Card Rulings:Heroic Challenger - War Hammer

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• The effect "When this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: You can equip the destroyed monster to this card" is a Trigger Effect. (It does not target.)

• The effect can optionally be activated at the end of the Damage Step in which "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" destroyed an opponent's monster by battle and sent it to the Graveyard.

• If "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" battles a monster with the same ATK and both monsters are destroyed, the effect "You can equip the destroyed monster to this card" cannot be activated.

• If "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" is already equipped with a monster by its own effect, even if it destroys an opponent's monster by battle, the effect "You can equip the destroyed monster to this card" cannot be activated.

• The effect "This card gains ATK equal to that equipped monster's ATK" is a Continuous Effect.

• If "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" destroys an "Embodiment of Apophis" treated as a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, the effect "You can equip the destroyed monster to this card" cannot be activated. Also, if "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" destroys a Set Spell/Trap Card treated as a monster by the effect of "Magical Hats" in battle and sends it to the Graveyard, the effect of "Heroic Challenger - War Hammer" cannot be activated.