Type

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Types are a means to split monsters into groups (in a broader way to what Attributes do) in order to enable Support Cards granting various effects, to a specific order of monsters.

Each monster has 1 Type, and there are 21 different legal Types in the OCG & TCG (and a few made up) so far.

=Real Monster Types=

Aqua http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/4/44/Aqua.png
See the main article, Aqua.

A notable made-up card is Majesty of Ice, when a notable made-up Archetype is the Slime monsters.

Beast http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/1/17/Beast.png
See the main article, Beast.

Some notable made-up Beast-Type monsters are "Ali Kangaroo" and "Arceus".

Beast-Warrior http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/1/1d/Beast-Warrior.png
See the main article, Beast-Warrior.

Some notable made-up cards are "Blaziken", and "Lucario".

Dinosaur http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/8/89/Dinosaur.png
See the main article, Dinosaur.

Dragon http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/c/c7/Dragon.png
See the main article, Dragon.

Noteable Dragon Archetypes include the "Elemental Dragons" and "Darkness Dragons".

Fairy http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/4/43/Fairy.png
See the main article, Fairy.

Fiend http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/6/6e/Fiend.png
See the main article, Fiend.

The made-up "Doomforce" and "Apocalyptic Dragon" cards are all also Fiends.

Fish http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/f/fb/Fish.png
See the main article, Fish.

Insect http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/7/79/Insect.png
See the main article, Insect.

Machine http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/1/18/Machine.png
See the main article, Machine.

Some notable made-up Machine's weakness cards are "Combat War Lost" and "Short-Circuit Cyber", when a notable made-up Machine-Type monster is "Ultra Cyber Dragon".

Plant http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/d/d1/Plant.png
See the main article, Plant.

Psychic http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/2/24/%3F.png
See the main article, Psychic.

Some notable made-up cards are:
 * Asys TM-32
 * Dimension Lord - Yuriza
 * Dimension Destroyer
 * PSI Awaken Hayabusa Knight
 * Psycho Summoner
 * Artificial Intelligence

Pyro http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/c/c8/Pyro.png
See the main article, Pyro.

Reptile http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/9/90/Reptile.png
See the main article, Reptile.

Rock http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/0/0b/Rock.png
See the main article, Rock.

Sea Serpent http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/2/2f/Sea_Serpent.png
See the main article, Sea Serpent.

However, the advent of made-up Project Sea Serpent caused a lot of new Sea Serpents to be created, and now their main strategy is to power each other's points and destroy opposing monsters. Some notable made-up monster cards are "Leviathan - Serpent of the Depths" and "Justice Hydra", when some notable made-up support cards are "Depths of the Ocean" and "Water Shield."

Spellcaster http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/2/2f/Spellcaster.png
See the main article, Spellcaster.

Thunder http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/3/3d/Thunder.png
See the main article, Thunder.

A notable made-up cards is Raijin, the God of the Thunder, and some noteable made-up support cards are Static Fusion Ball and Aura of Lightning.

Warrior http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/9/97/Warrior.png
See the main article, Warrior.

A notable made-up warrior monster card is Cannibal Warlord.

Winged Beast http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/0/01/Winged_Beast.png
See the main article, Winged Beast.

Zombie http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/c/c3/Zombie.png
See the main article, Zombie.

A notable made-up weakness card is Talisman of Banishing Souls.

Divine-Beast http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/8/8e/Divine-Beast.png
See the main article, Divine-Beast.

Some notable made-up monsters:
 * Chronos the Ancient God of Time and Space
 * Bahamut, the Divine King of the Dragons
 * Rat God
 * Elemental Dragon - God Dragon
 * The Creator God of Life, the Universe and Everything

Immortal [[Image:Immortal.png]]
See the main article, Immortal.

=Made-Up Monster Types:=

Air
All Air monsters are Wind. Just like Aqua in Water, they are everything related to Wind attribute. their ability that they can move to selected horizontal zone to atk, if they are not monster or Spell/trap card on your opponent side of the field, it's attack directly to the opponent LP, if their is Trap/spell card on that horizontal, the Trap/spell card must active immediately. Some archtypes of this type are: Cloudian, Storm, etc. Some notable cards include:
 * Mystic Kite
 * Baloon de Lunar

Angel [[Image:Angel.jpg]]
Angel type monsters, a counterpart of many fiend type monsters, belong to Light Attribute, one subspecies of the angel type are the Archlords (group counterpart for archfiends) and the Archangels.

Notable Monster include:
 * Heaven Ruler Archlord
 * Archangel Casielus
 * Archangel Metathronix
 * Archlord Arthurius
 * Hopeking Archlord

Some support cards include:
 * Avalon
 * Ancient Blade-Excalibur
 * Codex Angelorum
 * Judgement of Archlords
 * Raising Up
 * Heavens Blessing
 * Angelical Calling

Blizzard [[Image:Blizzard.jpg]]
Blizzard monsters belong to the Water Attribute. These icy creatures lurk in the coldest regions imaginable. Notable monsters include:


 * Blizzard Dragon
 * Zombie of Ice

Chaos
Chaos monsters all belong to the Dark Attribute. They tend to wreak havoc on your opponent. Notable monsters that belong to this type are:


 * Chaos Emperor - Black Luster Soldier
 * Chaos Emperor - Shinato, King of a Higher Plane
 * Chaos Emperor - Legendary Flame Swordsman
 * Chaos Emperor - Sage of Chaos

Character
See the main article, Character Cards.

Chemical
Chemical type is the type that under Metal attribute control. they are the monsters that created from diamond, gold, silver,Iron... They work for return Spell/Trap card to the owner's hand, sent monsters from your opponent's hand to the graveyard or remove from play monsters.

Chicken
Chicken is a type made out of boredom. It is not intended to include support cards, but there is really no rule against it.

Notable monsters include:
 * Chicken
 * Super Chicken
 * Mega Ultra Chicken

Chroma [[image:Chroma.png]]
Chroma monsters that are also derived from Nippon Ichi Software games, including the Makai Series. These monsters are normally high in level, but do not reach the levels of 9 - 12. They are normally low in ATK and DEF but have exceptionally strong effects.

Notable Monsters Include:
 * Trenia - The Mysterious One
 * Phantom Brave - Marona

Cosmic
Cosmic monsters are monsters that don't quite fit in with the Spacial, Lunar or Solar type monsters or they fit in all of the types. A notable archetype of cosmic monsters is the "Cosmic Embryo" monsters. This includes the Divine attribute monster Cosmic Embryo - The Universe.

Cryptid
Cryptid monsters are creatures that are based on animals and unknown creatures that are known as UMA (Unidentified Mysterious Animals). These monsters first appeared in the booster pack, Crimson Beasts.

Notable Monsters include:
 * The Mothman
 * The Jersey Devil
 * Ogopogo
 * Bigfoot
 * Akkorokamui

Support Cards include:
 * The Unknown World
 * Necronomicon
 * Guardian of the Unknown Creatures

Weakness Cards include:
 * Protection of The Unknown Creature

Crystal
Crystal is the monsters that made from glass, mirror, crystal... They often have Light Attribute, because their ability often negate, reflect the power of your opponent to gain or protect the player's LP. Their stragery is they are great on defense and kill the opponent by mean other than attack. Some notable monsters:
 * 4*4 Squared Mirror
 * Super Kandra

Death [[Image:Death.jpg]]
Death monsters are a made-up type monster and almost similar with monsters, but its effect are activated when it is removed fom play, instead of discarded from hand.

Some Notable Monsters include:
 * Thanatos - The Death Bringer
 * Grim Reaper - The Definition of Death
 * Tuoni - The Another Death

Some Support Cards:
 * The Death Realms
 * Death is Calling

Deity
This type consists of Fusion Monsters that use either the God cards or the Sacred Beast cards.

Notable Monsters:
 * Divine Emperor - Armageddon

Demon-Vassal http://images.wikia.com/ycm/images//0/0d/Demon-Vassal.png
Demon-Vassal monsters that are normally low in level, they have exceptional strong effects, and fairly good ATK and DEF. These monsters are also derived from the Makai Series. These monsters are used to normal summon Overlord-Type monsters.

Some notable monsters include:
 * Demon Weapon Specialist
 * Demoness Weapon Specialist
 * Demoness Witch
 * Private Prinny
 * Demon Ronin

Devil
Monsters that resembly the devil or demons. They are usually low leveled but can have stronger forms.

Some notable monsters include :
 * Mini Diablo
 * Fel
 * Mini Diablo Buster
 * Fel Buster

Divine-Masked Rider [[Image:D_rider.jpg]]
According to legends, these riders are superior than normal riders. More cleaver, more skills, etc. Some people call them "Gods of Riders".

Some notable monsters include :
 * Den-O[Wing Form]
 * Kabuto[Rider Form]

Esper
Esper monsters are a new Co-type, with the advent of the Rise of the Summoners. The strategy of Esper monsters is to summon a "Summoner" monster who can summon "Esper" cards from your Hand or Deck by paying life points x100 of the LV of the "Esper" you want to Summon. The summoner cards can level up the more they Summon, becoming Stronger and able to summon Stronger "Esper" cards.

Notable Monsters include:
 * Bahamut
 * Ramuh, God of Thunder
 * Zodiark, Keeper of the Precepts

Support cards include:
 * Hymn of the Fayth
 * Final Summoning

Eva
These monsters are from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. They work great against the Servents of God cards.

Some notable monster cards:


 * Evangelion Unit 00
 * Evangelion Unit 01
 * Evangelion Unit 02
 * Evangelion Unit 03
 * Evangelion Unit 04
 * Berserk Evangelion Unit 01
 * Evangelion Unit Ohtsu

Evolution Creatures
You can put these monsters on 1 of the card or cards that it says to. These are usually stronger forms of other monsters.

Notable Cards:


 * Giga Bowser
 * Harpie Lady Linkd3
 * Dark Magician Girl Linkd3

Food
Food monster are monsters and trap monsters that have images of food and included in the Food-Type. Some of these have the ability to heal the summoner at at a loss of there attack points or by destroying it.


 * Cheesecake
 * Cake Beast
 * Bread-Caster

Support:
 * Enchanted Stove
 * Food Conservation

Ghost [[Image:Ghost-Type.jpg]]
Ghost monsters are a new type, with the advent of the Undead Realms. The strategy of Ghost monsters is to either pair up with Spirits or to swarm in the sense Zombies do. Ghost monsters usually represent Spirits, but are not Spirit monsters. They are a little Zombie-like, but they do not really fit in the Zombie-type category. They are usually spirits, souls, and other Ghost-like things.

Notable Monsters include:
 * Blue-Eyes Phantom Dragon
 * Zonbi - Overlord of the Cemetery
 * Shinigami
 * Elemental Hero Phantom Wind
 * Ghost Bus Tear
 * The Ultimate Ghost

Support cards include:
 * Spirit World
 * Ghost World
 * Ghastly Blast!
 * Reinforcement of the Spirit

Weakness cards include:
 * Talisman of Banishing Souls

Halo Monsters [[Image:Xbox_game_halo_icon.gif]]
These monsters are like "Toon" Monsters, in that you need the spell card Halo Ring on the field. The only difference is that you can special summon the monsters without needing Halo Ring on the field. People are free to add to this type.

Note able monsters:

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Halo Mecha [[Image:Mecha_icon.jpg]]
Another type of the type "Halo Monsters".

Hell
Hell monsters are Dark, but some have Fire, also. their ability is they can get some Normal monster Dark Fiend or Earth,  (but non-Rock monsters) monsters that sent to graveyard and special summon it into Hell monsters with "Phantom" in the beginning of its name, then the original ATK and DEF will switch together. They are against Sun type and they always use their ability to harm Sun type instead.

Horror
Horror Monsters are usually DARK or HELL attribute monsters. They have effects that involve cards of their type being removed from play, sometimes removing one just to use the effect as its cost. They work well with cards Like "Soul Absorbtion" or decks that involve cards being removed from play.

Lego
These monsters are legos. When they are destroyed you special summon a Lego Token.

Some notable monsters include:
 * Lego Dragon
 * Lego Ambulance
 * Lego T-Rex
 * Lego Jet
 * Lego Reaper
 * Bioni Gumo

Some support for these cards include:
 * Lego City
 * Lego Swords
 * Lego Axe
 * Rebuild!
 * Lego Boost

Lunar
Lunar Monsters are made in the tide of the moon.

Notable Monsters:
 * Elemental Hero Lunarus

Masked Rider [[Image:Rider.jpg]]
According to legends, people who worn the masks and riding motorcycles. They have unique armors and have their own purpose.

Some notable monsters include :
 * Den-O[Plat Form]
 * Den-O[Sword Form]
 * Den-O[Rod Form]

Military
Military monsters are mostly soldiers and vehicles for modern warfare.

Some notable monsters include:
 * Army Sniper
 * Terror Helicopter
 * Combat Helicoptor
 * Medic

Some support for these cards include:
 * Military Formation
 * AKA - 47
 * Aerial Assault
 * Handgun
 * Draft
 * Embargo

Some weakness cards include:
 * Combat War Lost

Musician
Musician monsters are singers, bards, guitarists, drummers, harpists and other beings that attack with music or sound, monsters that would previously have been put in either the Spellcaster or Fairy category. The Type was introduced in Age of Dark Awakening and followed up in Forbidden Reflections. Most support for Musician monsters comes from other Musician monsters rather than Spell or Trap cards, reinforcing the "band" element to their persona.

Notable monsters include:
 * Mystic Drum Circle
 * Didgeridoo Summoner
 * Heavenly Muse
 * Tokeherd

Support cards include:
 * Cover Bard
 * Acoustic Cellist

Mythical-Beast
Mythical-Beast monsters are those drawn from mythology or legends, or at least partly derived from them. Notable monsters can be seen in Thunderboom's Pokémon cards.

Notable monster cards:
 * Mew (Thunderboom)
 * Dialga, Master of Time
 * Palkia, Ruler of Space
 * Arachne

Nyan Nyan
Nyan Nyan is the monster type that specially used to negate the effect of all "Thunder Nyan Nyan"s.

Notable Card:
 * Linkd3, the Ultimate Nynan Nyan

Object
Object monsters are often seen as the monters that you can't see their brain. they often trap into normal things and then use their magic to atack the opponent. Though, theu used to be a Fiend or Spellcaster before, like ,, or ... They are various monters with many types to play. their archtype include: Food... They get boost from also Some notable cards:
 * Fallen Table
 * Winged Spoon

Other Worldly
Other Worldy monsters are mainly beings from outer space, most of these cards are aliens. This type is still a very unsupported type. Some notable monsters:
 * Alien Code-A
 * Alien Code-B
 * Alien Code-C

Some support cards:
 * Vortex
 * Alien Landscape

Overlord http://images.wikia.com/ycm/images//1/1e/Overlord.png
Overlord monsters that are derived from the Makai Seies, that is a game developed by NIS America & Nippon Ichi Software. These monsters are normally high in level, and have outstandingly strong effects but has a backfire ability that do harm to the controller. These type of monsters can only be normally summoned by tributing Demon-Vassal - type monsters.

Some notable monsters include:
 * Zetta - Lord Of Cosmos
 * Pram - The Oracle
 * Salome - The Martyr Harbringer
 * Alexander God Of Destruction

Some support cards include:
 * Overlord's Anthem
 * Trump Card Of The Overlords
 * Ordeal Of The Sacred Tome
 * Wish - Go to Past
 * Unleashing The Power Of The Dark Lord

Pencil [[Image:Pencil.jpg]]
This type is based on things that look similar to Pencils and Pens. Most of them are Earth Attribute though they are a few exceptions.

Notable Monster include:
 * Pencil Tree
 * Pencil Soldier

Pokémon [[image:Pokeball.gif]]
Pokemon are monsters that are derived from the Pokémon World. These creatures contain their default types such as "Plant", "Fish", "Pyro", etc, however they also contain the "Pokemon" type to establish that certain cards may only work with them, although most of these only need to have a Pokémon Name for most cards to work with them. Notable cards can be seen in World King's Project: The Pokémon..

Some notable monsters include:
 * Eevee
 * Vaporeon
 * Jolteon
 * Flareon
 * Dialga
 * Palkia
 * Giratina
 * Lucario
 * Mewtwo
 * Mew

Some notable support cards include:
 * Kingdom of the Pokémon
 * Poké Ball
 * Master Ball
 * Quick Ball

Rebel [[Image:31129069l0ly.jpg|thumb|54px]]
Rebels are monsters that usually represent bikers,angels,wild people,demonic people and soilders. There attributes are Fire, Dark and Light. Their effects usually involve destroying, drawing, or attacking more than once.

some notable monsters are :
 * Unity hero-Tito dynamite
 * Ace king
 * Holy breaker
 * Shadowform

Rubber
Rubber monsters are related to Wood attribute. They are flexible and they can weaken opponent's monsters, they can be an equip card for another Rubber monsters, and the best use is they are easy to fusion (they have a most fusion cards of all types)

Shapeshifter
Shapeshifter Monsters are a unique type of monster that be treated as any type of monster.

Notable Monsters:
 * Lizard Shifter
 * Kappa Shifter
 * Kappa Lizard Shifter

Shy Guy
Shy Guys are a new type of card made by Mick used for the Mario enemies Shy Guys

Notable Monsters:
 * Shy Guy
 * White Shy Guy
 * Bandit
 * General Guy
 * Snifit

Solar
Solar Monsters are monsters that are created by the suns rays.

Notable Monsters:
 * Elemental Hero Solaron

Spacial
Spacial Monsters are monsters that made by stars, etc.

Notable monsters include:
 * Elemental Hero Solaron
 * Elemental Hero Lunarus
 * Supreme Hero Univor

Sun
Sun monsters are Fire, although some have Light. They are all the monster that use the power of sun to prove as their own power, or use electric of sun to active their affect, they share with Pyro type for burning opponent LP, and also gain Lp instead. They work well with Pyro type, as Pyro will inflict opponent's LP and destroy monsters, Sun will inflict and increase the owner's LP. They are against Hell monsters. Notable cards:
 * Solar Knight Warrior

War Machine
This type of card is a machine type but with aggressive and war torn programming inside its CPU. They are designed and built for war and any who oppose them usually don't live to tell the tale.

Notable Monsters:

-

???
??? Monsters are Monsters with the Type:??? and when Summoned, it becomes whatever Type you call out.

Notable monsters:


 * Mystic Monkey