General Abbreviations:

• BBS: [Big Bang Shot]: a Spell Card obtainable in the BOX set [Wonders of the Sky].

• BEUD: [Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon]: a "Fusion Monster Card" that was obtainable in the currently unavailable BOX set [Ultimate Rising].

• BEWD: [Blue Eyes White Dragon]: the strongest Normal Monster Card in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links obtained as a "unlock reward" from the legendary duelist Seto Kaiba and also as a reward for the level 30 and 40 duel gate variant.

• BSG [Big Shield Gardna]: a Monster Effect Card that was avaliable for puchase in the Card Trader shop. [Currently Unavailable].

• C.C Deck: [Clown Control Deck]: the Clown Control Deck gets its name from the main monsters of the Deck, "Dream Clown" and "Crass Clown". It focuses on the effects of those two monsters and "Blade Rabbit", "Guardian Statue", in conjunction with cards that switch Battle positions, such as "Desert Sunlight", "Labyrinth of Nightmare", "Curse of Anubis". These cards allow immediate and recurring activation of the monster effects, which grants field advantage.

• Cerb Deck: [Cerberus Deck]: a deck that focus on summoning the Effect Moster Card "Mythical Beast Cerberus" and building up his attack points by the continous usage of "Spell Cards", in order to deal a devastating final attack. (Oftenly used as a Farming Deck).

• DA: [Duel Assessment]: the amount of points obtained after a duel based on certain criteria.

• DM Deck. [[Dark Magician Deck]]: a deck revolving around the use of Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, while using other spellcaster support cards such as "Legion the Fiend Jester", "Blue Dragon Summoner" , "Magic Formula", "Sage's Stone" among others.

• Econ [Enemy Controller]: a Spell Card obtainable only by defeating Seto Kaiba at the duel gate in the levels 30 and 40, however the chances are pretty slim and there's no guarantee to obtain it within a certain amount of duels.

• FTK: First Turn Kill: a dueling feat that consist in killing your opponent in your very first turn.

• GK: [Gravekeeper]: an archetype of Spellcaster-Type monsters based on ancient Egyptian tomb-keepers. All monsters of this archetype are DARK.

• Git Gud: an intentional misspelling of the phrase “get good,” is an expression used to heckle inexperienced players or newbies in online video games.

• HHG: [Harpies' Hunting Ground]: a legendary duelist skill only available for Mai Valentine - (This skill allows you to begin the duel with the field spell card Harpies' Hunting Ground on your side of the field).

• HotU: [Heart of the Underdog]: a unique Spell Card obtained "only once" as reward from leveling up Joey Wheeler up to level 25.

• IMT: [Interdimensional Matter Transporter]: a unique Trap Card obtained "twice" as a reward from leveling up Seto Kaiba up to level 18 and 25 respectively.

• KCC: [Kaiba Corporation Cup]: a player versus player special event that was held for the first time from [Feb 27~Mar 6, 2017] (sometimes called CCC for "reasons").

• KoG: [King of Games]: the highest rank available in the Player versus Player arena.

• Laydybug: [4-Starred Ladybug of Doom]: a Effect Monster Card that was obtainable in the currently unavailable BOX set [Ultimate Rising].

• LD: [Legendary Duelist]: duelist that you can only duel at the "Duel Gate" and ocassionaly in Duel World, these legendary duelist consist of all the main characters in the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, with future characters to be added in the future.

• LP: [Life Points]: a numeric value in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duels used to represent the health of a player; If a player loses all their LP, they lose the Duel.

• OCG: [Oficial Card Game]: is the version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game manufactured by Konami. It is played mainly in Japan, South Korea, and other parts of Asia including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

• OtC: [Order to Charge]: a Spell Card that was obtainable in the currently unavailable BOX set [Ultimate Rising].

• OTK: [One Turn Kill]: a dueling feat that consist in killing your opponent with one devastating attack guaranteed to reduce your opponent life points to zero.

• PDS:[Possessed Dark Soul]: a Effect Moster Card that can be obtained from the BOX Set [Flame of the Tyrant].

• PvP: [Player versus Player]: a game mode unlocked at Stage 10, players all around the world gather in this facility to duel against each other in real time duels, the objective of this mode is to reach the King of Games rank during each season.

• PvE: [Player versus Environment]: a term used to describe any other duelist controlled by the game Artificial Inteligence.

• RNG: [Random Number Generator]: imagine this as a multiple faceted dice with just a couple of faces leading to a favourable result (Your desired card/skill/etc) everytime you land on the wrong face you don't get your desired card, only when you land on the favourable face you get your desired card. Synonim: (Luck).

• SD: [Standard Duelist]: duelists that appear on the Duel World.

• SK: [Sphere Kuriboh]: a Effect Monster Card that was obtainable in the currently unavailable BOX set [Ultimate Rising].

• TCG: [Trading Card Game]: is the part of the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game manufactured by Konami, played worldwide, but mostly in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australia.

• WoE: [Windstorm of Etaqua]: a unique Trap Card obtained "only once" as reward from leveling up Mai Valetine up to level 25.

• YD's: [Yugidecks]: a web app page that lets you build, share, customize and review decks posted by various users.

• ZTK: [Zero Turn Kill]: one of the rarest possible outcomes of a Duel. To achieve a Zero Turn Kill, per its name, a player must win the Duel without ever having a turn; this generally requires that the opponent go first and the player win during the opponent's first turn. All ZTKs require a great deal of luck, and almost always rely heavily on the opponent's actions such as drawing all five pieces of "Exodia" in the starting hand or during the opponent's first turn.

Game Terms:

• Backrow: cards placed face-down in the Spell/Trap Card zones, so named because they are positioned behind the monsters on the Game Mat and serve as a line of defense against damage to them and your Life Points.

• Brick(ing): an opening hand with poor synergy, such as a hand with a lot of high Level monsters, a hand with no monsters, or a hand with mismatched draw cards.

• Burn Deck: Burn Decks are designed to "burn" the opponent's Life Points down to 0 with waves of cards that inflict Effect Damage. These Decks are usually slow as Burn Decks do not usually run many powerful monsters to defend directly.

• Core: all the cards that are "required" for the deck. This always includes the "useful" archetype monsters, spells, and traps, but also can include cards from outside the archetype.

• Dead Draw: a card that is unusable or not helpful at the time that it is drawn from the Deck or otherwise added to a player's hand.

• Draw Engine: is a term referring to the way that a Duelist may draw cards from his/her Deck, to maintain hand advantage.

• Engine: an engine is a combination of cards that work well together, but contains too few cards to make a full Deck. If an engine focuses on raising consistency, it is called a Draw Engine.

• Farm: to duel a specific duelist multiple times using a specific deck guaranteed to obtain the best results).

• Grind: to repeat the same action over and over again expecting specific results, i.e: obtaining more keys, rare cards, gems, gold, etc.

• Hand Advantage: is the comparison of the number of cards in each player's hand, a player with more cards in their hand should have a greater chance of countering what their opponent plays, due to the larger pool of cards at their disposal. (Of course, a player actually has to use the cards for them to be effective, and that's usually going to reduce his or her hand size).

• Lockdown: is where one player has either partial or complete control of the playing field, leaving the opponent with few options to come back, and win, if they even exist at all. This can be done by either preventing certain cards from being played, certain areas of the field from being accessed, or even trapping the opponent in a non-progressive loop, forcing them to go through the same set of predetermined motions without any way of breaking and/or countering the loop.

• Meta [Metagame]: refers to the Deck(s) in current competitive use that are having the greatest success. Specifically, when players talk about the metagame (or 'meta', for short), they talk about which Deck styles and strategies are the most dominant in their area of play. Typically, as metagame Decks become more common, Anti-Meta Decks appear in order to counter them.

• Mill(ing): sending cards from the top of a Deck to the Graveyard; "milling" the opponent's Deck can be done to thin out their resources or force them into losing via Deck out, however "milling" the player's own Deck is often done to use the effects of cards in the Graveyard.

• Missing the Timing: Sometimes an optional effect can only be activated "when" a condition happens. In this case, you are only allowed to activate the effect when the activation condition being met was the last thing to happen in the game. If something else happened after the activation condition was met, then you have missed the timing.

• Piercing Damage: Piercing battle damage is a card effect that allows battle damage to be dealt by a monster attacking a Defense Position monster. If the defending monster's DEF is lower than the attacking monster's ATK, the difference is inflicted as battle damage.

• Stall(ing): to slow your opponent down and make it difficult to inflict damage or even to attack. Stalling is not a way to win by itself; it is usually used as a means to an end. Although it is most commonly used in the "special Exodia Event" Decks, it is also considered the only way to successfully play a Burn Deck.

• Tech: often refers to a card whose purpose is supporting a deck with cards that help it run smoother, deal with cards that would counter the deck, or to combat specific deck builds often run in the current Metagame.

• Top-Deck(ing): drawing a card when a player is at a large disadvantage and draws a card that ends up turning the tables in their favor.

• Vanilla monster: a "Normal Monster Card".

General Knowledge Abbreviations:

• /s : Having a "/s" after a sentence means the poster was being sarcastic. (example: I love naruto abridged series, they are better than YGOTAS /s).
• AFAIK: means “As far as I know”.
• AFK: means "Away From Keyboard" usually consist in dueling whitout any user input, an example of this is the (Auto duel) feature, allowing you to duel automatically.
• AMA: means “Ask me anything”, a Q&A style discussion with the author of a post.
• CCW: means “Comments and criticism welcome”.
• ELI5: means "Explain like I'm 5 (years old)".
• FIFY and FTFY: mean “Fixed It For You” and "Fixed that for you", respectively.
• IMO and IMHO: mean "In My Opinion" and "In My Honest/Humble Opinion" respectively.
• Kappa: It represents sarcasm, irony, puns, jokes, and trolls alike. Usually used at the end of an ironic or sarcastic sentence. Sentences that contain a Kappa should not be taken seriously.
• KEK: literally translates to "Laughing Out Loud" on World of Warcraft. When someone from the Horde side types lol in (/say), members of the alliance side see kek.
• MFW: means "My feelings when".
• OP: means "Original poster", the author of the post / it also means Over Powered.
• PSA: means "Public service announcement".
• TBH: means "To Be Honest".
• TFW: means "The/That/Those Feeling(s) When".
• TIL: means "Today I learned".
• YSK: means "You should know".
• YGOTAS: [Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series]: an abridged series created by a british guy known as "LittleKuriboh" on 2009.