Non-Effect Monster

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A non-Effect Monster is a Monster Card without a monster effect. This includes all Normal Monsters (including Normal Pendulum Monsters, Token Monsters and Gemini monsters while treated as Normal Monsters) and certain Ritual, Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, and Link Monsters.

Classification
Non-Normal Monsters are non-Effect Monsters in the following cases:


 * Ritual Monsters whose lore only contains their Ritual Summoning condition, such as "".
 * Fusion Monsters whose lore only contains their Fusion Materials, such as "".
 * Synchro Monsters whose lore only contains their Synchro Materials, such as "{{ygo|Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth}".
 * Xyz Monsters whose lore only contains their Xyz Materials, such as "".
 * Link Monsters whose lore only contains their Link Materials, such as ".

Even if the only card text on an Effect Monster Card is a condition, such as "" and "", that monster is not treated as a non-Effect Monster.

Token Monsters are treated as non-Effect Monsters and will be affected by ""; however, Tokens cannot be sent to the Graveyard as a cost, and thus will not work with "".