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All Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Types Explained

Find Out if That Card's Your Type!
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Published: Sep 12, 2022 02:11 pm

It can be easy getting confused at how much the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has expanded. I suppose you could say that I never really learned how to play when I was a kid. I was more focused on the colorful monsters and the collectathon aspects. But, once you take a moment to learn the game’s mechanics, you’ll find there’s much more to it than we could’ve known as kids.

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So, let’s unravel the Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Types. As of writing, there are 24 different Monster Types that can change the most effective strategies in any given game. Here’s a full list of each Monster Type, as well as some examples of cards you’ll find in each.

All Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Types

  • Aqua
    • Example Cards: TOADally Awesome; Glacial Beast Iceberg Narwhal; Testudo Erat Numen.
  • Beast
    • Example Cards: Alpha, the Master of Beasts; Number 14: Greedy Sarameya; and Invoked Caliga.
  • Beast-Warrior
    • Example Cards: Beast King Barbaros; Sky Cavalry Centaurea; Manticore of Darkness.
  • Cyberse
    • Example Cards: Firewall Dragon; Decode Talker; Salvagent Driver.
  • Dinosaur
    • Example Cards: Ultimate Conductor Tyranno; Dogoran, the Mad Flame Kaiju; Number 61: Volcasaurus.
  • Divine-Beast
    • Example Cards: The Winged Dragon of Ra; Obelisk the Tormentor; Slifer the Sky Dragon.
  • Dragon
    • Example Cards: Borreload Savage Dragon; Starving Venom Fusion Dragon; Borrelsword Dragon.
  • Fairy
    • Recommended Cards: Mudora; Sacred Arch-Airknight Parshath; Marshmallon.
  • Fiend
    • Example Cards: Tour Guide From the Underworld; Battle Fader; Adreus, Keeper of Armageddon.
  • Fish
    • Example Cards: White Aura Whale; Superancient Deepsea King Coelacanth; Double Fin Shark.
  • Insect
    • Example Cards: Retaliating “C;” Inzektor Exa-Beetle; Contact “C.”
  • Machine
    • Example Cards: Chaos Ancient Gear Giant; Crystron Quariongandrax; Cyber Dragon Infinity.
  • Plant
    • Example Cards: Predaplant Verte Anaconda; Traptrix Rafflesia; Queen of Thorns.
  • Psychic
    • Example Cards: Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit; Magical Android; PSY-Framegear Gamma.
  • Pyro
    • Example Cards: Royal Firestorm Guards; Solar Flare Dragon; Spirit of Flames.
  • Reptile
    • Example Cards: Vennominion The King of Poisonous Snakes; Gagagigo the Risen; King of Feral Imps.
  • Rock
    • Example Cards: Nibiru, the Primal Being; Gigantes; Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo.
  • Sea Serpent
    • Example Cards: Deep Sea Diva; Bahamut Shark; Sea Dragoons of Draconia.
  • Spellcaster
    • Example Cards: Astrograph Sorcerer; Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous; Water Enchantress of the Temple.
  • Thunder
    • Example Cards: Thunder Dragon Titan; Prank-Kids Battle Butler; Lightning Chidori.
  • Warrior
    • Example Cards: Black Luster Soldier — Envoy of the Beginning; D.D. Warrior Lady; Number 39: Utopia.
  • Winged Beast
    • Example Cards: Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer; Genex Ally Birdman; Barrier Statue of the Stormwinds.
  • Wyrm
    • Example Cards: Number 24: Dragulas the Vampiric Dragon; Al-Lumi’Raj; Pandora’s Jewelry Box.
  • Zombie
    • Example Cards: Eldlich the Golden Lord; Glow-Up Bloom; Mezuki.

Related: All Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Rarities Explained

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James Herd
James has been playing games for as long as he can remember. His first game was either The Lion King or The Mask for the SNES. He has since grown into the biggest apologist for JRPGs and he wants to be Yoko Taro for Halloween.