Shark (series)

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Shark
"Hammer Shark", "Spear Shark" and "Double Shark"
Japanese
  • シャーク
  • Shāku (romanized)
French
  • Requin
German
  • Stung
Italian
  • Squalo
Korean
  • 샤크
  • Syakeu (romanized)
Portuguese
  • Tubarão
Spanish
  • Tiburón
Sets
TCG
OCG
Korean
Anime appearances
Manga appearances
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Shark (シャーク Shāku) is a series primarily consisting of WATER and/or Fish monsters. They were used by Reginald Kastle/Nash in the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime and manga, in which this series is considered an archetype due to "Shark" being mentioned in several card texts.

Members[edit]

Membership in the Shark series is primarily indicated by their relations to their user in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Reginald Kastle/Nash. Monsters such as "Scrap Shark" are thus not considered to be in this series, because they are unrelated to Reginald/Nash.

Main Deck[edit]

Paired

Level Shark Counterpart Shark
3/4 Left-Hand Shark Right-Hand Shark
4 Double Shark Spear Shark
Double Fin Shark Saber Shark
Buzzsaw Shark Lantern Shark
5 Eagle Shark Panther Shark
Abyss Shark Crystal Shark

Non-Paired

Level Shark
1 Mermaid Shark
3 Shark Stickers
4 Hammer Shark
5 Depth Shark
Gazer Shark
Dream Shark
6 Sharkraken
8 Hyper-Ancient Shark Megalodon

Extra Deck[edit]

Number

Rank Shark
4 Number 32: Shark Drake
Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss
Number 37: Hope Woven Dragon Spider Shark
3 Number 47: Nightmare Shark
Number 71: Rebarian Shark

Non-Number

Rank Shark
2 Cat Shark
3 Shark Caesar
Submersible Carrier Aero Shark
4 Bahamut Shark
5 Shark Fortress
Valiant Shark Lancer

Related monster series[edit]

Black Ray Lancer

In the anime, one of Reginald's signature cards was the Rank 3 Xyz Monster "Black Ray Lancer". In the card game, the card received a card game original retrained variant, known as "Valiant Shark Lancer".

Series Members
Black Ray Lancer Black Ray Lancer
Valiant Shark Lancer

Number 10X

Nash's Number 10X ace monster was "Number 101: Silent Honor ARK", which had a Number C10X form, "Number C101: Silent Honor DARK". They took the forms of a large spacecraft and an armored, lance-wielding pilot.

In Duelist Pack: Duelists of the Abyss, the two monsters were given retrained card game-original variant forms, under the names "N.As.H. Knight" and "CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight".

Series Chariot Knight
S.H.ARK Knight Number 101: Silent Honor ARK Number C101: Silent Honor DARK
N.As.H. Knight N.As.H. Knight CXyz N.As.Ch. Knight

Mythyrian Numbers

The two Mythyrian Numbers monsters associated with Nash and Marin were "Number 73: Abyss Splash" and "Number 94: Crystalzero", and both were primarily used by Nash in the anime.

Series Members
Abyss Splash Number 73: Abyss Splash
Number C73: Abyss Supra Splash
Crystalzero Number 94: Crystalzero

Xyz Armor & Full Armored

All "Xyz Armor" monsters and "Full Armored" monsters are related to Nash's anime monsters; they are all related to each other through the "Armored Xyz" Spell and Trap cards, which equip Xyz Monsters onto other Xyz Monsters.

Playing style[edit]

Shark as a strategy is focused on swarming the field to perform Xyz Summons of Rank 3-5 WATER Xyz Monsters. As a series with no named archetypal support, Shark monsters primarily support WATER and/or Fish monsters to advance their game plan, and benefit from non-series WATER/Fish support.

The key Shark monsters that enable the swarming of the Shark strategy are the Shark pairs "Left-Hand Shark" and "Right-Hand Shark", "Buzzsaw Shark" and "Lantern Shark", and "Abyss Shark" and "Crystal Shark".

  • "Left-Hand" and "Right-Hand" can Special Summon themselves from the hand or GY, the latter can search the former when Normal Summoned, and both provide protection to an Xyz Monster summoned using them as material.
  • "Buzzsaw" and "Lantern" can Special Summon Fish or WATER monsters from the Deck or hand, and can also be used as Level 3 or 5 monsters to summon WATER Xyz monsters. However, they lock the player into only summoning Xyz Monsters from the Extra Deck for the turn.
  • "Abyss" and "Crystal" can Special Summon themselves from the hand or GY, the former can search the latter if Special Summoned, and both can be used as Level 3 or 4 monsters for "Number" Xyz Monsters. However, they lock the player into only summoning WATER Xyz Monsters from the Extra Deck for the turn.

Utilizing these monsters, and some additional external extenders like "Xyz Remora", "Xyz Slidolphin", "Tenyi Spirit - Shthana", "Silent Angler", "Silent Sea Nettle", or "Ready Fusion", the player can rapidly swarm their board with Level 4/5 WATER and/or Fish monsters, and make strong WATER Xyz Monsters that require such monsters as materials.

Because of the restrictions that Shark monster effects apply to Extra Deck summoning, Shark Decks can typically only make WATER Xyz monsters on their setup turns. However, there are many high-quality WATER Xyz Monsters that the Deck can make. These include:

The deck benefits from a wide variety of WATER and Fish support. These include "Beautunaful Princess", who can Special Summon "Buzzsaw Shark" or "Lantern Shark" directly from the Deck, "White Mirror", a GY revival Spell that also searches, and "White Howling", a Trap that negates all of the opponent's Spells for a turn.

Recommended cards[edit]

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