In Yu-Gi-Oh! you are only allowed to have 60 cards in your deck because a German player exaggerated

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Since 2008, the card game of the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! The rule is that a maximum of 60 cards can be packed into your own deck. In 2007, a German player overdid it so much that Konami had to adjust the rules.

What happened? Maik S. competed with his deck at the official national Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament that took place in Hanover in 2007. However, this was not the usual deck size used in such a tournament: Maik competed with a total of 2,222 cards in his deck.

A photo shows how he and his friend, Tobias H., carried the cards to the tournament in a gigantic acrylic box:

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Was that allowed? In 2007 there was only a rule that at least 40 cards had to be shuffled into the deck. There has not yet been a maximum. That’s why Maik was allowed to take part with his deck of 2,222 cards.

Maik thus mercilessly exploited a loophole in the rules. And Konami learned its lesson from this: Since 2008, there has been a rule that a maximum of 60 cards are allowed in the deck.

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Maik reveals the reason why he competed in the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament with a huge deck

Why did he do that? Maik explains on YouTube that he found the idea funny. He wanted to make other people laugh with the gigantic set of cards.

To make the joke perfect, Maik put numerous cards in his deck with which he had to search for more cards from his deck. You can imagine that it takes what feels like an eternity to pick a specific card from this gigantic deck.

However, cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! that select others from the deck require the deck to be shuffled afterwards. So Maik invested even more time in shuffling his deck again.

Did he win the tournament? Maik played a card that required him to reshuffle the deck. The shuffle had taken too much time, which is why he lost the match. He was then disqualified after the second game.

Maik thus proved that the real rules are different than in the anime. A deck of 2,222 cards would have been unthinkable there. By the way, there was another change in the German version of the anime that differs from the original: Yu-Gi-Oh! is actually much more cruel than you saw in the German TV version

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