Goat format ruling
Guardian Elma
Card effect (current official text)Cannot be Summoned unless you control a face-up "Butterfly Dagger - Elma". When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can target 1 appropriate Equip Spell Card in your Graveyard; equip that target to this card.
Rulings
- When you Summon Guardian Elma, her effect activates and you choose the Equip Spell Card you want. Your opponent can then chain to the effect and, with an effect like Disappear, can remove the Equip Spell Card so that Guardian Elma's effect disappears.
- You cannot equip inappropriate Equip Spell Cards like Premature Burial or Snatch Steal to Guardian Elma with her effect.
- You can equip a card with a cost, like Wicked-Breaking Flamberge - Baou to Guardian Elma with her effect, and you don't have to pay the cost because the Equip Spell Card is not considered activated.
- Morale Boost's effect is applied when you equip Guardian Elma with a Spell Card using her effect.
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