Goat format ruling
Chaos Sorcerer
Card effect (current official text)Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must first be Special Summoned (from your hand) by banishing 1 LIGHT and 1 DARK monster from your GY. Once per turn: You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; banish that target. This card cannot attack the turn you activate this effect.
Rulings
- You can only activate Chaos Sorcerer's effect during MP 1 or 2 of your turn.
- You can only activate Chaos Sorcerer's effect once in a turn.
- If Chaos Sorcerer attacks, you cannot use its effect during MP 2. But if Chaos Sorcerer did not attack, you can activate its effect in MP 2.
- If you select a face-up monster with Chaos Sorcerer's effect, and your opponent chains Book of Moon to flip the monster face-down, then Chaos Sorcerer's effect disappears. But even if Chaos Sorcerer's effect disappears, its effect was activated so it cannot attack or activate its effect again.
- If Chaos Sorcerer attacks and the attack is negated with Magic Cylinder, Chaos Sorcerer cannot activate its effect in MP 2.
- If Chaos Sorcerer attacks and a replay occurs, and you decide not to attack again with Chaos Sorcerer, you cannot activate Chaos Sorcerer's effect in MP 2.
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