User:UltimateKuriboh/Rulings

DISCLAIMER: This user page is meant as a personal "reminder" list for User:UltimateKuriboh. It should not cited for rulings, as not all statements/rulings here are necessarily correct.

• Targeting legality:
  • Cards that "cannot be destroyed." are the only cards that possibly cannot be targeted by cards/effects that would destroy them. ("Field Barrier" and "Imperial Custom" are examples of this.) This is ultimately determined by how their Japanese texts are worded, however.
  • Card Rulings:Cybernetic Magician

• Cards that are banished/Tributed/returned/shuffled/sent (substitute this with "X") to the Graveyard for the inherent Summon of a monster are not treated as being X to activate the effect of that monster. Also, cards that prevent costs from being paid to activate cards/effects cannot prevent the inherent Summon of a monster.
  • See Card Rulings:Atlantean Marksman and Card Rulings:The Tricky, respectively.

• Inherent Summons:
  • Monsters that can be Normal Summoned/Set, but can be inherently Special Summoned, have their inherent Special Summons treated as effects. Monsters that cannot be Normal Summoned/Set, but can be inherently Special Summoned, do not have their inherent Special Summons treated as effects. Card Rulings:Vampire Grace
  • You can banish Tokens for the inherent Summons of monsters and to pay costs. Card Rulings:Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon and Card Rulings:Unibird
  • Card Rulings:Vampire Lord, Card Rulings:T.G. Halberd Cannon

• When a card is activated, before its activation resolves, it is considered to be on the field. However, if its activation is negated, that "negation" makes it "not be on the field." This is why if "Necrovalley" is activated and MST is Chained, you can Chain "Imperial Tombs of Necrovalley" (duh, it's also why you can MST a "Fire Formation - Tenki"). This is also why the effect of "Black Pendant" doesn't activate after its initial activation is negated by "Magic Jammer".
  • Source is Redshift and Ness.

• You may need to "out-of-date" rulings for "Garmr of the Nordic Beasts", "Honest", RDA, "Flashbang", "Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis", "Attack of the Cornered Rat", "Assault Spirits", "Helping Robo for Combat", "Grave Protector", "Doomcaliber Knight" (regarding "Kuriboh"), "Falchionβ", "Mask of Weakness", "Stronghold Guardian", "Dragunity Knight - Gae Bulg" due to Damage Step page.
  • "Zolga", "The Agent of Wisdom - Mercury", "Hero Barrier", Judge List ruling for "Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes", Ordeal of a Traveler (regarding "Fairy Box"), "The Last Warrior from Another Planet", "Royal Oppression" (regarding face-up Trap Card's effects), Card Rulings:Big Bang Shot, Card Rulings:Nightmare's Steelcage, Card Rulings:The Agent of Judgment - Saturn, Card Rulings:Makiu, the Magical Mist, Card Rulings:De-Fusion, Card Rulings:Mystical Knight of Jackal, Card Rulings:Chaos Infinity (probably forgot "applied"), Card Rulings:Viser Des??, Card Rulings:Supervise, Card Rulings:Dverg of the Nordic Alfar, Card Rulings:Infernal Dragon?, Card Rulings:Marshmallon Glasses

• Card Rulings:Legendary Fiend, Card Rulings:Cyber Shadow Gardna, Card Rulings:Thousand Energy, Card Rulings:Berserk Dragon, Card Rulings:Last Turn, Card Rulings:Sasuke Samurai 2, Card Rulings:Last Turn, Card Rulings:Elemental HERO Prisma, Card Rulings:Second Booster, Card Rulings:Phantom Hand, Card Rulings:Spellbreaker of the Ice Barrier, Card Rulings:Max Warrior, Card Rulings:Aegis of the Ocean Dragon Lord, Card Rulings:Forbidden Chalice for "priority" or gamestate, or whatever
  • Interesting factoid, but irrelevant: Card Rulings:Fake Feather

• ruling conflict between Card Rulings:Ultimate Axon Kicker / Card Rulings:Elemental HERO Wildheart and Card Rulings:Ritual Foregone / Card Rulings:Celestial Transformation / Card Rulings:Instant Fusion?

• Cards with rulings marked "out-of-date": Card Rulings:Rose Fairy, Card Rulings:Dragon Ice, Card Rulings:Majestic Mech - Goryu, Card Rulings:Majestic Mech - Ohka

• Card Rulings:Over Destiny, Card Rulings:Mind Trust says if you take half of an odd Level, you round down.

• Card Rulings:Copy Plant says that if a monster has its Level "technically" reduced below 1, the reduction will apply to any Level boost for that monster afterwards.
  • Also Konami article.
  • Card Rulings:Solitaire Magician, Card Rulings:Star Blast

• All REDU "Madolche" monsters's effects (where relevant) activate when they are destroyed in your possession, not just while you control them. https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=4436

• https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=3195 for clarifying that the effects of cards that activate when they themselves "leave the field" don't activate when shuffled into the Main Deck. https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=5930 this to add too.
  • Card Rulings:Minefieldriller, Card Rulings:Brain Research Lab

• Card Rulings:Shining Silver Force, Card Rulings:Nature's Reflection: If a card that would increase LP is activated, while an effect that converts LP gain to damage is also active, cards/effects that can only be activated when damage would be inflicted can be activated.
  • Similar mechanic: Card Rulings:Damage Translation

• Card Rulings:Teleport, Card Rulings:Infernity Launcher, Card Rulings:Blaze Accelerator: When you activate a Continuous Spell Card, you cannot activate any of its Ignition Effects in the same chain link (Launcher is not perfect though, since it sends itself as a cost, which may be the reason why).
  • Card Rulings:Wattcube: Same, but for Equip Spells.
  • Card Rulings:Fortissimo the Mobile Fortress: Same, but for Field Spells.

• Card Rulings:Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu Even if a Field Spell Card has just been activated (and hasn't resolved yet), it counts as being a face-up Spell Card on the field.

• Continuous/Lingering Effects applying while a card effect is resolving: Look at Card Rulings:Banisher of the Light (regarding "Reasoning"), Card Rulings:Ceasefire (regarding "Jinzo"), Card Rulings:Shield Worm, Defenders Intersect, Card Rulings:Deck Devastation Virus (lingering), Card Rulings:Mystic Piper (lingering)
  • Somewhat related: Card Rulings:Trap Eater
  • Hypothesis: already-active Continuous Effects can apply during resolving effects. But if a Continuous Effect only begins applying during a card effect resolving, it will not interfere with that card effect. Examples: Muka Muka vs. Acid Trap Hole, Chorus of Sanctuary vs. Acid Trap Hole, RUM Soul Shave Force vs. RR Ultimate Falcon, Wisdom-Eye Magician vs. Nobledragon Magician
  • "U.A. Signing Deal" vs. "Stygian Dirge"[1]
  • "Lost World" vs. "Overtex Qoatlus"

• 2 Continuous/Lingering effects applying at the same time:
  • If they would destroy the same card, you get to choose which effect to apply ("Cloudian - Altus" vs. "Limit Reverse")[2]
  • Card Rulings:Amazoness Trainee, Card Rulings:Black-Winged Dragon, Card Rulings:Necro Defender, Card Rulings:Mermaid Archer

• Card Rulings:Torapart: Very useful for proving to people when "until the end of the Damage Step" effects expire.

• Alternate means of destruction
  • Monsters that are destroyed due to interfering "You can only control 1 X" clauses (aka "highlander clause"), are not treated as being destroyed by a card effect. Card Rulings:Archfiend Zombie-Skull, Card Rulings:Earthbound Immortal Aslla piscu, Card Rulings:Earthbound Immortal Ccarayhua
    • Card Rulings:Imperial Custom
  • Monsters destroyed due to switching control while there are full Monster Zones. Card Rulings:Stardust Phantom, Card Rulings:Owner's Seal

• Regular "once per turn" (OPT) effects are reset whenever the monster leaves the field and then returns, or flipped face-down and then face-up, as per Card Rulings:Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, Card Rulings:Chevalier de Fleur
  • OPT effects are not "reset" when control of the card switches ("Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En"[3])

• Direct attack definition: Card Rulings:Confusion Chaff
  • Rulings for its page: Card Rulings:Overpowering Eye

• Destroy definition: Card Rulings:Vampire Lord

• Equip Shot vs. End Step? Also, mechanics involving Equip Cards remaining under your control (look at "Big Bang Shot")

• Facedown cards cannot have names "confirmed": Card Rulings:Destiny HERO - Dreadmaster

• Level Conversion Lab : Ritual Summons

• Card Rulings:Opti-Camouflage Armor, Card Rulings:Dewdark of the Ice Barrier, Swordsman of Revealing Light, Macromorph: replays

• Card Rulings:Volcanic Hammerer, Card Rulings:Volcanic Slicer: Can activate effects during the first turn of the Duel even if "Battle Phase can't be conducted".

• You can banish activated S/Ts, as per Card Rulings:VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon

• Card Rulings:Dark Magic Curtain, Card Rulings:Ribbon of Rebirth: Mandatory effects still activate

• Card Rulings:Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy, Card Rulings:Zolga, Card Rulings:Skull Knight 2: confirmation of Tribute Summons needed to be successful

• "Dark World Grimoire" vs. Card Rulings:Manticore of Darkness?

• Illegal activations, regarding attacking and the Battle Phase: Card Rulings:Morphtronic Magnen Bar, Card Rulings:Wonder Clover.

• Definition of "attacking": Card Rulings:Magic Cylinder, Card Rulings:Mythical Beast Cerberus, Card Rulings:Neo-Spacian Glow Moss, Card Rulings:Axe Dragonute, Card Rulings:Amazoness Sage, Card Rulings:Savage Colosseum, Card Rulings:Ancient Forest, Card Rulings:Miracle Locus
  • Card Rulings:Infernity Beast
  • Definition of "battling": Card Rulings:Elemental HERO Neo Bubbleman, Card Rulings:Chainsaw Insect, Card Rulings:Asura Priest, Card Rulings:Wattwoodpecker, Card Rulings:Spiders' Lair... Card Rulings:Gaia Plate the Earth Giant?

• Update DREV (Uni-Horned Familiar) and ABPF (Witch of the Black Rose) ruling pdfs

• Card Rulings:Wild Fire: for proving which effects affect the player vs. monsters

• Card Rulings:Witch of the Black Forest, Card Rulings:Sangan: Confirm your Deck if you have nothing to search

• Card Rulings:Yata-Garasu: Defense Position monsters that are attacked with a higher DEF count as "inflicting" battle damage.

• Card Rulings:Shooting Star Bow - Ceal: if a monster's ATK is reduced by an amount greater than its current ATK, its ATK will be 0, but the left-over reduction will apply to any future ATK boosts.

• Effects that apply only once across their copies: "7", "Batteryman C", "Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry", "Geartown", "Convulsion of Nature", "Amazoness Willpower", "Tyrant's Tantrum, "Mirror of the Ice Barrier", "Trust Guardian", "Molting Escape", "Silver Wing", "Damage Translation", "Cyber Barrier Dragon"
  • Card Rulings:Card Blocker

• Card-verifying: Card Rulings:Arsenal Summoner, Card Rulings:Machina Defender, Card Rulings:The White Stone of Legend, Card Rulings:Witch of the Black Forest, Card Rulings:Fabled Oltro, Card Rulings:Reboot, Card Rulings:Ljosalf of the Nordic Alfar, Card Rulings:Formula Synchron, Card Rulings:Commander Covington, Card Rulings:Machina Defender, Card Rulings:Pandaborg, Card Rulings:Blackwing - Vayu the Emblem of Honor, Card Rulings:Fortune Lady Light, Card Rulings:Minefieldriller, Card Rulings:Falchionβ, Card Rulings:Star Blast, Card Rulings:Assault Mode Activate, Card Rulings:Fake Explosion

• All 5 Monster Zones occupied: Card Rulings:Evil HERO Infernal Gainer, Card Rulings:Battle Teleportation, Card Rulings:Informer Spider, Card Rulings:Ribbon of Rebirth, Card Rulings:Wiseman's Chalice, Card Rulings:D.D. Sprite, Card Rulings:Tanngrisnir of the Nordic Beasts, Card Rulings:Forgotten Temple of the Deep, Card Rulings:Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Card Rulings:Nightmare Archfiends

• Trigger effects activate in a new Chain: Card Rulings:Blast with Chain, Card Rulings:Moon Dragon Quilla, Card Rulings:Voltic Bicorn, Card Rulings:Naturia Forest, Card Rulings:Fabled Krus, Card Rulings:Divine Wind of Mist Valley, Card Rulings:Revival Rose, Card Rulings:Magicat
  • Hieratic article

•  ? ATK/DEF: Card Rulings:Skull Conductor

• ATK/DEF changing:
  • If a monster gains ATK based on another monster's ATK, that "other" monster is not affected by that card effect. ("Decode Talker" vs. "Paleozoic Anomalocaris"[4])

• Counters: Card Rulings:Clock Tower Prison, Card Rulings:Venom Swamp, Card Rulings:Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes, Card Rulings:Temple of the Six, Card Rulings:Karakuri Anatomy, Card Rulings:Powersink Stone, Card Rulings:Brain Research Lab, Card Rulings:Mysterious Triangle
  • Spell Counters: Card Rulings:Crusader of Endymion
  • Counters with statuses attached to them, like Predator Counters and Cubic Counters: [5]

• Negating attacks versus "stopping" attacks: Card Rulings:Gladiator Beast ("Gravity Bind")
  • Lesser examples: Card Rulings:Power-Up Adapter, Card Rulings:TG1-EM1, **Card Rulings:Reanimation Wave**, Card Rulings:Machina Sniper

• Legality on activating "piercing damage" effects: Card Rulings:Meteorain

• Equip Card mechanics: Card Rulings:Neo-Spacian Dark Panther, Card Rulings:Trigon, Card Rulings:Power Frame, Card Rulings:Dragunity Dux, Card Rulings:Dragunity Legionnaire, Card Rulings:Dragunity Phalanx, Card Rulings:Buster Blaster, Card Rulings:Morphtronic Vacuumen, Card Rulings:Machina Gearframe, Card Rulings:Hydro Pressure Cannon, Card Rulings:Sword of Sparkles, Card Rulings:Ebon Arrow, Card Rulings:Assault Armor

• Definition of "conducting" Battle Phase: Card Rulings:Earthbound Immortal Chacu Challhua

• Fast effect timing --> Trigger effect timing: Card Rulings:Scrap Worm
  • Fast effect timing: Card Rulings:Formula Synchron
  • When it comes to applying card effects that already resolved: Vylon Ohm

• If there is an effect that is only gained during certain conditions, and it is activated but those conditions are no longer met (before it resolves), the effect will still resolve. Card Rulings:Evocator Chevalier, Card Rulings:Morphtronic Vacuumen

• Legality of draw/adding effects vs. Deck size: Card Rulings:Scrapstorm

• Lingering effects vs. unaffected monsters: Card Rulings:Wiseman's Chalice
  • Lingering effects vs. flipped face-down / left the field: Card Rulings:Chaos Goddess, Card Rulings:Wattkey, Card Rulings:Black Whirlwind, Card Rulings:Hyper Synchron

• Keeping monsters in their same Monster Zones: Card Rulings:Paradox Fusion, Card Rulings:Future Visions

• Damage Step: Card Rulings:Blackwing - Bombardment, Card Rulings:Axe Dragonute, Catapult Zone (JP rulings)
  • Mandatory effect citations: Card Rulings:Summon Reactor・SK
  • Updates:
    • "Bujintei Kagutsuchi" vs. "Zoodiac Whiptail" (substitution destruction effects)[6]
      • (Also, "Vicious Claw"[7]
    • "Kozmoll Dark Lady" vs. RDA[8]; "Infernoid Devyaty"[9]
    • "Morphing Jar 2" (monsters destroyed by battle can't be shuffled back)[10]
    • "Neo-Spacian Grand Mole" vs. "Yubel" (debatable though, since hand)[11]

• Recognition of a monster's Summoned status: Card Rulings:Genex Neutron, Card Rulings:Corridor of Agony, Card Rulings:Puppet King, Card Rulings:Majestic Mech - Senku, Card Rulings:Jurrac Velphito, Card Rulings:Jurrac Guaiba, Card Rulings:Naturia Horneedle, Card Rulings:Worm Zero, Card Rulings:Temple of the Sun, Card Rulings:Koa'ki Meiru Tornado, Card Rulings:Koa'ki Meiru Ice, Card Rulings:Puppet King
  • If a Special Summoned monster is flipped face-down, then flipped face-up, it will "forget" where it was Summoned from and how. However, it will still "remember" that it was Special Summoned, as well as the turn it was Special Summoned.
    • Exception is "Synchro Strike.
  • "Remembering" effects: Card Rulings:Esper Girl, Card Rulings:Silent Psychic Wizard, Card Rulings:Shien's Advisor, Card Rulings:Elemental HERO Neos Knight, Card Rulings:D.D. Sprite, Card Rulings:Blackwing - Boreas the Sharp, Blackwing - Brisote the Tailwind, Card Rulings:Dverg of the Nordic Alfar, Card Rulings:Wattcastle, Card Rulings:Torapart, Card Rulings:Psychic Tuning
  • Remembering actions: Card Rulings:Nordic Relic Laevateinn, Card Rulings:Rhinotaurus, Card Rulings:Savage Colosseum, Card Rulings:Spiritual Forest, Card Rulings:Scary Moth, Card Rulings:Ancient Forest

• SEGOC Trigger Effects (Special Summon from hand): Card Rulings:Synchro Magnet, Card Rulings:Blackwing - Kogarashi the Wanderer, Card Rulings:T.G. Warwolf, Card Rulings:Tanngnjostr of the Nordic Beasts, Card Rulings:Karakuri Steel Shogun mdl 00X "Bureido", Card Rulings:Alien Dog, Card Rulings:Black Whirlwind, Card Rulings:Tethys, Goddess of Light
  • Other: Card Rulings:X-Saber Palomuro, Card Rulings:Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, Card Rulings:Mist Wurm, Card Rulings:Supervise, Card Rulings:Dark Verger, Card Rulings:Puppet King

• Definition of resolve: Card Rulings:Infernity Mirage

• "Cannot be used as Synchro Material" condition also applies in-hand: Card Rulings:Ronintoadin

• Legality of "pointless" activations: Card Rulings:The Fountain in the Sky, Card Rulings:Blossom Bombardment, Card Rulings:Black-Winged Dragon, Card Rulings:Assault Spirits, Card Rulings:Detonate, Card Rulings:Supervise, Card Rulings:Machine King - 3000 B.C., Card Rulings:Reptilianne Medusa

• Tributing face-down monsters: Card Rulings:Dragunity Darkspear, Card Rulings:Worm King, Card Rulings:Psychic Soul, Card Rulings:Sauropod Brachion, Card Rulings:Mind Trust, Card Rulings:Planet Pollutant Virus
  • Characteristics of face-down monsters: Card Rulings:Shiny Black "C", Card Rulings:Kasha, Card Rulings:Arcane Barrier
  • Stats of face-down monsters cannot be changed: Card Rulings:TGX1-HL

• Missing the timing: Card Rulings:R-Genex Accelerator vs. Card Rulings:R-Genex Oracle, Card Rulings:Meklord Fortress, Card Rulings:Naturia Eggplant, Card Rulings:Machina Fortress, Card Rulings:Shark Cruiser, Card Rulings:Core Blaster, Card Rulings:Power Tool Dragon, Card Rulings:Bone Temple Block, Card Rulings:Morphtronic Map, Card Rulings:Trojan Gladiator Beast, Card Rulings:Tethys, Goddess of Light, Card Rulings:Ido the Supreme Magical Force

• Definition of "use": Card Rulings:Unknown Synchron

• You cannot pay costs to provide a target for that same effect: Card Rulings:Zombie Master, Card Rulings:Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner, Card Rulings:Hushed Psychic Cleric, Card Rulings:Morphtronic Repair Unit
  • Related: Card Rulings:Raptor Wing Strike

• Negated Summons/activations: Card Rulings:T.G. Wonder Magician, Card Rulings:Resonant Destruction, Card Rulings:Meklord Fortress, Card Rulings:Nordic Relic Draupnir, Card Rulings:Musakani Magatama, Card Rulings:Sunny Pixie, Card Rulings:Darksea Rescue, Card Rulings:Summon Reactor・SK
  • Negated Spell/Trap effects: Card Rulings:Starlight Road

• Activated S/Ts (that leave the field after resolving) can't destroyed themselves: Card Rulings:TGX1-HL, Card Rulings:Saber Slash, Card Rulings:Fairy Wind (the last ruling is very odd though)

• "manual position change": Card Rulings:Tanngnjostr of the Nordic Beasts

• extra Normal Summons: Card Rulings:Dverg of the Nordic Alfar, Card Rulings:Brain Research Lab

• start of Standby Phase: Card Rulings:Mimir of the Nordic Ascendant

• returning to the hand: Card Rulings:Legendary Six Samurai - Enishi, Card Rulings:Mist Valley Soldier, Card Rulings:Gundari
  • Returning to the Graveyard: Card Rulings:Metaphysical Regeneration

• Unaffected by card effects: Card Rulings:March Towards Ragnarok, Card Rulings:Starlight Road

• Monsters improperly Summoned from the Extra Deck: Card Rulings:Stardust Shimmer, Card Rulings:Gale Dogra, Card Rulings:Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode

• Counter Trap Cards: Card Rulings:Musakani Magatama

• Revealed hand: Card Rulings:Musakani Magatama, Card Rulings:Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Card Rulings:Core Compression, Card Rulings:Iron Core Luster

• Definition of Setting: Card Rulings:Worm Illidan, Card Rulings:Flying Fortress SKY FIRE
  • Setting monsters to the field by a card effect inside a Chain Link (not "immediately after this effect resolves"), is treated as a Special Summon. (Toadally Awesome and Space-Time Police).
    • See effect text of "Bujin Incident", for proof that Setting monsters to the field (from another location) by a card effect is treated as a Special Summon.

• Cards you own under your opponent's possession: Card Rulings:Amazoness Chain Master

• Synchro Summoning via card effect: Card Rulings:Formula Synchron

• Gemini monsters: Card Rulings:Heat Wave

• Definition of "skipping": Card Rulings:Heat Wave, Card Rulings:Max Warrior

• Trap Cards' effects are Spell Speed 2: Card Rulings:Red Screen, Card Rulings:Meteor Flare, Card Rulings:Forgotten Temple of the Deep, Card Rulings:Skill Successor
  • Spell Cards' effects are Spell Speed 1: Card Rulings:Ritual of Grace, Card Rulings:Ritual of Destruction

• Effects are treated as being activated in the location they were originally in: Card Rulings:Forbidden Graveyard, Card Rulings:Koa'ki Meiru Powerhand
  • Related: Card Rulings:Reptilianne Scylla

• Chaining directly: Card Rulings:Guard Mines, Card Rulings:Starlight Road, Card Rulings:Arcana Knight Joker

• Chain mechanics: Card Rulings:Machina Fortress
  • Chain definition: Card Rulings:Vengeful Servant, Card Rulings:Morphtronic Map

• Changing locations: Card Rulings:Mist Valley Thunderbird

• Definition of battle damage: Card Rulings:X-Saber Airbellum

• Shared effects (either player): Card Rulings:Spiders' Lair

• Simultaneous destruction (destroying): Card Rulings:Energy Bravery, Card Rulings:Divine Grace - Northwemko, Card Rulings:Silver Wing, Card Rulings:Mermaid Archer, Card Rulings:Power Tool Dragon, Card Rulings:Desert Protector
  • "Dragunity Senatus"[12]

• Perspective of card effects (opponent): Card Rulings:Clear Vice Dragon

• Continuous effects applying before activated effects: Card Rulings:Fortune Lady Fire, Card Rulings:Shiny Black "C", Card Rulings:Magicat, Card Rulings:Hyper Synchron
  • definition of Continuous effects: Card Rulings:Koa'ki Meiru Doom

• Temporary banishing/removing: Card Rulings:Slip of Fortune

• definition of "Tribute Set": Card Rulings:Rockstone Warrior

• no Special Summons: Card Rulings:Koa'ki Meiru Drago

• No adding cards to hand: Card Rulings:Power Tool Dragon

• "cannot activate": Card Rulings:Grave of the Super Ancient Organism

• Special Summon procedure: Card Rulings:Turret Warrior, Card Rulings:Zeta Reticulant, Card Rulings:Card Breaker

• battle position/flipping: Card Rulings:Morphtronic Map

• ignoring Summoning conditions: Card Rulings:Assault Revival

• turn player: Card Rulings:Bone Temple Block

• Unusable Zones: Card Rulings:Mystical Cards of Light

• Incorrect PSCT as Special Summon Monsters: Blue Mountain Butterspy, Dark Sage, Fenrir the Nordic Wolf, Jormungardr the Nordic Serpent, Kagetokage, Orichalcos Shunoros, Super Anti-Kaiju War Machine Mecha-Dogoran, Synchro Magnet
  • Theinen the Great Sphinx needs to be made a Special Summon-only monster

• Effects that do something with a card(s), with a separate effect that returns that card(s) to their previous location (despite being flipped face-down): "Esper Girl", "Black Dragon Ninja"

Miscellaneous rulings/legality: Card Rulings:Infernity Reflector, Card Rulings:Junk Berserker, Card Rulings:Armed Sea Hunter, Card Rulings:Brain Research Lab, Card Rulings:Hydra Viper, Card Rulings:Verdant Sanctuary

• Switching control vs. resolving effects: Card Rulings:Thor, Lord of the Aesir

• Unclassified Effect:
  • If a card(s) would be destroyed by a card effect, and a card in the Graveyard banishes itself to substitute that destruction, it is not treated as affecting the would-be destroyed card(s).[13]
    • Contrasts with Continuous-like Effects like that of "Dragonic Diagram", which do affect the would-be destroyed monster.
  • You can't attempt to substitute destruction for a card that is already substituting for another card's destruction ("Legendary Six Samurai - Shi En" vs. "Secret Six Samurai - Fuma"[14])

• Tokens
  • Can't be banished face-down.[15][16]

• "End of this turn" vs. Trigger Effects [17]