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.
