Card Rulings:The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche
OCG Rulings
- The text stating this card cannot be used as Link Material is not an effect.[1]
- This card's effect that sends 1 "The Phantom Knights" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard and Sets a "Phantom Knights" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck is an Ignition Effect. (It does not target.)[1]
- Sending "The Phantom Knights" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard and Setting a "Phantom Knights" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck do not happen simultaneously.[1]
- This card's effect that destroys a card on the field is a Trigger Effect that activates on the field. (It targets 1 card on your field or your opponent's field.)[1]
- This effect can be activated when a DARK Xyz Monster is Special Summoned face-up to a zone that this card points to. (It cannot be activated during the Damage Step.)[1]
Q&A Rulings
- Q: "Macro Cosmos" is face-up in my opponent's Spell & Trap Zone, and its effect that banishes any card that would be sent to the Graveyard is applying. In this situation, if I activate the first effect of "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche", how does it resolve?
- A: In this scenario, since the effect of "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche" resolves while the effect of "Macro Cosmos" is applying, you will banish 1 "The Phantom Knights" monster from your Deck instead of sending it to the Graveyard. In that case, you cannot apply the part of the effect that Sets a "Phantom Knights" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck.[2]
- Q: When I activate the first effect of "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche", but my opponent chains "Call of the Haunted" and Special Summons "Dark Simorgh", how does the effect resolve?
- A: In this scenario, the effect of "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche" resolves while the effect of your opponent's "Dark Simorgh" that prevents you from Setting cards is applying. You still send 1 "The Phantom Knights" monster from your Deck to the Graveyard, but you do not Set a "Phantom Knights" Spell/Trap Card from your Deck. Also, if the effect of your opponent's "Dark Simorgh" is already applying, you cannot activate the first effect of "The Phantom Knights of Rusty Bardiche".[3]
