REDU format ruling
Energy-Absorbing Monolith
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)Chain this card to an opponent's card effect that would inflict damage to you. That damage is negated, and you gain Life Points equal to the amount you would have taken.
Rulings
- The "Energy-Absorbing Monolith" does not increase your Life Points with its own effect. Instead, it changes what the damage inflicting card would have done, so that you gain Life Points instead of taking damage.
- If you activate "Energy-Absorbing Monolith" while your opponent has "Bad Reaction to Simoichi" face-up on their side of the field, instead of gaining Life Points you will receive damage due to the effect of "Bad Reaction to Simochi".
- If you chain "Energy-Absorbing Monolith" to "Ring of Destruction", when the monster is destroyed you will gain Life Points equal to the destroyed monster’s ATK and your opponent will receive damage equal to the destroyed monster’s ATK.
Rulings data courtesy of Format Library — formatlibrary.com. Spotted an inaccuracy? Flag it in the REDU forum — sourced change requests get reviewed.