Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! news, tips, strategies and more!


Card Game
Card of the Day
TCG Fan Tips
Top 10 Lists
Banned/Restricted List
Yu-Gi-Oh News
Tourney Reports
Duelist Interviews

Featured Writers
Baneful's Column
Anteaus on YGO
General Zorpa
Dark Paladin's Dimension
Retired Writers

Releases + Spoilers
Booster Sets (Original Series)
LOB | MRD | MRL | PSV
LON | LOD | PGD | MFC
DCR | IOC | AST | SOD
RDS | FET
Booster Sets (GX Series)
TLM | CRV | EEN | SOI
EOJ | POTD | CDIP | STON
FOTB | TAEV | GLAS | PTDN
LODT
Booster Sets (5D Series)
TDGS | CSOC | CRMS | RBGT
ANPR | SOVR | ABPF | TSHD
STBL | STOR | EXVC
Booster Sets (Zexal Series)
GENF | PHSW | ORCS | GAOV
REDU | ABYR | CBLZ | LTGY
NUMH | JOTL | SHSP | LVAL
PRIO

Starter Decks
Yugi | Kaiba
Joey | Pegasus
Yugi 2004 | Kaiba 2004
GX: 2006 | Jaden | Syrus
5D: 1 | 2 | Toolbox
Zexal: 2011 | 2012 | 2013
Yugi 2013 | Kaiba 2013

Structure Decks
Dragons Roar &
Zombie Madness
Blaze of Destruction &
Fury from the Deep
Warrior's Triumph
Spellcaster's Judgment
Lord of the Storm
Invincible Fortress
Dinosaurs Rage
Machine Revolt
Rise of Dragon Lords
Dark Emperor
Zombie World
Spellcaster Command
Warrior Strike
Machina Mayhem
Marik
Dragunity Legion
Lost Sanctuary
Underworld Gates
Samurai Warlord
Sea Emperor
Fire Kings
Saga of Blue-Eyes
Cyber Dragon

Promo Cards:
Promos Spoiler
Coll. Tins Spoiler
MP1 Spoiler
EP1 Spoiler

Tournament Packs:
TP1 / TP2 / TP3 / TP4
TP5 / TP6 / TP7 / TP8
Duelist Packs
Jaden | Chazz
Jaden #2 | Zane
Aster | Jaden #3
Jesse | Yusei
Yugi | Yusei #2
Kaiba | Yusei #3
Crow

Reprint Sets
Dark Beginnings
1 | 2
Dark Revelations
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Gold Series
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Dark Legends
DLG1
Retro Pack
1 | 2
Champion Pack
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Turbo Pack
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7

Hidden Arsenal:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
5 | 6 | 7

Checklists
Brawlermatrix 08
Evan T 08
X-Ref List
X-Ref List w/ Passcodes

Anime
Episode Guide
Character Bios
GX Character Bios

Video Games
Millennium Duels (2014)
Nighmare Troubadour (2005)
Destiny Board Traveler (2004)
Power of Chaos (2004)
Worldwide Edition (2003)
Dungeon Dice Monsters (2003)
Falsebound Kingdom (2003)
Eternal Duelist Soul (2002)
Forbidden Memories (2002)
Dark Duel Stories (2002)

Other
About Yu-Gi-Oh
Yu-Gi-Oh! Timeline
Pojo's YuGiOh Books
Apprentice Stuff
Life Point Calculators
DDM Starter Spoiler
DDM Dragonflame Spoiler
The DungeonMaster
Millennium Board Game

Magic
DBZ
Pokemon
Yu Yu Hakusho
NeoPets
HeroClix
Harry Potter
Anime
Vs. System
Megaman

This Space
For Rent

Pojo's Yu-Gi-Oh! Card of the Day
Daily Since 2002!

 

Five-Headed Dragon
#GLD4-EN031 

5 Dragon-Type monsters This monster cannot be Special Summoned except by Fusion Summon. This card cannot be destroyed by battle with an EARTH, WATER, FIRE, WIND, or DARK monster. (Damage calculation is applied normally.)

Card Rating
Advanced: 2.25 

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 is Horrible. 3 is Average. 5 is the highest rating.


Date Reviewed: June 1, 2017

Back to the main COTD Page

 

Syn

This weeks Throwback Thursday is Five-headed Dragon, to continue our list of dragons that are meant to be supreme but not quite there. Five-headed Dragon was last reviewed almost 6 years ago back in 2011, and not much has changed for him since then.
 
Originally called Five-God Dragon in the OCG, people had never seen the likes of a monster with 5000 attack that couldn't be killed in battle by anything but a Light monster. Flaunting a 5000 attack and defence body on a level 12 dark dragon is pretty good, and he's even generic, only needing 5 dragons to summon it.
 
He's a solid beater and a nice wall, but sadly he doesn't have any protection outside of 5/6's battle protection. And it's a shame, on the spot removal is more commonplace nowadays and with extra deck space being even tighter now and moreso in the not-too distant future, FGD sadly doesn't see much play anymore. That aside, he's easy to summon, is a high attack threat for the opponent to worry about and looks imposing.
 
Advanced 2/5


Baneful

When you need a 5000 ATK Fusion monster, I guess you can't beat Five-Headed Dragon.  He's also protected in battle against most monsters because 5000 ATK is not enough.
 
3/5


Kingof
Lullaby

Hello Pojo Fans,
 
Throwback Thursday looks at one of the fiercest Dragons to ever be played: Five-Headed Dragon.
 
Five of any Dragon-Type monsters fused together gets you this 5000ATK/5000DEF boss dragon. For your efforts to summon this monster, it can't be destroyed in battle by anything other than a LIGHT Monster. Simple to summon in terms of not needing anything too specific, you have to commit to the summon, dedicating up to six resources to make it, you'd better have some protection for it though when you summon it.
 
Future Fusion is back in the game, so if you can protect it long enough you can easily dump enough stuff into the grave with it and start the process. You'd always want to run monsters that would get you advantage in the grave so you could recoup after the commitment. Lightpulsar, White Stone of Legend, Dragon Rulers, etc, these monsters dumped in the grave were the best ones. While using Polymerization or Fusion Gate were rare to summon Five-Headed, it wasn't impossible, Future Fusion was just best: it thinned your deck, set up your grave, and only used one resource from your hand. Dragon's Mirror made summoning this monster MUCH easier. Late game you could get a hold of Dragon's Mirror, banish five dragons and slam your opponent with this monster. If you seriously wanted to summon Five-Headed, Dragon's Mirror and Future Fusion were a must. The combo of Future Fusion then Dragon's Mirror in one turn was even better, potentially netting you two Five-Headed Dragons once Future Fusion reached the 2nd Standby Phase back in the day.
 
Now Five-Headed isn't that great, but it is still one of the strongest monsters in the game.
 
Advanced-1/5
Art- 5/5
 
Until Next Time,


Crunch$G
Today, for Throwback Thursday, we review a card that has an infamous history in the meta just for existing, and that is Five-Headed Dragon.
 
Five-Headed Dragon is one of few monsters with 5000 ATK as well as 5000 DEF. He requires 5 Dragon-type monsters, which is why he was important to the meta. Future Fusion let you dump 5 dragons to the grave, and that was so good in Chaos Dragons that Future Fusion was banned and more recently erratted so it is much slower. If you do summon this guy (which is only possible via Fusion Summon first), he can only be destroyed by battle with Light monsters, which sucks because that is the attribute that has access to Honest.
 
I can see this card rising in importance in the future with the new Cyberdark support, but for now he is just good as being a boss summonable off Future Fusion or Dragon's Mirror.
 
Advanced Rating: 3/5

Copyright© 1998-2017 pojo.com
This site is not sponsored, endorsed, or otherwise affiliated with any of the companies or products featured on this site. This is not an Official Site.