Formation Union
Edison Card Text
Select and activate 1 of the following effects: ● Equip 1 Union Monster on your side of the field to an appropriate monster on your side of the field as an Equip Spell Card. ● Unequip 1 of your equipped Union Monsters and Special Summon it to your side of the field in face-up Attack Position.
Dark Revelation Volume 1 • 2005-03-19
Targets
Note: both effects
No Damage Step effect
Banlist • Unlimited
Interactions
Do Union bonuses apply if a Union Monster is equipped by something other than its own effect?!
A Union Monster is equipped to another monster by a card effect rather than its own equip effect.
No. Union bonuses apply only when equipped by the Union monster's own effect (or Formation Union). Other equip effects do not grant the bonuses.
Rulings
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●The monster you equip the Union Monster to must be appropriate, meaning the monster name written in the text of the Union Monster.
●The Union Monster is considered to be equipped 'by its effect' so any bonuses the Union Monster grants are granted if equipped with Formation Union.
●A Union Monster that is detached during the Battle Phase using Formation Union can attack during that Battle Phase.
●If the player who would control the Union Monster already has 5 monsters on the field, you can't activate Formation Union and choose the second effect.
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The monster you equip the Union Monster to must be "appropriate", meaning the monster name written in the text of the Union Monster.
The Union Monster is considered to be equipped 'by its effect' so any bonuses the Union Monster grants are granted if equipped with "Formation Union".
A Union Monster that is "detached" during the Battle Phase using "Formation Union" can attack during that Battle Phase.
If the player who would control the Union Monster already has 5 monsters on the field, you cannot activate "Formation Union" and choose the second effect.