Orange and Green Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: Pendulum Effect Monsters

What a Orange and green Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Is

The top half is orange because the monster is an Effect Monster. The bottom half is Spell green because the card can also be placed in a Pendulum Zone. Read both boxes: the upper one, between the two Pendulum Scale numbers, is the Pendulum Effect, and the lower one is the monster effect.

Orange and green is a Main Deck combination. Pendulum Effect Monsters go in the Main Deck and count toward its 40 cards.

How Pendulum Effect Monsters Play

Any Pendulum Monster can be played two ways. Summon it and it is a monster like any other of its top color. Place it in your leftmost or rightmost Spell & Trap Zone instead and it is a Spell Card there, sitting in a Pendulum Zone, where its Pendulum Scale (the numbers either side of the upper text box) and its Pendulum Effect apply. With a card in each Pendulum Zone, once per turn you can Pendulum Summon any number of monsters whose Levels fall strictly between the two Scales, from your hand and face-up from your Extra Deck.

When a Pendulum Monster on the field would go to the Graveyard, it goes to your Extra Deck face up instead. That is what keeps Pendulum decks going: the monsters you lose come back with the next Pendulum Summon. A monster Pendulum Summoned from the face-up Extra Deck must go to an Extra Monster Zone or a zone a Link Monster points to.

A Pendulum deck sets up a low Scale on one side and a high Scale on the other, often with two halves of a pair such as Stargazer Magician and Timegazer Magician, and then Pendulum Summons several monsters at once each turn.

What to Know About Orange and green Cards

• Two effects, and only one works at a time: the monster effect as a monster, the Pendulum Effect in a Pendulum Zone.
• The Pendulum Scale only matters in a Pendulum Zone.
• When it would go to the Graveyard from the field, it goes face up to your Extra Deck instead.
• It starts in the Main Deck.

Orange and 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. 314 of the 14,012 cards released in the TCG have the orange and green frame.

Orange and green Card Examples

4 cards that show what a orange and 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.

Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon

CT12-EN001

Signature Pendulum

Stargazer Magician

PEVO-EN011

Scale 1

Timegazer Magician

LED6-EN050

Scale 8

Chronograph Sorcerer

FIGA-EN058

Two effects

• Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon: A Level 7 Dragon with Scale 4. As a monster it doubles the battle damage it inflicts; as a Pendulum it can cut your battle damage to 0 and search a Pendulum Monster.
• Stargazer Magician: A Level 5 Spellcaster. In the Pendulum Zone it stops your opponent activating Spells when your Pendulum Monster battles, and its Scale becomes 4 without a Magician or Odd-Eyes card beside it.
• Timegazer Magician: Stargazer's partner: it stops Traps instead of Spells, under the same Scale condition.
• Chronograph Sorcerer: A Level 6 Spellcaster with Scale 8. Its Pendulum Effect fetches Timegazer Magician; its monster effect Special Summons itself when your card is destroyed.

The Two Halves

Each half of a orange and green card is a color of its own. The top is the orange of an Effect Monster, and the bottom is the green of a Spell Card.

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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