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* NotCompletelyUseless: While the entire archetype is gimmicky and suffers massively from CripplingOverspecialization, certain cards of the archetype can be pretty useful depending on the format. For example, following the banlist that nuked the Monarch-Darcopal format in the OCG, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ally_of_Justice_Quarantine Ally of Justice Quarantine]] saw a boost in play to combat the Blue-Eyes decks that soon took over the meta.

* PunnyName: While Achilleshield is a portmanteau, it can also be read as AchillesHeel

* ZergRush: Blackwing Decks are focused on swarming. Because of that, they have an aggressive playing style. Also, because of their Swarming capabilities, they are good for using Synchro Summon (Note that their trump cards are Synchro Monsters). Their support cards rely on their swarm abilities such as "Delta Crow - Anti Reverse" which can be activated from the hand when you control exactly 3 "lackwing monsters. Some of them take an advantage from Blackwings swarming abilities and support it such as Black Whirlwind. With the overwhelming amount of near forced synergy and powerful support cards, Blackwings are one of the easiest archetype to play. This along with its overall power and relatively low cost nature makes Blackwings one of the most powerful archetypes in the meta-game.

** Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon can negate any spell card that targets it.

* LightIsGood: Benevolent, but highly aggressive and destructive. Not to mention, it has very bad breath.

* {{Miko}}: Priestress with Eyes of Blue, as indicated by the card's japanese name.

* MysteriousWaif: Maiden with Eyes of Blue. Absolutely weak in combat, but can summon the Blue-Eyes White Dragon

* UnskilledButStrong:Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon, Blue-Eyes' ritual counterpart, is a 4000 point beatstick with 0 defense, that is impervious to card effects ( it can neither be targeted nor destroyed by them) and inflicts double piercing battle damage battling defense position monsters.

* EquipableAlly: The three Buster Destruction Sword cards have the ability to equip themselves to a Buster Blader monster.

[[folder:Cyber Girls]]
The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Cyber_Girl Cyber Girls]]''' are a series of female EARTH Warrior based on sports stars. They lack power but have varied effects. Their leader is Cyber Blader, who gains various effects as the opponent summons more monsters. They are used by Asuka Tenjoin/[[DubNameChange Alexis Rhodes]] in ''GX''.

The anime also includes the anime-exclusive '''Cyber Angels''', a trio of Ritual Monsters.

!!!Tropes associated with the Cyber Girls:
* AntiMagic: Cyber Prima's effect.

* DanceBattler

* AmazonBrigade: As the name imply, there is no male member of this archetype.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon. Laboriously sacrificing 3 monsters with 3000 ATK points to get 1 with just 1500 more is not the best deal. Three individual Blue-Eyes work far better as beat sticks.

* PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage: The Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon who can only be summoned by sacrificing Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, who in turn can only be summoned by fusing three Blue-Eyes White Dragons. The kicker? At the time it came out, you couldn't even summon it, since BEUD didn't come out until almost a year and a half later. After that it did turn out to be marginally useful but that does not excuse the time when it was useless.

* StoneWall: Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon has better defense then it's Blue-Eyes counterpart and it (including all your other dragons you have at the time) is essentially invincible in terms of card effects for the next two turns after you summon it. Its ATK, meanwhile, sits at 2500, the 4th lowest among Level 9 Synchro Monsters.

* EvilCounterpart: As a whole, they are this to regular Synchro Monsters. It doesn't help that they were used by antagonists.

* DarkIsNotEvil: According to [[AllThereInTheManual the Master Guides]], they're actually pretty decent guys. This also means they were hit with AdaptationalVillainy in the anime.
** Let [[KnightInShiningArmor Zure, Knight of the Dark World]]'s FlavorText speak for itself:

* ObviouslyEvil: Possibly. Depends on what version you believe.

* {{Nerf}}: The Level 4 Dragon Rulers got banned in the September 2013 TCG banlist, and the Level 7 Dragon Rulers are limited. And the series is still a strong contender.

* InstantWinCondition: Summoning Horakthy brings the player an instant win.

* ThePhoenix: Ra's Phoenix Mode, also known as God Phoenix.

** Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes decks both rely on summoning their main monster to the field quickly, and in multiple copies when possible. However, at that point the Red-Eyes and its cards rely on inflicting large amounts of burn damage, while Blue-Eyes inflicts large amounts of battle damage by making multiple attacks. Also a point of note -- Blue-Eyes' stronger forms are Fusion and Synchro monsters, while Red-Eyes' stronger forms are Fusion monsters with one Xyz monster.[[note]]Blue-Eyes ''does'' have a Xyz counterpart, Legendary Dragon of White, but it's not part of the Blue-Eyes archetype and is just based on it in design.[[/note]]

* StoneWall: Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon has better defense then it's Blue-Eyes counterpart and it (including all your other dragons you have at the time) is essentially invincible in terms of card effects for the next two turns after you summon it. Its ATK, meanwhile, sits at 2500, the 4th lowest among Leevel 9 Synchro Monsters.

* MakingASplash: All Aquaactress monsters have the WATER attribute.

In the anime, following Dark Synchro Monsters were used by following Duelists: ''Frozen Fitzgerald'' by Dick Pitt/[[DubNameChange Grady]], ''Dark Diviner'' by Tetsu Ushio/[[DubNameChange Trudge]], ''One-Hundred-Eyed Dragon'' by Kyosuke Kiryu/[[DubNameChange Kallin Kessler]], ''Zeman the Ape King'' by Demack/[[DubNameChange Devack]], ''Dark Flattop'' by Bommer/[[DubNameChange Greiger]], ''Underground Arachnid'' by Rudger/[[DubNameChange Roman]] Goodwin, and ''Moon Dragon Quilla'' by Rex Goodwin.

* MakingASplash: Their Xyz monsters have the WATER attribute and so do the traps when they are summoned as monsters.

* MakingaSplash: Choco Magician Girl is a WATER monster.

** DubNameChange:

The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Magician_(series) Dark Magician]]''', called '''Black Magician''' in the OCG, is arguably the most famous Yu-Gi-Oh! monster of all time as Yugi's signature monster. He and his related cards are DARK Spellcasters that use stage tricks as support cards to aid their mediocre attack. He has numerous family members, including the Magician of Black Chaos/Dark Magician of Chaos, Dark Magician Girl, and Ebon Illusion Magician.

* CastingAShadow: All of them are DARK monsters.

** This link is also referenced with Dark Magician of Illusions's alternate way of Xyz Summoning with "Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal".

** Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal is an Xyz Monster upgrade of "Dark Magician Girl" and a possible female counterpart to "Sorcerer of Dark Magic". They can both be summoned with 2 level 6 Spellcaster-Type monsters. She was made Rank 6 as a reference to "Dark Magician Girl" being Level 6. This also allows "Dark Magician Girl" to be used as Xyz Material for this card.

%%* ElementalPowers

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Armed Wing's gunblade's color was edited and resembles now a watergun... Also, the crotch/groin area is edited to avoid resemblance to male genitalia.

* AmbiguousGender: Whether Blue-Eyes is female or not.

** {{Nerf}}: As of January 2015, Chaos Emperor Dragon has received a serious rewrite that severely limits its potency: first, it has been made a Nomi (cannot be properly special summoned outside its effect), its nuke effect cannot be activated on the same turn as other card effects, and only cards that are sent to the opponents graveyard count towards the total effect damage.
** BroughtDownToBadass: However, it's still a rather good card, being a 3000-ATK beater that's very easy to Summon and capable of nuking the field.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Cards like Macrocosmos or Dimensional Fissure are very effective against the Chaos cards, since every monster will be banished instead send to the graveyard.

* DarkIsEvil[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: A complicated case, since the Evil HERO monsters are both evil and heroes.

* WeakButSkilled: Points wise, they're relatively weak, but they come with devastating effects and support cards to make up for it.

** AnIcePerson: BES Crystal Core.

* ElementalPowers:
** BlowYouAway: D/D/D Gale King Alexander.
** CastingAShadow: The majority of the D/D and D/D/D monsters.
** MakingASplash: D/D/D Wave King Caesar.
** PlayingWithFire: D/D/D Blaze King Temujin.

* PowerTrio: Temujin, Alexander, and Caesar, as shown in the anime. In the real life card game, it's still completely possible to summon all three of them in one turn due to the effects of the former two.

In addition to their own unique ability, all of them share two powerful effects that prevents them from being targeted for attacks and lets them attack directly. However, they have the drawback of requiring a face-up field spell, otherwise they are destroyed. Furthermore, there can only be one Earthbound Immortal on the field.

''Arc V'' expanded the Earthbound archtype with Earthbound Servants, who can use both Fusion and Synchro.

!!!Tropes associated with the Earthbound Immortals:

** Wiraqocha Rasca. It has 100 ATK and DEF and its effect is that when it's normal summoned, you can return up to three cards you control to your deck to have your opponent discard that many random cards from their hand and increase Wiraqocha's ATK by 1000 for each card discarded this way. Powerful, but it requires the player to have enough cards for both the tribute summoning and the effect and only works when Wiraqocha is normal summoned, so you can't use if you special summon Wiraqocha.

* {{Nerf}}: All of the Earthbound Immortal were unable to be affected by spells or traps in the anime. This is not true in the card game.
** Wiraqocha Rasca got hit by this hard. Its anime version had the abilty to reduce the opponent's life point to one. Obviously, this was too strong for the card game, so its effect got changed to one that lets you return cards you control to the deck to have your opponent discard that many card and increase Wiraqocha's ATK.
* LogicalWeakness: Since they are reliant on the presence of a field spell, the easiest way to destroy an Immortal is to get rid of the field spell.

* WeakButSkilled: Wiraqocha is the weakest of the Immortals in terms of ATK and DEF. Fortunately, its effect lets him increase its ATK by up to 3000.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The Fusion Elemental HERO monsters from the anime are overshadowed by the Fusion Elemental HERO monsters from the manga and the Masked HERO monsters (who are also from the manga). This is because the manga Elemental HERO monsters generally tend to have far better effects and more lax fusion material requirements than their anime counterparts. For example, most anime Elemental HERO Fusion Monsters require specific HERO monsters to fusion with. Meanwhile, most manga HERO monsters just require one Elemental HERO and one monster of a specific attribute to summon, which makes them far more reliable than their anime counterparts.

* StoneWall: Clayman and Mudballman are not strong, but very high DEF.

The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Entity Entity]]''' series are cards based on the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. There are six monsters, two each Fusion, Synchro, and Xyz, and a couple pf support Spells for them. They have effects that rely on synergy between the three card types. The ace card of the archtype is Outer Entity Azathoth, who can obliterate the opponent's field under the right circumstances.

* BlowYouAway: Old Entity Hastorr is Wind-attribute.

* CastingAShadow: Outer Entity Azathoth is Dark-attribute.
* DishingOutDirt: Outer Entity Nyarla is Earth-attribute.
* EldritchAbomination: ''Duh'', they're blatantly based on the works of HP Lovecraft. Their card art is some of the most bizarre and unsettling in the game. Special mention to, appropriately enough, Azathoth, who is just a roiling mass of darkness with mouths and arms emerging.

* LightEmUp: Elder Entity N'tss is Light-attribute.
* MakingASplash: Elder Entity Norden is Water-attribute.

* PlayingWithFire: Old Entity Chthugha is Fire-attribute.

* SuperpoweredEvilSide: What they embody as the {{evil counterpart}}s of the Elemental-Heroes. The Evil-Hero monsters in general don't have as many fusion possibilities as the Elemental Heroes, in addition to having less flexibility in how to actually summon them, with Dark Fusion and Dark Calling being the only ways to do so. In exchange they have ''much'' more powerful effects compared to their Elemental counterparts, such as Inferno Wing dealing damage equal to the destroyed monster's ATK or DEF (whichever is higher) in addition to piercing damage, Infernal Sniper being unable to be destroyed by spell cards and inflicting 1000 points of damage just for being in defense position, Lightning Golem being able to straight up destroy one monster on the field once per turn without the need to discard a card, and Wild Cyclone being able to prevent the activation of spell and trap cards while it attacks and even destroy the ones that are face down whenever it inflicts damage.

* EadibleThemeNaming: The flavor Magician Girls are named after five different flavors. [[OddNameOut Choco Magician Girl]] stands out, since she is not named after a fruit like the rest.

Chronos/[[DubNameChange Crowler]] used an Ancient Gear deck in ''GX'', while Yugi Muto used Gadgets cards against his alter ego. Obelisk Force in ''Arc-V'' also use Ancient Gear cards. For information specifically pertaining to the anime's depiction of the cards, see Characters/YuGiOhAnimeAndMangaCards

'''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaactress Aquaactress]]''' is an archetype of Aqua-type monsters, supported by the '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Aquarium Aquarium]]''' Continuous Spell Cards. They are used by Ayu in the ''[[Anime/YuGiOhArcV Arc-V]]'' anime.

The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Bee_Force Bee Force]]''' are an archetype of Insect type monsters based on Bees. Like the Blackwings, they relay on fast Swarm and Syncro techinques to overwhelm the opponent, however they relay more on using ATK/DEF decreasing effects. They are used by Shinji Weber in the Arc-V anime.

* {{Expy}}: Of Blackwings, right down to having the same naming structure (X of the Y) and even the same initals in the OCG, though they're rendered as B·F to prevent confusion with them. They also have slimiar stratagies, Fast swarming to syncro, though Bee Force focuses more on the graveyard to this end. This is probably meant to represent Shinji's friendship with Crow in Arc-V.

'''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Blackwing Blackwing]]''' monsters, known as '''Blackfeather''' in the OCG, are a series of DARK Winged-Beasts, notably used by Crow Hogan in ''5Ds'' and ''Arc-V''. They rely on swarming the field to summon Synchro monsters.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: Bora the Spear and Armed Wing can inflict Piercing Damage. Additionally, when Armed Wing attacks a monster in Defense Position, his ATK are increased by 500 points.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Blackwings are not evil. In the anime, the are not only used by one of the Signers, they also heroic figures for children.
* FragileSpeedster[=/=]GlassCannon: The Blackwing's main strategy resolves around swarming the field and easily bringing Synchro monsters. However, the player will have their hand burned out of cards, also their Synchro monsters are the only truly powerful monsters of the archetype in raw power (the strongest non-synchro only has ''2200'' ATK whereas the Synchro monsters reach up to 2800).

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Silverwind the Ascendence has a katana and is the strongest Blackwing monster. It is also one of three Blackwings with a destruction effect, but Silverwind can destroy even two monsters at once.

The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Synchro_Monster Dark Synchro monsters]]''' were a sub-type of Synchro Monsters introduced in the ''5Ds'' anime. In opposition to normal Synchro monsters, they had a dark grey card frame as well as negative Levels aligned on the left of the card and could be summoned by substracting the levels of non-Tuner monsters from the Level of the Dark Tuner monster.

They were released in the card game as normal Synchro Monsters with most of them requiring specific materials that referenced the monsters used to summon them in the anime.

* NighInvulnerable: Dark Diviner cannot be destroyed by battle and Bishbalkin is immuned to destruction by card effects.
* StoneWall: Dark Flattop. It has 3000 DEF but 0 ATK.

** Skypalace Gangaridai became [=CXyz=] Skypalace Babylon. Interstingly, in the anime, Skypalace Gangaridai is used by Tobio Habara/[[DubNameChange Mayday Walker]], then his wife Umimi/[[DubNameChange Brooke]] ranks it up to its [=CXyz=] version.

* EvilLaugh: Some of them have a menacing laugh in the anime.

[[folder:Dark Magicians]]

!!!Tropes associated with the Dark Magician monsters:

* CombinationAttack: The Spell card "Dark Burning Magic Attack" destroys all cards on the opponent's side of the field if you have both Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl.

* EvilTwin: The alternate art version of Dark Magician's card, which resembles the sinister-looking crimson-robed version used by Pandora/Arcana in the anime, is most often perceived this way.
* {{Foil}}: To the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in terms of playstyle. Blue-Eyes decks generally consists of monsters that can get the Blue-Eyes and its variants onto the field, at which point their high ATK and cards that let them attack multiple times devastate the opponent's monsters through battle. Dark Magician decks rely on Spell and Trap cards to get the Dark Magician and its variants into play, and then protect it while using other support cards to destroy the opponent's cards through their effects. The Blue-Eyes has Level 1 Tuners it can combine with to Synchro Summon stronger versions of itself; Dark Magician has the Dark Magician Girl that it can combine with to use stronger support Spells and Traps.
* LuckBasedMission: Dark Sage is one of the very few cards in the game that (literally) requires pure luck to summon. In other words, Dark Sage must first be Special Summoned (from your hand or Deck) by Tributing 1 "Dark Magician" immediately after applying the effect of "Time Wizard" in which you called the coin toss right. When Special Summoned this way: Add 1 Spell Card from your Deck to your hand.

** Dark Magician Knight Must be Special Summoned with "Knight's Title" and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. When this card is Special Summoned: Target 1 card on the field; destroy that target.

** Dark Flare Knight is also an example for the same reasons, but this time as a fusion of the Dark Magician & Flame Swordsman.

** This link is also referenced with "Dark Magician of Illusions"'s alternate way of Xyz Summoning with "Magi Magi ☆ Magician Gal".

* MythologyGag: The artwork for Dark Magic Attack is based on the final scene of the battle between the Thief King Bakura and Mahado shortly after he fuses his soul with his spirit Ka (Vol. 31 in Japanese, Millennium World Vol. 2 in the U.S.)

* OlderAndWiser: Dark Sage is the aged version of "Dark Magician"; due to the magic of "Time Wizard", he is now over 1000 years old.
* TheRival: To Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Unfortunately, the Dark Magician is not that much successful.

** Dark Eradicator Warlock is an improved version of Dark Magician, and probably the intermedial age between Dark Magician and "Dark Sage. His control over the dark arts is so strong, he can harm his foes with any kind of spell.

** "Ebon Illusion Magician" is a Xyz Monster counterpart of "Dark Magician".
* YinYangBomb: Dedication Through Light and Darkness suggests that in order to become the "Dark Magician of Chaos", the "Dark Magician" must first learn to use LIGHT magic in addition to his regular DARK magic, effectively giving him the power of Chaos.

* UselessUsefulSpell: The base Charmers only have 500 ATK and 1500 DEF, and their effect to take control of an opponent's monster only lasts as long as they're on the field. Thus they have trouble getting mileage out of their powers, because the same attack that Flips them up to trigger their effect will probably destroy them too...until the release of the card "[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Unpossessed Unpossessed]]".
** To elaborate, the Continuous Trap Card really helps out for both the base Charmers and Familiar-Possessed forms (by special summoning either of them in face-down defense position or attack position from the deck upon one or more of your monsters get destroyed by battle or card effect while "Unpossessed" is face-up). It helps set up the base Charmers to use their flip effects without being too worried about them getting destroyed by battle before they go off and "Familiar-Possessed" forms getting an 800 ATK buff (during damage calculation only) whenever anyone of them attacks (especially if you used their special summoning effect to special summon them with the ability to deal piercing battle damage). Sure, it can search out other [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Ask?offset=0&limit=50&q=%5B%5BClass+1%3A%3AOfficial%5D%5D+%5B%5BType%3A%3ASpellcaster%5D%5D+%5B%5BDEF%3A%3A1500%5D%5D+%5B%5BConcept%3AMain+Deck+monsters%5D%5D+%5B%5BSummoning%3A%3ACan+always+be+Special+Summoned%5D%5D&p=format%3Dbroadtable&po=%3FJapanese+name%0A%3FAttribute%0A%3FATK%0A%3FCard+type%0A%3FMonster+type%0A Spellcaster-Type monsters with 1500 DEF]] (as long as the Spellcaster you're searching out has a different Attribute from at least one of your monsters' original attribute that got destroyed, ether by battle or card effect) but it's nice to see that the Charmers have gotten an actual support card, so far.

'''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Buster_Blader_(archetype) Buster Blader]]''' was the name of one of Yugi's monsters that was first used during the Battle City Tournament. an archetype of cards comprised of the eponymous monster and its alternate forms, most of which can be used as a counter to Dragon decks due to their ability to power up for each Dragon monster the opponent has on the field or in the graveyard. They are supported by the '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Destruction_Sword Destruction Sword]]''' cards

!!!Tropes associated with the Buster Blader and Destroyer Sword cards:

* AntiMagic: D/D/D Duo-Dawn King Kali Yuga can destroy all Spell and Trap Cards on the field during either player's turn.

* CoolChair: Abyss Ragnarok and Kali Yuga sit on thrones, and they even attack while sitting on their throne. The anime features Caesar Ragnarok sitting on a throne when he is summoned, but it breaks when the summon is complete.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite the archetype being very sinister, they are this trope, thanks to Reiji.

* EvilLaugh: Some of them in the anime.

** TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Unlike Blue-Eyes' other expies, Hell Armageddon is a fiend, not a dragon.

* FusionDance: Temujin, d'Arc, and Caesar Ragnarok are all Fusion Monsters, but the latter is also a literal fusion of Wave King Caesar and Oblivion King Abyss Ragnarok, as evidenced by the name. The Fusion Materials are not very specific. Temujin and d'arc require only two D/D monsters, while Caesar Ragnarok requires two D/D/D monsters.
* HellHound: D/D Cerberus.

* OneSteveLimit: The archetype's name is similar to the D.D. series of cards.

** NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The D/D/D monsters are named after famous conquerors, rulers, and other military figures, such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. The two D/D Magical Astronomer are named after Kepler and Galileo Galilei.

** WhipItGood: Meanae, because she's a FemmeFatale

The '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Synchro_Monster Dark Synchro monsters]]''' were a sub-type of Synchro Monsters introduced in the ''5Ds'' anime. In opposition to normal Synchro monsters, they had a dark grey card frame as well as negative levels aligned on the left of the card and could be summoned by substracting the levels of non-tuner monsters from the level of the Dark Tuner monster.

They were released in the card game as normal synchro monsters with most of them requiring specific materials that referenced the monsters used to summon them in the anime.

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: While technically not a Zombie-type monster, Exodia Necross invokes this trope for Exodia.

* MegatonPunch: Exodia Necross' Exodia Crush.

** Emphasized with Summoned Lord Exodia, immune to all card effects and a whopping 5000 attack if all five pieces are in the graveyard.
* SealedEvilInACan: Exodia is a sealed monster which is so powerful that it's divided into five pieces.

[[folder:Aquaactress / Aquarium]]
'''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaactress Aquaactress]]''' is an archetype of Aqua-type monsters, supported by the '''[[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Aquarium Aquarium]]''' continuous spell cards. They are used by Ayu in the ''[[Anime/YuGiOhArcV Arc-V]]'' anime.

[[folder:D/D / D/D/D / Dark Contract]]

** Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes decks both rely on summoning their main monster to the field quickly, and in multiple copies when possible. However, at that point the Red-Eyes and its cards rely on inflicting large amounts of burn damage, while Blue-Eyes inflicts battle damage. Also a point of note -- Blue-Eyes' stronger forms are Synchro monsters, while Red-Eyes' stronger forms are Fusion monsters with one Xyz monster.[[note]]Blue-Eyes ''does'' have a Xyz counterpart, Legendary Dragon of White, but it's not part of the Blue-Eyes archetype and is just based on it in design.[[/note]]

** Blue-Eyes White Dragon + Blue-Eyes White Dragon + Blue-Eyes White Dragon = Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

* DifficultButAwesome: By itself? An overhyped, hopelessly-outdated, expensive clay pigeon. With Kaibaman, Maiden with Eyes of Blue, White Stone of Legend, some Normal Monster support, some Dragon support... it's the centerpiece to a surprisingly fast and powerful Deck.

* CCGImportanceDissonance: The famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a 3000 ATK monster that requires two Tributes (monsters removed from the field) and has no effect; in the manga, it was powerful enough that Seto Kaiba resorted to extortion and theft to collect every last one of them, but in the TCG that ensued, it's merely an expensive target. In ''Manga/YuGiOhR'', this very point is [[LampshadeHanging brought-up-slash-paraphrased]] by Willa Mette, who claims the Blue-Eyes to merely be a decoration. Even after the archetype received new support which made it respectably effective (see LightningBruiser below), the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in and on itself remains an outdated clay pigeon.