Dyne2057 said:
What the heck's a "nomi" monster? Anyway, I was looking for a difference between the cards that say "this monster can only be special summoned by the effect of..." and "this monster can only be special summoned except by the effect of...".
A "nomi" monster, as chaosruler pointed out, is one that can ONLY be Special Summoned one specific way. In play, this usually boils down to "under no circumstances can this card be Special Summoned from the Graveyard OR from the removed from play area".
The word "except" is now being used in the monster effect text to denote these "nomi" monsters. If the card doesn't say "except", it CAN be Special Summoned from the Graveyard/RFP IF it was Special Summoned properly first.
NOMI --> Sorcerer of Dark Magic
This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by offering 2 Level 6 or higher Spellcaster-Type monsters on your side of the field as Tributes. As long as this card remains face-up on the field, you can negate the activation of Trap Cards and destroy them.
If you Special Summoned "Sorcerer of Dark Magic" by tributing 2 LV6+ Spellcasters, and then it got nuked by an "Exiled Force", you cannot revive it with "Premature Burial", "Call of the Haunted", etc. You also cannot revive him from RFP with "Dimension Fusion" or "Return from the Different Dimension". The ONLY way to get him back on the field would be to return him to your hand first, like with "Monster Reincarnation", and then Special Summoning him again by tributing 2 LV6+ Spellcasters.
NOT NOMI --> Silpheed
This card can only be Special Summoned by removing 1 WIND monster in your Graveyard from play. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard as a result of battle, your opponent discards 1 card randomly from his/her hand.
If you Special Summoned "Silpheed" by removing 1 WIND monster from your Graveyard and then it got nuked by a "Raigeki Break", you CAN revive it with "Premature Burial", "Call of the Haunted", "Monster Reborn", etc. However, if you dumped "Silpheed" into the Graveyard via "Painful Choice", it was never properly Special Summoned in the first place and therefore CANNOT be revived except by returning him to your hand via "Monster Reincarnation", etc. and then Special Summoning him by removing 1 WIND monster from play.
And to further complicate this, some older monsters like "Exodia Necross" and "Berserk Dragon" don't say "except" in the effect text but are still NOMI. The reprints of these cards in DR1 should (hopefully) add the word "except" to them.
Also of complication here is "Harpie Lady Sisters". We (netrep.net) currently show it as a NOMI monster, with the word "except" in the text. This was
very recently (and non-publicly) changed by UDE so that the word "except" no longer exists in the text and is therefore no longer NOMI. If it's Special Summoned via "Elegant Egotist" to the field, it can be revived with "Premature Burial", etc. [HLS is not a nomi monster in Japan, and was never that way]
And then you have "Level Up!" like chaosruler pointed out. It's effect specifically states to IGNORE the usual Summoning requirements when using it. So, even though "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8" says "except" in it's text, you CAN Special Summon him by sending a "Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV6" to the Graveyard via "Level Up!"'s effect. Of course, if he were to find his way to the Graveyard, the "except" in his effect text will prevent him from coming out again
[confused even more now?]
