Edison format ruling
Dramatic Rescue
Card effect (current official text)Activate only when a card is activated that targets an "Amazoness" monster. Return the targeted monster to its owner's hand and Special Summon 1 other monster from your hand.
Rulings
- You can activate Dramatic Rescue when an Amazoness on your side of the field is targeted, such as with any Equip Spell Card, Tribute to the Doomed, Trap Hole, Man-Eater Bug, Relinquished, Dark Cat with White Tail, Amazoness Spellcaster, Penguin Soldier (even if it targets 2 monsters), Change of Heart, Ring of Destruction, XYZ Dragon Cannon, etc. But not when cards like Raigeki, Dark Hole, Mirror Force, Fissure, Creature Swap, Guardian Sphinx, Bottomless Trap Hole, Adhesive Trap Hole, etc. are used.
- You cannot activate Dramatic Rescue when your face-down Amazoness is targeted (with Nobleman of Crossout, etc.).
- If you have no monster to Special Summon, you cannot activate Dramatic Rescue.
- You can Special Summon high-level monsters with Dramatic Rescue but not Special Summon-only monsters.
- If you activate Amazoness Spellcaster, and chain Dramatic Rescue, Amazoness Spellcaster's effect disappears.
- If your opponent activates Snatch Steal to take control of your Amazoness, and you chain Dramatic Rescue, Snatch Steal's effect disappears.
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