Stop Defense : Still flips face-up or not?

[djp952]

I asked this on the Judge List, but since they never answer my questions, I'm running it by you guys. I think that a face-down monster targeted by "Stop Defense" is indeed flipped face-up myself, but ....

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Original text of "Stop Defense" (LOB-095) :

Select 1 of your opponent's monsters and switch it to Attack Position. If the card is face-down, flip it face-up. If the card has a flip effect, it is activated immediately.

New text of "Stop Defense" (DB1-EN128) :

Select 1 Defense Position monster on your opponent's side of the field and change it to Attack Position.

Does "Stop Defense" still flip the monster face-up if it's face-down? And if it does, if the monster has a flip effect, does it activate?

For what it's worth, in Konami's "Yu-Gi-Oh! Online", the monster *is* flipped face-up, and the flip effect does activate, as per the original LOB printing's text. The only published ruling for "Stop Defense" also implies that the monster is flipped.
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[Fiendish Envoy]

Judging from this ruling on the UDE Website:

STOP DEFENSE

Using "Stop Defense" on a face-down monster does not constitute a Flip Summon, so "Trap Hole" could not be used.

I would say that the monster does indeed go face up, because the text implies that the monster does get flipped face up, but is not exactly flip summoned (as in the case of "Book of Taiyou").

 

[densetsu_x]

And yes, if it has a flip effect (or an effect like "Nightmare Penguin" or "Tsukuyomi" where it just needs to be flipped face up), that effect would activate.

It's similar to "Desert Sunlight" where flip effects would activate even though it doesn't say it on the card.

 

[djp952]

Thanks for confirming. I assumed the effect of the card has not changed, but was uncertain which effect was indeed the correct one.

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So .... how are we judge-types supposed to explain that to players that have never seen the original text? Where on the new card does it say "face-up"? It was FINE the way it was!

</rant>

Yet another perfect example of "overdoing" changes to the card text .... I assume we'll never see errata for it, but at least it's not one of those cards you'd run into very often