Forum:Does Anybody Play In Triangle Duels?

I've had a couple friends come over almost every other day to duel, and since there's three of us we just place our mats in a triangle and duel each other in a three-way free-for-all. Has anyone else ever done this? It's really fun, sometimes card rulings get a bit confusing but we work it out in agreement. Alliances are guaranteed to form, usually whoever's doing the best early gets ganged up on.

Have you ever played in a triangle duel? What kind of rulings get agreed on in your triangle duels? The anime doesn't have too many of these but there have been a few free-for-all duels like the Battle City qualifying four-way between Kaiba, Yugi, Marik, and Joey.

As far as rulings are concerned, it's not terribly difficult to figure out of a card will effect one opponent or both, and we agree that nobody attacks in their first turn.

For me the most chaotic triangle duels are when we all have our machine decks and each of us side in Chimeratech Fortress.

Zane3177 (talk • contribs) 20:54, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

I have before, as I have two brothers, though it can be a bit stressful, but ultimately enjoyable, as you have two players to take into account, though the same is true for everyone. We used relatively the same rules as you mentioned above. Sanokal K-T (talk • contribs) 21:01, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

As I wrote in one of my fics (which contains a Yuma/Kotori/OC Duel), my opinion is that effect damage should be inflicted to all other players, like "Photon World" does. --XBrain130™「Ｘ (エックス) ブレーン１３０」 21:13, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

On normal circuntances, a duel involving three or more players follows a Battle Royal format and the three sides are treated as a whole field. If players wants to change any rules, thats up to them. --Juan Ma (talk • contribs) 21:18, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

One story from two nights ago was when my friend, friend A got defeated by my other friend, friend B, and right before his lifepoints were to hit 0 and he lost, he activated his face-down MST to destroy my Mirror Force, and I lost the next turn because I didn't have that. I was like "Seriously dude? I would've wiped him out if you didn't do that! WTF!" Triangle duels always produce fun stories for me.

Zane3177 (talk • contribs) 02:06, March 24, 2014 (UTC)

It's a pity that Yugioh's general design is almost exclusively 2-player, so when cards that affect "your opponent" are played, it's a toss-up (or an application of house rules) over whether it affects a player of your choice or all opponents. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 02:16, March 24, 2014 (UTC)

Which left me to do hilarious shenanagins with Patrician of Darkness; I had my friends attack each other xD. Aeron Solo wuz here (If you wanna talk) 02:28, March 24, 2014 (UTC)

I play like this all the time and I'd like to say the only thing I can add is that some burn cards strike at both opponents at once, while others only hurt one player, depending on how its effect is worded

I wish Yugioh adopted MtG's design regarding wording cards for multiplayer compatibility. MtG has things like "target player/opponent" for cards designed to hurt only one person, and "each player/opponent" for cards that expressively hurt everyone. --Gadjiltron (talk • contribs) 01:41, April 18, 2014 (UTC)