Fairy Tail
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Fairy Tail (
Design
Appearance
Each "Fairy Tail" monster is an anthropomorphic animal based on a princess from classic fairy tale stories.
All "Fairy Tail" monsters have a book (or a scroll in the case of "Luna") in their tails, adorned by a big ribbon.
Their artworks share a background adorned with a pattern (albeit in different colors for each card) along some bubbles that surrounds the monster.
Etymology
"Fairy Tail" is a play on the term "Fairy tales" and the word "Tail", referencing the fact that all the members of this series are animals.
The kanji of the "Fairy Tail" reading in Japanese, 「妖精伝姫」 (normally Yōsei Denki), is a combination of 「妖精」 (Yōsei, "fairy") and 「伝姫」 (Denki), a wordplay on 「伝記」 (Denki, "biography"), with the homophonous character 「姫」 (ki, "princess") being substituted in as a pun. Incidentally, 「伝姫」 is also homophonous with 「伝奇」, an archaic Chinese loanword in Japanese for "legend", though it is unclear if the reference is intentional.
Members
| Fairy Tail | Origin | |
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| Animal | Story | |
| Luna | Fox | The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter |
| Rella | Dog | Cinderella |
| Rochka | Ferret | Snegurochka |
| Sleeper | Cat | Sleeping Beauty |
| Snow | Squirrel | Snow White |
Playing style
So far, Fairy Tails have effects that allows to disrupt opponent's plays along with effects that helps to swarm the field and search cards.
Rella - Prevents other monsters from being targeted by Spell cards and equips herself an Equip Spell Card from hand, deck or graveyard.
Luna - Returns an opponent's monster to the hand during either player's turn and searches another monster when she is normal summoned.
Sleeper - Flip monster that special summons a monster from your hand, and allows to change an opponent's normal Spell/Trap effect.
Snow - Flips an opponent's monster face-down upon normal/special summon, and allows herself to be special summoned from the graveyard during either player's turn.
