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Archetype membership is determined by a card's name: an archetype's [[support]] (and [[anti-support]]) cards list a specific string in their effect, and a given card is a member of that archetype if its name includes that string. Because ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' is originally a Japanese franchise, most such support is determined by Japanese effects and names, and when cards are localized for non-Japanese regions, a suitable translation is chosen to name the archetype and be used in the names of all of that archetype's members and the effects of its support cards, and no other cards ever use that string in their names.
There are two cases where this system may break down: where the first support cards are released much later than the first members, and those members were localized without the archetype's string in their names(sometimes including anime localizations); and where previously-localized nonmembers were given names that contain the archetype's string. In both cases, there are two possible solutions: rename the card, or specify its membership status, and ; both ways have been usedin the past. For example: the English card text of "[[Arsenal Summoner]]" specifies that "[[Celtic Guardian]]", "[[Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress 1|Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #1]]", "[[Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress 2|Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #2]]", "[[Guardian of the Labyrinth]]" and "[[The Reliable Guardian]]" are not "[[Guardian]]" cards; and "Oscillo Hero #2" was renamed had its English name changed to "[[Wattkid]]" in English to include it in the "[[Watt]]" archetype. Archetype conditions are just a formalized type of the first method, used where a card cannot be renamed because its current name is well-established and well-known by fans and players, as is the case for "Summoned Skull" and "Axe of Despair".
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