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Name Rule is a term for the groups of cards nomenclature for their Card Name is determined.
- See also: Name Category
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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 '
予 言 者 ' (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.
- Cards with many races such as Ultra Man or Ultimate Man may ignore many of their various name rules.
- Some cards such as Jenny, the Suicide Train and Bolmeteus Blue Flame Dragon ignore aspects of their naming rules to match a specific source material.
- Spells and Double Sided Cards such as Psychic Creatures have their own naming conventions.
- Cards in a cycle such as "Admiral", "SP" or "Guard of Hope" take preference over any other rules.
- There are rules for abilities such as "Charger" as well as "Hyperspatial" spells that can put psychic creatures.
- When a card is introduced in Duel Masters Play's, its race may have changed from the original card due to various reasons. Sometimes this fixes a former error, and sometimes it breaks the naming rules. This is common for Hybrid Race cards.
- Missing：Captain Million-Parts, Medical Alnair
- Fixed： Mirror Force Dragon
- Broken：Bat Doctor, Shadow of Undeath, Seamine, Chaos Fish