Dragon Empire

Original	ZERO	Historical

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Dragon Empire Emblem

Dragon Empire (ドラゴンエンパイア Doragon Enpaia) is the largest nation on Planet Cray, and the only one to not have changed its name in the centuries since Gyze fell.

Background

Protected by mountains that form a natural citadel, the city of the Dragon Empire retains its own culture. Its inhabitants include not only dragons but also humans.

The Empire of Dragons, Unchanged After 3000 Years
The nation, in which the oldest race "Dragons" reside, was the only nation whose name remained unchanged after 3000 years. It remains safe and affluent due to its great military power based on destructive weapons that meld magic and science. On the sacred mountain at the centre of the empire, there lies the "Red Dawn Manor" which has been safeguarding the dragon egg of legends since ancient times.

Support by the Clans during the "Godless Era"
The "Godless Era", in which the protection of the deities was lost from the world, was a period of change where the majority of the former six major nations disappeared from the map. However, even in that era the clans continued to support people's activities, whether it be now or in the past their existence is the cornerstone of saving Cray from its destruction.

【ドラゴンエンパイア編】ロロワと共に学ぶ‼天輪聖記の惑星クレイ

Learning with Rorowa!! Chakrabarthi Divine Era's Planet Cray.

Playstyle

Dragon Empire's primary theme is retiring the opponent's rear-guards allowing the player to control the opponent's field and gain benefits from retiring rear-guards, usually by activating effect when the opponent has a certain amount of empty circles. Additionally, Dragon Empire can use the Bind Zone, either to further retire more opposing rear-guards or to gather resources. Dragon Empire decks that use the Bind Zone frequently use it alongside the Soul. Each of the Nation's Ride Lines features its own playstyle, alongside the focus on retiring:

• The Nirvana ride lines is strongly centered around the overDress keyword, which allows the player to evolve weaker units into different forms that gain a variety of abilities when they are in the overDress state, such as power-ups, retire, card draw or re-standing, resulting in a powerful, versatile playstyle. To facilitate this, the supporting units search for the necessary cards in order to accelerate the process. Additionally, the Prayer Dragons allow the use of an alternative mechanic known as X-overDress.
• The Eugene ride line makes use of soul in order to retire the opponent's rear-guards, which generates a progressive advantage. The soul can also be used as a resource to generate a bigger advantage.
• The Overlord ride line makes use of a vanguard that can attack twice in order to generate different forms of advantage.
• The Bavsargra ride line makes use of Arms cards, which are armed to the vanguard in order to unlock different abilities.
• The Tamayura ride line interacts with the Twin Direful Dolls, Ririmi and Rarami, in order to generate multiple attacks, while also uses Stealth units to support them. Her Fox Arts cards can be used to weaken opponent's units in power and to generate advantage.
• The Shojodoji ride line makes uses of the the soul to bind Stealth units in order to call them back and generate multiple attacks, while also binds the opponent's units and putting them in the bottom of the deck before the opponent can recover them.
• The Gandeeva ride line retires the opponent's rear-guards in order to bind cards face-down, which results a power-up to all your front row units.
• The Vermillion, ride line binds opponent's rear-guards and the vanguard can attack multiple units at once. This ride line make use of an order named "Eternal Thunderbolt" which can be used from drop, which grants additional abilities to the vanguard.
• The Demon Stealth Dragon, Shiranui ride line focuses on the Dominate keyword to take control of the opponent's units to generate multiple attacks or retire them.
• The Zedhlans ride line use the Smithy set order to power up their Wrought Iron allies, and those units get bonus that are chosen by those cards.
• The Triumph Dragon ride line use the Energy Resource to retire opponent's rear-guards and power up itself and their allies.
• The Varga ride line focused in direct attacks with a big power by retiring all the front-row rear-guards, also using the Divine Skill, this unit can break the defense of the enemy by multiple attacks. The support units had skills that can protect to be cut by Vagra's effect as retiring after an attack, not be retired by card effects, or be superior called from after retired.

Known/Notable Fighters

• Yu-yu Kondo (Nirvana)
• Hiroshi Takahashi (Eugene)
• Mirei Minae (Bavsargra)
• Musashi Uryu (Eugene)
• Doshi Nakano (Eugene)
• Noi Taito (Tamayura)
• Nao Inabe (Triumph Dragon/Varga)

Design

Races

Name	Type	Description
Abyss Dragon	Shared
Chimera	Shared
Cyber Dragon	Shared
Demon	Shared
Dryad	Shared
Dinodragon	Unique
Dragonman	Unique
Dragoroid	Shared
Earth Dragon	Unique
Flame Dragon	Shared
Gear Dragon	Shared
Gillman	Unique
Ghost	Shared
Golem	Shared
High Beast	Shared
Human	Shared
Hydragrum	Shared
Plasma Dragon	Unique
Prayer Dragon	Unique
Quintuplets	Shared
Synchro Heart Dragon	Unique
Talisman	Unique
Thunder Dragon	Unique
Warbeast	Shared
Wind Dragon	Unique
Workeroid	Shared

Sets containing Dragon Empire cards

Decks and Starter Sets

Set Name	No. of Cards
D Start Deck 01: Yu-yu Kondo -Holy Dragon-	15
D Start Deck 06: Mirei Minae -Sealed Blaze Maiden-	15

Extra Collections

Set Name	No. of Cards
D Special Series 01: Festival Collection 2021	11
D Special Series 02: Festival Collection 2022	7(+5)
D Special Series 05: Festival Booster 2023	5

List of Dragon Empire cards

Grade 4

List of Nations

Dragon Empire ● Dark States ● Brandt Gate ● Keter Sanctuary ● Stoicheia ● Lyrical Monasterio
Touken Ranbu ● Monster Strike ● SHAMAN KING ● Record of Ragnarok ● BanG Dream!