Ok, to clear this up once and for all, hopefully.
ALL of the original XYZ fusions had their card text errata'd to finally clarify they are truly NOMI monsters.
This card cannot be Special Summoned except by removing from play the above cards on your side of the field...
Note that it says cannot be Special Summoned...period. That means ANY type of Special Summon.
Now for the new VW and VWXYZ fusions, they changed the text. For VWXYZ, I can understand, but for VW, it 'should' have been the same as the previous XYZ fusions, but I digress...
This card can only be Special Summoned from your Fusion Deck by removing from play the above cards on your side of the field.
Note the ONLY restriction here is the way it is Special Summoned from the
Fusion Deck, not from the Graveyard, or RFP. These are NOT NOMI monsters. So, if either the VW or VWXYZ are properly Special Summoned from the Fusion Deck, then they CAN be brought back from the Graveyard or RFP.
Tkwiget said:
There isn't a ruling that says it can like VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult has. There for you can't.
The line of text that I quoted above is on BOTH VW and VWXYZ. I can only assume the reason the 'can be brought back' ruling isn't on VW is because they (UDE/Konami) didn't think it would be an issue. We as Judges are supposed to go by card text and existing rulings. When a ruling doesn't exist for a card, we're supposed to find similar cards and extrapolate the best ruling possible from the available info. So, in this case, we have identical text on 2 cards, but only 1 of them has a ruling. Why would you say that the one w/o a ruling CAN'T be brought back because it's rulings don't say so? The summoning text is identical; therefore, both cards 'should' be ruled the same way in the absence of rulings for one of the two cards.
[edit]Crud...beaten to the punch! This is what I get for trying to do this at work!