Ritual Summoning

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krishna

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Some ritual monsters have the text "This card can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card"

Like Demise, for instance.

"This card can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card, "End of the World". By paying 2000 Life Points, destroy all cards on the field except this card."



Yet at my local tournament my opponent used Advanced Ritual Art to bring him out.

"Select 1 Ritual Monster in your hand. Send Normal Monsters from your Deck to the Graveyard whose total Levels are equal to that Ritual Monster's. Ritual Summon a card with the name of the selected Ritual Monster from your hand."



To me this seems like an illegal move, but at the time I didn't realize it. Is this legal? If so, why? Why not? I'd like to be able to explain it to this guy, since he's a new friend of mine.

Is this just another one of those "because Konami Said So" things?
 
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Every single Ritual Monster contains "can only be Ritual Summoned with "<insert respective Ritual Spell Card>" (except for Relinquished, but which is treated as including "can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card, 'Black Illusion Ritual'". They thought there wasn't enough room to include that part back then).

Now think about that for a moment; if using Advanced Ritual Art in that scenario were illegal, then there would be no point for the card to even exist.
 
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The important part is the "This card can only be ritual summoned" part. You cannot normal summon these monsters, nor can you bring them back from the graveyard unless they were properly ritual summoned first. But there are substitute ritual cards, like Advanced Ritual Art or Earth Chant (any Earth ritual monster) that you could use instead of the card in the monster's text.
 
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roadhouse007 said:
The important part is the "This card can only be ritual summoned" part. You cannot normal summon these monsters, nor can you bring them back from the graveyard unless they were properly ritual summoned first. But there are substitute ritual cards, like Advanced Ritual Art or Earth Chant (any Earth ritual monster) that you could use instead of the card in the monster's text.
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And if you use these cards, are you still able to special summon them from the graveyard afterwards?
 
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Yes, because it was properly Ritual Summoned.

There are two types of Special Summon-Only monsters, and this rule applies to Ritual Summons as well, since it's just a specific kind of Special Summon.

"This card/monster can only be Special Summoned by..."

"This card/monster cannot be Special Summoned except by..."​

The first set of text is found on cards that can be Special Summoned first, and if done so properly, can later be retrieved from the Graveyard. Their summon restrictions are a lot more flexible.

The second, is text found on NOMI monsters. Cards that can't be Special Summoned any other way, except by the instructions that follow. There's no possible way to get them to the field without following the instructions each time. (There is an exception to this, as I'm sure someone will point out to you, but that only applies to LV Monsters, so we won't even get into that here.)

Ritual Monsters are like the first set of text. Their summoning restrictions are a bit more flexible, and in the case of cards like Advanced Ritual Art, Contract with the Abyss and Earth Chant, they can circumvent this one restrictions on what card can bring them out. All these cards are, are substitutes for the Ritual Monster's usual Ritual Spell Card.

And if you get a chance, do a quick search on Netrepâ„¢ for all Ritual Monsters. If they couldn't be summoned with the substitute cards, then these cards would be useless, because all Ritual Monsters read the same way:"This card/monster can only be Ritual Summoned with..."

(And as I always like to point out, check Netrepâ„¢ and UDE for the latest text of cards. We didn't always have this template for Special Summons, so older cards aren't going to necessarily have the proper text.)
 
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