Zombie

Zombie
Japanese (translated)	Undead
English	Zombie
Other names French: Zombie German: Zombie
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Zombie monsters represent undead beings, mostly mummies or apparitions. They are perhaps the best sub-type at Swarming the field. Zombie monsters are known for having many cards that revive other zombies, most notable Zombie Master, Il Blud, Mezuki and Book of Life. Because of that most players add 2 copies of Card of Safe Return to Zombie Decks. They are usually Dark monsters, although a noticable number are Earth. Zombie monsters often have low DEF, a factor that works in their favor, since Pyramid Turtle and Goblin Zombie can search out high-level monsters with low DEF quickly. Aside from being able to be summoned or revived quickly, a common theme among them are card effects that mill the opponent's deck, and a few of them counter mill or Hand destruction tactics themselves (such as Despair from the Dark). They also have field control abilities from Zombie-Type Synchro monsters, focusing on tuning with Plaguespreader Zombie.

Zombies also have two of their own Structure Decks, Structure Deck 2: Zombie Madness and Structure Deck 15: Zombie World. Bonz, from the anime also uses a Zombie Deck.

A recurring aesthetic theme among many Zombies and Zombie support cards is that of Ancient Egypt, such as Pyramid Turtle, Tutan Mask, and Spirit of the Pharaoh. Though the Ancient Egyptian theme occurs elsewhere in OCG/TCG cards, it tends to be the most prevalent among Zombies.

In the OCG, Zombies are called Undead, although close examination shows that it is actually Undeat. This probably resulted from staff from Konami mistakingly printing 「アンデット」 instead of 「アンデッド」 on every Zombie card in Vol.1, and came into the spotlight when Undeat Warrior was released in Vol.2.

While this stirred confusion back then, it is now treated as a long running joke by the OCG community.

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