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Aarikku · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: Rulings on Specific Cards

Immunity to...: A card with this text is completely unaffected by the specified cards, including your own - except the card giving the immunity. Cards with Immunities CAN be fused or used as the Cost to activate a card.

This effect breaks Immunities: A card with this text can affect monsters with Immunities if it normally would not be able to.

Cards with more than one Type: When tapped, these cards only count as 1 of their 2 types of Mana. For example, if you tapped a Neutron Dragon (LIGHT/FIRE) to play another Neutron Dragon (who requires Light and Fire Mana), you'd have to tap either one LIGHT or one FIRE in addition to the remaining Mana.

Blacksmith Element: The monsters you fuse can be from the hand, field or Mana Zone.

Bronze Amphithere: If this card and [Alchemy Seal] are destroyed at the same time, you do not get the effect.

Colony Drone: There must be at least 2 [Colony Drone] in your deck to use this effect.

Dark/Light Knight Element: These effects only last while the monster is battling.

Dragons' Spire: If you don't have enough Dragons in your deck, or they're unusable due to their Levels (for example, if you sacrifice a Level Three monster but the only Dragon in your deck is a Level One), you can't play any.

Empress of Flames: If a monster is put into play and then made into a FIRE monster as it's summoned with a card effect, Empress gains 500 ATK.

Firefox: This effect is not optional.

Forest: This effect increases the ATK of monsters that are partly EARTH, such as Tetra Element.

Gold Basilisk: If you find a way to summon this card during one of your opponent's attacks (I don't think there's a way), you can use its attack-switching effect. Your opponent can't call off their attack if you use this effect. Ever.

Golden Flames: The or be selected for another [Golden Flames]. thing also only applies 'til the end of the turn.

Grand Frozen Dragon: You must have it and The Frozen Cliffs in your Graveyard, or you don't get to shuffle either into your deck.

Lion of Thunder: This card cannot be attacked by monsters that are partly STORM, such as Tetra Element.

Mud Element: Even if Mud Element is destroyed, any selected cards remain Untappable.

Mystical Shield: If the selected monster is already in Defence Mode, you can still use this card.

Nightmare Blood: Monsters with an Immunity to this card will still be able to attack, even if they have less than 5000 ATK.

Pilot Ferali: You can use this effect on any card that might destroy the equipped Starship, like Yoink. It can also be used against mass-destruction effects such as Tidal Flame. However, if your opponent uses Sar-chasm, and selects a monster they control whose ATK is high enough to destroy your Starship but doesn't select it, then you can't negate it.

Tetra Armoured Dragon: This card gains any Mana effects that Tetra Dragon had (For example, if Tetra Dragon was played with FIRE Mana, Tetra Armoured Dragon would gain 1000 ATK). If you fuse Mercury Dragon with Tetra Dragon, and they both have their FIRE: +1000 ATK effects, Tetra Armoured Dragon will gain 2000 ATK.

Tetra Incantation: Here's how it works: you Tribute your Tetra Element, and then you look in your C/T stack. You can then select one of the following combinations: [Mud Element/Smoke Element], [Steam Element/Sandstorm Element], [Thunderstorm Element/Volcano Element] and play them.

The Blastblaze: 'Unique' means that you can only equip 1 copy of each Blastblaze Crew card to The Blastblaze at a time. If, for example, you have First Officer Leric equipped to The Blastblaze, you could not equip another First Officer Leric. However, if the original First Officer Leric is removed from The Blastblaze, you could equip another.

The Frozen Cliffs: The best way to keep track of its attacks are using Counters. The Frozen Cliffs cannot destroy a monster by battle. Neither player can take any battle damage from The Frozen Cliffs. It does not count as a monster for card effects. If it is the only card on your side of the field, your opponent can attack you directly.

Tidal Flame: You can tap Living Lunch for this card's effect, but it will only count as either Fire or Water. (Ex. if you tapped Living Lunch as Water Mana, you'd also have to tap a Fire Mana and two others. You can't tap Living Lunch and say 'It's Fire AND Water' and then tap 3 others)

Tin Wyrm: If this card and [Alchemy Seal] are destroyed at the same time, you do not get the effect.

Titanium Dragon: Note that the Mana Zone is not part of the field. The monsters counted for Titanium Dragon's summoning requirement must be on the field or Graveyard.

Ultimate Element: Ultimate Element counts as types created after its release. (There aren't any yet, though) Ultimate Element is affected by any card that specifies any Type.
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Naardaas · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

Wow, it's been awhile since you last updated the rulings. A few new cards are here that I'd like to see rulings on.
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Aarikku · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

Just ask away. I figured this wasn't too important, what with no one playing the game and all.
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Naardaas · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

Well, being I'm writing a series, correct rules are important to the story.

For a ruling on Shadow Necormancy: Are you allowed to discard 4 cards, thereby making it a cost 0 card?
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Aarikku · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:33 pm Post subject:

Absolutely. That's how it's used by Sebastian.
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Naardaas · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Maybe at one point, but you've changed it. Now, when he plays it, he discards 3 cards and 2 cards, but never 4.
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Aarikku · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject:

Oh. Whatever.
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Naardaas · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:03 am Post subject:

Ah, here's one. Can you scrap a FIRE monster with Phoenix's Rebirth, then revive it since it's now in the Graveyard?
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Aarikku · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:06 am Post subject:

Read it carefully.
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Naardaas · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:08 am Post subject:

Huh. Coulda sworn the last time I read it that last part wasn't there.
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Aarikku · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

If that part wasn't there, you would be able to revive that card, though.
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Naardaas · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:13 am Post subject:

That's what I thought.
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