Card Rulings:Dark Lucius LV6

"Dark Lucius LV6":

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OCG Rulings

• The effect "If this card was Special Summoned by the effect of "Dark Lucius LV4", the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is a Continuous Effect. (It is only applied if this card was Special Summoned by the effect of "Dark Lucius LV4".)

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" battles a monster with the same ATK and both monsters are destroyed, the effect "the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is not applied.

• The effect "During your next Standby Phase after this card has negated your opponent's monster effect, by sending this card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck." is a Trigger Effect. (It does not target.)

• Sending "Dark Lucius LV6" to the Graveyard is a cost to activate this effect.

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys a Normal Monster by battle, the effect "the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is not applied. Also, during your next Standby Phase, the effect "by sending this card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck." cannot be activated.

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys a Gemini monster by battle, the effect "the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is applied normally. (It makes no difference whether the destroyed monster was treated as an Effect Monster or not.) Also, during your next Standby Phase, the effect "by sending this card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck." can be activated.

• "Mara of the Nordic Alfar" is treated as an Effect Monster, but it does not have any monster effect. If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys a Gemini monster by battle, the effect "the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is applied normally. Also, during your next Standby Phase, the effect "by sending this card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck." can be activated.

• "Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth" does not have any monster effect and is not treated as an Effect Monster. If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys "Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth" by battle, the effect "the effects of your opponent's monsters that this card destroys by battle are negated." is not applied. Also, during your next Standby Phase, the effect "by sending this card to the Graveyard, Special Summon 1 "Dark Lucius LV8" from your hand or Deck." cannot be activated.

Previously Official Rulings

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" negates an opponent's monster effect, but is then flipped face-down, you cannot Special Summon "Dark Lucius LV8". However, if "Dark Lucius LV6" negates a monster effect, and is then temporarily removed from play with "Interdimensional Matter Transporter", when it returns to play you can Special Summon "Dark Lucius LV8".

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys a monster with an Ignition Effect, like "Exiled Force", or a monster with a Trigger Effect that wouldn't activate, like "Mysterious Puppeteer", then "Dark Lucius LV6" did not negate their effects. So you cannot Special Summon "Dark Lucius LV8".

• If "Dark Lucius LV6" destroys "Sangan" while "Macro Cosmos" or "Grave Protector" is active, the effect of "Sangan" cannot activate, so it is not negated. So you cannot Special Summon "Dark Lucius LV8".

LV Monster Rulings

Previously Official Rulings

• If a level monster fulfills its condition to Special Summon the next-highest level (for example, if "Armed Dragon LV5" destroys a monster as a result of battle), and the level monster is then flipped face-down, or removed from play permanently, or sent to the Graveyard and then Special Summoned from the Graveyard, then its condition is reset and it is no longer considered to have met the condition to level up to the next level.

• If you don’t have "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6" in your hand or Deck, you cannot send "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4" to the Graveyard to activate its effect.

• "If Banisher of the Light" [sic] is in play, you cannot send "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 4" to the Graveyard, so you cannot activate its effect.

• You don’t have to send "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 4" to the Graveyard if you don’t want to, even if it destroyed a monster as a result of battle. But if you activate its effect by sending it to the Graveyard, you must Special Summon "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV 6" if possible.

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Divine Wrath: You can activate "Divine Wrath" when a "LV" monster is sent to the Graveyard to Special Summon the next level version (an Ignition Effect), and "Divine Wrath" will negate that effect, even though it cannot destroy the "LV" monster because it is already in the Graveyard.

• Level Down!?: You can use “Level Down!?” on a “Neo-Spacian Dark Panther” that is copying an LV Monster. But since it is no longer copying the LV Monster after it has been returned to the Deck, no monster will be Special Summoned.

• Level Modulation: An “LV” monster that normally cannot be Special Summoned except by the method in its text CANNOT be Special Summoned from the Graveyard with “Level Modulation” unless it has been previously Special Summoned by the correct procedure. The “ignore the Summoning conditions” text allows for these monsters to be Special Summoned only after they have been properly Summoned by their own effect. This applies to “Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8”, “Armed Dragon LV7”, “Silent Swordsman LV7”, “Silent Magician LV8”, and “Winged Kuriboh LV10”.

• Neo-Spacian Dark Panther: If you target an “LV” monster, you could Tribute the “Neo-Spacian Dark Panther” to activate the Spell Card “Level Up!”. It will be in the Graveyard when “Level Up!” resolves, so it will no longer have the copied effect, so there is no monster name to reference and therefore the effect disappears.