Rule 6.: you can't yell "say goodbye to your exodiiiiaaaaaaa!" and throw your opponents Exodia deck into the ocean.

You can't have a phone on the table face-up at a tournament. If you Set your phone in face-down Defense Position, however, this is perfectly legal

"JUUUUUUUUUDGE, HE LOOKED AT THE TOP CARD OF HIS DECK!!!" "...but it's my draw phase..."

things you cant do in YGO tournaments: 2020: *attend them*

Can i bring my abacus to keep track of my life points?

If only there was a rule to bathe and use deodorant...

“Just roll a dice, or two die”. I’m so freaking nettled right now

So you can send your opponent to the shadow realm? I’m not hearing a “No”.

>using a graphing calculator capable of advanced calculus to track lifepoints in yugioh my college professors would be proud.

"You can't show up intoxicated at a YuGiOh Tournament" You can if you're not a coward.

When you realize that Konami has a better chance to ban calculators than they do to ban Firewall Dragon

Ya know, TECHNICALLY Konami has never explicitly said that you cannot banish your opponent to the shadow realm after losing

Things you can’t do at tournaments: Win with your Egyptian God Card deck. Edit: This is a *joke*. I really do not understand how y'all don't understand that.

Back when I played MTG I remember hearing that you could play with proxy cards if you had the actual cards on your person to show that you did in fact own the cards. The reason was so you could play with super expensive cards but not have to risk damaging them. I thought that this made sense. If I have a $200 card, I don't wanna not use it in a tournament simply because I'm worried about it being damaged and losing value

I never understood the topdeck thing. Like say you look at the top card to see if you should scoop and see you ARE going to draw sphere mode. Now you DON’T scoop? Now I’m supposed to let you continue the duel with knowledge of your next draw? How can you even attempt to believe that isn’t bs?

If I cant have my phone face-up on the field can I set it?

*Sees thumbnail* can't play morphtronics at a tournament? I know they suck but you don't have to be that harsh

"Commentators don't understand how MST negates"

I rock paper scissors to see who rolls the dice first

You also cannot double sleeve cards. I believe you used to be able to, but people started putting pieces of paper in the sleeves to bulk up certain cards as a way of marking them so it was banned

5 things you can't do at yugioh tournaments: Number 1: Play Morphtronics

"You can't show up drunk to a event." Me: "Hold my beer."

Hey dzeeff, did you see the latest ban list? There's somebody in the forbidden section that I think you'll be happy to see there.

I remember this 1 particular friend who would proxy entire decks to learn the deck before dropping money on them. (I mean real nice color photo copies and everything everytime.) I was running a casual tournament at our library that he came to. He had lost the deck he was using and asked if he could use a fortune lady deck with some proxies. I reluctantly agreed and after the tournament wouldn't you know it right after the tournament his completed deck was found. I dismissed it until I found out some of his proxies were just cards he made up... tl;dr people cheat and the rules are there for a reason.

I'm pretty sure the official rule book says to use rock-paper-scissors

Write on a card with sharpie?!! The collector in me had a heart attack

Make sure to ask your locals if proxies are allowed or not. My locals allows 5 per player. People don't use proxies anyways, they aren't allowed at reigonals or YCS's, so everyone still has a reason to buy thier cards.

Why am I watching this I play magic the gathering

There should be signs at every locals which express the need for proper hygiene. It's a tournament people, not an apeman convention

As someone who has been to 0 events, I have the authority to say that this video is entirely wrong. Everything. All of it. Experience has taught me, at least at the last YCS that I didn’t attend, that Dzeeff is credibly a fraud.

1: have a shower

Yo I played like 10 years ago, whats a token card he mentioned people need write to on?

Many regionals let people use their phone apps for life points. However, the head judge always clarifies that if there were to be a lifepoint dispute, he’s gonna side with whoever has written proof (pen and paper). At least the regionals I’ve been too all do this, they don’t ‘ban’ phones.

Things you can’t do: Actually play the game because Firewall Dragon

Man, the rule about not having cards that aren't a part of your deck really gets me. I always carried around a Headless Knight card in my deckbox for good luck since I first started playing. Glad you told me about that rule before I got in trouble for it.

1. Play magic cylinder against dzeef 2. Play chaos max against dyeef 3. Say that dzeef isn't a pack opening channel

Dueling with someone for more than 5 turns, aparently

4:00 Rock, Paper, Scissors is lowkey my go to and I had no idea that was a thing

3:02 "you can't have a phone on the table face-up... you must set it face-down in defense position"

These are stupid to even think of doing in the first place. What's next yelling Restart and reshuffling your opening hand?

1: have fun 2: stick to your old cards 3: be creative 4: find respectful players that won't bend the rules as far as possible 5: win

But dzeef, i show up intoxicated all the time...

Make sure you link your heart to the cards at any competitive event

Wanted to thank you for making this. Personally found it very informational. I'm about to attend my first tournament November 7th and am nervous of looking like a noob or someone that has no business of being in a tournament to begin with. Thank you for this video! Liked and subscribed.

“Go to a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament” Great I love toxic environments

Only time i look at the top card of my deck is when i lose. Just to think “what could’ve been” lol

So glad your doing videos like these it helps a greater majority of players and appeals to a large audience. No matter what people say i support you and your channel and have for a very long time (since space mambo and before). Keep up the good work hope u hit 100k subscribers :D

Using proxies is like using rental Pokémon. Use what you have. Edit: I only look at my top deck during friendlies. And even then it’s only when we are testing decks. It’s a matter of not wanting to waste time. But no, I would not allow my opponent or myself to do it at an official tournament. It’s information that hurts both players.

🥴 Me using the McDonald's Yugioh cards from the Happy Meal.

Hey dzeeff, I returned to Yu-Gi-Oh! now after 6 years. It's so impressive how difficut the game is now, maaaan. You are making so good videos man keeep gooooiiin !

The only thing I can't do Is winning :(

I have a question DZeeff: can you use those officially licensed double deck boxes at official tournaments? Or just stick with a single deck box?

"Dont use proxies" *me who just bought proxies earlier this day

Gotta love those daily Dzeeff uploads 👌

I love how all the chapters are just all the card names in all caps *SOLEMN JUDGEMENT*

Nice one! Thanks for the informations. Watched it to prepare for my first regional. So thank you very much!

Number 1 you can't steal people's cards some people at ycs Pasadena forgot that

One I learned recently that I’m not sure I agree with is, you can’t write down information from your opponent’s hand or deck if you get to see them by a card effect of some kind. I don’t really play competitive YhGiOh but I do play MTG competitively where this is perfectly fine and common. Could someone explain why this is a big deal in YuGiOh?

Half of these things were really useful to know, thanks a lot. The other half sounded so obvious, it made me wonder how people can even argue against them.

Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments are some of the most fun I've had fr. That was back in 06-07 so IDK about recently, but every one I went to was a great time with an awesome energy and just genuinely good people that all really loved the game.

They should just ban anyone who uses a Firewall Dragon OTK.

So question about the deck box point, if a player has a duel deck box, one with 2 slots, is that also against the rules?

Regarding the proxy rule, my brother was playing ritual beast and asked the judge at our locals if he could use three proxies and the only reason the judge said he could was because the actual cards where in the mail

Haven't attended my first local or any other sort of tournament but still good to know rules

Nice to see the "commenters don't understand tournaments" video.

Things that are against the rules huh ? Sooo summoning a bunch of monster in one turn ?

Question, would you recomend Amazon for buying cards in order to build a deck? Reson for my question is becaus I live in Sweden and want to build a masked hero deck, but most cards I need cant be found here as unopend packs.

@dzeeff So I'm planning on trying to go to a local tournament soon, and want to make sure my deck is up to snuff for a local as it will be my first tournament ever, do you have any suggestions for certain decks I should watch out for or certain strategies that tend to win locals a lot? Or should I go over my deck again and make sure I'm not playing any questionable cards? My deck that's tournament ready is a weird hybrid of DM and BLS that uses a lot of the rank 4 toolbox outside of a couple cards that I don't have yet, and it balances out a lot of the light to dark ratio with the extra deck(only reason I'm not running rod for my build is because it's only level 3, and the only level 3 I run is Marshmallon to help stall(and the one I put in there is secret rare). It's a powerful deck once it gets running, and a lot of the consistency issues have been fixed with a lot of the new DM support(but I still side deck a time wizard and dark sage because worst case I set up my grave for BLS, and best case I get a Dark Sage and search any spell card from my deck and raigeki my opponent for free). It's actually satisfying to play and seems to work almost perfectly except for maybe 1-3 in ten games. The original version of that deck relied heavily on summoner monk(which it does rely on it to get the XYZs out, and even if they are stopped, graveyard setup, it's pretty great) also a card I hadn't heard of until I pulled it, Milla the Temporal Magician, which is a lv4 light spellcaster monster that allows you to look at a set card your opponent controls, and your opponent can't activate cards or effects in response. I'm surprised it hasn't been seen that much or even talked about that much competitively, because information is great. Also, what about official proxies, ie older versions of cards that got an errata that are official yugioh cards but you have had a hard time finding a play set with the new effects? Is that okay or is it against the rules? Like I have 2 Witch of the Black Forest with the errata'd effect, but I have 1 with the original effect, could I theoretically use the 1 with the original effect as a proxy for one with the errata'd effect?

I feel like that intro was unnecessarily long to get over 10 minutes😂

Work at a brewery and I showed up intoxicated once to a Yugioh tournament & got 2nd Place lmaooo😭🍺

quick question, are there any regulation about extra deck sleeves? me and a bunch of friends like to use a different sleeve for each extra deck card to make summoning and separating your extra deck from your GY faster and smoother

Question Can you use card shufflers at events? I have problems with my hands so shuffling cards is extremely painful

Lmao I thought not allowed to use proxies would be common knowledge. Theres always that one scrub who asks if he can proxy a playset of ash blossom, as well as raigeki and monster reborn though

Had someone try that look at the bottom card thing for the first time on me ever at the philly regional last week and i was baffled. Every place ive ever played just did dice rolls up until that.

Do you have to have the official token cards to use tokens at tournaments or can they be anything?

Can I use creased/worn cards as long as they're in sleeves that appear identical?

dzeeff you should do a video of the top 5 things that should be a rule for competitive yugioh players. Basic hygiene practices, bragging about their scores on yugioh pro, getting angry if you ask a question about a card you don’t fully understand because they now have to take time out of their day to “explain” something, finding newer players who don’t know much, find their best cards they have pulled from packs and trade them way under value knowing they can get away with it. Now mind you, these aren’t ALL competitive players, but a decent amount of the bunch. Would just be interesting

can i bring the skeleton of marcus aurelius to duel for me using my skull servant deck

I went to my first YCS in london last month, was great experience! Played thunder dragon dino, went 5-3, and met Sam and Farfa.

Just wondering, how do you prove to the judge that they looked at the top card of their deck? Would be nice to know if the issue is as common as you make it seem.

So what you’re saying is that I can’t rip my opponents cards to automatically win?! Wow Yu-Gi-Oh has gone down the drain

@DEZEEFF I’ve dueled against someone using proxy’s and even though I knew it’s not allowed I wasn’t sure if I should call them on it because I didn’t want people to think I’m just a shark and doing it cuz I was gonna lose. Locals are more just for fun for me as I play casually but i still feel like we should be playing under the same rules.

"You can't have a phone on the table face-up" That line was so funny for some reason 🤣🤣🤣

can i have other decks in my back pack at regional because when me and my friends go after matches we like to play older decks like goat format,dark armed return, or dragon rulers.

How does one find out about things like locals? I'm sure there are communities and such online, but any insight besides just "Google Yugioh tournaments near me"?

Good to know, just got yugi and kaiba starter decks and I'm going to use them to dominate at locals, I even got exodia in the yugi deck!

I have a question regarding proxy cards. There are alternatively designed proxys of real cards available online, for example on Etsy.com Is it possible to use these if you also have one original copy at hand for each proxy you're using? (for example if I have 3 Dark Magicians that are fanmade with custom desings and I show my opponent, that I also actually have 3 original Dark Magicians) I highly doubt it, but would like to hear, wether that might be some kind of loophole or so.

I went to a local card tourney once I was eliminated pretty quick, and started playing casual games with some of the other eliminated players, and I decided to (with permission of the other player) show them my blaze cannon reload deck concept which did use proxies, and some kid came up and tried to get me in trouble for using proxies. Once it was established that it was a) not a tournament duel and the deck I had used for the tournament was completely legal, and b) both players looked into the proxied cards to ensure accuracy and allowed the use of the cards in a casual duel, the whole thing was dropped. The player to whom I'd shown the deck to was actually super interested, as he hadn't heard of the that deck type yet, despite his having destroyed me in the tournament using a constellar knight deck, I think? Fun times.

Top 5 things you can't do at YU-GI-OH! Tournaments Number 1: Summon Firewall Dragon

Things you can't do at tournaments: Be a commenter and understand

Question: can you write "token" on a piece of tape and stick it on the card, or do you have to write "token" directly on the card?

Question: can you use proxy cards as tokens if they have token in the name?

"They just roll a dice or two die" 4:50 This is top tier troll

Playing mtg with my friend: Me: "Hey can I use proxies for this playset of cards? (Liliana, the Last Hope) Him: "No." *Spends 120 on singles* Motherfucker has his own Liliana Proxies

Never heard of the thing about looking at the bottom card for who goes first. My first tournament was the London YCS and my opponents were nice enough to correct me on the "not having other cards in your box" rule, as opposed to sharking me for a game loss.

Can you use a cut paper that says token? Or like a coin to represent the token

Something I think is important to include is take backs. Newer players are always the ones who try to take moves backs or change what they searched after theyve already done something after or if they get mirror forced stuff like that. That kind of thing is fine for testing when youre learning to play around certain cards sometimes but its considered cheating as obviously neither player has all the information at any one time and must read all the cards in play. Itd be completely insane for takebacks to be allowed at events.

0:40 I show up high all the time

You can't show up at a tournament intoxicated YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER

Leo- I summon morphtronic smartfon. Konami- wait, that’s illegal.