Tengu format ruling
Backup Soldier
Card effect (current official text)While there are 5 or more monsters in your Graveyard: Target up to 3 non-Effect Monsters with 1500 or less ATK in your Graveyard; add them to your hand.
Rulings
Activate only if there are 5 or more monsters in your GY. Add up to 3 non-Effect Monsters with 1500 or less ATK from your GY to your hand.
- This effect selects up to 3 targets. You can even target Gemini, Fusion, and Synchro monsters.
- If you have 5 Normal Monsters in your GY, you can activate Backup Soldier and chain a second Backup Soldier before the first resolves, because the 5 monster requirement only needs to be fulfilled at activation. This would allow you to put all 5 monsters in your hand, 3 with the first Backup Soldier and 2 with the second.
- If your opponent activates Delinquent Duo and you chain Backup Soldier with 2 pieces of Exodia and retrieve the other 3 from your GY you win the Duel before you have to discard for Delinquent Duo. This is because you check for victory conditions in between steps in a chain, (but not in between two separate effects of a single card like Graceful Charity).
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