Card Rulings:Relinquished

TCG Rulings

 * "Relinquished"'s effect to equip itself with a monster can only be activated during your Main Phase 1 or 2 since it is an Ignition Effect.


 * A monster equipped to "Relinquished" occupies a Spell & Trap Zone of the controller of "Relinquished". So if you already have 5 Spell & Trap Cards on the field you cannot activate the effect of "Relinquished". Any Equip Spell Cards equipped to the selected monster are destroyed. "Relinquished" gains the ATK and DEF of the monster equipped to it, but not the effects of an Effect Monster.


 * The selected monster is treated as a Monster Card when it is sent to the Graveyard, so the effects of "Sangan" or "Witch of the Black Forest" would activate, but the effect of "Mystic Tomato" would not, since it was not destroyed as a result of battle.


 * You can not voluntarily destroy a monster equipped to "Relinquished" but you can use "Mystical Space Typhoon" or "Emergency Provisions" to eliminate it.


 * "Relinquished" inflicts effect damage to your opponent whenever you take battle damage from a battle involving "Relinquished", if it is equipped with a monster. This can occur when “Relinquished” battles another Attack Position Monster, or when it attacks a Defense Position monster with DEF higher than its current ATK.

Mentions in Other Rulings

 * Ameba: This card's effect is not activated when equipped to an opponent's "Relinquished"...


 * Archlord Kristya: If "Archlord Kristya" is equipped to "Relinquished" while face-up and then later destroyed it will return to the Deck.


 * Barrel Behind the Door: You can activate "Barrel Behind the Door" against Trigger Effects like..."Relinquished" (when it inflicts effect damage, since "Barrel Behind the Door" can be activated during the Damage Step because it is a Counter-Trap Card)...


 * Batteryman C: A "Batteryman C" equipped to "Relinquished" is not in Attack or Defense Position so it will not be counted for the effect of "Batteryman C".


 * Blindly Loyal Goblin: Your opponent cannot target your "Blindly Loyal Goblin" with the effect of "Relinquished"...


 * Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast: If "Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast" is destroyed while equipped to "Relinquished" you can activate its effect.


 * Collected Power: Monster Cards equipped to "Relinquished"...can be moved to another "Relinquished"...but if either of these monsters is already equipped with a Monster Card, the new one is destroyed. If these moved to any other monster, the cards are destroyed.


 * Crystal Tree: When a "Crystal Beast" monster is equipped to "Relinquished" with its effect, a Crystal Counter is placed onto "Crystal Tree".


 * Cyberdark Impact!: You can return a "Cyberdark" monster that is being treated as a Spell Card (by "Relinquished", etc.) to your Deck with the effect of this card.


 * Dark Magician of Chaos: If "Dark Magician of Chaos" is equipped to "Relinquished", and is destroyed, then "Dark Magician of Chaos" is removed from play. While "Dark Magician of Chaos" is equipped to "Relinquished", you cannot select "Dark Magician of Chaos" as a card to send to the Graveyard for the effect of "Emergency Provisions".


 * Dark Ruler Ha Des: If your Fiend-Type monster battles with "Relinquished" equipped with a "Sangan" or a "Witch of the Black Forest" and the equipped card is destroyed instead of "Relinquished", the effect of "Sangan", etc., will activate since it was the effect of "Relinquished" that destroyed it. It was not destroyed as a result of battle with the Fiend-Type monster.


 * Decayed Commander: "Decayed Commander" does not activate its card-discarding effect if...due to reflect damage from "Relinquished", etc.


 * Divine Wrath: You can activate "Divine Wrath" when the opponent uses "Relinquished"’s effect to equip itself with a monster, or when "Relinquished"’s effect inflicts damage.


 * Dramatic Rescue: You can activate "Dramatic Rescue" when an Amazoness on your side of the field is targeted, such as with ... "Relinquished", ....


 * Elemental Hero Darkbright: This effect will activate if this card is destroyed while it is being treated as a Spell Card (by "Relinquished", etc.).


 * Elemental Hero Glow Neos: If you destroy a monster that is being treated as an Equip Spell Card by the effect of "Relinquished", it is treated as a monster after it is destroyed so the additional effect for destroying a Monster Card is applied.


 * Elemental Hero Mariner: If you control "Relinquished" equipped with a face-down Monster Card, that card is face-down in your Spell & Trap Card Zone, so "Elemental Hero Mariner" can attack directly.


 * Embodiment of Apophis: If "Embodiment of Apophis" is a monster and is equipped to "Relinquished", "Embodiment of Apophis" is treated as any other monster equipped to "Relinquished", and "Relinquished" gets 1600 ATK and 1800 DEF.


 * Eradicator Epidemic Virus: Any card treated as a Spell Card (a monster equipped to "Relinquished", etc.) when this card resolves will be destroyed.


 * Falling Down: The Archfiend you need for "Falling Down" doesn't have to be a monster. Cards like...an Archfiend monster equipped to your "Relinquished", will prevent "Falling Down" from being destroyed.


 * Fatal Abacus: For the effect of "Fatal Abacus" to trigger, a Monster Card that is being treated as a monster must be sent from the field to the Graveyard. This means that a Monster Card equipped to "Relinquished"...that is sent to the Graveyard will not trigger this effect...


 * Giant Kozaky: If "Giant Kozaky" is face-up on the field with "Kozaky", and "Kozaky" is equipped to "Relinquished", "Giant Kozaky" is not destroyed because a card called "Kozaky" is on the field.


 * Giant Kozaky: If "Giant Kozaky" is equipped to "Relinquished" as an Equip Spell Card, "Giant Kozaky" will not be destroyed by its effect because it's not a monster (even if "Kozaky" is not on the field).


 * Giant Kozaky: If "Giant Kozaky" is equipped to "Relinquished" and is destroyed by "Mystical Space Typhoon" or the effect of "Relinquished", the effect of "Giant Kozaky" will inflict damage to the controller.


 * Gorgon's Eye: While "Gorgon's Eye" is active, if "Relinquished" equipped with a monster is in Defense Position, the effect of "Relinquished" is negated, it can no longer be equipped with a monster, and the Monster Card equipped to "Relinquished" is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.


 * Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest: You cannot activate this effect when a Beast-Type monster treated as a Spell Card (such as one equipped to "Relinquished"...) is destroyed.


 * Griggle: This card's effect is not activated when equipped to an opponent's "Relinquished"...


 * Guardian Tryce: If "Guardian Tryce" is an Equip Spell Card equipped to "Relinquished"...and "Guardian Tryce" is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, his effect activates.


 * Heart of Clear Water: If your "Relinquished"...is equipped with "Heart of Clear Water" and you its effect to equip it with a Monster Card whose ATK is 1300 or higher, "Heart of Clear Water" is destroyed.


 * Kaiser Glider: If "Kaiser Glider" is equipped to "Relinquished"...and is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, "Kaiser Glider"'s effect activates.


 * Lesser Fiend: If "Lesser Fiend" battles with "Relinquished" equipped with a Monster Card, and that equipped card is destroyed instead of "Relinquished", it is not removed from play since it is the effect of "Relinquished" that destroyed it and not as a result of battle with "Lesser Fiend".


 * Magic Reflector: You can activate "Magic Reflector" and put a counter on a Monster Card equipped to "Relinquished", and if the equipped card would be destroyed, remove 1 counter instead.


 * Morale Boost: "Morale Boost"'s effect includes when monsters are equipped to "Relinquished"...and when such equipped monsters are removed from the field.


 * Neo-Spacian Dark Panther: If you target "Relinquished"...then you can equip "Neo-Spacian Dark Panther" with Monster Cards through the copied effect, but at the end of the turn, the effect that allowed them to be equipped disappears, and the equipped cards are destroyed.


 * Nightmare Wheel: If the monster targeted by "Nightmare Wheel" becomes equipped to "Relinquished", then "Nightmare Wheel" is destroyed.


 * Nobleman of Extermination: You can select a face-down monster equipped to "Relinquished".


 * Poison Draw Frog: When a face-up "Poison Draw Frog" equipped to "Relinquished" is sent to the Graveyard, you can draw 1 card.


 * Primal Seed: The required card only needs to be face-up on the field. It does not need to be a Monster Card, so if "Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning" is equipped to "Relinquished", you can activate "Primal Seed".


 * Remove Brainwashing: "Remove Brainwashing" has no effect on a Monster Card equipped to "Relinquished"...and the Monster Card remains where it is, because it is an Equip Spell Card.


 * Remove Brainwashing If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", etc., and you activate "Relinquished"'s effect on your next turn to equip the monster to "Relinquished", and your opponent chains "Remove Brainwashing" to "Relinquished"'s effect, control of the monster returns to you before "Relinquished"'s effect resolves and, since you cannot use "Relinquished"'s effect on monsters on your side of the field, "Relinquished"'s effect disappears.


 * Rise of the Snake Deity You can activate this card when your "Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes" that is being treated as a Spell Card (by "Relinquished", etc.) is destroyed.


 * Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys: If "Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys" is destroyed while it is not a Monster Card, such as when it is equipped to "Relinquished"...its effect does not activate and it is not Special Summoned.


 * Shield & Sword: This card has no effect on "Relinquished" because "Relinquished's" original ATK/DEF are both zero.


 * Skill Drain: Monsters equipped to "Relinquished" while "Skill Drain" is active are negated and destroyed because "Relinquished" no longer has an effect that allows it to be equipped with a monster, and "Relinquished"'s ATK and DEF are returned to normal.


 * Snake Whistle: You cannot activate this card when a Reptile-Type monster that is being treated as a Spell Card (by "Relinquished", etc.) is destroyed.


 * Spellbinding Circle: If the targeted monster is Tributed, changed into an Equip Spell Card by the effect of "Relinquished", returned to the owner's hand, or otherwise removed from the field without being destroyed, "Spellbinding Circle" remains on the field meaninglessly.


 * Spirit Reaper: "Spirit Reaper" is only destroyed by its own effect if it is face-up on the field when the effect designating it as a target activates, AND after the effect designating it as a target resolves. .... If "Spirit Reaper" is targeted by the effect of "Relinquished", "Spirit Reaper" is an Equip Spell Card after the effect of "Relinquished" resolves, so it is not destroyed....


 * Terrorking Archfiend: When your only Archfiend monster is an Equip Spell Card equipped to "Relinquished", you cannot Normal Summon or Flip Summon "Terrorking Archfiend".


 * The Big Saturn: If “The Big Saturn” is destroyed by your opponent while equipped to “Relinquished” its effect still activates.


 * Thousand Knives: The required card only needs to be face-up on the field. It does not need to be a Monster Card, so if "Dark Magician" is equipped to your "Relinquished", you can activate "Thousand Knives".


 * Timidity: While the effect of "Timidity" is active, you cannot destroy a face-down Monster Card equipped to "Relinquished".


 * Token Thanksgiving: "Token Thanksgiving" will destroy a Monster Token equipped to "Relinquished".


 * Trojan Blast: You cannot activate "Trojan Blast" when a monster shifts control to become an Equip Card. So you cannot activate "Trojan Blast" when "Relinquished"...equips itself with your monster.


 * Twin-Headed Behemoth: If equipped to "Relinquished" and destroyed, you can use the effect of this card and it will be Special Summoned on your side of the field with ATK/DEF of 1000 points. (If you have not already used this effect once.)


 * Union Monsters: Union Monsters only grant their special effects to a monster when equipped to that monster using the Union Monster's effect. So if "Relinquished" equips itself with a Union Monster, it gains none of the Union Monster's bonuses. ....


 * Vampire Lord: If "Vampire Lord" is destroyed while equipped to "Relinquished", he won't be Special Summoned, no matter who controls him or who destroyed him.


 * Viser Des: If "Viser Des" is equipped to "Relinquished" its effect will no longer apply.


 * Winged Kuriboh: If "Winged Kuriboh" is treated as an Equip Card (like if it's equipped to "Relinquished") and it's destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, its effect still activates.


 * Zoma the Spirit: When "Zoma the Spirit" is equipped to "Relinquished" by its effect, it is only treated as an Equip Spell Card, not a Trap Card or Monster Card.

OCG Rulings

 * When Fusion Summoning "Thousand-Eyes Restrict", you can use a "Relinquished" in your hand as a Fusion Material Monster. However, the "Relinquished" cannot be Special Summoned from the Graveyard by "Monster Reborn", etc.


 * "Sebek's Blessing" can be activated when you successfully attack directly. This is when you inflict Battle Damage both when attacking when your opponent controls no monsters, and when attacking directly by the effect of "Leghul"/"Jinzo #7"/etc.
 * When "Relinquished" inflicts damage, this is not a direct attack, so "Sebek's Blessing" cannot be activated.


 * The effect of "Elemental Hero Absolute Zero" will activate if it is removed from the field while equipped to "Relinquished" or otherwise in the Spell/Trap Card Zone.


 * When "Red Dragon Archfiend/Assault Mode" etc is destroyed while in your Spell & Trap Card Zone - for example, it is equipped to "Relinquished" - then you can activate the effect and Special Summon a "Red Dragon Archfiend" etc.


 * If "Genesis Dragon" is equipped to a monster like "Relinquished" or "Destiny Hero - Plasma" and sent from the field to the Graveyard, then you can activate its which returns all Dragon-Type monsters from the Graveyard to the Deck.


 * "Archlord Kristya" will return to the top of the Deck if it is to be sent to the Graveyard while "Archlord Kristya" is being treated as an Equip Spell Card and Equipped to "Relinquished"/"Destiny Hero - Plasma"/etc.


 * If "Fortune Lady Light" becomes an Equip Card by an effect like "Relinquished" or "Destiny Hero - Plasma", then when it is removed from the field its owner can activate its effect which Special Summons a "Fortune Lady" monster.


 * If "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" gains the effect of "Relinquished" and then equips itself with a monster, then during the End Phase when "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" loses the effect of "Relinquished" the monster equipped to "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" can no longer be equipped, so the monster equipped to "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" is destroyed.


 * If ":" is destroyed while in the Spell & Trap Card Zone - for example, while it is equipped to "Relinquished" - then the effect of ":" can still return up to two removed from play "Elemental Hero" monsters to your hand.

Mentions in Other Rulings

 * Card Rulings:: You cannot Special Summon ":" if a "Malefic" monster like "Malefic Blue-Eyes White Dragon" is destroyed while being treated as an Equip Spell Card and equipped to a monster like "Relinquished".