How do you become a better Yu-Gi-Oh duelist?

Answer 1

There is no sure fire way to become better, but here's some advice:

• Practice is the main way you can become better.
• Get to know your deck and what it can or cannot do in certain situations.
• I highly recommend playing the Yu-Gi-Oh Video Games (based on actual game play) to learn about as many different cards as possible and experiment different strategies. Since the games also go by the real rules, you can discover how cards and effects really work.
• Check out Metagame.com. Its Yu-Gi-Oh section contains expert decks and strategies mostly found in tournaments. (This site, however, was shut down. You can only access it through the Wayback Machine at www.archive.org/web/web.php.)

Answer 2

You win by either:

1. Depleting your opponent's Life Points to 0
2. If at any time the opponent must draw a card, but is unable to because they have none left in their deck
3. Using automatic win cards such as Exodia or "Destiny Board"