Fiend

"Demon Magic" redirects here. For the Alignment, see Demon Magic (Alignment).

Fiend
Japanese	悪（あく）魔（ま）
Japanese (ruby)	あくま
Japanese (base text)	悪魔
Japanese (romanized)	Akuma
Japanese (translated)	Demon
English	Fiend
Other names French: Démon German: Unterweltler Italian: Demone Korean: 악마 (惡魔) Angma Portuguese: Demônio Spanish: Demonio Chinese: 惡魔 Èmó / Ok3 mo1
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Fiends (悪（あく）魔（ま） Akuma "Demon") are a monster Type consisting of cards resembling demons and devils, as well as many other vile, twisted beasts or mischievous beings. Fiends are almost exclusively DARK Attribute, as there are hundreds of DARK Fiends but only a few of other Attributes. Fiends are one of the most established and powerful Types in the entire Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise. As such, there is no specific dueling strategy built around them and their play style, although the majority focus on offensive tactics and destroying the opponent's cards, as well as pressuring the opponent by cornering them with stun and lockdown effects, banishing effects, or deck milling.

Fiends are most notably used by PaniK, Yami Bakura, Yami Marik, Declan Akaba, and Akira Zaizen. Some of both Yami Yugi, Yugi Muto and Jack Atlas's most well known monsters are Fiends, and Sylvio Sawatari's final deck is made up of Fiends. Otherwise, Fiends are generally cards used by minor antagonistic characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! media.

Fiend monsters have their own Structure Decks; Structure Deck: Devil's Gate/Gates of the Underworld Structure Deck, which focused on "Dark World" monsters, and Structure Deck: Pendulum Domination, which focused on "D/D" monsters.

Fiend archetypes and series include "Archfiend", "Dark World", "Evil HERO", "Djinn of Rituals", "Fabled", "Steelswarm", "Wicked God", "Resonator", "Crashbug", "D/D", "Infernoid", "Magical Musket", "Abyss Actor", and "Tindangle".

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