Re: Change Log 1/10/05

The following ruling for Royal Oppression was changed to
Remember that "Royal Oppression" follows the rules of all Continuous Trap Cards. In order to chain the effect of "Royal Oppression" to a card effect, "Royal Oppression" must have already been face-up on the field. For example, if "Monster Reborn" is activated, you cannot flip "Royal Oppression" face-up and activate the effect of "Royal Oppression" in the same chain.
The old ruling is no longer accurate
Remember that "Royal Oppression" follows the rules of all Continuous Trap Cards. In order to chain the effect of "Royal Oppression" to a card effect, "Royal Oppression" must have already been face-up on the field. For example, if "Monster Reborn" is activated, you cannot flip "Royal Oppression" face-up and activate the effect of "Royal Oppression" in the same chain. You can activate the effect of "Royal Oppression" as a chain to "Monster Gate".
The following ruling for Royal Oppression was added
You can activate the effect of "Royal Oppression" as a chain to "Monster Gate". No cards will be picked up, and no monster will be Special Summoned (The opponent still must have Tributed a monster as a cost).

What are you talking about "accurate and inaccurate"? Nothing was repealed.

In fact, the Monster Gate line was already a separate paragraph according to the full change log. And then they added something to it, for clarification.

 

[John Danker]

The reason that the last line was clarified was on my suggestion. When it was a seperate line it was pretty much repeating what was said in the paragraph above it only using Monster Gate as an example. It may have appeared that by using Monster Gate in a seperate line it was some sort of exception rather than an example.

Minor changes are made in wording or paragraph structure to make a ruling easier to understand or as not to make for even more questions.

 

[Raijinili]

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