Card Rulings:Guardian Baou

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OCG Rulings

• "Cannot be Summoned unless you control a face-up "Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou"" is not treated as an effect.
• The effect that makes this card gain 1000 ATK is a Trigger Effect that activates on the field. (It does not target. It activates mandatorily at the end of the Damage Step in which "Guardian Baou" destroyed an opponent's monster by battle and sent it to the Graveyard.)
• This effect does not activate if "Guardian Baou" battles a monster with the same ATK and both monsters are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.
• The effect that negates the effects of monsters destroyed by battle with this card is a Continuous Effect.

Guardian Monster Rulings

OCG Rulings

• This monster is a Normal Summon Monster.

Previously Official Rulings

• "Guardian Baou", "Guardian Ceal", "Guardian Elma", "Guardian Grarl", "Guardian Kay'est", and "Guardian Tryce" all share some basic rules. Using "Guardian Elma" as an example:

• You can Set "Guardian Elma" face-down without "Butterfly Dagger - Elma", but you cannot Special Summon her face-down with "The Shallow Grave", etc., unless you have "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" on your side of the field.

• If your Set "Guardian Elma" is flipped face-up with "Swords of Revealing Light", or by an attack, without "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" on your side of the field, she remains on the field because she was not Summoned.

• "Guardian Elma" is a normally Summoned monster, not a Special Summon-only monster. So if Normal Summoned she counts as your 1 Summon for the turn.

• You cannot use "Monster Reborn" on "Guardian Elma" if you do not have "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" on your side of the field.

• If you activate "Monster Reborn" and target "Guardian Elma" while you have "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" on the field, and your opponent chains "Mystical Space Typhoon" to destroy "Butterfly Dagger - Elma", so that it is no longer on the field when "Monster Reborn" resolves, you cannot Special Summon "Guardian Elma" and "Monster Reborn"'s effect disappears.

• You can Normal Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon "Guardian Elma" even if your "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" has its effect negated by "Imperial Order".

• If "Cyber Jar" resolves and you pick up "Guardian Elma" without "Butterfly Dagger - Elma" on your side of the field, "Guardian Elma" is added to your hand.