Editing Card text

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{{Infobox/Archetype/ExtendedName
| kanji      = カードテキスト
| romaji     = Kādo tekisuto
| english    = Card text
| french     = Texte de carte
| german     = Kartentext
| italian    = Testo carta
| korean     = 카드 텍스트 ''Kadeu tekseuteu''
| portuguese = Texto de card
| spanish    = Texto de carta
}}
{{Infobox/Archetype/End}}

'''Card text''' (カードテキスト ''kādo tekisuto''), also known as the '''card description''',<ref>[[:File:Rulebook v8.0.pdf|Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game - OFFICIAL RULEBOOK Version 8.0]], pp. 6–7, 20–21</ref> is an area on cards containing [[effect]] text that details how a card affects gameplay, or, on [[Normal Monster|Normal]] [[Monster Card]]s, [[flavor text]] describing the monster. Card text is located in the card description box,<ref>[[:File:Rulebook v5.0.pdf|Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game - OFFICIAL RULEBOOK Version 5.0]], pp. 9, 16, 18</ref> beneath the card's [[artwork]]. On Monster Cards, this box also contains the monster's [[Type]], [[ATK]], and [[DEF]], as well as the [[Pendulum Scale]]s on [[Pendulum Monster]]s.

The flavor text on [[Normal Monster]]s almost always only contains lore about the monster (leading to its popular name "lore" or "lore text"); in languages using the Latin alphabet, this text is italicized to indicate that it has no effect on gameplay. In the ''TCG'' only, Normal Monsters may rarely contain an [[archetype condition]], which is not italic (as it has an effect on gameplay) and is listed at the bottom of the card description box; this only occurs when a card's ''TCG'' name fails to include it in an archetype which its Japanese name does.

On all other cards, the card text contains the effect(s) as well as any [[cost]]s, [[condition]]s, and [[Material]]s. If a card lists Materials, these will be listed first on their own line.

==Errata==
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Card text often receives errata between printings. This is used for a variety of reasons, including to correct mistakes and mistranslations, correct [[archetype]] membership, and to improve clarity.

In the Japanese ''[[OCG]]'', starting from ''[[Starter Deck 2014]]'', various terms such as 「シンクロ」 ("Synchro"), 「エクシーズ」 ("Xyz"), and 「ペンデュラム」 ("Pendulum") have been abbreviated to the single characters 「{{Ruby|Ｓ|シンクロ}}」, 「{{Ruby|Ｘ|エクシーズ}}」, and 「{{Ruby|Ｐ|ペンデュラム}}」 to save space on card text. The term 「ライフポイント」 ("Life Points") has been similarly abbreviated to 「{{ruby|ＬＰ|ライフポイント}}」. The latter is the only one of these abbreviations that has been carried over to other languages, where "Life Points" is now abbreviated "LP" in the card text of several Latin-alphabet languages (except for Portuguese, in which it is abbreviated "PV" instead) as well as in the Korean ''OCG''.

===Card text standardization and clarification efforts===
There have been two major attempts to standardize and clarify the card text in the ''TCG''.

The first was the [[Simplified Effect Text]], which shortened several common phrases by taking out implied words or rephrasing the phrase altogether. The Simplified Effect Text was used for cards starting with ''[[Power of the Duelist]]'', until the introduction of the next text standardization.

The second was the [[Problem-Solving Card Text]], which uses a highly consistent structure for all cards to minimize the need for card rulings. It has been used on all cards released in [[Core Booster]]s since ''[[Generation Force]]'' and all cards released in [[Starter Deck]]s since ''[[Starter Deck: Dawn of the Xyz]]''.

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