Card Rulings:Gladiator Beast Lanista

OCG Rulings

 * This card's effect targets 1 "Gladiator Beast" monster in your Graveyard.


 * Banish the "Gladiator Beast" monster in your Graveyard when this effect resolves.


 * You can also target a "Gladiator Beast Lanista" in your Graveyard for this effect.


 * The resolution of "banish that target" and "this card's name becomes the target's name" are treated as being done at the same time.


 * If a "Gladiator Beast Lanista" that currently has its name treated as "Gladiator Beast Hoplomus" is itself returned to the Deck and the effect to Special Summon a distinct monster from the Deck is activated, you cannot Special Summon "Gladiator Beast Hoplomus" from your Deck.


 * You can target a "Gladiator Beast Lanista" in your Graveyard for the effect "this card's name becomes the target's name" of "Gladiator Beast Lanista" that activates when it is successfully Special Summoned. As a result, its name will become "Gladiator Beast Lanista", but the chosen "Gladiator Beast Lanista" in your Graveyard will be banished.


 * After a "Gladiator Beast Lanista" affected by the effect "this card's name becomes the target's name" is flipped face-down, the effect "this card's name becomes the target's name" no longer applies and its name is returned to "Gladiator Beast Lanista".


 * When the effect of "Gladiator Beast Lanista" resolves, if the targeted "Gladiator Beast" monster in no longer in the Graveyard, its name is not treated as that card's name.