Gladiator Beast; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set:
  • Gladiator's Assault
  • Phantom Darkness
  • Light of Destruction
  • The Duelist Genesis
  • Cross Road of Chaos
  • Crimson Crisis

Gladiator Beasts is a Yu-Gi-Oh archetype that mainly used "tagging" strategy. Most of Gladiator Beasts monster have an effect to return to the deck right after battle phase and then special summon another Gladiator Beasts monster (it called tag out), plus with this special summon they gained more power with their effect being activated.

Blackwing; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set:
  • Crimson Crisis
  • Raging Battle
  • Ancient Prophecy
  • Stardust Overdrive
  • The Shining Darkness

A dark-archetype of Winged Beasts used by Crow in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, known as "Black Feathers" in the Japanese version. Most of these monsters are somewhat humanoid and have either a tengu or bird-like appearance. (Compare to other humanoid Winged-Beasts to a greater or lesser effect) All Blackwing monsters feature black in their design, usually on their wing feathering. Most are named after types of wind and air currents. They are currently a meta deck with swarming and speed capabilities. When Crimson Crisis was released, this Archetype was very unsupported - only 5 cards of Blackwing were released: Gale the Whirlwind, Sirocco the Dawn, Bora the Spear, Armor Master and "Raptor Wing Strike". Later on, with the release of Raging Battle and Ancient Prophecy the set grew into a highly swarming and powerful deck. The speed it gives with its swarming, along with its additional Synchro Summoning capabilities landed this deck a place on the Shonen Jump Circuit.

Spell Speed and chain in Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading card games, for each monster effect, spell cards and trap cards have certain speed. This can only used when in certain condition and which effect can be chained to another.

Spell Speed
  1. Spell Speed 1
    Cards can ordinarily only be played during the turn of the player who controls the card. This is true for Field and Continuous spell cards only when they are initially played. Spell Speed 1 cards cannot be chained to or activated in response to any other card. Spell Speed 1 effects, however, can be chained to other Spell Speed 1 effects.
  2. Spell Speed 2
    Cards can be played on either player's turn but must have been set during your turn. Spell Speed 2 cards can be activated in response to any Spell Speed 1 or 2 card or effect. Spell Speed 2 effects are rarer but are usually compulsory to activate.
  3. Spell Speed 3
    Cards are only Counter trap cards. They can be activated in response to either Spell Speed 1, 2, or 3.

Gadget Monster; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set:
  • Labyrinth of Nightmare
  • Limited Edition Pack 6
  • Structure Deck 10: Machine Re-volt
  • Hobby League Participation Card: Series 5 and 7
  • Crossroad of Chaos
  • Raging Battle
  • Duelist Pack: Yugi
  • Machina Mayhem
The Gadget's are a series of machine-type Monster card/monsters whose effects allow players to search for relevant Gadget monsters from their Deck once a Gadget is summoned. They are Green Gadget, Red Gadget and Yellow Gadget. Each of the Gadgets can search each other from the player's deck. They are also supported by Stronghold the Moving Fortress, Boot Up Soldier - Dread Dynamo, Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Dragon and Ancient Gear Gadjiltron Chimera. They are found in the Machine Re-Volt and the new Machina Mayhem Structure Deck.

Yugi Mutou (not Yami Yugi) is the one who shows using these cards when facing Yami Yugi.

Gadgets are a mildly well known set, due to their effects and appearance in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime series. Players often use them to get ahead in what is considered card advantage, by gaining another Gadget in hand each time a gadget is summoned and protecting the Gadgets with numerous removal and negation-based cards like Sakuretsu Armor and Royal Oppression. The card known as Elemental Hero - Stratos (E. Hero Airman) tended to neutralize the use of Gadgets this way. Stratos has recently been restricted in play, allowing Gadget use to thrive again.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Spell Cards and Trap Cards

When Playing Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card spell and trap cards played a big role in winning the game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Spell Cards

Spell cards can be used to increase the attack or defense of your monster, destroy other cards, reviving monster, etc. They are very important to ensure your winning. But you have to remember to balanced your deck among monster, spell and trap cars.

There are 6 types of spell card:
  1. Regular Spell
    After it used, it sent to the grave
  2. Quick Play
    You can activated opponents turn as well as your own.

Chaos Monster; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

 You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set Invasion of Chaos

A deck-archetype that reigned over all tournaments prior to the creation of the Forbidden List, it is these monsters and "Yata-Garasu" that were blamed for the creation of the Forbidden List in the first place. The trademark Chaos cards are Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End (commonly abbreviated to CED), Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and Chaos Sorcerer. When they were first released, Chaos Emperor Dragon and Black Luster Soldier were the two that were used, because Chaos Sorcerer's effect didn't seem to make it worth playing at the time. The original Chaos Deck relied on discarding Light and Dark Attribute monsters and removing them from play to meet the popular Special Summoning conditions of the Chaos monsters. With their powerful effects, ability to be easily summoned, and high attack power, the Chaos monsters could easily dominate an opponent. It is of popular opinion among the best players in the game that Black Luster Soldier is the better card, for its ability to remove from play helpful monsters used by many during this time such as, Sangan, Witch of The Black Forest, Sinister Serpent, and others that had to be sent to the graveyard to get their effects.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

In Yu-Gi-Oh! trading Cards Game there is a group of cards with at least have 1 defining property, and some of them have their story itself.

An archetypes cards are often identified by a term appearing in all its members names, such as "Archfiend" "Elemental Hero" or "Morphtronic". And also, there are support cards that designed specially for them and (of course) reference cards with that term in their name "Elemental Recharge".

Yu-Gi-Oh! General Rules

The Game begin with each player choosing deck card containing 40 to 60 cards and a number of life points (official rules designate 8000). A turn-based duel ensues in which players use cards representing Monsters, Spells (previously known as Magic), and Traps card to combat their opponents. Each players can only summon one monster each turn (except for special summon), in either face up Attack or face down Defense position, and each Attack Position monster can attack once per turn unless there is an effect that designates otherwise. By successfully attacking and destroying the opponent's monsters, players can deal damage to the opponent's life points unless the monster attacked is in defense mode.

Crystal Beasts; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype cards

You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set:
Force of the Breaker
Hobby League Participation Cards: Series 5
Duelist Pack 7: Jesse Anderson
Collector Tins Promos Series 4

A set of cards belonging to Jesse Anderson (Johan Anderson in Japan) in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX The Crystal Beasts/Gem Beasts are a series of monster cards that will change into continuous spell cards after they destroyed. All of crystal beast monster were based on gemstones gathered from all over the world. From there, various support cards can be used to revive them.

Although weak in terms of actual strength, their aforementioned effects allow them to have great staying power. In addition, they are supplemented by many support cards which utilizes them in their Continuous Spell Card form. This archetype also contains the card "Rainbow Dragon", the ace card of the Crystal Beasts. It can be summoned quite easily as it can be only be played when there are the seven different Crystal Beasts on the field or in the graveyard. The card can also be summoned with the effect of Rainbow Gravity. This archetype also contains one of the most powerful OTK setups with Crystal Abundance, making them robust even against overpowering opponents.

Cyber Girl; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype cards

You can find it in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set:
  • Elemental Energy
  • Enemy of Justice
  • Expert Edition Volume 4
  • Dark Revelation Volume 4

Cyber Girls cards are an archetype that used by Alexis Rhodes from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. The monsters are all female monsters themed on dance related sports, such as Etoile Cyber, Blade Skater, Cyber Blader, Cyber Tutu, Cyber Gymnast and Cyber Prima. Cyber Girls also include the Cyber Angel ritual series, based on the Seven Lucky Gods of Japanese mythology, who are summoned by the Ritual Spell "Machine Angel Ritual". These monsters, while part of the Cyber Girl archetype, were not released but only on exclusive Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 2 and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 3.

Archfiends; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards

You can find mostly in this Yu-Gi-Oh! card set: Dark Crisis

Archfiends are a special category of card. Most Archfiends can be easily identified by their name. Any card with "Archfiend" in the card name is an "Archfiend."

This archetype can find in the Dark Crisis and Dark Revelation booster pack, as a way to standardize the English translation of OCG card names containing "Demon" 「デーモン」. To avoid confusion, "Demon" is often spelled "Dæmon" or "Daemon", to show that the card is an Archfiend: some non-Archfiend cards have "Demon" spelled differently, and some monsters have Japanese names with "Demon" as a possible translation.

Some of the Archfiends are chess themed including Terrorking, Infernalqueen, Desrook, Imprisoned Queen Archfiend, Darkbishop, Shadowknight and Vilepawn Archfiend, all of whom are named after Chess pieces, and feature a chessboard pattern as their background. The support card "Checkmate" is named after the Checkmate, the final winning move in Chess.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Movies

The First Movie "Yu-Gi-Oh!"

The first movie that Yu-Gi-Oh! had was only released in Japan, entitled "Yu-Gi-Oh!" (very simple title isn't it?) with 30 minutes duration. Its characters are from the first series Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. The movie story is about a boy named Shogo, Yugi's neighbor, is Mokuba's age and has a powerful rare card; th Red Eyes Black Dragon in his deck. But, he is too timid to pull a winning streak. Yugi tries to bring Shōgo's courage out in a duel withSeto Kaiba, who has his eyes on Shōgo's rare card.

The Second Movie "Yu-Gi-Oh! Pyramid of Light"

After Yugi wins battle city, he claimed all the egyptian God; Obelisk the Tormentour, Sliver the Sky Dragon and The Winged Dragon of Ra. Kaiba who lost in this battle desperate to defeat Yugi and his God card. To avenge him, Kaiba head's off to Pegasus castle to find the card that can beat the God card. Kaiba wins, and Pegasus' allows him to search his Deck for the card. To Pegasus' surprise Kaiba finds two cards, capable of defeating the God Cards. Kaiba leaves ignoring Pegasus' claims that there should only have been one card.

The Cards that Kaiba took are Blue Eyes Shining Dragon and Blue Pyramid. The duel start to get messy right after Kaiba activated Blue Pyramid.

YU-GI-OH!

Yu-Gi-Oh! which literally means king of game is a japanese manga that created by Kazuki Takahashi in 1996. His creation has spawn many anime episodes and trading card games that played in the world alongside with pokemon trading card. Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card games called duel monster (originally known as Magic & Wizards), where each player uses cards to "duel" each other in a mock battle of fantasy "monsters". The Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is the real world counterpart to this fictional game on which it is loosely based. Nowadays Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card games are played by not only kids and many people all around the world and counting.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga itself has made 3 sekuel manga and anime:
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! R
    It's a spin-off of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise with most of the same characters in a new plotline (which takes place between the Battle City arc and the Egypt arc). Yu-Gi-Oh R is illustrated by Akira Ito, one of the artists who illustrated the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, and supervised by Kazuki Takahashi.