Dragon

Dragon
Three "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in the artwork of "Rage with Eyes of Blue".
Japanese	ドラゴン
Japanese (romanized)	Doragon
English	Dragon
Other names French: Dragon German: Drache Italian: Drago Korean: 드래곤 Deuraegon Portuguese: Dragão Spanish: Dragón Arabic: تنّين Traditional Chinese: 龍 Lóng / Lung4
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Dragon (ドラゴン Doragon) is a Type of Monster Cards. It debuted in Vol.1 in the OCG, Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon in the TCG, and Deck Mod Pack: Hyperspeed Rush Road!! in Rush Duel.

Overview

The Dragon type are typically composed of a classical depiction of the European dragons; typically reptilian-like in appearance and posesses demon/bat-like wings that symbolize chaos, evil, fierceness and intimidation. In recent years, there are also various Dragon monsters with human-like appearance with only some distinct draconic features to tell them apart from normal humans, either them being a human who inherited the draconic powers in some form, or that they are dragons that take the appearance of a human. Examples of these monsters including "Dragon Core Hexer", "Fallen of Albaz", and various "Dragonmaid" monsters.

Outside of the Dragon types, there are considerable amount of draconic monsters that belongs to the other types: the Sea Serpent generally consists of various sea dragons or similar marine reptile-like creatures, wheas the Wyrm type generally depicts the Eastern dragons along with the more mystical and spiritual appearances (though a considerable number of Dragon monsters released prior to the Wyrm type's existance, such as "Number 100: Numeron Dragon" resembles Wyrm monsters in appearance). In addition, there are also a large number of non-Dragon monsters with draconic features and "Dragon" in their names in various other types, such as the Machine-type "Cyber Dragon" or the Cyberse-type "Firewall Dragon", etc..

Dragons tend to be the strongest or key boss monster in numerous Deck types in addition one of the most established and powerful Monster Types in the entire franchise, with several multi-type themes having Dragon monsters as their ace, such as "Judgment Dragon" in "Lightsworn" Deck, and "Infernity Doom Dragon" in "Infernity" archetype. Ever since the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise began, Dragon monsters have been known for having an ATK power greater than any other type of monster in the game, rivalled only by the Machine type, in addition to having varied and powerful effects.

While there are numerous Dragon themes with varied playstyle, a recurring theme among several notable Dragon theme involves the use of Graveyard to set up their game plans, typically involves sending Dragon monsters to the GY to trigger their GY effects or to use them as a resource later on. Low-level Dragon monsters usually has an effect to aid in bringing out stronger monsters, either by searching them from the Main Deck or to send them to GY for later plays. While high-level Dragon monsters typically have powerful interruption or removal effect to disrupt the opponent's game plans.

Dragon-focused Decks

Dragon Fusion Decks

See also: Blue-Eyes, Dragonmaid, Branded, and Despia

Historically, various Dragon Decks often focus on getting Fusion Monsters like "Five-Headed Dragon", "King Dragun", "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", and sometimes even "Dragon Master Knight" or Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon to the field. Usually "Dragon's Mirror" or pre-Errata "Future Fusion" is used to accomplish these tasks. Though in later years, several Fusion Summoning-based Dragon Decks or supports were introduced, which allows a large degree of hybridization between these themes.

8-Axis

See also: Galaxy, Photon, and Danger!

8-Axis is an Xyz Summoning-focused Deck which involves around exploiting a large number of generic Rank 8 Dragon Xyz Monsters along with other generic Rank 8 Xyz Monsters for their main plays. There are several variants of 8-Axis decks, though most of them consists of various easy-to-summon Level 8 monsters to quickly summon Rank 8 monsters as soon as possible.

Dragon Link

See also: Rokket

Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible, with good degree of resistance against common interruptions. As the name implies, Dragon Link decks involves using the "Rokket" engine to summon a large number of various Dragon monsters through usage of various Dragon Link Monster to set up plays and summoning high-level monsters.

Themes

Pure

• Amorphage
• Armed Dragon
• Borrel / Rokket
• Blue-Eyes
• Bystial
• Divine Dragon (except "Divine Dragon Aquabizarre")
• Dragonmaid
• Dragon Ruler
• Guardragon
• Hieratic
• Materiactor

Mixed

• Albaz Dragon
• Archfiend
• Buster Blader
• Chaos
• Cyberdark
• Dragunity
• Duel Dragon
• Evol
• Felgrand
• Four Dimensional Dragons
  • Clear Wing
    • Synchro Dragon
  • Odd-Eyes
    • Pendulum Dragon
  • Rebellion
    • Xyz Dragon
  • Starving Venom
    • Fusion Dragon
  • Supreme King
• Gaia The Fierce Knight
• Galaxy
  • Cipher
  • Galaxy-Eyes
  • Photon
  • Tachyon
• Horus
• Infernity
• Laval
• Legendary Knight/Legendary Dragon
• Lightsworn
• Lswarm
• Malefic
• Red-Eyes
• Signer Dragon
  • Majestic
  • Red Dragon Archfiend
  • Rose
    • Rose Dragon
  • Stardust
• Starry Knight
• True Draco
  • Dracoslayer
  • Dracoverlord
• Virus

Trivia

• In most of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series, with a few exceptions, the main protagonists' rivals all use Dragon monsters as their signature or boss monsters, and to varying degrees in their Decks.
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime, Seto Kaiba employs his signature "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and his "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" in his Deck. In the later portion of the anime, Kaiba incorporates a variety of Dragons such as "Spear Dragon", "Luster Dragon #2", "Different Dimension Dragon", "Paladin of White Dragon", "Chaos Emperor Dragon", and the Dragon Fusion Monsters Summoned with "The Fang of Critias". In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, Kaiba uses a variety of powerful Dragons, including retrained versions of his "Blue-Eyes" monsters such as "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon" and "Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon".
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime, Chazz Princeton uses the "Armed Dragon" monsters as a core part of his Deck and other Dragon monsters, including "Masked Dragon" and "Pitch-Dark Dragon". In the manga, Chazz's manga counterpart uses a Dragon Deck, spearheaded by his signature card, "Light and Darkness Dragon".
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime, Jack Atlas uses his signature "Red Dragon Archfiend" and its upgraded counterparts, "Majestic Red Dragon", "Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode", and "Red Nova Dragon", while also using other Dragons including "Vice Dragon", "Strong Wind Dragon", "Dread Dragon", "Influence Dragon", and "Exploder Dragonwing". In the manga, Jack's manga counterpart uses "Hot Red Dragon Archfiend" and its upgraded counterparts, "Abyss", "Bane", and "King Calamity".
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime and manga, Kite Tenjo and his manga counterpart employs his signature "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon". In the anime, Kite uses its upgraded counterparts, "Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" and "Number 62: Galaxy-Eyes Prime Photon Dragon" and other Dragon monsters, including "Photon Lizard", "Twin Photon Lizard" and "Number 46: Dragluon". In the manga, Kaito uses other Dragon monsters, including "Galaxy Dragon", "Photon Wyvern", "Galaxy-Eyes Full Armor Photon Dragon", "Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon", and "Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy".
  • This tradition was inverted in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V anime and manga where Yuya Sakaki uses Dragon monsters, including the Dragon members of the "Odd-Eyes" archetype and the members of the Four Dimensional Dragons. His main rival, Declan Akaba, does not use Dragon monsters, and instead uses Fiend monsters.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Roken Kogami/Varis primarily uses a Dragon Deck spearheaded by the "rokket" and the "Borrel" archetypes. He also uses other Dragons to facilitate the Summoning of his Extra Deck Dragon monsters, including "Gateway Dragon", "Sniffer Dragon", and "Background Dragon", as well as other monsters with a draconic appearance, including "Cracking Dragon" and the "Topologic" monsters.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS, Roa Kassidy shakes up the tradition again; he uses Fiend monsters.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!, Zuwijo zir Velgear in uses mainly Galaxy Monsters, but his Deck is spearheaded by "Voidvelgr Requiem", which features a draconic appearance.