Most of you know what this is about.- For any card that targets, if the effect text (after the semicolon) still refers to a ‘target’, you have to double-check that any targeting requirements are still met.
- Otherwise, if the card refers to the target using any other word (like ‘it’) in the effect text, the targeting requirements only had to be met when the target was originally targeted.
Monster Reborn [Spell Card]
Target 1 monster in either player's Graveyard; Special Summon it.
Special Summon it
There is no implication here. Everything is explicit, in words straight from Kevin Tewart himself. "It" means that Monster Reborn's target does not need to remain a valid target when Monster Reborn resolves. Monster Reborn's new text says that Monster Reborn's target no longer needs to stay a monster in the Graveyard to be Special Summoned when Monster Reborn resolves. As illogical as it sounds improving one of the most powerful cards in Yugioh, other cards have seen significant change before this.
There is no "but that's how it always was" in Yugioh. Cards can have ruling changes. This is most noticeable when TCG cards land in the OCG; XX-Saber Darksoul and Inzektor Hopper being examples which were prominent enough to affect the meta. This doesn't just happen when the OCG gets a card and decides how it actually should work, though; for about a week, TCG Leviathan Dragon didn't lose its ATK gain if its effect was negated after the original activation. Beyond that, cards can have very large mechanics changed. Necrovalley has had three or four such changes, and Armory Arm is another very good example.
Necrovalley is a mess of a card that I won't go into too much detail over but, based on old card text, at different points in time TCG Necrovalley negated Treeborn Frog's Special Summon and Tragoedia's level-changing effect. Obviously, the current card text does none of that. Necrovalley's previous card texts can be found here on Wikia:
Armory Arm
4/LIGHT/Machine/Synchro/Effect/1800/1200
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 monster on the field; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. While equipped by this effect, that target gains 1000 ATK. When that target destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster in the Graveyard.
Aside from being changed from old text to PSCT, Armory Arm had a very important change in this line: "Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster in the Graveyard." Previously, Armory Arm said this: "inflict damage to your opponent equal to the destroyed monster's ATK."
In case the difference and what it means aren't so obvious, the old Armory Arm did not need the destroyed monster to stay in the graveyard while the new Armory Arm does. The ruling was official in the OCG and the TCG, and then it changed to what it is now. Look up the Armory Arm OTK if you're interested.
So, things change. What does this mean for the meta? After you're done considering the few relevant cards which disrupt Monster Reborn without negating it, consider this: Monster Reborn isn't actually changing. But look at all these other cards that did change! Kevin Tewart himself explained how the new problem-solving card text works! If only Yugioh was that simple.
Monster Reborn can't follow its target out of the graveyard because of a rule which is applied frequently, and which a lot of players actually understand. Here are a few examples: A single Infernity Necromancer can use its once-per-turn effect, leave the field, then return and use its effect again. Why? Even though it's the same physical card, the game state treats it as a separate instance of Infernity Necromancer.
This second example is going to be a little closer to what we're after: Destiny HERO Dasher activates its in-grave effect. If Dasher is Special Summoned back to the field then sent to the graveyard a second time, it will be able to activate its effect again. Why? Because Dasher is treated as a separate instance of itself when it leaves the graveyard.
Applying that logic, what happens when Monster Reborn's target leaves the grave before Monster Reborn resolves? That card becomes a separate instance of itself, and Monster Reborn doesn't know what happened. Konami wants Yugioh to be a game that anyone can pick up and know how to play immediately. Problem-solving card was was announced as a "pillar" supporting this ideal but it has already seen major changes, and will probably see more.
That might be another post. Don't get lost in Yugioh's ridiculous maze of rulings, DNG
Necrovalley is a mess of a card that I won't go into too much detail over but, based on old card text, at different points in time TCG Necrovalley negated Treeborn Frog's Special Summon and Tragoedia's level-changing effect. Obviously, the current card text does none of that. Necrovalley's previous card texts can be found here on Wikia:
4/LIGHT/Machine/Synchro/Effect/1800/1200
1 Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 monster on the field; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it in face-up Attack Position. While equipped by this effect, that target gains 1000 ATK. When that target destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster in the Graveyard.
Aside from being changed from old text to PSCT, Armory Arm had a very important change in this line: "Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the ATK of the destroyed monster in the Graveyard." Previously, Armory Arm said this: "inflict damage to your opponent equal to the destroyed monster's ATK."
In case the difference and what it means aren't so obvious, the old Armory Arm did not need the destroyed monster to stay in the graveyard while the new Armory Arm does. The ruling was official in the OCG and the TCG, and then it changed to what it is now. Look up the Armory Arm OTK if you're interested.
So, things change. What does this mean for the meta? After you're done considering the few relevant cards which disrupt Monster Reborn without negating it, consider this: Monster Reborn isn't actually changing. But look at all these other cards that did change! Kevin Tewart himself explained how the new problem-solving card text works! If only Yugioh was that simple.Monster Reborn can't follow its target out of the graveyard because of a rule which is applied frequently, and which a lot of players actually understand. Here are a few examples: A single Infernity Necromancer can use its once-per-turn effect, leave the field, then return and use its effect again. Why? Even though it's the same physical card, the game state treats it as a separate instance of Infernity Necromancer.
This second example is going to be a little closer to what we're after: Destiny HERO Dasher activates its in-grave effect. If Dasher is Special Summoned back to the field then sent to the graveyard a second time, it will be able to activate its effect again. Why? Because Dasher is treated as a separate instance of itself when it leaves the graveyard.Applying that logic, what happens when Monster Reborn's target leaves the grave before Monster Reborn resolves? That card becomes a separate instance of itself, and Monster Reborn doesn't know what happened. Konami wants Yugioh to be a game that anyone can pick up and know how to play immediately. Problem-solving card was was announced as a "pillar" supporting this ideal but it has already seen major changes, and will probably see more.
That might be another post. Don't get lost in Yugioh's ridiculous maze of rulings, DNG
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