Make New Friends With “Multchummy Purulia”! [INFO]

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INFO-JP027 マルチャミー・プルリア Multchummy Purulia
Level 4 WATER Aqua Effect Monster
ATK 100
DEF 600
During the turn you activate this card’s effect, you can only activate 1 “Multchummy” monster effect, not counting this card’s.
(1) If you control no cards (Quick Effect): You can discard this card; apply these effects for the rest of this turn.
● Each time your opponent Normal or Special Summons a monster(s) from the hand, immediately draw 1 card.
● During the End Phase, if the number of cards in your hand is more than the sum of cards your opponent controls +6, shuffle random cards from your hand into the Deck until equal to that sum.

Note: プルリア I think is like playing on Puri or Puru, which are Japanese Onomatopeia for like wobbly, quiver, squishy things, like, you know a jellyfish. X-Brain suggested it could be like Pluria too, as in Plural. It also appears to be Aurelia, the genus for the common Jellyfish.

We think it’s Multi + Chummy for the theme name.

Atem TL Note: This’s the first exact time we’ve seen this exact variety of comparative text string involving a sum that includes a fixed real number (+6). For this reason, as well as others, the raw JP of the card text (which merely talks about “the difference”, whereas readers in both JP and EN can identify multiple “difference”s that the card could refer to) is inadequate to be certain. For this one, wait on rulings – the card only mentions one difference, hence sum being used, but JP could well rule this card to shuffle back 6 more cards than I’m expecting. This is because it’d take more text for them to write out using different differences to determine “if you shuffle” vs. “how many you shuffle” – since only one is writ here, I’m expecting only one difference to matter, but the card *does not punish hoarding* as much as it otherwise punish if it only has one difference matter. The consequences of future rulings are paramount. Wait.