Normal Monster

Normal Monsters , colored yellow, are primarily used to protect your Life Points from Direct Damage. In exchange for having no effect, the area where the effect is placed is replaced with a description of the monster. They usually possess basic stats; ATK, DEF, Level, Attribute, Type, and more often than not, one value is sacrificed to benefit another. High ATK and low DEF Normal Monsters are often associated with Beatdown Decks, while low ATK and high DEF Normal Monsters are frequently associated with Stall Decks. Normal Monsters are often called Vanilla Monsters, as a reference to their pale yellow background and how they are "plain" with no effects.

Though they do not have inherent effects, there are often Spell, Trap, or Effect Monster effects associated with specific Normal Monsters.

At no point is any card other than the "yellow" monsters considered a "Normal Monster", except by a card effect. A non-Normal Monster can be considered a Normal Monster in specific areas based on some card effects. Monsters that have no effect but that are not coloured yellow are considered Non-Effect Monsters.

The card text (or flavor text) on Normal Monsters is for illustrative purposes only, and usually has no effect on gameplay, since these cards have no effects. Even though the "flavor text" of Normal Monsters has no effect on gameplay, these texts can show how that monster is related to other cards in the game.