No longer do you have to wait several turns to get a Blue-Eyes White Dragon onto the field.
But let’s be honest, Kaiba never did that either.
Blue-Eyes decks have changed over time to hit very hard and quickly fill the field with dragons.
There are also a lot of ways to put this deck together, and there are a lot of cards that can help.
Blue-Eyes Decks in Yu-Gi-Oh!
Blue-Eyes is one of the most famous Yu-Gi-Oh! monsters, if not the most famous.
It has been the best normal monster for a long time, and Seto Kaiba used it a lot in the anime.
With newer supports, it is still used in some metagames.
As a level 8 monster, Blue-Eyes costs tributes to normal summon, so smart players will find other ways to call him and other high-cost dragons, often using the effects of easier-to-play monsters.
In this list, I’ll talk about the best BEWD-themed cards that are worth playing.
18. Danger! Bigfoot!
Even though Danger monsters aren’t dragons, they have useful effects like showing up in your hand, discarding a random card, and summoning yourself while drawing a new card.
If a different card was discarded, the Danger monster instead has its own unique discard effect if it was chosen.
Basically, these are great for quickly filling up your field while your GY skills are getting ready, and the dark attribute helps Chaos blends.
Danger! Bigfoot is especially tempting because he has a level 8 and a 3000 ATK, which means he can rank 8 with a Blue-Eyes.
17. Nebula Dragon
Nebula’s effect makes sure that no Blue-Eyes is a dead draw. He shows himself and another level 8 card in his hand, allowing you to call both of them in defense while canceling their effects.
This makes it easy to summon a rank 8 card. Nebula can also send itself to the graveyard to add a light or dark dragon of level 4 from the graveyard to your hand.
Also, as a level 8 dragon, Nebula works well with the spells Blue-Eyes Abyss and Trade-In, which let you draw twice when you throw away a level 8 card.
Another important level 8 to think about is the Galactic Spiral Dragon.
16. Linkuriboh
Linkuriboh is not a dragon, but he is easy to call with a link by giving up a level one monster.
As a quick effect, he can sacrifice himself to change an opponent’s attacking monster’s ATK to 0 for the turn and sacrifice a level 1 card to bring himself back from the graveyard.
Basically, he’s a great way to get your low-level dragons into GY, which, as we’ll see soon, helps activate their effects.
15. Blue-Eyes White Dragon
You couldn’t make a Blue-Eyes deck without the famous card that started it all!
Blue-Eyes White Dragon is a threat that your opponent has to take seriously. It has an amazing 3000ATK and 2500DEF.
But since it has no protection and no effects, this monster generally dies quickly in competitive Yu-Gi-Oh!
Your opponent should still be on guard, though, because there are so many cards that help this famous dragon.
14. Summon Limit
BEWD is a very strong card that most decks can’t beat without combos or Special Summons.
You can use Summon Limit to take advantage of this and stop your opponent from even starting.
Summon Limit is an ongoing trap card that is very dangerous because it limits both players to only two summons per turn.
Blue-Eyes decks don’t need complicated combos to get strong monsters onto the field, but other decks do.
If your opponent doesn’t have any ways to get rid of spells or traps, this card could help you win the next turn.
13. Fists Of The Unrivalled Tenyi
Want a free way to summon a monster with 4500ATK?
I think everyone does.
Fists Of The Unrivaled Tenyi is an unusual trap card that hurts your opponent if they destroy your back row.
If this set card is killed by a card effect, you can summon any monster from your extra deck that doesn’t have an effect.
In our case, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon would be a great choice.
You can also stop a spell, trap, or monster effect if you control a monster that doesn’t have an effect.
But if you do this, you won’t be able to call with it, so choose your effect carefully.
12. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
Blue-Eyes decks are so much fun because they are all about using powerful dragons to beat your opponent’s cards, no matter what they have.
So, it makes sense that a monster with one of the highest ATK numbers in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! would be a great fit for this deck.
Blue-Eyes Ultimate doesn’t have much to say about it that isn’t already on the card.
With a huge 4500ATK and 3800DEF, very few monsters can survive a fight phase when this is on the field.
But since it takes 3 Blue-Eyed White Dragons to summon this monster, it wouldn’t be on this list if there weren’t other choices, like Fists of the Unrivaled Tenyi.
So, if you want to use this card (and why wouldn’t you? ), make sure you have ways to get it onto the field.
11. Chaos Dragon Levianeer
You can make a deck with only Blue-Eyes cards.
But if you want to change things up, it’s easy to take your deck to the next level.
You can use a special summoning spell to bring out the Chaos Dragon Levianeer by sending 3 Light/Dark monsters to the Graveyard.
This is good for us because all Blue-Eyes cards are Light type.
When you use this method to summon Chaos Dragon Levianeer, you can also special summon a monster from the Graveyard in defense position.
This gives you a monster with 3000ATK and a Monster Reborn effect all in one.
10. Hieratic Seal Of The Heavenly Spheres
Some of the best monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh! can’t be killed by fight or card effects, so they can’t be killed.
If you don’t know how to deal with this, it can cause a lot of trouble.
There are always ways to get around these affects, and this link monster is a great one.
If Hieratic Seal Of The Heavenly Spheres is called to an extra monster zone, you can sacrifice a monster from your hand or field and then “return” a card from the field to your hand.
This phrase is important, because going back is not the same as being destroyed!
This card can also pay respect to itself. And if it does, you can use a special ability to call a dragon, but its ATK and DEF will be 0.
Still useful if you need materials for your big monsters.
9. Return Of The Dragon Lords
We’ve talked about how Blue-Eyes is weak to card effects, but this great spell gives your monsters defense and also has a Monster Reborn effect built in.
With help cards like Return Of The Dragon Lords, you can always come back in any game.
This card lets you bring back a monster from your graveyard with an LVL of 7 or 8 as a special summon. That’s pretty good on its own.
The only reason this card is on this list is because of what it does when it goes to the trash.
If this card is in your graveyard and one of your dragons is about to be killed, you can get rid of it to save your dragon on the field.
8. The Ultimate Creature Of Destruction
What if I told you there was a card that could make a Blue-Eyes monster unkillable?
Well, (almost) there it is!
The Ultimate Creature of Destruction stops almost all of the ways that things can be destroyed in the game.
With this trap card, any Blue-Eyes monsters you control can’t be hurt by effects from other cards.
And if that wasn’t enough, the monster that is being targeted can’t be killed in battle, and any monster it fights is also killed.
When you call a Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you can also set this card from the graveyard, so you can use it many more times.
Just keep in mind that the second time you use this card, and every time after that, it is put back into your hand instead of going to the graveyard.
7. Successor Soul
Quick Play Spell cards are very powerful because they can be used on the turn of your opponent.
A few of the benefits of Successor Soul are almost unfair to your opponent.
Your opponent can lose a monster whenever you want, while you gain one.
You can use Successor Soul to send one of your opponent’s monsters to the Graveyard by sacrificing an effect monster you control.
This is a good thing in and of itself.
But what makes this card so dangerous is that you can then special summon from your hand or deck a level 7 or higher normal monster.
And, yes, BEWD is an excellent pick.
6. White Stone Of Legend
A weak Level 1 monster in a Blue-Eyes deck? Are you mad?
I’m telling you, Duelist, you’ll want this one.
You can add a Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the deck to your hand by putting White Stone of Legend to the Graveyard.
This result is pretty cool on its own. But when used with the third card on this list, The Melody of Awakening Dragon, this card’s value really shows.
If you use White Stone of Legend as the card you throw away with The Melody of Awakening Dragon, you’ll get 3 Blue-Eyed White Dragons: 2 when White Stone of Legend goes to the graveyard and 1 more when it comes back to your hand.
This card is also a Tuner, which is important for the next card…
5. Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon
A Blue-Eyes deck can be put together in so many different ways.
But if you go the Synchro way, you can use a card that can stop some decks from playing at all.
The Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon is LVL9, so an LVL1 tuner and almost any Blue-Eyes monster can be used to call it.
This dragon is also very loud and annoying. It has a quick ability that cancels out effects from the graveyard.
Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon also stops you from using more than two special summons at once.
This means you can stop pendulum decks from using pendulum summons. Pretty strange.
4. Blue-Eyes Abyss Dragon
At the time this article was written, this monster was one of the most recent Blue-Eyes cards.
It’s useful in so many ways that you’ll wonder how the deck ever got along without it.
Blue-Eyes Abyss Dragon can do something different every time.
When it is special called, you can draw a ritual or polymerization card to set up future plays.
Also, when it’s your turn to end, you can draw a dragon with LVL8 or higher from your deck.
And if Blue-Eyes Abyss is in the graveyard, you can banish it to give all your level 8 or higher dragons an extra 1000ATK.
If you’ve ever thought that the BEWD deck needed a “jack of all trades,” this is the card for you.
3. The Melody Of Awakening Dragon
In a Blue-Eyes deck, you should always start with a Blue-Eyes card.
You always have backup cards to use if that doesn’t happen, and this is one of the best.
The Melody Of Awakening Dragon lets you throw away one card to draw two cards with an attack value of 3000 or more and a defense value of 2500 or less.
That may sound like a specific goal, but you have a lot of goals that would work.
And with this card, you can use your Blue-Eyes White Dragon (or Alternative Dragon), and you might even be able to use the next card on this list as well.
2. Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon
I can only think that this card is so risky that the word “MAX” is written in all capital letters in its name. Isn’t that the reason?
Well, that might not be the real reason at all… But when you see how strong this monster is, you’ll agree that it might make sense to write it in all capital letters.
Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Using the Chaos Form ritual spell card, you can do a rite to call up a dragon.
This dragon has no defense, but it has a huge attack of 4000!
Not many monsters are strong enough to handle that. Even though ATK isn’t the only thing that matters, Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon doesn’t care because card effects can’t kill it.
In fact, effects can’t be used on it at all.
This card also does double pierce damage to any monsters that are in the defense position.
Could you blame your opponent if they gave up as soon as you showed them this?
1. Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon
For a card to be at the top of this list, it must really stand out.
And Blue-Eyes Alternative White Dragon is a truly unique creature.
This dragon has the same attack and defense stats as its vanilla version.
But all you have to do to call it is show that you are holding a Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
All done.
What kind of condition for calling someone is that?!
If you’re still not convinced, this monster lets you target and destroy a monster your opponent controls once per turn.
And finally, while this card is on the field, its name changes to “Blue-Eyes White Dragon.”
So, if you want to call any monster that needs a BEWD to be in play, this option will work just fine.
If you’re using a Blue-Eyes deck, you probably want to have 3 of these in play.
