Yu-Gi-Oh: 10 Most Powerful Blue-Eyes Cards

The Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has changed a lot in the last 20 years.

Originally it was all about the highest attack and card efficiency but as more cards was released the fundamentals of the game and the way we built decks started to shift.

Rather than your deck being a bunch of good cards, Konami started to release 'archetypes', a group of cards that belong to a specific deck, card or strategy. As each new set came out they started to focus on three to four specific archetypes with each set.

One of the most supported and beloved archetypes of all time is the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Since the release of Shining Victories in 2016, we have a few ways in which to build a Blue-Eyes deck in 2020.

There's the ritual build that focusses on the stupidly strong Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon. A 'Pure' list that's essentially an updated version of the 2016 World Championship winning list that plays all the best Blue-Eyes cards and looks at abusing its tool-box of extra deck monsters. Most recently we saw the release of the Blue-Eyes Alternative Ultimate White Dragon which spawned a more fusion-based approach to the deck.

No matter what approach you want to take the cards on today's list are sure to bring inspiration.

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The King of D is an updated version of the original Kaiba Structure deck all-star Lord of D. Released in the 2018 Legendary Collection Kaiba the King is the swiss army knife of the Blue-Eyes deck.

Upon summon and by discarding one spell card we're able to search our deck for one of three cards, the iconic Flute of Summoning Dragon, The Melody of Awakening Dragon or Dragon Revival Rhapsody.

The Flute allows us to summon two dragons from our hand, the Melody allows us to search up two dragon monsters from our deck and lastly, Rhapsody a brand new card also making its debut in the same collection, allows us to revive two dragons from the graveyard.

The real pay-off is the ability to search out The Melody of Awakening Dragon, a spell card that is in every Blue-Eyes build no matter the strategy.

Admittedly the King of D only sees play in casual Blue-Eyes decks or at best as a singleton in competitive Pure builds but there's no doubt in denying the potential the card has, and the community as a whole were quite high on him when first released.