Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters – Saikyo Card Battle is a Card Game developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo 3DS. It was released exclusively in Japan on July 06, 2016, and was translated to English by DrgnMasterKota. The game serves as an introduction to dueling. It follows Speed Duel rules for all duels, further simplified by not using a Side Deck and not including Ritual Monster Cards, Ritual Spell Cards, Quick-Play Spell Cards, Field Spell Cards, Continuous Trap Cards and Counter Trap Cards. The player takes the role of a novice duelist who enters the Legend Challenge tournament, hosted by KaibaCorp, with the goal of challenging the Duel King.
Instead of building a Deck and editing it over the course of the game, the player is given a pre-built Deck that cannot be edited in any way. By obtaining specific cards from other characters, players can unlock other Decks to use and upgrade any Decks they have obtained. After defeating the game’s true final boss, players are given 3 Decks that can be edited freely using any cards in their possession, and they can enter new tournaments. The game includes characters from the anime as well as game’s original characters.
