Does anyone know the rule for Tokens?

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FiendMaster

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I heard that you cannot use DICE, MARBLE, ROCK, PIECE OF PAPER, MAKE SOME MARK ON THE TABLE, OR ANYTHING ELSE EXCEPT COINS AND SCAPEGOAT CARD (printed off the internet). Because Dice, marble, etc.. they cannot tell if its in atk mode or def.
 
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You could probably use dice, and let EVEN be ATK and ODD be DEF. Pennies i don't like becuase they can be unnoticable at times, and under certain lightings its hard to see which side is heads or tails. Also, if you use pennies, how would you know the difference between a Scapegoat token and a Wicked token, or a Lamb Token.

I would recommend going to the dollar store and buying the cheapest pack of ordinary Playing Cards you can find: they can clearly fit into attack and defence position, and you can easily use the different number/suits to separate different kinds of tokens.


icecold said:
use anything thats handy dice, rock, counters, etc... or even spells and traps from your grave???
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You may NOT use cards form your graveyard, nor fusion deck, nor any other yu-gi-oh card (except for maybe the God Cards)
 
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The word 'token" by definition means 'representation' or 'proxy.' So what ever you have that can represent a monster on the field is perfectly leagal to use as a token provided you can tell the difference between Attack Postition and Defence Position. The stats of the monster can be determined by writting thej down. (This is not note taking)

They were giving away free Batman Heroclix figues at my shop two weeks ago and ever since I've been using them for Sheep and Ojama Tokens.
 
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So long as they are individual markers and attack / def. position can be determined (say, heads for attack position / tails for def. position)

Don't use a single dice for all four sheep tokens, their battle positions cannot be individually determined.
 
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John Danker said:
Don't use a single dice for all four sheep tokens, their battle positions cannot be individually determined.
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This is an interesting observation that I hadn't thought about before. In fact, I hadn't even realized this issue until you mentioned it even if it is basically a no-brainer. LOL! I'll have to modify my "Tokens announcement" before tournaments in the future to take this into consideration.

Great call on this one, John!
 
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At our regionals, our TO had brought several bags of those "stones" (usually used as counters for Magic) for us to give out to everyone we saw playing "Scapegoat" wrong... by the time the day was through, there was about 6 stones left from the 3 bags brough.
 
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I'm afraid I won a friendly match this way (pre-ban lists) when an opponent equip. their sheep token with United We Stand and attacked me. The problem was, of course, they failed to turn their sheep token into attack position before proceeding into battle phase. It CAN make a difference. You can see that if the battle positon isn't able to be determined it could possibly be a he said / she said scenario.
 
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skey23 said:
And to think..I was about to use YOU (bishop) as my reasoning for an answer to this question. Since you've been Head Judge at 'most' of the events I've been to..lol.
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Interesting. ;) Though I'm still curious as to what that answer might have been. Other than being obnoxious about the leaving of Scapegoat on the field, I didn't realize that I had much influence on the subject. ;)
 
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I made these back when I was running Jam Breeding Machine in my Jank Deck. I wrote the text just to be clear on where the monster was going if they removed it from the field somehow. The only problems I ran into is that I had a tendancy to shuffle them back into my deck at the end of the duel after having accidently placed them into my Graveyard. :eek: And when I wrote the text I ran out of room to put they had no face-down position.

So killing two birds with one stone, I started putting the tokens in transparent sleeves with a copy on both sides. No face-down position and those clear sleeves are larger and hard to mix up with the rest of the deck or Graveyard. (Especially when your anal retentive with your Graveyard like I am. :p)

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I'd do exactly what Jedi says above. Print out fan-made cards, pop them into sleeves that are different to your Deck and keep them in a random pile somewhere close by. When you need them, bring them out. It looks like a card, which means it's representing a monster (which is what it's supposed to do), it's a Normal Monster (yep) and it's got all the relevant text on it (although the "can only be Special Summoned by JBM" is pretty redundant).

There are at least a few topic in the General Discussion area about Tokens, and one of the more recent ones was about suggestions for what to name the Ojama Tokens, because people like to play with different-looking pictures instead of perhaps 4 identical token cards. I haven't checked, but I'm sure there'll be a topic about what description these tokens should have (with additions for "Poisonous Snake Token" and the like).

If you want to make them yourself, they're not that difficult to do. Grab a template from somewhere and go at it. Using custom tokens like these will also be a lot more interesting than regular playing cards/coins, not to mention a lot more practical.
 
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Thanks Jathro.

I'll admit the part about "can only be Special Summed by" was a little self-indulgent on my part. Its just that I had made a template with all the tokens in the game and wanted some unique text for each kind. I just thought it made it look cooler. :cool:
 
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Digital Jedi said:
I'll admit the part about "can only be Special Summed by" was a little self-indulgent on my part.
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Oh no! Token monsters are NOMI !!! :eek:

"This token cannot be normal summoned or set. This token cannot be special summoned except by the effect of (fill in the blank with the correct card)" LOL
 
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Jathro said:
Oh no! Token monsters are NOMI !!! :eek:

"This token cannot be normal summoned or set. This token cannot be special summoned except by the effect of (fill in the blank with the correct card)" LOL
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Dude! Do you know I was going to put that in but didn't have enough room for the important parts? :eek: LOL
 
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Of course the funny thing is that each of the types of token are in fact Nomi monsters since there is no other way to summon the except for the effect which creates them, e.g. Scapegoat for Sheep tokens, Ojama Trio for Ojama Tokens, etc....
Never thought about them being Nomi's before, do you think we should make a nuisance of ourselves and ask Kevin to add them to the list of Nomi monsters?;)
 
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