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'''Sea Serpent''' ({{Ruby|海|かい}}{{Ruby|竜|りゅう}} ''Kairyū'', "Sea Dragon") is a [[Type]] of [[Monster Card]]. | '''Sea Serpent''' ({{Ruby|海|かい}}{{Ruby|竜|りゅう}} ''Kairyū'', "Sea Dragon") is a [[Type]] of [[Monster Card]]. | ||
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Revision as of 19:26, 7 November 2023
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かいりゅう | ||
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海竜 | ||
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Kairyū | ||
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Sea Dragon | ||
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Sea Serpent | ||
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Sea Serpent (
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History
In the early stages of the game, Sea Serpent monsters and Fish monsters acted as a pair, with Fish being weaker lower-Level monsters, and Sea Serpents were the more powerful higher-Level monsters. (This is equivalent to the old relationship between Dinosaur monsters and Reptile monsters).
Prior to the release of Raging Battle, the only support card Sea Serpent monsters had was "Umi" (which was later replaced in usage by "A Legendary Ocean", which does not support them). Raging Battle introduced the Sea Serpent support cards "Spined Gillman", "Mermaid Archer" and "Deep Sea Diva", with the latter being the first card to exclusively support Sea Serpents. In contrast to early Sea Serpents, which were generally very strong high-Level monsters, the new Sea Serpents and their support focus on low-Level monsters and swarming, which allows for a viable Sea Serpent-based Deck.
In Photon Shockwave and Generation Force, additional support was introduced for Sea Serpent monsters, including "Shark Stickers", "Fish and Kicks", and "Oh F!sh!". After Realm of the Sea Emperor and Abyss Rising, Sea Serpent monsters became competitive with the creation of the "Merlantean" Deck.
Overview
Sea Serpent monsters are typically depicted as sea dragons or marine reptiles, though some Sea Serpent monsters (particularly lower-level ones) were also depicted as fishmen as well as merman and mermaid, and thus shared characteristic with the related Fish and Aqua types. Most of Sea Serpent were WATER, though a handful of Sea Serpents of other main attributes also exists.
In terms of gameplay, Sea Serpent monsters often utilize Discard or similar effects to gain an advantage, with the low-level monsters often have a beneficial effect when being used as a cost for certain effects of high-level monsters. Though due to the relatively low member count, they were typically played alongsides the Fish and Aqua types, all of which shared generic WATER support to help supplement the grind game.
In Rush Duel, Sea Serpent monsters usually have an effect to manipulate Graveyard, either by shuffling cards in GY as a cost to activate an effect or gains beneficial effect while having no cards in GY.
Themes
Pure
Mixed
In other media
The following characters use Sea Serpent monsters across the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.
Manga
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
Yu-Gi-Oh! D Team ZEXAL
Anime
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!
Trivia
- Not counting Rush Duel, there are only very few non-WATER Sea Serpent monsters in OCG:
- LIGHT: "Lightray Daedalus" and "Kaiser Sea Horse".
- DARK: "Danger! Ogopogo!" and "Gladiator Beast Domitianus".
- EARTH: "Subterror Behemoth Stygokraken", which is also the only Sea Serpent Flip monster.
- FIRE: "Lavalval Chain".
- WIND: "Spearfish Soldier", "Airorca", and "Skystarray".
- "Lavalval Chain" is the only Sea Serpent monster to be Forbidden.
