Card Rulings:Snatch Steal

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 * [Re: Amazoness Tiger] If both players control a face-up "Amazoness Tiger" and you use "Snatch Steal" on your opponent's "Amazoness Tiger", then that "Amazoness Tiger" is destroyed after coming to your side of the field.


 * [Re: Amplifier] You cannot activate a card that would cause an infinite loop because its effect cannot resolve completely. Example #1: You activate "Snatch Steal" targeting your opponent's "Jinzo". You then equip "Jinzo" with "Amplifier". You cannot activate "Imperial Order" because it cannot resolve completely (it would negate "Snatch Steal", returning "Jinzo" to your opponent, which would negate "Imperial Order" so "Snatch Steal" would re-activate). If you activate "Imperial Order" by mistake in such a situation, flip it face-down again. Example #2: you control "Jinzo" equipped with "Amplifier" and "Skill Drain". Your opponent cannot activate "Royal Decree".


 * [Re: Aussa the Earth Charmer] If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", and you activate the Flip Effect of a "Charmer" to take it back, you keep control while the "Charmer" is face-up on the field.


 * [Re: Bad Reaction to Simochi] If you have this card and "Snatch Steal" on the field, the opponent will take 1000 points of damage during each of his/her Standby Phases and you still control their equipped monster.


 * [Re: Blindly Loyal Goblin] Your opponent cannot use "Change of Heart", "Snatch Steal", or "Brain Control" on your face-up "Blindly Loyal Goblin".


 * [Re: Chthonian Soldier] If the opponent takes control of your "Chthonian Soldier" with "Snatch Steal" and you attack it next turn, its effect will not activate because when it is sent to your Graveyard, it was not your opponent's monster that attacked it.


 * [Re: Collected Power] You can move "Snatch Steal" with this card's effect, and it will affect the newly equipped monster (the controller of "Snatch Steal" gains control of it, and loses control of the previously equipped monster).


 * [Re: Creature Swap] A player may select a monster that is equipped with "Snatch Steal". The original owner of the creature, who now controls the creature again, will still gain 1000 Life Points each turn from the opponent's "Snatch Steal" card as long as it remains on the field.


 * [Re: Cyber Raider] You cannot equip an inappropriate Equip Spell Card like "Premature Burial" or "Snatch Steal" to Cyber Raider with his effect.


 * [Re: D.D. Guide] If Player A uses "Snatch Steal" to take control of the "D.D. Guide" they Normal Summoned, then they will be the one to lose a card from the Graveyard each End Phase.


 * [Re: Dark Mimic LV3] If you take control of your opponent's "Dark Mimic LV1" with "Snatch Steal", you can send it to the Graveyard during your Standby Phase to Special Summon your "Dark Mimic LV3".


 * [Re: Different Dimension Gate] When your opponent's monster on your side of the field that you control with "Change of Heart" or "Snatch Steal" is removed with "Different Dimension Gate", it returns to your side of the field when "Different Dimension Gate" is destroyed, and then immediately returns to your opponent's side of the field.


 * [Re: Dramatic Rescue] If your opponent activates "Snatch Steal" to take control of your Amazoness, and you chain "Dramatic Rescue", "Snatch Steal"'s effect disappears.


 * [Re: Ectoplasmer] If you Tribute your opponent's monster that you controlled with "Snatch Steal" or "Change of Heart", your opponent takes the damage even though it was their monster.


 * [Re: Embodiment of Apophis] If an effect that destroys Trap Cards is used against "Embodiment of Apophis", you can use "Fake Trap" to prevent it from being destroyed. When preventing the destruction of "Embodiment of Apophis", you must be using a card of the appropriate type. You cannot use "My Body as a Shield" to rescue it from "Heavy Storm". You cannot use "Fake Trap" to rescue it from "Raigeki". You can use "Riryoku Field" when "Embodiment of Apophis" is targeted by "Snatch Steal", but not when it's targeted by "Mystical Space Typhoon". You can use any of these effects to protect "Embodiment of Apophis" from "Raigeki Break" because "Raigeki Break" can destroy a Monster card or a Trap Card.


 * [Re: Embodiment of Apophis] If your opponent controls your "Embodiment of Apophis" as a monster with "Snatch Steal" or "Creature Swap", and it is flipped face-down, it goes to your opponent's Spell & Trap Card Zone because he is the controller.


 * [Re: Embodiment of Apophis] If your opponent controls your "Embodiment of Apophis" as a monster with "Snatch Steal", and "Jinzo" is Summoned, it returns to your Spell & Trap Card Zone and remains there meaninglessly. If your opponent controls your "Embodiment of Apophis" as a monster because of "Creature Swap", and "Jinzo" is Summoned, it is placed on your opponent's Spell & Trap Card Zone and remains there meaninglessly.


 * [Re: Eria the Water Charmer] If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", and you activate the Flip Effect of a "Charmer" to take it back, you keep control while the "Charmer" is face-up on the field.


 * [Re: Gearfried the Swordmaster] If your opponent equips "Snatch Steal" to your "Gearfried the Swordmaster", the effect of "Snatch Steal" resolves first and control changes. Then the effect of "Gearfried the Swordmaster" activates and your opponent gets to select which monster is destroyed.


 * [Re: Gora Turtle of Illusion] If "Gora Turtle of Illusion" is equipped with "Snatch Steal", both effects of "Snatch Steal" are negated. But if "Skill Drain" is activated, then "Gora Turtle of Illusion"'s effect is negated, and "Snatch Steal"'s effects will resolve properly.


 * [Re: Guardian Elma] You cannot equip inappropriate Equip Spell Cards like "Premature Burial" or "Snatch Steal" to "Guardian Elma" with her effect.


 * [Re: Heart of Clear Water] A monster equipped with this card cannot be destroyed by a card that targets, but it may still be declared a target. So the opponent may activate "Nightmare Wheel" or "Snatch Steal" targeting your monster equipped with "Heart of Clear Water".


 * [Re: Hiita the Fire Charmer] If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", and you activate the Flip Effect of a "Charmer" to take it back, you keep control while the "Charmer" is face-up on the field.


 * [Re: Interdimensional Matter Transporter] If you control your opponent's monster because of "Change of Heart" or "Snatch Steal", and remove the monster with "Interdimensional Matter Transporter", the monster returns to your side of the field, then immediately returns to your opponent's side of the field.


 * [Re: Kaiser Colosseum] Your opponent cannot use "Monster Reborn", "Scapegoat", etc. while "Kaiser Colosseum" prevents him from placing new monsters. However, your opponent CAN use "Change of Heart", "Snatch Steal", etc.


 * [Re: Last Turn] You can activate "Last Turn" and select your opponent's monster that you control with "Snatch Steal". However, after selecting it, "Snatch Steal" is sent to the Graveyard so control of the monster returns to the turn player. The turn player then Special Summons for "Last Turn" but no special Battle Phase is conducted. The victory check is still conducted in the End Phase.


 * [Re: Ojama Trio] When your opponent activates "Snatch Steal", and you chain "Ojama Trio" to fill up his/her remaining Monster Zones, then there is no room for the stolen monster, and it is destroyed.


 * [Re: Rare Metalmorph] If you chain "Rare Metalmorph" to an effect like "Snatch Steal" that targets a monster, "Snatch Steal" is equipped but its effect is negated while "Rare Metalmorph" is active.


 * [Re: Remove Brainwashing] When "Snatch Steal" is active, the +1000 Life Points effect is applied even if "Remove Brainwashing" has returned control of the monster to the original owner.


 * [Re: Remove Brainwashing] If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", etc., and you activate "Relinquished"'s effect on your next turn to equip the monster to "Relinquished", and your opponent chains "Remove Brainwashing" to "Relinquished"'s effect, control of the monster returns to you before "Relinquished"'s effect resolves and, since you cannot use "Relinquished"'s effect on monsters on your side of the field, "Relinquished"'s effect disappears.


 * [Re: Rivalry of Warlords] If "Rivalry of Warlords" is active and you take control of your opponent's face-up monster with "Change of Heart" or "Snatch Steal", and that monster is a different Type than your other face-up monster(s), your opponent's monster is destroyed.


 * [Re: Spirit Reaper] You cannot activate "Snatch Steal" or "Change of Heart" and target "Spirit Reaper" if you do not have an empty Monster Card Zone.


 * [Re: Thunder Nyan Nyan] "Thunder Nyan Nyan" can be destroyed by her own effect between steps in a chain. For example, the opponent targets your "Thunder Nyan Nyan" with "Snatch Steal". You chain "Call of the Haunted" to Special Summon "Dark Magician" from your Graveyard, a DARK monster. The chain resolves as follows: "Call of the Haunted" resolves, "Thunder Nyan Nyan" is destroyed because there is a DARK monster on the field, "Snatch Steal"'s effect disappears because the target is no longer on the field.


 * [Re: Winged Kuriboh] Because the effect of "Winged Kuriboh" activates in the Graveyard, it is the original owner that will get the effect. So if the opponent took control with "Change of Heart" or "Snatch Steal", if it is destroyed then it goes to the original owner's Graveyard and they get the effect.


 * [Re: Woodland Sprite] If you opponent activates "Snatch Steal" and equips it to your "Woodland Sprite", they may choose to activate its effect and send "Snatch Steal" to the Graveyard. You will take 500 damage, and then control of "Woodland Sprite" would return to you.


 * [Re: Wynn the Wind Charmer] If your opponent takes control of your monster with "Snatch Steal", and you activate the Flip Effect of a "Charmer" to take it back, you keep control while the "Charmer" is face-up on the field.