Multi-Player Duels

A Multi-Player Duel is exactly like a normal Duel, but 3 or more players are playing at once. All Players begin with 8000 Life Points and all other rules apply. However, if one Player loses all of their Life Points, they lose the Duel. The last Player remaining is declared the winner.

Rules
There are no official set rules for Multi-Player Duels. Many Players tend to agree upon a set of rules they create. Others follow Tag-Duel Rules, using minor alterations to make the rules work.

Basic Rules
Each player has 5 Monster Card Zones.

Each player has 5 Spell & Trap Card Zones. The zones from all Players create the field. Each Player has their own seperate field.

Each player uses their own Deck.

Each player has their own Graveyard.

Each Player has a Life Point total of 8000 (if it reaches 0, the Player loses).

There can only be 1 Field Spell Card in play at a time, just like a 1-on-1 Duel.

Each player has their own Extra Deck.

Each player has their own Side Deck to use only with the their Deck.

Card Rulings

 * If any part of a card affects your opponent's hand, Deck, Extra Deck, Graveyard, or Removed from Play Zone, then the player activating the card effect must choose 1 of their opponents to apply the entire effect of the card to.

EXAMPLES: "Confiscation", "Memory Crusher", "Soul Release", "Secret Barrel", "Crush Card Virus".


 * If a card affects only your opponent's side of the field, it affects the entire side, or all your opponents.

EXAMPLE: A Player activates "Lightning Vortex". It destroys all other player's face-up monsters.

EXAMPLE: Beast King Barbaros is Tribute Summoned through his affect. It destroys all cards on each Opponent's side of the field, since each player is the Opponant.

EXAMPLE: Infernal Incinerator gains ATK equal to all monsters on each opponent's sid of the field.


 * If a card affects "both players", all 4 players are affected.

EXAMPLE: "Dark World Dealings" is activated. All 4 players will each draw a card, then each discard a card.


 * "Owner" and "controller" mean the same thing as a standard Duel. The "owner" is the player who's Deck the card started in. "Controller" is the player who currently has the card in one of their zones.

EXAMPLE: Player 1 Summons "Dark Magician". Player 2 activates "Brain Control" and selects the "Dark Magician". He/She moves it to one of his/her Monster Card Zones. Player 1 is the owner of "Dark Magician" and Player 2 is the controller of "Dark Magician".


 * Card effects that count turns count all appropriate turns.

EXAMPLE: "Swords of Revealing Light" is activated by Player 1. All other Players cannot attack on Player 2's next turn (1 turn), Player 3's next turn (2 turns), and Player 4's turn after that (3 turns) Player 1 can attack in his turn. "Swords of Revealing Light" will be destroyed at the end of that turn, because three opponents' turns have passed.