Five-Headed Dragon is a Monster Card well known to fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga and animé.  It is a Fusion, so it does very little harm to keep it in your Fusion deck (unless Memory Crusher is huge in your area).  The text of the card indicates it can only be Special Summoned via a Fusion Summon, so shortcuts like Metamorphosis or Cyberstein are out.  The effect also explains what the Fusion components are, since they aren’t listed above the rest of the effect text in quotes as they normally would be.  Instead, the first line says tells us that it’s any five Dragon-Type monsters.  This means that Five-Headed Dragon requires a six card investment if Fusion summoned via Polymerization.  Obviously that would require more or less an automatic win to be worth playing, and that isn’t the rest of the effect, so at first glance it wouldn’t be worth it.  Fortunately, this is Dragon itself, and thus Dragon’s Mirror becomes an option.  Well, unless the first sentence isn’t considered “listing”, in which case disregard the rest of this review and just understand it’s a one out of five.  Assuming I am correct, though, and Dragon’s Mirror becomes a staple (though probably at a single copy and with this in the Fusion deck) for Dragon decks.  You can then exchange any five Dragons from the Graveyard in exchange for a fatty with 5000 ATK and DEF points.   I mean, this Monster is unsurpassed in terms of printed ATK/DEF scores and as long as it gets one good swing in, it’s worth a Spell and removing those Monsters from the Graveyard.  Dragons actually have a good Normal Spell for S/T Removal, and almost any normally played Monster in ATK position won’t be able to soak at least a good hunk of the damage, so then it becomes well worth it.  Combined with Return from the Different Dimension and you should be able to swing for an obscene amount of damage from almost “no where”.

 

As for the rest of Five-Headed Dragon, being a Dark-Type is okay (it is big enough to fuel Deck Devastation Virus), and being immune to Battle Damage (that is done to itself – spillover damage would still slam your LP) unless its from Light Monsters means little since so few Monsters will be big enough to destroy it in Battle and most people would just use an effect of some sort anyway.

 

Fusions are often almost silly to score since they have almost no drawback to run, but in this case the scores really are more a reflection of how such a deck would fair.

 

Ratings (for a Dragon deck using Dragon’s Mirror)

 

Traditional: 1/5

 

Advanced: 3.5/5