The Basics

The Basics

Life Points

Life Points belong to the player rather than the Monsters, but it is determined by the total Health of all the Monster cards in your Deck. If your Life Points reach zero, you lose, and the same goes for your opponent.

Effects

Once a Monster's Power reaches zero, it will be destroyed. However, Monsters have an Effect which activates at that point. You can see all of the game's Effects below:

Annihilate:
This will destroy your opponent's Monsters and Spells.

Backfire:
As the name suggests, this is harmful to yourself and results in losing your own Life Points.

Boost:
This increases your Monster's Power.

Courage:
If you are down to one Monster, this will boost its Power.

Cripple:
This reduces the Power of your opponent's Monster.

Destroy:
This totally destroys's your opponent's Monster or Spell.

Drain:
This adds Power whenever your Opponent loses Life Points.

Empathy:
This causes you ot Lose or Receive Power whenever you Lose or Receive Life Points.

Farewell:
You receive Life Points when the Monster is defeated.

Feeble:
This will cause a Power loss each round.

First Strike:
If you don't have anything in your Graveyard, this will cause your opponent to lose Life Points.

Fragile:
This is destroyed if it receives damage.

Heal:
This adds Life Points.

Heal Opponent:
This gives your opponent Life Points.

Hurt Opponent:
This takes Life Points away from your opponent.

Immune:
This protects your Monster from being destroyed or losing Power.

Last Stand:
This multiplies its Power by 2 if you have no cards in your deck when the round begins.

Mirror:
Whenever you lose Life Points for the first time in each round, your opponent will lose them too.

Osmosis:
This takes Power from your opponent's Monster and gives it to yours.

Parting Gift:
When your Monster is destroyed, your opponent loses Life Points.

Power Redistribution:
When your Monster is destroyed, all your Monsters currently in play will gain Power.

Rage:
This gives you Power whenever you lose Life Points.

Requiem:
This takes Power from your opponent's Monsters when your Monster is defeated.

Sacrifice:
This destroys your own Monster or Spell.

Self-Destruct:
This causes destruction at the end of the round.

Shared Fate:
This causes your opponent's Monster to be destroyed when yours is/

Shock:
Your opponent will lose Life Points when your Monster attacks.

Sneak:
This destroys your opponent's Monster before it can attack.

Soothe:
This will give you Life Points.

Sorrow:
This causes you to lose Life Points when your Monster is destroyed.

Special:
This effect varies.

Timidity:
This causes your Monster to lose Power if there are two or more Monsters in play by your opponent.

Energy

In Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM, like most Facebook games, what you can do is governed by the amount of Energy you have. You need Energy for a variety of actions, such as entering Nodes (to progress through the game's map), as well as shuffling your hand back into the Deck during a Duel.

Every Minute you earn 1 Energy, but it can also be gained via other means. For example, Friends are able to gift you Energy (and you can do the same to them). You can purchase Energy in the game's Store using your Duel Points, although this should only be an absolute last-resort. Finally, you will get a complete refill of Energy when you level up.

TIP: Try to use all of your Energy up just before you reach the next level. That way, the full refill that you get for leveling up will not go to waste!

Duel Points

Duel Points are reserved for the more exclusive and premium items. These can include Monsters and Spells, as well as Power-Ups. You get them by working your way through the game's quests and chapters.

You begin the game with 10 free Duel Points. By the end of the main quest line you should have 24 Duel Points, and over 20 from the Duel Stars Challenge.

TIP: Spend your Duel Points on Spells as these can be added to any Deck.

Card Pieces

Like Duel Points, certain items in the game can only be bought with Card Pieces. You get them by beating Friends in Duels, completing quests and as Gifts from friends.

Coins

Coins are the game's basic currency, used to purchase new Monster and Spell cards. They are essential to progress through the game.

You can get Coins by completing story and side story duels, beating quests and from investigating Treasure Nodes. You can also purchase them with real money. Undoubedly the best way to get Coins is to request them/Gift them with Friends.

TIP: A lot of great cards are only purchasable with Coins, so make sure you always have a good supply coming in.

TIP: Sometimes the value of the gift card available is higher when sold compared to the Coin gift on offer. Gift your Friends the card instead of the Coins if that is the case as they can sell it in the Shop for more coins.

TIP: It is possible to get Coins from entering ambushes. Repeat these to get heaps of Coins per battle. Some of these give out lots of Coins with very little risk - look out for these and keep playing them to keep your Coin stocks high!

Levelling Up

As you gain experience by completing objectives and fighting duels, you will rise through the levels and 'level up'. This will give you a free Energy refill, as well as unlocking more of the game for you to play.

Objectives

Objectives appear at the bottom of the screen. These start of easy, through a tutorial of sorts, to guide you around the game. They eventually get harder and more involved, and the rewards for completing them scale up as well.

Friends

Friends can provide you with gifts, like in most other Facebook games. You can also request their help during a Duel, and have a Duel against them to earn Card Pieces.

TIP: You will get rewards even if you lose against Friends, so there really is no excuse!