===Judge Program Forum Rulings==={{RulingFlagged |TCGJudgeProgram = *If "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" second is destroyed simultaneously with other "[[Six Samurai]]" monsters by an effect targets like "[[Dark Hole]]", the effect of "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" activates and adds 1 "Six SamuraISamurai"{{sic}} monster that is currently in your the Graveyardto the hand. If This does include the "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is in your Graveyard, it can target itselfand the other "Six Samurai" monsters that were destroyed by "[[Dark Hole]]".<ref name="Indiv-SSGrandmaster">[httphttps://wwwtcg.yukonami-judgeseurope.com/cat395_p3judgeforum/forum/viewtopic.htm#php?f=6 Yu-Judges&t=414&sid=3ba953a1baaa2df43fb7f36589b12e10 Konami Judge Program Forum]: Individual Card Rulings for "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai"DARK HOLE vs. GRANDMASTER - KIZAN -YAICHI!!!!</ref>}}

==OCG Rulings==*If "You can Normal Summon this card. It is neither a [[Nomi]] nor a [[Grandmaster of the Six SamuraiSemi-Nomi]]" is destroyed by your opponent's card effect while in your hand or your Deck, its effect activatesmonster.<ref name="IndivEM-SSGrandmasterGMotSS">[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=42454&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: Effect Monster > Grandmaster of the Six Samurai</ref>

*If you Special Summon When "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" and your opponent negates is sent to the Special Summon and destroys it with their "[[Royal Oppression]]"Graveyard, the effect which adds 1 "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" effect activates. If monster from your opponent uses the effect of Graveyard to your "hand starts a chain. It [[Royal Oppressiontarget]]" s the monster to be added to negate the Special Summon, "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" effect does not activateyour hand.<ref name="IndivEM-SSGrandmasterGMotSS"/>

*If your opponent activates an effect to destroy one of your "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" monsters is destroyed and you use banished, such as by "[[Macro Cosmos]]" or "[[Banisher of the Light]]", the effect of the which adds 1 "[[Six Samurai]]" monster from your Graveyard to destroy your hand still activates.<ref name="EM-GMotSS"/><ref name="GMotSS-RFP">[[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43405&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]"is destroyed and banished, do you still activate the effect which adds one "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" monster from your Graveyard to your hand?</ref> The effect doesn't activate because activates in the Graveyard if it was destroyed by your "is sent to the Graveyard, and activates in the [[Six SamuraiBanished Zone]]" if the monster and not by your opponent's card effectis banished.<ref name="IndivGMotSS-SSGrandmasterRFP"/>

===Mentions in Other Rulings===* '''[[Card Rulings:Hero Mask|Hero Mask]]''': If you select "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" and change its name with "[[Hero Mask]]is destroyed by an opponent's" effectwhile in the hand or deck, and afterwards you Summon another "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]", when "effect still activates.<ref>[[Hero Maskhttp://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43381&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]]'s: When " 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 while in the hand or deck, does the Six Samurai]]".effect activate?</ref>

===Judge List Rulings===*If You can Special Summon "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is destroyed because the "''only one copy''" rule is violated, from your hand when you control two or more "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" effect will not activate because it is not destroyed by the opponent's card effectmonsters.<ref name>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43397&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When two or more "Six Samurai"Indiv-SSGrandmastermonsters are on your field, can you Special Summon "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai"?</ref>

*You can [[Tribute]] 1 When "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is destroyed and sent to summon another 1 the Graveyard, it can return itself to the hand.<ref>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43434&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When the effect of "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]". Doing this would not violate the "''You is activated, can only have 1 you add "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" monster on to your side of the field''" restriction.hand?</ref name="Indiv-SSGrandmaster"/>

*If you control a face-down When the effect of "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" you can Special Summon another which adds a "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]". If the face-down copy monster from your Graveyard to your hand is flipped face-up by an attackactivated, it is destroyed after the effect of "[[Royal Oppression]]" cannot be [[damage calculationchain]] (even if it would survive the battle). If ed because the face-down copy is flipped face-up with a card effect (e.g. of "[[Swords Grandmaster of Revealing Lightthe Six Samurai]]"), it will be destroyed and the face-up copy will remain on the fielddoes not Special Summon a monster.<ref name>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=48978&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: Can the effect of "Indiv-SSGrandmasterRoyal Oppression"be activated in chain to the effect of "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" which adds a monster from your Graveyard to your hand?</ref>

==Previously Official Rulings=={{Previously Official Rulings |UDE's Rulings =*You can only Special Summon your "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" with its second effect during targets 1 "Six SamuraI"{{sic}} monster in your Main PhasesGraveyard.<ref name=If "Indiv-SSGrandmaster[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]"/>is in your Graveyard, it can target itself.

*If both players control a face-up "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" and you use "[[Brain Control]]" on is destroyed by your opponent's "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]"card effect while in your hand or your Deck, then that "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is destroyed after coming to your side of the fieldits effect activates.<ref name="Indiv-SSGrandmaster"/>

*Vs. If you Special Summon "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" and your opponent negates the Special Summon and destroys it with their "[[Macro CosmosRoyal Oppression]]": Since , "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]'s" does not have effect activates. If your opponent uses the restriction effect of your "[[Royal Oppression]]"''and sent to negate the Special Summon, "[[Grandmaster of the Graveyard'Six Samurai]]'s", its effect will still does not activate.<ref name="Indiv-SSGrandmaster"/>

==OCG Rulings==*You can Normal Summon this card. It is neither a If your opponent activates an effect to destroy one of your "[[NomiSix Samurai]] nor a " monsters and you use the effect of the "[[Semi-NomiSix Samurai]] " monster.<ref name=to destroy your "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]"EM-GMotSS, ">[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=42454&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: Effect Monster > Grandmaster [Grandmaster of the Six Samurai</ref>]]'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===*When "'''[[Grandmaster of the Six SamuraiCard Rulings:Hero Mask|Hero Mask]]" is sent to the Graveyard, the effect which adds 1 "[[Six Samurai]]" monster from your Graveyard to your hand starts a chain. It [[target]]s the monster to be added to your hand.<ref name="EM-GMotSS"/> *''': If you select "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is destroyed and removed from play, such as by change its name with "[[Macro Cosmos]]" or "[[Banisher of the LightHero Mask]]'s"effect, the effect which adds 1 and afterwards you Summon another "[[Six Samurai]]" monster from your Graveyard to your hand still activates.<ref name="EM-GMotSS"/><ref name="GMotSS-RFP">[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43405&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed and removed from play, do you still activate the effect which adds one "Six Samurai" monster from your Graveyard to your hand?</ref> 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.<ref name="GMotSS-RFP"/> *If , when "[[Grandmaster of the Six SamuraiHero Mask]]" is destroyed by an opponent's " effect while in the hand or deck, the effect still activates.<ref>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43381&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is destroyed while disappears in the hand or deck, does End Phase the effect activate?</ref> *You can Special Summon Summoned "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" from your hand when is destroyed because you cannot control two or more than 1 face-up "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" monsters.<ref>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43397&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When two or more "Six Samurai" monsters are on your field, can you Special Summon "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai"?</ref>}}

*When "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, it can return itself to the hand.<ref>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&lang=en&tid=43434&eventNotes==FE0006 Konami FAQ]: When the effect of "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" is activated, can you add "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" to your hand?</ref> *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 [[chain]]ed because the effect of "[[Grandmaster of the Six Samurai]]" does not Special Summon a monster.<ref>[http://yugioh.faq.konami.jp/EokpControl?&langreferences group=en&tid=48978&event=FE0006 Konami FAQ]: Can the effect of "Royal Oppression" be activated in chain to the effect of "Grandmaster of the Six Samurai" which adds a monster from your Graveyard to your hand?<Notes/ref>