Card Rulings:Chimeratech Fortress Dragon

OCG Rulings

 * You cannot Special Summon this card from the Extra Deck, except by the method written on the card.


 * You may Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" with "Call of the Haunted" or "Dimension Fusion" only if it was properly Special Summoned beforehand. If it was sent directly from the Extra Deck to the Graveyard, then it cannot be Special Summoned.


 * The effect which alters its ATK is a Continuous Effect. The other effects are not treated as effects.


 * A Fusion Material Monster is a monster written on the card of a Fusion Monster, and which is needed to Special Summon or Fusion Summon the monster from the Extra Deck. Because of this, you cannot send "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" from your field to the Graveyard to Special Summon another "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" from your Extra Deck, since you are still using "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" as a Fusion Material Monster.


 * If "DNA Surgery" turns "Vanity's Fiend" into a Machine, you cannot send "Vanity's Fiend" to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" since you cannot Special Summon.


 * You may send "Cyber Dragon" equipped to "Relinquished" to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon". If a Machine-Type Monster is equipped to "Relinquished", you cannot send it to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon", since while equipped to "Relinquished" monsters do not have Types.


 * When "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" is flipped face-down, removed from play, sent to the Graveyard or otherwise no longer face-up on the field, its ATK will be 0. Even if it returns to being face-up on the field, its ATK will remain 0.


 * If "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" is affected by "Skill Drain", then "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" will have 0 ATK, even if "Skill Drain" is later removed.


 * For "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon", "This card cannot be used as a Fusion Material Monster." is not an effect, so it will not be negated by "Skill Drain". You cannot use "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" as a Fusion Material Monster under any circumstance.


 * Monster Tokens cannot be sent to the Graveyard, so they cannot be sent to the Graveyard to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon".


 * You can Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" by sending to the Graveyard monsters which are being treated as Machines by "DNA Surgery".


 * You can send to the Graveyard a face-down "Cyber Dragon" or face-down Machine-Type Monsters from your side to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon". You cannot send face-down monsters on your opponent's field, since you do not know that they of the proper Type.


 * When the effect of "Macro Cosmos" etc is applied, cards are not sent to the Graveyard, and directly removed from play. "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" cannot be Special Summoned if "Macro Cosmos" is active, since you cannot send cards to the Graveyard.


 * When Special Summoning "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon", you cannot use "Goddess with the Third Eye" etc as a Fusion Substitute Monster.


 * You can send "Cyber Dragon" and/or Machine-Type Monsters on your opponent's field the Graveyard to Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon". You Special Summon "Chimeratech Fortress Dragon" by sending only your opponent's monsters to the Graveyard.

Mentions in Other Rulings

 * You use the printed ATK of the Tributed monsters to determine the ATK of "Fog King". If you only Tribute a monster with "?" ATK like "Megarock Dragon", then "Fog King" will have 0 ATK.