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An '''Equip Card''' is a card that is [[equip]]ped to a [[face-up]] [[Monster Card|monster]] on the [[Playing Field|field]]. [[Spell Card]]s with the Equip Icons [[File:Equip.svg|18px]] are the most common type of Equip Card, and are officially called [[Equip Spell Card]]s. They are treated as both [[Spell Card]]s (they would be [[destroy]]ed by the effect of "[[Heavy Storm]]") and Equip Cards (for purposes such as "[[Gearfried the Swordmaster]]").) Other cards may become Equip Cards through card effects, like with "[[Sword Hunter]]" or [[Union Monsters]]. Whenever a Monster Card becomes an Equip Card, it is treated as an [[Equip Spell Card]], and is no longer considered a [[Monster Card]]. So a "[[Dark Magician]]" equipped to your "[[Sword Hunter]]" as an Equip Card could be destroyed by "Heavy Storm", but not by "[[Tribute to the Doomed]]".
Equip Cards constantly target the monster that it is equipped to, and they can subsequently destroy monsters that state they are destroyed if targeted by an effect. If an Equip Card's effect were to be negated (by the effects of cards like "[[Spell Canceller]]" or "[[Royal Decree]]", when applicable), the card would remain "equipped" to that same monster, and would still be subsequently removed from the field if the equipped monster were to be removed from the field or flipped face-down, due to game mechanics.
