Goat format ruling
Enemy Controller
Card effect (current official text)Activate 1 of these effects.
● Target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; change that target's battle position.
● Tribute 1 monster, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; take control of that target until the End Phase.
Rulings
- You can activate Enemy Controller's first effect even if you have no monster on your side of the field.
- If you activate either of Enemy Controller's effects, and your opponent chains Book of Moon to flip the target monster face-down, its targeting conditions are no longer correct when Enemy Controller resolves and Enemy Controller's effect disappears.
- The monster you Tribute for Enemy Controller is a cost.
- When the Ignition Effect of Cannon Soldier or Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End is activated, and you chain Enemy Controller to take control of the Cannon Soldier/Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, even if you take control of the monster, you cannot take control of the effect itself. So if your opponent activates Cannon Soldier or Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End's effect, and you chain Enemy Controller, you still take the damage from Cannon Soldier/Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End.
- When Spirit of the Pharaoh is Special Summoned, and Enemy Controller is chained to the effect, the player who Special Summoned Spirit of the Pharaoh gets the effect because he activated the effect.
- If your opponent Normal Summons Breaker the Magical Warrior, Breaker the Magical Warrior's effect to place a Spell Counter on him activates, and you chain Enemy Controller to that effect and take control of Breaker the Magical Warrior. In that case, resolve Enemy Controller first and Breaker the Magical Warrior's effect of placing a Spell Counter second.
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