Cartoon Shade
Effect Monster · Beyond the Brave
Cartoon Shade
- Level
- 1
- Attribute
- DARK
- Type
- Illusion / Effect
- ATK / DEF
- 0 / 2000
Card text
- Summoning conditionCannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) while a monster that cannot be Normal Summoned/Set is face-up on the field. You can only Special Summon "Cartoon Shade" once per turn this way.
- SearchIf this card is Special Summoned: You can add 1 monster with 2000 ATK or DEF that cannot be Normal Summoned/Set from your Deck to your hand.
- BounceIf this card on the field is Tributed: You can target 1 card on the field, or target 2 if you control a monster with 2000 ATK or DEF; return them to the hand.
Role: a free extender and a removal effect in one card. It needs a face-up monster that can't be Normal Summoned before it can come out, and Toon World on your field before Toon Dark Magician Girl can be summoned. That makes it the second or third card of a combo, not a starter.
- Summon
- Free, from the hand, once per turn
- Needs
- A face-up monster that can't be Normal Summoned, either side
- Adds (Toon)
- Toon Dark Magician Girl
- Bounce
- 1 card, or 2 with a 2000 ATK/DEF monster
Rulings in short
- Extra Deck monsters count. Fusion, Synchro, Xyz and Link Monsters can't be Normal Summoned, and the condition checks both sides of the field. Going second, your opponent's Extra Deck monster is enough.
- The summon doesn't start a chain; the search does. Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Droll & Lock Bird can stop the search, not the summon.
- Only its own condition can summon it. "Must be Special Summoned (from your hand)" means no other card can Special Summon it, so it can't be revived from the GY.
- The bounce needs a Tribute. Destroyed, banished or sent to the GY any other way, it does nothing. A Tribute for a summon, like Toon Dark Magician Girl's, counts.
- The 2-card check looks at your field when the effect activates. Shade's own 2000 DEF doesn't count: it's already in the GY by then.
- It's a "Toon" card, not a Toon monster. Toon Table of Contents can add it and Toon Dark Magician can discard it, but Toon Kingdom doesn't protect it.