Tengu format ruling
Soul Absorption
Card effect (current official text)If a card(s) is banished: Gain 500 LP for each.
Rulings
- Soul Absorption's effect is based on the number of cards, not on each lump sum of cards. So if 3 DARK monsters are removed from the GY to Special Summon Dark Necrofear, the controller of Soul Absorption gains 1500 Life Points.
- However, you receive the Life Points from Soul Absorption as a lump sum, so in the case of Dark Necrofear you gain 1500 Life Points but your Fire Princess would only do 500 points of damage.
- Soul Absorption is a trigger-like Continuous Spell Card, not a continuous-like Continuous Spell Card, so activate its effect after the current chain resolves that includes removing cards from play.
- The effect of Soul Absorption can, itself, be chained to after it activates.
- If Soul Absorption's effect activates in response to the Special Summon of a monster like Dark Necrofear or Inferno, Soul Absorption's effect activates after the monster is Special Summoned.
- For Chaosrider Gustapth, activate Soul Absorption's effect after Chaosrider Gustaph's effect resolves.
- Your Soul Absorption's effect activates even when your opponent's cards are removed.
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