Card Rulings:Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest

TCG Rulings

 * This card's effect can be activated during either player's turn.


 * This effect can be activated after a Beast-Type monster you control is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, if that monster was face-up and "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" was in your hand or Graveyard when it was destroyed.


 * This effect can be activated during the Damage Step, at the same time as effects like "Giant Rat's".


 * When "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" is destroyed, you cannot use its effect to Special Summon itself.


 * When "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest" and another Beast-Type monster are destroyed at the same time by a card's effect, like "Lightning Vortex", you cannot use "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest's" effect to Special Summon itself.


 * You cannot activate this effect when a face-down Beast-Type monster you control is destroyed by a card effect.


 * You cannot activate this effect when a Beast-Type monster treated as a Spell Card (such as one equipped to "Relinquished" or a "Crystal Beast") is destroyed.


 * You can activate this effect when a face-up monster you control that is treated as a Beast-Type monster (due to "DNA Surgery", etc.) is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.

Semi-Official

 * When "Giant Rat" is destroyed by battle, you can chain "Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest"'s effect to it, and Special Summon both "Green Baboon" and another EARTH monster.

Mentions in Other Rulings

 * Light and Darkness Dragon: When the effect of a Spell, Trap, or effect of an Effect Monster is activated while the card is in your hand (“Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest”, etc.), the card will remain in the player’s hand when its activation is negated by “Light and Darkness Dragon”.


 * Light and Darkness Dragon: .... If you Special Summon a monster from your hand by using a card effect ("Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest", etc.), you pay 1000 Life Points when the effect resolves.