Relinquished

Edisonformat.net (Revised, Post-UTW Rulings)

Source: https://edisonformat.net/card?name=Relinquished

Edison-Accurate PSCT

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Card Rulings

  • If this card is flipped face-down/leaves the field before its effect to equip resolves, the target is sent to the GY.

  • If you already have 5 cards in your S/T zone, you can’t activate the effect to equip.

  • If “Sangan” is sent to the GY while equipped to this card, its effect will activate.

  • You can’t target “Blindly Loyal Goblin” with this effect.

  • If Relinquised’s effects become negated, the equipped monster is sent to the GY, and its ATK becomes 0.

  • While the effect of “Timidity” is active, you can’t destroy a Set Monster Card equipped to this.

  • Equipped Token monsters have 0 ATK/DEF, and are destroyed by Token Thanksgiving.

  • Damage is only inflicted if the the destruction is prevented.

Edisonformat.com (Historical, Pre-UTW Rulings)

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

Card Text

① Once per turn, select 1 monster your opponent controls and equip it to this card (only 1 monster can be equipped to it at a time). ② This card’s ATK and DEF become equal to the ATK and DEF of the monster equipped to this card. ③ If this card is destroyed by battle, the equipped monster is destroyed instead, and any battle damage you received from the battle is also inflicted to your opponent.

Card Rulings

  • The ① Ignition Effect targets a (face-up / face-down) monster your opponent controls.

    • The target will become equipped even if it is flipped face-down / face-up.

    • If the target changes control before this effect resolves, it is not equipped to “Relinquished”.

    • This effect cannot target “Blindly Loyal Goblin”, etc…

    • The equipped (face-down) monster is treated as an Equip Spell Card, until it leaves the field.

    • The equipped target occupies a Spell / Trap Card Zone on “Relinquished’s” owner’s side of the field.

    • Equipped Token monsters have 0 ATK / 0 DEF [REF], and are destroyed by “Token Thanksgiving”.

    • If “Plaguespreader Zombie” Special Summoned by its own effect becomes equipped while face-up, it will be removed from play when it leaves the field from the Spell / Trap Card Zone.

    • If “Relinquished” equips itself with a Union Monster, it gains none of the Union Monster’s bonuses.

    • The equipped monster is treated as a Monster Card when it is destroyed / leaves the field.

    • You can not voluntarily destroy a monster equipped to “Relinquished”.

    • VS. “Skill Drain”: equipped Monsters are destroyed when “Relinquished” loses the effect that allows it to be equipped with a monster, and its ATK/DEF are returned to normal.

  • The ② Continuous Effect does not activate.

    • This effect only applies while a monster is equipped by the ① effect.

    • “Shield & Sword” has no effect because “Relinquished’s” original ATK/DEF are both zero.

  • The ③ Continuous Effect applies while “Relinquished” is equipped with a monster by the ① effect.

    • It applies in Substep 5 - After Damage Calculation before any chain is built.

    • This can occur when “Relinquished” battles another Attack Position Monster, or when it attacks a Defense Position monster with DEF higher than its current ATK.

    • The equipped monster is not treated as being ‘destroyed by battle’.