REDU format ruling
The Creator
Nearest-era rulings (Tengu, Sept 2011) — no REDU-specific archive exists.
Card effect (current official text)Cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard. Once per turn: You can target 1 monster in your Graveyard; send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard, and if you do, Special Summon that target.
Rulings
- Sending 1 card from your hand to the GY is not a cost to activate the effect of The Creator. It is part of the effect. So if your opponent chains Disappear to remove the targeted monster in your GY from play, the effect of The Creator disappears and you do not send 1 card from your hand to the GY.
- If you use the effect of The Creator, and then it is flipped face-down then flipped face-up again that same turn, you may use the effect of The Creator again.
- If you activate the effect of The Creator, and it does not resolve because the opponent chains Skill Drain, or removes the targeted monster from the GY with Disappear, you’ve still used the effect. So you cannot activate its effect again that turn (even if you destroy Skill Drain).
- To Special Summon The Creator with the effect of The Creator Incarnate, you must Tribute a face-up The Creator Incarnate from the field, not from your hand, etc.
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