Dominus cards
The price of activating from the hand
A Dominus card activated from the hand shuts off the effects of several Attributes for the rest of the Duel. The tool shows which of your monsters can no longer activate.
Free tool
Deck Restrictions Analyzer
Which cards of your deck lock you out? Import the decklist: every restriction is listed, with the cards of the deck it makes unplayable.
Imported deck
Main Deck : 1 · Extra Deck : 0
Restrictions in this deck
1 card(s) of this deck restrict what you can do, 0 of them heavily. Click a type to show only its restrictions.
Quadogmatika Beast
Extra Deck lock
Until the next turn
Locked : Everything
« Until the end of your next turn after this card resolves, you cannot Special Summon from the Extra Deck. »
No card of the deck is hit
Main Deck 1
Cards that impose a restriction, and cards locked by one. Click a type above to highlight its cards.
Imposes · Extra Deck lock
Read from the English card text. Not covered: once-per-turn limits, locks on a single card name, and drawbacks placed on one monster only. A lock on searching lists the cards of the deck that add a card from the Deck to the hand.
Why analyze your deck's restrictions?
Summon locks
What your engine forbids you
"You cannot Special Summon, except Insect monsters": the list of cards in your Main and Extra Deck that stay locked that turn.
Before the tournament
Spot the conflicts between your cards
A tech card added at the last minute can be made useless by your own starter. Check it before locking the list.
How the tool reads restrictions
- What you can no longer do : The text of each card is read to find what it forbids you: Special Summon, Extra Deck, Normal Summon, effect activation, searching the Deck, Battle Phase.
- The scope : "Except WATER monsters", "only Fusion Monsters", "the effects of LIGHT, EARTH and WIND monsters": the scope is read by Attribute, Type, kind of monster, archetype, Level or Rank.
- The duration : Rest of the turn, whole turn (a "the turn you activate" restriction also applies before the activation), until the next turn, rest of the Duel, or while the card is in play.
- The cards it hits : For each restriction, the tool lists the cards of your Main and Extra Deck it locks, and the share of the deck concerned.
- The odds of a conflict : When the card is in the Main Deck, the tool computes the odds of holding, alongside it, at least one card it locks (hypergeometric distribution, going 1st and 2nd).
- What is not read : Once-per-turn limits, locks on a single card name and drawbacks placed on one specific monster. A scope that is too specific is flagged "to read on the card" rather than guessed.
How to use the tool
- 1. Import the decklist : Paste a YDKE code (Main and Extra Deck) or pick one of your saved decks.
- 2. Read the heavy restrictions : The restrictions that hit the most cards, or last the whole Duel, are shown first.
- 3. Adjust the list : Replace the cards made unplayable, or keep them knowingly: the order in which you play your cards changes everything.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about deck restrictions
A constraint one of your cards puts on you in exchange for its effect: only Special Summoning certain monsters, no longer activating certain effects, skipping your Battle Phase…
Activated from the hand, a Dominus card stops you from activating the effects of monsters of certain Attributes for the rest of the Duel: LIGHT, EARTH and WIND for Dominus Impulse, DARK, WATER and FIRE for Dominus Purge. Set and then activated normally, it locks nothing.
"The turn you activate this effect" covers the whole turn: if you already did the forbidden action, you can no longer activate the effect. "The rest of the turn" only applies after it resolves.
It reads Summon, activation, search and battle locks. When the scope of a restriction is too specific, it shows it without a card list rather than getting it wrong.
Yes: in the Deckbuilder, the "Deck restrictions" block of the Analysis tab updates with every card you add.
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