Card Rulings:Barrier Statue of the Abyss

Barrier Statue Monsters
These rulings apply for all 6 "Barrier Statue" monsters.


 * Barrier Statues will even prevent monsters from being Special Summoned face-down if they have the "barred" Attribute (an Attribute that the Barrier Statue is preventing from being Special Summoned).


 * Effects like "Giant Rat" and "Mystic Tomato" cannot be used while a Barrier Statue is in play if they would Special Summon a monster with a barred Attribute.


 * You can activate "Reasoning" while a Barrier Statue is in play. But you cannot Special Summon monsters with the barred monster Attribute. If you pick up a monster with that Attribute, it cannot be Special Summoned and is sent to the Graveyard. (And the effect of "Reasoning" ends.)


 * You cannot activate "The Shallow Grave" while a Barrier Statue is in play if the only monsters in the opponent's Graveyard are barred monsters.


 * You cannot activate "Future Fusion" or the effect of "Cyber-Stein" while a Barrier Statue is in play if the only Fusion Monsters in your Fusion Deck have barred Attributes.


 * Effects that Special Summon, like "Jam Breeding Machine", will activate while a Barrier Statue is in play, but if they would Special Summon a monster with a barred Attribute, no monster will be Special Summoned.


 * You cannot activate "Magical Hats" while a Barrier Statue is in play.


 * You cannot activate "Overload Fusion" while a Barrier Statue is in play (unless it is "Barrier Statue of the Abyss").


 * Note that effects like "DNA Transplant" change monster Attributes only after they are on the field. So it has no impact on what monsters can be Special Summoned while a Barrier Statue is in play.