REDU format ruling

Machina Gearframe

This card by format:GoatEdisonTenguREDUAdvanced
Machina Gearframe
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)When this card is Normal Summoned: You can add 1 "Machina" monster from your Deck to your hand, except "Machina Gearframe". Once per turn, you can either: Target 1 Machine monster you control; equip this card to that target, OR: Unequip this card and Special Summon it. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, destroy this card instead.

Rulings

When equipping to a monster:

  • If the target of is not a Machine, or is flipped face-down or leaves the field, this card is destroyed.

While equipped to a monster:

  • If the equipped monster is flipped face-down or leaves the field, this card is destroyed at the exact same time (by game mechanics).
  • This card is treated as an Equip Spell (and not a monster).

When Summoning this equipped card:

  • If there is no empty Monster Zone when this effect resolves, this card is sent to the GY.
  • If the equipped monster is flipped face-down or leaves the field, this card is destroyed at the exact same time (by game mechanics).
source: Rulings_Tengu (Format Library) — nearest era to REDU (Sept 2011 vs Sept 2012); verify against period sources
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