DUEL- (insert name here), the Card-Wielding Pokégirl
Type: as per base type
Element: Magic/base type
Frequency: Rare
Diet: as per base type
Role: as per base type, if applicable
Libido: as per base type
Strong Vs: Water, and as per base type
Weak Vs: Fire, and as per base type
Attacks: Card Conjuration, and as per base type
Enhancements: Unnatural Optimism and as per base type
Evolves: Duelist (Dream Stone, Battle Stress + Win), or normal evolution as per pokégirl base-type
Evolves From: Any Pokegirl (Defeating a Duelist)

An odd template that is strangely more common than most thanks to the proliferation of the Duel Monsters card game throughout the world. As the game grew, so did its popularity with children, tamers, and as a result, pokégirls. It wasn't until 230 AS, however, that the first recorded instance of this template was discovered. However, at first, she was called the Duelette, a name for a new breed of pokégirl. However, in the early 290s, the Duelette was found to be nothing more than a templated pokégirl type when an Onyx that had been playing the game won an upset victory over a Duelist, leading to the current designation of a Duel- pokégirl. The only way to become a Duel-template is for a pokégirl player of Duel Monsters to defeat a true Duelist pokégirl at a standard version of the card game (not a pokégirl battle). The Duelist does need to accept the loss and respect the win before the change in her opponent will occur. Typically, this happens when the Duelist shakes the winner's hand. This does not apply to humans that defeat the Duelist, oddly enough.

Though the template does not always physically change anything about the pokégirl that researchers are aware of (although when the first Tomboy gained this template, she experienced quite the physical upgrade because of it. This is not common, however, and has never been documented among other pokégirls that have recieved this template), it is assumed that most pokégirls wind up with slightly increased proportions. The new pokégirl is constantly on the search for newer, stronger cards to add to her collection, and the Duel-templated pokégirls often find a strategy that suits them and stick with it, coming up with new strategies only as time goes on and their current one needs adjusting. These pokégirls can find it difficult to change their minds on their strategies within their constructed decks, though often this is because of card limitations more than anything else. However, they are amazingly optimistic even in the face of an imminent loss, and somehow manage to keep going despite any handicap or disadvantage thanks to this unusual and sometimes unwanted trait.

It is also due to the limits of the powers that the recieve once become a Duel-templated pokégirl. Unlike the Duelist, who can control up to five monsters at once, these pokégirls are only capable of controlling up to three at once. Also unlike the Duelist, who can also utilize five spell or trap cards during a battle, these templated 'girls may only utilize up to two total of these cards at any given time. It has been documented that on occassion, these templated pokégirls may evolve either into what they may normally be capable of evolving into or actually evolve into a Duelist themselves. It does require the pokégirl to be in contact with a Dream Stone, be under Battle Stress and then, somehow, to win the battle itself that she is in. This particular evolution method is sometimes quite difficult to do, but oddly enough it does happen frequently.

The Duel-template pokégirls cannot actually learn spells- their magical abilities are dedicated only towards the usage of their Card Conjuration capability. Attempting to teach a Duel-pokégirl any magic outside of card conjuration leads to headaches, migraines, a sudden lack of energy or a steady loss of it rather than any actual cast spell of any sort. Research suggests that this is simply because of the way that their magic pattern, as some put it, is solely focused upon utilizing cards and cannot refocus their technique for some reason. Not even the mages at various research institutions have been able to discover what may be the true reason behind this.