Dragon

Dragon (ドラゴン Doragon) is a Type of Monster representing mythological serpentine, reptile, avian like beings that are typically fire-breathing creatures that symbolize chaos, both either evil or good, fierceness and intimidation.

Dragons tend to be the strongest or key boss monster in numerous Deck types in addition one of the most established and powerful Monster Types in the entire franchise. Ever since the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card franchise began, Dragon monsters have been known for having an ATK power greater than any other type of monster in the game in addition to being the one of the most popular monster Types.

In most of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series, the main character's rivals usually use Dragon-Type monsters as their signature or boss monsters, and to varying degrees in their Decks. Seto Kaiba employs his signature "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" as a key boss monster while his deck in the later part of the anime incorporates a variety of Dragons such as Spear Dragon, Different Dimension Dragon, Paladin of White Dragon and the Chaos Emperor Dragon. Chazz Princeton uses "Armed Dragon"s as a core part of his Deck in the anime, and a Dragon Deck in the manga spearheaded by "Light and Darkness Dragon". Jack Atlas's Turbo Deck is based on summoning his "Red Dragon Archfiend" while his Ground Deck also plays numerous Dragons like "Strong Wind Dragon", "Vice Dragon", and "Exploder Dragonwing". Kite Tenjo uses "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon", in addition to some minor Dragon monsters. Curiously enough, this tradition was inverted in the fifth series, and the protagonist Yuya Sakaki, along with his counterparts, use Dragons, primarily "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon"; his main rival Declan Akaba uses no Dragons whatsoever. Varis primarily uses a "rokket" Deck, which includes other Dragon monsters, and all of his ace monsters are based on Dragons, though only one, "Borreload Dragon", is a Dragon. Roa Kirishima in Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS shakes up the tradition again; he uses Fiend monsters, while the primary Dragon Duelist is Tatsuhisa "Luke" Kamijo.

There are Dragon-Type Monsters for every Attribute (except DIVINE, even though all Divine-Beast-Type monsters except "Obelisk the Tormentor" are referred to as dragons). Some of the most powerful Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, Pendulum, and Link Monsters are Dragon-Type monsters, including "Five-Headed Dragon", "Dragon Master Knight", "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon", "Stardust Dragon", "Black Rose Dragon", "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", "Shooting Quasar Dragon", "Beelze of the Diabolic Dragons", "Void Ogre Dragon", "Number 107: Galaxy-Eyes Tachyon Dragon", "Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon", "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon", "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon", "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon", "Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon", "Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon", "Starving Venom Fusion Dragon", "Supreme King Z-ARC", "Borreload Dragon", "Saryuja Skull Dread", "Borrelsword Dragon", "Borreload Savage Dragon", "Borrelend Dragon", and "Five-Headed Link Dragon".

There are six Structure Decks focused on Dragon-Type monsters: Dragon's Roar Rise of the Dragon Lords, Dragunity Legion, Dragons Collide, Saga of Blue-Eyes White Dragon, and Rise of the True Dragons. (In the OCG, they are Dragon's Roar, Revival of the Great Dragon, Dragunity Drive, Dragonic Legion, The Blue-Eyed Dragon's Thundering Descent, and Revival of the Great Divine Dragon.)

Archetypes include: "Majestic", "Hieratic", "Horus the Black Flame Dragon", "Blue-Eyes", "Red-Eyes", "Galaxy-Eyes", "Odd-Eyes", "rokket" and "Dragon Ruler". This last one is one of the most powerful series in the game; even after becoming Limited on the January 2014 Lists, they were still a power to be reckoned with, as each dragon could offer support to Decks of its corresponding Attribute, giving them more consistency. The release of "Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon" sealed their destiny and made them become Forbidden.

Many multi-Type archetypes have a Dragon-Type monster as their ace card, such as:

• "Crystal Beast": "Rainbow Dragon"
• "Ice Barrier": "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier"
• "Infernity": "Infernity Doom Dragon"
• "Iron Chain": "Iron Chain Dragon"
• "Koa'ki Meiru": "Koa'ki Meiru Maximus"
• "Lightsworn": "Judgment Dragon"
• "Scrap": "Scrap Dragon"
• "Utopia": "Number 99: Utopic Dragon"
• "Cipher": "Galaxy-Eyes Cipher Dragon"