Complete Upgrade

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Complete Upgrade 完全上位互換 (Kanzen Jōi Gokan)

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Complete Upgrade refers to cards that are considered to be strictly better than other cards.

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This can be in terms of effect (Often same or stronger), cost (same or lower) and power (same or higher). They also always have the same race as their complete downgrade counterparts as races can often cause a creature to be undermined by effects such as VAN Beethoven, Zenith of "Shura".

As the game ages, Power Creep will begin and cards will start to outclass other cards in terms of usefulness. Complete downgrade cards are completely useless in competitive play, so some players often hate it when their favorite card was outclassed by a new one (Such as in Fighter Dual Fang's case as Fighter Dual Fang is a fan favorite).

Twinpact cards with a creature side strictly better than another non-twinpact creature are considered a complete upgrade. This is also true Twinpact cards with a spell side identical to another spell card are also considered a complete upgrade.

This can be seen on cards such as Kingdom Ohkabuto / Gouhaten Tsukumogatari > Kingdom Ohkabuto or Mad Demon Excellency / Demon Hand > Demon Hand.

Examples

Notes

One of the reason why Phoenix Saga is unpopular among players is because that it did not have much cards that are outclassing other cards. Due to this, God Apex Saga had lots of complete upgrades such as Bolshack Yamato Dragon and Diamond Sword.
Creatures that have better effects, and power, but are of different civilizations are not complete upgrades as civilizations have differences in their tactics. (Such as Vampire Silphy and Mega Magma Dragon.) The same goes for creatures with 1 civilization compared to creatures with multiple civilizations due to their different mana requirements. (Such as Perfect Earth, Planetary Dragon and Lionel, Zenith of "Ore".)
Vanilla creatures are not complete downgrades of creatures with effects as they get support from Matsurida Wasshoi, Aqua Teacher and among other cards that support them. However, creatures such as Poisonous Dahlia and Steel Smasher are downgrades of vanilla cards due to their attacking limits.
Holy Awe is now no longer a complete downgrade to other Spark spells since it can now be used by Alca Kid, Holy Elemental to send out Lord of Spirits evolution creatures.

Duel Masters Gameplay

Glossary

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How to Play	Basic ● Advanced

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Steps	Untap Step ● Draw Step ● Charge Step ● Main Step ● Attack Step ● End Step

Substeps	Attack Declaration Step ● Battle Step ● Block Declaration Step ● Direct Attack ● End of Attack Step ● Start of Turn Step ● Proceeding to the Next Turn

Other	Turn-Based Action

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Keyword Actions	Awaken ● Battle ● Block ● Break ● Cast ● Charge ● Combine ● Cross ● Destroy ● Discard ● Dragsolution ● Expand ● Forbidden Liberate ● Fortify Gachinko Judge ● Generate ● Gacharange Summon ● Link ● Reveal ● Seal ● Search ● Shieldify ● Shuffle ● Summon ● Switch ● Tap ● Trigger ● Upside Down ● Use

Other Terms	Attack ● Active Player ● Draw ● Defending Player ● Equip ● Flip ● Ignore ● Instead ● Leave ● Look ● Mana ● Number ● Object ● Opponent ● Owner ● Player ● Summoning Sickness

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Category	Name Category ● Race Category

Card Frame	Old Frame ● New Frame ● Silver Frame ● Metal Frame ● Full Frame ● Full Frame Foil

Block Icon	PS Icon ● E1 Icon ● E2 Icon ● E3 Icon ● DS Icon

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Elements	Artifact ● Aura ● Creature ● Cross Gear ● Field ● Fortress ● Impulse ● Tamaseed ● Weapon

Non-Elements	Castle ● Cell ● Ceremony ● Core ● Land ● Nebula ● Rule Plus ● Spell

Supertypes	D2 ● DG ● DM ● Dragheart ● Dragonic ● Evolution ● Exile ● Faerie ● Final ● Final Forbidden ● Forbidden ● Gacharange Giga ● Happiness ● King ● Mono ● Moonless Night ● Neo ● Orega ● Psychic ● Psychic Super ● Star Evolution ● Star Max Evolution ● T2 ● Zeron

Card Types with Supertypes	D2 Field ● DG Field ● DM Field ● Dragheart Creature ● Dragheart Fortress ● Dragheart Weapon ● Dragonic Field ● Evolution Creature ● Evolution Cross Gear ● Evolution Dragheart Creature ● Evolution Exile Creature ● Evolution Psychic Creature ● Exile Creature ● Faerie Field ● Final Forbidden Creature ● Final Forbidden Field ● Forbidden Core ● Forbidden Creature ● Forbidden Field ● Forbidden Impulse ● Gacharange Creature ● Giga Orega Aura ● Happiness Field ● King Cell ● Moonless Night Field ● Mono Artifact ● Neo Creature ● Neo Evolution Creature ● Neo Gacharange Creature ● Orega Aura ● Psychic Creature ● Psychic Field ● Psychic Cross Gear ● Psychic Super Creature ● Star Evolution Creature ● Star Max Evolution Creature ● T2 Field ● Ceremony of Zeron ● Zeron Creature ● Zeron Nebula

Other	Twinpact ● List of Dragheart ● List of Exile Creatures ● List of Psychic Creatures

W ● E Game Zones

Main Zones	Battle Zone ● Deck ● Graveyard ● Hand ● Mana Zone ● Shield Zone

Side Deck Zones	Hyperspatial Zone ● Super Gacharange Zone

Other Zones	Anywhere Zone ● Bottom of Deck ● Top of Deck ● Top of Evolution Creature ● Zone other than the battle zone ● Collection

Under	Under a Creature ● Under Evolution Creature ● Under this field ● Under a Deck ● Under a Shield

Zone Types	Public Zone ● Private Zone

Dueparty	Partner Zone

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Evergreen Rarities	Common ● Uncommon ● Rare ● Very Rare ● Super Rare

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Advanced Gameplay

Civilizations and Races

Has the same civilization ● Lose Civilization ● Monocolored ● Multicolored ● Multiple Races ● No Race ● Special Race ● Support Race

Category

Name Category ● Race Category

Effects / Abilities

Effects	Oneshot Effect ● Continuous Effect ● Replacement Effect ● Destruction Replacement effect ● Sprout

Abilities	Static Ability ● Trigger Ability ● Activated Ability ● Spell Ability ● List of Static Abilities

Triggers

When you put / Come Into Play ● Attack Trigger ● Put Into Graveyard ● Leave Trigger ● Titan Trigger ● List of Trigger Conditions

Foil

Custom Foil ● Foil Card ● Shiden Foil ● Saga Foil ● Romanov Foil ● NEX Foil ● God Foil ● Super Solid Foil ● Full Frame Foil ● God Card ● Catino God Card ● Heroes God Card ● Special Super Rare ● Laminate Card ● Visual Shock Secret Card

Tournament Regulation

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Tournament Formats	Advance ● Original ● Block Constructed ● 2 Block Constructed ● After Generate League


Special Restriction	Hall of Fame Zero Duel ● 10 Races Deck Battle ● Mega Deck Duel 7 ● Zero Civilization King Finals ● Monocolored Tournament


Sealed	Booster Draft ● Limit 10 ● Shield Battle ● Tokkyu 8


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Functional Reprint

Adjust Version ● Avoid Graveyard ● Super Card ● Upgrade ● Complete Upgrade ● Downgrade ● Complete Downgrade ● Isomorphic Resale

Non-Keyworded abilities

Adds Civilization ● Adds Race ● Alternate Win ● Alternative Battle ● Alternative Cost ● Attack Bend ● Cantrip ● Card Discard ● Chump Block ● Cost Increase ● Cost Reduction ● Deck Manipulation ● Degenerate ● Diamond State ● Draw Engine ● Draw Lock ● Draw Source ● Draw Spell ● Extra Turn ● Graveyard Fertilizer ● Graveyard Summon ● Hand Addition ● Hand Change ● Hyperspatial Summon ● Increase Power ● Infinite ● Infinite Attacker ● Infinite Blocker ● Mana Acceleration ● Mana Burn ● Mana Summon ● Opponent Reliance ● Peeping ● Prevents Attack ● Prevents Defeat ● Pseudo Speed Attacker ● Resistance ● Reverse Fury Charge ● Reverse Slayer ● Shield Addition ● Shield Burn ● Shield Change ● Shield Peek ● Shield Summon ● Suicide ● Skip the rest of the turn ● Trample ● Unattackable ● Unblockable ● Unchoosable ● Vigilance ● Win All Battles ● 3D Dragsolution ● Cards that can be put into the Battle Zone at the start of the game

Recovery (Salvage)

Graveyard Recovery ● Mana Recovery ● Shield Recovery

For No Cost

Madness ● Reanimate ● Recruit ● Shield Trigger creature

Removal

Blocker Based Removal ● Bounce ● Can Attack Untapped Creatures ● Card Based Removal ● Choice Removal ● Deck Feed ● Decrease Power ● Fixed Removal ● Force Battle ● Graveyard Feed ● Hyperspatial Feed ● Mass Removal ● Mana Feed ● Non-Creature Based Removal ● Power Based Removal ● Reset ● Sealing ● Self Removal ● Shield Feed ● Tap and Destroy ● Tap In

Advantage (Merit)

Disadvantage ● Board Advantage ● Field Advantage ● Hand Advantage ● Information Advantage ● Mana Advantage ● Tempo Advantage ● Time Advantage ● Suppression

Demerits

Can't Attack ● Can't Block ● Attack if Able ● Block if Able ● Alternate Loss Condition

Card Power

Weenie ● Midrange ● Fatty ● Lightweight ● Heavyweight

Reprint Policies

DASH Golden List ● Duema Golden List

Theme Decks

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Super Decks	Super Deck ● Super Deck Cross ● Super Deck Saga ● Super Deck Shock ● Super Deck Zero

Entry Deck	Entry Deck 2010 ● Entry Deck Zero ● Entry Pack Zero

Chronicle	20th Chronicle Deck ● Chronicle Dark Side Deck ● Chronicle Final Wars Deck ● Chronicle Legacy Deck ● Masters Chronicle Deck ● Ultimate Chronicle Deck

Other	Deck Builder ● Half Deck

Other Terms

2 Attacks ● Ability that starts with "When you put this creature into the battle zone" ● Activation Cost ● Additional Boost ● Additional Break ● Additional Cost ● Admiral ● Attacking Creature ● Attack Lock ● Basic Card ● Before the break ● Break Replacement Effect ● Can attack your opponent on the turn you put it into the battle zone ● Can't be destroyed ● Can evolve from this creature ● Can't be changed ● Can't be summoned ● Choose a race ● Characteristic Fixing Effect ● Chooses this creature if able ● Clutch ● Color Accident ● Concept ● Consists of ● Counter ● Crystal Mana ● Cycle ● Dangerous Card ● Dead Card ● Declaration of Usage ● Deck Building ● Deck Compression ● Designer's Combo ● Direct Attack ● Double Sided Card ● Duema Iyahoi Game ● Evolution Source ● Face Down ● Face Up ● Finisher ● Forced ● Gacha Figure ● Game ● Game Table ● Graveyard Use ● Graveyard Use Meta ● Hand Trigger ● Hyper Mode ● Hyperspatial Cost ● Inherit ● Innocent System ● Key Card ● Landing Replacement Effect ● Limited Card ● Mana Curve ● Mode ● More than 2 of this card in your Super Gacharange ● More than 4 of this card in your deck ● Name Rule ● Name Set ● No battle happens ● Optional ● Overkill ● Play ● Power Creep ● Quasi-Vanilla ● Real Cost ● Rock-Paper-Scissors ● Sabotage Ability ● Shiden Effect ● Spell Steal ● Standby ● State-Based Action ● Stop ● Summon Lock ● System Creature ● The Over Eggplant-cross ● Touch ● Trivia card ● Twinpactification ● Under a Deck ● Under a Shield ● Under this field ● Untap In ● Untap Killer ● Vanilla ● WIXOSS

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-'''Complete Upgrade''' refers to cards that are strictly better than other cards in terms of Effect (Often same or stronger), cost (same or lower) and power (same or higher). They also always have the same race as their complete downgrade counterparts as races can often cause a creature to be undermined by effects such as [[VAN Beethoven, Zenith of "Shura"]].
+'''Complete Upgrade''' refers to cards that are considered to be strictly better than other cards.
 ==Details==
+This can be in terms of [[effect]] (Often same or stronger), [[cost]] (same or lower) and [[power]] (same or higher). They also always have the same [[race]] as their complete downgrade counterparts as races can often cause a creature to be undermined by effects such as [[VAN Beethoven, Zenith of "Shura"]].
 As the game ages, [[Power Creep]] will begin and cards will start to outclass other cards in terms of usefulness. Complete downgrade cards are completely useless in competitive play, so some players often hate it when their favorite card was outclassed by a new one (Such as in [[Fighter Dual Fang]]'s case as Fighter Dual Fang is a fan favorite).
-==Examples===
+[[Twinpact]] cards with a creature side strictly better than another non-twinpact creature are considered a complete upgrade. This is also true Twinpact cards with a spell side identical to another spell card are also considered a complete upgrade.
+*This can be seen on cards such as [[Kingdom Ohkabuto / Gouhaten Tsukumogatari]] > [[Kingdom Ohkabuto]] or [[Mad Demon Excellency / Demon Hand]] > [[Terror Pit|Demon Hand]].
+==Examples==
+*[[Bolshack Yamato Dragon]] > [[Bolshack Dragon]]
+*[[Quattro Fang, Super Gang Leader]] > [[Fighter Dual Fang]]
+*[[Astral Super Reef]] > [[Astral Warper]]
+*[[Super Spell Great Blue, the Blue Tide]] > [[Spell Great Blue, Blue Divine Dragon]]
+*[[Scale of Bravery and Love]] > [[Explosive Swordplay, Sweltering Heat Tricks]] > [[Crimson Hammer]]
+*[[Codename Orewaleo]] > [[Hanusa, Radiance Elemental]]
+*[[Dueangel, Nine Extremes]] > [[Syrius, Firmament Elemental]]
+==Notes==
+*One of the reason why [[Phoenix Saga]] is unpopular among players is because that it did not have much cards that are outclassing other cards. Due to this, [[God Apex Saga]] had lots of complete upgrades such as [[Bolshack Yamato Dragon]] and [[Diamond Sword]].
+*Creatures that have better effects, and power, but are of different civilizations are not complete upgrades as civilizations have differences in their tactics. (Such as [[Vampire Silphy]] and [[Mega Magma Dragon]].) The same goes for creatures with 1 civilization compared to creatures with multiple civilizations due to their different mana requirements. (Such as [[Perfect Earth, Planetary Dragon]] and [[Lionel, Zenith of "Ore"]].)
+*[[Vanilla]] creatures are not complete downgrades of creatures with effects as they get support from [[Matsurida Wasshoi]], [[Aqua Teacher]] and among other cards that support them. However, creatures such as [[Poisonous Dahlia]] and [[Steel Smasher]] are downgrades of vanilla cards due to their attacking limits.
+*[[Holy Awe]] is now no longer a complete downgrade to other [[Spark]] spells since it can now be used by [[Alca Kid, Holy Elemental]] to send out [[Lord of Spirits]] evolution creatures.
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