User:Deus Ex Machina/OCG Rulings/082XX
0X[edit]
- If "Endymion, the Master Magician" Special Summons itself from the hand or Graveyard by removing six Spell Counters from "Magical Citadel of Endymion", then "Thunder King Rai-Oh"/"Black Horn of Heaven"/etc can negate the Special Summon of and destroy "Endymion, the Master Magician".
- The activation of a Spell Card, as mentioned in the text of card like "Magical Citadel of Endymion" or "Skilled White Magician", is when you play it face-up from your hand, or when the Spell Card is Set and you flip it face-up. It does not include activating the effect of a Spell card which is already face-up on the field, such as when you activate the effect of "Wave-Motion Cannon" or "Inspection". Cards like "Skilled White Magician" will not gain a Spell Counter when you activate the effect of a Spell Card like "Wave-Motion Cannon".
- If the activation of "Spell Power Grasp" is negated by "Magic Jammer" etc, then another "Spell Power Grasp" can be activated.
- "Magical Citadel of Endymion" will gain Spell Counters if a card on the the opponent's field is destroyed while that card has Spell Counters on it.
8205: Does the effect of "Spell Power Grasp" target?
- The effect of "Spell Power Grasp" targets the card which will gain a Spell Counter. You select the card when you activate "Spell Power Grasp".
- When a card with Spell Counters is destroyed, the effect of "Magical Citadel of Endymion" must already be active for "Magical Citadel of Endymion" to gain Spell Counters. Because of this, if you control "Magical Citadel of Endymion" with Spell Counters and your opponent activates another "Magical Citadel of Endymion", then your copy will be destroyed, but your opponent's copy will not gain the Spell Counters on your copy.
- The effects of "Skilled Dark Magician" and "Skilled White Magician" are not activated by removing Spell Counters, so you cannot remove the Spell Counters from "Magical Citadel of Endymion" instead, regardless of the number of Spell Counters on "Skilled White Magician".
- When you use the Spell Counter-substituting effect of "Magical Citadel of Endymion" to activate an effect, all of the Spell Counters to be removed must be removed from "Magical Citadel of Endymion". When you activate the effect of "Royal Magical Library", you must remove all three Spell Counters from "Magical Citadel of Endymion" if you are using the effect. (You cannot remove one Spell Counter from "Royal Magical Library" and two from "Magical Citadel of Endymion", etc.)
- When applying the effect of "Defender, the Magical Knight", you do not choose how many Spell Counters to remove - you must remove a number of Spell Counters equal to the number of Spellcaster-Type monsters which will be destroyed.
- Example: You control "Defender, the Magical Knight" and two other face-up Spellcaster-Type monsters. When your opponent activates "Lightning Vortex", if you want to use the effect of "Defender, the Magical Knight", then you must remove three Spell Counters. (You cannot remove two Spell Counters to prevent the destruction of only two Spellcaster-Type monsters.) If you do not have three Spell Counters, then you cannot apply the effect of "Defender, the Magical Knight".
1X[edit]
- When a Spellcaster-Type monster is destroyed by battle, if you apply the effect of "Defender, the Magical Knight", then you apply the effect and select the Spell Counter at Damage Calculation. The chosen Spell Counter is removed from the field at the end of the Damage Step, when the mosnter would be sent from the field to the Graveyard.
- When a card like "Breaker the Magical Warrior" or "Magical Marionette" has no Spell Counters on it, you can activate its effect and remove the Spell Counter(s) from "Magical Citadel of Endymion" instead.
8212: When "Defender, the Magical Knight" is destroyed, can you instead remove a Spell Counter?
- "Defender, the Magical Knight" is a Spellcaster-Type monster, so if "Defender, the Magical Knight" would be destroyed, you can apply its effect and instead remove a Spell Counter.
- You can only apply the effect "If this card would be destroyed by a card effect, you can remove 1 Spell Counter from this card instead." of "Magical Citadel of Endymion" when "Magical Citadel of Endymion" would be destroyed by a card effect. You cannot apply this effect when you control "Magical Citadel of Endymion" and your opponent activates a new Field Spell Card.
8214: Effect Monster > Archlord Kristya
- This is a Normal Summon Monster.
- The effect which adds a Fairy-Type monster from your Graveyard to your hand targets one Fairy-Type monster in your Graveyard.
- If "Archlord Kristya" is destroyed by battle with "Dark Magician of Chaos", then "Archlord Kristya" is not returned to the Deck and is removed from play.
- The effect of "Grave Protector" has the monster shuffled into the Deck when it is destroyed by battle. While this effect is active, the effect "If this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard, it is returned to the top of its owner's Deck instead." of "Archlord Kristya" is not applied because "Archlord Kristya" would not be sent to the Graveyard. "Archlord Kristya" will be shuffled into the Deck when it is desroyed by battle.
- "Archlord Kristya" will return to the top of the Deck if it is to be sent to the Graveyard while "Archlord Kristya" is being treated as an Equip Card and equipped to "Relinquished"/"Destiny Hero - Plasma"/etc.
8218: When a face-down "Archlord Kristya" is sent to the Graveyard, does it return to the top of the Deck?
- If "Archlord Kristya" is sent to the Graveyard while face-down on the field, then it cannot return to the top of the Deck.
- If a face-up "Archlord Kristya" is sent from the field to the Graveyard while "Skill Drain" is active, then it is not returned to the top of the Deck, and is sent to the Graveyard instead.
2X[edit]
- If "Macro Cosmos" is active when "Archlord Kristya" is sent from the field to the Graveyard, then "Archlord Kristya" is returned to the top of the Deck and not removed from play.
8221: Is "Archlord Kristya" a Special Summon Monster?
- "Archlord Kristya" is a Normal Summon Monster. It may be Tribute Summoned and Tribute Set. It may be Special Summoned from the Graveyard with "Monster Reborn" etc even if it was sent directly to the Graveyard from the hand or Deck.
- The Original ATK and DEF of the "Emissary of Darkness Token" Special Summon by "Gorz the Emissary of Darkness" is "?", so it will be treated as "0" when interacting with "Shrink" and "Megamorph". Both will make the ATK of the "Emissary of Darkness Token" become 0. When the effect of "Shrink" is no longer applied, the "Emissary of Darkness Token" will have 0 ATK. When the effect of "Megamorph" is no longer applied, the ATK of "Emissary of Darkness Token" will return to what it was when "Emissary of Darkness Token" was Summoned.
- If "Dark End Dragon" has its ATK/DEF halved by the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind", then "Dark End Dragon" can still activate its effect. The effect will resolve properly, and "Dark End Dragon" will lose 500 ATK/DEF and the opponent's card will be sent to the Graveyard.
- On the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" targeting a monster whose ATK/DEF changes by its effect:
- When the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" targets "Tragoedia", the ATK/DEF of "Tragoedia" will remain at the halved value, even if the number of cards in the hand changes.
- When the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" targets "Gren Maju Da Eiza", the ATK/DEF of "Gren Maju Da Eiza" will remain at the halved value, even if the number of cards removed from play changes.
- When the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" targets "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames", the ATK/DEF of "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames" will remain at the halved value, even if the number of Continuous Trap Cards in the Graveyard changes.
- When the effect of "Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind" targets "Arcanite Magician", the ATK of "Arcanite Magician" will remain at the halved value, even if the number of Spell Counters changes.
- If "Sangan"/"Goblin Zombie"/etc are used for a Synchro Summon, then their effects are mandatory, and must activate as soon as the Synchro Summon is successful.
- If "Goblin Zombie"/etc is used for the Synchro Summon" of "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", then you cannot activate the Ignition Effect of "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" before the effect of "Goblin Zombie"/etc activates. Moreover, you cannot activate the Ignition Effect of "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" in chain to the effect of "Goblin Zombie"/etc.
- If "Goblin Zombie"/etc is used for the Synchro Summon" of a monster with a mandatory Trigger Effect like "Mist Wurm", then both effects activate simultaneously. They activate in the order that the player chooses, and then you resolve in reverse order.
- If "Goblin Zombie"/etc is used for the Synchro Summon" of a monster with an optional Trigger Effect like "Black Rose Dragon", then the mandatory effect of "Goblin Zombie" must activate as Chain Link 1 and the effect of "Black Rose Dragon" may be activated as Chain Link 2.
- When "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" activates its effect and targets multiple Spell/Trap Cards, if an effect is chained that removes one of the card targeted cards, then the remaining cards on the field are returned to the hand.
- When the Turn Player Sets a Spell/Trap/Monster Card by the effect of "Book of Moon"/"The Shallow Grave"/etc or from the hand, he may not use Priority to activate the Ignition Effect of a monster. If the Turn Player does not use Priority to activate an Ignition or a Spell Speed 2+ Effect in response to the Set, then the opponent can activate a Spell Speed 2+ Effect in response to the Set. Also, the Turn Player cannot Set multiple cards simultaneously - he must Set one, then pass Priority, and then Set the second, etc.
8228: [Priority] Please explain what the players may do at the beginning of the Main Phase.
- At the start of the Main Phase, the Turn Player can act first. Before the opponent can respond, the Turn Player may:
- Normal Summon/Special Summon/Flip Summon/Set a monster
- Set a card from the hand
- Activate a Spell Speed 1 card (Normal Spell Cards, etc) or effect (Ignition Effects, etc)
- Activate a Spell Speed 2 card (Quick-Play Spell Cards, etc) or effect (Quick Effects, etc)
- The opponent may not activate a Spell Speed 2+ effect until the Turn Player passes Priority.
8229: [Priority] Please explain what the players may do at the beginning of the Battle Step.
- At the start of the Battle Step, the Turn Player can act first. Before the opponent can respond, the Turn Player may attack with a monster, or activate a Spell Speed 2 card (Quick-Play Spell Cards, etc) or effect (Quick Effects, etc). The opponent may not activate a Spell Speed 2+ effect until the Turn Player passes Priority.
3X[edit]
- At the time of a monster changing control due to a card effect like "Brain Control" or "Creature Swap, the Turn Player may use Priority to activate a Spell Speed 2+ effect. Also, Trigger Effects that activate upon a monster changing control will activate. The Turn Player cannot use Priority to Tribute that monster for a Tribute Summon or Tribute Set, nor to activate an Ignition Effect, nor to activate a Normal Spell Card.
- At the time of "Destiny Hero - Malicious" being sent to the Graveyard by the effect of "Foolish Burial"/"Armageddon Knight"/etc, the Turn Player cannot use Priority to activate the Ignition Effect of "Destiny Hero - Malicious". If the Turn Player passes Priority and does not activate a Spell Speed 2+ effect, then the opponent can activate the effect of "D.D. Crow" before the Turn Player can activate the effect of "Destiny Hero - Malicious".
- At the time of a card being added to the hand by "Magician of Faith" or "Reinforcement of the Army", the Turn Player cannot immediately activate a Normal Spell Card or Normal Summon a monster. If the Turn Player passes Priority and does not activate a Spell Speed 2+ effect, then the Turn Player can activate the Normal Spell Card/Normal Summom only after the opponent passes Priority.
8233: Trap Card > Mirror of Oaths
- This card cannot be activated during the Damage Step.
- The effect does not target.
8234: Trap Card > Swallow Flip
- This effect does not target.
8235: Trap Card > Grave of the Super Ancient Organism
8236: Trap Card > Bone Temple Block
- "Discard one card" is done at resolution. It is not a cost.
8237: Trap Card > Proof of Powerlessness
8238: Trap Card > Attack of the Cornered Rat
- Paying Life Points in multiples of 100 is a cost to activate this card.
- The effect targets your opponent's battling monster.
- The effect of "Attack of the Cornered Rat" can also be activated during Damage Calculation.
8239: Trap Card > Automatic Laser
- This effect does not target.
4X[edit]
8240: Trap Card > Reckoned Power
- Revealing one "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" is a cost to activate "Reckoned Power".
8241: Trap Card > Morphtronic Bind
8242: Trap Card > Trap Stun
8243: Trap Card > Fake Feather
- Sending one "Blackwing" monster from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate this card.
- The effect targets one Normal Trap Card in your opponent's Graveyard.
- This card cannot be activated during the Damage Step.
8244: Trap Card > Level Retuner
- The effect targets one face-up monster you control.
- The effect can reduce the targeted monster's Level by 1 or by 2.
8245: Trap Card > Delta Crow - Anti Reverse
- If you control four or more "Blackwing" monsters, then you cannot activate this card from your hand.
8246: Trap Card > Wicked Rebirth
- Paying 800 Life Points is a cost to activate this card.
- The effect targets one Synchro Monster in your Graveyard.
8247: Trap Card > Overdoom Line
- The text "Destroy this face-up card during your 2nd End Phase after its activation." of "Overdoom Line" is not treated as an effect, so it cannot be negated by "Royal Decree" etc.
- When a Plant-Type monster is successfully Special Summoned, the effect activates and starts a Chain.
- This does not target.
8248: Trap Card > Tuner Capture
- The effect of "Tuner Capture" targets one Tuner Monster in your opponent's Graveyard that was used as a Synchro Material Monster.
8249: Trap Card > Crimson Fire
5X[edit]
8250: Trap Card > Miracle Locus
- This effect targets one monster you control which is in face-up Attack Position.
8251: Spell Card > Calming Magic
8252: Spell Card > Forbidden Chalice
- This effect targets one face-up monster on the field.
8253: Spell Card > Supremacy Berry
8254: Spell Card > Natural Tune
- This effect targets one face-up Level 4 or lower Normal Monster you control.
8255: Spell Card > Psychic Path
- Paying 800 Life Points is a cost.
- This effect targets two of your Psychic-Type monsters which have been removed from play.
8256: Spell Card > Urgent Synthesis
- Returning one "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your Graveyard to your Deck is a cost to activate "Urgent Synthesis".
- This effect does not target.
8257: Spell Card > Iron Core Immediate Disposal
- You cannot activate "Iron Core Immediate Disposal" when you have no copy of "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" in your Deck.
8258: Spell Card > Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru
- Both of this card's effects which add it from your Graveyard to your hand start Chains.
- Sending a "Koa'ki Meiru" monster from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect which adds this card from your Graveyard to your hand.
8259: Spell Card > Morphtronic Repair Unit
- Sending a "Morphtronic" monster from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate this card.
- The effect targets one "Morphtronic" monster in your Graveyard.
- You cannot activate this card if there is no valid target in your Graveyard.
6X[edit]
8260: Spell Card > Double Tool C&D
- The "During your turn:" effect cannot negate effects which activate in the Graveyard.
8261: Spell Card > Junk Box
- This effect targets one "Morphtronic" monster in your Graveyard.
- During the End Phase, the effect which destroys the Special Summoned monster does not start a Chain.
8262: Spell Card > Black Whirlwind
- The effect which adds a "Blackwing" monster to your hand starts a Chain.
- You cannot add a monster to your hand that has the same ATK as the Normal Summoned monster.
8263: Spell Card > Against the Wind
8264: Spell Card > Wonder Clover
- Sending one Plant-Type monster from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost.
- The effect targets one face-up monster you control.
8265: Spell Card > Magic Planter
- Sending one face-up Continuous Trap Card to the Graveyard is a cost to activate this effect.
8266: Spell Card > Thorn of Malice
- The effect of "Thorn of Malice" which reduces the ATK/DEF of the monster attacked by the equipped monster activates after Damage Calculation and starts a Chain.
8267: Spell Card > Mind Trust
- Tributing a Level 2 or higher monster is a cost to activate this card.
- You can Tribute a face-down monster.
- The effect target one Tuner Monster in your Graveyard.
8268: Spell Card > One for One
- Sending one monster from the hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate this card.
- This effect does not target.
8269: Synchro Monster > Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon
7X[edit]
8270: Synchro Monster > Trident Dragion
- "This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Synchro Summon." is not treated as an effect.
- The effect targets the 1 or 2 cards to be destroyed.
8271: Synchro Monster > Power Tool Dragon
- If you do not have at least three Equip Spell Cards in your Deck, then you cannot activate the effect which adds an Equip Spell Card to your hand.
8272: Synchro Monster > Blackwing Armed Wing
8273: Synchro Monster > Exploder Dragonwing
- This is a Trigger Effect that activates at the beginning of the Damage Step, when the opponent's battling monster is in face-up Attack Position.
8274: Effect Monster > G.B. Hunter
8275: Effect Monster > Vanguard of the Dragon
- Sending one Dragon-Type monster from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect which increases ATK.
- The effect which Special Summons a monster from the Graveyard targets one Dragon-Type monster in either player's Graveyard.
8276: Effect Monster > Lava Dragon
8277: Effect Monster > Mermaid Archer
- The effect which equips a Level 3 or lower monster you control to this card targets the monster.
8278: Effect Monster > Deep Sea Diva
- This effect does not target.
8279: Effect Monster > Needle Guilman
8X[edit]
8280: Effect Monster > Alien Dog
- The effect of "Alien Dog" which places A-Counters does not target.
8281: Effect Monster > Gigastone Omega
- This monster is a Special Summon Monster.
- "This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 2 EARTH monsters in your Graveyard from play." is not treated as an effect.
8282: Effect Monster > Emissary from Pandemonium
- "This card cannot be Special Summoned. This card can be Tribute Summoned by Tributing 1 monster." is not treated as an effect.
- When the ATK/DEF of "Emissary from Pandemonium" are halved by its effect, the halved values are treated as the monster's Original ATK and DEF.
8283: Effect Monster > Master Gig
- Paying 1000 Life Points is a cost to activate the effect.
- The effect of "Master Gig" does not target.
8284: Effect Monster > Reinforced Human Psychic Borg
8285: Effect Monster > Minoan Centaur
- "This card cannot be Special Summoned." is not treated as an effect.
- Tributing this card is a cost to activate its effect.
8286: Effect Monster > Brain Golem
8287: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Doom
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
8288: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Ice
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
- Sending one card from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect which destroys a Special Summoned monster.
- The effect targets one monster which was Special Summoned.
8289: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Drago
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
9X[edit]
8290: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Guardian
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
- Tributing this card is a cost to activate the effect which negates the activation of an Effect Monster's effect.
- This card's effect is an optional Quick Effect which activates in chain to an Effect Monster's effect when that Effect Monster's effect activates.
8291: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Powerhand
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
8292: Effect Monster > Koa'ki Meiru Valafar
- The text "During each of your End Phases, destroy this card unless you send 1 "Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru" from your hand to the Graveyard [or else]." of "Koa'ki Meiru" monsters is a Maintenance Cost.
- "This card can be Tribute Summoned by Tributing 1 "Koa'ki Meiru" monster." is not treated as an effect.
8293: Effect Monster > Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu
- When this card is the only card you control, the opponent cannot attack your Life Points directly.
8294: Effect Monster > Earthbound Immortal Aslla piscu
- When this card is the only card you control, the opponent cannot attack your Life Points directly.
8295: Effect Monster > Torapart
- The text "This card cannot be used as a Synchro Material Monster, except for the Synchro Summon of a Warrior-Type Synchro Monster." is not treated as an effect.
8296: Effect Monster > Gadget Arms
- The effect targets one "Morphtronic" Spell or Trap Card in your Graveyard.
8297: Effect Monster > Morphtronic Scopen
- The "Attack Position:" effect does not target.
8298: Effect Monster > Morphtronic Videon
8299: Effect Monster > Morphtronic Remoten
- The "Attack Position:" effect targets one "Morphtronic" monster in your Graveyard.
- The "Attack Position:" effect removes from play the "Morphtronic" monster in your Graveyard at resolution. It is not a cost.
- The "Defense Position:" effect does not target.
- For the "Defense Position:" effect, you can return a monster to your hand which has the same name as the monster which was sent to the Graveyard.
