Dragon Archiver

*Dragon Archivers: Yrollkoll, Renotu, Yggdrasil, Galycimo, Relato, and Dingernell in the artwork of "Archive of the Dragons*

**Dragon Archiver** is an archetype of Dragon monsters of multiple Attributes (Primarily WIND, and DARK) used by Timothy Wixn in the fic Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: The Dragon Duelist!. They are supported by the "Archiv" archetype of Spells & Traps.

## Design

The Dragon Archiver monsters take the form of dragons that act like librarians wearing different cloaks with a crest on their sashes, and evident on several other card artworks. All there cloaks display a crest in a gold medallion around the sashes on there waists or at the front, and back of there robes in colors.

The artwork had been drawn by StardustLive5.

## Playing Style

The play style of the Dragon Archivers is the ability to have both players use the effects, and monsters of the Dragon Archivers for there play-styles together quite literally. Most of the Dragon Archivers are Level 4 or below which can allow both play to use them for different summons which is what the original owner of the monsters wants to have to treat the monsters summoned from them as Dragon Archiver monsters as the Deck provides benefits with a Dragon Archiver present on the opponent's field for complex strategies.

Each Dragon Archiver (except "Dragon Archiver - Winkalton") has two different effects; a mandatory effect, and a optional effect. The mandatory effects are the playoffs for the Deck against the opponent forcing them to activate effects for the player's benefit focusing on negating a card, destroying one, summon a monster, banish a card, powering up a monster, or some others to use. The optional ones can be activated when they are used to summon a Dragon monster of Fusion, Xyz, Synchro, or Ritual (Link included), while also centering on protection effects from when the monsters are placed in the Pendulum Zones.

The Dragon Archivers don't have an Extra Deck focusing on Dragon monsters from different Decks to use properly. In addition they use the "Archiv" Spell & Trap support cards to better plan out their playing style mainly focusing on cards that allows access to others, summon the Extra Deck or Ritual monsters, using effects when the opponent uses a Dragon Archiver monster's effect, or protection through battle. The Dragon Archivers also uses Continuous cards such as "Studying of the Archives", and "Archiving Employment" to treat there opponent's monsters as Dragon Archivers (provided they summoned them with a Dragon Archiver) to better there playing styles.

As they don't have an Extra Deck they can use a versatile number of dragons from different Decks that can prove to be strong forces over but mainly focuses on "Starving Venom Fusion Dragon", "Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon", "Clear Wing Synchro Dragon", & "Forgotten Soul Ritual Dragon" as the main dragons with "Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon" as an option to better access there versatility while also being a powerful fighter in it's own right.

## Weaknesses

As the Dragon Archivers are a Pendulum Deck, cards that can stop Pendulum Summoning can completely halt the Deck such as "Anti-Spell Fragrance". The Dragon Archivers themselves also lack power as there stats are low enough to be defeated easily by other monsters while also dealing with the mandatory effects activating where if an effect activates at the wrong time can hinder the player, or benefit the opponent while also relying on "Studying of the Archives", and "Archiving Employment" to make the Decks work.

One of the main issues of the Dragon Archivers is that the opponent is not forced to use the Dragon Archivers themselves to preform summons with them so the opponent can ignore them to summon there own monsters while using the mandatory effect to there advantage against other players. Effects that can also prevent the mandatory effects from taking effect, or can shut down the Extra Deck or Ritual Summons can also hinder the Deck preventing it's summoning playstyle from taking root.

Another of the Dragon Archivers' is that they lack an Extra Deck which although gives them incredible versatility to expand the Deck, doesn't have much support over them while the only support for them are the optional effects that activate when used to summon those monsters. Probably the main issue with this tactic is that at times they will not be the right materials for it, forcing the players to make resources or plays with cards such as "Archiving Bookmark", and "Archiving Recall" to have some Dragon Archivers be Fusion Substitute monster to make them usual for Fusion Summoning.

## Trivia

* The archetype had been created "Number 79: Number Archive" describing it as the Archives of it's kind; the "Numbers" themselves.
	+ Despite this the only "Number" Timmy had used so far is "Number 17: Leviathan Dragon" as most of the "Numbers" aren't Dragon monsters to make the Dragon Archivers usable to them.