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Unwritten properties
The cards have a lot of extra properties, which you're not told up front in the game. It'd be good if we could document these, but getting a handle on exactly what they are is difficult.

Every monster in the game can be added directly to a Deck and used like a Normal Monster. But they can also be Summoned by Fusion and Ritual if you don't have a copy of the card.
 * Ritual material is easy enough to document. A Ritual Card and three specific monsters.
 * Some Fusion material is straightforward, where a monster can only have two specific material e.g. "Gaia the Fierce Knight" + "Curse of Dragon" = "Gaia the Dragon Champion".
 * Others are broader e.g. a Dragon and a Thunder monster, both of which have less than 1600 ATK and DEF = "Thunder Dragon", while a Dragon and a Thunder monster, at least on of which has greater than or equal to 1600 ATK or DEF and both of which have less than 2800 ATK = "Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon". Dragon, includes Dragon-Type monsters, monsters with "Dragon" in their name, except "Dragon Seeker" and a few others; "Spike Seadra", "Stone D." (has Dragon in its Japanese name), "Skelgon" and "Kairyu-shin".
 * "Dragon Treasure" only says that it affects dragons, but it seems to also affect all Dinosaurs and Sea Serpents and unrelated stuff like "Torike" and "Griffore". I could do with some confirmation on whether this works with "Dragon Seeker" and a few cards with "dragon" in their lore.
 * Fusion material categories include the Types with expanded/restricted membership, egg, elf, female, jar, turtle, Harpie/other Winged Beasts used by Mai (fuse with "Bear Trap" to create "Harpie's Feather Duster").
 * Equip target categories include Types with expanded/restricted membership, possibly multiple dark categories, elf (much broader than in DOR), fanged, female, flying, horned and shelled,
 * Spells can fuse with each other or with monsters. e.g. "Umi" + "Dark Hole" = "Eternal Drought", "Umi" + "Flame Swordsman" = "Legendary Sword". (Clever, eh?)

Anyway, in terms of documenting. I think we need three rows, "Fusion Material", "Ritual Material" and "Equips". Like on, Equips would hopefully be mostly automated, needing a few parameters for female, fanged etc. Ritual material is straight forward enough. For Fusion material, we'd need a list of lists. e.g. "Summoned Skull" can be "Job-Change Mirror" + [some sort of Fiend category] or "Time Wizard" + "Embryonic Beast". -- Deltaneos (talk) 02:26, February 28, 2013 (UTC)