Card Rulings:Aloof Lupine
OCG Rulings
- This card's effect that banishes a monster from your Deck is a Trigger Effect. (It does not target.)[1]
- Banishing a monster from your hand is the cost to activate this effect. (You cannot activate the effect by banishing a monster with an Attribute that you do not have in your Deck.)[1]
- This card's effect that adds a banished monster to your hand is a Trigger Effect. (It can be activated during the Damage Step.)[1]
- This effect targets 1 of your face-up banished monsters. (You can also target a monster that was banished by a method other than this card's first effect.)[1]
Q&A Rulings
- Q: "Macro Cosmos" is face-up in my opponent's Spell & Trap Zone, and its effect that banishes any card that would be sent to the Graveyard is applying. In this situation, if "Aloof Lupine" is destroyed by battle or an opponent's card effect and banished, can it be targeted by its own effect and added to the hand?
- A: In this scenario, if "Aloof Lupine" is banished after being destroyed instead of sent to the Graveyard, it can be targeted by its own effect.[2]
