Card Name

Card name is an important aspect of the game. Besides aesthetic reasons, effects also link cards together through targeting names. For example, the keyword "Twinkle Dragonpulse" targets "Siegfried"-named cards specifically. Due to this link, decks are often built around cards with a common name. 
A common name is not limited to one color or one card type. For example, "Sieg" is a common name which is shared among all five existing card types and all six colors. Colloquially, a series of cards with a common name is referred to as an archetype. A card can also have a name containing two or more common names, resulting in it being in two or more archetypes (e.g. The ArmoredBushin Dynastes's name includes both "Gaim" and "Kabuto"). 
Before Sword Eyes Saga, official English names were also printed at top right of the cards. 
== Rules ==
There are a few rules regarding to card names, which is very hard to be noticed from the English names, as both the kanji and furigana parts from the original card names are concerned. 
# When an effect quotes a card name, it only looks at the kanji. 
## For example, Haneppo needs a "Fairy"-named Spirit to activate its effect, Fairy Mothra, despite having furigana which reads differently from Haneppo's effect, as the kanji is the same, it is affected. Likewise, The ArmoredBushin Dynastes, despite being read "YoroiBu", due to having the same writing, counts as a "Gaim"-named Spirit. 
# And, as only the kanji counts, even if the furigana is right, it isn't targeted.
## As an example, Musha Siegfried is not treated as a "Siegfried"-named card. While Musha's name is still read as "Siegfried", the name is written in kanji, instead of katakana which is how "Siegfried" is usually written in other cards.
# Cards can also treat themselves as having other names through effects. In these cases, when their effects are negated, so are their names that are given by effects.
# Sometimes effects target only part of the card name, while others target the full name. In English translation, the former case is usually differentiated by written as "XXX"-named.
## Ichibanspear is the latter case, as its effect targets the exact card "The HeavenlyDemonKing God-Sechs", instead of a card having that as part of the name. With that in mind, The HeavenlyDemonKing God-Sechs -Type Destroy- cannot be targeted by Ichibanspear.
# Some card have part of their names quoted in［］or () (such as "［Supernova Idol］Noah-Fleur" and "Agumon (2)").
##During the game, when an effect targets the exact name, the name within the brackets is ignored.
###For example, when targeting "Agumon", the (2) part of the name is ignored, and "Agumon (2)" is simply treated as "Agumon", and can be targeted.
##However, when building a deck, you can put both "Agumon" and "Agumon (2)" at three copies each.
# When building a deck, the name of a Rebirth card is the name of both sides together, so Freedom Gundam and Freedom Gundam (Rebirth) are not the same card, as Rebirth Freedom's name, rules-wise, is Freedom Gundam/Freedom Gundam (Meteor Equipped).
##However, during a game, effects only consider the card name on the side of the card which is face-up to the players at that moment.
== Translation Notes ==
Players who cannot read Japanese often only rely on English translated names, which can be a problem when using effects that target names, as translating concerns adaptating, changing, localizing and at times omitting for the sake of clarity, which ultimately results in certain aspects being lost in translation, or really being an untranslatable wordplay which later became relevant. As an example, The Mogami Family's Dinner targets "Crab"-named cards, which includes The CancerBushin Cancerd, as its name contains the kanji for Crab in Japanese, as well as cases like the "SevenShogun" archetype, which, despite being "Makai"-named in Japanese, are not "Makai"-named in English.
When you come across difficulties in terms of names, please refer to the specific archetype you are looking at. Most of the time, notes are also added on specific card pages to let users know which cards the effect can target.
== Related Articles ==
*List of archetypes
* God Spirits
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