Card Trivia:Blue-Eyes White Dragon

• This monster is the cover card for the first TCG expansion: Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon.

• This monster is Seto's signature card. It shares its 3000 ATK with the rivals of other series, which are Chazz's "Armed Dragon LV10", Jack's "Red Dragon Archfiend", Kite's "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon", Declan's "D/D/D Doom King Armageddon" and Varis' "Borreload Dragon". It can be used to summon Number 38: Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy, which also shares the 3000 ATK and 2500 DEF. In the Viz translation of Kaiba's Duel against Ishizu, Kaiba states that the "Blue-Eyes" embodies his soul. Jack Atlas calls his "Red Dragon Archfiend" "waga tamashi," which translates as "my very soul" in the Japanese, and Kite has called "Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon" "his soul" (ore no tamashi).

• Despite being called a white dragon, this monster is usually depicted as a blue dragon.

• After "Token", this card has the most alternate artworks in the OCG/TCG with eight in total, beating out the next contender, "Dark Magician", by one. This excludes "Dark Magician Girl", who technically has the most artworks, due to small censoring differences between the Japanese and international versions.

• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, it is said that this card is a symbol of power, and "Red-Eyes" is a symbol of potential. This is an accurate way to describe the two Monsters. While "Blue-Eyes" has higher stats, "Red-Eyes" is more flexible, even more so now because of "Meteor Black Comet Dragon". Also, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" symbolizes pride and destruction, while "Red-Eyes" symbolizes violence and anger. There are two things that back this up.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards, "Blue-Eyes" is said to actually be proud of its destructive power, while "Red-Eyes" is described as a superviolent creature.
  • Their owners share these personality traits. Seto Kaiba, who has had countless victories, is known for being boastful and vain. Joey Wheeler was once a bully, and is shown to have a harsh temper when ridiculed.
  • The purpose of the "Blue-Eyes" archetype is to destroy the opponent's cards, while "Red-Eyes'" gimmick is inflicting Burn damage.

• With the release of Starter Deck Kaiba Reloaded, this card is the only card that has been printed in all rarities in the TCG (except Starfoil Rare, Shatterfoil Rare and Mosaic Rare).

• This card has several counterparts.
  • A retrained counterpart: "Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon"
  • An advanced counterpart: "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon"
  • Two Synchro counterparts: "Azure-Eyes Silver Dragon" and "Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon"
  • A Ritual/"Chaos" counterpart: "Blue-Eyes Chaos Dragon"
  • A DARK counterpart: "Red-Eyes Black Dragon"
  • A "Malefic" counterpart: "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon"
  • A "Toon" counterpart: "Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon"
  • A "White Night" counterpart: "White Night Dragon"
  • A Match winner/Xyz counterpart: "Legendary Dragon of White"

• This card has four younger versions: the Tuner monsters "The White Stone of Ancients" and "The White Stone of Legend", the dragon displayed in the card "Paladin of White Dragon", and "Dragon Spirit of White".

• This card has the highest ATK of all Normal Monsters.
  • Fittingly, it is the Fusion Material for the non-Effect Monster with the highest ATK; Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

• This monster appears in the artworks of "Burst Stream of Destruction", "Dimension Explosion", "Dragon's Fighting Spirit", "Majesty with Eyes of Blue", "Meteor Stream", "Rage with Eyes of Blue", "Successor Soul", and "Destined Rivals".

• This card's original OCG artwork is taken directly from the manga card artwork, which made its first appearance in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel 9: "The Cards with Teeth (Part 1)"

• This card's third and fourth OCG/TCG artworks are taken from this monster's depiction on the title page of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist Duel 41.

• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom, the three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" are named Azrael, Ibris (a mistranslation of Iblis), and Djibril. These are the Islamic names for the Angel of Death, Satan ("Iblis"), and the angel Gabriel, respectively. Azrael is an informal name, only occurring in non-religious sources (including both Sikhism and some Jewish lore as well), while Iblis is the lord of the jinn, rather than the principal fallen angel.

• In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series, there's a mysterious woman named Kisara that carries the spirit of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "Maiden with Eyes of Blue" is based on her.

• This cards shares similarities with "Cyber Dragon".
  • Their Fusions require two ("Blue-Eyes Twin Burst Dragon" and "Cyber Twin Dragon") or three ("Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon"/"Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon" and "Cyber End Dragon") copies each.
  • Both of their final form ("Cyber End Dragon" and "Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon") have similar blue orbs on their wings and chests.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, "Cyber Dragon" also serve as a spiritual successor to "Blue-Eyes White Dragon".

• In some Yu-Gi-Oh! video games (Dark Duel Stories), this card has an ally, the "Mystical Elf", which can increase the ATK and DEF of this card by 500.

• In most expansion sets, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" cards have the Set Number ****-**001.

• The Weekly Shonen Jump March 2014 membership promotional version of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is the first card to be printed with an italicized Matrix typeface used for its card text. On every card before it, the Matrix font is only used in regular type (not bold, not italic).

• Ironically, while this card has been printed in several sets in the TCG/OCG, making it one of the most common cards of all time, this card is one of the rarest officially-printed cards of all time in the anime/manga with only 4 copies having been printed ever.

• The Jump Ryū Vol.08 promotional card print of this card features Seto Kaiba in its artwork.

• In the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, when this card is summoned by Kaiba the summon animation is altered during April Fools' Day 2017. In this animation "Blue-Eyes" wears a KaibaConstruction construction helmet - similair to the sketch shown during game maintenance periods when attempting to log in, and a sign in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions movie.

• This is the first card to be released in both the ordinary and Rush Duel format.
  • The Rush Duel version is in the same pose as the original OCG artwork.

• "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" began the tradition of the main protagonists of each Yu-Gi-Oh! series facing against a monster of 3000 ATK in their very first duel of the series and winning the duel by defeating said monsters.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yugi Muto dueled against Seto Kaiba, who summoned three copies of "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in their first duel, but destroyed them all and defeated Kaiba by activating the effect of "Exodia the Forbidden One".
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Jaden Yuki dueled against Vellian Crowler, who summoned "Ancient Gear Golem", which Jaden destroyed with his "Elemental HERO Flame Wingman" powered up with "Skyscraper" and inflicted extra damage with its effect.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yusei Fudo dueled against Tetsu Trudge, who summoned "Montage Dragon" using its own effect with monsters whose levels add up to 10, but Yusei defeated it with "Junk Warrior" after weakening it with Tetsu's "Handcuffs Dragon" using "Equip Shot".
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, Yuma Tsukumo dueled against Reginald "Shark" Kastle, who summoned "Number 17: Leviathan Dragon" and powered it up with its own effect twice, but Yuma defeated it with "Number 39: Utopia" after powering it up with "Double or Nothing!".
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Yuya Sakaki dueled against the Sledgehammer, who summoned "Battleguard King", which Yuya defeats with "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon" and inflict extra damage with its effect.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Yusaku Fujiki/Playmaker dueled against a Knight of Hanoi, who summoned "Cracking Dragon", which Yusaku defeated by using the effect of "Cyberse Wizard" to switch it to Defense Mode and then destroyed it with "Decode Talker", inflicting piercing damage.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS, Yuga Ohdo dueled against the Hologram Man, who summoned "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", which Yuga destroys with "Sevens Road Magician" powered up by "Wind-Spirit's Blessing", "High Magic - Double Accel" and it's own effect.