Card Rulings:Malefic

The following rulings apply to all "Sin" monsters.

===OCG Rulings===
 * If "Skill Drain" is negating the effect "There can only be 1 face-up "Sin" monster on the field." of a monster like ":" or ":" or ":", then you still cannot Special Summon a second ":", since its effect is still active while it is in the hand.


 * Suppose you control a face-up monster like ":" or ":" or ":". If you control a Field Spell Card and activate a new one, then ":" is destroyed at the same time that the previous Field Spell Card is destroyed.  However, if you control a Field Spell Card and your opponent activates a new one, then ":" is not destroyed since there is always a Field Spell Card on the field.


 * Suppose you control a face-up monster like ":" or ":" or ":" and another such monster which is face-down. If the face-down monster is flipped by an attacked, then the flipped monster is destroyed after damage calculation by the effect of ":".


 * Suppose you remove from play ":" with a card like "Interdimensional Matter Transporter", and then Summon another ":", all while "Skill Drain" is active. During the End Phase, even though the effect "There can only be 1 face-up "Sin" monster on the field." of the ":" on the field is negated, that effect of the removed-from-play ":" is still active, so the removed-from-play ":" cannot return to the field.  Thus, the removed-from-play ":" is sent to the Graveyard.