Flip monster

Flip monster
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Japanese	リバース(モンスター) Formerly: リバース効（こう）果（か）モンスター
Japanese (ruby)	リバース(モンスター) Formerly: リバースこうかモンスター
Japanese (romanized)	Ribāsu (Monsutā) Formerly: Ribāsu Kōka Monsutā
Japanese (translated)	Reverse (Monster) Formerly: Reverse Effect Monster
English	Flip (monster) Formerly: Flip Effect Monster
Other names French: (monstre) Flip Formerly: Monstre à Effet Flip German: Flipp(monster) Formerly: Flippeffektmonster Italian: (mostro) Scoperta Formerly: Mostro con Effetto Scoperta Korean: 리버스 (몬스터) (Ribeoseu (Monseuteo) Formerly: 리버스 효과 몬스터 (Reverse 效果 Monster) Ribeoseu Hyogwa Monseuteo Portuguese: (monstro de) Virar Formerly: Monstro de Efeito de Virar Spanish: (monstruo de) Volteo Formerly: Monstruo de Efecto Volteo Traditional Chinese: 反轉效果怪獸 Fánzhuǎn Xiàoguǒ Guàishòu / Faan2 zyun3 Haau6 gwo2 Gwaai3 sau3
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Flip monsters (Japanese: リバースモンスター Ribāsumonsutā "Reverse Monster"), formerly Flip Effect Monsters (リバース効（こう）果（か）モンスター Ribāsu Kōka Monsutā "Reverse Effect Monster"), are Effect Monsters with the ability "Flip". They all have a Flip effect.

Starting in Starter Deck 2014 (in the OCG) or Super Starter: Space-Time Showdown (in the TCG), Flip is treated as an ability and the word "Flip" is written on the cards' Type/Ability line.

While some Flip monsters have effects other than their Flip effect, any monster with a Flip effect is a Flip monster.

They are generally a low Level, and often have low ATK and DEF.

The "Charmer", "Worm", "Shaddoll", and "Sibyl" archetypes are primarily based on Flip monsters.

Flip effects

Main article: Flip effect

A Flip effect is a type of Trigger Effect that is preceded by "FLIP:". This kind of effect is triggered when the monster on the field is fliped from face-down to a face-up, even during the Damage Step.

Some monsters have effects with the timing "when this card is flipped face-up" (unofficially called Pseudo-Flip Effects), such "Snowman Eater", which while mechanically identical are different from Flip effects.

When a face-down Flip monster is attacked, during damage calculation the monster is flipped face-up, then it is determined whether or not the monster is destroyed by battle. Near the end of the Damage Step, before being sent to the Graveyard if it was destroyed by battle, the Flip monster's Flip effect activates and resolves on the field, if the timing is correct.

However, if a card effect destroys a face-down Flip monster, its Flip effect cannot be activated since it is not flipped face-up.

Example

Trivia

• So far, there are no Dragon, Dinosaur, Fish and Sea Serpent-Type Flip monsters.
• Only 6 Flip monsters are Level 5 or higher ("Hade-Hane", "Nobleman-Eater Bug", "Reaper of the Cards", "Shaddoll Beast", "Worm Noble" and "Worm Victory").
• Flip monsters are rarely used in the anime, in which prior to Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL it was legal to Normal Summon a monster in Defense Position, and Set monsters were rarely seen.
  • The only characters to focus a Deck on them is the appropriately-named (in the dub) Flip Turner from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, and Mieru Hochun from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V.
• "Cyber Jar", "Fiber Jar", "Magician of Faith", "Morphing Jar" and "Morphing Jar #2" are the only Flip monsters to ever be Forbidden (the last two only on the TCG).
  • 4 of the 8 members of the "Jar" series are currently Forbidden (in the TCG).
• "Worm Victory" has the highest Level and DEF of all Flip monsters. "Slate Warrior" has the highest ATK of all Flip monsters.