Card Rulings:Minerva, Lightsworn Maiden

"Minerva, Lightsworn Maiden":

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OCG Rulings

• The "You can add 1 LIGHT Dragon-Type monster from your Deck to your hand, whose Level is less than or equal to the number of "Lightsworn" monsters with different names in your Graveyard." effect is a Trigger Effect. (This effect does not target.)

• The "If this card is sent from the hand or Deck to the Graveyard: Send the top card of your Deck to the Graveyard." effect is a Trigger Effect. This effect is activated if this card is sent from the hand or Deck to the Graveyard. (This effect will activate even during the Damage Step.)

• The "Send the top 2 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard." effect is a Trigger Effect that must always be activated during your End Phase.

• The "Send the top card of your Deck to the Graveyard." effect will activate even if this card is sent to the Graveyard as a cost from the hand by "Raigeki Break" or from the Deck by "Card Trooper".

Lightsworn Monster Card Rulings

OCG Rulings

• The negating effect of "Alector, Sovereign of Birds" does not end during the End Phase. The effects of the targeted card remains negated during the entire turn.
  • Example: The effects of Spirit monsters, "Majestic Mech - Goryu", and "Jain, Lightsworn Paladin" will activate during the End Phase, but they will be negated and resolve without effect.

• If "Dimension Fortress Weapon" and "Macro Cosmos" are both active, the effects of "Jain, Lightsworn Paladin" and "Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress" still activate, but they resolve without effect.

TCG Rulings

Konami Rulings

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Dimension Fortress Weapon: In general, Lightsworn monsters can activate their effects while “Dimension Fortress Weapon” is on the field, but cards are not sent from the Deck to the Graveyard afterwards.

Upper Deck Entertainment Rulings

• If you do not have enough cards to send to the Graveyard remaining in your Deck when resolving the effect of a “Lightsworn” monster or “Judgment Dragon,” all cards remaining in your Deck are sent to the Graveyard. For example, if you control “Jain, Lightsworn Paladin” and its effect activates during your End Phase when you have only 1 card remaining in your Deck, that card will be sent to the Graveyard.

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Charge of the Light Brigade: If the last Level 4 or lower "Lightsworn" monster remaining in your Deck is sent to the Graveyard when you activate "Charge of the Light Brigade", when it resolves, briefly show your Deck to your opponent to verify that no Level 4 or lower "Lightsworn" monsters remain in your Deck.

• Jenis, Lightsworn Mender: "Jenis, Lightsworn Mender's" effect only activates once during the End Phase, even if cards were sent from your Deck to the Graveyard by the effects of multiple "Lightsworn" monsters.

• Jenis, Lightsworn Mender: If "Jenis, Lightsworn Mender" is Summoned after card(s) are sent from your Deck to the Graveyard by the effect of a "Lightsworn" Monster, "Jenis, Lightsworn Mender's" effect still activates in the End Phase.

Out of Date

• If the effect of a “Lightsworn” monster to send cards from the top of your Deck to your Graveyard during the End Phase is negated by the effect of "Light and Darkness Dragon," that “Lightsworn” monster’s effect activates again in the same End Phase.

• If an effect chained to a “Lightsworn” monster’s (or “Judgment Dragon’s”) effect to send cards from your Deck to the Graveyard during the End Phase that removes that “Lightsworn” monster from the field, the “Lightsworn” monster’s effect does not resolve.