SHONEN JUMP SPECIAL EDITION!! - Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Official Guide Starter Book! (Part 1)

    The Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Duel Monsters Official Guide Starter Book (「遊戯王 オフィシャルカードゲーム デュエルモンスターズ 公式ガイドスターターブック」Yugiō Ofisharu Kādo Gēmu Dyuerumonsutāzu Kōshiki Gaido Sutātā Bukku), or just the Official Guide Starter Book (「公式ガイドスターターブック」Kōshiki Gaido Sutātā Bukku) is a 130 page Guide Book published by Yu-Gi-Oh! copyright owner Shueisha on May 5, 1999.  It was released as a special edit in conjunction with the newest version of the Yu-Gi-Oh CCG from KONAMI. 

    The promotional card given with one's purchase is the 2nd ever Ultra Secret Rare. This time it's the Fusion Monster Card "Flame Swordsman." While this is the 1st Fusion Ultra Secret Rare, this card is further historic by being the first card with alternative art. Games use alternative art to make new copies more distinctive from their original counterparts while also potentially adding nuggets of lore for their worlds. However, the alt-art of "Flame Swordsman" is also from the manga. 

    This book was written for others to understand how the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" Official Card Game was played at the time as well as to learn the tips and tricks of how cards could work with each other. For example, there was a blurb on combining "Two-Pronged Attack" with "Monster Reborn." 

 

This card was actually not terrible!

    After using the two monsters you control to destroy your opponent's, you can then revive one of those monsters with "Monster Reborn" and then place another monster from your hand to get a direct attack with 2 monsters on board. 

"How sneaky to attack with two monsters by raising the dead!"

There was also a Q&A section where, for some reason, the Japanese wiki felt it prudent to note that people sent love inquiries about "Enchanting Mermaid" because they fell in love at first sight. 

I wonder why...

    As Shonen Jump was and remains a manga magazine, readers were also shown a Duel between a boy named Taro and a girl named Hanako. During the Duel, Hanako would show the effect of "Remove Trap" by using a hammer to smash Taro's "Dragon Capture Jar." The rest of this Duel, however, remains lost to time. Hopefully for not much longer though...

    Things like that are within the confines of the book's pages. However, that isn't what the Official Guide Starter Book is known for. For historical record, this is the first rulebook to state the Expert Rules for the first time. What are those rules? That will come with the next post. Hopefully, it won't take me most of a year again to get to this.

Until next time!





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