Zombie
| Zombie
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| Japanese |
アンデット | ||
| Japanese (ruby) |
アンデットぞく | ||
| Japanese (base text) |
アンデット族 | ||
| Japanese (translated) |
Undead | ||
| English |
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 Card of Safe Return to their 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. Although they have the ability to be summoned or revived quickly, most zombie monsters have difficulty getting over 2500 ATK besides Despair from the Dark. The best way to over come this weakness is by adding a Gorz the Emissary of Darkness for the sudden beatstick or a Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter to blow up 1 card on the field, then mill the top 3 cards from your deck and chance of puting Zombies in the graveyard. 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.
There are also several Zombie Counterparts, notably the recently released Revived King Ha Des and Doomkaiser Dragon. A common theme among Zombie Counterparts is that they would be statistically identical to the monster (in the case of Dark Ruler, even having a similar effect tailored to suit the monster's new type). A recent aesthetic theme that has emerged can be found in the new Burning Skull Archetype which include monsters such as "Burning Skull Head" and "Skull Flame" used by Hunter Pace in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's anime.
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.
