Normal Monster
Normal Monsters, colored yellow, are primarily used to protect your Life Points from Direct Damage, and to offer high ATK for use against your opponent, in exchange for having no effect. They usually possess basic stats; ATK, DEF, Level, Attribute, Type, and more often than not, one value is sacrificed to benefit another. High ATK and low DEF Normal Monsters are often associated with Beatdown Decks. Normal Monsters are popularly called Vanilla.
Some popular cards have garnered Spell Cards that provide additional benefits to them. For instance, Dark Magic Attack is very useful when combined with Dark Magician. Normal Monsters themselves have also received some support cards for all of them, such as Birthright, Ancient Rules, Justi-Break, Soul Resurrection, Swing of Memories, Non-Spellcasting Area, Amulet of Ambition, Sword of the Soul-Eater, and Dark Factory of Mass Production.
in tactical evolution several new monsters called gemini monsters were introduced. these monsters have the abilities of a normal monster upon summoning and can quickly become effect monsters by sacrificing you normal summon or by use of support cards such as Super Double Summon and Double Summon. The card text (or flavor text) on regular normal monster cards is for illustrative purposes only, and has no effect on gameplay, since these cards have no effects.
