Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest

Edisonformat.net (Revised, Post-UTW Rulings)

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Edison-Accurate PSCT

① When this card is in your hand or GY, when a face-up Beast you control is destroyed and sent to the GY (except in the Damage Step): You can pay 1000 LP; Special Summon this card.

Card Rulings

  • You can only activate 1 Trigger Effect in your hand per chain. (You can’t activate the ① effect of this card more that once per chain, even if you have multiple copies in your hand/GY).

  • This card’s effect can’t be activated in the Damage Step, so it can’t be activated when a Beast is destroyed by battle.

Edisonformat.com (Historical, Pre-UTW Rulings)

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

Card Text

① When a Beast-Type monster you control is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, you can pay 1000 Life Points to Special Summon this card from your hand or the Graveyard.

Card Rulings

  • The ① optional “When… you can…” Trigger Effect can miss the timing.

    • This effect can be activated during either player’s turn.

    • This effect can activate even if the destroyed monster was Beast-Type by “DNA Surgery”.

    • You can only activate the effect of 1 “Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest,” even if multiple copies are available in your hand/Graveyard.

  • The ① Effect CANNOT ACTIVATE:

    • during the Damage Step [REF1, REF2].

    • if the destroyed Beast-Type monster was being treated as a Spell Card (by “Relinquished”).

    • if the destroyed Beast-Type monster was face-down.

    • if the Beast-Type monster was destroyed as Chain Link 2+.

    • if the last thing to happen when resolving an effect was not the destruction of the Beast-Type.

    • if your only Green Baboon on the field was destroyed and sent to the Graveyard. It must be in the hand / Graveyard when your Beast-Type monster was destroyed.

    • if your only Green Baboon and another Beast-Type are destroyed simultaneously (by “Lightning Vortex”). It must be in the hand / Graveyard when your Beast-Type was destroyed.