Pink Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: Trap Cards

What a Pink Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Is

Pink is the frame of a Trap Card. In the corner where a monster has its Attribute, a Trap says TRAP, and under the name it reads [Trap Card], with an icon after it if it is a Continuous or Counter Trap. Traps have no Level, ATK or DEF.

A few Traps turn into monsters when they resolve and say the card is also still a Trap. They keep their pink frame on the field, so a pink card in a Monster Zone is not a mistake.

How Trap Cards Play

You cannot activate a Trap from your hand unless the card says you can. Set it face down in a Spell & Trap Zone first, and you can activate it from the next turn on, on either player's turn, as long as its condition is met. Infinite Impermanence is one that says it can be activated from the hand, when you control no cards.

Normal Traps go to the Graveyard after they resolve; Continuous Traps stay and keep working. Counter Traps are Spell Speed 3, the fastest in the game, and only another Counter Trap can respond to one.

What to Know About Pink Cards

• No icon: Normal Trap. The others are Continuous and Counter.
• Normal and Continuous Traps are Spell Speed 2; Counter Traps are Spell Speed 3.
• A Trap you Set this turn cannot be activated this turn.
• Hand traps are orange monsters, not pink cards, despite the name.

Pink 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. 2,059 of the 14,012 cards released in the TCG have the pink frame.

Pink Card Examples

5 cards that show what a pink 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.

Mirror Force

BP01-EN048

Normal Trap

Infinite Impermanence

DUOV-EN099

From the hand

Solemn Judgment

BLRR-EN100

Counter Trap

Call of the Haunted

BP01-EN049

Continuous Trap

Torrential Tribute

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Normal Trap

• Mirror Force: When an opponent's monster declares an attack, destroy all your opponent's Attack Position monsters.
• Infinite Impermanence: Negate the effects of a face-up monster your opponent controls for the turn. If you control no cards, you can activate it from your hand.
• Solemn Judgment: Pay half your Life Points to negate a Summon or the activation of a Spell or Trap, and destroy that card.
• Call of the Haunted: Special Summon a monster from your Graveyard in Attack Position. The two stay linked: if one leaves, the other is destroyed.
• Torrential Tribute: When a monster is Summoned, destroy all monsters on the field.

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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