Forum:Confining archetypes to monsters only

A debate has arisen on the talk page for Mirror of the Ice Barrier. In a nutshell, we're finding it hard to determine just what makes an archetype, due in fact that Mirror of the Ice Barrier is not a monster within the Ice Barrier archetype, and it doesn't support it either, making it related.

One argument is that, for a monster archetype such as Ice Barrier or Harpies, only monsters are listed under the archetype, since it's an archetype of monsters, and spells and traps with the archetype in its name are listed as either support or related (such as with Mirror of the Ice Barrier and [[Harpie's Feather Duster, respectively). Or, in a case where the main cards are spells or traps, like the Speed Spell archetype, the archetype would be confined to spells, and any other cards with Speed Spell in their name would go in support/related.

The other argument, which Hydronic seems to support, is that if it has the archetype name in the card's name, then it belongs to that archetype, simple as that.

I personally am in support of the first argument. The latter is far too simplistic and could lead to many complications with cards like Harpie's Feather Duster and Gravekeeper's Servant that aren't really a part of that archetype, but would be grouped in anyway. It would be nice if we can get this matter settled so that we can make a Wiki-wide ruling, instead of having different rulings on different pages battling it out with each other. The Pope 06:45, October 16, 2010 (UTC)