Forum:Union monster effects

So Union monsters all have very similar effects, but there is not really consistency between them all in how we classify these. In most cases, we seem to call the equip/unequip effect a single Ignition Effect, but then the parenthetical text at the end of the card texts is the problem. Some card pages don't consider these to be effects at all (e.g. "Armor Breaker", "Burning Beast"), some consider the "destroy this card instead" effect to be a Continuous Effect and ignore the first half (e.g. "Heavy Mech Support Platform", "Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite"), while others consider the "can only be equipped with one Union monster at a time" text to be a Condition and the "destroy this card instead" effect to be a Continuous Effect (e.g. "Oilman", "Armored Cybern").

Personally, I think the parenthetical text should be given effect categories. It's not the case that text in parentheses is never an effect/condition either, since many Alien cards have Continuous Effects in parentheses. -- Snorlax Monster  12:47, March 14, 2014 (UTC)