Forum:Speed Warrior vs Heroic Champion Excalibur

I was reading about the Speed Warrior OTK, and I thought it could be done something similar with Heroic Champion Excalibur.

But I got confused reading the rulings and tips of Heroic Champion Excalibur.: http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Rulings:Heroic_Champion_-_Excalibur

"If a "Heroic Champion - Excalibur" whose original ATK has been doubled by its effect is equipped with "Megamorph" when your Life Points are lower than the opponent's, its ATK becomes 4000. Also, if the effect of "Heroic Champion - Excalibur" is activated after being equipped with "Megamorph", its ATK becomes 4000.[4]"

So my question is: Why Megamorph doesn't work the same way with Excalibur and Speed Warrior?

To make Speed Warrior an 9,600 beater, you do this: http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Tips:Speed_Warrior:

"Use this card in combination with "Unstable Evolution" while your Life Points are lower than your opponent's during the turn you Normal Summoned it in order to boost its ATK to 4800. After that, "Speed Warrior's" ATK will still be 2400, and when your Life Points are higher than your opponent's, its ATK will still be 1000, which is better than what it started out with. Use "Megamorph" with the above combo to get 9600 ATK".

Here are the card texts:

1-Excalibur http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Heroic_Champion_-_Excalibur Once per turn: You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card; this card's ATK becomes double its original ATK until your opponent's next End Phase.

This effect double its original attack.

2-Speed Warrior http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Speed_Warrior During the Battle Phase of the turn you Normal Summon this card, you can double its original ATK until the end of the Battle Phase.

This effect too, double the monster original attack

3-Megamorph http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Megamorph While your Life Points are lower than your opponent's, the original ATK of the equipped monster is doubled. While your Life Points are higher, the original ATK of the equipped monster is halved.

Megamorph doubles the monster original attack, so, in Speed Warrior case, you change first the original attack into 2,400, then you double it for 4,800, and later Speed Warrior doubles the doubled quantity, so you have 9,600.

The texts of Speed Warrior and Excalibur are almost equal, the differences are: SW effect activates in the Battle Phase and it last until the end of the turn.

Is this one of those cases: Because the Rulings (or Konami) Say So? or Excalibur text is just a bad translation?

Charlie888190.140.160.132 (talk) 00:00, January 26, 2013 (UTC)