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Purple and Green Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards: Fusion Pendulum Monsters
A Yu-Gi-Oh! card that is purple on top and green on the bottom is a Fusion Pendulum Monster. It starts in your Extra Deck like any Fusion Monster and is Fusion Summoned from its listed Materials. Most can then move into a Pendulum Zone when they are destroyed, where their Pendulum Effect and Scale apply.
Purple and green is the frame of a Fusion Pendulum Monster. It starts in the Extra Deck. Fusion Pendulum Monsters: Extra Deck Fusions that can move to a Pendulum Zone, like Supreme King Z-ARC.
14 cards released in the TCG are purple and green, as of November 2, 2026. See the full color chart →
What a Purple and green Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Is
The top half is purple because the monster is a Fusion Monster, with its Fusion Materials on the first line of the lower text box. The bottom half is Spell green because it can also sit in a Pendulum Zone.
Purple and green is an Extra Deck combination. The card never goes in your Main Deck.
How Fusion Pendulum Monsters Play
You cannot place a Fusion Pendulum Monster in a Pendulum Zone from your hand, because it is never in your hand. It gets there from the field: most say that if the card in the Monster Zone is destroyed, you can place it in your Pendulum Zone. Supreme King Z-ARC is one.
If it leaves the field another way and would go to the Graveyard, it goes to your Extra Deck face up instead, as every Pendulum Monster does. Whether it can then be Pendulum Summoned depends on its text: Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon says it must be Fusion Summoned and can then be Pendulum Summoned, while Supreme King Z-ARC must be Fusion Summoned.
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.
What to Know About Purple and green Cards
- Starts in the Extra Deck.
- Fusion Summoned with its listed Materials, like any Fusion Monster.
- Most reach the Pendulum Zone when destroyed in the Monster Zone; the card says so.
- Pendulum Summoning it from the Extra Deck is only possible when its text allows it.
Purple 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. Fusion Pendulum Monsters are among the rarest frames in the game: 14 of the 14,012 cards released in the TCG.
Purple and green Card Examples
4 cards that show what a purple 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.
Supreme King Z-ARC
BLGG-EN141
The famous one
Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon
BLLR-EN006
Can be Pendulum Summoned
Starving Venemy Dragon
BROL-EN034
Generic Materials
D/D/D Super Doom King Purple Armageddon
MP19-EN230
D/D/D
- Supreme King Z-ARC: 4 Dragons: a Fusion, a Synchro, an Xyz and a Pendulum. When Special Summoned it destroys every card your opponent controls; destroyed, it can go to your Pendulum Zone.
- Odd-Eyes Venom Dragon: Must be Fusion Summoned, and can then be Pendulum Summoned. It copies an opponent's monster's name and effects for the turn.
- Starving Venemy Dragon: 1 DARK monster + 1 Pendulum Monster. It copies an opponent's monster's effects and weakens it, and moves to the Pendulum Zone when destroyed.
- D/D/D Super Doom King Purple Armageddon: 2 D/D/D monsters. It destroys an opponent's Attack Position monster and burns for half its original ATK.
The Two Halves
Each half of a purple and green card is a color of its own. The top is the purple of a Fusion 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a purple and green Yu-Gi-Oh! card mean?
It is a Fusion Pendulum Monster. The purple top means it is a Fusion Monster that starts in your Extra Deck; the green bottom means it can be placed in a Pendulum Zone, usually after it is destroyed on the field.
Does a Fusion Pendulum Monster go in the Main Deck or Extra Deck?
The Extra Deck. Any Pendulum Monster whose top half is purple, white or black is an Extra Deck card, the same as the Fusion, Synchro or Xyz Monster it is.
Is Supreme King Z-ARC a Pendulum card?
Yes. Supreme King Z-ARC is a Fusion Pendulum Monster with a Pendulum Scale of 1. It must be Fusion Summoned, and if it is destroyed in the Monster Zone you can place it in your Pendulum Zone.
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