Card Appearances:Red Dragon Archfiend

Details

 * When Jack Atlas summons this card, he chants "The ruler's heartbeats will now file through here! Take witness to its creation-shaking power! Synchro Summon! My very soul, Red Demons Dragon!".


 * Its attack names in the Japanese version are Blazing Crimson Hell Flare and Absolute Power Force and its effect is Demon Meteor. In the dub, its attack names are Scorching Crimson Flare and Absolute Power Force. Also, unlike most dragons who shoot their attacks from their mouths, "Red Dragon Archfiend" gathers a ball of fire above its fist, and then lets fly with its attack.

Anime appearances

 * This card was the first Monster Card played by Jack Atlas
 * This card was the first Synchro Monster played in season 1.


 * episode 1, Jack uses this card in his Duel against Hunter Pace. It is summoned through unknown reasons. This card then attacks Hunter, winning Jack the Duel.


 * In episode 4, Jack used "Dark Resonator" and "Big Piece Golem" to Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" against Yusei Fudo. The Duel continued in episode 5, where both players' moves focus entirely on "Red Dragon Archfiend" and "Stardust Dragon".


 * In episode 8, Jack used this against Hunter Pace. He Tributed "Dark Resonator" to Summon "Big Piece Golem" and used "Revival Gift" to revive "Dark Resonator". He then used both of them to Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend". He attacked "Burning Skull Head" and used "Red Dragon Archfiend's" effect to destroy Hunter's remaining monsters and used "Lineage of Destruction" to allow it to attack Hunter again defeating him.


 * In episode 15, when the tournament is about to start, Jack Summons this monster near the contestant's.


 * This monster appears in a quick flashback in episode 23.


 * In flashbacks shown in episode 25, Jack Summoned this to scare off a group of boys who were chasing and about to attack Rally Dawson.


 * In episode 25, Jack used "Powerful Rebirth" to revive "Twin-Sword Marauder" and also increase its Level by 1, so he could use it with "Dark Tinker" to Synchro Summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" against Yusei.

Yusei attacked "Red Dragon Archfiend" with "Stardust Dragon", whose ATK was increased due to "Hyper Synchron". Jack played "Tuner's Mind", returning "Red Dragon Archfiend" to the Extra Deck, reviving its Synchro Material Monsters, "Twin-Sword Marauder" and "Dark Tinker" and forcing "Stardust Dragon" to attack "Dark Tinker". Next turn Jack resummoned "Red Dragon Archfiend" using "Hyper Synchron" and "Twin-Sword Marauder". He used it to attack "Stardust Dragon", which wasn't destroyed due to "Hyper Synchron", but Yusei took Battle Damage. He also used "Fiend Cannon" to inflict futher damage. Yusei used "Speed Spell - Silver Contrails" to increase "Stardust Dragon's" ATK and attacked "Red Dragon Archfiend" inflicting Battle Damage and more damage via "Synchro Blast". Jack attacked "Stardust Dragon" with "Red Dragon Archfiend" inflicting more Battle Damage and dropping Yusei's Life Points to 400. Yusei activated "Cross Line Counter" selecting "Stardust Dragon" raising its ATK and making "Red Dragon Archfiend" attacked it again, dropping Jack's Life Points to 800. When Yusei activated "Meteor Stream", Jack could chain "Crimson Fire", negating the damage and inflicting the same amount to Yusei. In response, Yusei activated "Shining Silver Force", negating the damage, and destroying all of Jack's Spell and Trap Cards. (At this point Yusei should have won, since "Crimson Fire's" effect was negated, "Meteor Stream" should have still resolved, inflicting 1000 damage to Jack) On Yusei's last turn, he activated "Speed Spell - Final Attack", selecting "Stardust Dragon" and attacked "Red Dragon Archfiend", winning the Duel.
 * In episode 26, Jack used this to attack and destroy Yusei's "Junk Warrior". After Yusei Synchro Summoned "Stardust Dragon" using "Hyper Synchron", Jack used "Tuner Capture" to take "Hyper Synchron".


 * In episode 59, Jack tuned "Vice Dragon" and "Dark Resonator" to summon "Red Dragon Archfiend" against Carly Carmine.


 * In episode 63, Jack used this against Rex Goodwin in the ultimate and final shadow turbo duel.


 * In episode 73, Jack summoned this card by tuning "Sword Master" with "Dark Bug" and "Twin-Sword Marauder". It then proceeded to destroy Yusei's "Backup Warrior".


 * In episode 83 and Episode 84, the Imposter Jack Atlas possessed three copies of "Red Dragon Archfiend", each with a different color scheme (purple, yellow and blue as opposed the standard red), while Jack used a normal version.


 * In episode 98, Jack used this card against Andore . He first summoned it tuning "Dark Resonator" and "Vice Dragon", but it was later destroyed. Then Jack used "Rage Resynchro" to summon it from graveyard tuning "Dark Resonator" which was Special Summoned from graveyard using "Powerful Rebirth" and had level 4 and "Mad Archfiend".


 * In episode 106, Jack used this card when he dueled Ghost. He tuned "Vice Berserker with "Trap Eater" to summon it. Then he used effect of "Vice Berserker" to raise an attack points of Red Dragon Archfiend by paying 2000 Life Points.


 * In episode 108, Jack also used this card when he dueled one of the Ghosts.


 * In episode 111, Jack tuned "Vice Dragon" and "Dark Resonator" to Synchro Summon this card when he dueled Max.


 * In episode 113, Jack tuned "Big Piece Golem" and "Dark Resonator" to Synchro Summon this card when he dueled Familiar of Red Nova.


 * In episode 118, Jack tuned "Vice Dragon" and "Dark Resonator" to Synchro Summon this card when he dueled Dragan.


 * In episode 119, Jack tuned "Twin-Sword Marauder", "Battle Fader" and "Sword Master" to Synchro Summon this card when he dueled Yoshizo Hayashi.


 * In episode 120, Jack Tributed this card to activate "Shock Wave".


 * In episode 123, this card appeared in flashback. Jack then Tuned "Power Breaker" and "Top Runner" to Synchro Summon it.


 * In episode 124, Jack tuned "Power Breaker" and "Top Runner" to Synchro Summon this card. It was later destroyed by "Thor, Lord of the Aesir".


 * In episode 125 Jack brought this monster back with "Descending Lost Star. He Tuned this monster with "Top Runner" and "Barrier Resonator" to Synchro Summon "Red Nova Dragon". Later in the Duel, he released "Red Nova Dragon" with "Burning Reborn" to temporarily bring this monster back.


 * In episode 131, Jack brought this card out temporarily, and then used it to Summon "Red Nova Dragon".


 * In episode 141, Jack plays this card by Tuning "Power Giant" and "Dark Resonator", but it gets destroyed shortly after, due to Aporia's "Power Gravity" and "Meklord Army of Wisel".


 * In episode 143, Jack brings this monster back with "Descending Lost Star", and Double Tunes it with "Dread Dragon" and "Create Resonator" to bring out "Red Nova Dragon".


 * In episode 148, given to Yusei Fudo by Jack Atlas, he summoned this card with "Debris Dragon", "Quillbolt Hedgehog", "Clear Effector". In the episode149, this card along with "Black-Winged Dragon" and "Black Rose Dragon" was returned to Yusei's Extra Deck because of "Temporal Machine God Camion's" effect, and it further reduced Yusei's Life Points to 1500. In episode 150, Yusei Fudo re-summoned this card along with the other four Signer Dragons and tuned all four Signer Dragons with "Life Stream Dragon" to Limit Over Accel Synchro Summon to "Shooting Quasar Dragon". In episode 151, it is shown briefly attacking one of the Temporal Machine Gods through "Shooting Quasar Dragon".


 * In episode 152, Jack Tunes "Star Gazer" with "Synchro Resonator" to Synchro Summon this monster.

Evolving Duel! Stardust VS Red Demons

 * Jack Atlas summoned this card in his very first turn during his Assault Mode Duel with Yusei Fudo, by tuning "Vice Dragon" with "Dark Resonator". It attacked Yusei's Defense Position "Shield Wing", which could not be destroyed in battle at the time, but "Shield Wing" was immediately destroyed by "Red Dragon Archfiend's" effect afterwards.
 * "Red Dragon Archfiend" then later evolved to its Assault Mode form after Jack activated "Assault Mode Activate", which protected it from being destroyed by Yusei's "Trick Battle" Trap Card.

Video game appearances

 * Underworld Guardian - Moley uses this in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2009: Stardust Accelerator.