REDU format ruling
Level Eater
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)If this card is in your Graveyard: You can target 1 Level 5 or higher monster you control; reduce its Level by 1, and if you do, Special Summon this card. This face-up card on the field cannot be Tributed, except for a Tribute Summon.
Rulings
(1) If this card in in the GY, you can activate its effect by selecting 1 face-up Level 5 or higher monster you control. Reduce that monster’s Level by 1. Special Summon this card from the GY. This can cannot be Tributed except for a Tribute Summon.
- This (1) Ignition Effect activates & resolves in the GY.
- This effect targets a Level 5+ monster you control.
- If the target's Level cannot be reduced, Level Eater remains in the GY.
- If the target’s Level is <5 when this effect resolves, reduce it’s Level and Summon Level Eater.
- If Level Eater leaves the GY before this effect resolves, you still reduce the target’s Level.
- That monster's Level is reduced so long as it remains face-up on the field.
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