This One Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Lets Me Win Without Ever Hitting an Opponent’s Life Points

Gravekeeper’s Servant is a Yu-Gi-Oh! card that directly affects how opponents draw and discard, and it pairs naturally with a deck-depletion strategy. Meanwhile, Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection collects 14 Game Boy–era titles, including The Eternal Duelist Soul, letting players revisit those mechanics on modern hardware.

1. Gravekeeper’s Servant
2. Deck depletion and loss-by-drawing
3. Supporting cards: Needle Worm, Cyber Jar, Giant Soldier of Stone
4. Early Days Collection and The Eternal Duelist Soul
5. Deck size and other game rules

Gravekeeper’s Servant

Gravekeeper’s Servant is a continuous monster card whose effect forces the opponent to discard the top card of their deck to the Graveyard any time they conduct an attack. Therefore, every attack made while the card is face-up accelerates the opponent’s deck depletion.

Deck depletion and loss-by-drawing

Yu-Gi-Oh! includes a rule where a player loses the match if they cannot draw a card at the start of their turn. As a result, strategies that reduce an opponent’s deck size can win the game without reducing Life Points (LP) to zero. Consequently, cards that force an opponent to send cards from their deck to the Graveyard contribute directly to this alternate win condition.

Supporting cards: Needle Worm, Cyber Jar, Giant Soldier of Stone

Several cards interact with the deck to support a depletion strategy. For example:

• Needle Worm — when flipped, sends the top five cards of the opponent’s deck to the Graveyard.
• Cyber Jar — when flipped, destroys all monsters on the field and both players draw five cards, then any level 4 or lower monsters among those drawn can be Special Summoned.
• Giant Soldier of Stone — a high-defense monster with 2,000 DEF commonly used to protect Life Points while the opponent is nudged into attacking.

Thus, combining Gravekeeper’s Servant with flip cards and high-defense walls creates a consistent path to a deck-depletion victory.

Early Days Collection and The Eternal Duelist Soul

Konami released the Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection as a compilation of 14 games from the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance libraries. Included among those titles is The Eternal Duelist Soul, originally for the Game Boy Advance. Therefore, players can revisit classic duels and mechanics from those handheld entries in one package.

Deck size and other game rules

Official Yu-Gi-Oh! deck construction rules specify a minimum deck size of 40 cards and a maximum of 60. Consequently, using Gravekeeper’s Servant to force discards is faster against smaller decks, and players commonly build near the minimum to increase the effectiveness of deck-depletion tactics.