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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.
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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
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
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
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
TCG/OCG
- Amorphage
- Armed Dragon
- Borrel / Rokket
- Blue-Eyes[Notes 1]
- Bystial
- Divine Dragon
- Dragonmaid
- Dragon Ruler
- Guardragon
- Hieratic
- Materiactor
- Mixed
Rush Duel
Appearance in media
Dragon is a very prominent Type in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series. Typically, the main character's rivals would use Dragon (or Dragon-like) monsters to varying degrees in their Decks, usually as signature or boss monsters.
The following characters use Dragon monsters across the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise.
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Icons
These are icons used to represent the Dragon Type in various video games.
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Primarily through the "Red Dragon Archfiend" archetype.
- ↑ While Kaiba's Deck primarily consists of Beast-Warrior and Fiend monsters, his signature card is the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", which he propped with multiple support cards. Additionally, in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, he also started adding more Dragon monsters and supports in his Deck, such as "Krystal Dragon" and "Pandemic Dragon".
- ↑ While Yusei's Deck primarily focuses on the Warrior and Machine "Junk" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is the Duel Dragon "Stardust Spark Dragon", an aspect which he focused on more later in the manga.
- ↑ While Akiza's Deck primarily focuses on the Plant "Rose" monsters, one of her most prominent cards is the Duel Dragon "Moonlight Dragon Black Rose".
- ↑ While Crow's Deck primarily focuses on the Winged Beast "Blackwing" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is the Duel Dragon "Blackwing Dragon Black Feather".
- ↑ a b Leo and Luna share a single Deck, with Leo initially being the one to Duel. The former uses the Duel Dragon "Power Tool Mecha Dragon", while the latter uses the Duel Dragon "Ancient Pixie Dragon".
- ↑ While Yuto's Deck primarily focuses on the Warrior "The Phantom Knights" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon".
- ↑ While Yugo's Deck primarily focuses on the Machine "Speedroid" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is "Clearwing Fast Dragon".
- ↑ While Yuri's Deck primarily focuses on the Plant "Predaplant" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is "Starving Venemy Dragon".
- ↑ While Eve uses a "Mystic" Deck, she is also in possession of the "Genesis Omega Dragon" card.
- ↑ Early in the anime, Kaiba's Deck's contents mostly follow on his manga version's penchant for Fiend and Beast-Warrior monster, spearheaded by "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". Later in the anime, Kaiba added many more Dragons in his repertoire, such as "Spear Dragon", "Different Dimension Dragon", and "Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End".
- ↑ Chazz uses the "Armed Dragon" monsters as a core part of his Deck.
- ↑ While Yusei's Deck primarily focuses on Warrior and Machine monsters, one of his most prominent cards is the Signer Dragon "Stardust Dragon".
- ↑ While Akiza's Deck primarily focuses on Warrior and Plant monsters, one of her most prominent cards is the Signer Dragon "Black Rose Dragon".
- ↑ Luna runs a Spirit Deck focusing on nature and the Duel Monster Spirit World, in which her Signer Dragon "Ancient Fairy Dragon" is a central part of.
- ↑ While Crow's Deck primarily focuses on the Winged Beast "Blackwing" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is the Signer Dragon "Black-Winged Dragon".
- ↑ While Leo's Deck primarily focuses on the Machine "Morphtronic" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is the Signer Dragon "Life Stream Dragon".
- ↑ While Yuto's Deck primarily focuses on the Warrior "The Phantom Knights" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is one of the Four Dimensional Dragons, "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon".
- ↑ While Yugo's Deck primarily focuses on the Machine "Speedroid" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is one of the Four Dimensional Dragons, "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon".
- ↑ While Yuri's Deck primarily focuses on the Plant "Predaplant" monsters, one of his most prominent cards is one of the Four Dimensional Dragons, "Starving Venom Fusion Dragon".
- ↑ Roken primarily uses a "rokket" Deck, which includes Dragon monsters; all of his ace monsters are draconic in appearance, though only "Borreload Dragon" is actually a Dragon.
