Gaia The Fierce Knight (archetype)

"Gaia The Fierce Knight", known as "Gaia the Dark Knight" (ガイア Ankoku Kishi Gaia) in Japan, is an archetype of Warrior-Type monsters that includes "Gaia The Fierce Knight" and monsters based on it.

This archetype is related to the "Black Luster Soldier" archetype.

Playing style
Any "Gaia the Fierce Knight" monster, including "Arisen" & "Charging", can be combined with "Infernal Curse of Dragon" to Fusion Summon "Gaia the Soaring Dragon Champion".

"Arisen Gaia" and "Charging Gaia" can be searched by the effect of "Gateway to Chaos", and switched from the Hand by

A common trait among the "Fierce Knights", except for the original Vanilla "Gaia the Fierce Knight" monster, is that they can be Normal Summoned to the field without needing any Tributes, depending on certain conditions, such as having no other cards in one's hand or having fewer monsters than the opponent.

Can use the effect of "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon" and "Sky Iris" to search for both "Performapal Trump Witch" and "Performapal Odd-Eyes Unicorn" for Pendulum Scale that can Summon the Gaia Knight Monsters. Also, helping to Fusion Summon "Gaia the Soaring Dragon Champion", and use the effect of "Spiral Spear Strike" for a Draw Engine or "Odd-Eyes Vortex Dragon" for defense.

Trivia

 * While only Normal and Effect Monsters are part of this archetype, there is a different form of "Gaia The Fierce Knight" for every type of Monster Card except for Ritual and Pendulum, although "Black Luster Ritual" originally (in the manga and early video games) required two sacrifices to transform "Gaia The Fierce Knight" into "Black Luster Soldier".