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Added something about Field Spell Cards, art and relation to other archetypes.
Members of the same archetype commonly share a small number of [[Attribute]]s or [[Type]]s (or even both).
A lot of archetypes feature similar art as well, for example the [[Lightsworn]] and [[Artifact]] archetypes all have a specific background for their monsters, a diamond shape and vault respectively, and [[Fire Fist]] monsters have a spirit animal and [[Six Samurai]] tend to have their logo in their art.
A common trait of archetypes is to have at least 1 Field Spell Card, typically one that supports the monsters with ATK/DEF increases and other bonuses. Some of the time, these are not part of the archetype by name though, which is a more recent trend, as seen on the [[Shaddoll]] and [[Majespecter]] archetypes. Some Archetypes may heavily rely on Field Spell Cards such as Ghostrick and [[Malefic]].
Although membership in an archetype is dictated by the Japanese names of the cards, there are cases where the membership of a card in an archetype is unintentional. For example, "[[Thought Ruler Archfiend]]" is considered to be part of the manga-exclusive "[[Sphere]]" archetype, as its Japanese name ("Mental Sphere Demon") contains the "スフィア", the text for "Sphere", despite this card bearing no relation to the other members of the archetype.
The concept of archetypes is often used in the manga and anime series to define a character's personality, look, state of mind or style of play. Most major players did not use archetypes early on due to a lack of archetypes, but as the game developed, [[Seto Kaiba|Kaiba]] and [[Yugi Muto|Yugi]]'s Decks grew around an archetype, and Decks based on archetypes such as [[Mai Valentine]]'s and [[Maximillion Pegasus]]'s Decks appeared. Starting with the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' anime, virtually all main characters and most minor characters utilized Decks based around archetypes.
Some archetypes are related to each other in some way, for example the [[Duel Terminal]] archetypes and the [[Dracoslayer]] archetype being related to the archetypes seen in the main sets, such as[[ Igknight]] and [[Dinomist]].
Groups of cards with similar names and/or artworks that are not supported or anti-supported explicitly by card effects are called a [[series]].
==See also==
*[[:Category:Archetypesarchetypes]]
==References==
