Summoning Master Monk?

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SoilentG

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Master Monk has this text:

This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by Tributing 1 Monk Fighter on your side of the field. This card can attack twice during the same turn.

So, here's my obvious question... please don't slap me...

Can I Special Summon him from the Graveyard with Premature Burial without Tributing a Monk Fighter from the field?
 
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The rule of thumb is this:

Text: "This card cannot be Special Summoned except by..." means it can never be summoned any other way by then its effect text.

Text: "This card can only be Special Summoned by..." means the initial summon from hand must be by the effect text, but after being properly summoned once, it can be revived from the Graveyard of the Removed From Play Area using other proper summoning effects. (This resets, though, if the monster is returned to the hand or Deck.)

We call the first type NOMI Monsters.

Examples of NOMIs are Dark Paladin, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 and Archlord Zerato.

Examples of non-NOMIs would be Spirit of Flames, Inferno and Harpie Lady Sisters
 
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[/QUOTE]We call the first type NOMI Monsters.

Examples of NOMIs are Dark Paladin, Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV8 and Archlord Zerato.

Examples of non-NOMIs would be Spirit of Flames, Inferno and Harpie Lady Sisters[/QUOTE]

Would Dark Ruler Ha Des be considered a NOMI? It says it can't be special summoned from the graveyard but can be from Rffp area....confused....
 
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No Dark Ruler Ha Des is not a Nomi. While it may have a restriction placed upon it from summoning it from the Graveyard, there is no restriction to summoning it from anyplace else as a Normal Summon or Special Summon.

Or simply: Does it have "This card cannot be Normal Summoned or Set. This card cannot be Special Summoned except by..." text? If it does it's a Nomi, if it doesn't it isn't (with Victory Dragon being the only exception to that rule ... it's basically a Normal Summon Nomi in that it can't be Special Summoned and it has a specific way it needs to be Normal Summoned).
 
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Wow, thanks for the clarification on "cannot" and "can only"... that was not intuitive to me so I'm very appreciative.

Ok, so another weird question that probably shows my continued lack of understanding of the above:

- Monk Fighter is on my side of the field
- Master Monk is removed from play
- I play Return from the Different Dimension

Can I special summon Master Monk in this way by tributing Monk Fighter? Kinda crazy I know but I like to understand every caveat. I ask this since Master Monk doesn't say he has to be special summoned from the hand, only that Monk Fighter has to be tributed.
 
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It's one of those things where the summoning restriction is a fixed rule, even though the text would appear to have loopholes. You'll find a lot of that in Yu-Gi-Oh!, although, the NOMI rules are far more consistent. Grammatically, the two different texts mean the same thing. But in Yu-Gi-Oh! the two texts mean two totally different things.

Another thing I should have thought to mention is that the two distinctive texts have not always been around. They were created to distinguish between the two types of monsters long after the game was several sets in. So older cards will not be as clear about their summoning requirements. So basically, if you see a card that does not have the above two forms of templating, it's always a wise idea to check netrep.net or the errata pages on yugioh-card.com to see the updated text, just to be sure.

There's only one exception to the NOMI rules, but those only involve the LV Monsters. And in that case, it's really not an exception, but an outside card overriding, or rather, ignoring the NOMI Monsters limitations. In all other instances, there's no other means of Special Summoning a NOMI unless it's through it's effect text.
 
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