Alignment

Alignment, also known as Summon (召喚 Shōkan), is a card property used in the early Gameboy Duel Monsters rules.

The name "Summon" is used consistently throughout the Japanese games. The North American English Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories uses the name "Alignment". The European English Dark Duel Stories uses the name "Attribute". The English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards and Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction use the name "Summon".

Cards of particular Alignments have strengths and weaknesses against cards of other particular alignments. There are four Magic User Alignments, six elemental Alignments, and the Divine Alignment.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, each Alignment with the exception of Divine is represented with a Guardian Star.

List

Name	Other names	Strong against	Weak against
Dark	Black Magic, Shadow	Light	Illusion Magic
Light	White Magic, Light	Fiend	Dark
Fiend	Demon Magic	Dreams	Light
Dreams	Illusion Magic	Dark	Fiend
Water	Aqua	Fire	Thunder
Fire	Flame, Pyro	Forest	Water
Forest	Wood	Wind	Fire
Wind		Earth	Forest
Earth		Thunder	Wind
Thunder		Water	Earth
Divine	Devine

Manga basis

Alignments are for the most part derived from concepts from the early manga Duel Monsters. In the manga, the four Magic Users were Types, five of the six elements were Attributes and Divine was used to describe the Egyptian God cards. The strengths and weaknesses of the Magic Users and some of the elements were taken from the manga.