User:Deus Ex Machina/OCG Rulings/099XX
0X[edit]
9900: Effect Monster > Rhinotaurus
- The effect which allows "Rhinotaurus" to attack twice is a Continuous Effect.
9901: Effect Monster > Delta Flyer
- The effect of "Delta Flyer" targets one other monster which is face-up on your side of the field.
9902: Effect Monster > Trident Warrior
9903: Effect Monster > Mine Mole
- The effect of "Mine Mole" which draws a card activates when the Synchro Monster is successfully Synchro Summoned by using this card as a Synchro Material.
9904: Effect Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" which sends two cards from your opponent's Deck to the Graveyard activates when the Synchro Monster is successfully Synchro Summoned by using this card as a Synchro Material.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9905: Effect Monster > Unibird
- Removing from play "Unibird" and one other monster on your side of the field is an activation cost for the effect of "Unibird" which Special Summons a Synchro Monster from the Graveyard.
- The effect of "Unibird" targets one Synchro Monster in your Graveyard.
9906: Effect Monster >
- "[[:]]" is a Special Summon monster.
- The text "This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set, and during the turn in which this card is Special Summoned, you cannot Normal Summon or Set." of "[[:]]" is not treated as the effect of an Effect Monster.
- The effect of "[[:]]" targets one of your removed-from-play monsters.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9907: Effect Monster > Monoceros
- "Monoceros" is a Special Summon monster.
- The effect of "Monoceros" targets one of the Beast-Type monsters used as a Synchro Material.
9908: Effect Monster >
- Removing from play one monster from your side of the field is a activation cost for the effect of "[[:]]".
- When the removed-from-play "[[:]]" is returned to the field, it does not start a Chain Link.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9909: Effect Monster >
- "[[:]]" is a Special Summon monster.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
1X[edit]
9910: Effect Monster > Playful Possum
9911: Effect Monster >
- You can activate the effect of "[[:]]" during the Damage Step.
- You can activate the effect of "[[:]]" even during damage calculation.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9912: Effect Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" is an Ignition Effect that you can only activate during your Main Phase.
- Removing from play "[[:]]" is an activation cost for its Battle Position-changing effect.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9913: Effect Monster > Damage Eater
- The effect of "Damage Eater" is a Quick Effect.
- The effect of "Damage Eater" can only be activated directly in Chain to an effect activated by the opponent which inflicts damage.
9914: Effect Monster > Dash Warrior
- The ATK-increasing effect of "Dash Warrior" does not start a Chain Link.
9915: Effect Monster > Effect Veiler
- The effect of "Effect Veiler" can only negate effects which activate on the field and effects which are applied on the field.
- The effect of "Effect Veiler" cannot negate effects which activate in the Graveyard.
9916: Effect Monster > Earthquake Giant
- The effect of "Earthquake Giant" targets one monster on the opponent's side of the field.
- If the effect of "Earthquake Giant" selects a face-down monster, then the monster becomes face-up.
- If the effect of "Earthquake Giant" changes the Battle Position of a face-down Flip Effect monster, then the Flip Effect activates.
- You can activate the effect of "Earthquake Giant" when its Battle Position is changed during the Damage Step.
- You can remove from play a monster like a Token Monster or an "Embodiment of Apophis" as an activation cost for the effect of "Unibird". In this case, you will still Special Summon a Synchro Monster whose Level is equal to or lower than the combined Levels of "Unibird" and the removed from play monster.
9918: Can "" Special Summon an opponent's monster that is removed from play?
- You can use the effect of "[[:]]" to Special Summon an opponent's monster that is removed from play.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9919: Can you activate the effect of a monster like "Scrap Beast" if it is destroyed by its own effect?
- You can activate the effect of If "Scrap Beast" or "Scrap Goblin" even if it is destroyed by its own effect during the end of the Battle Phase.
2X[edit]
- When "Ultimate Axon Kicker" destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, you recover Life Points equal to the printed original ATK of the destroyed monster, while the monster is in the Graveyard.
9921: If "" and "D.D. Warrior Lady" battle, then are both monsters removed from play?
- If "[[:]]" and "D.D. Warrior Lady" battle, then first, the effect of "D.D. Warrior Lady" is applied and both monsters are removed from play. Afterwards, the effect of "[[:]]" cannot be applied, and you cannot return the monster to the bottom of the Deck.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9922: Can "Monoceros" be Special Summoned by the effect of "Rescue Cat"?
- "Monoceros" is a Special Summon monster, so it cannot be Special Summoned from the Deck by the effect of "Rescue Cat". Also, if "Monoceros" is sent to the Graveyard after having been Special Summoned properly as per its text, then you can Special Summon "Monoceros" from the Graveyard by another card's effect.
- If an effect like "[[:]]" or "Royal Oppression" negates the the Synchro Summon of "Voltic Bicorn" or "Lightning Tricorn" or "Scrap Dragon" and destroys it, then you can activate the monster's effect.
- After "Playful Possum" is destroyed by its own effect, you can activate its effect to Special Summon itself the Standby Phase after "Playful Possum" is destroyed, or you can activate the effect during a subsequent Standby Phase after that one.
- When resolving "Double Cyclone", if one of the targeted cards is no longer on the field, then the remaining one is still destroyed.
- When resolving the effect of "Scrap Dragon", if control of one player's selected card switches to the opponent, or if one of the two selected cards is no longer on the field, then the remaining card is destroyed.
- You can select a monster that cannot be destroyed by card effects - for example, "Ultimate Axon Kicker" - as a target for the effect of "Scrap Dragon". In this case, "Ultimate Axon Kicker" will not be destroyed, but the other targeted monster will be destroyed.
- The effect of "Naturia Bamboo Shoot" only prevents your opponent from activating cards (Spell or Trap Cards). Thus, even if the the effect of "Naturia Bamboo Shoot" is active, then your opponent can still activate the effect of a Continuous Spell Card or Continuous Trap Card which is already face-up on the field, even though he cannot activate a Spell or Trap Card.
- If "Scrap Goblin" is destroyed in the middle of resolving a Chain, then you can activate the effect of "Scrap Goblin" which adds a "Scrap" monster from your Graveyard to your hand after the Chain finishes resolving.
9929: Please explain at what time(s) you can activate the effect of "".
- If a Defense Position monster is attacked, then you can activate the effect of "[[:]]" from the beginning of the Damage Step up to and including during damage calculation.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
3X[edit]
- If "Voltic Bicorn" or "Lightning Tricorn" or "Scrap Dragon" is destroyed during the Damage Step, either by battle or by an effect, then you can activate the effect of "Voltic Bicorn" (etc).
9931: Can you Chain the effect of "Stardust Dragon" to the effect of ""?
- The effect of "[[:]]" may or may not destroy a monster at resolution, so the effect of "Stardust Dragon" cannot be Chained to it.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9932: Can you activate "Pot of Duality" if "Thunder King Rai-Oh" is on the field?
- If "Thunder King Rai-Oh" is face-up on the field, then you cannot activate "Pot of Duality". Also, if an effect is Chained to "Pot of Duality" and Special Summons "Thunder King Rai-Oh", then when resolving "Pot of Duality" you still reveal the top three cards of your Deck. You select one card to be added to your hand and send it to the Graveyard instead, and shuffle the remaining two cards into your Deck.
- Suppose that "Exiled Force" is affected by the effect of "Effect Veiler". If "Exiled Force" Tributes itself to activate its effect, then its effect is negated.
- Suppose "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste" gains the effect of "Stardust Dragon". If it negates the activation of "an effect which destroys a card(s) on the field" and destroys it, then during the End Phase you cannot Special Summon "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste" from the Graveyard through the effect of "Stardust Dragon".
9935: Can you remove from play a monster from your opponent's Graveyard for "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste"?
- You can activate the effect of "Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste" by selecting a Dragon-Type Synchro Monster in the opponent's Graveyard, such as an opponent's "Stardust Dragon".
9936: After returning cards to the Deck by the effect of "Pot of Duality", do you shuffle?
- After you return to the Deck the two cards that you picked up by the effect of "Pot of Duality", you shuffle the Deck.
9937: Can "" be Chained to a Spell or Trap Card which does not include Special Summoning?
- "[[:]]" can be Chained to an effect such as:
- The activation of an Effect Monster's effect that Special Summons a monster(s), like the effect of "Nimble Momonga" or "Marauding Captain".
- The activation of a Spell or Trap Card that Special Summons a monster(s), like "Level Modulation" or "Call of the Haunted".
- The Normal Summon or Flip Summon of a monster, or the Special Summon of a monster like "Cyber Dragon" or "Judgment Dragon".
- You cannot Chain "[[:]]" to a Spell or Trap Card that does not include the effect of Special Summoning, such as "Lightning Vortex" or "Raigeki Break".
- [[:Card Rulings:]], Card Rulings:Lightning Vortex, Card Rulings:Raigeki Break
9938: Effect Monster >
- "[[:]]" is a Special Summon monster.
- Paying half your Life Points is a cost to Special Summon "[[:]]".
- "[[:]]" cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by an effect like "Monster Reborn", even if "[[:]]" was Special Summoned by its effect before being sent to the Graveyard.
- The effect of "[[:]]" which destroys all of your opponent's face-up monsters activates mandatorily at the end of the Damage Step.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9939: Can "" be Special Summoned if "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed and removed from play?
- You can Special Summon "[[:]]" if a "Malefic" monster like "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed and removed from play by an effect like that of "Bottomless Trap Hole".
- Card Rulings:Bottomless Trap Hole, Card Rulings:Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon, [[:Card Rulings:]]
4X[edit]
- You cannot Special Summon "[[:]]" if a "Malefic" monster like "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed while being treated as an Equip Spell Card and equipped to a monster like "Relinquished".
- Card Rulings:Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon, [[:Card Rulings:]], Card Rulings:Relinquished
- You can Special Summon "[[:]]" if a monster like "Neo-Spacian Dark Panther" or "Phantom of Chaos" is destroyed while its name is treated as that of a "Malefic" monster like "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon".
9942: Can "" be Special Summoned if a face-down "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed?
- You cannot Special Summon "[[:]]" if a face-down "Malefic" monster like "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed.
- Card Rulings:Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon, [[:Card Rulings:]]
9943: Can "" be Special Summoned during the Damage Step?
- You can Special Summon "[[:]]" if a "Malefic" monster is destroyed by a card effect during the Damage Step.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9944: Can "" be Special Summoned by its own effect if it was sent to the Graveyard from the Deck?
- You can Special Summon "[[:]]" from the Graveyard even if it was sent there directly from the hand or Deck, without being Special Summoned to the field beforehand.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9945: If "" and the opponent's monster are both destroyed by battle, then can you destroy all monsters?
- If "[[:]]" battles an opponent's monster with the same ATK and both are destroyed by battle, then the effect of "[[:]]" still activates at the end of the Damage Step.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9946: Can "" be Special Summoned after resolving effects in a Chain?
- If a "Malefic" monster other than "[[:]]" is destroyed in the middle of resolving a Chain, then you can Special Summon "[[:]]" after you finish resolving the Chain.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9947: Trap Card >
9948: Trap Card > Gem-Enhancement
- Tributing one "Gemknight" monster is an activation cost for "Gem-Enhancement".
- The effect of "Gem-Enhancement" targets the one "Gemknight" monster which is Special Summoned from the Graveyard.
9949: Spell Card > Vylon Material
- When "Vylon Material" is sent to the Graveyard, its effect activates and starts a Chain Link.
5X[edit]
9950: Spell Card >
9951: Spell Card > Gem-Knight Fusion
- You can only activate the effect of "Gem-Knight Fusion" which adds it to your hand during your Main Phase.
- The effect of "Gem-Knight Fusion" which adds it to your hand starts a Chain Link.
- Removing from play a "Gemknight" monster from your Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect of a "Gem-Knight Fusion" in your Graveyard.
- The effect of "Gem-Knight Fusion" which adds it to your hand does not target.
9952: Synchro Monster > Vylon Epsilon
- Suppose that "Vylon Epsilon" is equipped with an Equip Spell Card like "Vylon Material". The effect of "Vylon Epsilon" prevents your opponent from activating a card like "Mystical Space Typhoon" and targeting that "Vylon Material".
9953: Synchro Monster > Vylon Sigma
- The effect of "Vylon Sigma" does not target.
9954: Synchro Monster > Laval the Greater
- The effect of "Laval the Greater" which sends a card from your hand to the Graveyard is a mandatory Trigger Effect which activates when "Laval the Greater" is successfully Synchro Summoned.
9955: Synchro Monster > Lavalval Dragon
- Returning two "Laval" monsters to the Deck is a cost to activate the effect of "Lavalval Dragon".
- The effect of "Lavalval Dragon" targets one card on the opponent's side of the field.
- You can activate the effect of "Lavalval Dragon" multiple times in the same turn.
9956: Fusion Monster > Gem-Knight Topaz
- "Gem-Knight Topaz" can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by another card's effect, but only if it was properly Fusion Summoned before being sent to the Graveyard.
9957: Fusion Monster > Gem-Knight Aquamarine
- "Gem-Knight Aquamarine" can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by another card's effect, but only if it was properly Fusion Summoned before being sent to the Graveyard.
9958: Fusion Monster > Gem-Knight Ruby
- "Gem-Knight Ruby" can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by another card's effect, but only if it was properly Fusion Summoned before being sent to the Graveyard.
9959: Effect Monster > Vylon Soldier
- The effect of "Vylon Soldier" targets a number of monsters on the opponent's side of the field up to the number of Equip Cards equipped to it.
6X[edit]
9960: Effect Monster > Vylon Charger
9961: Effect Monster > Vylon Vanguard
9962: Effect Monster > Vylon Cube
9963: Effect Monster > Laval Judgment Lord
- Removing from play one "Laval" monster from your Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect of "Laval Judgment Lord".
9964: Effect Monster > Laval Burner
- Special Summoning "Laval Burner" does not start a Chain Link.
9965: Effect Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" is an Ignition Effect which activates in the Graveyard.
- Removing from play "[[:]]" from the Graveyard is a cost to activate its effect.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9966: Effect Monster >
9967: Effect Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" is a Quick Effect which can be activated during either player's turn.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9968: Effect Monster > Laval Warrior
- The effect of "Laval Warrior" is a Trigger Effect which activates at the end of the Damage Step.
9969: Effect Monster >
7X[edit]
9970: Effect Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" does not target.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9971: Effect Monster > Gem-Merchant
- Sending "Gem-Merchant" to the Graveyard is a cost to activate its effect.
- The effect of "Gem-Merchant" does not target.
9972: Effect Monster > Gem-Armadillo
9973: Konami FAQ: Effect Monster > Gem-Knight Alexandrite]
- The effect of "Gem-Knight Alexandrite" is an Ignition Effect.
9974: Normal Monster > Gem-Knight Tourmaline
9975: Normal Monster > Gem-Knight Sapphire
9976: Normal Monster > Gem-Knight Garnet
9977: Synchro Monster >
- The effect of "[[:]]" targets one monster of your opponent's which is equipped with Equip Cards.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9978: Effect Monster > Blizzard Princess
- The text "You can Tribute Summon or Set this card by Tributing 1 Spellcaster-Type monster" of "Blizzard Princess" is not treated as the effect of an Effect Monster.
- The effect of "Blizzard Princess" does not start a Chain Link.
9979: Does the effect of "" increase the ATK of all "Laval" monsters?
- The ATK-increasing effect of "[[:]]" applies to all "Laval" monsters which are face-up on the field. The increased ATK remains as long as the monster remains face-up on the field.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
8X[edit]
- The player who Synchro Summons "Laval the Greater" and activates its effect selects one card from his hand and sends it to the Graveyard. The card is not chosen randomly.
- When resolving the effect of "Laval Warrior", if there are not four or more different "Laval" monsters in your Graveyard, then you do not apply its damage-inflicting effect.
9982: Can the effect of "Vylon Sigma" equip it with "Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou" which has a cost?
- You can use the effect of "Vylon Sigma" to equip it with an Equip Spell Card that has an activation cost, such as "Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou". If you do so, then you do not have to pay the card's activation cost.
9983: Konami FAQ: If a Normal Summoned "Blizzard Princess" returns to its owner's control by "Remove Brainwashing", then can either player not activate Spell or Trap Cards?]
- Suppose you use "Exchange" to get your opponent's "Blizzard Princess" into your hand, and then you Normal Summon it while "Remove Brainwashing" is active. Even though "Blizzard Princess" immediately returns to your opponent's control, you are still the player who Normal Summoned "Blizzard Princess", so your opponent (the original owner of "Blizzard Princess") cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards.
9984: When Fusion Summoning "Gem-Knight Ruby", can you use a monster like "King of the Swamp" as a substitute Fusion Material monster? The text "This monster can only be Special Summoned by Fusion Summon (from the Extra Deck) using the above cards as Fusion Material Monsters" of cards like "Gem-Knight Ruby" also prevents you from Fusion Summoning it from the Extra Deck by using a monster with an effect like that of "King of the Swamp" as a Fusion Material Monster.
9985: Konami FAQ: Please explain when you can activate the effect of "Gem-Merchant".]
- Sending "this card" from your hand to the Graveyard is a cost to activate the effect of "Gem-Merchant".
- You can activate the effect of "Gem-Merchant" from the beginning of the Damage Step up to and including damage calculation.
- If you activate "Vylon Material" and "Mystical Space Typhoon" is Chained to destroy that "Vylon Material", then you can activate the effect of "Vylon Material" which adds a "Vairon" Spell Card from your Deck to your hand after you finish resolving the effects on the Chain.
9987: Are the "destroy" and "damage" effects of "" treated as being done simultaneously?
- The effect of "[[:]]" which destroys all Equip Spell Cards is treated as resolving at the same time as the damage-inflicting effect.
- [[:Card Rulings:]]
9988: For cards like "Gem-Merchant", can you activate the effect only if the monster is face-up?
- You can activate the effect of a card like "Gem-Merchant", "Honest", or "Blackwing - Kalut the Moon Shadow" during the Damage Step only while the monster is face-up.
- Example: If a face-down "Gem-Knight Garnet" is attacked, then you can activate the effect of "Gem-Merchant" after the face-down "Gem-Knight Garnet" is flipped face-up.
- If "Skill Drain" is active when you Normal Summon "Blizzard Princess", then the effect "your opponent cannot activate Spell or Trap Cards" is negated, so your opponent may activate Spell or Trap Cards. Also, your opponent may still activate Spell or Trap Cards even if, afterwards, the effect of "Skill Drain" is no longer applied.
9X[edit]
9990: Is "Rainbow Dragon" also returned to the Deck by its effect which returns cards to the Deck?
- If you activate the "return all cards on the field to their owners' Decks" effect of "Rainbow Dragon", then that "Rainbow Dragon" is also returned to the Deck.
- If you activate the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" and your opponent Chains an effect like "Enemy Controller" to gain control of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction", then "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" still does not destroy itself with its effect.
- Suppose "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" is removed from play by "Interdimensional Matter Transporter" during the turn in which "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" was Normal Summoned or Flip Summoned. During the End Phase, the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" which sends it to the Graveyard will activate after "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" is returned to the field.
9993: Can "My Body as a Shield" be Chained to the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction"?
- When your opponent activates the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction", if there is another monster on the field that would be destroyed and removed from play, then you can Chain "My Body as a Shield" to the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction".
9994: Can you activate the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" multiple times in the same turn?
- You can activate the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" multiple times in one turn, as long as there is another card on the field that will be destroyed and removed from play.
- You cannot activate the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" if there are no other cards on the field.
- If a face-down card is destroyed and remove from play by the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction", then it is removed from play face-up.
9997: If "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" is face-down when resolving its effect, then is it destroyed?
- If "Book of Moon" is Chained to the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" to flip "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" face-down, then "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction" is not destroyed by its effect and remains on the field.
- If a Token Monster is destroyed and removed from the field by the effect of "Gandora the Dragon of Destruction", then the Token Monster was still destroyed by the effect, so it is counted for the ATK increase.
9999: Can you use the effect of a card like "Cyber-Stein" to Special Summon "Cyber End Dragon"?
- You can use the effect of a card like "Metamorphosis" or "Cyber-Stein" or "Summoner of Illusions" to Special Summon a monster with the text "A Fusion Summon of this card can only be conducted with the above Fusion Material Monsters.", such as "Cyber End Dragon" or "Cyber Twin Dragon".
