Forum:"Ritual Beast" vs "Spiritual Beast"

Should the naming within the Ritual/Spiritual Beast archetype affect what is currently the accepted play style? For instance, all of the base beast monsters are "Spiritual Beasts," not "Ritual Beasts."

Does this prevent them from being pulled from the deck by "Ritual Beast Ulti-Cannahawk's" effect, which specifies, "Ritual Beast card." And for the monster count when "Steeds" is activated? For activation of "Spiritual Beast Apelio's" effect?

The defusion effect of the Ulti Beasts all specify, "Spiritual Beast Monster," which points to an intentional naming distinction? With other archetypes such distinctions are made(Michael the Arch-Lighsworn, Fire King High Avatar Garunix, etc.), so I'm wondering what is going on with these. The original Japanese also has this naming difference, 霊獣 vs 精霊獣

Holt003 (talk • contribs) 15:55, April 27, 2015 (UTC)