HOW IT WORKS
What this is
An original-series duel game, with real on-chain ownership of every card.
The rulings and banlist you remember. The first 10,000 sealed packs sold out — and were never reprinted. Every card you pull is truly yours: trade it, sell it, ante it, or burn it. This is not a roadmap or a promise of things to come — the duels are live and the cards are real now.
Ways to play
Duel the AI, duel the world — or never duel at all, and trade.
New to the game? Read the full rules — turns, summoning, battle, spells & traps, chains, and the banlist.
vs AI — face 14 boss duelists (Kaiba, Yugi, Pegasus, Yami Bakura, Weevil, Rex, Mako, Marik & more), each with their own themed deck, across three difficulties. Win a best-of-three for daily credits — and harder bots pay more (Easy 20 · Normal 30 · Hard 40). Start free with the Starter Deck (AI practice), or try a demo duel with no wallet at all.
Casual PvP — quick matchmaking, or a private friend link. Purely for the duel.
Ranked PvP — best-of-three, ranks from Rookie to King of Games. Two ways in: Open (no cards at risk — climb with any deck) or Stakes (the ante — the victor takes a card from the loser's deck). Your first ranked win each day pays 30 credits (AI & casual don't move rating). Matchmaking only; you never hand-pick your opponent.
Rent one of ten hand-built Goat-format decks for the week — burn $YUGIOH or spend credits. The rented cards are soulbound: climb the ladder and fight for cards, but you can never lose the rental. Add your own cards to personalize it — only those are ever at stake.
Free nightly Blitz tournaments — open brackets every night, with prizes for the top finishers. A new points era is coming — every duel will count. And the circuit is set: four Majors a season — Obelisk (Sept 2026), Slifer (Dec), Ra (March) — each building to the World Championship every June, where the year's World Champion is crowned. Qualify through open Gauntlets — anyone can enter.
Open sealed packs, work the card market, post a Wanted bid for a card you covet, swap card-for-card, resell sealed packs, or burn a card for keeps.
Burn $YUGIOH (or pay SOL) to press a random card straight into your collection — a separate Unlimited edition, so the finite Series 1 (10,000 packs) is never reprinted. Reach Level 10 and you can also print with credits you win dueling (300 credits a print): those prints are soulbound — yours to duel with in casual & against the AI so free players can build a real deck by playing, but never sold and never ranked. The three Egyptian Gods are never printed.
Open a wager lobby and stake your credits; anyone can match the exact amount, then it's a best-of-three — the winner takes 95% of the pot, the other 5% is burned. Your own deck or a Shadow rental. (A real-money version, staked in SOL/$YUGIOH, is coming once its on-chain escrow is audited.)
Credits are free — you earn them by dueling. You can't buy them and can't cash them out. Win a best-of-three vs an AI boss with your own deck for a daily bonus that scales with difficulty (Easy 20 · Normal 30 · Hard 40, once per boss per day), and your first ranked win each day pays 30 (per opponent). Spend them on packs (~100 each), on Burn to Print from Level 10 (300 credits press a card straight into your deck — soulbound, yours to duel with, not for sale), or to rent a Shadow Realm deck (750 credits). It's the free-to-play path to a real collection.
Duel TV streams live duels; the Replay Theater keeps every finished one; the Book of Cards holds the entire set.
The economy
Packs are bought with SOL, or by burning $YUGIOH — burning is cheaper, and the tokens are gone forever. Every pack opened shrinks the supply; it only ever shrinks.
Cards trade card-for-card, or sell on the market. Listings are priced in dollars — a stable price that doesn't drift with the token — and buyers pay in $YUGIOH (or SOL). Every sale settles 95% to the seller, 5% to the Treasury. It is keyless from end to end: your funds never leave your wallet until the moment you pay, and the cards swap the instant the chain confirms. No one holds your coins. No one holds your cards.
On the wallets — for those who ask
Two, both open on-chain. The Treasury holds what packs and trades bring in — and it pays you: tournament prizes flow from it. The Dev wallet funds the build, and only the build.
Over a quarter of the supply sits sealed in the championship vault — and as the cards burn, that share only grows. It opens once a year, at the World Championship: a part is given to the champions, the rest sealed again for the next crown.
I keep to the shadows. The wallets do not. Read the chain — it does not lie. 👁
— Maximillion Pegasus
The Dev wallet also buys $YUGIOH back from the open market — and half of every buyback flows to the Treasury, back to the duelists.
Who belongs here
Three ways to stand in the arena — and you can be all three: