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RE:precious cards from beyond + w-wind prodigy + simorgh BofA = when (if ever) will DARK SIMORGH come to Austin TX?
The effect of "Whirlwind Prodigy" only counts for paying the cost for the Tribute Summon. For every other intent and purpose, it is one monster. It works kind of like "Ritual Raven" or "Spell Economics" - you {pay the cost/satisfy the requirement}, but in a different way.

In your situation, you only Tributed one monster ("Whirlwind Prodigy") for the Tribute Summon of "Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry", so you cannot activate the effect of "Precious Cards from Beyond".

However, "Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry" was still Tribute Summoned, so its effect will activate and you will bounce up to two cards. For this effect to activate, all you needs is for "Simorgh, Bird of Ancestry" to be Tributed Summoned with all the monsters being WIND, which you did. The only Tributed monster was "Whirlwind Prodigy", who is WIND, so all the monsters Tributed were WIND, so the effect activates. The effect doesn't specify that you must Tribute two monsters, or anything else like that.

Lastly, there are no plans for releasing "Dark Simorgh" in the USA. It is currently unlimited in Japan, probably since it can be taken out easily by Spell Cards or any Traps that are already Set.

--Deus Ex Machina (Talk) 09:28, 4 June 2009 (UTC)