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**The Evol archetype also plays around this concept.
*[[Exact Words]]: The effect wordings are (in)famous for this. Some examples:
**An interesting side-effect of Equip Spell Cards that give Piercing, is that you can inflict damage to your opponent by equipping them to your opponent's monster(s)monsters. Then, whenWhen your opponent attacks one of your Defense Position monsters with an ATK greater than your monsters DEF, he/shethey will take the difference. After all, even though it's '''your''' opponent's monster, it's your Spell Card, and thus it's your opponent — not ''you'' — who takes the extra damage, due to the wording on the cards.
**Some continuous effects have linkage to another monster cards such as [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Future_Fusion Future Fusion] and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Call_of_the_Haunted Call of the Haunted]. However, when the monster is removed from field other than being destroyed, the continuous effect remains on the field meaninglessly.
**Due to the complexity of deciphering certain card effects, both the OCG and TCG later established rigid wordings for card effects that reinforce this trope, down to the usage of words such as "when", "then", "or", and even symbols like colons and semicolons. While it might take a while to get used to as new players, it prevents cards from being vague and keeps effect formulations uniform across the thousands of cards in the game.
*[[Exact Time to Failure]]: Once you activate the "Final Countdown" card, your opponent has exactly 10 of their turns to beat you or you win.
*[[Explosive Overclocking]]: The theme of the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Overworked Overworked] card.
*[[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: A couple, including but not limited to [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Big_Eye Big Eye], [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Thousand-Eyes_Restrict Thousand -Eyes Restrict], and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Hundred-Eyes_DragonHundred_Eyes_Dragon Hundred- Eyes Dragon].
*[[Fallen Angel]]: The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/DarklordsDarklord Darklords].
*[[Family-Friendly Firearms]]:
*[[Family-Friendly*Many Firearms]] - ManyOCG cards with realistic guns in the art had them replaced with lasers, fanciful guns, or even knives, with varying success.
**Great example of a card that explicitly has a [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/File:BarrelBehindtheDoorEE1-JP-R.jpg gun]{{Dead link}} on it to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113063544/http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/8/8a/BarrelBehindtheDoorDR1-EN-R-UE.jpg less obvious]. Plus the gun in the original was a burgler's
*[[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Famous mythologies, local folktales, references to other fantasy works, completely original creations, you name it; there's a high chance that at least an element from them is referenced in this game.
*[[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
*[[Feathered Fiend]]: A number of winged monsters, but the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/BlackwingsBlackwing Blackwings] stand out.
*[[Flaming Sword]]: WieldedA bylot, [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Flame_Swordsmanbut Flamea Swordsman].classic Also,example theis Spellwielded Cardby the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/SalamandraFlame_Swordsman SalamandraFlame Swordsman].
*[[Fragile Speedster]]: Some decks focus on getting out monsters as quick as possible, [[Zerg Rush|swarming the field]] (like the Harpies, the Blackwings, Frogs, and so on). To balance this out, most ofthey themtend doto not have very high attackATK power.
*[[Frogs and Toads]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Frog These fellas.] The Frog archetype is usually [[Weak but Skilled]]; they are mostly-all low-level monsters with sub-par attack, but have ''devastating'' support effects, like "[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Des_Croaking Des Croaking"] which blows away all cards controlled by the opponent, or [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Toadally_Awesome Toadally Awesome] which can casually negate effects.
*[[Fusion Dance]]: Fusion was a gameplay feature since the early days of the game, butwith themany Elementalthemes HEROs are entirely basedspecializing around fusing with one anotherit. ThereSome arefamous dozensexamples ofinclude potentialthe combinationsElemental present. To a lesser extentHERO, the[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gem-Knight newerGem-Knight] Gemknightand archetype[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Shaddoll is also based aroundShaddoll] fusionarchetypes.
*[[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]:
*[[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: *Many cards have slightly different effects between the anime and the physical card game; what would be a game-breaker might be [[Nerf|Nerfed]] when it becomes real, or vice-versa. Sometimes the rules are a little different as well; summoningSummoning monsters in face-down defenseDefense positionPosition hasn'trarely happenedhappens in the anime, sincebut theis firsta season,basic butknowledge it'sand stillmain an important partgimmick of thea rulesnumber of thedecks in real gamelife.
**As for a more direct example, Normal monsters. Take [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Maiden_of_the_Moonlight Maiden of the Moonlight] for example. ''Powers beyond mortal comprehension'', huh? That 1500 ATK certainly says otherwise! Sure there are SOME''some'' examples where it fits, like the famous Blue-Eyes White Dragon (init termshas ofthe highest ATK, thereamong areNormal notMonsters), manybut monstersthe that"flavor cantext standvs. upreal tolife" it),segregation but itsis just ridiculous for the most part. In fact, this is what made [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Shapesnatch Shapesnatch] such a [[Memetic Badass]] on the TCG side.
*[[Gang of Critters]]: SeenCan be seen in [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Law_of_the_Normal here] and [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Big_March_of_Animals here].
*[[Giant Germs]]: The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Giant_Germ Giant Germ] card.
*[[Gladiator Games]]: The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gladiator_Beast Gladiator Beasts], a set of monsters that are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], and has the gimmick of [[Switch-Out Move|"tagging out"]] with each other after a battle. Bonus points for [[Konami]] [[Shown Their Work|showing their work]] by using the ''real'' gladiator types, equipments and weapons/battle tactics for most of the cards, as well as real-life legendary Roman figures for the namesakes of the mostmore powerful Beasts.monsters of the theme.
*[[Glass Cannon]]:
*[[Glass Cannon]]: *The Lightsworns were designed as this with a combo of [[Fragile Speedster]]. Most of their monsters are quite powerful, and a good Lightsworn deck will probably win very quickly... or not win at all. This is because almost all of them send cards straight from your deck to the graveyardGraveyard at the end of the turn, meaning your deck will burn itself out after a while.
**There's also quite a few monsters that have high attack pointsATK but pathetic defense pointsDEF. The mighty [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rainbow_Dragon Rainbow Dragon] has 4000 ATK and 0 DEF, for example. Similarly, the Inverz/Steelswarm monsters all have 0 DEF. If a clever player runs cards that can switch attackbattle andposition defenseor positionsthe orATK/DEF stats, or outright nuke said low-defenseDEF monsters, these monsters are toast.
*[[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Ruin, Queen Of Oblivion and the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Allure_Queens Allure Queens].
*[[God Save Us From the Queen]]:
**[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Thorns Queen of Thorns] if you run anything other than Plant-type. ▼**[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ruin,_Queen_of_Oblivion Ruin, Queen of Oblivion] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ruin_&_Demise related cards].
*[[Gotta Catch Em All]]: This is impossible in real life (unless you're insanely rich and have a lot of spare time on your hands, and even then [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Tyler_the_Great_Warrior Tyler the Great Warrior] is truly one-of-a-kind), but it's ''quite'' possible if you're playing any of the various Yu-Gi-Oh video games that are released every year. ▼**The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Allure_Queen Allure Queens] are classic examples.
*[[Gratuitous English]]: At this point, the OCG probably has more cards and booster packs with English than Japanese names. A good deal of Japanese cards also have English names. ▼▲**[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Queen_of_Thorns Queen of Thorns] if you run anything other than Plant-typePlants.
*[[Gratuitous Japanese]]: In the first few booster packs, UDE's policy was that [[Keep It Foreign|cards with English names would have their names translated into Japanese]]. They've since stopped, but some card names are left untranslated. ▼▲*[[Gotta Catch Em All]]: This is practically impossible in real life (unless you're insanely rich and have a lot of spare time on your hands, and even then [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Tyler_the_Great_Warrior Tyler the Great Warrior] is truly one-of-a-kind) ,. butHowever, it's ''quite'' possible if you're playing any of the various ''Yu-Gi-Oh !'' video games that are released every yearcouple years.
*[[Harping on About Harpies]]: The Harpie Lady monsters.
▲*[[Gratuitous English]]: At this point, the OCG probably has more cards and booster packs with English than Japanese names. A good deal of Japanese cards also have English names.
▲*[[Gratuitous Japanese]]: In the first few booster packs, UDE's policy was that [[Keep It Foreign|cards with English names would have their names translated into Japanese]]. They've since stopped, but somethe old policy left us with iconic classic card names aresuch leftas [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Jigen_Bakudan Jigen untranslatedBakudan].
*[[Harping on About Harpies]]: The [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Harpie_Lady Harpie Lady] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Harpie related monsters].
*[[Hermaphrodite]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Yubel Yubel]
*[[Holy Hand Grenade]]: A good amount of LIGHT monsters are this.
*[[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Remember Horakhty, the Egyptian god that won the day against Zorc in the original anime and manga? [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Creator_God_of_Light,_Horakhty He's a card now], and his effect is like this. Good luck Summoning him, though...
*[[Humongous Mecha]]: Many of the Machine-type monsters, especially some of their Fusions.
*[[Instant Win Condition]]: Several, listed on the [[Useful Notes]] page.
*[[In the End You Are on Your Own]]: Regardless of what the TV series would have you believe, friends don't mean much in a standard 1-on-1 game. Averted in team plays and Tag Duels, naturally.
*[[Invulnerable Knuckles]]: An important gameplay ''aversion.'' To explain: If your monster attacks an opponent's defense-positionDefense Position monster, and the defender has more DEF than the attacker has ATK, it's the attacker's whoside takes damage; think of it like punching a brick wall with your fist and getting hurt. This is one of the reasons why monsters can be summonedSet or Special Summoned in face-down defensiveDefense positionPosotion; the attacker doesn't know what he's in for. Some decks can be built around this, with defensivehi-DEF monsters that flip themselves back down and "the Spell [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Shifting_Shadows Shifting Sands"Shadows] in play that lets you randomize the positions of your face-down monsters.
*[[Henshin Hero]]: The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Masked_HERO Masked HERO] archetype, whose gimmick involves having your monster "transform" into a Masked HERO with the same Attribute as it, mainly through the Spell [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mask_Change Mask Change].
*[[Joke Character]]: The Toons. Portrayed as a wacky subset of monsters in the game [[Awesome but Impractical|that can attack Life Points directly, but usually have to wait a turn to do so, which hampers their playability a lot.]]
*[[Kill'Em All]]: Some cards are able to wipe out everything on both sides of the playing field (or just all cards on the opposing side). A couple of cards take it even further by also wiping out every card in the players' hands !.▼**Also, there's honestly no reason to ever carry a "Sparks" card, and, unless you're running a Skill Drain deck, [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Giant_Kozaky Giant Kozaky] is more trouble than it's worth since it explodes and damages you for a hefty chunk of LP if you don't also keep Kozaky (a weak Normal monster with no support) out on the field.
**The[[Kill addition ofSat]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Give_and_TakeSatellite_Cannon GiveSatellite and TakeCannon] to the game has made Giant Kozaky more useful.
*[[Knight Templar]]: The [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vylon Vylons ] are so focused on creating a world of [[Perfect Pacifist People]] that they are willing to make a [[World of Silence]] to accomplish it . (although to be fair, they were under the [[ LogicalThe FallaciesCorruption| Bylswarm killingvirus]] everyoneat the time, apparentlywhich twisted and cranked the unified desire of their hivemind into the extremes). ]]▼*[[Kamen Rider]]: The [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Masked_Heroes Masked HEROes].
▲*[[Kill'Em All]]: Some cards are able to wipe out everything on both sides of the playing field (or just all cards on the opposing side). A couple of cards take it even further by also wiping out every card in the players' hands!
*[[Kill Sat]]: [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Satellite_Cannon Satellite Cannon]
▲*[[Knight Templar]]: Vylons are so focused on creating a world of [[Perfect Pacifist People]] that they are willing to make a [[World of Silence]] to accomplish it. [[Logical Fallacies|By killing everyone, apparently.]]
*[[Kraken and Leviathan]]:
**[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Fiend_Kraken Fiend Kraken] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Skull_Kraken Skull Kraken].
**[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Levia-Dragon_-_Daedalus Levia-Dragon - Daedalus] and its evolved form [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ocean_Dragon_Lord_-_Neo-Daedalus Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo-Daedalus]
**[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Evigishki_GustkrakeEvigishki_Gustkraken Evigishiki GustkrakeGustkraken] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Evigishki_Levianima Evigishki Levianima]. Bonus points for also being a pair in-universe.
*[[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Some cards have compulsory attack effects, (i.the emost famous probably being [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Berserk_Gorilla Berserk Gorilla, Battle Mania)].
*[[Leet Speak]]: There's a card called [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mind_Haxorz Mind Haxorz]. SeriouslyNo, really.
*[[Lethal Joke Item]]: There's a good number of these. Some notable examples:
**[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mind_Haxorz They make you] [[Face Palm]]
**The Ojamas are a bunch of weak monsters with 0 ATK and humorous artworks, but a number of their support cards allow them to turn the table on the enemy by [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_Trio locking] [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_Knight them] [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_King down], [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_Delta_Hurricane!! destroying their things] and mounting a [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_Country surprise] [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ojama_Emperor counterattack].
*[[Lethal Joke Item|Lethal Joke Card]]: There's a bunch of these. The Ojamas, three exceedingly weak monsters with no attack points, got a number of support cards that let them drastically turn the table on the enemy. "Gift Card" increases your opponent's life by 3000, but if you combo that with "Bad Reaction To Simochi", or have "Nurse Reficule The Fallen One" on the field, which turns healing into damage, you've just dealt a ''serious'' blow to the opponent. "Skull Servant" was famous for being an extremely weak card (in fact, most video games give you credit if you can win a game with the Skull Servant) but can act as fuel for "King of the Skull Servants," who becomes increasingly more powerful the more Skull Servants are in the Graveyard.
**[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gift_Card Gift Card] grants your opponent a whopping ''3000'' LP, but if you combo that with [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Bad_Reaction_to_Simochi Bad Reaction to Simochi] or [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Darklord_Nurse_Reficule Darklord Nurse Reficule], you've just dealt a ''serious'' blow to your opponent.
**Grinder Golem and Inferno Tempest. Grinder Golem summons a 3000 attack point monster on your opponents side of the field and gives you two tokens with 0 attack points. Now attack the Golem with one of your tokens, take 3000 damage, and activate Inferno Tempest. It removes every monster in both players decks and graveyards from play. You may even be able to perform an OTK by activating D.D. Dynamite which does 300 damage for every card of your opponents that is removed from play.
***[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Grinder_Golem Grinder Golem] hashad theproven bonusnot of having low defense pointsonce, sobut youtwice can summonthat it's tomore thethan opponent'smeets fieldthe ineye. defenseAs positioncontext, thenGrinder useGolem itis asa fodder3000 for aATK monster that needscan tobe destroySpecial aSummoned monsterto byyour battleopponent's tofield. activateWhen anit effectdoes, whileit alsogives you providing2 tokensTokens forwith other0 effectsATK.
***The first of its danger combo is with [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Inferno_Tempest Inferno Tempest] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/D.D._Dynamite D.D. Dynamite]. Ramming one of the Tokens Summoned by its own effect toward Grinder Golem instantly count toward Inferno Tempest's activation requirement, enabling you to use a Spell that banishes all monsters in both player's decks and Graveyards. Then you can activate D.D. Dynamite, which damages the opponent by 300 for each of their banished cards. While the combo is very situational and unreliable (it requires 3 unsearchable cards a game state good enough for Dynamite), it can put a huge dent into your opponent on the right timing.
**Foolish Burial sends a monster straight from your deck to the graveyard, which would seem like a bad idea on its own, except if you combine that with anything that lets you revive a monster, you've just hand-picked a monster from your deck to be summoned onto the field. There's a reason this card is limited to one per deck.
***The second, and more serious combo comes with the Link era. Link Summon are generally more generic than other Extra Deck Special Summon methods, and thus the two Tokens Summoned by Golem can lead to chaotic chains of Link-laddering involving [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Akashic_Magician Akashic Magician] that usually end in a board full of nasty Link Monsters, including but not limited to [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Saryuja_Skull_Dread Saryuja Skull Dread] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Firewall_Dragon Firewall Dragon]. For this very reason, Grinder Golem had been Forbidden from ''both'' the OCG and TCG tournament environments.
***Foolish Burial also sets off Dandylion, which summons two Level 1 tokens when sent to the grave. This is especially useful when Synchro summoning. If you summon Debris Dragon after doing this and use it to revive Dandylion, you can now Synchro Summon any Dragon-type synchro monster between level 5 and 9, and then gain another two Level 1 tokens. All this from two cards.
****Using the above strategy and a Level 1 Tuner, you can summon Formula Synchron and Stardust Dragon, and then Shooting Star Dragon, which has 3300 ATK and a myriad of powerful effects. If you use Glow-up Bulb as the Level 1 Tuner, it can revive itself and you can play a second level 2 synchro monster, allowing you to play Shooting Quasar Dragon. So basically you just played a 4000 ATK monster with three cards, and drew an extra one thanks to Formula Synchron. All 4 of the setup cards, Foolish Burial, Dandylion, Formula Synchron, and Debris Dragon, have since been limited.
**Tour Guide From the Underworld is a monster with unimpressive stats and an ability that at first glance seems fairly minor (she lets you choose and summon a relatively weak monster of your choice from your deck, but negates its ability and prevents you from using it for a Synchro summon, which eliminates two of the most obvious things you'd use it for.) Yet she's currently considered one of the most powerful cards in the metagame and sells for over a hundred dollars -- just [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Card_Tips:Tour_Guide_From_the_Underworld look] at the (incomplete) list of abusive things you can do with her.
*[[Light Is Good]]: Most monsters of the LIGHT attribute seem to be heroic, but...
**[[Light Is Not Good]]: seems to be the theme of the Arcana Force monsters and most of the [http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Worm Worm] Archetype.
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