Clockwork Samurai

Clockwork samurai is series of warrior-type EARTH-monsters with lvl less than 4 and medium attack and defence range. Appearence of Clockwork Samurai's are somewhat around karakuri-monsters and western cowboy-stylized warriors. All Clockwork samurais are mechanical samurai-like creatures made from iron and wood, combined with gunslinger-like ponchos and flintlock rifles and revolver weapons.

Clockwork samurais all share divided effect structure like: •if this monster attacks, xxx. •if this monster is attack target, xxx. First effect stands for samurai-stylized melee weapon, like katana, yumi or yuri and second effect for western ranged weapon. Western weapon they are carrying can be seen from their names, as names are katakana-version-spelled versions of their gun names. Monsters can also have two on-attack effects. If it's so, only one of them can be activated during battle.

There are one clockwork samurai for each basic element of yugioh, (water, fire, earth, wind, light, dark) but as said, all monsters of the series are EARTH-type monsters. Element symbolizes both personality and how card affects on field. For example, Fire card ("Clockwork Samurai Minigan") has aggressive personality and has destructive abititles.

Related archetype is spell card series "Clockwork Build." They replace both effects of "Clockwork Samurai" monster with one, greater effect. Clockwork samurai has also several support cards which won't belong to any actual series. (like Samurai Quickdraw and One-Hit-KO!.

image example of style (image from wii game "Red Steel 2")