Readable Card Effects - Readability Mod
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📋 About This Mod
Boost card effect readability! Number effects, separate them with newlines, optionally condense common idioms like OPT, HOPT, etc...
Huge thanks to rnduser for writing the Master Duel modding guide, writing the open source mod Improve Card Effect Readibility which this mod is based on, and helping to write and test this mod.
Check out FoodUnderKeyboard's ULTIMATE CARD TEXT MOD for an alternative take on card text modding.
Thanks to FoodUnderKeyboard for the script to adjust font size to prevent card text from overflowing, and for rnduser for adapting it for use in this mod.
This mod comes in four versions, demonstrated in this image:
The two "regular" versions of mod makes the following changes to card descriptions:
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[]Card effects are now numbered and separated by single newlines[/]
[]Effect activation costs (grammatical clauses preceding semicolons) are bolded[/]
[]Certain verbose properties are shortened to UPPERCASE TAGS prefixing effect text: OPT (once per turn), HOPT (hard once per turn, even if you control multiple copies of the same card or summon the same card multiple times), QUICK (quick effect), END PHASE/YOUR END PHASE/OPP'S END PHASE and other phases.[/]
[]Graveyard is always abbreviated to GY.[/]
[]Some keywords and their grammatical variants are uppercased: SPECIAL SUMMON (and other summoning types), DESTROY, NEGATE, DECK, EXTRA DECK, HAND, BANISH, EXCVATE, DRAW, PIERCING[/]
[]"DESTROYED by battle or card effect(s)" is shortened to "DESTROYED"[/]
These common verbose phrasings are shortened with widely understood jargon:
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[]Add X from your deck to your hand -> SEARCH X[/]
[]Add X from your deck or GY to your hand -> SEARCH X (from DECK or GY)[/]
[]Return X to the hand -> BOUNCE X[/]
[]Return X from the field to the hand -> BOUNCE X[/]
[]Returned to the hand -> BOUNCED[/]
[]Send X from the top of your deck to the GY -> MILL X[/]
[]If X attacks a defense position monster, inflict piercing battle damage -> X is PIERCING[/]
[]If X attacks a Defense Position monster whose DEF is lower than the ATK of the equipped monster, inflict the difference as Battle Damage -> X is PIERCING[/]
Note that some effects are "unregistered" in Master Duel (the game does not have any data on its "sub-parts"). In most of those cases this mod currently does not number their sub-effects nor apply the OPT, HOPT, and QUICK tags (this would take a lot of work implementing the logic to separate the effect text into discrete sub-effects).
The documentation from rnduser's mod Improve Card Effect Readibility applies:
2. Introduction
The mod contains o
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[]Add X from your deck to your hand -> SEARCH X[/]
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Yugiohmasterduel Mods
- Author
- ygomdmodder
- Version
- 97
- Downloads
- 4,021
- Endorsements
- 96
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 3/28/2024
- Updated
- 8/5/2026
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