Goat format ruling
Serial Spell
Card effect (current official text)Activate only when you activate one of your Normal Spell Cards. Discard all the cards in your hand to the Graveyard. The effect of this card becomes the same as the Normal Spell Card.
Rulings
- Serial Spell must be chained to the activation of your Normal Spell Card. Nothing can be chained in-between by yourself or your opponent. If your opponent chains to your Normal Spell Card, you cannot chain Serial Spell to that Normal Spell Card. Because of this, it is impossible to chain 2 copies of Serial Spell to the same Normal Spell Card.
- Serial Spell does not target a card.
- If you chain Serial Spell to a Normal Spell Card that targets a card(s) you can select a different target(s) for the Serial Spell copy of the Normal Spell Card.
- Discarding your hand is a cost to activate Serial Spell. You cannot activate Serial Spell if it is the only card in your hand, or if it is Set and you have no cards in your hand.
- Serial Spell only copies the effects of your Normal Spell Card, not any costs of that Spell Card. So if you chain Serial Spell to Delinquent Duo you do not pay an additional 1000 LP.
- If you activate Monster Reborn, and chain Serial Spell, discarding your entire hand, you can select and revive one of the monsters you discarded for the cost of Serial Spell to be the monster that Serial Spell Special Summons to the field. (For example, if you target Dark Magician with Monster Reborn, then chain Serial Spell and discard Buster Blader, you can use Serial Spell to Special Summon the Buster Blader you discarded to activate Serial Spell.)
- You cannot level up Horus the Black Flame Dragon from 4 to 8 with just Lv Up! and Serial Spell. Because you would send LV4 to the GY for Lv Up!, but even if you copy it with Serial Spell, the first Lv Up! hasn't resolved, so LV6 isn't on the field to send to the GY as a cost for the copy of Lv Up! If you have Horus the Black Flame Dragon LV4 and Armed Dragon LV3 on the field, and send one of them to the GY with Lv Up!, you cannot use Serial Spell to Lv Up the other monster, since there was no monster sent to the GY as a cost for Serial Spell, and Serial Spell would have no point of reference to resolve its effect.
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