Blazing Beasts

"Blazing Beasts" are an Archetype used by the Barian Guardian, Antares, in User:HaleWhitewind's upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL fic, 'ZEXAL II ReVerse' (title is a work-in-progress). The Archetype centers around FIRE Attribute, Pyro-type monsters, with the common effect of being treated as DARK Attribute and another monster type as well. Although the monsters are powerful on their own, they only truly work in cooperation with the other cards in the Archetype. In the storyline, the Blazing Beasts, and their sub-series, the "Blazing Kings" were designed in order to subdue and persevere against the Numbers, though they acquired a Number monster of their own before the events of the story.

It is important to note that while the Archetype is centered around the Blazing Beasts, many of their support cards also work with the Blazing Kings, due to some support cards simply specifying "Blazing monster(s)" as applicable targets, while searchers and discard cost effects specifically require Blazing Beasts as targets. The focus of the deck is simply to summon out as many powerful monsters as possible through Special Summoning, Synchro Summoning, and Xyz Summoning, and bolstering them via cards that can immediately summon out multiple Blazing Beasts via calculating damage, destroying the opponents cards, or Special Summoning a low-attack Tuner monster via controlling a specific monster that it is associated with.

Thanks to their effect, treating them as Dark Attribute monsters, they are also capable of benefitting from cards that support Dark Monsters, such as Dark Armed Dragon and Dark Eruption.

The "Blazing King" monsters make up the Extra Deck of the "Blazing" Archetype, with the Synchro Monsters being more animalistic in appearance, while the Xyz Monsters take on more humanlike appearances, though there are a few exceptions. more info will be added later