History Characters / YuGiOhCardGameEToF

** Ultimate Flame Swordsman’s ATK can become double if it battles an opposing monster, but will be destroyed during the End Phase.

** Mirage Swordsman a retrain of Mirage Knight that appears to incorporate elements of Flame Swordsman and Dark Flare Knight into his design and effect, such as him being FIRE instead of LIGHT and being able to summon Flame Swordsman or a monster that mentions him from the Deck or Extra Deck.

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'''[[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flame_Swordsman_(series) Flame Swordsman]]''' is one of the original ace monsters of Katsuya Jonouchi/[[DubNameChange Joey Wheeler]] in the original ''Anime/YuGiOh'' series, a FIRE Warrior-Type monster with 1800 ATK and 1600 DEF. The TCG version is a non-Effect Fusion monster, but his retrains support other Warrior-Type monsters by giving them additional ATK and have the ability to Special Summon monsters from the graveyard when destroyed.

* CoolSword: Flame Swordsman's sword Salamandra, which also appears as an Equip Spell Card that gives a FIRE monster equipped with it 700 ATK. It later got a Fusion Monster retrain in Fighting Flame Dragon, which [[EquippableAlly can be equipped]] to not only give the aforementioned ATK boost, but also allow its wielder to attack twice in one turn.
* EquippableAlly: Fighting Flame Dragon can be equipped anytime except during the Damage Step to a Warrior Fusion Monster from your field or GY as an Equip Spell. If said monster is Flame Swordsman or a monster that mentions him, it gains 700 ATK and can make a second attack during each Battle Phase.

** The TCG version of Flame Swordsman is a Fusion Monster whose materials are Flame Manipulator and Masaki the Legendary Swordsman.

* MythologyGag: Fighting Flame Swordsman bears a resemblance to Jonouchi. Its artwork meanwhile is a reference to Episode 13 of the original series where Jonouichi's soul gets trapped inside Flame Swordsman by the power of the Millennium Ring.

* CoolSword: Flame Swordsman's sword Salamandra, which also appears as an Equip Spell Card that gives a FIRE monster equipped with it 700 ATK.

* ActionGirl: Chevalier de Fleur is a Level 8 Warrior-Type Synchro Monster with 2700 ATK and Sherry's ace monster. Its upgraded form, Baroness de Fleur, also counts.

** Baroness de Fleur can negate ''any'' card or effect activation, though only once while face-up on the field.

* BackFromTheDead: Baroness de Fleur can Special Summon a Level 9 or lower monster from your graveyard by returning itself to the Extra Deck.

* {{Bishounen}}: Lightshower and Lightflare, two of the boss monsters.

* UniformityException: Oblemirage is the only Elemental Lord whose unique effect seems to be based on a (previously) banned monster card instead of a Spell or Trap; in this case, it's Sangan (or rather its pre-erratum version).

* OdangoHair: Evil★Twin Lil-la's alternate artwork shows her hair done in this fashion. Live☆Twin Ki-sikil is mad at Lil-la for some reason.

* OdangoBuns: Evil★Twin Lil-la's alternate artwork shows her hair done in this fashion. Live☆Twin Ki-sikil is mad at Lil-la for some reason.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: All the monsters that support this card are Fairy-Type, but resemble quasi-mechanical constructs with Egyptian motifs.

* JokeCharacter: [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/True_Exodia True Exodia]]'s InstantWinCondition (detailed above) requires the field to be devoid of monsters except itself and the four Forbidden One limbs. The victory is also handed to its controller's ''opponent'', and it has no stats or upsides to offset this. There are ways to win with it, usually involving switching its control, but it's more trouble than it's worth, though it hasn't stopped players from trying.

* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Exodia Necross, even ignoring the "muck with the Graveyard and he dies" weakness, possesses no defenses against monster effects (which he did have in the anime) and has no immunities to any cards that don't destroy him. Pretty much every Deck made in the last decade has at least six ways of taking him off the board.

* {{Nerf}}: One card that kept "Frogs" versatile and powerful was "Substitoad", but after Frog FTK won the 2010 World Championships, it was Forbidden, and so many "Frog" Decks lost their supreme speed. Another card that was banned was Toadally Awesome because of its abuse in Spright decks.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Exodius, since its feet look like human feet..

* MythicalMotifs: In contrast to the Earthbound Immortals, the Earthbound Servants are based on figures from mythology and folklore.
** Geo Grasha is based on Glasya-Labolas.
** Geo Gremlin is based on a gremlin.
** Geo Gryphon is based on a griffin.
** Geo Kraken is based off the kracken.

** Mudora the Cestus Oracle's name and artwork references how Mudora was equipped with [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Cestus_of_Dagla Cestus of Dagla]] during Ishizu's duel against Kaiba.

%%* BladeOnAStick: Majestic Flaming Star - Snarin and Steadfast Flaming Star - Tukei. Tukei is based on the "General of Double Spears".

* AchillesHeel: 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.

* ObviousRulePatch: The "Earthbound Immortals" all share a string of text that prevents them from being attacked by the opponent's monsters[[note]] "Your opponent cannot select this card as an attack target" [[/note]]. This particular effect was also shared by "The Legendary Fisherman", printed almost 9 years before the Earthbound Immortals. In this time period, it was ruled that if "The Legendary Fisherman" was the only monster you controlled, when the opponent's monsters attacked, they would do so directly. This was a weakness which Konami found ill-fitting for the "Earthbound Immortals", and as such, the previous ruling was invalidated for them, making opposing monsters unable to attack at all if your only monster was an Immortal. [[note]]The string of text "but does not prevent your opponent from attacking directly" was later errata'd into "The Legendary Fisherman" to prevent confusion regarding why if the two effects were worded the same, still worked differently.[[/note]]

* CCGImportanceDissonance: They are the most powerful monsters to exist in the entire game in the anime and manga universe, with each one having a slew of effects that verged on StoryBreakerPower. In the OCG, due to AdaptationalWimp, they are nowhere near as strong as they were in the anime and manga. Because of this, they are considered only as a casual option at best, as running them typically entails using a dedicated deck.

Mechanically, the Evil Eye monsters with human formes all gain disruptive Quick effects if equipped with "Evil Eye of Selene", which also grants strenghtened effects to the Spells and Traps in the archetype. The familiars setup the Link summon of their boss monsters.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Exodius, since its feet look like human feet.
* FaceHeelTurn: Meta-example: after its famous usage by Yugi, every single user of the five-card combo has been a villain. The big difference is usually thought to be that Yugi/Sugoroku merely included the pieces in his Deck, but the others centered their Decks around him.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Sending an Exodia piece to the Graveyard without Exodius's effect or banishing a piece can completely rule the entire strategy if the player does not have cards to recycle it back to the hand. Later support like The Legendary Exodia Incarnate or Obliterate!!! have helped with the first weakness, but banishing is still a problem.

* TookALevelInBadass:
** Blue Flame Swordsman is an Effect version who can give 600 of his ATK to another Warrior-Type monster you control. When he’s destroyed, you can banish him to Special Summon one FIRE Warrior-Type monster from your graveyard.
** Ferocious Flame Swordsman is a LINK-2 Link Monster who gives 500 ATK to all Warrior-Type monsters on the field. When he’s destroyed, you can Special Summon one non-Link Warrior-Type monster from your graveyard, with the summoned monster being banished when it leaves the field again.

* BalanceBuff: The Fortune Fairies got a badly needed one in the real-life game, going from crappy vanilla monsters to Effect Monsters with decently powerful abilities that can be Special Summoned for free when drawn.

* CCGImportanceDissonance: They're the equivalent of a walking [=WMD=] in the anime, and are treated with massive reverence and awe, with their master (Z-Arc) treated as an universal-ending catastrophe. There's also only one of them. In the TCG, they're middle of the road Extra Deck toolbox monsters (that are still useful to some extent, depending on the deck), and using all of them in the same deck is an extremely inconsistent affair.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Golden Lord has quite good effects and pretty high stats.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Charging Flaming Star King - Soko and Flaming Star Emperor - Choraio

* GoodCounterpart: As the second Link 6 monster created, Firewall Dragon Singularity is meant to be this archetype's counterpart to The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister. It has the same arrows as the Arrival, but upside-down so that half of the arrows point to the opponent. Singularity lacks the Arrival's protection, but has a powerful quick effect to compensate. While the Arrival summons tokens, Singularity can summon any Cyberse from the GY. Finally, the Arrival's ATK is set in stone the moment it's summoned, but Singularity can keep stacking the ATK boost from its quick-effect.

* PowerOfFriendship: Most of their effects activate when a monster is linked or co-linked to their Link arrows. Darkfluid gets stronger for every different kind of Cyberse Extra Deck monster in the graveyard.

* EvilIsBigger: These things are {{Kaiju}}-sized in the anime and dwarf all of the Signer Dragons.

* MythicalMotifs: In contrast to the Eathbound Immortals, the Earthbound Servants are based on figures from mythology and folklore.

'''[[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Earthbound Earthbound]]''' is an archetype that began with the '''[[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Earthbound_Immortal Earthbound Immortals]]''', a series of Level 10 DARK monsters based on the Nazca lines who were the primary antagonistic forces of the Dark Signers arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds''. In addition to their own unique abilities, 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. Over the years, they have received support that both help to make summoning and sustaining them easier.\\\

They eventually received a sub-archetype known as the '''[[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Earthbound_Servant Earthbound Servants]]''', Fiend-Type monsters used by Sergey Volkov in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' whose effects support Earthbound monsters and have a heavy focus on both Fusion and Synchro Summoning. However, it wouldn't be until roughly seven years after their anime appearance that they made their real-life debut in the ''Animation Chronicle 2023'' booster pack.

* AnimalMotifs: All of them are based on animals.

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The '''[[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Earthbound_Immortal Earthbound Immortals]]''' are a series of Level 10 DARK monsters based on the Nazca lines. They were the primary antagonistic forces of the Dark Signers arc of ''5D's''.\\\

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.\\\

''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' expanded the Earthbound archetype with Earthbound Servants, who can use both Fusion and Synchro. They have not yet been printed in the card game.

* ClassyCatBurglar / PhantomThief : They're a blend of both. Ki-sikil & Lil-la are both attractive young women in [[SpyCatsuit Spy Catsuits]] who frequently perform heists on incredibly valuable artifacts completely undetected.

** Sususki ni Tsuki (August Pampas Moon): [[ThatsNoMoon The Wicked Avatar]]

* BareYourMidriff: Serziel is a RareMaleExample. Ironically, his female counterpart Medusa ends up looking much more modestly clothed in comparison.

* BareYourMidriff: Live☆Twin Ki-sikil wears nothing but a vest over her chest, beneath her jacket.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Darkfluid gains a counter if a Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, or Ritual monster is in the graveyard, for a total of four counters.