DarkLogicianOfCaos said:
Short answer: Aqua Spirit
"This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card can only be Special Summoned by removing from play 1 WATER monster in your Graveyard..." Once it is Special Summoned correctly....
By the above reasoning, when I Call or Pre, I should need to RFP another Water.
Well, yeah, to an extent. But the problem here is that everyone knows it's bad wording.
"The initial Special Summon of this card must be from your hand by removing from play 1 WATER monster in your Graveyard."
We all know that's what the text is
supposed to mean. The translators are just being arsy about their job.
Comparison to Aqua Spirit is, I think, pointless, because Aqua Spirit and Toons are worded differently. Toons have a restriction, not a command. You can Special Summon a Toon however you want, whenever you want, with the only proviso that you have Toon World active when you do so.
That's the way I see it. I'm pretty sure that officially, you need to Special Summon it from your hand or Deck
somehow before Special Summoning it from your Graveyard, because then that
would fit all the rulings. I just don't see
why this should be the case. There's nothing fundamentally different about the Graveyard to the hand/Deck that would explain this behaviour. We don't even have a BKSS on this.
Of course, if we ignore the rulings (assuming one or more are wrong), and look purely at the text (which, after all, should probably make sense and says what it means since it was a reprint), we see it's a restriction on Special Summons, not a command, so:
Maruno said:
You can Special Summon a Toon however you want, whenever you want, with the only proviso that you have Toon World active when you do so.
This being true, the only ruling that would actually be wrong is the Archfiend's Roar ruling. Get rid of that Toon Summoned Skull mention, and we're all happy.