Tag-Team Duel

A Tag-Team Duel (or a 2v2 Duel) is exactly like a normal Duel, but four players are playing at once. Two players team up to form a "Tag Team"-style group. All players begin with 8000 Life Points and all other rules apply. However, if one link in your team loses all of their Life Points, that team loses the Duel.

For in-depth rules, see Team Dueling Rules.

World Championship 2008 video game
Alternatively, players can play in a style similar to Tag dueling in World Championship 2008, where both players share 5 Monster Zones, 5 Spell/Trap Zones, Graveyard, Remove from Play pile and Field Zone. The duel proceeds like a normal duel, with the Main Deck, Extra Deck, and hand changing as each teammate becomes the new turn player of the team at the start of every other turn. Any player-specific cards will only affect the turn players of each team at the moment.

Tag-Team in the anime
The first Tag Team Duel in the anime was Joey Wheeler and Yugi Mutou vs. The Paradox Brothers. There have also been occurrences of 2 vs. 1 Duels (e.g Yugi and Kaiba vs. Dartz), 1 vs. 3 Duels (Tristan, Serenity and Duke vs. Nesbitt in the Virtual World Arc), and even 1 vs. 5 Duels duels (Chazz vs. 5 North Academy pupils in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX). The tag-team rules also change between instances: some duels give each team a shared Life Points count like in the real world (in Yu-Gi-Oh GX there was such a duel, but with an 8000 Life Points pool per team, instead of the standard 4000 in the series), while others give each player a his own Life Points and if one players loses all Life Points, the team loses. There are also some duels that worked similarly but allowed one player to keep going even if their partner is defeated. In Yu-Gi-Oh GX Season 4, the tag duels were played similar to how it was done in World Championship 2008 (see above), and in Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, there are special D-wheels for tag team duels.

Tag-Team Specific Cards
Some anime-only cards in the anime can only be used in a Tag Team Duel:


 * Reflector Bit
 * Side Attack
 * Lightning Talisman
 * Revolving Stage
 * Masquerade
 * Bit Shoot
 * Partner Change
 * Card Exchange
 * Wish of Final Effort (Does not have to be activated in a Tag-Team duel, just has different effects when played in a Tag-Team duel).