Card Rulings:Elemental Lord

The following rulings apply to all "Elemental Lord" monsters.

===OCG Rulings===
 * This is a Special Summon Monster.


 * "Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by having exactly 5 EARTH monsters in your Graveyard, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways." is a procedure to Special Summon this card. It is not treated as the effect of an Effect Monster.


 * The "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is not a Continuous, Ignition, Trigger or Quick Effect. It does not start a Chain Link.


 * This card cannot be Special Summoned with "Monster Reborn" even after being Special Summoned once using the procedure written in its text.


 * If this card is used as an Xyz Material, you do not skip the Battle Phase of your next turn.


 * If multiple copies of "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord", "Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord", "Pyrorex the Elemental Lord" or "Windrose the Elemental Lord" are destroyed by "Dark Hole", only the Battle Phase of your next turn is skipped.


 * After "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord", "Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord", "Pyrorex the Elemental Lord" or "Windrose the Elemental Lord" is destroyed by "Raigeki Break" during your opponent's turn, if during your next turn you do not conduct your Battle Phase, the "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is not applied. (The Battle Phase of your next turn is not skipped.)


 * After "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord", "Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord", "Pyrorex the Elemental Lord" or "Windrose the Elemental Lord" is changed to face-down Defense Position by the effect of "Book of Eclipse", if it leaves the field by the effect of "Compulsory Evacuation Device", the  "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is not applied.


 * After "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord", "Moulinglacia the Elemental Lord", "Pyrorex the Elemental Lord" or "Windrose the Elemental Lord" switches control with a monster your opponent controls by the effect of "Creature Swap", if it is destroyed by "Ring of Destruction", the "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is applied to the player that controlled it. (The Battle Phase of your opponent's next turn is skipped.)


 * If a "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord" on the field is returned to the Deck by the effect of "Raiza the Storm Monarch", the "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is applied.


 * If a "Grandsoil the Elemental Lord" that had its effects negated by "Skill Drain" leaves the field, the "If this card leaves the field, skip the Battle Phase of your next turn." effect is not applied.