night assailant's effect
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StRiKe_NiNjA
Dimension Shift Ninja
Night Assailant's cannot target "themselves"
But if you were to discard 2 Night Assailants through Graceful Charity, 1 Night Assailant can target the other Night Assailant and vice-versa.
But if you were to discard 2 Night Assailants through Graceful Charity, 1 Night Assailant can target the other Night Assailant and vice-versa.
masterwoo0
NINJA4LIFE
If 2 Night Assailants are discarded at the "same" time, they could return each other by their effect.dadejay said:
DarkPaladin2k1
Seeker of Power
Usually if I don't have the second one in the graveyard, i bring stuff like Cyber Jar and such... very usefull and it is remarkably a must in discard- Forced Requisition decks
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Dark Ruler Ha Des
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Allow me to shed some light on Night Assailant.
First, here is some back-story.
Night Assailant WAS Gravekeeper's Assailant, until he saw and accepted the darkness that is being a Fiend.
Now, Night Assailant's first effect:
FLIP: Select 1 monster on your opponent's side of the field and destroy it.
Far superior to Man-Eater Bug, if Night Assailant is flipped and your opponent doesn't have a monster on the field, his effect Disappears, rather than destroy one of your monsters.
It targets.
His second effect:
When this card is sent directly from your hand to the Graveyard, return 1 Flip Effect Monster from your Graveyard to your hand.
is mandatory. If you have a Flip effect monster in your graveyard, you MUST return it to your hand.
Here are the rulings:
Night Assailant" doesn't have to be sent to the Graveyard by an effect, or by an effect controlled by your opponent; it just has to be sent to the Graveyard. "Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard as a cost for "Magic Jammer" or "Tribe-Infecting Virus"; "Night Assailant"'s effect activates after the current chain resolves.
"Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard by "Morphing Jar" or "Card Destruction".
"Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard for a Ritual Summon.
When "Night Assailant" is sent to the Graveyard by the effect of "Last Turn", FIRST resolve "Last Turn"'s effect of sending all cards on the field and in the hands to the Graveyard, SECOND activate and resolve the effect of "Night Assailant", and THIRD Special Summon a monster by the effect of "Last Turn".
You cannot select the "Night Assailant" that was itself sent to the Graveyard, so there is no infinite loop.
When multiple "Night Assailants" are sent to the Graveyard at the same time because of "Graceful Charity", etc., both can be returned to your hand because "Night Assailant" cannot select itself but CAN select a different "Night Assailant", even one that was sent to the Graveyard at the same time.
Both of "Night Assailant"'s effects target.
You cannot use "Night Assailant"'s second effect while "Necrovalley" is active.
If your opponent has your "Night Assailant" in his hand (because of "Exchange") and it's sent to the Graveyard, you (the owner) get the effect.
If you have "Forced Requisition" active (face-up) and 7 cards in your hand during the End Phase (and one of them is a "Night Assailant"), and there is another "Night Assailant" in your Graveyard, and you discard your "Night Assailant" because you have 7 cards, your opponent must discard because of "Forced Requisition". Then you can activate the effect of "Night Assailant" to retrieve the other "Night Assailant". Now you have 7 cards in your hand again so you can discard "Night Assailant", and your opponent must discard again for "Forced Requisition". You can continue doing this until your opponent loses all cards in their hand.
So in your scenario, you would discard Night Assailant and if you had no Flip effect monsters in your graveyard, his effect would Disappear. But if there WAS one (including a second Night Assailant), you'd have to return it to your hand.
Dark Ruler Ha Des
First, here is some back-story.
Night Assailant WAS Gravekeeper's Assailant, until he saw and accepted the darkness that is being a Fiend.
Now, Night Assailant's first effect:
FLIP: Select 1 monster on your opponent's side of the field and destroy it.
Far superior to Man-Eater Bug, if Night Assailant is flipped and your opponent doesn't have a monster on the field, his effect Disappears, rather than destroy one of your monsters.
It targets.
His second effect:
When this card is sent directly from your hand to the Graveyard, return 1 Flip Effect Monster from your Graveyard to your hand.
is mandatory. If you have a Flip effect monster in your graveyard, you MUST return it to your hand.
Here are the rulings:
Night Assailant" doesn't have to be sent to the Graveyard by an effect, or by an effect controlled by your opponent; it just has to be sent to the Graveyard. "Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard as a cost for "Magic Jammer" or "Tribe-Infecting Virus"; "Night Assailant"'s effect activates after the current chain resolves.
"Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard by "Morphing Jar" or "Card Destruction".
"Night Assailant"'s effect activates when sent to the Graveyard for a Ritual Summon.
When "Night Assailant" is sent to the Graveyard by the effect of "Last Turn", FIRST resolve "Last Turn"'s effect of sending all cards on the field and in the hands to the Graveyard, SECOND activate and resolve the effect of "Night Assailant", and THIRD Special Summon a monster by the effect of "Last Turn".
You cannot select the "Night Assailant" that was itself sent to the Graveyard, so there is no infinite loop.
When multiple "Night Assailants" are sent to the Graveyard at the same time because of "Graceful Charity", etc., both can be returned to your hand because "Night Assailant" cannot select itself but CAN select a different "Night Assailant", even one that was sent to the Graveyard at the same time.
Both of "Night Assailant"'s effects target.
You cannot use "Night Assailant"'s second effect while "Necrovalley" is active.
If your opponent has your "Night Assailant" in his hand (because of "Exchange") and it's sent to the Graveyard, you (the owner) get the effect.
If you have "Forced Requisition" active (face-up) and 7 cards in your hand during the End Phase (and one of them is a "Night Assailant"), and there is another "Night Assailant" in your Graveyard, and you discard your "Night Assailant" because you have 7 cards, your opponent must discard because of "Forced Requisition". Then you can activate the effect of "Night Assailant" to retrieve the other "Night Assailant". Now you have 7 cards in your hand again so you can discard "Night Assailant", and your opponent must discard again for "Forced Requisition". You can continue doing this until your opponent loses all cards in their hand.
So in your scenario, you would discard Night Assailant and if you had no Flip effect monsters in your graveyard, his effect would Disappear. But if there WAS one (including a second Night Assailant), you'd have to return it to your hand.
Dark Ruler Ha Des