Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel: 10 Best Thunder Dragon Cards

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel has practically every Archetype and card ever released since Yu-Gi-Oh!'s creation. With so many cards available, it's easy to become overwhelmed by just how many options there are. One of the options for a deck is Thunder Dragon.

Thunder Dragon is a series of Monsters inspired by the Monster of the same name from the early game. The Thunder Dragon Archetype are Monsters that are built around banishing themselves in order to trigger their effects. Afterward, they go into their Fusion Monsters, which are generally cheated out with their alternate summoning conditions. Thunder Dragon is much more viable in Master Duel thanks to its different banlist from the TCG.

10. Thunder Dragonlord

Arguably the weakest Thunder Dragon Monster, Thunder Dragonlord is still good enough that most builds of the deck still run at least one of them. It can only be special summoned, requiring you to banish a Level Eight or lower Thunder Monster from the field or Graveyard to do so.

Once on the field, Thunder Dragonlord can continue to proc Thunder Dragon effects by banishing them out from the Graveyard. This effect also offers some protection as well, preventing a Thunder Monster from being targeted. At the End Phase, Thunder Dragonlord can even act as a Foolish Burial and dump a Thunder Dragon card into the Graveyard.

9. Thunder Dragonmatrix

Thunder Dragonmatrix is not that great of a card at first glance. However, what makes it good is that it is a Thunder Monster with a very easy effect to activate. By discarding it, you can have a Thunder Monster gain 500 Attack.

The Boss Monsters of the Thunder Dragon Archetype rely on Thunder Monsters using their effects that turn. Thunder Dragonmatrix is one of the easiest activation requirements to meet, making it a usual three-of in any Thunder Dragon build. It can even add more copies of itself to the hand if it's banished or sent from the field to the Graveyard.

8. Thunder Dragon

Despite being a card from 2002 in the second-ever Yu-Gi-Oh! Set, Thunder Dragon still sees play to this day. Since the Thunder Dragon Archetype is based around the card, Thunder Dragon slots in perfectly in Thunder Dragon decks.

While initially used as deck thinning and Chaos fodder, Thunder Dragon shares a similar purpose to Thunder Dragonmatrix. Thunder Dragon is a card with an easy-to-use effect and one that can be used multiple times a turn. Thunder Dragon will generally never be dead in your hand, making it a fantastic card for Thunder Dragon decks.

7. Thunder Dragon Fusion

Thunder Dragon Fusion is the in-Archetype Fusion card for Thunder Dragons. It synergizes with Thunder Dragons quite well, as it can use materials from the field, Graveyard, and face-up in the banished area. This allows you to use materials for their effects to then fuse into the powerful Thunder Dragon Fusion Monsters.

It can get a secondary use the turn after it's used as well. By banishing it, you can add any Thunder Dragon Monster to your hand. Thunder Dragon Fusion isn't the main way you'll be Fusion summoning Thunder Dragons, it's a card you'll have no issue with using.

6. Thunder Dragonduo

In a reference to one of Thunder Dragon's original uses, Thunder Dragonduo is an in-Archetype Chaos Monster. In order to summon it, all you have to do is banish a Light and Dark Monster from your Graveyard. This not only gets a body onto the field, but triggers the effects of the Thunder Dragon Monsters you banished to summon it.

Thunder Dragonduo can even search out for more Thunder Monsters if it destroys a Monster by battle. It can even recycle other banished cards by putting them onto the top or bottom of your deck.

5. Thunder Dragondark

Thunder Dragondark is the retrained version of the original Thunder Dragon. Like it, Thunder Dragondark can discard itself to add another copy of itself to the hand. Unlike Thunder Dragon, Thunder Dragndark has a secondary effect that makes it the main searcher of the Archetype.

Whenever it is banished or sent from the field to the Graveyard, it can add any Thunder Dragon card to your hand. While you can only use one of these effects per turn, that will likely never come up as you'll board will already be all set when it's time to use another Thunder Dragondark effect.

4. Thunder Dragonroar

Thunder Dragonroar is a very versatile card, and one that makes it easier to recycle your Monsters. By discarding it, Thunder Dragonroar can add a Thunder Dragon to your hand from your Graveyard or banished zone.

Thunder Dragonroar's more prominent effect is the one it gets when it is banished. This allows you to special summon any Thunder Dragon Monster from the deck. While it returns to the hand, you'll often not keep it around for long as you'll use it for Extra Deck fodder instead. Since Thunder Dragon Monsters trigger when they're sent from the field to the Graveyard as well, this makes Thunder Dragonroar even more important.

3. Thunder Dragonhawk

Thunder Dragonhawk is a simple Thunder Dragon card, and one that is great for recycling your Thunder Dragon Monsters. By discarding it, you can special summon a Thunder Dragon Monster from your Graveyard or banished zone to the field. Since many Thunder Dragons have powerful effects when they're sent to the Graveyard as well as banished, Thunder Dragonhawk lets you essentially re-use whichever one you need.

If it is banished, you can mulligan your hand, allowing for more consistency to get important cards to your hand. Thunder Dragonhawk is such a good card, it is currently limited on the Master Duel banlist.

2. Thunder Dragon Titan

Thunder Dragon Titan is one of the main Boss Monsters for Thunder Dragon decks. It can either be Fusion Summoned with three Thunder Dragon Monsters, or by banishing a Thunder Monster from your hand and a Fusion Thunder Monster on your field.

Once it hits the field, it can destroy a card on the field whenever a Thunder Monster's effect is used. Since this effect isn't once per turn, Thunder Dragon Titan can practically wipe an entire field all on its own. It has built-in protection as well, as it can banish two cards from the Graveyard to protect it from destruction by effect.

1. Thunder Dragon Colossus

Thunder Dragon Colossus is one of the reasons why Thunder Dragons decks are so good. In fact, Thunder Dragon Colossus is so good it's currently banned in the TCG, though Master Duel has it limited to one copy per deck. It can be Fusion Summoned or by tributing a non-effect Thunder Monster the turn a Thunder Monster's effect was activated.

Once it's on the field, Thunder Dragon Colossus prevents the opponent from adding cards from their hand except by drawing and has built-in protection for itself, only requiring you to banish a Thunder Monster to keep it from being destroyed by battle or card effect. This shuts down a ton of decks, and is why Thunder Dragon Colossus is so good.

Source: www.thegamer.com