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Terror Dragon ((きょう)(おう)(りゅう) Kyō'ōryū, "Fear King Dragon") is an archetype of Dragon-Type monsters created by Taylor Gorrell. Visually, all Terror Dragons are representations of various fears in a dragonic body, incorporating the element of fear into their effects.

Terror Dragon Associated Fear
Harisenbon (Thousand Needles) Trypanophobia (fear of needles)
Konchugun (Insect Swarm) Entomophobia (fear of insects)
Kumonosu (Spider Web) Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)
Raiu (Thunderstorm) Astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning)
Rekka (Inferno) Pyrophobia (fear of fire)
Shinkai (Deep Sea) Thalassophobia (fear of the ocean)
Tencho (Zenith) Acrophobia (fear of heights)
Yurei (Ghost) Phasmophobia (fear of ghosts)
Kansen (Infection) Pathophobia (fear of disease)
Keimusho (Prison) Carcerophobia (fear of imprisonment)
Tokoyami (Everlasting Darkness) Nyctophobia (fear of the dark)
Shiranai (Unknown, more literally "I don't know") Xenophobia (fear of anything strange or unknown)
Dofuryoiki (Enclosed region) Claustrophobia (Fear of confined spaces)

Play Style[]

Similar to Ghostricks, Terror Dragons benefit from their own cards being face-down on the field. Most members have lower ATK than DEF, making placing them face-down a good tactic, and a good number of them also benefit from being removed from the field while face-down, keeping your opponent on edge when it comes to actually getting rid of your defenses. For those cards that are face-up, they tend to scare your opponent's monsters into backing down from their moves; stopping attacks, changing effect targets, etc.

Trivia[]

  • Despite being Dragon-Types, Terror Dragons look more like dinosaurs than any actual description of dragons. This was intentional on Taylor Gorrell's part: "Dinosaur" in Japanese is written as "Fear Dragon" ((きょう)(りゅう) Kyōryū), and several Dinosaur-Type monsters resemble dragons or have dragonic abilities, so Taylor chose to reverse this usual association by having the Dragon-Type Terror Dragons resemble dinosaurs.
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