Match winner

The Match Winners are a series of monsters with a special effect that allows them to win the entire Match if they decrease the opponent's Life Points to 0 with a direct attack. A common effect they share, is that they cannot be Special Summoned and can only be Tribute Summoned by tributing three monsters of the same Type. With the exception of Victory Dragon (which is Forbidden in Advanced Format and in Japan), all of them are Illegal and very rare since they were either given as Prizes, or as Attendance cards in every year's World Championship. Victory Dragon was released in TCG and was given away as a Promo of Shonen Jump Magazine. It was banned on the next released Advanced Format after its own release. In 2010, the first Match Winner Synchro monsters were released, Stardust Divinity and Grizzly, the Red Star Beast. They both can only be summoned by Synchro Summon, instead of Tribute Summon, and instead of needing three monsters with the same type as they, they need a Tuner monster that have the same Attribute as the respective Match Winner, and two or more non-Tuner monsters that have the same Type as them.