Card Rulings:Verdant Sanctuary

"Verdant Sanctuary":

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TCG Rulings

• This effect can be used during the Damage Step.

• Since “Verdant Sanctuary” activates when an Insect is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, the effect is based on the original Level of the destroyed Insect in the Graveyard, not its Level on the field.

• If multiple Insects are destroyed simultaneously, a replacement Insect can be added to the hand for each Insect destroyed. Each of these is a separate link on a chain. If 2 Insects are destroyed, a 2-Link chain is formed, etc. Be sure to specifically announce which Level is for each step. (Example: a Level 3 Insect and a Level 4 insect are destroyed. Clearly state which of those is Chain Link 1. Then continue and announce which is Chain Link 2.)

• The effect of “Verdant Sanctuary” is an effect controlled and activated by the player who controls the “Verdant Sanctuary” card. If the opponent’s Insect is destroyed, the controller of “Verdant Sanctuary” must ask the opponent whether they wish to activate the effect of “Verdant Sanctuary”.

OCG Rulings

• The effect "When a face-up Insect-Type monster is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, its controller can add 1 Insect-Type monster with the same Level as the destroyed monster from their Deck to their hand" makes a Chain Link. (It can be activated even during the Damage Step.)

• The effect of "Verdant Sanctuary" does not target. If the effect meets its activation timing, you can choose to add 1 Insect-Type monster from your Deck to the hand with the same original Level as a destroyed Insect-Type monster.

• Even if an Insect-Type monster on the opponent's field is destroyed by battle or card effect and sent to the Graveyard, that effect can be activated. (In that case, the controller of "Verdant Sanctuary" activates the effect, and the effect is resolved by the opponent whose Insect-Type monster was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.)

• When multiple Insect-Type monsters are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard at the same time, the effect of "Verdant Sanctuary" can be activated in Chain for each. (This is the same not only if multiple of only your Insect-Type monsters are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard at the same time, but also if your and your opponent's Insect-Type monsters are destroyed and sent to the Graveyard at the same time.)

• If an Insect-Type monster treated as an Equip Card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, the effect of "Verdant Sanctuary" cannot be activated.

• Even if a face-down Insect-Type monster is flipped face-up and destroyed by battle, the effect of "Verdant Sanctuary" can be activated.

• If a monster is not originally an Insect-Type monster but is treated as one by the effect of "DNA Surgery", even if that monster is destroyed by battle or card effects and sent to the Graveyard, the effect of "Verdant Sanctuary" cannot be activated.