Card Rulings:Malefic Tune
OCG Rulings
- The effect that draws 2 cards is applied when the activation of the card "Malefic Tune" resolves. (It does not target.)[1]
- The card "Malefic Tune" can be activated during the Damage Step.[1]
- The effect that adds 1 "Malefic" monster from your Deck to your hand activates in the Graveyard and starts a Chain Link. (It does not target. It cannot be activated during the Damage Step.)[1]
- Banishing "Malefic Tune" is a cost to activate this effect.[1]
- Q: If a face-up "Malefic Paradox Gear" in your Monster Zone and a Set "Malefic Tune" in your Spell & Trap Zone are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard by the effect of your opponent's "Icarus Attack", can you activate the effect of that "Malefic Tune" that was sent to the Graveyard?
- A: The effect that adds 1 "Malefic" monster from your Deck to your hand can only be activated if a face-up "Malefic" monster in your Monster Zone is destroyed, except by battle, while "Malefic Tune" is in your Graveyard. If a "Malefic" monster and "Malefic Tune" are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard at the same time, the "Malefic Tune" that was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard cannot activate the effect that adds 1 "Malefic" monster from your Deck to your hand.[2]
- Q: While your opponent controls "Malefic World" and "Malefic Territory", and you control "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and "Malefic Red-Eyes B. Dragon", if "Malefic Territory" is destroyed by "Mystical Space Typhoon", and either "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" or "Malefic Red-Eyes B. Dragon" is destroyed, can you activate the effect of "Malefic Tune"?
- A: If 1 of the 2 "Malefic" monsters in the Monster Zones is destroyed by the effect that allows only 1 "Malefic" monster to be on the field, that "Malefic" is not treated as being destroyed by battle or card effect. Therefore, you cannot activate the effect of "Malefic Tune" that draws 2 cards, but you can activate the effect that adds 1 "Malefic" monster from your Deck to your hand.[3]
