Pole Loop

[branas]

Pole Position
The face-up monster(s) with highest ATK on the field is
unaffected by any Spell Cards.When "Pole Position" is removed
from the field, destroy the face-up monster(s) with the highest
ATK on the field.

i have gigantes, zombyra, pole position and gaia power on field.
gigantes has 2400 ATK due to Gaia.
pole position says he isnt affected by spells.
so he has 1900 ATK.
this means zombyra has more attack, so in fact HE is affected by
pole position, NOT gigantes.
so gigantes has 2400 ATK after all!
but, wait, then gigantes is affected by pole position...

crazy loop!

 

[Digital Jedi]

Maybe the attack would proceed as normal, but when the monster is flipped, and the ATK is determined to create a loop, the attacked monster is flipped back face-down and a replay is triggered and the face-down is now an illegal attack target. I dont know, just throwing ideas out.

 

[daivahataka]

Ahh, the fun we could have tormenting other Judges by setting up these scenarios in Tournament's they're in charge of...

Nah... I'm not that cruel!

 

[branas]

yes, yes!
let's flood the world with pole position decks!

 

[Judicator]

After picking up some Pole Position in packs from regionals, I wouldn't mind throwing them in my sidedeck and using them against level-limit or messenger of peace dependent decks

 

[exiledforcefreak]

The situation presented in this post does not cause an infinate loop. The two continous effects are applied in the order they hit the field (like Final Attack Orders vs. level limit).

If Pole Position was active before Gaia Power then the effect of Pole Position will be applied first, meaning Pole Position is effecting Zombyra, and then efffect of Gaia Power will then be applied making Gigantes 2400 attack.

If Gaia Power was active before Pole Position the effect of Gaia Power will be applied first, making Gigantes 2400 attack, and then the effect of Pole Position is applied meaning Gigantes is the monster being effected by Pole Position.

There, headache over... sort of

My source for this information? I asked the head judge at SJC NJ while judging there. Your welcome

 

[daivahataka]

But that's just his way of dealing with it, until something comes down from the Judge list or the UDE specific card page then there's no official way to deal with it.
And what happens when a monster which was boosted (via spell card) becomes the only monster on the field, suddenly the timestamping method would be on it's head if we go by the card's text, and then again if another monster with a higher base attack than the current one is summoned. You can't play around with timestamping like this so I don't think it'd work that easily.

 

[Digital Jedi]

Theres no real way to resolve the issue with timestamp resolution. Pole Position will constantly check to see which monster has the highest ATK regardless of what was played last.