While this was a game-altering card in retro formats, the prevalence of GY effects in modern Yu-Gi-Oh
Usually, if a monster equipped with an Equip Spell Card is destroyed, returned to your hand, shuffled into your Deck, sent to the Graveyard, turned into an Equip Spell Card (by "Relinquished"), flipped face-down, or anything else so that it is no longer a face-up Monster Card on the field, all Equip Spell Cards equipped to it are destroyed
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After answering those questions, if you are still unsure, I would recommend starting with 2 copies
His story and changes over the years are the prime example of what the game created by Kazuki Takahashi is truly like