You also can't put the Duel on hold to monologue about your plans to take over the world by winning the tournament

Did you forget that you can't jump from a castle if you're about to lose?

6.) Wear deodorant or use shampoo. 7.) hurt your opponent physically for every bit of damage they take

6) Invite them to a shadow duel

"It doesn't matter if you think they're good or not, you have to follow the Rules" Dzeef confirmed Lawful Neutral

"Are you intoxicated?" "Absolitely not, I just had two bottles of hot sauce. Ball's in your court, Konami." :P

Surprised "Dueling Under the Influence" isn't a YGO Abridged episode title yet.

What do you mean I cant mind crush my opponent after they lose?

Do I have to keep my pants on at tournaments? I play better without them.

So we can’t have like 40 left legs of the forbidden one in our deck box?

Do you must return all the taken souls after using The Seal Of Orichalcos?

I have no idea why your content popped up in my suggested feed. But I love it. I haven't played Yugioh since I was like 10 back in 2000ish. But this channel got me all nostalgic and I've ordered the Yugi and Kaiba starter sets and will be forcing my brother to play with me over holiday break. So thanks for that Haha

Yu-Gi-Oh Players don't understand public intoxication rulings

You could say that if you do any of these things you get a “solemn warning” thank you

I summon blue eyes...blue "buuuurp" blue eyes whatever "passes out" As long as i can say draw monsta cardo! im good

11) Shower 12) Use Shampoo 13) Use Deodorant

Another thing that you can't do is.... Play firewall 😎

About to go to my a local Tournament! Havent been to one since Dragon Ruler Meta, but thank you for the tips!

The no takebacks rule makes a lot of sense, since Yu-Gi-Oh allows interrupting plays. Making a move and then taking it back gives you information about the opponent's traps.

You also cannot expect to win with Magic Cylinder at a tournament either.

you also cant pull out a chainsaw and cut your opponent into pieces

Coming from playing magic i cant believe that you cant double sleeve cards. Ive never been to a mtg tournament without my deck doublesleeved. People are going to be handling 100's of dollars of cards when they cut my deck or when they look at a card to read it, and you have no idea where their hands have been. Not to mention the benefit of having a seal inside of your outer layer of sleeve in the rare chance that something spills. Perfect fit sleeves + an outer sleeve is essential for keeping cards clean. It also makes 60 card decks a ton easier the shuffle because the cards become wider.

you cant use "seal of oricalcos" in your deck and then demand your oponent give you there immortal soul if they lose.

I'd like to say something regarding point 2. If players are able to see the backs of their cards in light coloured sleeves, then maybe Konami should consider updating their rules so that players MUST use opaque sleeves like it is in Vanguard and Pokemon.

If I go to a Yugioh tournament I prefer all of my opponents to be under the influence of alcohol.

Can you ask a judge to explain jar of greed?

Can I use a duel disk in a tourney? XD

I think the intoxication rule is also because although the player may be having fun under the influence. It might not necessarily be fun for someone else who feels uncomfortable around such a thing or in some cases threatened by it. As intoxication for a lot of things goes hand in hand with abusive or unconventional behaviour. Wether it be something minor like being loud, or something major like being verbally abusive.

This reminds me of my first ever Yugioh tournament, we were at the end of the day and my opponent was so high he literally tried duelling the guy NEXT to him instead of me and then complained to the judge that I was cheating as I had "exchanged bodies". Needless to say he was thrown out as apparently that was not the first time he had been reprimanded for this.

I found the ‘no drugs’ rule more reasonable than the ‘no OCG cards’ rule.

Also, just wanted to drop a tip for local tournaments, where you aren't required to provide a deck list: don't make changes to your deck mid-tournament at locals. I've seen a lot of kids get in trouble for doing that. It is usually younger kids, like 12 or 13 year olds, but some people just don't go to locals until later and do it because they assume it's not a very formal tournament and it doesn't matter. But, I have seen store owners get on people's case about it. I've seen people get disqualified, I've seen people get off with a warning, and I've even seen someone get banned from competing at that store because they did this multiple times. So, if this is you and you haven't gotten caught doing it yet, you should probably stop doing that before you do.

Are shadow duels allowed?

So you're saying I CAN put my credit card for a token?

I got kicked out of YCS chicago last year after my opponent used solemn judgment on my gorz, so i punched him after a argument and for DQ'd. so unfair

Next week's video: Commenters don't understand drunken PCP-fueled belligerent salty runback rampage.

Under the influence of any substance. Next time someone drinks an energy drink I'll report them for being under the influence of caffeine.

Is it legal to banish your losing opponent to the Shadow Realm?

Commenters Dont Understand Double Sleeving

I personally always Double Sleeve my cards when im not at locals or any other tournament, the humidity kills foil cards and there is no worse feeling than seeing your 95$ Infinite Impermanence suddenly have a huge Arch in it. So for me personally I just simply take the 2nd sleeve off before the tournament starts and then either once its over or I drop from the tournament in the case of bigger events I put the 2nd sleeve back on. its more of an issue of combating warping than it is for protecting sleeves in my case.

1:29 dzeeff's evil twin brother, ffeezd, revealed

Ya know, its cool you do stuff like this for the players that are just starting out. If i wouldve had stuff like this, i know it wouldve helped.

in the case of double sleeving, if you have one sleeve with art or an opaque back and you want to cover it with a 2nd completely transparent sleeve for extra protection i really dont see how thats an issue. with two opaque sleeves yeah you could hide a card in between, but if the 2nd outer sleeve is completely transparent by all means it should be fine imo

Watching your videos have taught me a lot. I haven't gone to a locals since Pendulums (cause f*** that noise) but I've gotten very nostalgic and now I want to go back with my new deck. Wish me luck!

As a new person to the competitive scene this is really helpful. Been playing for years but finally making the move to play more.

Can’t get help from a magical spirit advisor that only you can see and/or hear.

But can we initiate a duel and transport our foe into the shadow realm?

I currently play MTG myself, used to collect YGO cards, I dont have much interest in playing it, but these videos are just so interesting. Small quirks about anything and displayed in this way are just something. Top job, lad.

Even better then the last vid. Sharin' this onebin my locals fb group, lol. Keep tyese coming, they're great.

7. You can't not get ftk'd every match

Commenters dont understand what cant be done at yugioh tournements

Love your assertion on formal documents at the last part. 😄😄😄

For the "tap" thing, it probably refers to how a lot of players, who choose not to cut when offered a cut, will tap the top of the offered deck with one or two fingers to indicate they won't cut. Any motion involving touching the deck in some way without actually cutting any cards seems to come across just fine, just most people choose to "tap." There's also the actual in-game Magic the Gathering term "tap," which, to simplify somewhat heavily, refers to turning cards that remain on the field sideways when they've been used since your last turn. Creatures (monsters), for example, tap when they attack.

You forgot the rule that if a player skips over a non-optional effect and it isn’t corrected before the gamestate becomes irreversible, they get a game loss. If the player, however, *intentionally* doesn’t remind his or her opponent of a mandatory effect that could drastically change the gamestate, that can be considered cheating via rule sharking and can get you Match losses. If both players fail to catch the error, then the turn player can recieve a game loss. However, if the player in question catches the effect and his opponent refuses to let him or her resolve it provided the gamestate is reversible, that can result in said opponent recieving a game loss. In short, always remember your mandatory effects and be courteous and do the right thing by reminding your opponent of mandatory effects.

Dang can't Blaze it before a Tournament lol

Even though I’m rather strictly a casual player, I have to say, I love your videos. It’s interesting to hear things from a competitive point of view. It makes me realize that I have no idea how to play Yugioh competitively. ^^; But I like hearing and learning all this neat stuff. :) I’ll be over here with my casual hodge podge deck if anyone needs me XD

Amazing, love these vids, hope there are more incoming :)

Could you theoretically use a xl pokemon card as a token tho?

Perhaps another reason for the double sleeves is you could clear sleeve some and not others and tell the difference in thickness.

I have double-sleeved before; never gotten a game loss, but I did get a warning once.

I'm taking notes for my first local :D Thanks!

Maybe the drug policy is to keep the kiddos from being around bad influences, at locals or something

6. Wash your hands before you duel cause noone wants to have your cheesy hands touching their hands for the cut.

I remember wondering about the double sleeving rule too (they had the same rule at a DBS tournament) What I was told was that with double sleeving, someone could put a piece of paper or something small into the sleeves to help with stacking the deck, so I guess in ygo it would be similar to the OCG card rules?

Never knew about double sleeving. It's allowed in the OCG environment, which is limited when triple sleeved.

Can we officially change Bagooska's name to Bagooska the disqualified drunk duelist?

About taking back plays, I go with one mindset: If I mess up a play it's my fault, I won't expect my oponent to let me take it back, I won't even ask to do it. So, if they ask do to it I will always say no. Learn from the mistake and next time do it the right way.

you forgot that in the rule book it says if your opponent offers a introduction and/or hand shake before and/or after the match you must give your own introduction/ hand shake or risk a game lost

Loving your vids bro👍

Bushiroad allows double sleeving at all of their card game tournaments, with some even getting allowed triple sleeves, so I feel like Konami is needlessly overcautious here.

"under the influence of any substance" Coffee drinkers busted??

As per the Konami official tournament policy v 2.1, you CAN double sleeve your cards with some stipulations such as the 2nd sleeve being clear on both sides, being placed in the opposite direction than the 1st sleeve, and, of course, only 1 card can be in the 2 sleeves. This has been the case since November 2020.

“You can’t show up drunk”. Believe me, I don’t need to be drunk to play like I’m drunk. #MagicCylinderForLife

**5 Things You Can't Do at Yugioh Tournaments** 1) [unzips Impermanence] Play Yu-Gi-Oh.

It would be an honor to be disqualified for being too high at a YuGiOh event

About not being able to take back plays, in Konami's tournament policy it says that actions cannot be taken back once a player has committed to them, so the way interpret that isn't always if it's the last move, but generally if you do something and then haven't done much else but within a few seconds you realize another option, I let my opponent take it back. I'm extremely lenient on that kind of thing even when it's like, for example, my opponent forgets to search off of one of their gouki. Granted, that's locals. You're supposed to be getting better with your deck in order to be a better duelist. At a tournament if that happened I would probably let somebody take back a summon like if they normal Candina and then realize they had hornet drones in hand or something and want to take it back, I would let them redo that, if they summoned Unicorn but decided they shouldn't, I would let them redo that, but if they summoned timegazer off of chronograph and forgot to use Darkwurm, I wouldn't let that happen because that's a lot more of an obvious thing that they need to remember on their own to activate. Just my two cents. Also just as a question, in Battle Step all cards are activated both in response to the attack and in response to the previous effect, so if I attack with, say, DDD Cursed King Seigfried, and my opponent activates storming, I negate it, can they now activate another storming? It would be chain link 3 in response to the attack and Seigfried's effect, so I'm not sure. I would ask the more experienced judges at my locals but I don't go until this weekend.

So I went for - I’ma use- I begin flipping over a Trap -wait maybe not... and was called on by my friend (this was a casual match btw) for ‘take backs’. While I did declare an action, I never actually fulfilled it, listed card names etc. He didn’t respond either. I don’t really think that was a take-back, but I guess it was sort of one? Dunno man. The trap was Draw Discharge in response to some Cyber Dragon shenanigans. Don’t remember what card effect he used.

The double sleeving rule bugs me as cards are expensive and people double sleeve to protect them

So I can show up and use my BanG Dream! Weiss Schwarz cards as tokens? Welp time to start going to tournaments!!!

thank you for addressing double sleeve issue

Doug is challenging us to show up to tournaments drunk! The Dzeeff Challenge.

New craze next year. Drunken dueling style. Konami will have to get rid of that pesky rule then.

I want to set Charizard in attack mode and equip Whispersilk Cloak to it. Can I play Judge Man to make my own rulings on my opponent's plays?

Thing with taking plays back is it’s not always trying to shark your opponent. This isn’t normal summon a vanilla monster anymore. Now we have so many quick effects or on summon effects. Sometimes those on summon effects are not optional, so there might come a situation where your opponent knows too much and use that information to their advantage.

2:00 How about those cards that say 'cannot be used in a duel'? I think the egyptian god promo cards (at least the coloured backs of them) from the legendary collection 1 make for some really good tokens. Am i allowed to have them in my deck box dzeeff?

I think I'll just play legacy of the duelist on switch.

Can I have a card with "This card cannot be used in a duel" in my deck box ?

I anticipate Dzeef's "Commenters don't understand the Shadow Realm" video.

“You don’t have to let your opponent take back moves” ...no shit?

Do I really have to let my opponent shuffle my deck? I had a raigeki bent because of my opponents aggressive shuffling

Can you do a video about avoiding getting sharked?

I’ve always been hesitant to go to an event because I don’t know what to expect, but now... I just might :)

I have some more 5 things you can not do at YGO events. 1. Note Taking. Back under UDE you could take notes. But Konami limited the Note taking also you can not review those notes between rounds as well as you can not share notes or information about the person you just played. 2. Weapons. You can not bring weapons to Tournaemnts (EVEN IF YOU LEAVE THEM IN YOUR CARS) This did not happen at a YGO event but a Pokemon event many years ago were people showed up with Guns at the Pokemon World Championship and the Police were called and they were arrested. It turns out even Konami does not allow Weapons at Events. Even if you leave them in your car you can end up facing not just DQ but criminal charges. 3. If you are Banned you can not show up at the venue. Even for Non YGO Games. Even if you work for the Venue When Banned its like having a Restraining Order placed on you. But it only covers during the YGO Event once the event is over you are free to go to the venue and hang out. 4. Hobby League Cards. Yes they are Legal YGO Cards but if you can tell them from other cards in your deck face down then you can not use them early hobby league cards are more thick then later ones. These Cards are a grey area of if the card is legal and you should always get the approval of the Head Judge before using the thick cards. 5. Exodia. You can not just flash them you must show them to players. I have seen at many tournaments were players will flash and say I have Exodia No the official way is to show them Also you can not place them on the table either. I know players who do this they will lay them out one at a time from their hand to show they have them in their hand This is not the official way either. Most Judges will not say anything but I have had a few ask why all 5 Cards were summoned. A 6th one with that In a Duel were you won with exodia you CAN NOT shuffle the cards one at a time back into the deck you must place all 5 cards into the deck and suffle even if you are trying to make the duel more fair by spliting them up during suffling its not legal to do so this is class as stacking your deck. On 3 side note 1st note you should bring up there are 2 Tournaments you Can play OCG cards the first is World Championship and the other is the World Championship Celebration Tournaments. I get asked all the time about if OCG cards are not allowed normal why are they allowed during these events. I have to explain that during worlds players who are invited are not playing YGO TCG they are playing a Mixed of TCG and OCG Were the WCC tournaemnt we get to play under TCG Rulings but allowed to use OCG Cards as long as the card has a TCG Printing same for worlds they only get to use OCG cards that have a Mass TCG Release 2nd Note Also during your video were you brought up you can use non YGO as Tokens you said You can have bandai cards in there That not entirly true. There have been some cases were even the Orignal Bandai YGO cards were not allowed. (I know its dumb they do not even look like Konami Cards) but there have been some case people reported they were told by judges to remove the bandai cards. and 3rd Note You brought up Proxies not being allowed. This is 99% True the 1% goes to if a Card is damaged during a Tournament and a Replacment can not be done the Head Judge can allow a Proxie to be used for that card but the ruling is That you write the damaged cards name, stats, and Effect on a paper and put it in the sleeve with the damaged card. (I know this was done during a regionals I attended years ago) But again you must not be able to tell the card face down. If the deck is not sleeved then the Damaged card is removed from the deck No Proxy is issued and the players Deck List is changed to have that card removed from it.

"[...]under the influence of any substance" is some pretty shitty wording, considering caffeine and nicotine probably won't bother anyone. What about medication like adderall or anti-depressants? medical marihuana?

😆Are you allowed to challenge the Higher Ups to a card game for VIP rights?!

So glad there's no rules about spraying different perfumes on all my cards to know every card in my hand without looking

Part 3 is going to be crazy

What if I show up under the influence of hot sauce. Please get this joke.

So if the problem with OCG cards is that you can differenciate them from TCGs, then I guess there's no problem in playing a deck filled with OCG cards only ;)

Great videos, definitely never going to a tournament.

The public intoxication rule is pretty interesting to me. I’m not into competitive YGO (love these vids though), but am pretty involved in the smash bros melee scene. It’s not uncommon for people to bring in bottles of beers and liquor to tournaments. There have even been tournaments advertised as 420 friendly events. A huge part of it of course is that these most melee tourneys ARENT Nintendo sponsored events but the rec culture goes up all the way up to national tourneys where events are sponsored by Nintendo. I’ve never been to a yugioh tournament before, but a lot of card shops in my area have hosted tournaments for melee. For the most it seems like the ygo players are generally more calm than the smashers.