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Rivalry of Warlords

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Rivalry of Warlords
Card effect (current official text)Each player can only control 1 Type of monster. Send all other face-up monsters they control to the GY.

Rulings

  • When Rivalry of Warlords is activated, each player must send monsters to the GY so that he controls only 1 Type of monster face-up. You don't select or name a Type when Rivalry of Warlords is activated; instead, you make it so you have only 1 Type. If, after this, your monsters are destroyed so you have no monsters on the field, you are free to play any Type again, and that new Type becomes the Type that you must play. (So if you send monsters to the GY so you control only Spellcasters, and your Spellcaster monsters are destroyed, you may play a Dragon monster, but can then only play Dragon monsters as long as you control 1 or more face-up Dragon monsters. If all your monsters are again destroyed, you can again play whatever Type you want.)
  • This also means that when Rivalry of Warlords is applying, each player can control a different face-up Type than his opponent.
  • You can activate Rivalry of Warlords when either or both player(s) does not have any face-up monsters on the field, in which case once a player does have a face-up monster that monster's Type becomes that player's Type for purposes of Rivalry of Warlords (as long as the monster remains face-up on that player's side of the field).
  • When Rivalry of Warlords is activated, it has no effect on monsters that are face-down at that time and does not flip those monsters face-up.
  • While Rivalry of Warlords is applying, you can still Set monsters face-down if they are a different Type than the Type you control. If your face-down monster of a different Type is attacked, then the monster is destroyed after damage calculation. If the destroyed monster of a different Type was a Flip Effect Monster, its Flip Effect is still activated, and then the destroyed monster is sent to the GY. If your face-down monster of a different Type is flipped by Swords of Revealing Light, Book of Taiyou, etc., then it is destroyed as necessary.
  • As long as Rivalry of Warlords is applying, you cannot Summon, Flip Summon, or Special Summon an inappropriate Type face-up (including Jinzo), but you can Special Summon face-down with The Shallow Grave, Morphing Jar #2, etc.
  • If you have only 1 monster on the field face-up, you may Tribute it for a monster that is a different Type.
  • If you have 2 monsters on the field face-up of the same Type, you cannot Tribute 1 of them for another monster that is a different Type (even Jinzo) as you would then have 2 different Types.
  • If Cyber Jar is activated while Rivalry of Warlords is applying, you can Special Summon different Types of monsters face-down without penalty, or Special Summon 1 Type face-up and all the others face-down. But if you Special Summon different Types of monsters face-up, you have to destroy monsters to make it 1 Type.
  • When Rivalry of Warlords is applying, and you change the Type of all of your monsters with DNA Surgery or Parasite Paracide or D. Tribe, you now only have 1 Type so you are OK and no monsters are destroyed, and you can also Summon, Flip Summon, and Special Summon additional monsters that do not have that printed Type on the card and they will be considered that Type and are not destroyed.
  • If you activate Magical Hats while Rivalry of Warlords is applying, the cards Special Summoned with Magical Hats are unaffected by Rivalry of Warlords because they have no Type.
  • When Rivalry of Warlords is applying you can activate Dragonic Attack, but if you have other face-up monsters that are not Dragons then the targeted monster is destroyed.
  • If Rivalry of Warlords is applying and you take control of your opponent's face-up monster with Change of Heart or Snatch Steal, and that monster is a different Type than your other face-up monster(s), your opponent's monster is destroyed. 12/12/03If a face-down monster is turned face up and does not match the Type of the other monsters on the field while "Rivalry of Warlords" is applying, that monster is destroyed after Damage Calculation.
  • If "Rivalry of Warlords" is activated in a chain with an effect that would Special Summon a monster of a differing Type, the Special Summoning effect disappears.
  • Monsters may be Set or Special Summoned face-down, even if of a different Type while "Rivalry of Warlords" is applying.
  • If Machine is not the current type and a Tribute summon would not remove all monsters from that side of the field, "Jinzo" may not be summoned while "Rivalry of Warlords" is applying.
source: Rulings_Goat (Format Library)
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