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Dragons are a powerful [[Type]] to contend with, often focusing on brute [[ATK]] strength, but most have special effects that add to their devestation. As of now, the highest [[ATK]] monsters in the game ([[Dragon Master Knight]] and [[Five-Headed Dragon]]) are Dragons. In addition, the most powerful vanilla monster is also a dragon, the [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]. Here are a few of the monsters that come under the Dragon-[[Type]]:
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{{Show card image|Blue-Eyes White Dragon|"[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]", a Dragon monster.}}
  
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* [[Alligator's Sword Dragon]]
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'''Dragon''' (ドラゴン ''Doragon'') is a [[Type]] of [[Monster Card]]s. 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]]''.
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* [[Armed Dragon LV3]]
 
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* [[Armed Dragon LV5]]
 
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* [[Armed Dragon LV7]]
 
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* [[Armed Dragon LV10]]
 
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* [[Axe Dragonute]]
 
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* [[B. Skull Dragon]]
 
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* [[Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon]]
 
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* [[Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon]]
 
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* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
 
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* [[Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End]]
 
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* [[Dark King Dragon - Vandorgaron]]
 
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* [[Des Volstgalph]]
 
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* [[Diablos, the Demon King]]
 
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* [[Divine Dragon Ragnarok]]
 
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* [[Dragonic Knight]]
 
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* [[Dragon Master Knight]]
 
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* [[Fairy Dragon]]
 
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* [[Five-Headed Dragon]]
 
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* [[Gaia the Dragon Champion]]
 
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* [[Gandora the Dragon of Destruction]]
 
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* [[Gray Wing]]
 
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* [[Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon]]
 
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* [[Harpie's Pet Dragon]]
 
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* [[Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4]]
 
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* [[Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6]]
 
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* [[Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8]]
 
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* [[Hyozanryu]]
 
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* [[King Dragun]]
 
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* [[Kiryu]]
 
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* [[Koumori Dragon]]
 
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* [[Light and Darkness Dragon]]
 
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* [[Lizard Warrior]]
 
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* [[Luster Dragon]]
 
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* [[Luster Dragon 2|Luster Dragon #2]]
 
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* [[Masked Dragon]]
 
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* [[Meteor Dragon]]
 
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* [[Meteor Black Dragon]]
 
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* [[Parrot Dragon]]
 
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* [[Paladin of White Dragon]]
 
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* [[Pitch-Dark Dragon]]
 
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* [[Rancer Dragonute]]
 
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* [[Red-Eyes B. Chick]]
 
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* [[Red-Eyes B. Dragon]]
 
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* [[Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon]]
 
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* [[Ryu-Ran]]
 
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* [[Serpent Night Dragon]]
 
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* [[Spirit Ryu]]
 
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* [[Thousand Dragon]]
 
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* [[Tri-Horned Dragon]]
 
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* [[Troop Dragon]]
 
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* [[Tyrant Dragon]]
 
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* [[Victory Dragon]]
 
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* [[White-Horned Dragon]]
 
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* [[Yamadron]]
 
  
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There are Many Dragon Support Cards:
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== Overview ==
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* [[A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon]]
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Dragon monsters primarily represent mythological dragons from various cultures. They typically appear as serpentine, reptile, or avian beings that symbolize chaos, both either evil or good, fierceness and intimidation. Due to being one of the most prominent Types in the franchise, Dragons come in many shapes and forms, from the typical bipedal [[wikipedia:European dragon|European dragon]]s, such as "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]" to the traditionally-serpentine [[wikipedia:Chinese dragon|Chinese dragon]]s, such as "[[Divine Dragon Ragnarok]]", to everything in-between and beyond.
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* [[D. Tribe]]
 
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* [[Dragon's Mirror]]
 
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* [[Dragon's Rage]]
 
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* [[Lord of D.]]
 
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* [[Stamping Destruction]]
 
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* [[Super Rejuvenation]]
 
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* [[The Flute of Summoning Dragon]]
 
  
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Dragons also have their own [[Structure Deck]], [[Structure Deck 1: Dragon's Roar|Dragon's Roar]]
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From [[Series 9]] onwards, Dragon monsters also encompass human-dragon hybrids that add draconic features to human forms, representing either humans with draconic powers or dragons transformed into human forms. Examples include "[[Dragon Core Hexer]]", "[[Fallen of Albaz]]", and "[[Dragonmaid]]" monsters. Dragons primarily come in [[DARK]] or [[LIGHT]], although there are Dragon monsters for all six primary Attributes.
  
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{{Types}}
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Dragons have a strong association with the [[List of unofficial terms#Boss|boss monster]] role in decks and deck themes; there are many high-Level/Rank/Link Rating Dragon monsters with high ATK (rivalled only by the [[Machine]] type) and powerful effects, and several multi-type themes have Dragon monsters as their ace, such as "[[Judgment Dragon]]" in "[[Lightsworn]]" or "[[Infernity Doom Dragon]]" in "[[Infernity]]".
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Due to its prominence, Dragon-focused themes come in many playstyles, from simple Aggro-Beatdown tactics to Burn.
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==Dragon-focused Decks==
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===Dragon Fusion Decks===
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{{See also|Blue-Eyes|Dragonmaid|Branded|Despia}}
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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 Summon]]ing-based Dragon Decks or supports were introduced, which allows a large degree of hybridization between these themes.
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===8-Axis===
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{{See also|Galaxy|Photon|Tachyon|Danger!|Horus}}
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8-Axis is an [[Xyz Summon]]ing-focused Deck which involves around exploiting a large number of generic [[Rank 8 Monster Cards|Rank 8]] Dragon [[Xyz Monster]]s 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 Monster Cards|Level 8]] monsters to quickly summon Rank 8 monsters as soon as possible.
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===Dragon Link===
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{{See also|Gandora FTK|Rokket}}
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Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support, in particular [[Link Monster]]s requiring generic Dragon monsters as materials, to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible. The deck originated from a version of [[Gandora FTK]] that used Dragon swarming engines and [[Guardragon]] Link Monsters, evolved into board-building decks based on Dragon swarming and Dragon [[Link Monster]]s (including Guardragons), and as of Series 12, primarily takes the form of "[[Rokket]]" decks that focus on Dragon swarming.
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==Themes==
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===''[[TCG]]''/''[[OCG]]''===
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<div class="columns" style="column-count:3">
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* [[Aether]]
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* [[Amorphage]]
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* [[Armed Dragon]]
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* [[Blue-Eyes]]
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* [[Borrel]]
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* [[Bystial]]
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* [[Curse of Dragon (series)|Curse of Dragon]]
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* [[Divine Dragon]]
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* [[Dracoverlord]]
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* [[Dragonmaid]]
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* [[Dragon Ruler]]
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* [[Evolzar]]
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* [[Four Dimensional Dragons]]
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* [[Gaia the Dragon Champion (archetype)|Gaia the Dragon Champion]]
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* [[Guardragon]]
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* [[Hieratic]]
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* [[Materiactor]]
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* [[Rokket]]
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* [[Sangen]]
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* [[Starving Venemy]]
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* [[Starving Venom]]
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* [[Tenpai Dragon]]
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; Mixed
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* [[Albaz Dragon]]
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* [[Chaos (series)|Chaos]]
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* [[Clear Wing]]
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* [[Cyberdark]]
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* [[Destruction Sword]]
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* [[Dracoslayer]]
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* [[Dragunity]]
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* [[Duel Dragon]]
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* [[Felgrand]]
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* [[Fusion Dragon]]
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* [[Galaxy]]
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* [[Horus]]
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* [[Majestic]]
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* [[Malefic]]
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* [[Odd-Eyes]]
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* [[Pendulum Dragon]]
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* [[Rebellion (archetype)|Rebellion]]
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* [[Red-Eyes]]
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* [[Red Dragon Archfiend (archetype)|Red Dragon Archfiend]]
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* [[Rose Dragon]]
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* [[Signer Dragon]]
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* [[Stardust (archetype)|Stardust]]
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* [[Supreme King]]
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* [[Synchro Dragon]]
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* [[Xyz Dragon]]
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===''[[Rush Duel]]''===
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* [[Blue-Eyes (Rush Duel)|Blue-Eyes]]
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* [[High Tech Dragon]]
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* [[Red-Eyes (Rush Duel)|Red-Eyes]]
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* [[Strike Dragon]]
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* [[The]]
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==Appearance in media==
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Dragon is a very prominent Type in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime and manga series. Typically, the main character's rivals would use Dragon (or Dragon-like) monsters to varying degrees in their Decks, usually as signature or boss monsters.
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The following characters use Dragon monsters across the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' franchise.
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{| style="width:100%"
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| style="vertical-align:top" |
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===Manga===
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
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* [[Seto Kaiba (manga)|Seto Kaiba]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]''
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* [[Willa Mette]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''
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* [[Chazz Princeton (manga)|Chazz Princeton]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]''
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* [[Yusei Fudo (manga)|Yusei Fudo]]
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* [[Jack Atlas (manga)|Jack Atlas]]
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* [[Akiza Izinski (manga)|Akiza Izinski]]
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* [[Crow Hogan (manga)|Crow Hogan]]
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* [[Luna (manga)|Luna]]
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* [[Leo (manga)|Leo]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL]]''
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* [[Kaito Tenjo (manga)|Kaito Tenjo]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]''
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* [[Yuya Sakaki (manga)|Yuya Sakaki]]
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* [[Yuto (manga)|Yuto]]
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* [[Yugo (manga)|Yugo]]
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* [[Yuri (manga)|Yuri]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS Luke! Explosive Supremacy Legend!!]]''
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* [[Tatsuhisa Kamijo (manga)|Tatsuhisa Kamijo]]
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| style="vertical-align:top; width:67%" |
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===Anime===
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<div class="columns" style="column-count:2">
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
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* [[Seto Kaiba]]
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* [[Rebecca Hawkins]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''
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* [[Chazz Princeton]]
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* [[Atticus Rhodes]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]''
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* [[Yusei Fudo]]
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* [[Jack Atlas]]
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* [[Akiza Izinski]]
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* [[Luna]]
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* [[Crow Hogan]]
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* [[Leo]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL]]''
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* [[Kite Tenjo]]
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* [[Mizar]]
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* [[Jinlon]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]''
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* [[Yuya Sakaki]]
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* [[Yuto]]
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* [[Yugo]]
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* [[Yuri]]
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* [[Z-ARC]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS]]''
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* [[Roken Kogami]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS]]''
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* [[Otes]]
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* [[Lucidien Kallister]]
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* [[The Lukeman]]
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;''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!]]''
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* [[Yuamu Ohdo]]
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* [[The☆Lugh]]
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|}
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==Icons==
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These are icons used to represent the Dragon Type in various video games. They all depict generic reptilian dragons.
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<gallery>
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Dragon.png          | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories|Forbidden Memories]]''
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DDM-VG-Dragon.png    | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters (video game)|Dungeon Dice Monsters]]''
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Dragon-Type-DM5.png  | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 5: Expert 1|Duel Monsters 5: Expert 1]]''
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Dragon-DOR.png      | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses|The Duelists of the Roses]]''
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TypeDragon-CMC.png  | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum|Capsule Monster Coliseum]]''
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Type-Dragon-YDT1.png | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Duel Transer|Duel Transer]]''
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Dragon-TF06.png      | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 6|Tag Force 6]]''
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Type-Dragon-DAR.png  | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Arena|Duel Arena]]''
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Dragon-DG.png        | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation|Duel Generation]]''
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Type-Dragon-LOD2.png | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution|Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution]]''
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Type-Dragon-MADU.png | ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel|Master Duel]]''
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</gallery>
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==Trivia==
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* Outside of the Dragon Type, the [[Sea Serpent]] and [[Wyrm]] types are also thematically focused on draconic monsters, being themed after sea dragons and [[wikipedia:Chinese dragon|Eastern dragons]]/"spiritual" dragons respectively.
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== In other languages ==
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{{In other languages
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| fr_name  = Dragon
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| de_name  = Drache
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| it_name  = Drago
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| pt_name  = Dragão
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| es_name  = Dragón
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| ja_name  = ドラゴン
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| ja_romaji = Doragon
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| ko_name  = 드래곤
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| ko_rr    = Deuraegon
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| tc_name  = 龍
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| tc_pinyin = Lóng
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| sc_name  = 龙
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| sc_pinyin = Lóng
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}}
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== See also ==
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* [[List of Dragon-Type monsters]]
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* [[List of Dragon-Type support cards]]
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* [[List of Dragon-Type anti-support cards]]
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{{Card types}}
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[[Category:Types]]

Latest revision as of 19:50, 15 April 2024

Blue-Eyes White Dragon
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon", a Dragon monster.

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[edit]

Dragon monsters primarily represent mythological dragons from various cultures. They typically appear as serpentine, reptile, or avian beings that symbolize chaos, both either evil or good, fierceness and intimidation. Due to being one of the most prominent Types in the franchise, Dragons come in many shapes and forms, from the typical bipedal European dragons, such as "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to the traditionally-serpentine Chinese dragons, such as "Divine Dragon Ragnarok", to everything in-between and beyond.

From Series 9 onwards, Dragon monsters also encompass human-dragon hybrids that add draconic features to human forms, representing either humans with draconic powers or dragons transformed into human forms. Examples include "Dragon Core Hexer", "Fallen of Albaz", and "Dragonmaid" monsters. Dragons primarily come in DARK or LIGHT, although there are Dragon monsters for all six primary Attributes.

Dragons have a strong association with the boss monster role in decks and deck themes; there are many high-Level/Rank/Link Rating Dragon monsters with high ATK (rivalled only by the Machine type) and powerful effects, and several multi-type themes have Dragon monsters as their ace, such as "Judgment Dragon" in "Lightsworn" or "Infernity Doom Dragon" in "Infernity".

Due to its prominence, Dragon-focused themes come in many playstyles, from simple Aggro-Beatdown tactics to Burn.

Dragon-focused Decks[edit]

Dragon Fusion Decks[edit]

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[edit]

See also: Galaxy, Photon, Tachyon, Danger!, and Horus

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[edit]

See also: Gandora FTK and Rokket

Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support, in particular Link Monsters requiring generic Dragon monsters as materials, to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible. The deck originated from a version of Gandora FTK that used Dragon swarming engines and Guardragon Link Monsters, evolved into board-building decks based on Dragon swarming and Dragon Link Monsters (including Guardragons), and as of Series 12, primarily takes the form of "Rokket" decks that focus on Dragon swarming.

Themes[edit]

TCG/OCG[edit]

Mixed

Rush Duel[edit]

Appearance in media[edit]

Dragon is a very prominent Type in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series. Typically, the main character's rivals would use Dragon (or Dragon-like) monsters to varying degrees in their Decks, usually as signature or boss monsters.

The following characters use Dragon monsters across the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.

Manga[edit]

Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! R
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS Luke! Explosive Supremacy Legend!!

Anime[edit]

Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS
Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!!

Icons[edit]

These are icons used to represent the Dragon Type in various video games. They all depict generic reptilian dragons.

Trivia[edit]

  • Outside of the Dragon Type, the Sea Serpent and Wyrm types are also thematically focused on draconic monsters, being themed after sea dragons and Eastern dragons/"spiritual" dragons respectively.

In other languages[edit]

"Dragon" in languages other than English
Language NameRomanized
French Dragon
German Drache
Italian Drago
Portuguese Dragão
Spanish Dragón
Japanese ドラゴンDoragon
Korean 드래곤Deuraegon
Chinese (Traditional) 龍Lóng
Chinese (Simplified) 龙Lóng

See also[edit]

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