Card Rulings:Shooting Star Dragon

"Shooting Star Dragon":

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TCG Rulings

• If you have no Tuners in your Deck, you cannot activate the first effect.

• If you do not have at least 5 cards in your Deck you cannot activate the first effect.

• If you reveal no Tuner monsters with the first effect, Shooting Star Dragon cannot attack that turn.

• This card's first effect sets its maximum number of attacks during EACH Battle Phase.

• You still reveal the top 5 cards of your Deck even if Shooting Star Dragon isn’t on the field when the first effect resolves. You also still reveal if you have less than 4 cards in your Deck when the effect resolves.

• The third effect targets the attacking monster.

• If your opponent’s attack is not negated by the third effect, Shooting Star Dragon is still Special Summoned in the End Phase.

• If your opponent controls your Shooting Star Dragon and activates its third effect, it is Special Summoned to your side of the field in the End Phase.

• The effect to Special Summon Shooting Star Dragon in the End Phase activates only once per End Phase. If it is negated, it doesn’t activate again during that same End Phase.

OCG Rulings

• The effect "Once per turn: You can excavate the top 5 cards of your Deck, shuffle them back in, also this card's maximum number of attacks per Battle Phase this turn equals the number of Tuner monsters excavated" is an Ignition Effect that can only be activated during your Main Phase 1. (It does not target.)

• The effect "You can excavate the top 5 cards of your Deck" cannot be activated if you have 4 or less cards in your Deck.

• The effect "Once per turn, during either player's turn, when a card or effect is activated that would destroy a card(s) on the field: You can negate the effect, and if you do, destroy it" is a Quick Effect. (It does not target. It is activated directly in Chain to the activation of a monster effect, the activation of a Spell/Trap Card, or the activation of a Spell/Trap Card's effect, that destroys a card(s) on the field. It cannot be activated during the Damage Step.)

• The effect "Once per turn, when an opponent's monster declares an attack: You can target the attacking monster; banish this card, and if you do, negate that attack" is a Trigger Effect. (It targets 1 opponent's attacking monster.)

• The resolution of "banish this card" and the resolution of "negate that attack" are considered to happen at the same time.

• The effect "During the next End Phase: Special Summon this card banished by this effect" is a Trigger Effect. (It does not target.)

• If you do not excavate any Tuner by the effect of "Shooting Star Dragon", "Shooting Star Dragon" cannot attack.

• If there are no Tuners among the top 5 cards excavated from the Deck by the effect of "Shooting Star Dragon", "Shooting Star Dragon" cannot be targeted by the effect of "Daigusto Phoenix".

• When resolving the effect that excavates the top 5 cards of your Deck, even if "Shooting Star Dragon" is no longer face-up on the field, you still excavate the top 5 cards of your Deck.

• When resolving the effect that excavates the top 5 cards of your Deck, even if you have 4 or less cards in your Deck, you still excavate the remaining 4 cards.

• Even if you cannot negate the opponent's attack by the effect of "Shooting Star Dragon", "Shooting Star Dragon" is still Special Summoned during the End Phase of the turn in which that effect was activated.

• Suppose you take control of a "Shooting Star Dragon" your opponent owns by the effect of "Number 11: Big Eye". Even if you activate the effect of "Shooting Star Dragon" and banish it, the effect that Special Summons it will activate during the End Phase. During the End Phase, the original owner will activate the effect of "Shooting Star Dragon" and it will be Special Summoned to the original owner's field.