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Name Rule
命名めいめいルール (Meimei Rūru)
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Name Rule is a term for the groups of cards nomenclature for their Card Name is determined.

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It can apply to various aspects of a card, including Race, Civilization and Ability.

For example,

Each of the three creatures are in the Fire Civilization, and share "___ Dragon" in their card name. This is the common nomenclature for the Armored Dragon race.

  • Other examples include races such as Light Bringer use 'げんしゃ' (Yogensha) meaning ", the Oracle" (Prophet), Demon Command use '___ の ___' as a prefix, Cyber Lord use names consisting of 3-5 katakana characters, so the race of the creature can often be used to determine the race from just reading the card name.

Cards with multiple races have can have multiple name 'articles' for each of the race, as well as differing articles for evolution creatures.

Alternate rules also apply to creatures that have a Special Race.

  • Cases where Special Race name rules takes precedence. (Lunatic Emperor, Draguner, etc.)
  • Cases where Special Rules name rules are applied based on the main race (Survivor, Origin, etc.)
  • Cases where unique rules occur depending on the combination of races (Unknown, Knight, etc.)
  • Cases where various other groups occur within the race, with each group having their own name rules (Invader, Initials, etc.)
  • Cases where the rules deviate sight or completely (Samurai, Hunter, etc.)

However, naming rules are not always applied. Cards such as Seamine and Mirror Force Dragon are expected to have been misprinted due to not following the above rules. These card name potential errors aren't officially declared, so it is unknown if these cards are considered to be a misprint.

  • On higher rarity cards such as Master Card, the naming rules are also often not followed.
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