Alignment

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Alignment, also known as Summon (しょうかん Shōkan), is a card property used in the early Gameboy Duel Monsters rules. Alignments appear in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark duel Stories, Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelist, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards, Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories.

The name "Summon" is used consistently throughout the Japanese games. The North American English Dark Duel Stories uses the name "Alignment". The European English Dark Duel Stories uses the name "Attribute". The English The Sacred Cards and Reshef of Destruction use the name "Summon".

Cards of particular Alignments have strengths and weaknesses against cards of other particular alignments. There are four Magic User Alignments, six elemental Alignments, and the Divine Alignment.

In Forbidden Memories, each Alignment with the exception of Divine is represented with a Guardian Star.

List[edit]

Name Other names Strong against Weak against OCG-equivalent
Dark Black Magic, Shadow Light Dreams DARK Attribute
Light White Magic Fiend Dark LIGHT Attribute
Fiend Demon Magic Dreams Light Fiend Type
Dreams Illusion Magic Dark Fiend Illusion Type
Water Aqua Fire Thunder WATER Attribute
Fire Flame, Pyro Forest Water FIRE Attribute
Forest Wood Wind Fire
Wind Earth Forest WIND Attribute
Earth Thunder Wind EARTH Attribute
Thunder Water Earth Thunder Type
Divine Devine DIVINE Attribute
Divine-Beast Type

Manga basis[edit]

Alignments are for the most part derived from concepts from the early manga Duel Monsters. In the manga, the four Magic Users were Types, five of the six elements were Attributes and Divine was used to describe the Egyptian God cards. The strengths and weaknesses of the Magic Users and some of the elements were taken from the manga.