Card Rulings:Psychic Tuning

TCG Rulings

• If “Royal Decree” is activated, the monster targeted by “Psychic Tuning” will no longer be considered a Tuner. However, if “Royal Decree” is destroyed, then the monster will once again be a Tuner.

• Calculate damage for “Psychic Tuning” based on the Level of the monster when it was Summoned (before any effects on the field are applied). (If you Special Summon a Level 5 WATER monster and “A Legendary Ocean” is active, you take 2000 damage for “Psychic Tuning”.)

• If a monster is Special Summoned with “Psychic Tuning”, and then that monster is destroyed while “Royal Decree” is active (so “Psychic Tuning” remains on the field), then after that “Royal Decree” is destroyed and “Psychic Tuning” is destroyed, “Psychic Tuning” ‘remembers’ the Level of the Special Summoned monster, and you would still take damage based on the monster’s Level when it was Summoned.

• If, for some reason, no monster was Special Summoned by “Psychic Tuning”, its effect to inflict damage will not activate when it is sent to the Graveyard.

• The effect of “Psychic Tuning” that inflicts damage starts a chain.

OCG Rulings

• This card targets 1 Psychic-Type monster in your Graveyard.

• The damage inflicted by "Psychic Tuning" is based on the monster's Level at the time it was Special Summoned.
  • Example: If you Special Summon a Level 5 WATER Attribute monster while "A Legendary Ocean" is active, the monster's Level is 5 when it is Special Summoned, and then "A Legendary Ocean" reduces its Level to 4. The monster's Level was 5 when it was Special Summoned, so "Psychic Tuning" will inflict 5x400 damage.

• When sent to the Graveyard, the effect of "Psychic Tuning" which inflicts damage activates in the Graveyard and starts a Chain.