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Errata is a term for card text that has been officially announced to be modified. This can be due to correction or rule changes.
Details
Each card should be used following the latest released version of the card, or corrected errata.
The latest errata can be found on the Duel Masters Official Homepage.
Some of the more famous include the abilities of Project God and Amaterasu, Founder of the Blue Wolves.
- On the other hand, a smaller example would be Fuuma Vile Apostle writing its race as "Grand Dodeville" (グラン・ドデビル) instead of Grand Devil.
Rule Changes
Effects that specify the number of cards.
- Old Rule: When you have a card that specifies the number of cards, i.e. "Choose 2 of your opponent's cards", if your opponent had 1 or fewer cards, you wouldn't be able to use that ability as they don't have the necessary number of cards.
- New Rule: The effect specified number with these effects can be used even if your opponent's hand doesn't have the required number of cards.
- Supplement 1: In the old rule, if your opponent only had one creature, you couldn't use Miraculous Plague.
- Supplement 2: Skeleton Vice had extraneous text explaining how you could discard cards from your opponent hand even if they only had one card.
| Your opponent discards 2 cards at random from his hand. If there is only one, your opponent puts that card into its owner's graveyard. |
Destruction Replacement effects
- Old Rule: Processing of an effect such as "When this creature would be destroyed, return it to your hand instead of your graveyard" moved the creature to the designated zone after it was put into your graveyard,
- New Rule: Processing of an effect such as the above put the card directly into the designated zone.
Supplement: In the old rule, even when Aqua Soldier would have been destroyed and returned to your hand instead, you could still draw a card with Mongrel Man.
Blank-Effect Spell
- Old Rule: Spells with mandatory effects that couldn't be processed couldn't be cast.
- New Rule: Due to the addition of the rule "Do as much as possible" such spells can now be cast.
Diamond Cutter and Miracle Portal
- Old Rule: Only the two restrictions stated explicitly—"This creature cannot attack" and "This creature cannot attack the opponent player" were ignored.
- New Rule: For Diamond Cutter, summoning sickness was also negated, making three restrictions in total. For Miracle Portal, all attack restrictions except summoning sickness are ignored.
Dragon races
If only 'Dragon(s)' was in the card text, it will be read as "a creature Dragon with Dragon in it's the race".
- Supplement: Although this received errata, "Dragon" as a group of races was referred to again in DM-22 The Dragonic Nova. Additionally, it effectively disappeared with the later introduction of the Race Category concept and cards with 'Dragon' as a race.
Furious Onslaught
The text "is a Dragon" was changed to "is an Armored Dragon in addition to its other races".
Evolution Creature and Evolution Source, part 1
Changes occurred due to the Meteorburn keyword on Phoenix evolution creatures.
- Old Rule: Evolution creatures in the battle zone can't stay in the battle zone if their evolution sources are removed.
- New Rule: Evolution creatures can stay in the battle zone regardless if their evolution sources are removed.
Evolution Creature and Evolution Source, part 2
If the top card of an evolution creature leaves the battle zone by an effect such as Royal Durian, the evolution sources stay. If the evolution sources can't be reconstructed, any non-matching cards are put into the graveyard.
Evolution Creature and Evolution Source, part 3
If there is no evolution source in the battle zone, you can't put out an evolution creature. Some cards were previously able to put evolution creatures into the battle zone without a source, but now they can't.
Evolution Creature and Evolution Source, part 4
With the March 16, 2021 Rules revision, the rules for evolution were changed again.
When only the top card of an evolution creature leaves, and there are multiple creatures stacked beneath it, the creature that was on top among those remaining is left in the battle zone as the base creature. The other cards remain stacked beneath the retained creature in the battle zone. In this process, it isn't allowed to leave no creatures behind.
Also, regarding cards such as Gate of Moonless Night and evolution sources that are "treated as the constituent cards of that creature," the effect of Gate of the Moonless that puts cards specified as "cards" beneath was changed in the August 10, 2022 ruling to mover them together underneath in the same way.
Destruction Substitution and Destruction Trigger abilities
If a Dragon is destroyed when you have 2 Infinity Dragons in the battle zone, the destruction substitution ability of Infinity Dragon won't overlap.
The same also applies to the substitution effect of other cards.
- Supplement: Since Infinity Dragon is now in the Hall of Fame, this doesn't occur in a regular game.
Minmei, Beautiful Faerie and Courtney, Summer Breeze Faerie
As Courtney made your creatures into 5-civilization creatures, you were unable to summon creatures that cost 4 or less, as you were unable to tap enough cards in your mana zone to pay for the cost of the card. (This was only possible if you used a naturally 5-civilization card with a mana number of 0.)
After July 15, 2015, you can tap additional cards to pay for the civilization of the cost of the creature, even if it goes over their mana cost.
Shield Trigger cards put into your hand
If a shield is put into your hand with Marshall Queen or Sirigel, the Absorber and it's not explicitly stated that "Shield trigger" can't be used, you are able to use it.
Strictly speaking, this isn't an errata, but rather an official confirmation of an ambiguous ruling.
Also, in the past, it was ruled that if a creature with an Super Shield Trigger was used with the ability of Bluum Erkis, Flare Guardian or if a card with an Super Shield Trigger ability other than the specified card was used with the ability of Fuuma Danrimos they couldn't be used as Super Shield Triggers, but it has now been decided that these can also be used as Super Shield Triggers.
Multiple cards with "shield trigger" put into your hand at same time
When multiple shields are moved to the hand at the same time with cards like Marshall Queen, the ruling has changed from processing them one by one (adding each card to the hand and resolving Shield Triggers individually) to treating them as being added to the hand simultaneously.
In other words, in the case of "Marshal Queen", you add 3 cards to your hand simultaneously, and then you can use the Shield Trigger abilities of the cards you added to your hand.
Because of this, you cannot do things like casting Memories of the Planetary Dragon first among the added cards in order to give Shield Trigger to the other cards and then use their newly given Shield Trigger abilities.
This also applies when a Shield Plus shield is added to the hand. For example, if a shield stacked with 6 cards due to Milzam, Miracles Elemental is added to the hand, all 6 cards are considered to be added simultaneously.
However, when multiple shields are broken with Double Breaker or similar breaker abilities, the previous rule still applies and they are broken one by one.
- Therefore, if Memories of the Planetary Dragon is revealed from the first shield, the next shield to be broken will get Shield Trigger.
Win the Battle trigger
With the old rule, the ability triggered when the battle was won, but before the opponent's creature was put into the graveyard. This is now triggered simultaneously as Put Into Graveyard abilities and others that trigger when cards are put into a graveyard.
Multiple creatures are destroyed simultaneously
- Old Rule: When multiple creatures are destroyed at the same time because of Mass Removal, creatures belong to the active player are put into the graveyard one by one. Then your opponent does.
- New Rule: All creatures, of both players, are put into the graveyard at the same time.
Multicolored card and Cost Reduction
- Old Rule: When playing a multicolored card from your hand, if cost reduction effects make the "number of civilizations > cost", the card couldn't be used because it would be impossible to pay for all civilizations required.
- New Rule: If a multicolored card ends up with "number of civilizations > cost", you are allowed to overpay the cost to cover all civilizations. Any excess mana is lost after the payment is complete.
For example, under the old rule, if you reduced the cost of Gonta, the Warrior Savage to 1 mana with Mobile Forest, you could no longer summon it normally. But under the current rule, you may pay 2 mana to summon it.
- Note: Even under the old rule, if you used five-color rainbow mana to "only add civilizations", the card could still be played.
Officially Announced Typographical Errors
Official Changes
Gantora Maxivus (DMC-41)
Carol, Gokigen Shout (DMX-14)
Ringal, Blue Voice Dragon Elemental (DMD-30)
Arcadia Spark (DMD-32)
- Despite that it is a multicolored card, this creature is missing it's (This creature is put into your mana zone tapped.) ability. This was fixed for later printings.
- Although the text says "Whenever you put a card is into your mana zone, put that card into your graveyard" (Trigger Ability), it is treated as "If a card would be put into your mana zone, put it into your graveyard instead." (Replacement Effect).
Lip Woppe (Promotional)
- DM-22 writes the text as "Whenever a Dragon is put into the battle zone, you may draw a card". This was later changed to "Whenever you put a Dragon into the battle zone, ____". The errata was set to the original text, drawing a card whenever a player put a Dragon into the battle zone.
- However, DMX-17 included "自分の" (Jibun) referring to only your own Dragons counting. This became the active card text.
Bolmeteus Steel Dragon (DM-06)
- The text includes "した" instead of "する".
Perfect Galaxy, Immortality Elemental (Secret Rare)
- Spell is written as the card type instead of creature.
- In DMX-21, the Shield Force icon (
) is displayed as Silent Skill (
) instead.
Ulpheus, Dragonic Elemental (DMC-43)
- The civilization watermark behind the effect text is the Fire Civilization, but it's a monocolored light creature.
Magic Shot - Romanov Strike (DM-29)
- In the text, Romanov the 1st, Lord of the Demonic Eye (邪眼皇ロマノフI世) is written as (邪目皇ロマノフI世).
- The text referring to your mana zone was omitted.
Bullet "Shirou" Barrett (DMC-56)
- The bolded section of (Each of your creatures in the battle zone that have Bolbalzak "Sword Flash" Dragon in their name gets "speed attacker".) wasn't included
- Looking at your deck is an optional effect, not forced. Earth Eater is written as (アースイーター) with a "・" midpoint.
- Cross Gear is written in the race section, but the card has no race.
Unryu Deis Izu, Great Yokozuna (DMR-02)
- The race is written as "Sumo Command / Dragon / Alien" instead of "Sumo Command Dragon / Alien".
DJ Afro Speaker, Noise Mecha (DMX-11)
- The text is written as "instead of putting it into the graveyard you may discard a Mecha King instead" when it should be written as "When this creature would be destroyed, you may discard a Great Mecha King from your hand into your graveyard instead."
Jackal Shot, Supersonic (DMD-27)
- It is an evolution creature but creature is written in the card type area.
- It is an evolution creature but creature is written in the card type area.
- The creature has an ability that prevents it being blocked, but the reminder text mentions the creature being attackable.
Diehard Ryusei of Invincibility (DMX-25)
- The text was written as "choose one of your opponents shield CARDS and put....".
Intense Boiling! Onsen Gallows (DMX-25)
- The DMX-25 printing mistakenly includes evolution creatures.
Ohginga, Strongest Passion (DMX-26)
- "Triple breaker" is missing.
- Regarding the last ability, although the text says 'when this is destroyed', it is treated as 'when this would be destroyed'.
Jhot Gun Joragon joe (DMRP-04魔)
- Although the text says "If you have 6 or more Jokers in your battle zone, this creature's cost becomes 1", it is treated as "If you have 6 or more Jokers in your battle zone, the cost to summon this creature becomes 1".
Three Sword's Judgment (DMRP-04魔)
- Although the text says "Look at the top three cards of your deck. You may add a spell or a Metallica from among them to your hand", since it searches for a specific type of card from a hidden zone but lacks the step of revealing it to the opponent, it is treated as "You may add a Metallica or a spell from among them to your hand after showing it to your opponent". This ruling was not announced as an erratum but published as an individual Q&A entry.
Aqua Gyakutenpointer (DM24-RP3)
- Although the text says "When you put this creature, ...", it is treated as "When you summon this creature, ...'.
Valchuris, Dragon Armored (DMRP-05)
- The text was changed to specify that only Valchuris can be put, by checking the condition of 'not putting another Valchuris that turn', at the end of the resolution of the delayed triggered ability after the attack, rather then checked that you didn't put a Valchuris before the attack finishes.
Other typographical and printing errors
- The effect used to say "Your opponent may choose a creature from his hand and places it into the battle zone" when it was meant to say "Your opponent may choose a creature from his hand and puts it into the battle zone", and thus triggering Come Into Play abilities.
- Creature is written as "クリチャー" instead of "クリーチャー". This was fixed in DMC-42.
- It is an evolution creature but creature is written in the card type area.
- Dynamo doesn't mention that abilities can only be included to your own Dynamo creatures.
- Galaxy Vortex only writes "Vortex" in katakana instead of "Galaxy Vortex".
Supernova Apollonus Dragerion (DM-22)
- in the sentence "Put on one of your dragons", it has the Hiragana for じぶん (Your) above it.
- Creature is written as "クリチャー" instead of "クリーチャー".
- Earth Eater is written as (アースイーター) with a "・" midpoint.
- Has 2 expansion marks doubled over itself.
- Includes the text "a partner in the battle zone"
Rolan, the Oracle (etc.)
- The race is written as "Lightbringer" (ライトブリンガー) without the "・" midpoint. This also occurred on other Light Bringer in Episode 1.
- Horned Beast is written as "Hornbeast" ホーンビースト without the "・" midpoint.
- "に" (in) is missed in the sentence "...that have "Show Must Go-on" in their name...".
Bonga Bonga, Protector Ancient Dragon
- Guardian is written as "Kardia" (カーディアン).
Supernova Grand Cross Absolute Cure
- Although its a multicolored card, there is no civilization colors in the mana cost of this card.
- The civilization symbol in the mana number is the Fire Civilization.
- Shield Trigger is written as "Silver Trigger".
- 自分の (Your) was missing in the text.
Slight text changes
- In DM-01, The text of this card said: "When you put this creature into the battle zone, choose one of your creatures and put it into your graveyard. If you don't, put this creature into your graveyard." In DM-18 it was changed to "When you put this creature into the battle zone, destroy one of your creatures". The latter allows you to destroy this creature if you have other creatures in the battle zone. However, cards such as Black Feather, Shadow of Rage use the same text as the old version upon reprint. It is unknown if Gigaberos would use which text upon reprint as the card has never been reprinted.
- In DM-02, the text says "Whenever this creature attacks, destroy one of your opponent's creatures with "Blocker"." When this card is reprinted, the "Your opponent's" is removed, so it can be used to destroy your own creatures.
Super Dragon Machine Dolzark (Promotional)
- "Whenever your dragons do an attack" was changed to "Whenever your dragons attack".
Amaterasu, Founder of the Blue Wolves (DM-31)
- With the old text, you had to choose whether you wanted to cast a spell or generate a cross gear before you searched the deck.
Cards with potential errors
- Despite it is a Ghost, it has the naming traits of a Living Dead in the OCG (Using a term and 者, behind its name). It's appearance also resembles a Living Dead as well.
- Despite the traits of this creature resemble an Armored Dragon, It is actually a Volcano Dragon.
- This card mistakenly has a minus (-) symbol in its card name, instead of the (ー) chōonpu Japanese symbol.
Chain Helix / Armored Walker Urherion / Necrodragon Heavy Kerberos
- These cards used the hiragana "he" (へ) instead of the katakana "he" (ヘ) in their names.
Zaum Poseidam, Blue Divine Dragon
- Other than name and set, this card is the same as Zaum Poseidam, Super Divine Dragon.
Supernova Betelgeuse Final Cannon
- While it is named ベテルギウス (Betelgeuse) in the background story, the card name is ペテルギウス (Petelgeuse).
- Despite its name hints that it is a Great Mecha King and it resembles one as well, for some reason, it doesn't have the Great Mecha King race and is an Initiate instead.
- Despite its a guardian, it has 聖者 (Saint) used by Initiates.
Evidegoras, Dragon Sonic Aircraft Carrier
- The DMX-26 printing of this card made the ability optional with "you may".
- An "instead" was added to the text.
Obuza 08, Demon Dragon Armored / Beginning of the End
- "until end of turn" was added for its Decrease Power ability.
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