Dragon

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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

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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

The Dragon type are typically composed of a classical depiction of the European dragons; typically reptilian-like in appearance and posesses demon/bat-like wings that symbolize chaos, evil, fierceness and intimidation. In recent years, there are also various Dragon monsters with human-like appearance with only some distinct draconic features to tell them apart from normal humans, either them being a human who inherited the draconic powers in some form, or that they are dragons that take the appearance of a human. Examples of these monsters including "Dragon Core Hexer", "Fallen of Albaz", and various "Dragonmaid" monsters.

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, wheas 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). In addition, 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..

Dragons tend to be the strongest or key boss monster in numerous Deck types in addition one of the most established and powerful Monster Types in the entire franchise, with several multi-type themes having Dragon monsters as their ace, such as "Judgment Dragon" in "Lightsworn" Deck, and "Infernity Doom Dragon" in "Infernity" archetype. Ever since the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise began, Dragon monsters have been known for having an ATK power greater than any other type of monster in the game, rivalled only by the Machine type, in addition to having varied and powerful effects.

While there are numerous Dragon themes with varied playstyle, a recurring theme among several notable Dragon theme involves the use of Graveyard to set up their game plans, typically involves sending Dragon monsters to the GY to trigger their GY effects or to use them as a resource later on. Low-level Dragon monsters usually has an effect to aid in bringing out stronger monsters, either by searching them from the Main Deck or to send them to GY for later plays. While high-level Dragon monsters typically have powerful interruption or removal effect to disrupt the opponent's game plans.

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: 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. 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 high-level monsters.

Themes

Pure

Mixed

Trivia

Notes

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