Card Trivia:Glife the Phantom Bird

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  • This monster is based on the griffin from the titular fairy tale, The Griffin.
    • "Glife" (グライフ Guraifu) is the Japanese pronunciation of "Greif" derived from "Der Vogel Greif", the original German name for the fairy tale.
    • This card's OCG/TCG effect searching "Golden Castle of Stromberg" from the Deck is based on the griffin's castle from this tale, where the main protagonist Hans must retrieve the griffin's tail feather for the king in order to marry a princess he had saved from illness at the beginning.