You really thought they’d let him remain unused and unloved?
INFO-JP074 粛声のガーディアン Shukusei no Guardian (Guardian of the Voiceless Voice)
Continuous Trap Card
You can only use the (1)st and (2)nd effects of this card’s name each once per turn, and cannot activate more than 1 in the same Chain.
(1) If a non-Ritual Monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or effect: You can Special Summon 1 “Skull Guardian” from your hand or Deck.
(2) You can send this face-up card to the GY, then target 1 Ritual Monster you control; it gains ATK equal to the total original ATK of all other face-up monsters currently on the field, until the end of this turn.
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Oh my god, it’s for Principug.
the real question is where is vennu?
Not here because it’s not part of the lore.
Wait, Skull Guardian are Ritual monster; both original and Voiceless Voice version.
Yes. Ritual monsters can be special summoned from private knowledge locations if a card specifically mentions Ritual monsters or a named Ritual monster. Voiceless already does this in Prayers
@Allen Chen
This is not quite correct. For example, Prayers of the Voiceless Voice says “ignoring summoning conditions”. Sauravis, Dragon Sage of the Voiceless Voice specifically says “Ritual monster”, which is why it can Special Summon a Ritual monster from private location.
The translation we have of this does not say either, Although because “Skull Guardian” is and can only be a Ritual monster while in the hand or deck, it probably does not require it to say “Ritual monster” in the effect which would Special Summon it, that would also include the new Skull Guardian, which they clearly didn’t want to happen.
Can this only summon the vanilla Ritual monster? I think yes, and that sucks.
Yes it’s only the original
Yo Protector of the Voiceless Voice also have “Skull Guardian” in its name.
What we’re looking at here is the difference between ‘Skull Guardian’ and ‘a “Skull Guardian” monster’. If it was the latter, you’d be able to summon the new guy, but it isn’t, so it only summons the vanilla.
Drytrons players rubbing their hands with malicious intent
Ritual monsters that are Special Summoned can’t be reborn’d cause they weren’t properly Ritual Summoned, right?
@ScionStorm, you are correct.
It’s similar to Magical Scientist or Cyber-Stein Special Summoning Fusion Monsters from the Extra Deck; since the Special Summon was a not Fusion Summon (nor do Magical Scientist’s and Cyber-Stein’s respective effects treat it as a Fusion Summon), they cannot be revived once they’ve been banished or hit the Graveyard.
Draconids specifically 🙂
Absolute cheeks.
So it’s a payoff for playing the OG Skull Guardian and potential big, dumb power up on a trap card with conditional activation.
Dunno, I’m not seeing it. You basically play a very bad garnet-like card to enable a slow trap card that depends on your opponent. It also gives zero actual protection besides an unreliable attack deterrent.
It’s a chaff, waste paper.
Simply awful. Here’s hoping they also retrain Saurvais Ritual, as they did with Saffira and it’s not terrible.
Maybe we are getting an Effect Skull Guardian monster as well, like Saffira and Sauravis. Still waiting for the new Sauravis Ritual, I hope it can negate Summons, that start a Chain, like Nib, Fusion and Ritual Spells.
So can current sairvis
This card is awful. Only summons the original Skull Guardian, needs to have your monster be destroyed, and just makes your Ritual monster a huge beatstick for the turn.
Now they finally have to reprint the original Skull Guardian. They can’t make an excuse anymore.
Konami being “Please play this OG card of this archetype in every deck never ceases to amaze me.
We’re now only lacking a Sauravis retrain and a good support for the original Safira, which better not be a Trap Card.
My skull guardian support supports le skull guardian!? /oppenheimer meme
Yes, even its it’s not muh optimized soft-ftk there should always be an incentive the use the og thing beyond decorative nostalgia bait. Which is why, despite all of konami’s nonsense I’ll still take them over cac civilians.
Can we get some Harpie support, some Tri-Brigade, Simorgh, Pure dogmatika
This is actually great for me. I was hoping for the original Skull Guardian card to be reprinted, especially as it was only printed once in the TCG as part of a tournament pack (making it rather expensive), and if they’re making a card that uses only the original, then it is a guarantee they’ll reprint it soon.
That second effect can make Protector huge, just run one of this to place it with Lo and gigantic beat stick incoming.
I love how the majority of the comments are zeroing in on how running the original Skull Guardian for this is bad, or calling it slow, happily ignoring that A) the card’s second effect does not require you to so much as THINK about the first and B) Lo exists.
Can we please start debating the ACTUAL USE CASES OF THIS CARD instead? The ATK gain effect’s not negligible in the slightest considering it adds up EVERYONE’S monsters, not just yours, and even WITH only your monsters the deck’s still well-equipped to get over 8000 ATK on Protector just by having someone else out with over 2000 original ATK (like Sage Sauravis, who’s basically free).