Virus
"Virus" (ウイルス Uirusu or ウィルス Wirusu) is a series of Trap Cards used by Seto Kaiba in both the anime and manga, and by Kyoko Taki in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.
The later members are spun off the original card, "Crush Card Virus". "Crush Card Virus" is a Virus Card in the manga. Somewhat ironically, "Crush Card Virus" no longer has the Lingering Effect of other "Virus" cards in the TCG/OCG due to receiving a major errata so that it did not need to be Forbidden. However, the monster counterpart of "Crush Card Virus", "Doom Virus Dragon", has the same effect that it did prior to its errata.
Commonalities
All members of the series have the following properties in common:
- They are Normal Trap Cards (except in manga that Virus Cards exist).
- The activation cost is Tributing a monster that meets a certain restriction.
- Upon resolution, it destroys opponent's cards that meet a certain condition.
- Until the opponent's 3rd turn after it was activated, its Lingering Effect has a negative effect on the opponent (except for "Crush Card Virus" after its major errata).
Members
Virus | Cost | Affected cards | Kanji | Associated monster |
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Crush Card | 1 DARK monster with 1000 or less ATK | Monsters with 1500 or more ATK | 死 (death) | Lich Lord, King of the Underworld (Death King Lich Lord) |
Current Corruption | 1 DARK monster with 0 DEF | Monsters with 2000 or less DEF | none | Dark Mummy Probe |
Deck Devastation | 1 DARK monster with 2000 or more ATK | Monsters with 1500 or less ATK | 魔 (demon) | Diabolos, King of the Abyss (Demon King Diabolos) |
Eradicator Epidemic | 1 DARK monster with 2500 or more ATK | Spell or Trap Cards | 闇 (darkness) | Prometheus, King of the Shadows (Prometheus, King of Darkness) |
Full Force | 1 DARK monster with 2000 or more DEF | Monsters with 1500 or less DEF | 影 (shadow) | Duke Shade, the Sinister Shadow Lord (Duke Shade, the Shadow King) |
Grinning Grave | 1 DARK monster with 3000 or less ATK | 1 card in their hand and/or Deck for every 500 ATK the Tributed monster had on the field | 悪 (wicked) | Ahrima, the Wicked Warden (Ahrima, the Wicked King) |
Last Machine Acid | 1 WATER monster | Machine monsters | none | Acid Slime |
Planet Pollutant | 1 "Alien" monster | Face-up monsters without an A-Counter | none | Interplanetary Invader "A" |
Root Ransom | 1 DARK monster with 0 ATK | Link Monsters | none | Dark Mummy Infuser |
Playing style
"Lair of Darkness" can be used to Tribute the opponent's monsters for the activation cost of "Virus" cards.