Union/Spirit as a Keyword rather than an on-card effect?

Since the majority of people know what Union or Spirit Monster is, is there any way their type can be used as a keyword similar to Tuners? Since Tuners don't need "Send this and other face-up monsters to the Graveyard to Synchro Summon a Synchro Monster." in their effect text.

Spirits with the default "This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card returns to the hand during the End Phase of the turn it is Normal Summoned or flipped face-up." style will only need the [Fairy/Spirit] tag on it to convey what it does. If it's effect differs or has an alternate Special Summon condition then the effect will be written out as normal.

For Union Monsters, perhaps their equipping specifications could be shortened completely.

Instead of "Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can equip this card to a Machine-Type monster you control as an Equip Card, OR unequip it and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position." it can be shortened to "Union: Machine-type Monsters." in the manner that FLIP: monsters work.

I was thinking about having Toon Monsters work this way, but since there are 3 different types....

+1 support

I support this.

so who feels like errata'ing every spirit and union monster in the set file?

I can tonight if I can get a clean updated set list. We have less than 10 Unions so they'll be easy to update.

support

I think some of Scheath's Spirits are exempt from them being self-Special Summonable. Also, should Spirit Monsters also be treated with the FLIP Monster style so they can be searched via Keyword like union? such as Akuma?


|Akuma|122|FLFS|Fairy/Spirit/Effect|Dark|4||1600|1300|Spirit: When this card inflicts battle damage to your opponents life points, you can remove from play up to 3 cards from either player's graveyard.|

you can search spirits via adv search>monsters>effect>spirit anyway

although i kinda like "Spirit:" thing but when it come to Spirits that do other way around is another matter.

Slowly but surely, YGO will adapt to become more like MtG...

AsianGuy1137 wrote:Slowly but surely, YGO will adapt to become more like MtG...

It's for the better

I finished editting the set. It can be found here, and whoever does the auto-uploading/updating stuff can take it.

http://pastebin.com/ydug5YWs


Nevermind this is not the up-to-date set, due to the fact that DSA is missing. Where do I find the real full set? The one on the wiki is outdated.

The all sets page is not usually updated, we update the set obtainable by the Hacked YVD.

I did the changes and also did the same for Gemini monsters.

I updated the all sets page for convenience.

Ok. Tell me the monsters that break the traditional gemini rule and i'll fix them.