Card evolutions

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Card evolutions, or retrained monsters, is the term used to describe a monster that has been reprinted with a new effect and slightly different name, but with the same base ATK and DEF, and usually Level and appearance as well. Examples include "Battle Ox" to "Enraged Battle Ox" and "Magician of Black Chaos" to "Dark Magician of Chaos". Special cases are "Harpie Lady 1", "Harpie Lady 2", and "Harpie Lady 3", which all have the same stats as the original "Harpie Lady", but are not all representing the same creature. Rather, they are the three sisters from "Harpie Lady Sisters".

The term "retrained" comes from "Retrained Elf Swordsman," a deliberate mistranslation of the Japanese name for "Obnoxious Celtic Guard", who is a retrained version of "Elf Swordsman" ("Celtic Guardian").[citation needed]

Retrained monsters are not to be confused with upgraded ones, such as "Cannon Soldier MK-2". These, like retrained monsters, are clearly based on existing cards. However, unlike retrained versions, these have higher ATK and/or DEF and an effect meant to improve upon the original.

Retrained cards

Original Retrained
Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon
Ancient Gear Golem Ancient Gear Golem - Ultimate Pound
Baby Dragon Red-Eyes Baby Dragon
Battle Ox Enraged Battle Ox
Black Luster Soldier
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
Blue-Eyes White Dragon Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon
Buster Blader Buster Blader, the Destruction Swordmaster
B. Skull Dragon Archfiend Black Skull Dragon
Celtic Guardian Obnoxious Celtic Guard
Cocoon of Evolution Super Cocoon of Evolution
Curse of Dragon Curse of Dragonfire
Dark Blade Dark Blade the Captain of the Evil World
Dark-Eyes Illusionist Millennium-Eyes Illusionist
Dark Magician Magician of Dark Illusion
Dark Magician Girl Apprentice Illusion Magician
Doll of Demise Malice Doll of Demise
Doriado Elemental Mistress Doriado
Dunames Dark Witch Power Angel Valkyria
Elemental HERO Neos Elemental HERO Honest Neos
Fortress Whale Citadel Whale
Gaia the Dragon Champion Sky Galloping Gaia the Dragon Champion
Gaia The Fierce Knight
Gearfried the Iron Knight Red-Eyes Metal Knight Gearfried
Giant Orc Tardy Orc
Giant Soldier of Stone Sentry Soldier of Stone
Harpie Lady Harpie Lady 1
Magician of Black Chaos Dark Magician of Chaos
Marauding Captain Marmiting Captain
Meteor Dragon Meteor Dragon Red-Eyes Impact
Meteor B. Dragon Meteor Black Comet Dragon
Number F0: Utopic Future Number F0: Utopic Future - Future Slash
Parasite Paracide Parasite Paranoid
Raidraptor - Revolution Falcon Raidraptor - Revolution Falcon - Airraid
Red-Eyes B. Dragon Red-Eyes Black Flare Dragon
Saggi the Dark Clown Peten the Dark Clown
St. Joan Guardian Angel Joan
Summoned Skull
Spiral Serpent Phantasm Spiral Dragon
Swordsman of Landstar Comrade Swordsman of Landstar
Super Conductor Tyranno Ultimate Conductor Tyranno
Ultimate Tyranno
Thousand-Eyes Restrict Millennium-Eyes Restrict
Troop Dragon Soldier Dragon
Tuning Magician Harmonizing Magician
Vorse Raider Kaiser Vorse Raider

Alternate cards

Upgraded cards

Monster Cards

Spell Cards

Trap Cards

Transformed cards

LV

Metal counterparts

Toon Monsters

Zombie

Assault Modes

Majestic

Malefic

Cosmic Synchro Monsters

Number C and Number S

Xyz counterparts

CXyz