Battle Position questions...

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SoilentG

CoG iTrader
All, sorry for the basic-ness of these questions but in the last year or so that I've been playing (only against my son) it's not been clear for us and now that the v06 rule book has come out it appears what we originally thought was wrong about changing battle positions.

What I do know is that Flip Summoning is the act of switching a face-down Defense monster to face-up Attack position and you are allowed as many of those as possible (limited by how many face-down Defense monsters you have). I also know that a monster can't switch from face-up to face-down without a card effect. What I'm confused on is:

1) According to rulebook v06 monsters can change from either face-up Defense to face-up Attack OR face-up Attack to face-up Defense position during either of your own main phases once. Is this truly ok?

2) If a monster can switch from face-up Attack to face-up Defense can it do so after attacking? (I would guess no, but I've been surprised before that I'm not looking at things correclty in this game.)

3) Special Summoning: As long as the card doesn't specify how to Special Summon the monster (i.e. face-up Attack position) am I free to Special Summon it in either face-up position?

Thanks,

Soil out.
 
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1. Don't forget you can change a monster from face-down defense to face-up attack as well. And yes, only one manual position change per turn. You can change the monster via effects though, even after the manual position change.

2. Ignored

3. That is correct. And monsters that are Special Summoned are always face-up, unless otherwise specified (ex. Apprentice Magician's effect)
 
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I will chain to this question :) I saw few threads here (from 2005)that said you cannot manualy change position of a monster that had it's position already changed with card effect in the same turn, is it still true?

Example: I have face-up Magician of Faith in attack position, use Book of Moon and now I want to flip it. Is it possible, or not?
 
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Per Kenji's link above... you can.

from the UDE page:

UDE said:
Exception #1: You cannot "manually" change the battle position of a monster if it declared an attack that turn (even if the attack was negated or a replay occurred).

Exception #2: You cannot "manually" change the battle position of a monster if it was Summoned or Set that turn by the turn player.

Exception #3: You cannot "manually" change the battle position of a monster if its battle position was already changed "manually" that turn (including if it was Flip Summoned).

Please note that:

You CAN always change the battle position of a monster with a card effect, even if any of the above exceptions prevent you from changing its battle position "manually".

You CAN change the battle position of a monster "manually" if its battle position was changed by a card effect previously that turn (as long as none of the 3 exceptions exist). Example: You activate "Book of Moon" and flip a monster into face-down Defense Position. Then you can Flip Summon it that same turn, as long as none of the 3 exceptions exist.
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That's long outdated. As long as the monster wasn't summoned this turn or declared an attack this turn, you can manually change its position even if another card effect changed it first (unless prohibited by that card effect like "Curse of Anubis").
 
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