Card Rulings:Drill Warrior

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TCG Rulings

• Adding 1 monster in the Graveyard to your hand is part of the Trigger Effect that Special Summons “Drill Warrior” during your Standby Phase.

• Discarding 1 card and removing “Drill Warrior” from play [sic] are both part of the same Ignition Effect. Discarding the card is not a cost.

• If you control your opponent’s “Drill Warrior” and remove it from play [sic], it will be Special Summoned to its owner’s side of the field during the owner’s next Standby Phase and they will add a Monster Card to their hand.

• Special Summoning “Drill Warrior” and adding 1 Monster Card to your hand do not happen at the same time. You Special Summon, then add the Monster Card to your hand. “Bottomless Trap Hole” cannot be activated.

• You do not target the Monster Card, you return to your hand.

• Even if you halve “Drill Warrior’s” ATK, you do not have to attack directly.

• “Drill Warrior’s” ATK remains halved until “Drill Warrior” is removed from the field [sic] or flipped face-down.

Judge Program Forum Rulings

• Dark World: Discarding 1 card is part of "Drill Warrior"'s effect, it is not a cost. So, if "Broww, Huntsman of Dark World" is discarded, "Broww, Huntsman of Dark World" is being discarded by an effect. It is also a mandatory effect, so it will not miss the timing. The effect of "Broww, Huntsman of Dark World" will start a new Chain, and once it resolves, the owner will draw a card.

Semi-Official

• If you Chain "Book of Moon" to the effect of "Drill Warrior" which banishes it, then "Drill Warrior" is still banished.

OCG Rulings

• The "Once per turn, during your Main Phase 1: You can halve this card's ATK, and if you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn." effect is an Ignition Effect. (It cannot be activated during Main Phase 2.)

• The "Once per turn: You can discard 1 card, and if you do, banish this card." effect is an Ignition Effect. (Discarding and banishing are considered to happen simultaneously.)

• The "During your next Standby Phase: Special Summon this card banished by this effect, then add 1 monster from your Graveyard to your hand." effect is a Trigger Effect. (It does not target. Special Summoning this card and adding 1 monster from your Graveyard to your hand are not considered to happen simultaneously.)

• The effect of "Drill Warrior" which banishes it and the effect which Special Summons it are not treated as the same effect; "Drill Warrior" is not treated as being banished temporarily. Thus, if the effect of "Drill Warrior" banishes it after control of it switches by an effect like "Mark of the Rose", "Brain Control" or "Creature Swap", then "Drill Warrior" will be Special Summoned to its original owner's side of the field during its original owner's next Standby Phase, and its original owner adds a card from his Graveyard to his hand.

• The effect of "Drill Warrior" which halves its ATK gives it the ability to attack directly. The effect does not force "Drill Warrior" to attack directly during that turn's Battle Phase, so "Drill Warrior" can still attack a monster.

• If "Drill Warrior" halves its ATK by its own effect, then its ATK remains halved as long as "Drill Warrior" remains face-up on the field. If "Drill Warrior" is flipped face-down or leaves the field, then its ATK returns to the original amount.

• When resolving the effect of a banished "Drill Warrior" which Special Summons it, you can Special Summon "Drill Warrior" even if there are no monsters in your Graveyard. However, after Special Summoning "Drill Warrior" you cannot resolve the effect which adds a card from your Graveyard to your hand, so cards like "Bottomless Trap Hole" may be activated.

• When resolving the "You can discard 1 card, and if you do, banish this card." effect, if you cannot discard from your hand - for example, you chained "Full Salvo" - then you cannot banish "Drill Warrior". However, when resolving that effect, if "Drill Warrior" cannot be banished - for example, "Imperial Iron Wall" was chained - then you still discard 1 card.

• If the activation of the effect of "Drill Warrior" which Special Summons it during the Standby Phase is negated by the effect of "Light and Darkness Dragon", then you cannot activate that effect of that "Drill Warrior" a second time during the same Standby Phase. Thus, "Drill Warrior" remains banished.

• Even if the effect of "Necrovalley" is applying, the effect that banishes "Drill Warrior" and the effect that Special Summons "Drill Warrior" can be activated. Since the effect "During your next Standby Phase: Special Summon this card banished by this effect, then add 1 monster from your Graveyard to your hand." is treated as an effect that affects cards in the Graveyard, the effect is negated by "Necrovalley". ("Drill Warrior" remains banished, and is not Special Summoned.) However, if during the resolution of that effect, you have no monsters in your Graveyard, since it is not treated as an effect that affects cards in the Graveyard, only the resolution of "Special Summon this card banished by this effect" is applied.