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When it comes to Yugioh!, luck is often said to play a big part of the game. However, these claims are often exaggerated. Sure, there is some luck involved, such as which cards are in your starting hand. But, skill, good deck building, and thoughtful decision-making are what separate good duelists from “lucky” duelists. But… if you’re willing to test your luck and gamble on potentially powerful effects, you can take a gamble on Yugioh dice effects! Kiss your lucky charm and roll the dice!
Gambling Effects
In Yugioh! there are some cards that are designed around pure luck. These cards, like coin tossing or dice rolling cards are often called “gambling” cards. For obvious reasons. These cards often have powerful effects, but they also come with negative or non-effects depending on the result of the gamble. One of the best examples of this is Number 67 Pair-a-Dice Smasher, a banned card, or Cup of Ace, a powerful (potentially) card that was once thought of as garbage. Not to mention the iconic Time Wizard!
Press your Luck!
Coin flip cards can be fun, but the variety of outcomes from dice roll effects can be even more exciting! Cards like Graceful Dice and Skull Dice are always “helpful” effects, but are unreliable. Then, you have cards like Dicephoon which have a good outcome, a great outcome, and a terrible outcome based on the die result. Of course, the key to gambling effects is setting up a situation where you benefit from all outcomes, or in the very least, you can control the outcome or effect. There are of course cards that have effects that allow you to manipulate your gamble outcome, like That Six or Second Coin Toss.
Gambling Archetypes
There are very few gambling-based archetypes in Yugioh! There are many one-off gambling cards, but only a few archetypes dedicated to gambling, including Arcana Force, “Chess” Archfiends, and Barrel Dragon and it’s other incarnations. In the anime and manga, there are some characters who use gambling cards, most notably Joey Wheeler, Bandit Keith, Sartorius Kumar, and Pierre “The Gambler.”
Below are some more common and popular Yugioh gambling effects. This is not an exhaustive list.
- Dice It
- Dice-nied
- Diced Dice
- Dice Dungeon
- Diceclops
- Snipe Hunter
- Blind Obliteration
- Blind Destruction
- Fire Darts
- Fiend Comedian
- Fairy Box
- Head Judging
- Ms. Judge
- Proton Blast
- Summon Dice
- Dangerous Machine Type-6
- Roulette Spider
- Orgoth the Relentless
- Maximum Six
- Number 85: Crazy Box
- Dark Master – Zorc
- Couple of Aces
- Dice Jar
- Sasuke Samurai #4
