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A One Turn Kill is achieved when a player wins a Duel in the space of a single turn, as soon as said player has the appropriate cards in hand and has control over the duel. This is similar to a First Turn Kill, but the latter is pulled off during the player's first turn, while an OTK can be accomplished at any point of the duel (meaning that all FTKs are OTKs, but not all OTKs are FTKs).
In one turn, all of the opponent's Life Points, which is normally assumed to be no more than 8000, must be depleted or an alternate victory condition must be fulfilled.
Significant or reliable OTKs generally consist of 4 or fewer cards, do not require the opponent to have particular cards or rely on indefinite chance, such as the effect of "Snipe Hunter".
Traditional and Advanced Formats will have very different OTK styles, owing to the allowable Card Pools. The Advanced Format banlist is updated every six months to reduce the viability of OTKs.
List of One Turn Kills
Advanced Format OTKs
- Asura Priest OTK
- Bad Reaction to Simochi OTK
- Batteryman OTK
- Ben-Kei OTK
- Blaze Fenix OTK
- Chimeratech OTK
- Colossal Fighter OTK
- Cyber Dragon OTK
- Darklord OTK
- Demise OTK
- Evil HERO Dark Gaia OTK
- Elemental HERO Gustav Max OTK
- Empty Jar
- Exodia OTK
- Guardian Eatos OTK
- Gigaplant OTK
- Gear Golem OTK
- Karakuri OTK
- Magical Explosion FTK
- Quickdraw Synchron OTK
- Quillbolt Hedgehog OTK
- Reversal Quiz OTK
- Spell Counter OTK
- Voltic OTK
- Vylon OTK
- Witch Doctor of Sparta OTK
Traditional Format Only OTKs
- Athena OTK
- Butterfly Dagger - Elma OTK
- Chaos Emperor Dragon OTK
- Cyber End/Metamorphosis OTK
- Cyber-Stein OTK
- Dark Magician of Chaos OTK
- Dark Scorpion/Makyura OTK
- Frog Burn FTK
- Magical Scientist OTK