(46..49) - Glossaire

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Attack Directly
Attacking directly means that a monster attacks a player instead of attacking a monster. In this case, the damage to the player will be equal to the monster’s ATK. Some monsters have an effect that allows them to attack directly even if the opponent controls a monster.

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Banished Cards (Previously Remove from Play)
Although a card that has been used is normally sent to the Graveyard, a card which is banished is separated from the field instead. After a Duel, you must return your banished cards so you can use them for the next Duel.

Battle Damage
Battle Damage is damage inflicted to a player by an attacking monster, or by a battle between two monsters. This is different from damage from the effect of an Effect Monster, Spell Card or Trap Card.

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Cards on the Field
When “cards on the field” is written in card text, it means all the
cards on the Game Mat other than the Graveyard, Deck, and Extra Deck.

Control
A card you control is a card on your side of the field. You are the player that gets to make decisions regarding that card. Your opponent can take control of a card away from you with a card effect. In that case the card is moved to your opponent’s side of the field. However, if your card that is controlled by your opponent is sent to the Graveyard, or returned to the hand or Deck, it is always returned to the hand or Deck of the card’s owner.

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Destroy
A card is destroyed when it is sent to the Graveyard due to battle between monsters or by an effect that destroys a card. A card that is returned from the field to the hand or Deck, or, that is sent to the Graveyard as a cost or Tribute, is NOT considered “destroyed.”

Discard
Discard means to send a card from your hand to the Graveyard.
This can happen because of a card effect or by adjusting the number of cards in your hand during the End Phase.

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Effect of Cards
The effect of a card is the special ability written on it, like the effect of a Spell, Trap, or Effect Monster. Costs that are needed to activate an ability are not part of the effect. The conditions that describe how to play a “Special Summon Monster” are also not an effect.

Equip Card
In addition to Equip Spell Cards, sometimes Trap Cards or Monster Cards are treated as an Equip Card; and the rules about Equip Spell Cards apply to them. The term “Equip Card” includes both those cards and Equip Spells.

Equipped Monster
A monster that is equipped with an Equip Card is an “equipped monster.”
When this monster is destroyed or flipped face-down, the equipped card loses its target, and is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.

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Original ATK (or DEF)
The Original ATK (or DEF) is the number of ATK (or DEF) points
printed on the Monster Card. This does not include an increase from an Equip Spell Card or other card effect.

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Pay a Cost
To pay a cost is an action required in order to activate a card, an effect, or to Summon a monster. Tributing to Tribute Summon a Level 5 monster is an example of a cost. Other common costs are discarding, paying Life Points, or banishing cards. You have to pay any costs before you declare the activation of the card. Even if the activation of the card is negated, you cannot get a refund of the cost that you have paid.

Piercing
Battle Damage Some monsters can inflict piercing Battle Damage when they attack a Defense Position monster. This means that you inflict damage to your opponent’s Life Points equal to the difference between the attacking monster’s ATK and the defending monster’s DEF.

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Random
When a card effect says to choose a card randomly, there is no
official way of doing so, but it is fine as long as neither player has a way of knowing which card is being chosen.

Reveal
When an effect says to reveal a card, you show it to both players. You may have to reveal a face-down card, a card from your hand, or from the top of your Deck. Revealing a card does not activate the card or its Flip Effect. Normally, revealed cards are returned to their original position after being looked at by both players.

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Search your Deck
Whenever an effect instructs you to add a card from your Deck to your hand, or to Special Summon a monster from your Deck, you can pick up your Deck and search through it for the appropriate card. You must shuffle your Deck after any time you search it and let your opponent shuffle or cut. You cannot activate an effect to search your Deck for a card if there are no cards that meet the requirements in your Deck.

Send to the Graveyard
A card can be sent to the Graveyard in various ways. Destroying a card, discarding, and Tributing a monster are all actions that send a card to the Graveyard, and will normally activate “When this card is sent to the Graveyard...” Trigger Effects.

Set
Playing a card face-down is called a Set. For Monster Cards, playing
it in face-down Defense Position is called a Set. Any card that is face-down on the field is a Set card.

Shuffle
There is no rule for how to shuffle, but while shuffling you cannot
look at the cards you are shuffling, or arrange the cards and then shuffle them.

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Tribute
Tributing is sending a monster you control to the Graveyard. You can Tribute a face-up or face-down monster, unless otherwise specified. Tributing a monster is one possible cost for Summoning a monster or activating an effect. A monster sent to the Graveyard by Tributing is not treated as “destroyed.”