Both games are different. DM is certainly cheaper...but also has less cards for it. People are comparing DM in its BASE SET stage with Yu-Gi-Oh which has released a whole bunch of sets. Yu-Gi-Oh has trap cards which makes the game more interactive. DM is just switching taking turns. The opponent's only contribution for the oppopsing turn is to choose the target of "his" shield triggers.

Yu-Gi-Oh is a broken game...but not because of the mana system. Didn't stop Magic...and you may notice that DM also has some "high powered cards". DM does a heck of job trying to balance...looking at the latest Japanese DM sets I see a bunch of weird things. Fire gets an unblockable, Light gets a 3 mana Brain Serum, Light sprouting the ability to recover shields.

Yu-Gi-Oh's ban list helps curb the trend of powerful cards. Duel Masters in my opinion develops a bunch of high powered cards, but then tweaks each civ just enough to balance the game.

-Ryoma Echizen

Your scenario with Dark Ruler is incorrect. First, Dark Ruler Ha Des cannot be special summoned. It says so right on the card. Second, you could not play a Monster Reborn, and a Scapegoat in the same turn. The Special Summon of the goat tokens has to be the only summoning done that turn, as per the text on the card, and the official rulings.

This just serves to prove an earlier point...Yu Gi Oh is supposedly marketed to kids, but the rulings make it too difficult for that age group. If you can't read well, you won't be a very effective Yu Gi Oh player.

Anyway, to get back on topic....I got into DM because I got a free starter from Wizards of the Coast for testing out DM. 20 people at the store I play at received free starters for testing out DM.

At first I was not a big fan of the game, but it is usually not wise to judge a game only from it's starter deck. Many of the best cards in DM are not included in the starter at all, considering that Darkness, and Water are not represented.

~Michiganlover~

Huh? You like to make biased statments, don't you? Saying YGO is better is one thing, but for the reasons you gave I can see that you haven't really played Duel masters all that much if at all.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. There is a rather annoying kid at my local hobby shop who was claiming to me that Duel Masters suck and that the gameplay is horrible. He went on about how it was a knockoff of YGO and how the cards look just like YGO cards. I asked him if he had ever played Duel Masters. He said he has never played a single game of Duel Masters. He told me that just by reading the rules he could tell it was a bad ripp-off. I told him to give me what makes DM like YGO. You know what he said? He said, and I quote, "You have to play Monsters and Spells to win." Honestly people, are THAT many YGO players THAT ignorant? I've only had one fellow YGO (Yes, I play YGO hardcore) players that actually try DM and he even went as far as buying a few boxes that day. I was amazed how much he took a liking to it. Don't knock it until you've tried it!

I Think we are getting ahead of ourselves. Duel Masters only has it's base set out in eng. It may topple Yugioh one day then somthing else will come aqlong and topple Duel masters, just the way things go. I like both games although with some of the recent yugioh ruleing I've bought some more duel masters cards. I do like the fact that just about every card an be used. I've bought too many Yugioh packs only to throw all nine cards in my card box because they were all useless.
I have a feeling each game will have it's hard-core following , I work in a toystrore and I still have people buying pokemon cards and I still have my two greatest decks and my foils.

I'd like more people to play Duel Masters, if only to see if my deck is any good.

This game is, what, a month old? There's no way of predicting what it will or will not become.

You could look at Japan, since the game is more mature there. In Japan, it is the hottest game going. But other than looking at what it's doing there, we have absolutely no way of gaging it's popularity in the western world.

And who exactly told you that? Because it has a childish show? WAIT! Doesn't DM have one too?

Yugioh is only broken due to the way certain card mechanics lean into an ascendency of the rules, where their fundamentals of play work best in specific rulings favor.

Qualities? You even THINK to state that knowing (hopefully) the game is in its prestages of gathering interest. The only quality exisitng now is power? Untrue. Technique and strategy might have been to abstruse fo you to mention? Spells, Blockers, and Bouncers all fall under that category. Also, DM has yet to gain such in depth qualities because the game hasn't undergone later progression.


You're the only one making sense here. We are comparing card game's mechanics from one another knowing they have their own set of rules which sets them apart from other games. Different companies, different ideas. I don't see how we can type so much in this discussion without babbeling into a different subject, as did SNOW MISER.

Haha, seriously people. Don't just post because you think you know what you are talking about when in reality you start going on and talking about grandma or Rebecca who broke up with you to get your best friend.

good muther f ucking game, f o 0 l s.


~Nonsense

It's not just Yugioh players that are ignorant about this game. Lots of Magic players will refuse to play Duel Masters because it's essentially a Magic Lite. I'm sure it's cliche by now but, people fear that what they don't understand. It's the way things are, the way they have been and the way they will always be.

the only reason I began to gain interest in the DM game is that it began to pop up at the places I purchased yugioh and played it. I soon found out why DM was an after thought to yugioh. I've said it before, DM is a easy game to learn, but hard to be good at, whereas yugioh is quite the opposite, difficult to learn, all the rulings in certain situations and errata you have to remember and chain priority, but it is easy to be good at, very easy with money. In my own opinion DM will die long before Yu-Gi-Oh ever does.

For the exact same reasons that miller1119 states, I believe DM will outshine YGO - at some point in time.

Ease of entry into the game allows more players to try it out. DM costs less to but packs and to get needed singles. FAR less than YGO.

The difficulty to master gives everyone a chance at winnning at local levels. It also keeps things fresh at the National and World levels of play.

All im gona say is i have played yu-gi-oh and duelmasters and from what ive seen DM is desined better. And the DM carrtoon is actualy funny.

I agree wholeheartedly. The cartoon is much more fun to watch, the game is much easier to learn, and more strategic than YGO. Disagree with me all you want, but it is a lot harder to choose between the 4 mana, 2000+ 4000 power attacker and the 4 mana, 3000+ 2000 power attacker (DM) than between the 4 star, 1900/1200 and the 4 star, 1800/1100 (YGO).