Card Rulings:Grandmaster of the Six Samurai

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TCG Rulings

• "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai's" second effect targets 1 "Six SamuraI" [sic] monster in your Graveyard. If "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is in your Graveyard, it can't target itself.

• If "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed by your opponent's card effect while in your hand or your Deck, its effect activates.

• If you Special Summon "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" and your opponent negates the Special Summon and destroys it with their "Royal Oppression", "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai's" effect activates. If your opponent uses the effect of your "Royal Oppression" to negate the Special Summon, "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai's" effect does not activate.

• If your opponent activates an effect to destroy one of your "Six Samurai" monsters and you use the effect of the "Six Samurai" monster to destroy your "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai", "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai's" effect doesn't activate because it was destroyed by your "Six Samurai" monster and not by your opponent's card effect.

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Hero Mask: If you select "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" and change its name with "Hero Mask's" effect, and afterwards you Summon another "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai", when "Hero Mask's" effect disappears in the End Phase the Summoned "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed because you cannot control more than 1 face-up "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai".

Judge List Rulings

• If "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed because the "only one copy" rule is violated, "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai's" effect will not activate because it is not destroyed by the opponent's card effect.

• You can Tribute 1 "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" to summon another 1 "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai". Doing this would not violate the "You can only have 1 "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" monster on your side of the field" restriction.

• If you control a face-down "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" you can Special Summon another "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai". If the face-down copy is flipped face-up by an attack, it is destroyed after damage calculation (even if it would survive the battle). If the face-down copy is flipped face-up with a card effect (e.g. "Swords of Revealing Light"), it will be destroyed and the face-up copy will remain on the field.

• You can only Special Summon your "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" with its effect during your Main Phases.

• If both players control a face-up "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" and you use "Brain Control" on your opponent's "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai", then that "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed after coming to your side of the field.

• Vs. "Macro Cosmos": Since "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" does not have the restriction "and sent to the Graveyard", its effect will still activate.

OCG Rulings

• You can Normal Summon this card. It is neither a Nomi nor a Semi-Nomi monster.

• When "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is sent to the Graveyard, the effect which adds 1 "Six Samurai" monster from your Graveyard to your hand starts a chain. It targets the monster to be added to your hand.

• If "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed and removed from play, such as by "Macro Cosmos" or "Banisher of the Light", the effect which adds 1 "Six Samurai" monster from your Graveyard to your hand still activates. The effect activates in the Graveyard if it is sent to the Graveyard, and activates in the Removed Zone if the monster is removed from play.

• If "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed by an opponent's effect while in the hand or deck, the effect still activates.

• You can Special Summon "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" from your hand when you control two or more "Six Samurai" monsters.

• When "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, it can return itself to the hand.

• When the effect of "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" which adds a "Six Samurai" monster from your Graveyard to your hand is activated, the effect of "Royal Oppression" cannot be chained because the effect of "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" does not Special Summon a monster.