Zombie

For the card, see Zombie (card).

Zombie
Japanese (base text)	アンデット
Japanese (romanized)	Andetto
Japanese (translated)	Undead
English	Zombie
Other names French: Zombie German: Zombie Italian: Zombie Korean: 언데드 Eondedeu Portuguese: Zumbi Spanish: Zombi Traditional Chinese: 不死 Bùsǐ / Bat1 sei2
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Zombie (Japanese: アンデット Andetto, "Undead") is a Type of monster representing undead beings, including mummies, skeletons, vampires, Yokais, biologically-infected humans and animals, ghosts, and of course, zombies. Gameplay-wise, Zombies are heavily associated with the Graveyard and banishing; many of their monster effects and support cards support interactions with Zombies that are banished or in the GY, most commonly through Special Summoning. Zombies are mostly either EARTH or DARK-Attribute.

Notable Zombie monsters include "Mezuki", "Zombie Master", "Pyramid Turtle", "Plaguespreader Zombie", "Number 22: Zombiestein", and "Doomking Balerdroch". Notable Zombie support include "Book of Life" and "Zombie World".

Zombies also have three of their own Structure Decks: Zombie Madness, Structure Deck: Undead World/Zombie World, and Structure Deck R: Undead World/Zombie Horde.

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom, Zombies are treated as Fiend monsters.

Of particular note, the Yokai Type from the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga are all turned into Zombies when they were released in the OCG/TCG proper.

Zombie monsters are used by Bonz and Yami Bakura in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Camula and Abidos the Third in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Hunter Pace, Haley and Skeleton Knight in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Flip Turner (as part of a Flip monster Deck) and Cologne in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Tony Zomboni in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Klarissa Turner/Baira (as fodder for a Virus Deck) and Ridley in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Toombs and Zo Ikitenai in Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS, and Fisher Sukai in Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!.

Overview

Despite encompassing a large variety of archetypes and series, there's a recurrent element in most Zombie-based decks, that being a reliance on Graveyard-related effects, particularly sending Zombie monsters from Deck to GY, and reviving them afterwards. Expanding on this, there's a subset of cards that can revive monsters from the opponent's GY, akin to spreading a zombie plague. This playstyle has been consistently supported through the years by the Field Spell Zombie World, which transforms all monsters in the opponent's GY into Zombies. There's also a number of archetypes and cards based on gaining advantage and banishing Zombie monsters from the GY, with many of the Zombie cards released in Dimension Force being centered on this strategy.

Historically, Zombie monsters are characterized by high ATK, but low (many times zero) DEF, reflecting the animalistic nature of the undead and/or the ethereal nature of spirits. However, this is offset by their potent swarming and offensive capabilities, with most Zombie decks aiming to end the duel in the first turns of the game. The Shiranui archetype is an example of this, with all of its members having zero DEF points, while Vampire and Vendread also have a high number of 0 DEF Monster Cards.

The type also has a heavy Synchro Summoning focus, with many of the most powerful Zombie playmakers and boss monsters being Tuner and Synchro monsters, respectively. Uni-Zombie, Plaguespreader Zombie and Glow-Up Bloom are powerful Tuner monsters that are staples in most Zombie decks for this reason.

Zombie World deck

See also: Eldlich

Zombie World deck, as its name implies, revolves around the Field Spell of the same name and various cards supporting it. The deck focuses on field control and stun the opponent by denying their Type synergy with "Zombie World" and utilizing their monsters to the user's advantage.

There are several variants of the Zombie World decks, either using it as a lynchpin for extending plays or as a control tool. Typically, the deck aims to brings "Zombie World" on the field as soon as possible, usally involves getting "Necroworld Banshee" onto the field or GY to search it. The deck's boss monster, "Doomking Balerdroch" takes advantage of "Zombie World" with a negation and non-targeted banish effect. The deck is usually played with "Eldlich" package to search the key cards and enabling plays, which also causes some to considered the deck an "Eldlich" variant.

Archetypes/Series

Pure

• Burning Skull
• Dark Mummy
• Eldlich
• Ghost Story
• Mayakashi
• Oni
• Sarcophagus
• Shiranui
• Sky Fossil
• Underworld
• Vampire (except "Vampire Hunter")
• Vendread
• Wight
• Yo-kai Girl (except "Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit")
• Zombie counterpart

Multi-type

• Ghostrick
• Necro

Trivia

• "Shiranui Samuraisaga" is the first Zombie Synchro Monster that can be Synchro Summoned without "Plaguespreader Zombie", and is also not a Zombie counterpart of an already existing monster.
• The Japanese name of the Zombie Type, Andetto 「アンデット」, is a non-standard romanization of the English word "undead", normally romanized as Andeddo 「アンデッド」. Andeddo has been inconsistently used in earlier Yu-Gi-Oh! works, but was later standardized to Andetto.
  • It is unclear why Yu-Gi-Oh! uses this non-standard romanization; it's speculated that Andetto was originally a typo that was maintained for the sake of consistency.