Card Rulings:Reload

TCG Rulings

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Mist Valley Thunderbird: If “Mist Valley Thunderbird” is returned to your hand and you Chain “Reload” to the activation of its effect, you cannot Special Summon it even if you draw it again during the resolution of “Reload.”

OCG Rulings

• If, during your Draw Phase, you draw a DARK monster because of "Reload", you can activate "Veil of Darkness".

• If multiple cards including "Infernity Archfiend" were drawn by an effect like "Card Destruction" or "Reload", then "Infernity Archfiend" was still drawn while you have 0 cards in your hand, so you can activate the effect of and Special Summon "Infernity Archfiend".

Previously Official Rulings

• If you have your opponent's card in your hand and activate "Reload", your opponent's card is shuffled to his/her Deck.

• Your opponent can activate "Appropriate" in response to your drawing with "Reload's" effect.

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Destiny HERO - Dasher: You can activate this effect when you draw a monster during your Draw Phase because of a card effect such as "Reload"...

• Destiny HERO - Dasher: If you have 2 "Destiny Hero - Dasher" ^[sic] in your Graveyard, and you activate "Reload" during your Draw Phase and draw 2 or more Monster Cards, you can activate the effects of both "Destiny Hero - Dashers" ^[sic] in a chain.

• Heart of the Underdog: "Heart of the Underdog" doesn't only activate if you draw a Normal Monster Card for your standard [draw. It will also activate its effect if you draw a Normal Monster Card with a card effect such as "Reload"...

• Heart of the Underdog: If you draw multiple cards at the same time during your Draw Phase, such as with "Reload", only 1 of the cards needs to be a Normal Monster to trigger "Heart of the Underdog", since they are all drawn at the same time. If you activate "Reload" in your Draw Phase and draw 5 Normal Monster Cards, your "Heart of the Underdog" only activates 1 time because it says "card(s)".

• Null and Void: You cannot chain "Null and Void" to..."Reload".

• Protector of the Sanctuary: If you control "Protector of the Sanctuary", your opponent cannot activate..."Reload" outside of the Draw Phase.

• Protector of the Sanctuary: If you control "Protector of the Sanctuary", your opponent CAN activate "Reload"...during the Draw Phase (either player's).

• Protector of the Sanctuary: If "Call of the Haunted" is chained to "Reload" to Special Summon "Protector of the Sanctuary", your opponent adds their hand to his Deck and shuffles it, but "Protector of the Sanctuary" prevents him from drawing.

• Tower of Babel: "Tower of Babel" cannot blow up in the middle of a chain. If you wind up with 5 Spell Counters on "Tower of Babel" after a chain resolves, the player who caused the 4th Spell Counter to be placed takes the damage. So if you have "Tower of Babel" with 3 Spell Counters, and you activate "Pot of Greed", and your opponent chains "Reload", "Reload" resolves first and places the 4th Spell Counter, and your opponent takes the 3000 damage after the current chain resolves.