How to create different card gameObjects and store them along with different types of cards

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Hi guys, I am still pretty new at coding and am working on a TCG in unity.

In my game, I am working on making the deck which can store 3 different types of cards, Magic, Monster and Modifier. I have scripts for a monster Card, Magic Card and Modifier Card which all inherit from the class Card.

In my project, the deck just stores a list of gameobjects and I have a reference to a prefab that has a simple card script attached to it. I have a cardAsset class which has premade data for all the different cards I want my game to have.

Based on what cards are in the deck, I am trying to create gameobjects during loading for each card in the deck and add the respective scripts to the gameobject based on what card I am instantiating.

The problem is that I want to create the gameObject using only 1 method without having to override the data to fit the 3 different types of cards. This way, I am hoping to later possibly add card effects through a separate script.

I have already tried making the create method take in a constructor of card type. The game runs if I do this but, I can only access the card script related data of the card if I do this.

Any suggestions on what I should do??

To help understand better, my code inherits as follows.

|- MonsterCard
Card – MagicCard
|- ModifierCard

Below is my code for the create method in my deck.

    GameObject CreateCard(Card cardDate)
    {
        GameObject newCard = Instantiate(CardPrefab);
        Card newCardData = newCard.GetComponent<Card>();

        newCard.tag = "Card";
        newCard.name = cardDate.cardName;
        newCardData.cardName = cardDate.cardName;
        newCardData.manaCost = cardDate.manaCost;
        newCardData.isFaceUp = false;
        newCardData.cardtype = cardDate.cardtype;


  
        newCard.transform.position = theDeckPosition;
        newCard.transform.rotation = theDeckRotation;
        return newCard;
    }
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Perhaps have your base Card class store a CardType enum property, which contains “Monster, Magic, Modifier” types. You can check newCard.cardType in a switch or if/else, and then implicit cast to subclass or apply custom properties as necessary.

What kind of data is specific to Magic/Monster/Modifier Card?