Type

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Type

Various monsters of the Beast-, Beast-Warrior-, and Winged Beast-Types in the artwork of "The Big Cattle Drive".
Various monsters of the Beast-, Beast-Warrior-, and Winged Beast-Types in the artwork of "The Big Cattle Drive".

Japanese

しゅぞく

Japanese (ruby)

しゅぞく

Japanese (base text)

種族

Japanese (romanized)

Shuzoku

Japanese (translated)

Race

English

Type

A Type (しゅぞく Shuzoku, also written in text as the specific Type followed by 「ぞく」), is a characteristic of a Monster Card. Each monster has one printed Type (although certain monsters might have an effect that treats them as a different Type, changes their Type, or gives them an additional Type(s)), such that monsters of the same Type can be grouped together (in a similar way to Attributes), and support cards can affect that specific Type of monster.

In the North American English version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories, Type is referred to as Class, abbreviated to Cl. This is changed to Type and Tp respectively in the European English version.[note 1]

There are 26 different Types in the OCG and TCG. Two of these are highly exclusive: the Divine-Beast-Type is shared only by the Egyptian Gods, and was originally considered Illegal until their tournament-legal versions were released; and the Creator God-Type is exclusive to "Holactie the Creator of Light".

There are 29 different Types in Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel; Illusion, Divine-Beast and Creator God don't appear, while six new Types (Cyborg, High Dragon, Magical Knight, Celestial Warrior, Omega Psychic, and Galaxy) have appeared, the first five being added exclusively for certain Fusion Monsters.

There is also Immortal, which only appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses. Cards that were introduced in that game as Immortal-Type monsters were given one of the 20 Types of that time when they were added to the OCG/TCG.

From "Starter Deck: Link Strike" onward, the word "-Type" was removed from card texts. However, its OCG counterpart retains the word ぞく. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links uses "-Type" in most cards' texts, even in texts that never included it in the TCG, and the international release of Yu-Gi-Oh! RUSH DUEL: Dawn of the Battle Royale!! uses "Type" without the hyphen in card texts (including removing the hyphen from the flavor text of "Summoned Skull") as well as "Attribute", even though "Attribute" was never used in that way in TCG texts.

OCG/TCG

These Types exist within the OCG and TCG.

Type Japanese name Vector Sprite
FMR DDM DOR CMC WC09 YDT1 TF06 DAR DG LOD2 MADU
Aqua みず
Beast けもの
Beast-Warrior じゅうせん
Creator God そうぞうしん
Cyberse サイバース
Dinosaur きょうりゅう
Divine-Beast げんしんじゅう
Dragon ドラゴン
Fairy てん使
Fiend あく
Fish さかな
Illusion げんそう - - -
Insect こんちゅう
Machine かい
Plant しょくぶつ
Psychic サイキック
Pyro ほのお
Reptile ちゅうるい
Rock がんせき
Sea Serpent かいりゅう
Spellcaster ほう使つか
Thunder いかずち
Warrior せん
Winged Beast ちょうじゅう
Wyrm げんりゅう
Zombie アンデット

Rush Duel

Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel has featured all Types from the OCG/TCG except for Illusion, Divine-Beast and Creator God. Rush Duel also features a new Type, Galaxy (ギャラクシー), introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! by Yudias Velgear. Additionally, Fusion Monsters in Rush Duel introduce several new Types that are thematically fusions of other Types in the OCG/TCG:

The Magical Knight Type first appeared in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 37: Error rendering {{chapter}} 🛈, when Dark Yugi Summoned "Gaia the Fierce Knight" and Seto Kaiba commented that it was "the strongest card in the Magical Knight Type". For the English release of the manga, Viz Media translated it as Warrior instead, and when "Gaia" was printed in the OCG, its Type was changed to Warrior.

?

? is used for some Monster Tokens in some mediums to indicate the Token's Type is variable.

???

??? is used to indicate that a monster's Type is unknown; in the OCG/TCG it is only used for newly-announced monsters whose Type has not yet been revealed.

Other

Several one-off Types have appeared in the anime:

Immortal-DOR.png Immortal is a Type appearing in the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses. PowerUp-DOR.png Power Up, Ritual-DOR.png Ritual, Spell-DOR.png Spell and Trap-DOR.png Trap are also listed as Types, and the instruction manual also mentions a Comic type, which includes all Toon monsters in the game.

Yokai (ようかい) is a Type appearing only in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Carddass adds the Types Black Magic, White Magic, Sea Beast, Illusion Magic, and Dragon Magic.

Type line

On cards, the Type line is the first line in the lore/effect box, printed above the card text. This line lists the monster's Type, any Abilities, and any other monster types such as Tuner, Pendulum, or Effect.

Japanese

  • 【<Type name>ぞく
  • 【<Type name>ぞくチューナー】(obsolete)
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞく・チューナー】
  • 【<Type name>ぞく/チューナー】
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞく/チューナー】
  • 【<Type name>ぞくこう】 (obsolete)
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞくこう
  • 【<Type name>ぞく・<Ability>/チューナー】 (obsolete)
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞくシンクロ/チューナー】
  • 【<Type name>ぞく/<Ability>/チューナー】
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞく/シンクロ/チューナー】
  • 【<Type name>ぞく・<Ability>/こう】 (obsolete)
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞく・チューナー/こう
  • 【<Type name>ぞく/<Ability>/こう
    • Eg:【ドラゴンぞく/チューナー/こう
  • 【<Type name>ぞく/<Ability>/チューナー/こう

Traditional Chinese

  • 【<Type name>族】
    • Eg:【族】
  • 【<Type name>族・協調
    • Eg:【龍族・協調】
  • 【<Type name>族・效果
    • Eg:【龍族・效果】
  • 【<Type name>族・<Ability>/協調】
    • Eg:【龍族・同步/協調】
  • 【<Type name>族・<Ability>/效果】
    • Eg:【龍族・協調/效果】

Korean

  • [<Type name>족]
    • Eg: [드래곤족]
  • [<Type name>족/튜너]
    • Eg: [드래곤족/튜너]
  • [<Type name>족/효과]
    • Eg: [드래곤족/효과]
  • [<Type name>족/<Ability>/튜너]
  • [<Type name>족/<Ability>/효과]
    • Eg: [드래곤족/튜너/효과]
  • [<Type name>족/<Ability>튜너/효과]

English

All TCG cards follow the English layout for the Type line. Since the introduction of "Starter Deck: Link Strike", Normal Monsters now have "monster Type/Normal" added to differentiate them from Effect Monsters.

  • [<Type>/Normal]
  • [<Type>/Tuner/Effect]
    • Eg: [Dragon/Tuner/Effect]
  • [<Type>/Effect]
    • Eg: [Dragon/Effect]
  • [<Type>/<monster card type>/Effect]
  • [<Type>/<monster card type>/Tuner/Effect]
    • Eg: [Dragon/Synchro/Tuner/Effect]
  • [<Type>/<Ability>/Effect]
    • Eg: [Dragon/Tuner/Effect]
  • [<Type>/<Ability>/Tuner/Effect]
    • Eg: [Dragon/Flip/Tuner/Effect]

Notes

  1. Seen in the text for "Dragon Seeker" and "Salamandra" and when re-ordering the chest. All bar the text for "Dragon Seeker" are changed in the European English version.