Green Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: Spell Cards

What a Green Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Is

Teal-green is the frame of a Spell Card. In the corner where a monster has its Attribute, a Spell says SPELL, and under the name it reads [Spell Card], with an icon after it if it is not a Normal Spell. Spells have no Level, ATK or DEF.

Green also appears on the bottom half of every Pendulum Monster, because a Pendulum Monster can be placed in a Pendulum Zone as a Spell. That half-green card is a monster first: see the two-tone pages below.

How Spell Cards Play

You can activate most Spells only in your own Main Phase, straight from your hand or after Setting them. A Quick-Play Spell is the exception: you can activate it from your hand during any phase of your own turn, and once it has been Set, on your opponent's turn too, though not the turn you Set it.

Normal, Quick-Play and Ritual Spells go to the Graveyard after they resolve. Continuous, Equip and Field Spells stay on the field and keep working. A Field Spell goes in its own Field Zone, and each player can have one.

What to Know About Green Cards

• No icon: Normal Spell. The others are Quick-Play, Continuous, Equip, Field and Ritual.
• Quick-Play Spells are Spell Speed 2; every other Spell is Spell Speed 1, so it can only start a chain.
• Polymerization and Ritual Spells are green; the monsters they Summon are purple and light blue.
• Every green card counts toward your Main Deck.

Green Cards by the Numbers

Counted from YGOPRODeck's card database, the source of TurnZero HQ's Yu-Gi-Oh! catalog, as of November 2, 2026: every card with a TCG release, each counted once however many times it was reprinted. 2,834 of the 14,012 cards released in the TCG have the green frame.

Green Card Examples

5 cards that show what a green frame means, chosen to explain the color rather than to rank the best ones. Each links to its card page with every printing and its price.

Pot of Greed

BP01-EN034

Normal Spell

Monster Reborn

26LP-EN001

Normal Spell

Polymerization

DB1-EN119

Fusion Spell

Called by the Grave

DUDE-EN044

Quick-Play Spell

Raigeki

BP01-EN032

Normal Spell

• Pot of Greed: Draw 2 cards. Its whole text, and one of the best-known cards in the game.
• Monster Reborn: Target 1 monster in either player's Graveyard and Special Summon it.
• Polymerization: Fusion Summon a Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, using monsters from your hand or field as Fusion Material.
• Called by the Grave: Banish 1 monster from your opponent's Graveyard and negate the effects of monsters with that name until the end of the next turn.
• Raigeki: Destroy all monsters your opponent controls.

Every Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Color

The other frame colors, each with its own page. Main Deck colors come first, then the Extra Deck, Tokens and the two-tone Pendulum frames.

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