Yu-Gi-Oh! The Idiots Guide To Master Duel [Beginners Guide]

My Full Master Duel Journey: bit.ly/3tofIKr

Here's an extra tip, ALWAYS spend gems on the 10 pack option (not the 1 pack option) to get that super rare guarantee, and ONLY if you have 2000 gems AT LEAST, this is so that if you don't get a UR card in a purchase, and the game states that you have 24 hrs to try again and get a guaranteed Ultra Rare card, you can immediately spend another 1000 and get that UR guaranteed card before the 24 hrs limit runs out and the secret pack disappears.

This is a helpful guide for new players. My only experience with YGO was season 1 of the anime and an unmodified structure deck to play during recess as a child. Prior to this I had no knowledge of Synchro, XYZ, pendulum or link summon. I took the blue eyes starter deck and decided to test it out against a real player. My first opponent was a Japanese player running Drytron.

My deck was burned along with my house last year and I thought I'll quit Yu-Gi-Oh for good until I discover Master Duel I still miss my physical deck but I can't describe how happy I was when I discover this game

You are a gem to this community. Following you for years now. Thank you.

rule 1) don't expect to have fun

Returning to the game after over a decade, I built my physical deck in game and won my first match with a dice jar and wave motion canon. Deck involves manipulation and limitation of opponent hand and actions while maintaining a hard to bypass defense and killing with a ton of burn damage. I later made a new version of the same deck but with time lords. I dont really play specific archetypes, I merge multiple ones that suit each other in my goals

Awesome guide. One quick addition I don't think you mentioned. When accepting rewards from dailies, hold off on accepting the lower rewards (10, 20 gems) and continue to accept the higher rewards (30, 50 gems). The game adds dailies from a pool of 9 missions, and will not reassign ones that you have completed but not accepted the rewards for. By keeping the lower gem rewards out of this rotation, you will force dailies to give you the higher reward missions (30+50+50 per day) continuously. The first few days of the month you may not be able to claim any dailies (3 new per day and you need to clog up the worst 6), but after that it is optimal gem mining. Make sure to accept these 6 low gem rewards mission before the month/season ends. You can still accept login, watch live, and special mission rewards as you get the option since these do not affect the daily mission pool. Hopefully, this does not get patched out

Hope this was a good intro for how best to start Master Duel! Any other Tip's or Advice you would like to share, please leave it below!!

More tips: 1. Play through the solo mode. In the end a secret pack will be unlocked that houses the knightmare monsters, which are splashable in almost any extra deck and will always be useful. If you have URs you can get Access code Talker, a beast of a boss that links up well with the knightmares, and is a great game finisher. 2. Do research if you want to build more decks and determine how many gems and craft material it'll take. Some decks are more expensive than others.

"Not beginner friendly" sums up my whole experience with Master Duel. XD

I'm so hooked on this game. Even though I'm a returning player I'm having a lot of fun making videos and playing

Literally my first duel ever was against an Ultimate Falcon, and I am so goddamn proud that I managed to stall it out with my completely destruction immune Frightfur until I could get a strong enough monster to beat over it and then win.

I wish you could dismantle cards in structure decks. My biggest beef with the game. I appreciate them giving us a deck for those who don't want to build or cannot build a deck. But some genres you have no interest in are better off being dismantled so we can craft cards we actually will use. Since we can't, you have these SR/UR cards sitting around that we'll never use. ugh

I found that playing the solo modes does help a lot with learning and you get a lot of different cards. It’s really fun.

Thank you so much for such an informative guide, TGS Anime! Definitely comes in handy for long time veterans and newcomers alike!

I chose the Synchro of Unity deck because it started me on a path to get Stardust Dragon. My favorite monster in the game, and thanks to my searching through the secret packs she my generation of cards I needed I essentially have Yusei's deck with every version of stardust dragon from the basic Stardust ask the way up to Shooting Quasar Dragon and Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon.

When I first started playing I bought one of the structure decks Pend Magicians. I won a few then moved on to D/D. However i had to switch back after I reached Gold tier.

I love Master Duel so much. I've built 4 halfway decent decks, and I'm constantly floating around Rank 3 Gold. Master Duel is definitely my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! game to date. I hope we start seeing some anime related Solo missions in the future.

The first deck you choose does affect how early you'll get some staple cards, you'll get them all later through missions, but if you want MST early, you'll want to choose the one with MST in it