Gravekeeper’s Assailant

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Edison-Accurate PSCT

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Card Rulings

  • The optional Trigger Effect activates in Start of the Battle Phase - Attack Declaration.

  • This effect targets 1 face-up monster your opponent controls.

  • If the target is no longer face-up, its battle position is not changed.

  • The target can only be changed to face-up Defense Position. This effect does not Set the target.

  • This effect can be activated even if Necrovalley’s effects are negated by Magic Deflector.

  • Necrovalley only needs to be face-up when this effect activates, not when it resolves.

  • VS. Spirit Reaper: When targeted by Assailant, Spirit Reaper is destroyed by its own effect. Then a replay occurs, as the number of attack targets changed before entering the Damage Step. In this case, Gravekeeper’s Assailant can attack again, and can activate its effect again.

Edisonformat.com (Historical, Pre-UTW Rulings)

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Card Text

① If “Necrovalley” is on the field when this card declares an attack, you can change the battle position of 1 face-up monster your opponent controls.

Card Rulings

  • The ① optional Trigger Effect activates in Start of the Battle Phase - Attack Declaration.

    • This effect targets 1 face-up monster your opponent controls.

    • If the target is no longer face-up, its battle position is not changed.

    • The target can only be changed to face-up Defense Position. This effect does not Set the target.

    • This effect can be activated even if “Necrovalley’s” effects are negated by “Magic Deflector”.

    • “Necrovalley” only needs to be face-up when this effect activates, not when it resolves.

  • VS. “Spirit Reaper”: When targeted by Assailant, “Spirit Reaper” is destroyed by its own effect. Then a replay occurs, as the number of attack targets changed before entering the Damage Step. In this case, “Gravekeeper’s Assailant” can attack again, and can activate its effect again.