Dragon
| Dragon
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ドラゴン | ||
| Japanese (translated) |
Doragon | ||
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Dragon | ||
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Dragons are a powerful Type to contend with, often focusing on brute ATK strength and powerful Fusion Monsters. Ever since Yu-Gi-Oh began it's trading card franchise, Dragon monsters have been known for having attack points greater than any other type of monster in the game. Dragons and Dragon Support cards also tend to have effects that Special Summon other Dragon-Type Monsters, such as King Dragun, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, Lord of D. in combination with The Flute of Summoning Dragon, Decoy Dragon, ect.
As of now, the highest ATK monsters in the game, "Dragon Master Knight" and "Five-Headed Dragon" are Dragon-Types. In addition, the most powerful Normal Monster is also a Dragon, the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", including all its support cards. "Red-Eyes B. Dragon" and "Rainbow Dragon", and the famous OTK Maker Rainbow Dark Dragon are also notable. Plus two of the most powerful LV series, Armed Dragons and Horus are also Dragon-Types. Decks that run lots of high-level monsters may also consider Montage Dragon. The most powerful Fusion and Synchro monsters are also Dragons. Legendary examples include Stardust Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Black Rose Dragon, Five-Headed Dragon, Dragon Master Knight, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, and King Dragun.
Dragons also have their own two Structure Decks, Structure Deck 1: Dragon's Roar and Structure Deck 13: Revival of the Great Dragon, whose TCG counterpart is Structure Deck: Rise of the Dragon Lords.
To date there are no Flip Effect Dragon-Type monsters.
The Dragon-Type is certainly one of the contenders for "Most Type-Specific Support Cards". Most Dragon-Type monsters have the word "Dragon" in its card name. The word "Dragon" also exists in many non-Dragon Monster Card names, typically denoting a creature of exceptional power, such as "Cyber Dragon", "Blowback Dragon", "Solar Flare Dragon", and "Megarock Dragon".
A recent trend with multi-type Archetypes is having the trump card of the set be a Dragon-type unlike the rest of the monsters in the set, such as Rainbow Dragon for Crystal Beasts, Judgment Dragon for the Lightsworns, Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon in Harpie Decks, Dark Armed Dragon in DARK-based decks and Black Rose Dragon in Plant-based decks.
In every Yu-Gi-Oh anime and manga series up to date, the main character's rivals all use Dragon-based decks. Seto Kaiba uses a Blue-Eyes Deck, Chazz Princeton uses an "Armed Dragon" Deck (or "Light and Darkness Dragon" Deck in the manga), and Jack Atlas's Turbo Deck is based on summoning his "Red Dragon Archfiend" while his Ground Deck plays numerous dragon cards like "Strong Wind Dragon", "Vice Dragon", and "Explode Wing Dragon" in addition to "Red Dragon Archfiend".
One of the strongest Dragon-type monster known is the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, that can negate activation of any card effects that designate it and combined with effect to increase it's attack.
