] the MagicTheGathering cards that appeared on the manga, the DuelMasters TCG proved popular enough on its own to compete with YuGiOh and MagicTheGathering as one of the most played TCG.

Gameplay-wise is quite similar to it's [[SpiritualSuccessor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, reason which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the begging of the match as defense) and any other defense the oponnent decides to play.

Gameplay-wise is quite similar to it's [[SpiritualSuccesor Spiritual Ancestor]] MagicTheGathering, having 5 civilizations (fire, water, light, darkness and nature) with cards that should be played by paying "mana" from your "mana pool". One big difference from Magic is that PRACTICALLY EVERY CARD can be used as "mana" (not only "terrains"), giving the game more flexibility against "dead draws" than almost any other card game. To win the game one must successfully attack his opponent directly, reason which one must first destroy the "shields" (cards that are randombly set at the begging of the match as defense) and any other defense the oponnent decides to play.

While the game was canceled in America, it still runs on Japan.