Card evolutions

This article may require cleanup to meet this wiki's standards. You can help out by re-organizing or re-writing parts of it or checking grammar and spelling.

This summary is currently incomplete.

Card evolutions, or retrained monsters, is the term used to describe a monster that has been reprinted with a new effect and slightly different name, but with the same base ATK and DEF, and usually Level and appearance as well. Examples include "Battle Ox" to "Enraged Battle Ox" and "Magician of Black Chaos" to "Dark Magician of Chaos". Special cases are "Harpie Lady 1", "Harpie Lady 2", and "Harpie Lady 3", which all have the same stats as the original "Harpie Lady", but are not all representing the same creature. Rather, they are the three sisters from "Harpie Lady Sisters".

Retrained cards

The term "retrained" comes from "Retrained Elf Swordsman," a deliberate mistranslation of the Japanese name for "Obnoxious Celtic Guard", who is a retrained version of "Elf Swordsman" ("Celtic Guardian").^{[citation needed]}

Retrained monsters are not to be confused with upgraded ones, such as "Cannon Soldier MK-2". These, like retrained monsters, are clearly based on existing cards. However, unlike retrained versions, these have higher ATK and/or DEF and an effect meant to improve upon the original.

Counterparts

Unspecified

Duality

Ritual

Fusion

Synchro

Xyz

Pendulum

Link

Upgraded cards

One-level Evolutions

Two-level Evolutions

Three-level Evolutions

Four-level Evolutions

Five-level Evolutions

Fused Evolutions

Transformations

Archetype

• /Assault Mode
• Malefic
• Metaphys
• Toon

Counterpart

• Dark
• Metal
• Zombie

LV

One-stage Evolutions

Two-stage Evolutions

Three-stage Evolutions

Number

Number C

Number S

CXyz