Hysteric Party

[Zyleth]

Last saturday I was playing at a local tournament. Two players had a disargument abount the rulings of "hysteric party"-trap card.

Continous Trap
You can discard 1 card from your hand. Special summon as many "Harpie Lady" cards as possible from your Graveyard. When this card is removed from the field, destroy all the monsters that were Special Summoned by this card's effect.

The play went like this. Player A has face-up Hysteric party and a lot of harpies. Player A attacks, and player B plays mirror force and all the harpies go boom. Then player a says: "I'll discard a card and summon those harpies back with hysteric party" Player B and I are like: "Wait, doesn't that card work like call of the haunted?" Finally, after 20 minutes of rulechecking and talking about related cards, they solved the problem by flipping a coin.

Can you use hysteric party more than once when it remains on the field?

 

[Maruno]

No, it works like "Call of the Haunted" and "Fossil Excavation". You pay the cost and Summon the monsters when you activate the card.



The part that bothered me (thus prompting a big search through almost no available material) is that first sentence: "You can..." Why say "can"? On any level?

Turns out that's not what the card says. I presume you copied the card text off the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki, when there's a perfectly readable card image right next to it without a "You can..." in it.

So yes, it's a "Call of the Haunted" for Harpies. If all of the Harpy monsters get killed, "Hysteric Party" remains on the field meaninglessly.

 

[Zyleth]

Yes, I copied it from yugioh wikia .
Thx for the answer

 

[waterbender]

Yugioh Online Hysteric Party

hey you guys I just dueled a harpie deck on Yugioh Online and the computer let the duelist use hystericparty more than once. how do you explain that? Please help.

 

[Maruno]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Online is rubbish. We haven't been warning people not to derive mechanics and card workings from the computer games recently, mainly because we thought it was obvious. It still applies, though.

The card game is one thing, the computer games are another. Don't mix and match the two, even if they are for the most part similar.