Drill Warrior¶

Edisonformat.net (Revised, Post-UTW Rulings)¶

Source: https://edisonformat.net/card?name=Drill%20Warrior

Edison-Accurate PSCT¶

Drill Synchron” + 1 or more non-Tuners ① Once per turn, during your Main Phase 1: You can halve this card’s ATK, and if you do, this turn, it can attack directly. ② Once per turn: You can discard 1 card, and if you do, banish this card. ③ If you do, during your next Standby Phase: Special Summon this banished card, then add 1 monster from your GY to your hand.

Card Rulings¶

The ①:

• ATK remains halved until Drill leaves the field or is flipped face-down.

• The ②:

• Discarding is part of the effect, not a cost.

• If “Book of Moon” is chained, you still discard 1 card, and this card is still banished.

• If “Raigeki Break” is chained, you still discard 1 card, but this card is not banished.

• A discarded “Peten the Dark Clown” will not miss its timing. You can read more about that here: https://edisonformat.net/rules/compendium/conjunctions

The ③:

• This card is always Summoned to its owner’s field (even if it was banished from the other player’s field).

• If you control 5 monsters, Drill is sent to GY instead of being Summoned (no card is added to the hand).

• If you add a monster to your hand, “add 1 monster” happens after “Special Summon this card”, so cards like Torrential Tribute will have incorrect activation timing. Read more about that here: https://edisonformat.net/rules/compendium/missing-the-timing

Edisonformat.com (Historical, Pre-UTW Rulings)¶

Source: https://www.edisonformat.com/rulings

Card Text¶

① Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can halve this card’s ATK (permanently). If you do, it can attack your opponent directly this turn. ② Once per turn, during your Main Phase, you can discard 1 card and remove this card from play. ③ During your next Standby Phase, Special Summon this card, if removed by this effect. Then, add 1 Monster Card from your Graveyard to your hand.

Card Rulings¶

• The ① Ignition Effect does not target this card.

  • This card’s ATK is halved when the effect resolves. This is not a cost.

• The ② Ignition Effect activates & resolves on the field.

  • Discard 1 card (of your choice) when this effect resolves. This is not a cost.

  • Discarding 1 card and banishing this card occur simultaneously

    • Monsters with optional Trigger Effects (ex: “Peten the Dark Clown”) do not miss the timing.

  • This card is still banished if flipped face-down (by “Book of Moon”), you still discard 1 card [REF].

  • If cards cannot be banished when this effect resolves, you still discard 1 card.

  • If this card leaves the field before this effect resolves, you still discard 1 card [REF].

  • If you cannot discard a card when resolves this effect, this card is not removed from play [REF].

• The ③ mandatory Trigger Effect resolves sequentially.

  • FIRST: Special Summon “Drill Warrior”, THEN: add a Monster from your Graveyard to your hand.

  • This effect only activates if “Drill Warrior” was removed from play by its ② Ignition Effect.

  • This effect does not target a monster in the Graveyard. It is not negated by “Necrovalley”.

  • This effect activates / resolves removed from play. It is not negated by “Skill Drain” [REF].

  • This effect will start a chain at any point during the Standby Phase.

  • If 2+ copies of “Drill Warrior” are removed from play, activate & resolve each in separate Chains.

  • This effect activates even if no monsters are in your Graveyard. “Drill Warrior” is still Summoned.

  • If this effect resolves while your Monster Card Zones are all occupied, the banished “Drill Warrior” is sent to the Graveyard, and you do not add a monster from the Graveyard to your hand [REF].

  • If this effect is negated (by “Royal Oppression”), “Drill Warrior” remains removed from play and cannot activate this effect again [REF1, REF2].

  • VS. “Torrential Tribute”: If “Drill Warrior” adds a monster from the Graveyard to the hand, then “Torrential Tribute” cannot activate. “Torrential Tribute” can activate if a monster cannot be added.