Edison format ruling
Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu
Card effect (current official text)There can only be 1 "Earthbound Immortal" monster on the field. If there is no face-up Field Spell on the field, destroy this card. Your opponent's monsters cannot target this card for attacks. This card can attack directly. If this card destroys an opponent's monster by battle: Inflict damage to your opponent equal to the destroyed monster's original ATK.
Rulings
- If you control an Earthbound Immortal and no other monsters, your opponent cannot attack you, because they cannot select the Earthbound Immortal as an attack target. (Exception: they can attack with monsters that can attack directly, such as "Submarineroid.")
- If the only Earthbound Immortal on the field is an Equip Spell Card, it is not treated as a monster so you can Summon an Earthbound Immortal.
- If you replace your opponent’s Field Spell Card by activating one of your own, there is a face-up Field Spell Card continuously on the field, so any Earthbound Immortal on the field would not be destroyed.
- If you activate a new Field Spell Card, replacing your own Field Spell Card, there is a gap when no Field Spell Card is on the field, so any Earthbound Immortal would be destroyed.
- If you Special Summon an Earthbound Immortal by chaining "Call of the Haunted" or "Revival of the Immortals" to the activation of a Field Spell Card, even though the Field Spell Card has not resolved when the Earthbound Immortal is Special Summoned as Chain Link 2, the Earthbound Immortal will remain on the field, undestroyed.
- The effect of "Earthbound Immortal Ccapac Apu" that inflicts damage to the opponent activates at the end of the Damage Step, after the destroyed monster has been sent to the GY. So the damage is based off the ATK in the GY (the monster’s original ATK).
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