Card Rulings:Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier

TCG Rulings

Judge Program Forum Rulings

• If "Doppelwarrior" and "Dandylion" are used as Synchro Material Monsters to Synchro Summon "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", the Turn Player would be able to activate all three Trigger effects, placing the effect of "Dandylion" first on the Chain (Mandatory), followed by the other two effects (the Turn Player will choose the order of which effect goes on Chain link 2 and which would go on Chain link 3).

Out of Date

• If a Synchro Monster with an Optional Trigger Effect like "Black Rose Dragon" or "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" is Synchro Summoned in the middle of a Chain by an effect like "Formula Synchron" (as Chain Link 2 or higher), then the effects of "Black Rose Dragon" or "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" will miss the timing.

• Stumbling: The effect of "Stumbling" will not keep you or your opponent from being able to activate Trigger Effects. It will keep you and your opponent from being able to activate Ignition Effects.
  • "XX-Saber Boggart Knight", "Marauding Captain", and "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" have Trigger Effects. The effect of "Stumbling" will not keep the controller of the card from activating their effects.
  • "Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" and "Lonefire Blossom" have Ignition Effects. The effect of "Stumbling" will prevent the controller from activating the effect during the initial chain responding to the successfull Summon.

OCG Rulings

• If you activate the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", then you must remove from play at least one card.

• You can activate the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" even if there are no cards in the Graveyard, or no cards on the field, or no cards in the hand. In this case, you can still remove from play one card from each of the places that still contain cards.

• The effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" does not target.

• You choose the cards to be removed from play when resolving the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier".

• The card removed from play from the hand by the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" is chosen randomly. You do not get to check your opponent's hand when the effect resolves. However, after the effect resolves, you can check which card was removed from play.

• You can choose to have the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" only remove from play one card from one place (the field or the hand or the Graveyard).

• You can activate the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" even if you cannot remove from play cards from the Graveyard, such as if the effect of "Necrovalley" or "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer" is active. However, if the effect of "Necrovalley" is active, then you cannot remove from play a card from the Graveyard, but you can still remove from play up to one card from each of the other two places (the hand and field). Furthermore, you still cannot remove from play a card from the Graveyard even if you choose to remove from play "Necrovalley" or "Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer".

Mentions in Other Rulings

• Effect Veiler: When resolving the effect of "Effect Veiler", if the targeted monster is face-down, then do not apply the effect of "Effect Veiler" and do not negate the targeted monster's effect.
  • Example: "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" activates its effect, and "Effect Veiler" is Chained and targets "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", and then "Book of Moon" is Chained also targeting "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier". Resolving backwards, "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier" is flipped face-down, so that "Effect Veiler" cannot negate its effect.

• Mirror of the Ice Barrier : If you activate multiple copies of "Mirror of the Ice Barrier ", then their effects overlap.
  • Example: If you activate two copies of "Mirror of the Ice Barrier" and your opponent removes from play a card from your hand with the effect of "Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier", then your opponent removes from play only two cards from his hand.