Weapon

Weapon (ウェポン Uepon) is a card type primarily associated with the Machina Arsenal clan. Like units, weapons can be placed on circles, either by riding or calling. They can also be normal called to the arsenal circle (アルセナルサークル Arusenaru Sākuru), or (AC), a new circle on the field located behind the other circles. Weapons can be moved to and from the arsenal zone to the other circles at will during the main phase.

When a weapon is placed on a circle occupied by a unit, it is considered equipped to that unit. Most weapons give benefits to units they are equipped to. If a weapon exists on a circle without a unit, it is moved back to the arsenal zone. Weapons can be moved between units at will, even among units in different columns, and they can be moved back to the arsenal zone at will. If a weapon is no longer equipped to a unit, it returns to the arsenal circle.

Weapons are not units; they don't have power values, and they can't attack. However, weapons do have grades and shield values, and you cannot normal call weapons with grade greater than your vanguard to a rear-guard circle or the arsenal circle. Most weapons do not have skill icons, but some of them have Intercept, which allows them to be moved from a rear-guard circle in the front row to the guardian circle.

Types of Spells
A trigger weapon (トリガーウェポン Torigā Uepon) is a weapon with a trigger icon. Trigger weapons count towards the 16-trigger limit for a deck, which is amended to allow 16 total cards that are trigger units, trigger spells, or trigger weapons.

A G weapon (Ｇウェポン Ji Uepon) is a type of weapon that, like G units, are put into your G deck during deck construction. G weapons can have the Stride ability, allowing them to be used by paying the Stride cost. (There are no G weapons that are G guardians.) At the end of the turn, your G weapons on the field are put into your G zone face up. G weapons count for Generation Break even though they are not G units, so Generation Break has been amended to count G weapons.

A normal weapon (ノーマルウェポン Nōmaru Uepon) is a spell that isn't a trigger weapon or a G weapon.

Weapon Rulings

 * If a weapon is placed onto the field as a locked card, when it is unlocked, it is put into the arsenal zone.