Card Rulings:Soul Pendulum
OCG Rulings
- This card's effect that raises or lowers the Pendulum Scales of your cards in the Pendulum Zones starts a Chain. (You can only activate this effect during your Main Phase, and it targets 2 cards in your Pendulum Zones.)[1]
- This card's effect that places a counter on it does not start a Chain.[1]
- This card's effect that increases the ATK of Pendulum Monsters on the field does not start a Chain.[1]
- This card's effect that allows you to Pendulum Summon a second time during your turn starts a Chain. (You can only activate this effect during your Main Phase. Removing 3 counters from this card is the cost to activate its effect.)[1]
Q&A Rulings
- Q: I activate the first effect of "Soul Pendulum", targeting a "Timegazer Magician" and "Stargazer Magician" in my Pendulum Zones. If my opponent chains "Mystical Space Typhoon" and destroys "Timegazer Magician", how does the effect of "Soul Pendulum" resolve?
- A: If only one of the two cards targeted by the effect of "Soul Pendulum" is no longer on the field when the effect resolves, the effect is still applied to the remaining card ("Stargazer Magician" in this scenario) and its Pendulum Scale is increased or decreased by 1.[2]
- Q: While "Soul Pendulum" is face-up in my Spell & Trap Zone, I Pendulum Summon "Timegazer Magician" and "Stargazer Magician" at the same time. In this case, do I place 2 counters on "Soul Pendulum" with its effect?
- A: The effect of "Soul Pendulum" that places a counter on it is applied each time your Pendulum Monsters are Pendulum Summoned. Even if you Special Summon 2 Pendulum Monsters at the same time with a single Pendulum Summon, only 1 counter is placed on "Soul Pendulum".[3]
- Q: While "Soul Pendulum" is face-up in my Spell & Trap Zone, my opponent activates "Solemn Judgment" when I perform a Pendulum Summon, and the Pendulum Summon is negated. In this case, do I place a counter on "Soul Pendulum" with its effect?
- A: The effect of "Soul Pendulum" that places a counter on it is applied each time your Pendulum Monsters are successfully Pendulum Summoned. If the Pendulum Summon is negated, as in this scenario, no counter is placed on "Soul Pendulum".[4]
- Q: "Performapal Lebellman" (Pendulum Scale 1) and "Performapal Skullcrobat Joker" (Pendulum Scale 8) are in my Pendulum Zones. In this situation, can I activate the first effect of "Soul Pendulum"?
- A: In this scenario, you can activate the effect of "Soul Pendulum" targeting 2 cards in your Pendulum Zones, including one with a Pendulum Scale of 1. However, it is not possible to reduce a Pendulum Scale lower than 1 with the effect of "Soul Pendulum", so in this case "Performapal Lebellman"'s Pendulum Scale will be increased by 1. (You can either raise or lower the Pendulum Scale of "Performapal Skullcrobat Joker" normally.)[5][6]