Card Rulings:Simorgh, Lord of the Storm
OCG Rulings
- This card's effect that prevents your opponent from targeting it with Spell/Trap Cards and their effects is a Continuous Effect.[1]
- This card's effect that returns an opponent's card to the hand is a Quick Effect. (It targets 1 card on your opponent's field. Tributing 1 WIND Winged Beast monster in your Monster Zone is the cost to activate this effect.)[1]
- This effect is activated by chaining directly to an opponent's Spell/Trap Card, or Spell/Trap effect. (It cannot be activated during the Damage Step.)[1]
- This card's effect that adds it from your GY to your hand is a Trigger Effect that activates in the GY. (It does not target. This effect can be activated optionally at the end of the Damage Step if this card is in your GY and a Winged Beast monster in your Monster Zone is destroyed by battle.)[1]
Q&A Rulings
- Q: I Tribute Set a "Simorgh, Lord of the Storm" in face-down Defense Position. After that, if "Simorgh, Lord of the Storm" is flipped face-up, will its effect that prevents my opponent from targeting it be applied?
- A: Even if "Simorgh, Lord of the Storm" was Tribute Set, its effect that prevents your opponent from targeting it will be applied once it is flipped face-up.[2][3]
