Forum:Soul Exchange with Unions?

Curious about how using soul exchange would work if the selected opponents monster is equipped with a union card.

Searched around but couldn't find anything on the specific topic.

Scenario:

Opponent has machina sniper equipped with a heavy mech platform union card.

I activate Soul exchange to tribute my opponents machina sniper to summon a 6 star monster requiring one tribute.

Do both my opponents machina sniper and the equipped heavy mech platform get discarded, or does the union effect carry over to tribute summoning?

Is only the equipped union monster destroyed and the tribute is carried out not effecting the machina sniper?

Is there some other unforeseen side effect from this combination?

Would love to hear as we're still learning as we go, but this doesn't seem to be a situation we could find any resolution to. (I ended up just using soul exchange on another one of his monsters to avoid any issues, but in the future this might be helpful to know)

Thanks