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In the anime, manga, and even video games, characters often focus their deck around a single theme (or occasionally several themes). These themes often reflect the character's personality. Characters' themes are often archetypes in the anime or manga, or become archetypes when released in the ''OCG''/''TCG''.
In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga]]'', there are no effects based on substrings of card names, although some cards (such as "[[Magician's Circle (manga)|Magician's Circle]]") are worded similarly to modern archetype-based effects. Many cards and themes used by characters in the original ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga have subsequently had archetypes built around them.
In the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' anime, after archetypes were introduced to the ''OCG'', several characters use cards that have effects based on substrings of card names, especially anime-original characters. Starting with the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' anime, almost all Duelists utilize Decks based around archetypes.
