Tengu format ruling
Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat
Card effect (current official text)This card can attack your opponent directly, but when it uses this effect, any Battle Damage it inflicts to your opponent is halved. If this face-up card is destroyed while it is in a Monster Card Zone, you can place it face-up in your Spell & Trap Card Zone as a Continuous Spell Card, instead of sending it to the Graveyard.
Rulings
- When attacking using this ability, any increases to "Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat’s" ATK are added first, then the total ATK is halved to calculate Battle Damage to your opponent.
- You choose whether or not to use the "Crystal Beast" effect at the time the destroyed monster would be sent to the GY.
- This effect does not use the Chain.
- This effect cannot be used if a "Crystal Beast" monster is destroyed by a card effect while face-down.
- If multiple "Crystal Beast" monsters are destroyed at the same time, and you do not have enough open Spell & Trap Card Zones to place them all in as Continuous Spell Cards, you choose which (if any) to place in your Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- If your opponent controls one of your "Crystal Beast" monsters and it is destroyed, your opponent can choose to place it in their Spell & Trap Card Zone. If they choose not to, it is sent to your GY.
- While Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat is being treated as a Spell Card it cannot be sent to the GY for the cost of Manticore of Darkness.
- If Macro Cosmos or Banisher of the Light is active on the field when a Crystal Beast monster is destroyed, you can use its effect and still place it in your Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- If a Crystal Beast is destroyed by Bottomless Trap Hole it will be removed from play and you cannot activate its effect.
- While Skill Drain is active on the field, a Crystal Beast monster that is destroyed will be sent to the GY and cannot be put in the Spell & Trap Card Zone.
- If you control a Crystal Beast equipped with Premature Burial and have no open Spell & Trap Card Zones, when that Crystal Beast is destroyed Premature Burial is also destroyed and then you can choose to put that Crystal Beast into the now empty Zone.
- If Dimensional Fissure is active on the field when a Crystal Beast that was being treated as a Continuous Spell Card card is sent to the GY, it will not be removed from play, because it was treated as a Spell and not a monster.
- You can use a Crystal Beast that is being treated as a Continuous Spell Card for the cost to Special Summon Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder or Anteatereatingant.
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