REDU format ruling
Solitaire Magician
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)Once per turn, you can select 1 face-up "Fortune Lady" monster you control and 1 other face-up monster on the field. Reduce the Level of the selected "Fortune Lady" monster by 3, and destroy the other selected monster.
Rulings
- This effect targets 2 monsters.
- You reduce the Level of the targeted Fortune Lady monster when the effect resolves.
- If you increase the Level of your Fortune Lady monster with Time Passage and then reduce it for the effect of Solitaire Magician, your Fortune Lady will still have its Level reduced by 3 when the effect of Time Passage is no longer applied.
- You cannot choose to reduce the Level of a Fortune Lady monster whose Level is less than 3.
- If you activate this effect and the targeted Fortune Lady monster is flipped face-down by Book of Moon, the effect of Solitaire Magician will not apply. If the monster targeted to be destroyed is flipped face-down by Book of Moon, the effect of Solitaire Magician resolves normally.
- You must choose two different targets for this effect.
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