Sevens Road
Sevens Road (セブンスロード Sebunsu Rōdo) is a series of DARK Attribute Spellcaster Type monsters, debuting in Starter Deck Yuga - Cut Through! Sevens Road!!. It is used by Yuga Ohdo (and his manga counterpart) and Otes in the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime and manga, Yuna Goha (and her manga counterpart) and Yuga (and his other manga counterpart) in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH!! anime and manga, and Taiyo Asobe in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel LP manga. The series is related to the Darkness and Road Magic series.
In the anime
In the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime, the Sevens Road series was developed by Otes at the Development Department of Goha Enterprises. The theme was based on the plot of the book SEVENS, in which the "Magician" travels the world looking for the other holders of the power of Seven, the Sevens, which make up the other monsters in the series.
Otes gave "Sevens Road Magician" to Yuga when Yuga was a child. In addition, Otes proclaimed that the Sevens Road monsters will be the road leading the owner to the throne of the King.[1]
Design
The main Sevens each have a different Level from 1 to 7. Each of the Sevens share the same background in a different color, matching the color of their clothing (except for "Magician" and "Witch", which wear black): a crest containing 7 rings, with each ring having a different symbol inside. Each of the Sevens also wears 7 rings somewhere on their body, and has their own cross-shaped magical symbol in the same color as the background of their art, which appears 7 times in their background; each of these symbols also appears in the artwork of "Master of the Sevens Road", overlaying its corresponding ring from the sigil of each Seven's background.
When the monsters are sorted by Level, the colors arrange themselves to form the rainbow order, although offset by 2 (such that it begins with yellow, loops back to red after violet, and ends with orange). This order can also be seen in the rings hanging from the belt of "Master".
Additionally, the Sevens Road monsters are visually similar to the "Dark Magician" and "Gagaga" monsters, with "Sevens Road Magician" and "Sevens Road Witch" in particular being counterparts to "Dark Magician" and "Dark Magician Girl", respectively; several other cards related to the archetype and used by Yuga Ohdo also reference other cards used by Yugi Muto, and the outer circle of the Sevens Road sigil is similar to the "Dark Magical Circle".
The symbols in the crest in the background each correspond to a different Seven; the artwork of "Master of the Sevens Road" shows that the symbol in the center corresponds to "Magician", while the others are in clockwise order of increasing Level, starting with "Wiz" at the top. When "Master of the Sevens Road" appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS anime, this order appears to be reversed, instead being in clockwise order of decreasing Level starting with "Witch" at the top.[2]
| Level | Sevens Road | Color | Symbol | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artwork | Anime | |||
| 1 | Wiz | Yellow | Top | Upper left |
| 2 | Mage | Green | Upper right | Lower left |
| 3 | Enchanter | Cyan | Lower right | Bottom |
| 4 | Sorcerer | Blue | Bottom | Lower right |
| 5 | Warlock | Violet | Lower left | Upper right |
| 6 | Witch | Red | Upper left | Top |
| 7 | Magician | Orange | Center | |
| 9 | Master | Rainbow | All | |
| 10 | Ultima Witch | Rainbow | All | |
Playing style
The main Sevens support DARK Spellcaster monsters, in particular the Level 7 "Sevens Road Magician"; each of their effects becomes stronger when "Sevens Road Magician" is in play. The main play of the series is to use "Sevens Road Witch" and "Magician" together, with "Warlock" and "Sorcerer" helping set up the pair; they can then be fused into the series's boss monster, the Fusion Monster "Master of the Sevens Road", which becomes stronger for every DARK Spellcaster in the Graveyard with a different name.
Despite the focus on DARK Spellcasters, the Deck encourages also using Spellcasters of a variety of Attributes; "Magician" (and its other Fusion form, "Sevens Paladin", as well as the Equip Spell "Road Arms - Sevens Lance") becomes stronger for every monster in the Graveyard with a different Attribute, and the related Road Magic Spells each require discarding a different Attribute of monster to activate.
As a Spellcaster theme, the Deck benefits from a variety of powerful generic Spellcaster support cards, most notably the Trap "Dark Revelation". "Accel Wonder Flare" and "Splat" can help set up the effects of the Road Magics more easily. The Legend Card "Dark Magician" is a Level 7 DARK Spellcaster, so it and its associated support cards work well with the support for "Sevens Road Magician".
Recommended cards
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References
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS episode 13: "The Chosen One"
- ↑ Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS episode 85: "Stop Pretending"
