Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Xyz Festival event – How it works, Medals, and more

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The first official Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel event officially went live on February 17, entitled the Xyz Festival Exhibition. This event is separate from Ranked Duels, but will still be important. Xyz Festival will be a celebration of Xyz Monsters, but it will be important to know how the event works. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Xyz Exhibition matches yield Medals. Players will earn Medals just for completing duels, Wins do award more Medals (100, in most cases) than Losses (50). Medals will important for the awards portion of this event.

The Xyz Exhibition event focuses on Xyz Monsters, which means that players will need to compromise their Extra Deck full of these cards, and only these cards. And, it’s also important to note that this event does come with a unique banlist. In addition to many cards that are on the Master Duel banlist, several meta decks have also been hit. Pot cards that use the Extra Deck, including Pot of Extravagance and Pot of Prosperity, have been banned, as have Exodia the Forbidden One, Eldlich the Golden Lord, and two key Ritual Monsters from Drytron builds: Herald of Ultimateness and Drytron Meteonis Draconids.

Duelists can obtain over 2,000 Gems, and over 30 Legacy Pack ticket for obtaining 20,000 Medals.

Here’s a look at the additional Gems that can be obtained from playing in this event:

Some decks will need some tweaks due to the Extra Deck requirements, but budget, non-meta decks like Yosenju builds could be useful and handy.