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A recurring theme among Machine Decks regardless of the playstyle is their ability to swarm the field with low-level monsters that often has no offensive ability on its own, but capable of helping the player summoning a single strong boss monster. In addition, many Machine monsters also provide "recycle" ability, often while in [[Graveyard]], either by being summoned as an extra material, or trigger a search and/or recovery effect there.
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Machine monsters and their support are typically associated with pushing for extremely high [[ATK]], with the effects of cards like "[[Power Bond]]", "[[Limiter Removal]]", or "[[Train Connection]]". High-Level Machine monsters are also famous for either having either absurdly high [[Original ATK and DEF|original ATK]] such as most members of the [[Supercolossal]] and [[Train]] series, very strong protection effects such as "[[Apoqliphort Towers]]" or "[[Super Quantal Mech King Great Magnus]]", or great removal effect such as "[[Dingirsu, the Orcust of the Evening Star]]" or "[[Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder]]". "[[Cyber Dragon]]", one of the most influential monsters in the history of the ''OCG''/''TCG'' metagame's development, is a Machine monster.
A recurring theme among Machine Decks regardless of the playstyle is their ability to swarm the field with low-level monsters that often has no offensive ability on its own, but capable of helping the player summoning a single strong boss monster. In addition, many Machine monsters/supports also provide "recycle" ability, often using [[Graveyard]], either by summoning them as an extra material, or trigger a search and/or recovery effect there.
While there are a wide array of Machine archetypes and series with diverse playstyles, many of the prominent Machine themes such as "[[Cyber Dragon]]" and [[Train]] are usually geared towards offensive gameplay, involving neutralizing the opponent's threats (usually via mass removal effect) to make way for them to deal a large amount of damage; some others such as "[[Machina]]" and "[[Orcust]]" focus on defensive grind game and utilizing various disruption effect to outlast the opponent before quickly finish them off.
In the early parts of of the original [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|manga]] and [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|anime]], Machine monsters inherently had the special ability of being immunite against all type of [[Spell Card|magic]], including attacks from [[Spellcaster|magic users]]. The card "[[Everlasting Alloy]]" was partly made in reference to this fact.
