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Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible, with good degree of resistance against common interruptions. As the name implies, Dragon Link decks involves using the "[[Rokket]]" engine to summon a large number of various Dragon monsters through usage of various Dragon [[Link Monster]] to set up plays and summoning generic Extra Deck boss monsters.
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Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible, with good degree of resistance against common interruptions. The deck originated from a version of [[Gandora FTK]] that used Dragon swarming engines and [[Guardragon]] Link Monsters, evolved into board-building decks based on Dragon swarming and Dragon [[Link Monster]]s (including Guardragons), and as of Series 12, primarily takes the form of "[[Rokket]]" decks that focus on Dragon swarming.
  
 
==Themes==
 
==Themes==

Revision as of 18:04, 6 November 2023

Dragon

Three "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in the artwork of "Rage with Eyes of Blue".
Three "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in the artwork of "Rage with Eyes of Blue".

Japanese

ドラゴン

Japanese (romanized)

Doragon

English

Dragon

Lists

Dragon (ドラゴン Doragon) is a Type of Monster Cards. It debuted in Vol.1 in the OCG, Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon in the TCG, and Deck Mod Pack: Hyperspeed Rush Road!! in Rush Duel.

Overview

Dragon monsters primarily represent mythological dragons from various cultures. They typically appear as serpentine, reptile, or avian beings that symbolize chaos, both either evil or good, fierceness and intimidation. Due to being one of the most prominent Types in the franchise, Dragons come in many shapes and forms, from the typical bipedal European dragons, such as "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" to the traditionally-serpentine Chinese dragons, such as "Divine Dragon Ragnarok", to everything in-between and beyond.

From Series 9 onwards, Dragon monsters also encompass human-dragon hybrids that add draconic features to human forms, representing either humans with draconic powers or dragons transformed into human forms. Examples include "Dragon Core Hexer", "Fallen of Albaz", and "Dragonmaid" monsters. Dragons primarily come in DARK or LIGHT, although there are Dragon monsters for all six primary Attributes.

Dragons have a strong association with the boss monster role in decks and deck themes; there are many high-Level/Rank/Link Rating Dragon monsters with high ATK (rivalled only by the Machine type) and powerful effects, and several multi-type themes have Dragon monsters as their ace, such as "Judgment Dragon" in "Lightsworn" or "Infernity Doom Dragon" in "Infernity".

Due to its prominence, Dragon-focused themes come in many playstyles, from simple Aggro-Beatdown tactics to Burn.

Dragon-focused Decks

Dragon Fusion Decks

See also: Blue-Eyes, Dragonmaid, Branded, and Despia

Historically, various Dragon Decks often focus on getting Fusion Monsters like "Five-Headed Dragon", "King Dragun", "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", and sometimes even "Dragon Master Knight" or "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon" to the field. Usually "Dragon's Mirror" or pre-Errata "Future Fusion" is used to accomplish these tasks. Though in later years, several Fusion Summoning-based Dragon Decks or supports were introduced, which allows a large degree of hybridization between these themes.

8-Axis

See also: Galaxy, Photon, and Danger!

8-Axis is an Xyz Summoning-focused Deck which involves around exploiting a large number of generic Rank 8 Dragon Xyz Monsters along with other generic Rank 8 Xyz Monsters for their main plays. There are several variants of 8-Axis decks, though most of them consists of various easy-to-summon Level 8 monsters to quickly summon Rank 8 monsters as soon as possible.

Dragon Link

See also: Gandora FTK and Rokket

Dragon Link is a Deck focused on using various generic Dragon support to bringing out boss monsters as consistently as possible, with good degree of resistance against common interruptions. The deck originated from a version of Gandora FTK that used Dragon swarming engines and Guardragon Link Monsters, evolved into board-building decks based on Dragon swarming and Dragon Link Monsters (including Guardragons), and as of Series 12, primarily takes the form of "Rokket" decks that focus on Dragon swarming.

Themes

Pure

Mixed

In other media

Trivia

  • Outside of the Dragon types, there are considerable amount of draconic monsters that belongs to the other types:
    • The Sea Serpent generally consists of various sea dragons or similar marine reptile-like creatures,
    • The Wyrm type generally depicts the Eastern dragons along with the more mystical and spiritual appearances (though a considerable number of Dragon monsters released prior to the Wyrm type's existance, such as "Number 100: Numeron Dragon" resembles Wyrm monsters in appearance).
    • There are also a large number of non-Dragon monsters with draconic features and "Dragon" in their names in various other types, such as the Machine-type "Cyber Dragon" or the Cyberse-type "Firewall Dragon", etc..

Notes

  1. ↑ While all of the "Blue-Eyes" cards were Dragon, a large number of "Blue-Eyes" support, particularly the With Eyes of Blue series, are not Dragon monsters.
  2. ↑ Primarily through the "Red Dragon Archfiend" archetype.
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