Serial Spell VS. Pot Of Greed

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wesker99

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If i activate pot of greed then serial spell to draw double the cards what would happen? Would i draw 2 cards but discard them to activate serial spell or would serial spell work first by discarding, then taking pot of greed's effect then drawing 4 cards? Im confused! :?
 
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You would activate "Pot of Greed" and assuming your opponent doesn't chain to that, you can chain "Serial Spell" by discarding your whole hand as the cost to activate it. You would then draw 4 cards total, 2 as "Serial Spell" resolves (copying "Pot of Greed" allowing you to draw 2 cards) and then 2 more when "Pot of Greed" resolves (draw 2 cards).

- A
 
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That is something that I believe is still being debated.

At my RDS Preview, I ruled that "Serial Spell" only copies the effect (not the cost), and so you would not lose another 1000 LP from "Serial Spell".

However, once an answer is finally reached (it might have been already), I'l post it.
 
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Serial Spell
Quick-Play Spell

You can only activate this card when you activate one of your Normal Spell Cards. Discard all the cards in your hand to the Graveyard. The effect of this card becomes the same as the Normal Spell Card.


The cost to activate "Serial Spell" is to discard your hand. The effect of "Serial Spell" is the effect of the Normal Spell card you played first. So you don't pay a "double cost". All it mirrors is the effect.

So you pay 1000 to activate "Delinquent Duo". Discard your hand to chain "Serial Spell". 4 Cards from your opponent's hand will be discarded (in the order of 1 randomly chosen by you, 1 chosen by your opponent, 1 randomly chosen by you, and 1 chosen by your opponent). Of course if they have 4 or less cards that order won't matter, but if you want it correctly done, that would be it as you resolve the 1 effect, then the other.

- A
 
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densetsu_x said:
The effect of "Serial Spell" is the effect of the Normal Spell card you played first. 
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This topic was brought up on a YuGiOhRealms thread, and this was one of the things I pointed out ("Serial Spell" says its EFFECT becomes the same as the Normal Spell Card). Since costs are different to effects, that is why I ruled the way I did, and I have a ruling this will become the official ruling.
 
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Incidentaly, any cost paid by the Normal Spell is not duplicated by Seriel Spell, but in the case of targeted effects (ie. Monster Reborn), you do choose a second target.
 
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More rulings from the JERP.

If you can't discard at least one card to pay SSpell's cost, you can't activate it.

SSpell must be chained to the magic card it affects. So if your opponent chains that magic card, you can't.

If a normal spell card has a choice between two effects and SSpell copies its effect, it uses the same effect as the original.

If Pot of Greed is copied by SSpell, your opponent can't chain Spirit Mirror to SSpell, because SSpell's effect doesn't target the player unlike Pot of Greed. (Spirit Mirror is a trap that can switch the target of a card that targets a player)

If SSpell copies Swords of Revealing Light, or DD Capsule, it gets the initial effect, but unlike the card it copies it does not stay on the field.

You can fuse two sets of monsters by copying Polymerization with SSpell, but if you only have one set, SSpell's effect will fuse it and Polymerization will resolve without effect.

If you copy Metamorphosis, you cannot summon a monster by SSpell as you did not sacrifice a monster for it.

Edit: Disclaimer, some rulings MAY change. It's still a new card.
 
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Raijinili said:
If SSpell copies Swords of Revealing Light, or DD Capsule, it gets the initial effect, but unlike the card it copies it does not stay on the field.
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Let me get this straight. If I chain SSpell to my Mage Power, SSpell will boost my monster's attack for a moment, and then it will leave the field. In short, don't copy Mage Power for in the end it will be useless.

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If you copy Metamorphosis, you cannot summon a monster by SSpell as you did not sacrifice a monster for it.
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Why can't you send a monster for SSpell when it is copying Metamorphosis. Is it because sending the monster is a cost? And check this out:
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Serial Spell
You cannot level up "Horus the Black Flame Dragon" from 4 to 8 with just "Level Up!" and "Serial Spell". Because you would send "LV4" to the Graveyard for "Level Up!", but even if you copy it with "Serial Spell", the first "Level Up!" hasn't resolved, so "LV6" isn't on the field to send to the Graveyard as a cost for the copy of "Level Up!"
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This looks like if you manage, somehow, to get Horus 6, you can use SSpell's new effect and send that monster as a cost for SSpell.
 
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First, you can't chain SSpell to Mage Power. :p

Second, you don't and can't pay the copied card's cost, so SSpell has no basis for the effect.

Third, well, try asking the judge list if you could get dual LV 6's with two LV 4's using Serial Spell and Level Up. I doubt it.

Fourth, remember that these might change. The JERP gets its rulings from Konami's hotline. And Konami's own rulings have changed before. Usually before they post it on their site.

They have to give SOME answer.
 
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"Serial Spell" does not duplicate the cost of the spell you are chaining it to, just the effect.

The cost to activate "Level Up!" is to send the monster to the graveyard.

So, it's pointless to chain "Serial Spell" to "Level Up!" since you can never send another LV monster to the graveyard.

- Andrew
 
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