Card Trivia:Battle Ox
Manga depiction
OCG/TCG artwork
- The illustration in the image´s artwork resembles the first appearance of "Battle Ox" when it attacked Yugi Mutou's "Blackland Fire Dragon" in the first Duel between him and Seto Kaiba in the manga.
- This monster has a retrained counterpart: "Enraged Battle Ox".
- It also has another counterpart: "Battle Steer".
- Either this monster or "Enraged Battle Ox", appears in the artworks of "Triggered Summon", "The Unselected One", "Pixie Ring", and "Rookie Fight".
- The Bandai version of this card is Level 6 and has 2400 ATK, whereas the Konami version is Level 4 and has 1700 ATK.
- This card's Japanese name (also used in the manga) is a reference to the Greek monster, the Minotaur, which is also a humanoid bull monster.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories, when this monster is Summoned, it instantly discards all Pyro-Type monster from the opponent's hand.
- For some reason, in videogames such as Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses, the 3-D model of this monster had its midsection recolored black.
- This card can be seen in the Tablet of Lost Memories as one of Priest Seto's monsters.
- This card's tablet version was also seen with Priest Seto in episode 52
- This card's name may be a pun on the phrase "battle-axe".
- At Joey and Kaiba's first duel, Yugi warned Joey that Battle Ox is resistant to Fire. In real life, Battle Ox possesses no such ability.
